Life 2.0 I made this!
Maybe some of you play Second Life. I never have, but I found this movie to be fascinating. My two colleagues and I made the trailer, not the film. I hope it's not too spammy posting it here; I just like how it turned out.
( intesvensk vimeo.com/candela, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:07, Reply)

I thought second life was shit personally
had a go once and got bitched at, apparently for building in a restricted area?! I had no fucking idea that the button I was clicking on was creating cubes just out of view.

Edit: No offence meant of course, nice trailer, but not my cup of tea as a game when I tried it as it seemed like it was still in development.
( Firkinfedup was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:13, Reply)

what I didn't understand
was the shortsightedness of the folk there. At first everyone was chilled, I had fun listening to people playing gigs and things around the world.

but soon plots of land were bought up and the whole thing became about making money.
I mean - you have this opportunity to create an ideal world and people spent their time having VIRTUAL JOBS so that they can pay the rent on their VIRTUAL HOUSES.
fucking crazy
( nivosargh is OLD, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 20:42, Reply)

hahaha
that's obsurd and it does make you wonder really, if we can't even make a virtual world perfect for everyone, how the fuck can we make our real world any better? Pah!

At least you got experience something in it that was okay, I just thought everyone was a bit cliquey and expected you to know too much. A bit like Linux users.
( Firkinfedup was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 21:19, Reply)

that's true too.
But I was hanging around on a grateful dead island, which was brilliant and cool until.... one time I'd turned up and the drumming circles and venues had been replaced with private housing areas and shit. grar.
( nivosargh is OLD, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 21:34, Reply)

you should try ...


eve


or maybe not tbh
(Montyphuq, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 23:27, Reply)

Haha
I have never been on it, I never will... but the people who grief people on that website/game are hilarious because they end up trapping people in boxes, making it rain pictures of bill crosby etc to the people who have no life outside of it.
( FIEND, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:19, Reply)

tbh
I went on it a few years back for a short while, and I can see how it'd be kinda fun building fancy stuff and such. I never got the whole roleplaying and actually buying stuff with actual money sort of side of it, but hey, if people want to do that that's up to them. You could quite easily say it's more creative than spending money on WoW or suchlike...

So in my view, the people who grief it are just twats, in an irritating "ha ha these people are something we don't like, therefore we'll ruin their fun" sort of way. Like the sort of people who bullied the geeky kid at school just because he read books and stuff.

People on SL generally aren't doing anyone any harm, whereas the people who spawn self-replicating things and crash entire areas are causing problems and downtime to people who actually pay to do stuff like that - and whether you agree with people paying to do stuff like that or not, that sort of behaviour strikes me as a mixture of self-righteous and sociopathic, to be honest.
( Mushroom, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:32, Reply)

yes and personally i think Wow is kind of sad.
I didn't know people payed to do things on that. Yeah thats not very nice. *feels bad*
( FIEND, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:43, Reply)

ah, didn't notice you'd said lots of what I did up there ^
totally agree about the griefing. Why go out of the way to piss people off who, as you say, aren't doing any harm?

there are some good things there and there was potential.
( nivosargh is OLD, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 20:44, Reply)

most of the greifers lack originality..
*de-lurks* I'm a regular SL user - I find that once in a rare while the greifing can become awesomely entertaining to watch - it depends on how creative the greifer is.
I don't do it myself - but the stuff I've seen has been worth a giggle. Seeing such things like a greifer launching an army of the Dr. Who Daleks (that lag out a sim while they try to kill each other).

Sure there's a lot of idiots in the SL world - but they have to come from somewhere - and SL helps you discover and realise most people are.

On the plus side - SL to me is a cool place to meet other people with similiar interests, share ideas and stuff. It's much more comfortable than dropping in at the pub because A) you can't physically get punched in the face by the ranting drunken idiot in the corner and B) you can mute their whiny ass if you are trying to listen to someone else!
(mudslinger lives in a house surrounded by pussy....... cats!, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 22:06, Reply)

At least in Sims
You can delete the stairs and pass your righteous judgment upon the unworthy.
(Jake-of-all-Trades, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 21:41, Reply)