This game is so bizarre.

Thanks! I haven't laughed that hard about something in SL in weeks.

Would LOVE to see Lindens getting attacked with griefing weapons

<j/k, of course>

lol, I don't know about the Nelfs, but a lot of the female Belfs seem to take off their clothes every time they hit a city and dance around like Beyonce...I suspect they're all actually guys.

well if your looking for levels you wont find any its a do what the heck you feel like type game so if you have never seen one of those and have only ever experienced something very structured like WoW your gonna have problems understanding it. Also its not really a game its a "thingy" it can be a game if you look for pvp areas and RP areas but outside those areas it can be other stuff like a business or a place to learn things (many university campuses as well). If you really want to get into understanding this thingy you can search for the various politicians who have set up "office" in SL. I am half temped just for effect to chain myself to a tree or something outside one of these builds just because it would be fun (yes I have a starnge sense of fun). I have been called a hippy loving tree hugger at times so I thought I would chain myself to some politicians tree see what happens

Also warning we are nuts .. yes many will protest agains this here last line but I would say that collectively as a "player base" nuts fits in there quite well. You can go to various of our "habitats" and find us playing with cubes and spheres. Those would be prims but to the outsideer we are likely playing a very bad video game. In any event this post was made after eating too much sugar so please ignore it if you can ^^

To imply that there is anything steamy in SL is broadly offensive. I am gonna AR you.

*looks guilty and pours out the hot water for her noodles* Darn it, just got it to boiling too after all these years of watching it!

Tree-hugging hippies UNITE!!!

/me flutters her eyelashes and tells Wilhelm that Northern California coastal redwoods, while the tallest tree in the world, are also eminently huggable.

I remember walking through one and driving through another. If there is a nice little sappling around let me know they are easier to get my arms around

You should'a seen what happened to the last Linden I caught with a lvl 138 Gorean submission poseball!

Did you use your Linden Sword of Smiting +3??

Some coastal redwoods are that big, but usually the drive-through ones are the giant sequoias up in the Sierras (shorter than coastals, but much larger around). In my neck of the woods (hehe) most are perfect hug size.

I suddenly have the urge to make big sculpty redwoods!

You shall also have the better understanding once you find what was once a hairpeice now stuck up your butt!

Torley was really no problem for me, since I defeated Philip months before Torley appeared. It helps to have the Boots of Ass-Kicking.

To me SL is alot like "The World" in .Hack, only very little is created by LL, most of it was created by the current residents. The goal(s) of SL like "The World" are what you make for yourself. Consider things you like to do, maybe things you like to do IRL but can't, or try and take your Av in a totally different direction than your RL entirely.

For myself as an example, it's a way to get out and socialize in a general context. It's a way for me to break out of my shell and, as sad as it is, get comfortable flirting with the ladies. This is something I have not mastered IRL yet, and was even uncomfortable with online at first. Most generally it is a way to better my RL self when I do not have the funds to go places where I can meet people or in ways I would be too uncomfortable with at first.

Other goals are rapped up SL specific projects. I am currently developing my SL propperty and home. I am also a BattleTech lover and am working on a Clan Elemental set including Shape, Cloths, and their mighty Toad battle armor suit, even eventually "Cyber Implant" tattoos and maybe even an Enhanced Imaging combat hud to go with it. Maybe see if there is a "cult" market for it. I know the BattleTech universe is generally obscure and even people that have played the Mechwarrior PC and console games don't realize there is much more to it than that.

In the end SL has a totaly open ended goal. Your first goal is simply getting aquainted with moving around SL, after that your goals are competely up to you.

okay. i'm bored. i need a purpose.

i have a little boring store, and a little boring house on my 1536 that i almost sold a few weeks ago.

it i "L" shaped, and not near water.

if i could dump it all, and use my prims on some sort of thing that would be cool for everyone to enjoy, just cuz it's there and just cuz i can, wut would you want me to turn it in to?

a garden is nice, but there are tons of them. so.... wut can i make that will please you, my peoples?

I think in another thread it was decided we needed more strip clubs.

make an alt and call him 3hole punch and open up an office supplies store

For fun I have my Chocobo to explore the ground, or if I feel like getting air born I have a VTOL jet I am now learning to fly and land. Taking off is easy, flying is not extremely hard, but landing it on a 10 x 10 platform on the roof of my home is quite the chalange, it takes me about half an hour. LOL

Oh and if I get pissed off IRL, I go The Pier, talk it out with the great folks there, and if I still need to blow off aggression, fire off a mag or two from my Barret off the end of the pier. Harmlessly of course.

Hmmm all this talk of Redwood makes me want to build a deck.

Ah, easily solved!

Second Life is basically a big, massive Civilisation II game.

You start out with one settler (you), and make alliances, treaties, &c. You gain skills and technologies as you go.

The goal is to overtake the entire grid, no holds barred, before you die (although setting up a dynasty is okay, or botting your avatar - letting a computer play it forever - might do just as well.

I'd recommend making some very strategic alliances early on, and not switching to Democracy too early. As always, watch your economy, it's critical. Nuking opposing regions are generally a bad idea too, but, up to you I guess.

Your move, by the way. ^^

I'm put in mind of a gamer geek who's just been invited to a party and can't quite grasp the concept of what to do when people gather in one place without rolling dice and consulting rulebooks.

Anything. Something no one has ever seen or thought of before.

A puzzle to solve.

Hot tub!



Oh man, I miss CivII. I'm getting all misty just thinking of it.

I went and played around with caesar IV and I think i have the idea of the game all wrong because I build this city up this huge city and then purposelly loose favoure with rome so i can watch the little armies come and burn it down..

(this is why i make a very bad team mate in these group games .... that and tree hugging)

It's not a game - but DarkLife is. If you come to Navora sim, you can try out SL's version of World of Warcraft! Hehehe