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They don't seem to have pockets so he's definitely happy to see you.
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There are so many things one can do in SL. Or one can just sit on the porch and smoke. (...while having one's right arm eaten by a carnivorous rocking chair I just noticed... Ah well, too late to fix it now, publish and be darned.)
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How Does Your SL Look Today?
QuietEventide replied to SandorWren's topic in General Discussion Forum
I haven't been in SL lately but I found this in my photo drawer. Life is what happens to us while we're busy making other plans. -
One Word to Describe Your SL in 2023
QuietEventide replied to Prokofy Neva's topic in General Discussion Forum
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Yes, in reality when you have a "home", you are paying for the server space that the home takes up. It's not free to run big servers for online virtual worlds. I rent a place sometimes from one of the big landlords. Usually I have the place up for a month or two, maybe three months. Then I take it down again until I feel like rebuilding next time. I don't really want to sign up for a "pro" account and get locked into long-term "agreements". It works better for me to just rent for a bit, do my little scenes and then take a step back again. But we're all different, of course. Think I spent like 10-20 dollars-ish per month for the time I have it, and no strings attached really. Works well on a low budget. Most often I get a 2048sqm which is enough for what I want. 10-20 USD is less than having a meal out - and the Lindens have to make money somehow.
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The once popular sport "Extreme Fashion Tobogganing" in "Evie's Winter Olympics" claimed this (fashion) victim. The scores for "style/outfit" from the four judges were decent but... well... as you can see, this contestant really had no hope. And neither did the sport itself, if I'm completely honest.
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Went to a "drag race event"... Planned the outfit meticulously – a huge purple wig, a slightly daring Coco Chanel-style dress, Gloria Vanderbilt pearl bling glasses (Deluxe), and lots of Dame Edna-style makeup. Zoomed into the event region where the orange cloud rezzed after about 5 seconds. There was a thunderous roar as two 8-litre Top Fuel dragsters finished the quarter mile in about 4 seconds.
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Disappeared while swimming off-sim Entered SL rocket hoping to find the 5000 meter height line but hitting the skybox dome Walked onto spooky shipwreck late one night and was never heard from again Used a crocodile avatar and became (1) a wall trophy in a virtual 1800's mansion and (2) several SL handbags Naively gave away real life name & address to seemingly nice & helpful person near the welcome area...
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The Metaverse Is The Worst Thing Ever Made
QuietEventide replied to CaithLynnSayes's topic in General Discussion Forum
The Metaverse (and an Internet taken over by a few extremely large corporations) can very easily turn into a digital prison, comparable to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave -
I'm struggling too. Past the sell by date. I don't really think I'm all that offensive. But, there is that nagging uneasy feeling now. That's not going away. The thing is ... I'm old (65) and I might say something "old and unwanted" and someone out there might take offense even if I didn't mean any harm at all. I look over my own shoulder a lot more than I used to do. That's just the way it has become. I visited one club in SL earlier today, just to see what it was like. It felt uneasy. I left after about 10 minutes. I had no business there.
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I wrote a post here but then I decided to remove it again. It was kind of silly, so ... never mind.
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I made a more age-appropriate avatar (profile pic) for all in-world travels. Feels strange. I guess I'll get used to it. At least this latest avi is somewhat closer to reality. Not enough - but closer. When in Rome... I have enjoyed this forum discussion, believe it or not. I find it very enlightening. Filed under "Life long learning". Yes, me too.
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Not at all, I still find it a very creative environment. I'm not stopping SL completely, just the social aspects, and I'm adjusting the way I am looking at SL as a whole. Just when you think you've "got it figured out", you find yet another level and you have to reassess your thinking. I put quite a bit into my little "SL photo studio" which I rebuild from time to time. That's where I set up the images. It's got various houses, scenery, trees, even some jumping dolphins from TrigiTec (I really like them). The photo studio region is down at the moment but I am considering rebuilding it at some point, that's just a question of finding a suitable spot for it. It's all good.
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I have had SL experiences of this type more than once. Those experiences have taken their toll I'm afraid. Quite a bit. In my case it's been more about faking the age than about faking the gender. Presenting "myself" as being 25 and "hot" when I'm really 65 and well past sell by date with saggy boobs is not right either. I shouldn't do it. "Hello 60's my old friend We're back to guilt and shame again" SL has unlimited possibilities for avatar & region creation, but I feel increasingly uncomfortable in the social hangouts in-world. It is utterly impossible to live up to (everyone else's) expectations of "what SL is". I can't do it. And I sure as heck can't live up to (everyone else's) expectations of what I should or should not be. I was never on SL for relationships in the first place... But I sure learned a lot along the way and I am genuinely grateful for that. Enough to know when it really is time to call it a day - that is good knowledge too. Might set up a "blog" or something for my cartoons, to disconnect my RL self from the SL avatars, so they are no longer personal. I think that may be the way to go – to observe rather than participate. Jeff Goldblume's character Ian Malcolm put many things so very eloquently, and one of the best is of course: "Life finds a way".
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Thank you all for your input. It has been most helpful and I will do my best to learn from it.
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With respect, why would one then have an avatar at all...? (Note: I have left out the middle part of this quote since it contains a quote from a third person.) ------------------------------------------------- If we presume the following: (a) mr Deakins is correct (b) one really can not have it "both ways" (c) "the person behind the avatar" is the (only) accepted norm ...then I would argue that the entire concept of "SL avatars" becomes a bit pointless. We should all use real photos of ourselves only, and be done with it. Imagination... what's that? Such waffle! ------------------------------------------------- Instead of the made-up picture of Evie in the flower garden, let me show you a RL picture of the concrete wall I'm staring at in RL right now. That's a lamp, the top of my PC screen and the stand for the screen. And the wall. Looks great, doesn't it...? I think I probably over-compensated for RL shortcomings by going full on in SL instead. We weren't "amish" in my RL youth, but there was certainly a "strict" feel to a lot of things. The rural area where I grew up was a very different place compared to the modern world of today. In SL, I built the amazing house I could never afford in RL. I built the garden I could never dream of. I made Evie 40 years younger and prettier than I ever was. The vanity... vanity falls under "pride" which is one of the seven you-know-what. It may very well be that the biggest deception I'm guilty of - is the deception against myself.
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+1 and that goes for the rest of the post too. I also did not enter SL for sex or relationships, but lately there have been a few 'incidents' that made me feel uneasy. Am I expected to "show my papers" now...? Maybe my avatars went to the wrong SL places, I don't know. It's a dark and mysterious world... anyway, moving on: ----------------------------------------------- My female avatar is a regular but ageing cis woman who remembers happier times and tried to recreate those happier times within SL. But, just like in "real life", she is forced to more or less conclude that life has passed her by. She can type well. But she is also be a tiny bit vain. That's my fault - I gave her "vanity" as the main flaw. It's on me. Having had the tools to "be beautiful again" (and the flaw of vanity) she has drawn attention from people, mostly male avatars but not exclusively, who: 1) obviously did not read the profile 2) started sending IM's (despite the profile saying open chat preferred) 3) quickly pushed those IM's onto sexual themes that I really did not ask for 4) start interrogating me about my real life (then they get confused when I start telling the truth - because truth is suddenly complex and difficult and it takes time) ----------------------------------------------- My male avatar is not the type who goes dancing at all. He's not interacting much, he might say "good morning ma'am" if he sits around. Men rarely speak to him. Some women avatars do. He keeps it polite and usually short. If he was looking for sex, he could easily "get some" and he's definitely cis. He would never be with a man. ----------------------------------------------- As Evie, I've had wonderful chats with people who were "not mainstream". I didn't ask them, they told me. Some were men with feminine souls presenting as women (I've gone shopping with a couple of them, that was fun). A few were women presenting as men, there was the occasional "shemale" or "femboy" etc. Most people have been wonderful, make no mistake. I have learned so much. Very grateful. ----------------------------------------------- I made that "body vs soul" post. My (personal) belief is that a body has parts but a soul is infinite and can take any form. Reincarnation may play a part there, we don't know. In SL, we can leave the RL body behind, outside the PC screen, and maybe some of us take the journey into the soul a bit further than others. You are a soul (infinite) You have a body (with limitations) SL gives you the tools to paint your soul. There are infinitely more colours than simply "male/masculine" and "female/feminine". Using only those two colours is like painting your soul in black and white. The picture below is the best colour painting I have of Evie's soul. She's probably writing a poem. Maybe lyrics for her next song. Maybe it's her memoirs - the story of her life. Everything intertwines into everything else. Worlds merge... ------------------------------------- Here's a quote I like (CS Lewis, from "The Magician's Nephew"): Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had. ------------------------------------- I'm old and I'm tired... My beautiful Evie has been travelling enough. I'm taking her home.
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King Solomon solution: Cut SL down the middle. 1) Those who see SL as an extension of their RL selves/genders go to the "RL=SL" regions. 2) Those who don't care about real life genders go to the "RL≠SL" regions. And never the two shall meet (like wives and girlfriends). And The Great Calm descended upon Second Life.
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Why would it get locked...? If this thread should for some reason get locked I would kindly like to ask the person who locks it to clearly explain why. A couple of other threads are into their hundreds of pages, this one only has 16 at the time of writing. I find the discussion interesting and it seemed like the original poster did too. I'm trying to learn from it. Honestly. I vote for keeping this thread open.
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Thank you for a very interesting thread, Gopi. Before SL I was playing The Sims. From DVD's. I had no experience of any "online" gaming at all. I was creating little Sim people and shaping their Sims storylines. It is a good game, but it also contains a lot of "Get me a job", "Send me to a party", "Learn this, learn that ", "oh no, your kitchen caught fire"... And just as the little Sim was about to fall asleep some annoying Sim neighbour would knock on the door and tire them out completely. That little "plumbob" thing over them would turn yellow and then red... I got tired too. I wanted something with more depth, but I didn't want to be forced to do a lot of energy-demanding tasks all the time. Enter Second Life back in 2010 with my previous avatar Madeline. Madeline was unfortunately lost to the Second World - a loss that caused me more sadness than I had expected. That's SL for you... it goes deep. My Sims history probably affected my SL in that I see the avatars as "created characters" and not necessarily a direct representation of my RL self. They are me, but they are also their own people. In SL I have only created Evie and Prescott (and Maddy, 2010-14... ). Both my current avatars are infinitely "deeper" than any Sims characters I had made before. The respective "second lives" of Evie and Prescott have, on occasion, reached an almost "spiritual" level which I had never thought possible. Life will find a way.