More Germans in SL than Americans!
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Alyx Sands
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05-17-2007 07:43
From: Rock Ryder
What chance of LL relocating to Frankfurt anytime soon?
Please DON'T. I live less than 20 miles from Frankfurt....and if something went wrong with SL, I'd probably feel the urge to actually DRIVE THERE AND BEAT UP SOMEONE!  Haven't met that many Germans in SL yet....but that may also be because I almost never actually speak German in SL, thus people wouldn't recognise me as German anyway. And I seriously felt embarrassed by the "professionality" exhibited by those journos from the ARD and their paedo report...as Mainz, where the "report" originated from, is only FIVE MILES from where I live. There you have it, bad influences all around. |
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05-17-2007 09:10
From: Dakotaflyer Rau Ve are in your grids ARing your pedos ve are in your grids ARing your pedos, while vearing giant jack boots and velling SPOOOOOON! (fixed) really, who CARES how many whosits are from where! i believe SL should be above that, somehow with all the latest bruhaha over this and that iit became an us vs them thing when we should be pulling together as a community. i mean sheesh peoples 
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05-17-2007 09:15
From: Amity Slade We Americans are frightened of people from other countries. People from other countries make fun of us for being clueless about the world outside the United States. So we want to get away from them. There's a world outside the United States?
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Walker Moore
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05-17-2007 09:21
From: Amity Slade We Americans are frightened of people from other countries. People from other countries make fun of us for being clueless about the world outside the United States. So we want to get away from them. ignore us. we're just envious of the role models you elect as presidents really. =D
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Brenda Connolly
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05-17-2007 09:25
From: Walker Moore ignore us. we're just envious of the role models you elect as presidents really. =D Face it, you gotta be an idiot to want that job in the first place......
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Colette Meiji
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05-17-2007 09:39
From: Walker Moore ignore us. we're just envious of the role models you elect as presidents really. =D The US is far from the only country that has had a Leader that was unpolular or appeared incompetant to either their people or the outside world. |
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05-17-2007 09:44
From: Colette Meiji The US is far from the only country that has had a Leader that was unpolular or appeared incompetant to either their people or the outside world. The United Nations is full of them.
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05-17-2007 09:44
From: Brenda Connolly Face it, you gotta be an idiot to want that job in the first place...... yup, same goes for lots of world leaders, but the guy in the whitehouse right now seems to be in a league of his own.
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Brenda Connolly
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05-17-2007 09:48
From: Walker Moore yup, same goes for lots of world leaders, but the guy in the whitehouse right now seems to be in a league of his own. You mean Bush League? Nah, the other ones are just as moronic. it's just that Georgie doesn't cover it up as well.
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Colette Meiji
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05-17-2007 10:38
From: Brenda Connolly You mean Bush League? Nah, the other ones are just as moronic. it's just that Georgie doesn't cover it up as well. Neville had bad PR too. |
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05-17-2007 11:54
From: Colette Meiji Neville had bad PR too. And a cheesy mustache. Almost as bad as The Other Guy
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05-17-2007 12:07
From: Brenda Connolly You mean Bush League? Nah, the other ones are just as moronic. it's just that Georgie doesn't cover it up as well. Yep, their leaders are just as bad, but since I'm an American I couldn't give a flip less about how moronic their leaders are. What I find amusing is that they pay more attention to my President than their own. |
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Virrginia Tombola
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05-17-2007 12:21
Well, regardless of the actual numbers, one of the things I really enjoy about SL is the international character. Although I live in the US, here, I'd say half my friends are from other countries. I really love saying good morning to my English friends before I go to sleep. Since I'm rather monlingual, most are from English speaking countries, but I do love going to places such as Paris 1900 where the locals seem quite tolerant of my "mauvais francais".
The world really is becoming a smaller place.
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Tod69 Talamasca
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05-17-2007 20:17
From: Tybalt Brando Seriously, mind explaining that statement? Well, for starters, not sure how other states are, but the area I'm living in- Adults do NOT play "video games". From what I've seen, the most you get is an occassional player of Windows Solitare, maybe a WarCraft player if they're in college. From various other sources it appears that 30+ yr old Americans are mostly not into "video games". I tried having a chat with someone my age (late 30s) about a video game. The response might as well have been "You loser!" So far its like if you're a kid in college, maybe up to age 25, its expected you play video games. I also read some stuff in a Sociology class, and for the most part it also has to do with the assumption that A) Games are for kids and B) If you have time to play video games, you're not being productive in any shape or form. All of this is slowly starting to change tho, as those "kids" are now adults and gaming is becoming a more accepted way of having fun. NOW- what I've noticed also is, other countries are more accepting of gaming as a leisure activity. South Korea, for example, with their "PC Bangs" or whatever they call their Internet cafes. Nothing like this in the USA that I know of. Maybe somewhere? We had one locally, and it offered PC and Console Gaming Online. It died out within a few months. All the guy could get coming in were High School kids. The only adults that came in were there to pick up their kid. There was another game shop that dealt with old fashioned Pencil & Paper RPGs, stuff like Warhammer too. It also died due to lack of interest. Again, nothing but young kids coming in. When the PS3 & Wii went on sale, I didnt see too many old people in those lines either. I'd bet money most were there to buy it for their kids or grandkids. Also from experience, I grew up with many many many adults, including my parents saying "Playing games gets you no where! Get a REAL job!" LOL! If they only could've looked into the future 20+ yrs ago! |
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Tod69 Talamasca
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05-17-2007 20:21
From: Virrginia Tombola Well, regardless of the actual numbers, one of the things I really enjoy about SL is the international character. Although I live in the US, here, I'd say half my friends are from other countries. I really love saying good morning to my English friends before I go to sleep. Since I'm rather monlingual, most are from English speaking countries, but I do love going to places such as Paris 1900 where the locals seem quite tolerant of my "mauvais francais".
The world really is becoming a smaller place. ME TOO! (and my French is also horrible ) |
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Tybalt Brando
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05-17-2007 20:24
Hmmm I see. Well, after doing some looking I found this. http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/After seeing that, I'm glad I play games. I also work 60hrs a week from home and play while working. And don't people get cranky when they call SL a game? |
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Ciaran Laval
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05-17-2007 20:26
From: Tod69 Talamasca Well, for starters, not sure how other states are, but the area I'm living in- Adults do NOT play "video games". From what I've seen, the most you get is an occassional player of Windows Solitare, maybe a WarCraft player if they're in college.
The average age of an online gamer is thirtysomething I read not long back. However if I popped down my local pub and had this conversation I'd be called all sorts of names so maybe a lot of them are afraid to admit they play in person. |
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Tod69 Talamasca
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05-17-2007 20:30
From: Ciaran Laval The average age of an online gamer is thirtysomething I read not long back. However if I popped down my local pub and had this conversation I'd be called all sorts of names so maybe a lot of them are afraid to admit they play in person. This is true. But keep in mind, those 30-40 yr olds grew up with video games too. Maybe its being thought of as a "slacker" or "immature". Slooooowly thats changing. OH! And keep in mind, I also live in an area where most people over 35 have NOT heard of this thing they call "Warcraft".  |
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Ciaran Laval
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05-17-2007 20:33
From: Tod69 Talamasca This is true. But keep in mind, those 30-40 yr olds grew up with video games too.
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Dakotaflyer Rau
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05-17-2007 20:49
From: Maggie McArdle velling SPOOOOOON! (fixed)
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Sindy Tsure
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05-17-2007 22:28
Not much to add other than this thread reminds me of this very import new story: "The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!"
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05-17-2007 23:29
From: Hugsy Penguin Not much to add other than this thread reminds me of this very import new story: "The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!"
LMAO!!!!!! :
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05-18-2007 00:26
Figures are off, 31 percent of SL is American.
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05-18-2007 02:13
From: Kenn Nilsson It's because Americans are all still playing WoW and think SL is a game. I'm British, play WoW aswell and know for a fact that SL is a game. |
