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Joe Nerve

Joe Nerve

Oct 7, 2000
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#1
That place creeps me out.

Anyone here a part of that?

A few people I work with got into it, and told me to check it out. I did, and thankfully had my fill after about a half an hour of not being able to navigate all that well.

One of the guys who got into it seems to have lost himself bigtime. Spends entire days and evenings there. He's meeting all kinds of women (or at least he thinks he is) and having lots of animated sex with them. Another guy is getting really political there and starting all kinds of trouble. I hear people build businesses, go to schools, build houses, buy and sell real estate, get jobs.... truly get involved in a 2nd virtual life. And in the process lose their real life to it.

If you're not familiar with it and go to check it out, be forewarned that for some it's incredibly addictive. I'd actually consider it dangerous.

Thoughts? Experiences?
 
#2
I saw that in some movie.... past couple of years. What was it? Probably a bit of commentary on the real thing. Man, what movie...? Anyway, the way my wife and kids are with The Sims, I'd probably be better off just keeping that shyte off the computer. Between me and TB, the wifey and kids on Facebook and The Sims, my friends on GTA V... damn this summer has been way too "indoors" for my taste. And it figures it's been the mildest summer we've had and are likely to have for a long time (at least around here).
 
#3
Have heard of it and saw ads when it first came out, however never have done it and really don't have a desire to...if I wanted to "play" something like that I would just play The Sims.
 
#4
When I've gone it's been fascinating. Although my excursions have been from a mainly clinical/curious/amazed point of view. I'm uncertain if it's still around, it's been nearly 10 years since I've last visited, but there was an "island" totally devoted to folks on the spectrum (Autism, Autistic-like and Asperger's syndrome). A few of my students, when I was still at Alicante, were involved. It was enlightening to see how they interacted ( most were wonderfully chatty! ) and especially interesting were their choices of avatars. Almost across the board they had avatars that very closely resembled themselves. That is very atypical of the normal SL participants. What I found very off-putting were all the "shops" where people spent real money for virtual items ( mostly clothing and house decorations ). I didn't really get the whole e-commerce bit.
 
#7
adi77 said:
what a scam
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??? I don't understand?

As for the still being around, it is very much so. Not sure if there's anything positive or beneficial about it though aside from what funky ghost said, which I'm kinda surprised about. It is also much different than the Sims. A whole lot more going on from my understanding, and a lot more interactive and personal.
 
#9
I wasn't aware Second Life was still a thing. I remember when it came out (2004 or 2005 I think? Too lazy to look up) I had a college professor at the time who admitted he was doing "speculative real estate on Second Life" and claimed he was making more money off that than he did teaching.
 
#10
Joe Nerve said:
??? I don't understand?

As for the still being around, it is very much so. Not sure if there's anything positive or beneficial about it though aside from what funky ghost said, which I'm kinda surprised about. It is also much different than the Sims. A whole lot more going on from my understanding, and a lot more interactive and personal.
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"spending real money for virtual items" that bit.
 

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