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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I think I've mentioned it before, but I really wish that Second Life had been better and not full of weird sex maniacs. The potential was always there. Someone I know did some indie record release on there, and we all got to listen to it "live" and it all seemed pretty cool. Welp. Beware, that's the premise of RPO.
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Every human technology is used for weird sex stuff, it's just something you have to accept about the species
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Thin Privilege posted:Wait what happened to lowtax? Lowtax found a good way to gently caress up your back.
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Apr 1, 2018 23:20
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Every human technology is used for weird sex stuff, it's just something you have to accept about the species The problem with SL is that it ended up being basically nothing else. In theory people could reinvent themselves however they wanted, build whatever they wanted, and share it with others. In practice people just kind of made their lands invite only and then threw nothing but weird sex parties all day. Aside from the trolling goons did some really incredibly creative stuff.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Beware, that's the premise of RPO.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The problem with SL is that it ended up being basically nothing else. In theory people could reinvent themselves however they wanted, build whatever they wanted, and share it with others. In practice people just kind of made their lands invite only and then threw nothing but weird sex parties all day. Kinda turned out that the whole setup was only really at all useful for weird sex parties after the initial novelty wore off.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The problem with SL is that it ended up being basically nothing else. In theory people could reinvent themselves however they wanted, build whatever they wanted, and share it with others. In practice people just kind of made their lands invite only and then threw nothing but weird sex parties all day. They reinvented themselves as sexually desirable millionaires who spend all day engaging in orgies. That’s what most of us would reinvent ourselves as in real life, too, if we could. Seems both predictable and reasonable, to me. Second Life was cool and amazing, early on, and always had tremendous potential. I think the people in charge didn’t know how to realize that potential. They were good at crafting a cool cyber world, but not so good at guiding it. My Second Life name was Dick Behemoth.
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In a better timeline, Second Life adapted quickly and overtook social media as the dominant form of communication
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I'm not sure if I'd call Ready Player One a better timeline.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Kinda turned out that the whole setup was only really at all useful for weird sex parties after the initial novelty wore off. Eh, that's not entirely true that was just the easiest thing for people to make given that you could just buy some game currency and pay for whatever you needed. A lot of popular avatar stuff was geared toward making yourself look young, attractive, and fashionable. It took no real effort to set up that sort of thing given how many people were all about weird sex parties. Apparently a lot of them were also overweight, boring, middle-aged middle managers with nothing else going on in life. I found it sad more than anything when I found that out. Originally the game was marketed toward the shooter game side of it based on the whole "you could program stuff to counter other stuff!!!" but that turned out to be more of a wet fart than anything for what should be obvious reasons. The artsy creative side did OK for a while but there was just plain more interest in weird sex parties than actual art. Tragic, in a way.
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God is dead, so we're going to get VR corporate offices composed of people paid minimum wage in 12 different countries
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That's loving awesome.
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How's Two Worlds doing these days? I wonder about him sometimes, I was one of the people he dragged into friendship briefly, we were facebook friends for a while too - he unfriended me finally when he noticed I was seeing someone. That was like 8 years ago and we haven't talked since. Anyone still talking with him, or keeping tabs on him, or something? At that time he needed a loving supervisor, idk how he is now.
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Like everyone who gets permad I assume they died instantly. My object permanence is based only on posts on the something awful forums
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I have no idea how I was never in any thread Two Worlds ran rampant, but he's one of the few "notorious" posters that I never encountered.
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There was also that guy in his Helldump who imo was even more pathetic than TW. He was a friend of TW and was basically trying to get people to like him by helping helldump on TW or somethign?
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EmmyOk posted:There was also that guy in his Helldump who imo was even more pathetic than TW. He was a friend of TW and was basically trying to get people to like him by helping helldump on TW or somethign? There are a lot of sad things about Helldump-oids, but one of the saddest to me is people who are willing to throw their friends under the bus to gain approval of/avoid the attention of Helldumpers. It's sad both because they always seem like people who don't exactly have friendships to burn, and because I'm not convinced this ever works for them.
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Danaru posted:I still hope VR technology becomes ubiquitous enough that Web 3.0 involves VR websites being normal, but we as a species seem to be bent on making sure nothing cool ever happens Back in the 00's when SL was still all the rage I saw a website on Portal of Evil that would try to make a virtual world out of any URL you gave it. They were always jumbled choppy-framerate chaos and you could crash the site by recursively virtualizing already-virtualized pages. VR might actually make it feasible. I mean they'd still be nightmarish nonsense, but easy to navigate and with good fps.  Physically wading through stupid forum slapfights was good for a few laughs, a convincing paleofuturistic vision of cyberspace Hell  It was cripplingly slow and must have been really horrible to develop/admin to not have survived on sheer novelty value. I can think of a zillion "wonder what this would look like as a 3D universe lol" web pages
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Syd Midnight posted:Back in the 00's when SL was still all the rage I saw a website on Portal of Evil that would try to make a virtual world out of any URL you gave it. They were always jumbled choppy-framerate chaos and you could crash the site by recursively virtualizing already-virtualized pages. VR might actually make it feasible. I mean they'd still be nightmarish nonsense, but easy to navigate and with good fps. this would make Twitter absolutely insane
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Antivehicular posted:There are a lot of sad things about Helldump-oids, but one of the saddest to me is people who are willing to throw their friends under the bus to gain approval of/avoid the attention of Helldumpers. It's sad both because they always seem like people who don't exactly have friendships to burn, and because I'm not convinced this ever works for them. And yet it didn't stop this catching on everywhere else on the internet!
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Syd Midnight posted:Back in the 00's when SL was still all the rage I saw a website on Portal of Evil that would try to make a virtual world out of any URL you gave it. They were always jumbled choppy-framerate chaos and you could crash the site by recursively virtualizing already-virtualized pages. VR might actually make it feasible. I mean they'd still be nightmarish nonsense, but easy to navigate and with good fps. Hey guys I figured out how to put E/N on a monitor in SL, now you can stand there and read it. lmgtfy?q=how+do+i+make+my+second+life+avatar+shake+his+head+but+with+shame
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I remember trying to get into Second Life to grief, but it ran like dogshit no matter what hardware I threw at it. I am fairly confident that if I tried to run it now, on my desktop with a 1070 and 32 gigs of RAM, it would still run like dogshit
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The first time I ever heard of Something Awful was as a part of a 4chan Second Life raiding group that met up with an SA Second Life raiding group. Someone from the SA team gave me a gun that shot out a cube that spawned copies of itself exponentially and eventually crashed the map sector 
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The early 2000s were a weird time to be online and I do not miss them in the slightest
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I was not a good person or a good poster in the early 2000's. I think a lot of us are in better places now.
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Paladinus posted:Don't link to kiwifarms, please.
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BiggerBoat posted:Mod Edit: Don't link to KiwiFarms So do you professionally go out and stalk the mentally ill or is it just a hobby? I can’t believe the internet has made the delusion of gang-stalking a real thing. Somebody has a new favorite as of 16:11 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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Helldumping has professional leagues now.
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Aw man PoE. I always wondered how many people from that site wandered here, SA had a lot of cross interests at the time. I was way too young to be on it and never registered, but it was a great peanut gallery for weird poo poo you stumble across online.
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Paladinus posted:Don't link to kiwifarms, please. Not emptyquoting. They made memes out of a friend's suicide note.
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Judas Horse posted:Not emptyquoting. They made memes out of a friend's suicide note. Was it the guy who asked his parents to take a gender studies class? Because so did FYAD.
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A Spider Covets posted:Aw man PoE. I always wondered how many people from that site wandered here, SA had a lot of cross interests at the time. I came here from PoE
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What was PoE? Google just turns of Path of Exile and Pillars of Eternity
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^^^^ Portal of Evil I can't remember how I got here on an entirely unrelated note I started smoking weed in 2003
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VanSandman posted:So do you professionally go out and stalk the mentally ill or is it just a hobby? No. He came up in the thread earlier and someone mentioned "what ever happened to Two Worlds"? Sorry about the link.
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