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WTF is "Second Life"??? (NRR)

JLRJLR 3,835 Posts
edited May 2007 in Strut Central
I keep reading about it in local newspapers. Is it like a 3D Myspace?
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  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    second life is a place where people with no lives go to live lives. Its essentially a massive 3d world where u can take apart in virtual plays, drive a car. watch porn. go to porno festivals or do company meetings. its messed up and wierd. you can also do things like this: http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_u...v%3D6yDr1YkoZ-I .

    people also make livings off making clothes for people in second life. this one chick makes 200 thou a year for designing virtul clothes for 3d characters in second life. True story, it was on 60 min.

    you can also build things like a suitcase which explodes and throws pepole out of houses. a couple of buddies of mine downloaded it, used a hack and started blowing people out of clubs as they "danced". It was magic.
  • alcoholic_drinkalcoholic_drink 101 Posts
    It's a video game that is like virtual reality. It is pretty fun. I just joined this week because a friend talked me into it. You can change your identity as many ways as you want and fly and teleport to your friends or anywhere on the board. But I'm just a noobie (2nd life little dude), so I don't know that much about it.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    isn't this a multiplayer online thing where people live a mundane 'walk the dog', 'go to work', 'pay the bills' existence for fun??

  • alcoholic_drinkalcoholic_drink 101 Posts
    exactly.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    Reuters even has a reporter whose main job is to track the economy in 2nd Life.

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    not really. you can do anything really. make your own inventions and world, but its not as good as it sounds. what it really is, is you get a person, spend your REAL cash to buy FAKE items like special clothes, a house. But you dont eat or shit. Then you go to FAKE clubs or you can skateboard (its terrible) and so on. It is not at all like the SIMS or any game like that. Its like an advanced version of a chatroom, like really really advanced.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    not really. you can do anything really. make your own inventions and world, but its not as good as it sounds. what it really is, is you get a person, spend your REAL cash to buy FAKE items like special clothes, a house. But you dont eat or shit. Then you go to FAKE clubs or you can skateboard (its terrible) and so on. It is not at all like the SIMS or any game like that. Its like an advanced version of a chatroom, like really really advanced.

    Does that make Soul Strut, One-and-a-half Life?
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    Its like an advanced version of a chatroom, like really really advanced.

    maybe one day there will be a soulstrut version of this - with 3d avatars - all black guys with afros or rappers with gold chains obviously.

    the main advantage would be that we could skip all this talking & just start clobbering each other right off.

  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    hmmm, I got sealed virtual Boscoes for $200 a pop if anyone in Second Life wants one.
  • canonicalcanonical 2,100 Posts
    My dad reps this shit. He is part of a group that created a virtual roman empire for them to sit around and argue about roman politics etc.

    Second Life is interesting but ultimately kind of scary.
  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    people get really serious about it. As I said, companies like IBM (I think, if not IBM then some other high-level company) have virtual meetings in a virtual builing in a virtual boardroom. There are also bondage rooms and furry rooms, its sickening. Its gunna advance considering the makers are rolling in it, why? Crazy amount of advertisements. Bell had like a "bell skateboarding challenge". They have like cola adds and shit everywhere. Its really scary.
  • canonicalcanonical 2,100 Posts
    There are also bondage rooms and furry rooms, its sickening.
    I don't see anything wrong with that at all. In fact, Second Life is a great place for people to pursue their fetishes in a safe environment.

    What is scary is what you were talking about after, the corporate involvement.

    What is even more scary are people using Second Life as social escapism.
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    I guess I'm way out of the loop. Never heard of this bullschitt until today.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    people get really serious about it. As I said, companies like IBM (I think, if not IBM then some other high-level company) have virtual meetings in a virtual builing in a virtual boardroom. There are also bondage rooms and furry rooms, its sickening. Its gunna advance considering the makers are rolling in it, why? Crazy amount of advertisements. Bell had like a "bell skateboarding challenge". They have like cola adds and shit everywhere. Its really scary.

    What are you scared about?
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts


    What is even more scary are people using Second Life as social escapism.

    Yeah, they should be posting to message boards about obscure vinyl instead!



    Seriously, I'm just saying folks:



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    shouldn't

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    people get really serious about it. As I said, companies like IBM (I think, if not IBM then some other high-level company) have virtual meetings in a virtual builing in a virtual boardroom. There are also bondage rooms and furry rooms, its sickening. Its gunna advance considering the makers are rolling in it, why? Crazy amount of advertisements. Bell had like a "bell skateboarding challenge". They have like cola adds and shit everywhere. Its really scary.

    What are you scared about?

    Yo teach, this is what I'm scared about.
    Its one thing to use escape on the interwebz by using forums but using second life for means of having fake marriages, doing bondage, driving a car and wlaking your dog, essentially making a SECOND LIFE is scary. It is an unsettlin thought. Dont you agree?
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    having a virtual existence will be the only thing that makes 'life' tolerable once it's 150 degrees outside & shit.



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  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    The only thing I know about this thing is from what I read in this thread, but the part that seems pathetic (contemptible even) is that people are throwing away real money on make-believe goods. I would say that alone puts it on a different plane from Soulstrut (of course we have "buy a title" which would be analagous I guess).
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    here's the thing, most things that have 'value' are based on an 'imaginary' social conceit - thats's why boscoe is worth 800 or whatever & some other raers are worth nothing.

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  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Can the virtual you post on soulstrut? That would be sweet!
  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    There are a lot more pathetic things in the game then just that. People actually get married in the game, live out wierd sexual fantasies. And conduct work in the game. Like people actually make a building and shit, its not like that can be done over msn or some chatline. The list goes on my friend.
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
    here's the thing, most things that have 'value' are based on an 'imaginary' social conceit - thats's why boscoe is worth 800 or whatever & some other raers are worth nothing.

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    Yes, of course that's true. But we're moving one step even further away from actual use value when we start paying money for fictional wardrobes. Believe me, I'm not happy that we live in a world where one Boscoe is worth more than what many people in the world make in a year. I'm not trying to defend that at all.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    But we're moving one step even further away from actual use value when we start paying money for fictional wardrobes.

    people pay money for designer wardrobes, it's pretty much the same thing.

    I have some Prada dress shirts in my closet & I can tell you objectively that they aren't particularly better made than what you can buy at JC Penney.

    once you start realizing the illusion of value & how to create it, you're moving into some hustler illuminati type shit.

    that or you work on wall street.

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  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    people get really serious about it. As I said, companies like IBM (I think, if not IBM then some other high-level company) have virtual meetings in a virtual builing in a virtual boardroom. There are also bondage rooms and furry rooms, its sickening. Its gunna advance considering the makers are rolling in it, why? Crazy amount of advertisements. Bell had like a "bell skateboarding challenge". They have like cola adds and shit everywhere. Its really scary.

    What are you scared about?

    Yo teach, this is what I'm scared about.
    Its one thing to use escape on the interwebz by using forums but using second life for means of having fake marriages, doing bondage, driving a car and wlaking your dog, essentially making a SECOND LIFE is scary. It is an unsettlin thought. Dont you agree?

    Honestly, your grammar and spelling are scaring me more.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    Can the virtual you post on soulstrut? That would be sweet!
    What we need is to have all of us start a soulstrut message board in Second Life.

  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    There are a lot more pathetic things in the game then just that. People actually get married in the game, live out wierd sexual fantasies. And conduct work in the game. Like people actually make a building and shit, its not like that can be done over msn or some chatline. The list goes on my friend.

    dude, you need to outgrow this whole, 'people who are living out sexual fantasies,' are pathetic. it is tres
    little dude.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    here's the thing, most things that have 'value' are based on an 'imaginary' social conceit - thats's why boscoe is worth 800 or whatever & some other raers are worth nothing.

    ---

    Yes, of course that's true. But we're moving one step even further away from actual use value when we start paying money for fictional wardrobes. Believe me, I'm not happy that we live in a world where one Boscoe is worth more than what many people in the world make in a year. I'm not trying to defend that at all.

    So...it's one step more removed than how removed things are already.

    Seriously, people ON THIS BOARD finding Second Life alien and perturbing is truly a case where pots and kettles can't tell they're both black.
  • schobbejakschobbejak 36 Posts
    I have never seen the actual 'game' or whatever we may call it, but about a month ago there was an article about this fenomenon in a belgian magazine (Humo). How unsettling the thing in itself may be, there was one part in the article that really was crazy. They wrote about how you supposedly could make real money from selling virtual minerals or something that you could dig up in the game. Apparently some guys in China I believe it was, had people living in a cellar working 12 hour shifts being paid very small wages. Their 'work' was pushing a couple of buttons all day, digging up the minerals for their bosses..When their shift was over, they could get some sleep in another room, while the next guys took over..true online digging
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts


    So...it's one step more removed than how removed things are already.

    Seriously, people ON THIS BOARD finding Second Life alien and perturbing is truly a case where pots and kettles can't tell they're both black.

    Yes, that was my point. It's one step further removed. Just something I felt was worth pointing out. I don't have any problem admitting my lifestyle and my social critique are at odds. I totally make my living dealing in reified objects. I am a parasite just like most people. Just as socially alienated as most people. But that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it Oliver. You seem shook that people would even want to have a discussion about this stuff.
  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    people get really serious about it. As I said, companies like IBM (I think, if not IBM then some other high-level company) have virtual meetings in a virtual builing in a virtual boardroom. There are also bondage rooms and furry rooms, its sickening. Its gunna advance considering the makers are rolling in it, why? Crazy amount of advertisements. Bell had like a "bell skateboarding challenge". They have like cola adds and shit everywhere. Its really scary.

    What are you scared about?

    Yo teach, this is what I'm scared about.
    Its one thing to use escape on the interwebz by using forums but using second life for means of having fake marriages, doing bondage, driving a car and wlaking your dog, essentially making a SECOND LIFE is scary. It is an unsettlin thought. Dont you agree?

    Honestly, your grammar and spelling are scaring me more.

    I suggest we all just need to dine in hell but seriously. All you mad hatters who dissagree dont know what your talking about considering YOU havent played the game, you dont know how seeck it is until youve played it. Just the dewd who posted about the 12 hour shift people in china who sell schitt to make monies, is sick. Its one thing to fapp to prons or play WoW or Cs source but its different in second life.

    Edit: Dont front, teach. Go back to class, son. And stop being a grammer nazi. Why would I watch mah grammers and punchs on an interweb forum?
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