Comments on: One Life is Not Enough http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/06/one_life_is_not.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: budka Groshomme http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/06/one_life_is_not.html/comment-page-1#comment-46574 budka Groshomme Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:58:34 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2341#comment-46574 Been away on a RL vacation and just getting back into the SL version. Sure, be glad to chat some time about the impact of SL on RL behaviors and attitudes. Maybe we can even get some others to participate a la salon. Been away on a RL vacation and just getting back into the SL version. Sure, be glad to chat some time about the impact of SL on RL behaviors and attitudes. Maybe we can even get some others to participate a la salon.

]]> By: Prokofy Neva http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/06/one_life_is_not.html/comment-page-1#comment-46573 Prokofy Neva Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2341#comment-46573 I've thought a lot about this, Budka, and I hope to talk to you inworld some time about it. I find the harm from SL -- when it does harm -- is very real but like a laser burn, invisible, but all the more destructive. And the feeling of accomplishment is very real, too, but lurking in the back of your mind is: is this really just like coke or crack, giving you a false sense of accomplishment and "alrightness" that is actually cloaking even greater destructiveness? Of course, if you attempt business, as I do, you have your RL real dollar cashouts to console you, but then, you're always wondering, well, wait a minute, did I just earn $4/hour of my RL time setting up a rental to -- well, I won't even "go there" because it's just another flame war and bad for business... All the exploring and fun and ideas are very engaging but I find that there is a kind of irritable, tightly-wrapped, poor-communications state that many -- most -- people get into from playing too long hours of SL, and having to sit with too-pick build tools or tiny little seams on dresses or parceling of land when the tools keep slipping out of your hand, etc. etc. People get really ornery in SL. They snap at you like junk-yard dogs. I really think these states of being need a lot more study -- scientific study, not breathless conference panels but real peer-reviewed, double-blinded, weighted-geographical-samples type of real study. I’ve thought a lot about this, Budka, and I hope to talk to you inworld some time about it. I find the harm from SL — when it does harm — is very real but like a laser burn, invisible, but all the more destructive. And the feeling of accomplishment is very real, too, but lurking in the back of your mind is: is this really just like coke or crack, giving you a false sense of accomplishment and “alrightness” that is actually cloaking even greater destructiveness? Of course, if you attempt business, as I do, you have your RL real dollar cashouts to console you, but then, you’re always wondering, well, wait a minute, did I just earn $4/hour of my RL time setting up a rental to — well, I won’t even “go there” because it’s just another flame war and bad for business…

All the exploring and fun and ideas are very engaging but I find that there is a kind of irritable, tightly-wrapped, poor-communications state that many — most — people get into from playing too long hours of SL, and having to sit with too-pick build tools or tiny little seams on dresses or parceling of land when the tools keep slipping out of your hand, etc. etc. People get really ornery in SL. They snap at you like junk-yard dogs. I really think these states of being need a lot more study — scientific study, not breathless conference panels but real peer-reviewed, double-blinded, weighted-geographical-samples type of real study.

]]> By: Philip Linden http://alphavilleherald.com/2005/06/one_life_is_not.html/comment-page-1#comment-46572 Philip Linden Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:41:15 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2341#comment-46572 Yes, it was real! Yes, it was real!

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