Billye:

The reason I went there was I wanted to see what the heck my son does night and day that so fascinating. He talks about Second Life as if it is better than sliced bread. My son also does not work, is a compulsive gambler and has no work ethic whatsoever. Whether this is because he has Aspergers, or because he's a compulsive gambler, I have no idea and after 5 years, I don't care anymore. Too much pain.

But I also can see where a shy person who has no social experiences could go there and learn. Learn to interact in a virtual world, learn to communicate. There are many many social outcasts in the world. If this site does that, then it can be a very good thing.

But unfortunately in my son's case, it's all consuming, probably because has Aspergers which makes you obsessive.

Anyway, enough about Second Life and all it's sexual mysteries.

Let's hope it helps people and is not all consuming.

I'm doing a post on Alan's mri results and possible surgery.

melody

I forgot to add, I DO NOT have any of the compulsive habits. Only enough curiosity to kill a cat. It's probably what has kept me going this long. Can't stand not knowing what's going to happen next in my life.

Billye

the target market, although I like PC games. To me, SL seems so directionless. And I am getting more low tech the older I get, so as soon they start talking about prims and properties my eyes glaze over.

I've been TPing around looking for money trees. All I found was--well, I'm not going to tell you what I found. It has a very, very tall sign, and the second word is "Booth." You can figure it out.

Where where where?????

lol, melody

Melody - I have to tell you that I have gotten such a kick out of your "travelogue" of your Second Life experiences. I will try it sometime when I am not so tired, but I also have some reservations about doing so. Must be my age.

Diana

Sooo.. If you did not give them a credit card number to get some free Linden dollars, then you have zero money to toodle around with... Does this mean, if you ever are able to get signed on, you will have no clothes to wear??? This is NOT good...
Cathie

Well, I believe I had to put my credit card on file (to prove I'm over 18).
They have never charged me. They offer different accounts. Mine is a free basic.

So when you sign on, you create your avatar. They supply the skin (you can purchase a different skin when you earn Linden Dollars.

But for free, I gave myself boobs like Pamela Anderson Lee, a behind like Jennifer Lopez, legs like Cyd Sharisse (you all remember her, right?)

and hair (well the hair is like Pamela's too).

How do you earn Linden dollars you might be asking.

Well, you go and sit on logs around a campfire and if you stay for 10 minutes you earn two linden dollars. So I stayed for a while.

Then someone came along and I said "I have no lindens" and she gave me 50 right off the bat. For doing nothing but accompanying her to some stupid sex place. I got out of there fast but I had 50 lindens. Then I teleported to some casino and lost it playing slots.

You should get a load of some of the people there. They have designed Avatars (must have cost them plenty, because stores sell skins, costumes, really neat stuff).

There were people there (well they looked like they were going to a grand ball).

Amazing graphics. But honestly after a while, (I mean how much can you type in text to talk to someone) and how much can you fly over waterfalls.

Bored me silly. But that's me. I can see where a tech no geek would be in paradise in some of these worlds.

melody

and I have fully satisfied my curiousity. All the flying is kinda neat,and changing haircolor and so forth. It is a bit directionless, like zombies just running around from room to room. I went into a dance club and saw some people breakdancing which was very funny. Then I walked into a room where they were typing German,and also typing about sex acts.

Mel, I saw the characters having group sex,and I saw a few of the male characters with very large male body parts running around naked. Then someone types, "does anybody know where I can buy a penis"?

There were some German's on there having cybersex if that's what it's called. Bravo to JL for his smashing success in Cybersex, and the selling male body parts. All I can say is these conversations between the German's having sex, showed up on my computer screen for some reason. I was mortified to see it there and was hoping I could get rid of it,so I closed program off. I don't mind a fantasy world,I don't mind virtual reality. I was very happy to hear this sort of place was to help those who have trouble socialising and so forth. But JL has created a virtual pornographic orgy world for kids with autism??

What the HECK?? How can people be banned for talking about politics and illnesses on the old Braintalk forum,but kids can talk dirty and partake in group sex,orgies,and so forth on Second Life?

This is marketed to kids.

I knew what you mean about buying a penis. I didn't want to post what I saw but you had the guts to do that.

Isn't it the funniest thing when you can go into a virtual store and buy a rectum? And other private areas of your body.

You think this is marketed to kids? I don't think so necessarily. You have to be at least 18 and supply a credit card to join (if you get a basic free account, they don't charge the card). From what I saw, no body under 20 or so would have the tech knowledge, to know about coding, about HUD's, about invisibility shields, and most of all, about S&M. That's not a kid thing. At least I don't think it is. And if it is, god help us all!!!!

Guess where I teleported yesterday?. I typed in dungeon in the search engine and a whole mess of places came up. I thought I would find myself in a place dark and dreary and smoky and people with collars and chains but nooooo.

What I found was a lighted world filled with about 100 devices in a room. All the devices had a pink ball and a blue ball. The women click on the pink (for femails obviously) and the men would click on the blue.

Now I must admit my curiousity got the better of me because I saw gadgets and devices that I had absolutely no idea what would happen.

So guess what happened when I walked (my avatar walked, that is), over to a device with a flame under it. I clicked on the pink ball and all of a sudden my avatar was tied up on the thing over the flame and my avatar became like a roasted pig over a spit. I immediately clicked on "stand up" and kept walking around. Then it hit me 'these are torture devices", for people into masochism, to fulfill their fantasies. I would gather that two people who are into S&M would teleport into this room and one would stand by and watch the other go on different gadgets.

Maybe it's safer for people to indulge these fantasies in Second Life than to perpetrate them on people in real life?

I never, in all my life, saw such things. And I'm 59. Imagine being 20 and going into Second Life.

Something to think about.

melody

I really don't have enough curiosity to go to this 2nd life place (I had enough computer problems with my 'passing interest' in the XX sites when I was younger & first got a computer in '95). But are you saying that JL designed a site that is for autistcs and troubled kids- that has sex rooms? Graphic sex rooms? & for free !?
That doesn't make any sense to me.
Weird people and deviants pay mucho $$ on credit cards to go to XXX pervert sites- this could get out of hand quickly.
How do you have moderators for such places- where anything goes?
A big "trouble, Will Robinson"