Aphrenity

Well, it's only been a couple of days and this thread has certainly grown. Unfortunately the reponses are from the usual people that sit on thier lazy behinds all day living on SL forums so I will pretty much just omit their comments. I will just give a quick response to what a "troll" is on these forums. A "troll" on SL forums is usually someone that has an actual life and doesn't view Secondlife as though it's their only life. A "troll" here is someone that questions the behavior of players within SL and brings up topics that require actual logical responses that these "SL MVP's" can't truly fathom because Second Life is their life and anything that threatens to attack that pixilated fantasy bubble they live in must be immediately denouced,rejected,and criticized. Unfortunately, I'm sorry my pixelated friends but this thread was about YOU...not for you. Now on to the point of this thread. If you know you're not attractive stop giving people you pictures especially if they never asked for it. If you know you're not attractive stop posting shots up in your profile like you are assuming everyone wants to see because I assure you they don't. If you're old (like most of you are) than you know better to act like a teen on facebook with those poses that tell the world you're way past your experation date. You're in a video game looking for affection,a relationship, a digital affair, an online romance etc. etc. You see when I see your RL picture and my reaction is to spray soap in my eyes that right there explains to me and others why you can't find a real world romance and why you're resorting to looking for a video game to find love. Harsh but it's the truth. Reason #1 why I'm so harsh towards these "ducklings" is because these are exactly the same type of clingy/needy people that take SL too seriously and try to push you into a real world romance with them (as that's their ultimate goal). You're meager act of kindness or even slightest remark that can be considered "affectionate" they'll jump onto like a fatman on a jelly doughnut. It doesn't matter they're looking for the love they can't get in reality so their in the game looking to seek out the first person that gives them the slightest bit of attention (something they don't get at all). They create a romantic fantasy around the idea, they'll stalk you, they'll chase you around, they'll create drama if anyone or anything gets in the way of their goal. They just won't let go of the idea until you ultimately leave SL ,fake your death, or whatever. They're not here in SL to play a game they're in SL looking for a rl boyfriend/husband. I get it Aphrenity you're too hard on these people yeah yeah so what. The point is keep your pics to yourself if you don't look good. Even people that look good in this game I question but I'm thrice as wary of desperate people with horrible photo's. You know who you are! and an abundance of you are in this thread! I know it hits home for you but the truth is the truth deal with it! I hope your camera breaks.

You know… after my last blockbuster thread I thought it was about time I grace these forums with more of my Second Life observances. This thread to be about “People Who DON’T look good posting RL profile pictures”. Now, I’m quite sure just saying that already has some of you ruffling your feathers and clenching your teeth ready to fire away at your keyboards and probably because that statement applies directly to you. Now we all know secondlife is a game of bs and fantasy. People come from all over (mostly OLD people) to pretend to be something they’re not and in some cases never were or will be again (young, hot, and attractive). It’s fine no one really cares untillllll you go breaking the 4th wall and post up a picture of real you in your profile. Now, I’m just going to say you know sometimes you click around see someone that looks nice. Check out their profile and then go to RL and you see their picture and you cringe. They look like extra’s from the walking dead (the zombies that is). Sometimes they take it up a notch even trying to show cleavage, making a kissy face, using the myspace angle so you don’t see how fat they are even though they clearly have 3 chins (you’re not fooling anyone so STOP!) Now on the contrary to that I’ve had plenty of actually attractive women send me their pictures and it’s all fine and dandy but when you get a squirmer (someone that makes you squirm in your seat when you look at them) than you know what I mean. Now I know confidence is good and all but some of you know better to show anyone your picture and I wish those of you that don’t did. After viewing your crime scene photo I never really see you the same again and neither does anyone else in SL for that matter. A poor friend of mine sent me a picture of her and I thought it was a corpse. I sincerely did. I had to ask her what was this and she said “it’s me”. So I said “oh… ok”. It reminded me of this scene from one of my favorite shows Now, I know some of you are saying to yourself this guy is pretty mean well actually what’s pretty mean is showing people what you look like when you know you’re not cute. There’s a reason why people on TV and Magazines look good and it’s because they are pleasing to the eye. You’re 40yo mug making kissy faces is not. You’re DDD breast when you weigh 1 metric ton is not pleasing to look at either. You have a right to be upset and I have a right to be upset because your real world profile picture should come with a warning and it doesn’t. This is the part where some of you start saying “well you’re probably nothing to look at either” well if that’s the case I’m smart enough not to show people that I’m nothing to look at so they don’t hurt their eyes. I’m sure some of you are also saying “so you think people shouldn’t used their RL picture because they don’t look good” YES I’m saying just that. I don’t want to see you. Now you can be unattractive that’s fine…just don’t pretend to be attractive in your picture. You can smile just don’t pretend you look better than you really do and you know what I mean. Those plenty of fish SL profiles with you dropping demands what you want and how great you are and then your profile pic looks like you should be in a Goonies remake. Just stop it! Just stop it! Just stop! Now I’m sure some desperate guy out there is more than happy to put his arms around you and a lot of you are trying to find that guy since you use SL as a dating service (see my previous thread for more details on this). The truth is you’re old, out of shape, and should know better than to act like a teen on facebook. I don’t want to see Carol the retired librarian with 3 kids out of college making kissy faces with her Iphone. Or Barbara the 300lb high blood pressure and borderline diabetic trying to pretend her fat is cute it’s not it’s unhealthy (and so is viewing your cleavage pics). So there I said it for those of you already thinking it but too afraid to say it. I’ll take that hit.