Vincent The Dragon

You people have broken it.
Second Life is a 3 dimensional content driven social interaction simulation with creation, editing and modification abilities…or it was.

The SL I remember was like this. You went places, listen to things, found people and you Interacted in the world. You used the tools you have to emote with your text, your gestures and used the world around you. You walk up to people and you talk, used gesture based emotes to add to the experience or used animations to assist in the role you were portraying. If you wanted to do other things, you took the person and went somewhere and used the things around you to enhance the experience of the role before you.

The SL it is now. Your avatar stands in the middle of the room playing endlessly the same animation. Sometimes there is a little chat but mostly its just stupid things, silly things; which are fine mind you and fun too. Most of the conversing however takes place only in a direct PM to an individual and if you decide to take things to another level..you do it all in PM’s just standing there. Clubs are full of zombies either Sexting the zombie next to them or is just simply wasting the server load and my frame rates.

People say the posing animations are cheesy or have this or that problem. Or texting is a more enhanced way of role play…I call bunk! Innovation doesn’t happen when you don’t use things; it happens when you do use things and offer suggestions or want more. That’s how the code that runs my tail was born, just ask me about it. Texting is not more, it’s more of the same type of social interaction we had since before the World Wide Web was born. SL is broken because you’re lazy and you’re selfish.

Lazy because you don’t want to be part of the solution or apply effort or time with an individual because you can just stand there and IM me from time to time while your off doing something else but using the world around you to create an actual fantasy role requires you to concentrate on that task and the person on the other side of the screen.

Selfish because you take up space, time, compute cycles…you don’t want to emote or animate in public then turn off all the crap on your AV and just stand there then, preferably not in the middle of everything. Find someone you want to play with?..leave, go somewhere else and stand there, I’ll offer you my personal spot in SL if you want.

There have GOT to be people still in SL like me, places to go in the world where people interact in the way Second Life was built for. If you’re on my friends list and read this and now don’t want be, I can accept that and please let me know. I may not understand it but I will comply without question. It is possible that the greifers won, that all the people I want to interact with have gone and taken MY SL with them and all that’s left is YOUR SL.

Don’t be offended by my rant, these are my feelings, not yours and I would be happy to discuss it with you, in front of you...