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    SL and IQ

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Freya Mokusei wrote:

    Having seen the huge population boom of '07 and partially in '08, I've seen an amazing selection of people come and go. One of the things I began to love during that time was seeing people who
    didn't
    understand Second Life, virtual worlds, asset servers, and the rest of the balony.

    SL (being computer-based technology) was initially quite limited in the types of people it attracted; mostly art/tech-types, some RL-escapists and a handful of educators (and some exceptions). Over time (and with help from projects like CSI, Gossipgirl, RFL, a billion other RL-newsworthy happenings) people started to wander over to see what was happening. '07 and '08 was FULL of people who were
    consumers
    of content, rather than the pioneers who quickly became creators.

    People initially needed high IQs (and/or high determination, and probably a handful of other factors) to 'get' SL, and even more to stick with it for a year or more. I'm glad we've reached the point where the bar is much lower, it makes the world a far richer place. A low IQ isn't leprosy, having a low one isn't necessarily a bad thing (averages after-all imply that 50% must fall below the bar), it just means people have to work harder to understand this bizarre world of ours. SL makes people smarter, turns the computer-illiterate into expert troubleshooters (I mean, you'd have to be), and even the fashion-unconcious eventually become master prim-resizers.

    The trick is encouraging growth regardless of the numbers people assign to them. People are awesome.

     

    Hmm. Being one of those '08ers, I'm a little humbled by learning the bar had been lowered by the time I got here. I had to spend quite a lot of time learning and still do. I must be even blonder than I thought.:smileyhappy:

    And yes: people are awesome.

    SL and IQ

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Janelle Darkstone wrote:

    You assume I counted myself among the genuinely intelligent?  I don't.  Boxes of rocks beat me at chess regularly.  But it's nice to know where one stands in the grand scheme of things.

     

    I assume NOTHING.

    Really? Boxes of rocks? I think I have some chess cheats. I'd be happy to send them along. For example, your typical box of rocks will look away and say, "Huh?" when  you point over it and say "What's that?". It will not remember when it looks back at the board that it used to have a rook in that corner.

    SL and IQ

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Sigmund Leominster wrote:

    Now, hands up if you think you are dumber than 2/3rds of the people you meet in SL (or in this forum). Anyone holding their hands up? Hmmm.

     

    I doubt I'm dumber than two thirds of the people on this forum but I know for a fact I'm less knowledgeable regarding Second Life, and building, and scipting, than probably something close to that number.

    You see, we all want to be different - and to some extent clearly we are - but we also want to be special, and most of us are not. That's OK because there's nothing wrong with mediocrity. It's just hard to accept it. The marvellous thing about SL is we can all become big fish in a small pool, either in-world or by contributing (as we are) to the forums.

    I couldn't possibly disagree more.  I (and from what I can tell most of the people I"ve become close to here) don't give a damn about being different or special. Yes, sometimes, it gives people with a talent a way to show that talent that might not be available to them in RL. Writers. Singers. Photographers. Cinematographers

    For me, and for those people I'm closest to, the 'marvelous thing' about Second Life is that we can engage each other, one to one. That we can enjoy the creativity, the humor, the whatever, that each of us brings. We care notthing for the size of the pond nor the size of the fish (although it's a super ultra rare I do kinda get excited).

    [added content]

    I had been thinking about your post and I was going to add that yes, when you feel that someone else thinks well of you, it's nice. I don't think many are immune to that. I certainly am not. But then I read you more carefully and picked this quote: "You see, we all want to be different - and to some extent clearly we are - but we also want to be special, and most of us are not.". I won't argue with whether we all want to be different; some might pay more attention to that than others, but I'll accept that statement as if not a fact at least a likely hypothesis. I don't think that 'to some extent' we are different: I think we all are different period.

    The second part of the sentence I have problems with. I can only assume that when you say 'we all want to be special' you are thinking of special as being like the winner of 'American Idol' or something. I know a lot of people do think about things like that and even want to be special that way, but I am pretty sure a whole Hell of a lot more are perfectly happy being at least a little special to someone. I really doubt that more than a tiny percentage of SL residents are in Second Life so they can be 'someone special'. I'd guess that percentage to be about the same as in real life. Small. Most of us feel all the specialness we need when we pull in the driveway in the dark and see the porch light come on.

     

    Edited for spelling/punctuation

    Added contact much later. Not sure why. Was bugging me. 

     

    SL and IQ

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    I seldom admit to myself it's an escape, though it does meet all the definitions of same. I certainly look forward to being there. I was thinking about that this evening, actually. I found myself in a smiling mood thinking about something that had happened there. That can't be a bad thing. The smile may have been induced by SL but it was present in RL. Ishtara commented about the effect of smiles on brain chemistry in a thread of mine sometime back.

     

    Montaigne did well to withdraw when he did. There are few darker shadows on that period than the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

     

     

    Edited to replace an un-referenced pronoun with a name.

    Reality Emulates Second Life

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Ishtara Rothschild wrote:

    I was kidding
    :)
    But seriously.... reality needs to try harder. Every time I step out of my front door, I'm deeply disappointed. I mean, it sure looks nice enough what with the realistic shadows and all, but there's really nothing to do and the people look plain and boring (not to mention ugly). It smells too.

    All that can be true. But the physics are awesome. And even the pickiest must admit the beer is way better. Food tastes better, too. I was going to say it also smells better but having seen Void's comment I was afraid that might spiral outa control ;-).

    How do you like your eggs?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Cute pic:smileywink:

    It's not something I indulge in very often, but scrambled. With butter. Melt butter in skillet over very low heat, stir in the lightly beaten eggs. Cook over very low heat, stirring now and then. Supposedly it takes 45 minutes to properly cook them that way; I don't have enough patience so I usually cheat the heat up after 25 or 30 and stir 'em until they set. Real good.

    Storm's not-so-ecoFriendly Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Storm Clarence wrote:

    I suggest you go back and read the thread Dillon; from where you 'stuck your nose in' on down.  I repeatedly posted in response to you; albeit you were using proxies; which, of course, I fully understood.  

    Telling you that the opinion you wrote was nonsense is considered bile?  Since when do you **bleep** pearls? 

     

    If other people commented in response to you, Storm, they did so all on their own. I neither use nor need proxies; I'm perfectly capable of mouthing off all by myself. You insult me and them with the suggestion.

    The bile was in the way you said it. You singled out a single paragraph, almost a single sentence, with which you obviously disagree. Had  you told me that opinion was nonsense I'd have been fine with it. You undoubtedly know more about all that than I do.

    Storm's not-so-ecoFriendly Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Storm Clarence wrote:

    Dillon Levenque wrote:

    This post is utter nonsense. I know you think you got it right - but you don't. 

    As a matter of fact it is posts like this that started the polemic before and after HippieStock.  

    ___________

    I was attempting to explain to my friend that an event like Hippiestock could over-ride personal differences. I've since talked to that friend inworld and she disagrees; her upset would make it unpleasant for her. We are still friends. I fail to see...how I didn't 'get it right'. I was stating my opinion.

    After HippieStock

    Like you said Dillon: "you really weren't there" - but you have strong opinions based on an opinion told to you by somebody else.  I would call that 'trolling'.  

     

    My opinions are based on my opinions. I have no strong opinions about what happened in the past, really, because as I said in my post I tended to look away. I've taken nobody's word for anything having to do with all that. Who was or was not helping with Hippiestock is a matter of record; I have seen that as well as heard it from, among others, Maddy.

    Little boy lost

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Jo Yardley wrote:

    I have a macbook and with the new viewers I can sort of have shadows but it slooooooooows the computer down so badly.

    And it all looks nowhere near as delicious as these pictures.

    Hopefully with a macbook pro I get a bit closer, just need someone to give me a big load of cash
    :)

    Money_stacks.jpg

     

    See how easy this is? Enjoy.

    Incredible pictures!

     

     

    Storm's not-so-ecoFriendly Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Storm Clarence wrote:

    /me is not selective.

    You're certainly selective about what you excerpt. Nice mis-direction.

    My troll comment had strictly to do with yesterday, when you repeatedly posted even though I refused to be baited. Your backwards gun post was as silly as the thread that contained the image and bothered absolutely nobody, least of all me.

    Storm's not-so-ecoFriendly Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Storm, you either misunderstood my intent or are deliberately mis-stating it. My request that you take your bile of yesterday out of the thread had nothing whatever to do with anyone's name but yours. There are some threads on this forum that are created with a purpose and that particular one was created with the purpose of discussing H2. Your comments to me did not allow me to respond without further dragging the thread down; I chose to ignore you. When you continued I asked that you start your own thread; apparently this is that thread.

    First, since you felt the need to start the ball rolling by commenting on my post; let's have that exchange in full:

    Dillon Levenque wrote:
    FRIEND, I really don't want to do this because it will put me into some strife, and strife is something I've done my best to avoid on the Forums and in SecondLife. I have jumped on a couple of people but only on blogs not connected/sponsored by SL. But since I know you and like you, and I also know Dee and I like her too, I'm just going to stick my nose in here.
    On the person in question (and I have a pretty good idea who that is), I do think you are overstating the 'co-opting' of Hippiestock. That person had a lot to do with all of it, right from the start. I know this because I've been told so by someone who doesn't post on these forums any more but also had a bit to do with putting Hippiestock together and who is someone I'd never question. Personally, the few exchanges I've had with 'that person' have been amicable. Having said that...

    I saw a lot of stuff on the old GD forums that made me turn away. That person was involved in some of that stuff and my recollection is 'that person' was usually responding, however viciously, to attacks. I didn't like it but somehow I got the idea that if there was even a hint of an injured party in all of that it was the person we're talking about. Again, I was not there for the start of all of the festivities. I don't recall seeing your name there anywhere and I am damn sure not going to go back to the archives and re-read any of those. It was bad enough seeing it once. And what you are talking about may not even be forum-related; for all I know you might have been harrassed inworld. If so, my next paragraph is meaningless.

    I've never really gotten into a snark fight in the forums and I never will. I don't mind fighting; I just don't see the point of doing it here. I'll argue until I get tired of hitting the wall, but after that I'll just mouth off and ignore. Really, there are only a couple of people on the forums at all that I consider 'beyond the Pale' and one of those doesn't seem to be posting any more. Even so, if I knew those people would be at Hippiestock it would not in even a small way deter me from going. I suppose, if I knew one was an official Hippiestock organizer....yeah, that might put me off. Not sure. That thought came to me while I was typing the prior sentence. But since I WAS at Hippiestock '11 I know that organizers, managers, whatever, were all lost in the throng. I never even saw Hippie! It was an event. Armed with that memory I'd go to Hippiestock '12 even if I knew someone I completely despise was the official greeter.

    I don't know if any of the above would be true had I been harassed inworld. That's what I meant earlier. Were that the case...dunno. Well, as usual, I've talked a lot and said not much. I hope some of this made sense. I also hope I don't lose any friends over this.


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    This post is utter nonsense. I know you think you got it right - but you don't. 

    As a matter of fact it is posts like this that started the polemic before and after HippieStock.  

    I was attempting to explain to my friend that an event like Hippiestock could over-ride personal differences. I've since talked to that friend inworld and she disagrees; her upset would make it unpleasant for her. We are still friends. I fail to see how my post could be considered nonsense, or how I didn't 'get it right'. I was stating my opinion.

    In this thread you asked if I had asked Maddy's (yes, that is the person I referenced) permission to make my comment. Ridiculous. Unfortunately Maddy isn't on much right now but had she been I would not have asked her.

    You've said in the past that Forum Storm has no relation to Inworld Storm; that you are merely RP'ing on the Forums. You currently seem to be playing the role of Dillon's Personal Forum Troll, and it's not one of  your most attractive roles, believe me.

    I don't have a lot of time today but I should be back later at least for a bit.

    Hippiestock II

    in Upcoming Events and Activities

    Posted

    Hippie Bowman wrote:

    Dillon Levenque wrote:

    Katt, my post had most to do with suggesting that an event like Hippie's could, should, and in my opinion did, transcend our personal problems with other people.

    I have since had time to talk inworld with the friend to whose (whom's? I'm busy right now; someone look it up and tell me later) post I was responding. Having done so I can't say I'd have felt any differently than she did. She has her feelings and it's not my place to try to change them. She has a right to make her own decisions, as do we all. I will probably still try to drag her to Hippie's party and since it's not even August (in my time zone) I have time.

    I am glad you were able to let your issues go. Or should I say let them be? I
    think maybe Charolotte needs to get back here with another Beatle vid.:smileyhappy:

    Will this work?

    Peace!

    Works like a charm, Hippie. :smileyhappy:

     

    Peace!

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