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Horrific Second Life Virtual Birth

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Someone out there has spent time making a 3d animation of water breaking in Second Life.

I wonder what that person was thinking while developing that.
 
iammeiam said:
I think for a lot of people it's just a step up from text-based cyber sex. But sometimes people commit fully to the 'second life' aspect of the game. Sometimes, if you're a 46 year-old man, you pretend to be a 25 year-old girl. But not in the normal 'everyone on the internet is a guy' way, because you're actually double-roleplaying. You're really roleplaying as a squirrel from a story you're writing, and the squirrel is roleplaying as the rabbit avatar in Second Life, so when you tell people you're actually a girl you're not lying so much as committing to the first level of roleplay. Then, after you get fake-married to your bunny prince while your adopted human daughter watches, your real-real life long-distance girlfriend shows up and ruins everything by telling your husband that the player behind the player is actually a dude.

So then you have no recourse but to let her know you're hating on her through the My Little Ponies she got from you:
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dorkimoe said:
why the fuck is this in a game
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lol because it's not a game.

The whole thing is just a do-it-yourself virtual environment, people use it for whatever they please. Be that playing a game, chat, construction, meetings, v-sex, clubs, or the miracle of birth and babies shooting out of rocks.
 
I can just imagine this woman explaining this to her family.

"Guys... I'm pregnant"
"WHAT?!"
"On Second Life"
"Oh Jesus Christ, Kathy..."
 
ChosenPredator said:
wow secondlife is something else it's like a whole universe of weird ass shit lol
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It's no different than real life. You have normal shit, and you have some epic weird shit. Have you seen some of the bizarre real life porn that people produce?

Devolution said:
The best part of SL is the fact that it's basically got a currency system that people use. Paying real life monies to purchase stuff for their characters in game. You can also make money in SL too by creating things and converting the SL currency back into real dollars. I have no idea how lucrative or time intensive that kind of shit is though.
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Can be very lucrative. Like, millions.
 
Holy shit I just laughed so hard I almost died. Tears are rolling down my cheeks. This could be the greatest YouTube video I've ever seen.
 
I remember this 'game'. I tried it once. Really hard to get past the janky tech and shit graphics, though. I might have actually gotten into it if it didn't look like ass.

That video certainly had great comedy value, though! (I couldn't watch the whole thing)
 
Only a couple of years ago people seriously believed Second Life was the future of the Internet. I work at a school and there were teachers investigating SL as a learning tool "because kids saw books and class room environments as old fashioned since they all lived in virtual worlds these days." They even put up money to have someone build virtual class rooms where students could roleplay "real life" work situations. Because two students moving a virtual stick figure around a virtual building and conversing with a keyboard behind a computer was so much more realistic and easier than having those kids have a normal conversation before a class.

Yeah ... I completely ridiculed the project during a presentation and it was never heard of soon after.
 
ymmv said:
Only a couple of years ago people seriously believed Second Life was the future of the Internet. I work at a school and there were teachers investigating SL as a learning tool "because kids saw books and class room environments as old fashioned since they all lived in virtual worlds these days." They even put up money to have someone build virtual class rooms where students could roleplay "real life" work situations. Because two students moving a virtual stick figure around a virtual building and conversing with a keyboard behind a computer was so much more realistic and easier than having those kids have a normal conversation before a class.

Yeah ... I completely ridiculed the project during a presentation and it was never heard of soon after.
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That's awesome, you totally showed them! I mean, that would be almost as lame as sitting behind a keyboard and expressing your thoughts about things to total strangers! Maybe even having a little avatar that sort of represents you. Sounds absurd!

Meanwhile people with the ability to look past the "lol, virtual secks!" aspect of Second Life have used it quite positively to help treat people with autism and social anxiety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyUTZz9QbMg&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/09/second-life.aspx
 
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