Misty Rookstown

I noticed that the lighting and such did look better in the official SL viewer which is partly why I asked. I was going to install the firestorm viewer for open sim and look about there.

There were other forum topics but they seem to have vanished such as Games within SL an forum about animesh etc? Did they get moved? I Was following some of them.

Coca Cola also stopped using cocaine as well .. .but I understand they still use coca leaves for flavor

Yup I don't have insurance because I am self employed and because affordable health care isn't affordable. They never tried in the first place ie starting with the costs.

Weird. My reinstanted Avatar Sorina Garrigus picks comes up blank and no tabs in the profile. But when looking in Firestorm it works fine.

Cola is not made from cola nuts that often anymore. They get the caffeine from other sources usually. I believe the key ingredient anymore is coriander. It might be closer to trying to say Facebook is a game or youtube.

Your example really doesn't work on any level. In a role playing game with you as the game master you are not making decisions for the players and you are not the player yourself. Its actually hard to reply because you don't seem to understand what a role playing game is at all. So let me explain the basics. A role playing game is a game in which you have a game master or dungeon master (the title judges from game to game but the job is the same). You will either buy a premade adventure campaign or write one yourself or maybe even just improvise the story. You then have other people that create characters with various physical and mental statistics set by specific sets of rules usually. The Game master describes what is going on, guilds them on a specific quest. The players makes decisions based on the situation presented and utlizing rules will resolve those situations using skills and dice rolls and various charts and rules. The goal is basically to complete the quest or mission. In second life there are no rules, no quests, no progress. There are guidelines for behaviors both for ethical and legal reasons but no rules on how to play Second Life. If you choose to role play in Second Life ... that isn't a game. A role playing game has rules and structure and goals sometimes lose sometimes not. Is Jack Nicholson a gamer when he is filming a movie? Of course not that is silly. But he is playing a role. Because I own a game store is a perspective of being literally exposed to thousands of games. It gives one a much wider understanding of what a game is. More so I would say than some hobby board gamer types even. Because there are a lot of things they might not call a game that are a game. If there are zero rules, zero goals, zero winners it does not really approach being a game. Keep in mind role play and a role playing game are very different things. You are right I don't set the definition ... but they are set.

Odd topic I would move out of California if I could. Cost of housing is insanely out of control, taxes are crazy high. Don't see moving out of the country but definitely to a different state.

I have Firestorm and use the LL current browser ... the current browser I am lost on coming back into SL. Where are picks? I select profile and can't see people's picks for instance. But if I go to Firestorm I can see the classic profile. Someone also suggested Singularity. What is your favorite and why? Without trying Singularity or any others I have to say Firestorm because it is best for building for me with options to copy prim locations sizes etc. Also are there things I should open up on the LL official browser?

I always use this argument to be snarky Which is why I like saying it's like comparing apples to thumb tacks or something along those lines.

This is closer. An activity is a bit closer, virtual world encompasses all of the above though. But to some it is an escape, to others a way to socialize, to some it is a creative outlet, to others well ... to express kinky desires and fantasies (we have to be honest i and to some others it is serious literal business. Pretty sure land barons think of it more of a game when they are making their car and house payments in real life with it.

I own an actual game store. Roleplay isn't a game unto itself ... an acting exercise possibly. Role playing games have objectives, experience points ways to progress though there are some exceptions on the experience points part but there are always goals or rules at the very least to the game. If you think hiring someone to work on your house, paying rent and watching tv is a game ... remind me not to invite you over to game night. That is what everyone does outside maybe the homeless.

I use to work at a local news station years ago. We ran a couple stories from a sister affiliate about Second Life. The described it as a virtual world ... which did roll of the tongue. No point adding online and 3D since that is redundant. We ran it a couple times ... guess it was a time LL was trying to market heavily through the media. That and we had idiot producers who ran stories about White Castle on Valentines day in California where the nearest one is 542 miles from here currently ... at the time the nearest one was probably a thousand miles away. We also ran a very stupid story about saving gas by turning off the car and coasting. Thank goodness the CHP guy was on following for a traffic report and said umm no don't do that.

Those are traffic devices that are within SL. Level up means you get experience points and upgrade skills and such as in actual or computer RPGs. And you ended up with effectively describing a virtual world.

Sure for marketing reasons it would be good to not call it agame. But just telling someone about it casually to someone and saying something like "have you checked out the game called Second Life? You should check it out". They will go to check it out with a game in mind but basically find a big 3d chat room where you can buy clothes. You don't have to be wordy ... just say virtual world. If they don't understand that you can ask them have they seen Ready player one or the Matrix ... kind of like that. Telling them it is a game will set them up for a lot of disappointment and confusion.