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MizSuz -> RE: Online virtual life and BDSM (5/2/2007 11:19:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: velvetears
i hear its addicting :-) i tried to sign on after registering but i need a larger video card to be able to use it. A friend of mine set up camp there and she loves it. You can have a virtual job there, buy land, build houses, go to the mall and buy outfits, they have bdsm areas as well as gorean - in fact in the gorean areas you can be captured lol.
Some of the things I like most about SL are:
1) Content is 100% user created. If you can think it you can build it.
2) Linden Labs (the owners) give full Intellectual Property Rights to the creator - if you build it it belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it - which includes selling it if you want to.
3) There's so much more than just shopping and gor (and I was surprised at the level of disregard goreans have in the eyes of the general population there - not bdsmers, just goreans). I like to go to the racetrack with my cars and motorcycles early in the morning when the lag is low. The car is also a hovercraft, flies and has shields and weapons. I also drive them on the ocean floor of my sim when I'm too lazy to go to the track. I participate in two medieval/ fantasy roleplay sims in which I am a dragon (and have my personally modified, one of a kind, dragon avator for same), there are RP sims for goreans, cyberpunks, fantasy (elves, drows, faes, knights, ladies, yada yada), war & weapons whores, and just about anything else you can imagine.
4) Guys who can't dance a step love to go ballroom dancing in SL. All they have to do is buy a tux (to the tune of about 1.50) and click a pose ball. I'm sure you can find a freebie tux if you look around (try Yadni's). It's gonna put arthur murray out of business and makes many ladies looking for that kind of romance very happy.
5) The sex. Interactive, responsive sex (when properly equipped). It's insane the sex on this game. There are animations, pose balls, scripted furniture, you name it - and pretty much everyone is screwing everyone else. Can't get much safer sex than this. (PS - Don't assume walking up to a stranger and saying "let's fuck" is going to get you anything but "orbited" into outter space so you have to restart your system. Common courtesy still applies!)
6) It has it's own very real market and economy. The value of the Linden (the in world currency) fluctuates, there is a market to buy and sell lindens that works much like the stock market, there is real estate, commercial/ retail enterprises, entertainment industry, sex industry, anything you'd find in RL and many things you won't. You can buy, own and sell your property (real estate or creations) and you can make and spend money there as you like - or you can play without ever spending a penny.
Be forewarned - you may go into it thinking you'll never spend money, but once there your feelings will change. You'll want to look more realistic like everyone else (who paid for skins and shapes and clothes and toys). You'll want to get rid of the stick-like stock animations and put on a sexy walk or three, you'll see a dress that flows in the wind and want one (yes, SL has an environment that includes sunrises, sunsets and wind). Your hair will drive you crazy and you'll want some that flows or spikes. You'll want jewelry that "blings" (occasional light flashes) when you walk. You'll get tired of being human and want to try out that hedgehog avatar that rolls everywhere like Sonic, or you'll want to become a dragon and fly into the air spitting fire and destroying targets. Someone will push you into orbit (although it's against TOS) and you'll want a shield to protect you from it happening again. You'll see a nuclear war head you just have to have or want to leave a poof of butterflies behind when you teleport away. My neighbor built a volcano on his island that erupts every 10 minutes - it not only shoots fireballs but also easter island totum heads that land on surrounding islands and then skip across the island into the sea (you can ride them, if you like).
Everyone logs into SL saying they aren't going to spend money. After a month everyone says "I can't believe the money I've spent here in the last month."
Consider yourself warned.
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