Second Life?

33girl · #1 12-06-2007, 12:31 PM

Is anyone on here into this, or do you know anybody that is?

I don't get it.

scbelle · #2 12-06-2007, 12:43 PM

I had a client last year who was into a site like this (I don't know if it was Second Life or There.com). It caused a lot of problems for him, mainly because he was a 19 year old kid who didn't like his life as a private in the Army and became immersed in his own little world... literally. He started missing formations, spending all time he had free on the computer, and withdrawing from friends. He was command-ordered to come to the counseling center, so if his real-life didn't suck before, it totally started to at that point in time. I don't get these sites, either.

Fawn Liebowitz · #3 12-06-2007, 12:54 PM

There was an article in my local newspaper recently about a disabled woman who had her account hacked and was being harassed and threatened IRL by some of her fellow Second Lifers.

AlphaFrog · #4 12-06-2007, 12:55 PM

I had to google to figure out what y'all were talking about. Weird, Weird, Weird.

GC is as much of a 2nd Life as I need.

Leslie Anne · #5 12-06-2007, 01:56 PM

One of my professors mentioned Second Life about 6 months ago so I tried it. It's weird and I ended up closing my account after about 2 weeks.

People can get really addicted to it but, to me, it just seemed like an enormous set of elaborately decorated chat rooms where you can fly around.

The only part I liked was creating my "look." (You can look like just about anything.) It was fun for about 15 minutes. I did some scavenger hunts too and won some fake money....yawn.

Apparently you can "buy" or make things and sell them and if you have enough money you can buy property and design it anyway you want. I don't know. It just didn't grab me. I spent most of my time literally crashing into people, apologizing and then saying, "I'm sorry, I don't speak Portugese."

ETA: I think it mostly appeals to people who are into RPGs.

AlethiaSi · #6 12-06-2007, 02:13 PM

Yeah, I was wondering what kind of games there were like the one that was featured on an episode of Law & order. I signed up... but I couldn't figure the damn thing out, plus I think my computer was too slow for it anyway. Deleted it because I didn't get the point.

AF I agree, GC is more than I need! lol

Pope · #7 12-06-2007, 03:34 PM

Oh, I thought this was a completely different topic.

Google is my friend.

What an unusual way to spend your first life.

EEKappa · #8 12-06-2007, 03:54 PM

Is this what was featured on CSI-NY? Like The Sims meets MySpace on acid?

I barely enough days in the week my first life, and adding a second one wouldn't help.

FSUZeta · #9 12-07-2007, 08:59 AM

eekappa, i was just going to ask if this is like "the sims", except the player in the sim character. strange.

SthrnZeta · #10 12-07-2007, 12:36 PM

I can't help but think of Dwight Schrute on the Office when I hear about this game. And THAT makes me not want to play. Didn't his second life HAVE a second life...? LOL.

Kevin · #11 12-07-2007, 01:01 PM

Stay away. I know people who have been sucked in by these things. I've seen jobs lost and marriages ruined. Stay away.

nittanyalum · #12 12-07-2007, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SthrnZeta

I can't help but think of Dwight Schrute on the Office when I hear about this game.

LOL, this was my first thought when I saw the title on the thread. I really thought it was something just made up for that episode for "The Office". So is that how it really looks/works? Waaaayyyy too fake/real, then, for me to handle. I still prefer the look of Atari games to the frighteningly real-looking stuff today...

AlphaFrog · #13 12-07-2007, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by nittanyalum

I still prefer the look of Atari games to the frighteningly real-looking stuff today...

The only video games I play are the Zelda series, and I won't play the 64/Gamecube/Wii versions unless someone else is in the room with me. It's so real looking, it creeps me out. I especially hate underwater stuff.

Tom Earp · #14 12-07-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

The only video games I play are the Zelda series, and I won't play the 64/Gamecube/Wii versions unless someone else is in the room with me. It's so real looking, it creeps me out. I especially hate underwater stuff.

Wow, so when do you have time to take care of your family and job?

AlphaFrog · #15 12-07-2007, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Wow, so when do you have time to take care of your family and job?

Says the guy who had his store robbed, and double the posts. Brilliant.