What makes you keep going on SL and logging in almost everyday ?

[Bitsy Buccaneer 2,607]

The friends who've stuck with me through the worst of my illness and disability are all in SL. They're what really keeps me here.

[IntrovertBV 61]

1 hour ago, ChinRey said:

I'm addicted

We're all addicts..

But for sure, every investment & hard work pays off at the end.. Maybe, because we are good at it, we keep going..

At the ups and downs, keep going...

[IntrovertBV 61]

1 hour ago, Bitsy Buccaneer said:

The friends who've stuck with me through the worst of my illness and disability are all in SL. They're what really keeps me here.

Hope you feel better soon and always...

[Ivanova Shostakovich 4,517]

2 hours ago, ChinRey said:

OCD

Edit - Seriously: I can't bring myself to let go of Greater Coniston and I can't bring myself to disappoint the few people who have supported an encouraged me.

Right now I'm trying to raise enough L$ to save my work. That means listing stuff on MP which again means facing the UI FROM HELL - the online listing form over and over and over again. I can do it! I can do it for Coniston!

And that's what I have been doing the last week - full time - and I think I can see a slight improvement in sales already. This is not commercial I can't imagine I'll ever get to the point where I'll make any money from SL, I can't even imagine I'll ever manage to recover any of the thousands of dollars I've wasted on it these last six years. But if I can get to the break even point at least - if I can stop the tier from hemhorraging what's left of my RL economy - I can afford to keep it running and then I can tell myself it wasn't all a waste of time and money.

Oh well, who am I fooling? I suppose the true answer is that I'm addicted. At least it's not nearly as unhealthy as some other drugs...

   I certainly hope you've had some fun with it as well.

[ChinRey 5,439]

2 hours ago, IntrovertBV said:

But for sure, every investment & hard work pays off at the end.. Maybe, because we are good at it, we keep going..

Oh, I'm still building. 3D modelling and virtual landscaping are tremendously satisfying hobbies.

But I don't do it in or for SL anymore unless there is for some special reason (like my current Save Coniston project). Why should I?

 

2 hours ago, Ivanova Shostakovich said:

   I certainly hope you've had some fun with it as well.

As I mentioned, right now I'm at the start of an MP listing marathon and it's really, really hard to see anything positive under such grimm conditions.

But since you ask, I had lots of lovely experiences the first two years. Then I got involved in the BIMMU (Big Informal Mesh Mess Untangling) project. I know I've complained a lot about how LL bodged the mesh implementation but at least they made it a substantal intellectual challenge trying to figure it out. It was frustrating, yes, but also really interesting. And now that it is more or less over, I can claim that I can make better LoD and physics models for SL than anybody else in the whole wide world can. It's a totally useless skill but it's mine and mine alone and nobody can take it away from me.

Edited October 13, 2019 by ChinRey

[Bitsy Buccaneer 2,607]

1 hour ago, IntrovertBV said:

Hope you feel better soon and always...

It's a rest of my life kind of thing but thank you for your kindness x

[Daniel Voyager 1,597]

The new Bellisseria continent being built is keeping me logging in every week. I love the new cool areas the moles are building. 

[Tarina Sewell 877]

On 10/10/2019 at 7:04 AM, IntrovertBV said:

Wondering about the reasons that could make one interact better with SL world and feel the belonging to this open world...🙄🤨

as a fellow introvert.. I ask myself that question everyday.

[Sorciaa 130]

Because if I go under 50 MPH the bus will explode.

[Sukubia Scarmon 2,276]

MY crippling shopping addiction!

[Clover Jinx 12,362]

31 minutes ago, Sukubia Scarmon said:

MY crippling shopping addiction!

* steals Sukubia's cake * 

[Selene Gregoire 8,448]

I... am addicted to creating and building.

[Eric Castanea 89]

Because I have no 1st life?

🤪

[Kimmi Zehetbauer 722]

5 hours ago, Sorciaa said:

Because if I go under 50 MPH the bus will explode.

Considering I drive a city bus part time and I try not to go under 50 (80 km/h).

[Cinos Field 418]

Socialising with tons of nerds, and on top of that, socialising with them as what I want to be but didn't get in the real life meat lottery. It's just my social space, where I happily talk with everyone, unlike real life where I'm rather shy.

[Claireschen Hesten 5,392]

It's an escape from the stresses and strains of RL, the chance to forget about my long term health issues and feel like a normal person for a while. there's always something to do in SL and things that keep my interest so i seldom get bored

[rasterscan 792]

SL is still, and always will be, the perfect escape from RL and its .... ups and downs.

[Pixie Kobichenko 1,306]

After 10 years of habitually logging in daily, I might go inworld 3x a week.  I still enjoy dressing up my pixel Barbie with clothes I can never have in the real world.  Playing with my pixel dollhouse & garden.

[SanFroggy 3]

I've been in SL for... what, 8.5 years now? So... what keeps me coming back, again and again? I started out of curiosity - what is this Second Life thing I kept hearing about? My first year or so was terrible, from a technical standpoint - DSL internet, crappy modem and an antiquated computer made my newbie days sheer hell - I shudder when I think about it! And yet, somehow, I persevered. I kept coming back. I made some friends. I immersed myself in building and SL photography. I discovered travel on roads, waterways and in the air. Then, quite by accident, I ended up renting a parcel close to Blake Sea (a friend got the parcel first, then quickly abandoned it for another (and another, and another, but that's a different story), and I took over the rent), then a couple years later I rented another parcel south of the first in the same sim (because I got tired of seeing one ugly house after another go up as the tenants turned over) and terraformed it into a nature preserve (still in the making 5 years later), and before I knew it, I put down deep roots in this virtual world. I can't imagine abandoning it now. Like some of the posters here, I'm pretty introverted and spend most of my SL time by myself. But I cherish the few good SL friends I made over the years. So, I'm sticking with SL for as long as it will last - I hope for a good while.

[Ceka Cianci 4,798]

I just like to shop a lot and take the edge off the real world..

It helps to push all the crazy out of my head that I take home from work every day..

It really does work..

Then once i log out ,which may only be 20 minutes to an hour later..I'm all ready to go for the rest of the day.