Ashlyn Voir

The thing is, if I were able to put together my own PC I wouldn’t be asking this question. I am not tech savvy—I mean seriously not at all—and much of that sounds extremely confusing. I’d get frustrated very quickly. I’d be da*ned to save up for a bunch parts only to completely ruin it or break anything. I have absolutely no room for a desktop in the first place. I’m interested in a good laptop.

I currently don’t have enough room in my house to put in a desktop computer and I often enjoy the benefits to having a laptop computer as you can travel with it and it’s compact. At the moment I’m not financially able to get a new laptop or desktop PC for that matter, but eventually I hope to someday upgrade from the purgatory that is my current—four going on five year old—laptop. My current FPS at any given time is always 0.5-5.0 at any sim that isn’t blank. Even at low settings. So, yeah I think it’s time for an upgrade, but I just wanted to ask what laptop would you guys recommend that would be able to run SL at ultra settings and smoothly? I’m not tech savvy, so I have no idea about computers that much.

Sim hopping around in the vain hopes people will be nice enough to IM me, but so far nothing.

Hi to the people in SecondLife.

I wouldn’t mind being your friend. Unlike most people on the game, I do actually go out of my way to be a decent friend and not ignore you.

I don’t blame you for making these threads and hoping something good will come out of it. I myself have tried making threads like this and haven’t met a single friend out of any of it. In my experience, people add you and seldom ever chat to you. Second Life is like that in a nutshell. No one talks and the only time you ever talk is in some bad sex role play. But. You know. Good luck finding friends on this game.

I guess to some degree maybe everyone is that way. Maybe not purposely, but it’s human nature I suppose. Either way, this thread accomplished something and I made a new friend from it because they were kind and reached out to me. As many others have said before, what we give out is what we get back. Not always, but for the most part yeah.

Oh, hunty hush. Thank for for being the only person on this thread to leave a nice and reasonable response to me. And yes, very much true and well said

Because I called this game a game? It is a game. Only one person was decent enough to IM me in-game and was completely polite and cordial. I was the same back. Mutual politeness and mutual respect. I don’t think it’s me, hun.

It will all end soon enough.

This thread turned into a mystery novel overnight (I’m going by Second Life time since it’s non-discriminatory and it is the game we are on). I’ve been called a troll because someone left a snide remark and I decided to respond back? And yet somehow I—of course, I would be of all people because of obvious reasons—am the one who is wrong? Yet, all the passive aggressive and indirect insults that are directed toward me is a-ok? Ahh. I see now. I don’t doubt there aren’t good people on this game. And I don’t discredit anyone and their experiences with others on the game as well. My own haven’t been too peachy, but it’s not the result of myself. I’ve given people money on the game. I’ve armchair therapied others. I’ve tried being a decent online friend when I could. I don’t make alts because they’re used to deceive people. Not to mention, I’m not spending money on an alt when none of my items are transferable on this one. That being said, my encounters have been more bad than good as time went on and I won’t deny some of it was my own paranoia stopping me from getting close to anyone on this game. But, a lot of it was from people IMing me rude things about my avatar or calling it names. People bumping into me for the sake of it being funny. Oh, I have the IMs of people saying downright nasty things to me in-world but of course I can’t share them here. And, even on SL Flickr when I’ve tried making nice comments on others photos, I’ve been told not to comment when I wrote literally ‘nice photo and nice avatars’. Insane. Afterwards, I became irritated and made said thread. But. Continue your baseless assumptions about me or my SL. From the looks of the replies, calling yourselves saints is sort of over doing it.

You’ll find friends in no time with the look of your avatar. Good luck

Great post. ??

I am the OP. ? Oh, this forum is child’s play compared to what I’ve dealt with in my past. Believe me. This is nothing and is so heavily moderated that it’s almost impossible to be a flaming a**hole.

‘...but I completely agree, it was so rude of her and others to be so kind towards me’ Huh? I’m not sure why this was said. I never said it was rude to be nice to people—what an oxymoron. There are few nice people who’d even do such a thing and you were lucky to be one of the very few to experience such acts of kindness.

Written words are often difficult to interpret and I have that issue a lot. Either way, so much went wrong and I’m to blame for it, but whether or not my experience will change is sort of beyond me at this point.

I disagree with you. And, I’m only being polite. It’s sarcastic to write names and apologize now or am I missing something?

Both threads are different from each other, but what others bring up from old threads to this one—nothing to do with this one—I’ve made is out of my control. That being said, your humor is adorable.

I never mentioned race though. You assumed, BilliJo Aldrin.

It’s assumed I haven’t been ‘kind, generous, respectable, thoughtful, sweet, and a myriad of other positive attributes one could attach to humans’ even though I have many times. I can also assume my kind are treated differently in online communities and other subcultures because we are deemed to only like one thing and stick to said stereotype, but I digress. And joining something outside of that stereotype we are instantly ignored or treated with disrespect even if we are trying to be ‘kind, generous, respectable, thoughtful, sweet, and a myriad of other positive attributes one could attach to humans’. But, as another poster said this thread will be closed shortly and I honestly couldn’t careless at this point, I just wanted to get this last statement out before it was as it’s the only reason I know of for why I made this post in the first place.

Also, with all the passive aggressive shade being thrown, thank you for walking right into the point I’ve been trying to prove this whole time.* -please refer to the title of said thread.

Of course, hun Especially considering it was years ago, Tari Landar.

This is so adorable. Your 2004 memes are so cute.

Oh no, that’s horrible, Jerilynn. In no way was my post meant to be a sign of disrespect especially towards you. I’m sincerely sorry if I have no respect from you and even more so why I’m a plague to be avoided as you say. My deepest apologies and I’ll take all the ‘advice’ here as something to completely and utterly abide by.

Being black. ??