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I've been on SL for about 8 years. This is so accurate.
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lmao. i disagree! lol I love my rl but, SL is fun too.
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Second Life:
Because you can't fly in real life.
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Hmmm. You do know it's the early 21st century, right? That downsizing and outsourcing have been crushing aspirations for about a generation, and that community life is all but dead in the United States, unless one counts the "opportunity" to give away labor for free (so that the rich can have their taxes cut a little more without social services breaking down) as being "community life"? That the strange (and incoherent) blend of far left and far right positions known as Political Correctness has, in taking hold, made what passes for Tolerance into such a bad joke, that many people have come to back away from using that word at all, leaving us with a culture that is repressive in a way that reminds one of a cross between the works of Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka? We live in a bad era, and yes, a lot of lives s**k. It's a truism. It s**ks to live in a s**ky era.
But saying that one is in Second Life because one's first life s**ks if like saying that one uses a telephone because one is afraid to step out of one's home. Sure, it can be used by people who want to be recluses, I suppose, but one can say that about the Internet in general, and probably more persuasively. In some of those sims, one can find open mikes at which authors go up, and read their work, and reading means reading - one can use voice in SL, in real time. It's not just typing. One can have a real conversation with the people with whom one is interacting, who could be anywhere on the planet. One could also, if one wished, set up an event specifically for people in one's city and use Second Life for the purposes of real world networking. Meet in-world, do your thing, and then arrange to meet offline, at a real world open mike which will end up being a lot less sparsely attended than usual, as a result. SL can become a way of getting past the problem of people with similar interests not finding each other in a major city, because there is so much room in it for them to get lost in.
What I see in your joke is a lack of imagination.
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Yeah, 'cause in the second life you can be a flying freaking car! XD
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If that's what you want SL to be for you, sure. On the other hand, some of us have never bothered to replace our original avatars, and spend what time we do spend in Second Life creating works of digital art, telling stories, having conversations ... whatever people are there to do. One group I encountered a few months ago built a digital homage to Manhattan, and held a machinima film festival in a virtual park in the middle of that virtual city.
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No, Lolinondoda, I blocked you because you acted like a fool, and I don't have time for those. Yes, we all have different opinions, but some of those opinions, being stupid and ill informed, aren't worth listening to.
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It was just a joke, dude
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SO WHAT IF I ACT LIKE A FOOL? I AM A FOOL. A PROUD ONE. NOW STOP TALKING TO ME BECAUSE IT WAS YOU WHO DIDN'T WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME ON ME. GEEZ.
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fucking idiot.... Blocked me just so he can't get something held against him, so it looks like he is right. Coward. WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS: THAT GOES FOR HUMOR TOO. Jerk...
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And a stupid one. There is a saying: "it's funny when it's true"
Laughing as you say something stupid, doesn't change the fact that it's stupid, and that you can rightly be called on that.
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I play it a lot; but I still have a great first life.. I just like exploring and that's easier in SL
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I have second life but I don't use it as much as because it's a little bit confusing for me.
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Ugh, so very true. I started dating while on SL, which is a bit sad cause I never dated anyone in RL. lol
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Not true fore me any more
I recently got banned cause i didn't understand the game lol
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Sigh. Second Life isn't a game any more than DeviantArt is a game. It is an environment in which people can interact and create things. As for somebody being banned from Second Life, I had never heard of that happening until I went looking for somebody who had, just a few minutes ago, in response to the above comment. It's not something that seems to happen very often, and in at least the first case I found in my search a few minutes ago, it didn't happen lightly. A father letting his underaged son use his login in order to get him into a chatroom in which Cybersex could be expected to take place is, at the very least, kind of creepy, and, as the Linden Labs employees mentioned explained (and the offending party seemed to acknowledge), exposed the company to potential legal liability. Who do you know who would like to be sued, successfully?
I certainly do not see users being banned for not understanding SL. There are simulations created specifically to help new users learn how to use the system, one of them actually being called "Orientation Island." Setting up such environments is hardly an underground activity. Linden Labs, the company that runs Second Life, actually has some of its employees drop in on some of those sims to help the new users, and encourages somebody signing up for Second Life for the first time to choose one of those introductory simulations as a starting point, the place to which the user returns when going "home." So, let's get real. The lindens are hardly the horrible people Russianwolfbane made them out to be. There might be reasonable complaints about company policy, or criticisms of the business choices the company makes, but as for the employees being so short fused that they'd throw somebody out because he was confused about something? This is very much against the experience a lot of us have had with the company, for a very long time. The lindens, when encountered, seem like nice people, and I've seen them be extremely helpful, so maybe we should lay off?
Just a thought.
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People like you who SL so unbelievably seriously are like a living cancer. You realize that when you diatribe this hard about something that is essentially a videogame (one that it's own creators barely give a rats ass about anymore and only keep online because the user base is still there for the most part), you sound like an idiot. You're actually what scares a lot of people away from SL because they think everyone is just as nutty, delusionally escapist, and obsessive as the average trollbait in a BritBong video.
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lol ^___^ nice one
add me on SL 
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the one one then faar right looks like my SL friend lol
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Now this of course begs the question: would anyone be particularly pissed at me if I formed an army and launched an armed, hostile takeover of the entire SL in-game world?
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Haha have fun 
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And that is why we have nukes.
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so true!...hate myself for beeing a res for 4 years now * runs in circle and pulls hair out*
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SL..... is there any better... XD Lol....
but this life is fantabulous too, so I`ve got 2 fantastic lives!!! MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAA!!
......sorry. I`m on a bit... freaky mood today "-.-
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