Gopi Passiflora Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 I probably mentioned it here before, and I know it sounds pathetic, but I like to make pretty female avatars to look at because I don't have a girlfriend in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnoot Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 1 hour ago, Gopi Passiflora said: I probably mentioned it here before, and I know it sounds pathetic, but I like to make pretty female avatars to look at because I don't have a girlfriend in real life. I'm pretty sure that's what half the people in second life do , even if they did it subconsciously . They make their ideal attraction and then they fall in love with it , identify with it , take 24 selfies an hour of it . I make avatars like people listen to songs . If it gives me a certain feel that I like, Like nostalgia , comfort, or if it resembles a game I'm playing or have played, etc, I make it. Edited March 12 by Midnoot 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 1 hour ago, Gopi Passiflora said: I probably mentioned it here before, and I know it sounds pathetic, but I like to make pretty female avatars to look at because I don't have a girlfriend in real life. I don't think this is in any way "pathetic." As Midnoot notes, it's a version of what most of us do -- whether it is producing an idealized version of ourselves, or of someone else. RL can be pretty disappointing. Why, given the opportunity, would you not want your alternate reality to be beautiful and ideal? (I remember a guy once telling me that he used a female avi because he enjoyed watching her wiggle her butt when she walked. Which . . . sure! Whatevs, right?) 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabrinaCooke Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 48 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: (I remember a guy once telling me that he used a female avi because he enjoyed watching her wiggle her butt when she walked. Which . . . sure! Whatevs, right?) I once knew a guy who made alts like they were going out of style, just so he could watch them doing the oingo boingo on screen while he did... things in RL. To each their own, I suppose. On topic, though, I agree that people tend to make their ideal avatars inworld, whether that ideal be human, furry, or anything in between. Why would anyone make an avatar that they don't want to look at for hours at a time, right? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheebyKatz Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) While I do realize it's true that people make what they want to look at mostly, and that people might (even unconsciously) express their ideals with their avatars as far as romantic stuff goes, I don't even want to consider the implications. If it's unconscious, it can stay that way. I play a child, a fish-monster-hybrid, an undead ghoul, a necromantically animated skeleton, a Yithian (Google it), a Starfleet science officer with bewbies, and a potato. I can't really imagine any of them as my ideal love interest, if I even had one. Even my science officer, she's just how I'd want to look myself if I was a grownup lady in space. My GF is a werewolf dolly. She gets jealous of my mermaid dolly, but I keep telling her I only carry the mermaid dolly around as part of my job, because fish-people live where I work. And I have two other dollies besides. I don't know if they have any alts. I only take them out for tea parties. Edited March 12 by PheebyKatz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnoot Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 10 minutes ago, PheebyKatz said: I play a potato. XD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheebyKatz Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Midnoot said: XD I made it a Starfleet uniform, and it has all of the proper insignia for its role as security officer. It's actually a rather high-def potato avi; I just get a seam around my midriff if my texture isn't baked right, is all. Not going all tinfoil though, I know it's just SL. And yes, I already know every potato one-liner. I use them all. Edited March 12 by PheebyKatz 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Nova Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Isn't this what SL is ALL about? Making something you'd love to be, and making something you'd love to love, are not very different. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheebyKatz Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 1 hour ago, Anna Nova said: Isn't this what SL is ALL about? Making something you'd love to be, and making something you'd love to love, are not very different. Way I see it, it's kinda the whole point. I agree. Having the option of making and/or being whatever you like, however you may think of that. And however you may personally like it. I might not make avis of my ideal fantasy partner, but I certainly don't see anything weird about people doing that. I'd think just about everyone has at least thought about it, or dabbled in it, at some point. Edited March 12 by PheebyKatz 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorientje Woller Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 3 hours ago, PheebyKatz said: I made it a Starfleet uniform, and it has all of the proper insignia for its role as security officer. It's actually a rather high-def potato avi; I just get a seam around my midriff if my texture isn't baked right, is all. Not going all tinfoil though, I know it's just SL. And yes, I already know every potato one-liner. I use them all. Meet your kryptonite: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheebyKatz Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 15 minutes ago, Dorientje Woller said: Meet your kryptonite: I just teleport away. Engineering has my back. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arielle Popstar Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 7 hours ago, Midnoot said: I'm pretty sure that's what half the people in second life do , even if they did it subconsciously . They make their ideal attraction and then they fall in love with it , identify with it , take 24 selfies an hour of it . So half want to mate with their avatar and half want to be their avatar? I should start asking people I meet inworld what their preference is 😃 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 So, this would be like how Dr. Frankenfurter created Rocky? I'd be afraid that like Dr. Frankenfurter, I'd regret having previously created "Eddie". On the plus side, you could always invite "Edwina" (Eddie) to dinner in SL, even after you decide "Rochelle" (Rocky) is your favorite SL girlfriend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesley Spengler Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 1 hour ago, Arielle Popstar said: So half want to mate with their avatar and half want to be their avatar? I should start asking people I meet inworld what their preference is 😃 When you create your survey, just make sure to include a box that's labeled "both." (Suggesting on behalf of a friend.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Quote ...make their ideal boyfriend or girlfriend... I don't really do this, no. Only a handful of my avatars are what one would typically think of as attractive, and those are primarily brought out when I want to do a fashion shoot or a themed photo series based on an album or film or something. The main bulk of my "hang out in SL" avatars are quite different. Some are silly-cute (frog, deer, etc.), some look very strange or otherworldly, and some are grotesque or off-putting. I mostly make avatars for self-expression, commentary, and storytelling. If I'm feeling goofy, I'll toss on my frog. If I want to make a statement about the state of the world or planet in general, nobody's going to want to date the horrors I come up with - not even me. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Heartsong Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 I was trying to figure out what to write in response to the OP, but go so very lost. I think this sums it up well enough ... 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 4 minutes ago, Katherine Heartsong said: I was trying to figure out what to write in response to the OP, but go so very lost. I think this sums it up well enough ... A compliment: Gopi is GOOD at these types of threads! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 11 hours ago, Gopi Passiflora said: I probably mentioned it here before, and I know it sounds pathetic, but I like to make pretty female avatars to look at because I don't have a girlfriend in real life. I did try once but my "ideal mate" does not exist. Society doesn't accept people like us because they can't let go of their imagined reality and live in the heart of a cloud. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 8 hours ago, PheebyKatz said: and a potato Reminds me of a great DEVO song ("Smart Patrol"), where the boy (a potato), is looking for a girl (a tomato)! Lyric: Afraid that no-one around me Understands my potato Think I'm only a spud boy Looking for a real tomato 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopi Passiflora Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 Thanks for the replies everyone. Yeah, I agree SL should be a place where you can be allowed to be anything, even the (imaginary) person you desire. (Yes, I know I opened Pandora's Box with this thread.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Emerald Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 4 hours ago, Katherine Heartsong said: I was trying to figure out what to write in response to the OP, but go so very lost. I think this sums it up well enough ... Yes, Queen! This should be the new picture for the Community Forums! For myself, I like my avatars to look attractive to me, but I wouldn't want to date any of them because that would just be talking to myself. And I do enough of that already in RL. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Mistwood Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 People make avatars for all kinds of reasons. I make "leave me alone" avatars. Some don't update their avatars at all and don't care how they look. They'd prefer to be known or liked for who they are and not how they look. Plenty of people aren't in SL to watch their or other's avatars jiggle. I am rarely swayed by someone's great looking avatar over who they are as a person. I make pretty avatars, too. It's fun to manifest some kind of physical ideal. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Qie Niangao Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 See also https://replika.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucia Nightfire Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Also, this is why I capitalized on Animesh and made hundreds of "temporary" companions for I and others to "use". No risk of getting hurt, judged or shamed. Whether or not you still feel lonely afterwards is something it can't remedy, though. 🙁 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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