Is SL a "game" or another word?
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Brenda Connolly
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05-18-2007 06:29
From: Lorna Languish Please everyone keep Brenda in this thread so she doesn't troll my other posts. Thanks. Oh and ?? game or platform? Its a game. Only games these days (except consoles) are getting deeper all the time and more immersive, and you have to redefine what you mean by 'game'. Serious enough? Trying my best here  If you'd enable your Forum PM I could just stalk you there.
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Lorna Languish
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05-18-2007 06:37
theres a forum PM??? How do I see it?
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Brenda Connolly
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05-18-2007 07:33
From: Lorna Languish theres a forum PM??? How do I see it? Use the User CP. (Control Panel)..
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Mickey McLuhan
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05-18-2007 07:44
From: Colette Meiji This Thread is a Mess too.  How. DARE. YOU! I'm disgusted by you, Colette. SL is a game and I don't care if you disagree with me it's a game and if you don't think so you're dumb and how can you not see it's a game it's a game and you're a big dummy if you think it isn't and what else would you call it if it's not a game it's gotta be a game because I play it so it must be a game because how can it not be if I say it is I mean come on it's a game right you're stupid if you say it isn't and you're wrong anyway no matter what you say unless you say it's a game and I hate you all if you dont and blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...
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bilbo99 Emu
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05-18-2007 07:52
From: Mickey McLuhan How. DARE. YOU!
I'm disgusted by you, Colette.
SL is a game and I don't care if you disagree with me it's a game and if you don't think so you're dumb and how can you not see it's a game it's a game and you're a big dummy if you think it isn't and what else would you call it if it's not a game it's gotta be a game because I play it so it must be a game because how can it not be if I say it is I mean come on it's a game right you're stupid if you say it isn't and you're wrong anyway no matter what you say unless you say it's a game and I hate you all if you dont and blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH... Oh 'She of the Swiss Army Tail' ... have you been age verified yet? oooh alright ... it's a game! <sigh> |
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Colette Meiji
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05-18-2007 09:14
From: Mickey McLuhan How. DARE. YOU!
I'm disgusted by you, Colette.
SL is a game and I don't care if you disagree with me it's a game and if you don't think so you're dumb and how can you not see it's a game it's a game and you're a big dummy if you think it isn't and what else would you call it if it's not a game it's gotta be a game because I play it so it must be a game because how can it not be if I say it is I mean come on it's a game right you're stupid if you say it isn't and you're wrong anyway no matter what you say unless you say it's a game and I hate you all if you dont and blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH... This Post I just quoted is a Mess too. |
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Aleister Montgomery
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05-18-2007 11:09
If SL is a game for you, so be it. You can do (almost) everything you want within the SL metaverse, including roleplay.
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Sys Slade
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05-18-2007 11:25
From: Aleister Montgomery You can do (almost) everything you want within the SL metaverse, including roleplay. Not if it involves 3 short avatars, a 2 foot cylindrical prim and germans with cameras
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Rusty Satyr
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05-18-2007 11:28
meh.
It's a trademark.
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MarieElize Noel
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05-23-2007 06:56
From: DaQbet Kish SOS…Spouse Over Shoulder!
Uh hum….it’s just a game dear… Come again?
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Colette Meiji
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05-23-2007 07:00
with the BBC Code disabled all of the FORUMS are a mess too.
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bilbo99 Emu
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05-23-2007 07:03
From: MarieElize Noel Come again? Unfortunate comment ... I think the poster was in an adult area |
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05-23-2007 07:04
From: Colette Meiji with the BBC Code disabled all of the FORUMS are a mess too. yep and some of the sigs are taking up three times the space as a result .. really efficient |
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Brenda Connolly
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05-23-2007 07:05
From: Sys Slade Not if it involves 3 short avatars, a 2 foot cylindrical prim and germans with cameras I wonder if they use Leicas?
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Goosey Gealach
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05-23-2007 07:18
Games are a second life.
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05-23-2007 07:28
From: Alicia Sautereau world in a game Personally, I think World, but I'd have to agree w/ Alicia Sautereaus' comment. I have friends that think and use SL as a game and then, also friends that find it a real place, real World.
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05-23-2007 07:30
From: Goosey Gealach Games are a second life. Tossing a Linden seems a frightening prospect! |
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Brenda Connolly
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05-23-2007 07:40
From: bilbo99 Emu Tossing a Linden seems a frightening prospect! Linden Tossing. Hmmmmm..may be better than those Strip Uno games you've been running.
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05-23-2007 07:43
From: Brenda Connolly Linden Tossing. Hmmmmm..may be better than those Strip Uno games you've been running. Hey! Strip Uno is fun |
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Goosey Gealach
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05-23-2007 07:44
From: bilbo99 Emu Tossing a Linden seems a frightening prospect! I'm thinking along the lines of a definition of games as a medium rather than just the way that medium is used. One of Warren Spector's (of Deus Ex fame) mottos is "We make worlds, not film sets." I think the worry that too many games try to take the player and make them the star of some 'interactive film' is a valid concern. So when games become virtual worlds, does the line between the two concepts exist any more? Does the distinction even make sense? So perhaps what the question is really asking is not whether SL is a game or not, but whether SL is a fictional virtual world, or a real virtual world. In that, I'd tend towards the latter. |
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05-23-2007 07:47
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
--that Willie guy
Call it whatever you want. It wont change what it is.
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Goosey Gealach
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05-23-2007 07:52
From: Colette Meiji What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
--that Willie guy
Call it whatever you want. It wont change what it is. I'd agree with that, except arguing's more fun. I find it hard to accept that the philosophy on that hasn't advanced since the Elizabethan era. Whereas nomenclature may well be a man-made strategy to aid categorisation in human brains unfit to deal with infinite diversity, there must at least be room for doubt that 'nominative determinism' has some basis in reality. |
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05-23-2007 07:56
From: Goosey Gealach ... a real virtual world.. I'm sorry but as a physicist that's very funny |
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05-23-2007 07:56
Whoever said it was a "Life Simulator" is correct. And hence, if it is a simulator, it is really a game. No points to score you say? Sure there are, they're called $Lindens.
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Mickey McLuhan
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05-23-2007 08:00
From: Goosey Gealach I'd agree with that, except arguing's more fun.
I find it hard to accept that the philosophy on that hasn't advanced since the Elizabethan era. Whereas nomenclature may well be a man-made strategy to aid categorisation in human brains unfit to deal with infinite diversity, there must at least be room for doubt that 'nominative determinism' has some basis in reality. Who's doing what now?
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