/me nods to what Winter Ventura said.
RL is RL. SL is SL. While there are those that insist on injecting RL (especially the negative aspects) into SL, it doesn't have to be. SL lets you be what you want to be, no matter what you are in RL.
I wonder how many nekos and furries are asked "are you really a kitty cat in RL?"
I wonder how many people on World of Warcraft (which I do not play, but saw the South Park episode) are asked "are you really an elf in RL" or "are you really a dwarf in RL?"
Why must SL be necessarily the same as RL just because the avatars are humanoid?
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danica Cullen
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11-02-2006 12:32
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danica Cullen
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Join date: 12 Jul 2006
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11-02-2006 12:34
Hold on just one danged minute! You mean to tell me that there are people impersonating the opposite sex on teh interweb? You gotta be kidding me...When did THIS start? ROTFLOL! |
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Jopsy Pendragon
Perpetual Outsider
Join date: 15 Jan 2004
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11-02-2006 12:58
"are you really an elf in RL" Heh... Being as how they're attached to the side of my head... I can't see if my ears are pointy or not. My image in a photograph... or in a mirror is no more "real" than my avatar in SecondLife, they're all intangible illusions made with tricks of light... how could I possibly trust them as accurate? Am I an Elf in RL? Hard to say... it depends on whose RL I'm in at the moment.  |
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Sunspot Pixie
dread heliotrope
Join date: 15 Jun 2006
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11-02-2006 13:51
I'm really a Pixie, honest.
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Tolmar Canetti
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11-02-2006 14:06
I`m guessing........something to do with shopping, fave hair places n stuff. No, they'll be RL questions of some sort. That will definitely be about shopping, fave hair places, and stuff! LOL |
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
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11-02-2006 14:07
A long time ago there was a debate about llDetectSex, it didn't go very far. It ended with the conclusion that it would be useless (and a senseless encroachment on privacy).
I seriously doubt 1/3 really care about this issue. If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound? If it stays in SL does it really matter? _____________________
Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence. - James Nachtwey |
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Cottonteil Muromachi
Abominable
Join date: 2 Mar 2005
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11-02-2006 14:23
Groovy. Wasn't sure. Love your skins, thanks for the templates. Pax vobiscum. I just saw a brown nosing self concious noob with the inability to detect parodies yesterday. Interesting person nonetheless. Good job! |
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Mickey McLuhan
She of the SwissArmy Tail
Join date: 22 Aug 2005
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11-02-2006 14:28
I just saw a brown nosing self concious noob with the inability to detect parodies yesterday. Interesting person nonetheless. Good job! Huh? Not sure if this is a spoof or not... Brown nosing? Self conScious? Help? Anyone? _____________________
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Shirley Marquez
Ethical SLut
Join date: 28 Oct 2005
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No kitchen here either
11-02-2006 18:28
Having a kitchen in SL is a luxury that only people with large houses can afford. My modest home only has three rooms; a living room, a bedroom/office, and a guest room. Kitchens in SL aren't very interesting spaces; you can't really cook anything in them, you don't get any warmth from the virtual stove, and they usually are full of hard surfaces that are lousy places to sit, so only people with enough land to afford to waste a room will have one.
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Angelique LaFollette
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11-02-2006 18:47
i don't appreciate your tone of voice, noob. obviously i didn't get a"gajillion" IMs. second life is not that large yet. it doesn't matter how many people asked me. what matters is that one third of all players may be entering relationships under false pretenses and this could be harmful to themselves and to LL. From this, and your Other Thread Jauani, It strikes me that you are Inordinately Fascinated with what OTHER people do in their Bedrooms, and with Whom. Why is this? Angel. |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
Forums Rock!
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11-02-2006 18:55
Please don't feed the trolls.
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Kitty Barnett
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11-02-2006 19:15
Is there anyway to tell if the woman you are talking to is not really a man? or vice versa?  . |
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Angelique LaFollette
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11-02-2006 19:40
Go furniture shopping together, find a nice bathroom set that will match the house, rez it, come back a few days later and see whether the toilet seat is up or down .~Giggling~ i was waiting for this one. A. |
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Jauani Wu
pancake rabbit
Join date: 7 Apr 2003
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11-02-2006 23:46
Here's an off topic question... that's too many irrelevant questions. What gives you the right to speak for "one third of all players"? Where are you getting that number and what makes this of "paramount importance"? what kind of goof ball question is that? i don't need to answer goof ball questions from random noobs that nobody cares about. If you're coming to SL to find a relationship, like, a serious relationship, one where you're going to move in together and get married... jesus.. I can't even get my head around it. You seriously believe that one third of the people that play on SL are looking for a RELATIONSHIP? Seriously? That's just... it's so ridiculous that I HAVE to believe you're trolling. If you're not, I grow concerned... i have a pair of friends who met in second life and are now happily married in rl. SERIOUSLY! one third of people are not looking for that kind of relationship. however, they are looking for some form of relationship with other humans. personally i have a lot of relationships. you could too if you weren't so aggressive and judgemental. _____________________
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Jauani Wu
pancake rabbit
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11-02-2006 23:48
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound? If it stays in SL does it really matter? SL is RL strife. you know this to be true. _____________________
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Jauani Wu
pancake rabbit
Join date: 7 Apr 2003
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11-02-2006 23:52
What really irks me about this intrusion of RL into SL.. is that SL provides a really unique opportunity for the transgendered in RL.. an opportunity to litterally sluff off that old sex, and act and appear as a member of the proper sex. A number of very close friends are Trans in real life. I find it appalling when people question me, or anyone else.. about RL gender or whatnot. Take me as I present to be, or don't. Frankly.. if you're the "kind of person" who would ASK a question like that.. then you certainly don't know me well enough for me to have relations with you. relationships should be based on honesty, not deception. if people are afraid of being rejected because of the truth, then what is really gained but heartache by deception? the end result will be the same. heartache can be avoided! _____________________
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Cocoanut Cookie
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11-03-2006 00:09
What's this, an actual conversation? Where we are allowed to talk and might be moved to say something? I didn't think they allowed that on the forums anymore.
Well, since it is going on somehow anyway, I'll participate: . Nobody has ever, in any online game, asked me if I were really a girl. . I have a kitchen, I put kitchens in my houses, and I like kitchens. . I use lots of punctuation when I type. . I don't have prim hair. What keeps holding me back is being bald. I mean, the way people look bald when you are over a certain distance from them. Having default hair means never looking bald. . Angelique never asked me her three questions, or if she did, she did it so skillfully I didn't realize I was being tested. . I am pretty good at telling people's real gender, but I can be fooled, and fooled for a long time. This doesn't bother me much, because what it means to me is that person really is spiritually quite of the gender he/she portrays. (Course I'm not cybering with them either; then I would be bothered if they hadn't told me the truth.) coco _____________________
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PetGirl Bergman
Fellow Creature:-)
Join date: 16 Feb 2005
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11-03-2006 00:17
Will someone please and now - send me a kitchen a washing machine and a wacum cleaner so I get more female.. and of course a toilet so we can directly get to know if your friends are female or male..
Must be that- that make us all females. IRL as well as in SL.. My.. who are stucked in the old world.. and old ahh forget it... . its so dam stupid and small thinking... I get sad.. /Tina - BTW I shave my legs IRL. with a Philips Lady Shave LOL. its pink to.. _____________________
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bilbo99 Emu
Garrett's No.1 fan
Join date: 27 Oct 2006
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11-03-2006 02:06
Wow, this is quite some thread - glad I had my say near the beginning!
Okay, I'm a noob <bow> <scrape> <grovel> What really irks me about this intrusion of RL into SL.. is that SL provides a really unique opportunity for the transgendered in RL.. an opportunity to litterally sluff off that old sex, and act and appear as a member of the proper sex. A number of very close friends are Trans in real life. I find it appalling when people question me, or anyone else.. about RL gender or whatnot. Take me as I present to be, or don't. Frankly.. if you're the "kind of person" who would ASK a question like that.. then you certainly don't know me well enough for me to have relations with you. I utterly agree with all you say. One of the most awesome facets I find in SL is the way barriers have been broken down. Now people can really let their minds out from the restrictions of their physical bodies. They can be what they want to be, who they want to be. Not just in their sex but all of their physical capacity. i have a pair of friends who met in second life and are now happily married in rl. SERIOUSLY! I also understand your point Jauani. I met my RL partner in a games help forum 7 years ago (text only!) where our friendship grew to the point we wanted to meet IRL. She has since moved home closer and we are now engaged. She has now joined SL and last night, though still over 70 miles away, with the help of SL we had a very passionate and loving evening. I know this isn't Utopia and I understand the opportunites laid open here are liable to misuse and abuse but the individual ultimately has the option of just turning away. The idiom 'horses for courses' I think is very apt for SL There are many other posters in this thread I agree with ... but I'm a hobbit .. not a troll |
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
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11-03-2006 03:55
Having a kitchen in SL is a luxury that only people with large houses can afford. My modest home only has three rooms; a living room, a bedroom/office, and a guest room. Kitchens in SL aren't very interesting spaces; you can't really cook anything in them, you don't get any warmth from the virtual stove, and they usually are full of hard surfaces that are lousy places to sit, so only people with enough land to afford to waste a room will have one. My smaller home has no kitchen, however. It does have a bathroom, for sharing a shower or a bath with someone, but I didn't choose to add a kitchen there... yet. I still might, as I am not done remodeling it to my liking. _____________________
Sorry, LL won't let me tell you where I sell my textures and where I offer my services as a sim builder. Ask me in-world.
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Caranda Schreiner
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11-03-2006 04:31
It's fairly Simple really. I ask Three simple questions. If i don't get accurate answers in Nanoseconds,, I'm Speaking to a Man. I've seen a list of questions which are supposed to be unanswerable by a RL guy - they were questions about things like the timing of periods, tampon applicators, makeup, hair colouring, stocking sizes, ring sizes etc. I wouldn't say it would be impossible for a guy to know the answers, but he'd only know them if he did a lot of research. I stopped worrying about the RL gender of my female SL friends a fair while ago (no, I don't use the list of questions on them!), I figure that if they can pull off being the opposite gender long enough to fool me over a period of months without ever slipping up they must be at least a bit female in their brains |
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House Market
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11-03-2006 05:26
/Tina - BTW I shave my legs IRL. with a Philips Lady Shave LOL. its pink to.. I use Cory's. |
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Jennifer McLuhan
Smiles and Hugs are Free
Join date: 22 Aug 2005
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11-03-2006 05:39
In RL I have both a kitchen and a bathroom. I use the bathroom far more than the kitchen.
In my SL home I have neither. What does that make me? P.S, Mickey, way to go cousin! Jen |
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Earl Zabibha
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Join date: 22 Aug 2006
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11-03-2006 05:42
I wear these really tight jeans that looks as if I have a CAMEL TOE does this make me a woman?
In the welcome area the other day I observed a a a a well it looked like a naked woman till she turned aroudn and was packing a HUGE "johnson"..... was that a woman? |
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PetGirl Bergman
Fellow Creature:-)
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11-03-2006 06:00
http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=4541
http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=4537 http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=4539 http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=4540 http://forums.secondcitizen.com/showthread.php?t=4544 /Tina - EXAKT NO comments... ))_____________________
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