What has SL taught you about RL?
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bilbo99 Emu
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02-20-2007 06:11
From: Brenda Connolly The glass may be half empty or it may be half full. what I want to know is, Who's going to wash the glass? Hey! never mind washing it .. how about a refill?  |
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Jeff Kelley
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Join date: 8 Nov 2006
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02-20-2007 06:50
From: Alastair Chamerberlin In theory, in SL we are given total freedom (within reason) to create whatever we can imagine, dream up. And what do we dream up? Casinos and nightclubs and shopping. Is this the apogee of human imagination? We (avatars) don't need to drink. But we have avatar's drinks. We don't need to eat nor wash. But we have avatar's kitchens and bathrooms. And swimming pools. And toilets (yes, toilets!) It never rains, it's never cold, but we have houses. We have luxury clothes and jewels. Worst of all, we *pay* for this things, and devote part of our SL to struggle for money to get all the unnecessary stuff. And we protect jealously all this unnecessary stuff with stupid ban lines and security orbs. I am not saying those things don't have their place...they do...... We are given total freedom and we build our jail. When i'm fed up with this nonsense, I transform in a dragon and go to Wyrms. Yes, there is imagination here. There is dream. Because we try to let human stupidity at the door. |
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Cristalle Karami
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02-20-2007 10:15
Without any enforceable rules, some people will still abide by common courtesies and others will try and make things hell.
Trust, but carry thick skin.
Don't spend large RL sums of money on land without a RL contract (re: goofy island purchases without involving LL!!)
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Kalel Venkman
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Join date: 10 Mar 2006
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Group Management and Leadership
02-20-2007 12:25
I've learned that leadership skills transcend the medium - and because the distractions of RL are mostly stripped away in SL, the interpersonal relationships between you and your friends, or you and your teammates are brought into much sharper focus. You can see far more readily how they function in SL than you can in RL, and in so doing, you can learn about your RL relationships and team leadership in a very clean, direct-to-the-point environment.
Running a large group in SL has made me a noticably better manager at work, and I function with a confidence I did not have before I started using SL.
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Yiffy Yaffle
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02-20-2007 22:06
SL taught me that IRL you actually feel pain.
And that you can't fly.
And that flying spaghetti monsters aren't real!
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Alastair Chamerberlin
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Fsm
02-21-2007 04:44
uhm, excuse me....but the FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER IS SO REAL!!!!
Ramen.
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bjStranger Forager
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02-21-2007 07:23
Second LIfe has taught me that
- I like virtual reality in a visibile form
- SL virtual reality is full of possibilities and will continue to evolve
- I need to upgrade my computer to do the things I really want to do
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Showdog Tiger
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What have I learned Here?
02-21-2007 07:39
From: Brenda Connolly The glass may be half empty or it may be half full. what I want to know is, Who's going to wash the glass? Dearly Darlings, To my engineer husband, Maneo, the glass is the wrong size... I've learned more about my computer and how it works. Before it was a big expensive typewriter. Now I've started using the graphics programs to enhance my RL artwork. The other thing I've learned is: Ben Franklin was right in any universe. When you die you will be able to count your friends on one hand. You all have a lovey day! Ever Yours, Mrs. Showdog Tiger
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Brenda Connolly
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02-21-2007 07:44
Engineers! Great in theory, lousy in practice. What do you expect from guys who wear belts AND suspenders?
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Showdog Tiger
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Chuckle!!!
02-21-2007 08:03
From: Brenda Connolly Engineers! Great in theory, lousy in practice. What do you expect from guys who wear belts AND suspenders? Dearly Darling, Actually the big boy does not have bad taste in clothes and never ever used a pocket protector. If some big bad wolf nation does decide to blow us up he can still use a slide rule. I was surprised to discover that a nuclear bomb would "poof" computers and things with an electormagnetic wave....(Learned that from someone here too) You all have a lovely day! Ever Yours, Mrs. Showdog Tiger
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Amelia Abernathy
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02-21-2007 08:17
Great thread AMan!
The most glaring thing I have learned is there were areas in my RL that I was in denial about. SL has forced me to face those things head on in RL. Painful? Yes! Worth it? At the time...excruciating, but out the other side of it, hell yes.
The most WONderful thing SL has done for me is showed me where I had hidden prejudice. I am now great friends with people I would have never had the opportunity to meet and really get to know in RL. I had no idea I could enjoy Liberals so much O.o
*sticks her tongue out at Alastair and runs away laughing*
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Conifer Dada
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02-21-2007 08:20
Apparently my reporter in RL says they have gained an insight from SL about the strength of belief one can have in a fantasy.
SL might provide a psychological model that explains how some people become religious fanatics, living in a form of virtual reality contained not on computer software but within the pages of holy texts.
I myself have formed the Egotherapy cult, which is roughly an SL variant on humanism, which say basically: "I am here, I am an avatar in SL, I will exist as long as the technology, LL or my RL agent allow me to, and while I'm alive in SL I live my life entirely within it."
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Evangeline Arcadia
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02-21-2007 09:27
From: Atashi Toshihiko In SL, where we can be whatever we want to be, whoever we want to be, and pretty much do anything we want to, we have the ability to explore things that in RL we might be too afraid or embarassed to consider. SL even allows us to do and experience things that are downright impossible in RL.
Given that sort of opportunity, SL has allowed me to expand my experiences and experiment with things I'd never have come close to in RL.
I have found that where I have ended up... how my avatar looks, acts, what I do in SL... is very close to who, what I am in RL. Just with the 'personality' turned up a bit and the 'social' filters turned down a tad.]
I think Atashi sums it up perfectly - there is so much you can learn in sl, that you wouldn't have the opportunity in real life, so many people you can meet and talk to that you never would have the opportunity in rl. Essentially what you make of SL is up to you. Just like rl I suppose.... |
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Alastair Chamerberlin
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02-21-2007 09:57
From: Amelia Abernathy Great thread AMan!
The most glaring thing I have learned is there were areas in my RL that I was in denial about. SL has forced me to face those things head on in RL. Painful? Yes! Worth it? At the time...excruciating, but out the other side of it, hell yes.
The most WONderful thing SL has done for me is showed me where I had hidden prejudice. I am now great friends with people I would have never had the opportunity to meet and really get to know in RL. I had no idea I could enjoy Liberals so much O.o
*sticks her tongue out at Alastair and runs away laughing* Hey Amelia!! Nice to see you on this side of the screen!!! and nice response to boot. No doubt that having hidden prejudices comes with the territory in being human. ....but isin't it great to be alive at a time when we have such an incredible tool as SL to play with though,no? And what's all this about enjoying Liberals? Why wouldn't you enjoy us dear!? We are, by our very nature, liberal, ya know? |
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Brenda Connolly
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02-21-2007 11:03
From: Evangeline Arcadia From: Atashi Toshihiko In SL, where we can be whatever we want to be, whoever we want to be, and pretty much do anything we want to, we have the ability to explore things that in RL we might be too afraid or embarassed to consider. SL even allows us to do and experience things that are downright impossible in RL.
Given that sort of opportunity, SL has allowed me to expand my experiences and experiment with things I'd never have come close to in RL.
I have found that where I have ended up... how my avatar looks, acts, what I do in SL... is very close to who, what I am in RL. Just with the 'personality' turned up a bit and the 'social' filters turned down a tad.]
I think Atashi sums it up perfectly - there is so much you can learn in sl, that you wouldn't have the opportunity in real life, so many people you can meet and talk to that you never would have the opportunity in rl. Essentially what you make of SL is up to you. Just like rl I suppose.... No matter how you clothed it or form it, being furry, winged, humanoid, lizard or shapeless mass, you are going to be the personality behind that Avatar, unless your are a great actor, or a total sociopath, you can't disassociate yourself from the Character. a little of you will seep in.
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Kristen Fleury
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02-21-2007 11:09
I have learned a very valuable lesson in SL. I have learned that I am not such a bad person after all. In my rl I have always thought that I wasnt that nice of a person, but in SL I cant help but be who I am in RL, and I hvae found out that I am not so bad.
I sit at home taking care of my elderly relatives and it gets boring, so I come on SL to socialize and I love it. I can talk to people and have fun. Since I cant go out in RL I can in SL so it helps with my lonliness.
Anyway that is what I have learned in SL about my RL, That I am an ok person.
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