[U ok Hun? x]

Tops all previous ham-fisted, terminally unfunny forced meme attempts.

[How Are Some Users Seemingly ALWAYS logged on?]

How would you know they were logged in all the time unless you were too?

In which case, just ask yourself why.

[Starting a conversation with someone new]

34 minutes ago, Alyona Su said:

Just... stop asking "How are you?" Because my answer will likely throw you off-guard: "How am I? Well, I have Ebola, so my diarrhea is runnier than usual and really bloody, and my nose won't stop running and I have blood dripping from my eyes, my knees and elbows ache like crazy and I'm constantly throwing up every time I eat or drink anything, including water. How are you?"

And, back in the real world, you'd just ignore them.

My advice to OP is to just focus on something going on in your immediate surroundings and make a joke about it.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

5 minutes ago, halebore Aeon said:

Yes, but my point is that these people are being attacked. Just because of how they look. Somehow these people seem to go this look, and then somehow first thing that pops in there head is coitus and intercourse. But yet, for most it's not all about that. They just want to look cute, and feel cute. That is all. How hard is that for people to fathom?

Ah OK. I thought it was so ubiquitous as to not raise eyebrows anymore. SL has definitely become a lot more 'normal' in style and content compared to, say, 2010.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

4 hours ago, halebore Aeon said:

The biggest one was the whole Kawaii look. If I remember someone posted that they found it creepy, and hundreds of people were just on attack mode... this has been going on for as long as I can remember. 

 

Really? I seem to remember that whole thing kawaii neko/anime thing being HUGE inworld, just a couple of years ago. 

[Your weirdest moments in SL caught on cam]

5 minutes ago, Garnet Psaltery said:

Which comment just goes further to casting doubt on the idea.  It appears that the only people in favour of it are you, your partner, a possible alt, and someone whose profile suggests he has not yet arrived at his fourteenth birthday.  Anyway, enough.

Fear not. Think it's safe to say your chances of ending up in an exhibition of off the wall, funny SL moments are zilch. 🙄

[Your weirdest moments in SL caught on cam]

8 hours ago, Polenth Yue said:

 

If someone includes a picture of me doing nothing much for "look at these weird characters" it's also setting me up to be mocked. This wouldn't be the same as taking a picture for "look at these creative avatars".

With respect, so what? There's no breach of RL privacy or consequences. Are you seriously suggesting you'll be at some important inworld Sansar meeting and others will say "Ha! Look, it's that weirdo we saw in the gallery. Skip his question"? Will you never get inworld club hosting work again?

Just seems a fun idea. The objections seem paranoid and odd. 

 

[So, the MP went full weeaboo...]

Don't think it's sleazy. Just LL being  like those clueless grandparents who try to 'get down' with 'the kids' and come across as laughably out of touch.

Suppose it makes a change from them defining 'cool' as someone with sunglasses, playing a sax while riding a skateboard. But didn't that whole kawaii/anime/neko crowd defect from SL en masse about 8 or 9 years ago?

[Earn2Life]

IIRC, E2L was stopped after a series of griefing incidents at a horse farm that paid out 10L for 10 mins of walking around the sim.

Some pranksters decided to TP in and wait for the current E2L user to hit 9:40 mins on the counter, before prim-pushing him/her out of the sim. This would invalidate their visit and mean they'd spent the best part of 10 minutes walking around for nothing.

There was such a furore over this - including disgruntled (and stupid) E2L users trying to get 'revenge' by attacking the sim owner - that E2L pretty much collapsed in a flurry of infighting and mass ARs.

[The graphics for this game have been terrible for a decade]

Why all the hostility towards OP??

By most gaming standards, SL graphics ARE intensely bad.

SL's chief saving grace - body sliders. But even the wretched APB Reloaded had that, so they're hardly a unique SP.

Check out Carmen King's GTA 5 'anime girl gets arrested' video on YouTube.  SL simply can't compete - in terms of background, lighting, buildings, cityscapes, skies, clothing detail, vehicle look and performance, etc.

SL DID have the winning formula once, but it was about 11 years ago. Times have changed. Dumping on OP won't bring them back. Enjoy it if you like but, in realistic terms, SL graphics will soon look as dated as ZX Spectrum.

 

 

 

[Furries in SL--why all the hatred towards furries?]

Are there still furries on SL??? I thought they'd gone the way of money trees, Bloodlines, 'bikers', hobos, nekos, NFL teams and active college sims.

[Debunked Rumors/Conspiracy Theories]

 

[Does LL want to fix SL]

[Your Biggest SL Disappointment]

The awful vehicle physics. Wasn't expecting GTA/PS/XBOX style smoothness, but didn't expect it to be as bad as it is. Don't know why people pay good money for cars, motorbikes, planes, etc on here, tbh - unless they just like them as parked props.

 

[Best Review of this Game :)]

Some of those videos are very funny, but quite sad too, in a way - it's clear that some of the people overreacting are victims of severe mental illness.

LL pretty much decided that 'Your world, your imagination' meant 'Buy land and follow the crowd' around five years ago, and has been sucking the fun out of the game ever since.

[Can Second Life be even considered a "Game"?]

SL's totally a game. Can you make do on SL without money for food, without RL consequences? Can you fly in RL? Can you shapesift at will in RL?

Of course it's a game, and mixing RL up with SL is a recipe for long-term disaster.

Real money might be involved, but so what? It's buying time and assets in pixelspace. Precisely why SL's detractors point to RL couples who neglect their hungry/neglected kids in meatspace  who also happen to run clubs/businesses on SL.

 

 

[What did SL do wrong during the early days?]

It's not so much that SL screwed up by courting RL businesses. More that they dropped their hardcore user base and bent over backwards to accommodate any investors who took a punt. First of many times SL users would realise LL simply doesn't 'do' feedback, once some new-fangled idea's taken thir fancy.

I remember visiting an inworld pizza franchise, where US-based residents could order a RL pizza. Because when you want a pizza delivery, your first thought's to go onlne, open up a viewer, wait to rez, click a box, open a web link and be directed to a page listing your nearest restaurant. As opposed to the annoying and stressful ritual of picking up the phone.

[What Are These Experiences and Their Enablers in The Viewer?]

Indeed - so you agree to an experience of pulling a sword from a stone - instead, your av becomes deformed and viewer crashers attack you. And you file an AR against...what or whom, exactly?

The Lab marches on in defiance of all reason or user feedback...

 

 

 

[Do you consider SL to be a game?]

Until

1)Humans can fly and teleport

2) Avatars catch diseases, starve without food, have to use the lavatory and age and die

3) Real guns can propel people 5,000m into the sky

Then yes, SL is VERY MUCH  a 'game'.