Second Life

[victorfox]

So I've begun playing in Second Life, a virtual world with a vast freedom for you to be creative; build things, script them, modify your own appearance, buy and sell, hang out and play, explore and chat. It's a massive timesink, and I'm not sure how long it will be worth the time invested for me. Hopefully I'll learn to either control my playing,

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[supochi]

Jag har efter en tids tveksamt sniffande också gjort en gubbe på Second Life, Kyriander Kurri. Riktigt ballt må jag säga, mest för att det är spelarna som bygger upp världen.

Känns dock inte som något jag kommer superfastna i. Jag tycker det är roligare att bygga saker än att chatta. :)

[bailiff]

But... we've had FurryMUCK for years! :)

I can't say FM has done much for me as a social investment, though - you meet the same assholes on-line as you would in RL. And if you're socially clumsy (which is not to say I am ;) virtual interaction doesn't change much. I've had some nice benefits from joining FM, but nothing to shout about, or couldn't have gained elsewhere.

Social inhibitions... Did I mention that I was a Cyber Virgin? ;) I've been propositioned for on-line sex more than once, but never accepted. Mostly because I feel that whatever you do in cyberspace is karmically significant, no less than your actions in RL, or over the phone; these are real individuals you deal with, after all, and not some simulated monster from "Halo" or "Doom" you can kill with impunity!

[victorfox]

FurryMUCK isn't graphical, which SL is. It adds a whole other dimension to the interaction when you can actually see each other, move around, and do stuff.

As for social inhibitions, I meant that SL makes it easy to initiate contact with new people. You just walk up to them and begin talking...much like in real life. I almost never do that in real life though, but I think that by getting some experience in the "safe" environment of SL, the threshold of doing that in Real Life will be lower. It would be a nice side-effect.

As for on-line sex, I wouldn't have anything against that, just as I wouldn't have anything against it in Real Life. :-)