<div class="IPBDescription">THE SIMS?????</div>any comments on this game? i am bored <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
always wanted to try it and haven't bothered. it's always in the news but you never hear 'real' gamers talking about it. from what I hear though, I don't really understand the draw. you can create your own houses and items and whatnot, big whoop. if I wanted to create stuff on a computer I'd make a map for another game or work on making my own game...
<!--quoteo(post=1582038:date=Nov 29 2006, 01:16 PM:name=Sonic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sonic @ Nov 29 2006, 01:16 PM) [snapback]1582038[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Some rubbish game for furry's. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Sums it all up tbh. Imagine if you could walk through the internet.
QuaunautThe longest seven days in history...Join Date: 2003-03-21Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
Second Life has a terrible UI(I cannot express this enough. Even DOS would outrank this in user-friendliness in a UI).
It has terrible graphics(and a even worse engine: My machine, which can run HL2 with HDR at 1680x1050 with full settings, full AA and for ASF, gets bad FPS in this. GG terrible coding.)
It has a terrible user base(imagine EvE's brilliant create-your-own-fun style of freedom...for complete idiots).
...its little more than the new, premier place to cyber, or a furry hangout, or a "hipster"'s game: As in, you've gotta be extremely out-of-the-know to actually play this trite.
but it's trendy! companies even hold business meetings there!
though only the trendiest companies hold <a href="http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?socialtext_wow_press_conference" target="_blank">press conferences in World of Warcraft</a>.
I long to break Second Life. If I was talented enough to make viruses, that would be where I would go.
I wouldn't be original though, sadly, as they've already had Grey Goo attacks.
To be honest, my original plan involved creating a threat to their economy, but there is not enough time, or people to do something like that on the scale that I imagine it.
<!--quoteo(post=1582082:date=Nov 29 2006, 04:56 PM:name=Rob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rob @ Nov 29 2006, 04:56 PM) [snapback]1582082[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Like, omg no! 2life 2 good 4 u all!
ne grlz? <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> You know, I will never let you live this down.
<!--quoteo(post=1582004:date=Nov 29 2006, 12:37 PM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ Nov 29 2006, 12:37 PM) [snapback]1582004[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->it's always in the news but you never hear 'real' gamers talking about it. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> That's because real gamers don't play BS like this. It's like asking one of you guys if you play Habbo Hotel. If you know what that is, then there's only one reason why you'd know. To troll it.
<!--quoteo(post=1582072:date=Nov 29 2006, 03:07 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Nov 29 2006, 03:07 PM) [snapback]1582072[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Something Awful's Second Life safaris have pretty much put the nail in the coffin as far as my wanting to try the game out. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I went to SA.com to find these safaris of which you speak, and I started LOL'ing at work so I'm going to have to hold off on reading them til I get home...
I was put off second life more by the fact everyone is free to make what they want in it. Why? Because the vast majority of people have little artistic ability and sure as heck aren't going to conform to one 'style'. Net result is a hectic mishmash where works of art stand in the same gallery as a 5 year old's crayon scribbles :/ It'd drive me nuts.
<!--quoteo(post=1582086:date=Nov 29 2006, 01:07 PM:name=Cold_NiTe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cold_NiTe @ Nov 29 2006, 01:07 PM) [snapback]1582086[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> You know, I will never let you live this down. That's because real gamers don't play BS like this. It's like asking one of you guys if you play Habbo Hotel. If you know what that is, then there's only one reason why you'd know. To troll it. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I've read about the "Pool's Closed" raid on Habbo Hotel. Funny stuff.
<!--quoteo(post=1582157:date=Nov 29 2006, 07:56 PM:name=Mantrid)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mantrid @ Nov 29 2006, 07:56 PM) [snapback]1582157[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I've read about the "Pool's Closed" raid on Habbo Hotel. Funny stuff. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i>We read legends of it!</i>
It was funny the first few times, sorta stopped being funny considering people are there in small groups all the time, sorta killed the novelty of large raids.
AllUrHiveRblong2usBy Your Powers Combined...Join Date: 2002-12-20Member: 11244Members
If you want to talk about trolling, the possiblities are endless. I knew a fellow who had (stress on past tense) a character on SL only for trolling. He made it so that whenever you were around him you heard Banana Phone at ungodly levels, and he had some sort of device that shot a box around a person, then made the box shoot off into the air at extremely high speeds so that by the time whoever was inside got out they were a rather incredibly distance away from where they started.
But then again I also know a guy who spends 6+hours a day on there playing his painstakingly crafted (and almost proffesional looking) dragon character. he thinks it is the pinnacle of hilarity to make his character sit in a spinning floating chair while "Having a Wonderful Time" plays. And the worst part is that he doesn't even know where the freaking joke came from.
Meh, SL didn't seem too bad back when I tried it out fudge-knows how long ago. Yes, it is a hectic mishmash just as Gem described it, but it can still be a fun place to explore. Second life really is just a visual representation of what the internet would look like; nice place, wouldn't want to live there. And populated entirely by wierdos. I won a boggle tournament there once.
<!--quoteo(post=1582178:date=Nov 29 2006, 09:36 PM:name=AllUrHiveRblong2us)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AllUrHiveRblong2us @ Nov 29 2006, 09:36 PM) [snapback]1582178[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> If you want to talk about trolling, the possiblities are endless. I knew a fellow who had (stress on past tense) a character on SL only for trolling. He made it so that whenever you were around him you heard Banana Phone at ungodly levels, and he had some sort of device that shot a box around a person, then made the box shoot off into the air at extremely high speeds so that by the time whoever was inside got out they were a rather incredibly distance away from where they started.
But then again I also know a guy who spends 6+hours a day on there playing his painstakingly crafted (and almost proffesional looking) dragon character. he thinks it is the pinnacle of hilarity to make his character sit in a spinning floating chair while "Having a Wonderful Time" plays. And the worst part is that he doesn't even know where the freaking joke came from. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Case A is brilliant, but I too pity Case B.
That really is the problem with trolling though, being creative and inventive without putting so much effort into it that you can be pinned down as wasting your own time. I like to look at trolling as an art, sure you can be bland do uncreative unoriginal things to people, but who are you entertaining but yourself? I think a real troll is someone who caters to an audience and, if he's TRULY good at what he does, even wins some laughs from some of his targets. That's skill. Not just jumping after someone and rampaging around calling him names or some other trash.
Also, that guy in Case B is really dissapointing. 70% of copying internet memes is knowing the history of the meme itself. If you don't know the story behind why a meme is funny, then you're only laughing because people around you are laughing. And that's just pathetic. Seriously.
An amalgam of some screencaps of someone's GMod usage, a rendition of Tiny Tim's "Living In The Sunlight, Loving In The Moonlight" (where 'Coffee is only a dime', by the way) all packaged into a fantastically popular YTMND. I think the guy who made that might have actually posted it somewhere else first. But I'm hesitant to go anywhere near /b/ to find out. That place is desperation and horror, in various doses.
AllUrHiveRblong2usBy Your Powers Combined...Join Date: 2002-12-20Member: 11244Members
<!--quoteo(post=1582453:date=Nov 30 2006, 04:00 PM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ Nov 30 2006, 04:00 PM) [snapback]1582453[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> so where DID the joke come from? =p <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> <a href="http://gmanwonderful.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">http://gmanwonderful.ytmnd.com/</a>
I stopped reading at the line "There are no prostitutes" because there most assuredly ARE prostitutes. That's basically 50 percent of the population. Anshe Chung, that millionaire real estate mogul, started out as a prostitute. Second Life should be called Streetwalker's Life or something.
I think he mostly means there are no prostitutes you can beat up GTA style <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />
I installed this a while ago. I made a pretty-damn accurate Dalek model, complete with "EXTERMINATE!" sound effect when you touched it. It was totally awesome. The content creation system is clunky as hell but once you wrap your head around it it's <b>somewhat</b> tolerable.
Anyhoo, when they had that big hacking scare and reset everyone's passwords, they forced you to use your secret question/answer combo to get a new password. Unfortunately my secret question was "What high-school did you attend?" and the answer was ";[q3lk4h[p56q3kl456qp;orlq3n4r;w3kjrf", because I never forget my passwords.
<!--quoteo(post=1612629:date=Mar 8 2007, 12:33 PM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kouji_San @ Mar 8 2007, 12:33 PM) [snapback]1612629[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> ---->banks are seriously looking into this game to try and see if there is IRL money to be made <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The answer is yes. Get their personal info and a large mob of people will gladly pay to have it, then go burn down their houses - after evacuating their mothers first.
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Sums it all up tbh. Imagine if you could walk through the internet.
Yeah.
It has terrible graphics(and a even worse engine: My machine, which can run HL2 with HDR at 1680x1050 with full settings, full AA and for ASF, gets bad FPS in this. GG terrible coding.)
It has a terrible user base(imagine EvE's brilliant create-your-own-fun style of freedom...for complete idiots).
...its little more than the new, premier place to cyber, or a furry hangout, or a "hipster"'s game: As in, you've gotta be extremely out-of-the-know to actually play this trite.
Ugh. I hated every minute of it.
though only the trendiest companies hold <a href="http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?socialtext_wow_press_conference" target="_blank">press conferences in World of Warcraft</a>.
I wouldn't be original though, sadly, as they've already had Grey Goo attacks.
To be honest, my original plan involved creating a threat to their economy, but there is not enough time, or people to do something like that on the scale that I imagine it.
ne grlz?
Like, omg no! 2life 2 good 4 u all!
ne grlz?
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You know, I will never let you live this down.
<!--quoteo(post=1582004:date=Nov 29 2006, 12:37 PM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ Nov 29 2006, 12:37 PM) [snapback]1582004[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->it's always in the news but you never hear 'real' gamers talking about it. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's because real gamers don't play BS like this. It's like asking one of you guys if you play Habbo Hotel. If you know what that is, then there's only one reason why you'd know. To troll it.
Something Awful's Second Life safaris have pretty much put the nail in the coffin as far as my wanting to try the game out.
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I went to SA.com to find these safaris of which you speak, and I started LOL'ing at work so I'm going to have to hold off on reading them til I get home...
It'd drive me nuts.
You know, I will never let you live this down.
That's because real gamers don't play BS like this. It's like asking one of you guys if you play Habbo Hotel. If you know what that is, then there's only one reason why you'd know. To troll it.
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I've read about the "Pool's Closed" raid on Habbo Hotel. Funny stuff.
I've read about the "Pool's Closed" raid on Habbo Hotel. Funny stuff.
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<i>We read legends of it!</i>
It was funny the first few times, sorta stopped being funny considering people are there in small groups all the time, sorta killed the novelty of large raids.
But then again I also know a guy who spends 6+hours a day on there playing his painstakingly crafted (and almost proffesional looking) dragon character. he thinks it is the pinnacle of hilarity to make his character sit in a spinning floating chair while "Having a Wonderful Time" plays. And the worst part is that he doesn't even know where the freaking joke came from.
If you want to talk about trolling, the possiblities are endless. I knew a fellow who had (stress on past tense) a character on SL only for trolling. He made it so that whenever you were around him you heard Banana Phone at ungodly levels, and he had some sort of device that shot a box around a person, then made the box shoot off into the air at extremely high speeds so that by the time whoever was inside got out they were a rather incredibly distance away from where they started.
But then again I also know a guy who spends 6+hours a day on there playing his painstakingly crafted (and almost proffesional looking) dragon character. he thinks it is the pinnacle of hilarity to make his character sit in a spinning floating chair while "Having a Wonderful Time" plays. And the worst part is that he doesn't even know where the freaking joke came from.
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Case A is brilliant, but I too pity Case B.
That really is the problem with trolling though, being creative and inventive without putting so much effort into it that you can be pinned down as wasting your own time. I like to look at trolling as an art, sure you can be bland do uncreative unoriginal things to people, but who are you entertaining but yourself? I think a real troll is someone who caters to an audience and, if he's TRULY good at what he does, even wins some laughs from some of his targets. That's skill. Not just jumping after someone and rampaging around calling him names or some other trash.
Also, that guy in Case B is really dissapointing. 70% of copying internet memes is knowing the history of the meme itself. If you don't know the story behind why a meme is funny, then you're only laughing because people around you are laughing. And that's just pathetic. Seriously.
so where DID the joke come from? =p
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<a href="http://gmanwonderful.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">http://gmanwonderful.ytmnd.com/</a>
Haha!
sorry for bumping but I just found this blog entry and lol'd, so I thought I'd share.
Anyhoo, when they had that big hacking scare and reset everyone's passwords, they forced you to use your secret question/answer combo to get a new password. Unfortunately my secret question was "What high-school did you attend?" and the answer was ";[q3lk4h[p56q3kl456qp;orlq3n4r;w3kjrf", because I never forget my passwords.
*******s.
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-->lol F turned into H
---->banks are seriously looking into this game to try and see if there is IRL money to be made
---->banks are seriously looking into this game to try and see if there is IRL money to be made
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The answer is yes. Get their personal info and a large mob of people will gladly pay to have it, then go burn down their houses - after evacuating their mothers first.
Cleaning the gene pool, one house at a time.