Gmork - 2015-08-17
The best use of Second Life is trolling people who are serious about being on Second Life.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-17 OH god I should've watched to the end the first time :)
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Gmork - 2015-08-17 You might need an actual game capable of actual gameplay for that to work, but neat idea. Start with the GTA engine and add second life features, not the other way around.
Hey, GTA V is moddable.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-17 Yeah, I guess you could potentially do something like that in GTA, but with the cars and stuff it'd be pretty easy for someone to be an asshole and just drive into peoples' houses, which probably wouldn't be picked by the police, AI or human, until somebody was killed. But yeah, if there's a way to disable the respawn function, you could basically create a very realistic life simulator. Heck, you could even have a whole court system with lawyers and judges if you wanted to!
"Your honor, although my client did go on a rampage in a fighter jet, killing several hundred people, I would like to point out that.."
"OBJECTION! This guy's a pussy lol!"
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betabox - 2015-08-18 L,000 is about eighty bucks. And most SL communication is text.
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Caminante Nocturno - 2015-08-17
This is a very faithful recreation of the housing market crash in America.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-17 There's a cool article I caught on Bo news about abandoned university campuses in SL. And they're all real universities like UW UCB etc. and you could attend lectures and discussions. That's kinda cool. I always liked those kids who just sat back and played gameboy through biology or physics classes, because it was required for them, as it was for me, but they already knew all that stuff whereas I was a total Luddite. It would've been fun to take a lecture from one of those people, even if it didn't count for course credit. But alas they're more of a ghost town than Reed College in the summertime..
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fluffy - 2015-08-17 That article's been circulating around. It was a bit depressing, but also entertaining to think that all these universities were still paying like 0/month on something that hasn't been touched in probably close to 10 years.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-17 You know, I'm not sure how legal this would be, but for example I checked UW Milwaukee (sadly Madison's not on there) and I'm pretty sure I could just log right in, no need for proof of enrollment. So if somebody was taking classes, ostensibly you could pay to hear what their professor said more-or-less verbatim at fraction of the cost of a real university, even if that "real" university is U Phoenix. It may not count for course credit, but if it's some really cool subject, sure! And the money would help the "professor" monetarily with the inevitable student loans!
I mean, it's illegal to steal a syllabus of course, or record a lecture and read it back verbatim, but it's not that different from talking to a fellow student at a bar. I never had a chance to take a class from someone like Harold Blume (nor did I go to Yale) but it'd be cool to get that vicarious insight without having to go all the way to Griffin's Pub to hear about it.
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simon666 - 2015-08-17
No.
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chumbucket - 2015-08-17
How do I go about earning the badge "banned from every sim"? Life goal.
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oddeye - 2015-08-17
After the master troll died he probably spent 40 mins monologuing to his corpse on why team work matters when you are new to Second Life.
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Gmork - 2015-08-17 The part where he starts walking away onto the pier while he's still talking reminds me of when I put the phone down on my particularly talkative developer friend sometimes and get a drink and come back to him still going on about whatever.
Rude? Yes. But I've learned my lesson from actually listening.
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dairyqueenlatifah - 2015-08-17
I think this is the same guy as the "Build a boat" video.
The people who take SL seriously are a comedy goldmine.
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infinite zest - 2015-08-17 Yeah all his stuff is gold. But I can understand.. One of my clients is wheelchair bound and autistic so she plays a lot of The Sims and SL. Personally I'd rather escape reality with a game like New Vegas, but for some what I take for granted as a "normal" reality is indeed an escape for some.
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Gmork - 2015-08-22 Interesting notion.
I see lots of "why the fuck does this game exist" titles on steam, and I guess that's probably a portion of the answer I sought. Escapism is different for everyone.
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