Comments on: Op/Ed: Avatars Have No Feelings

By: Reader

Reader — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:34:08 +0000

@hobo

doesn’t that constitute patting ones self on the back?

By: hobo kelly

hobo kelly — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:41:31 +0000

@Muziekfreak1980 Miles, wow you really got them going out of their minds buddy, way to go…

By: Little Lost Linden

Little Lost Linden — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:54:17 +0000

Linden Lab Lays off 30% of staff!

I was able to get a photo of 3 Linden’s who attended the memorial today:

http://thebotzone.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/lindens-leaving-who-will-fend-off-the-bots-and-campers/

By: Little Lost Linden

Little Lost Linden — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:47:19 +0000

Linden Lab lays off 30% of staff!!!

http://thebotzone.wordpress.com/

Holy Moly!

By: grace acer

grace acer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:14:56 +0000

Good discussion. Evidently some people can communicate on many different levels through a medium like SL.. The others cannot conceive this possibility, but seem overly defensive in their comments protecting themselves from what they don’t experience. In RL or SL, there’s always many different forms of communication.

By: Darkfoxx

Darkfoxx — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:57:17 +0000

@ Johhny: People probably fall in love with the person playing the avie, not the avie itself. And of course you can have a much deeper connection with another player then you realize, or, seem to realize.

What you’re talking about is perhaps physical attraction, and yeah, if there’s nothing more then that, it’s doomed to fail in RL just as well in SL.

The difference is that between love and lust.

By: Darkfoxx

Darkfoxx — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:50:34 +0000

Ψ, I always find it a sign of intellect to *not* have to resort to insults like “illiterate, uneducated, emofuckwit” and such.

Sl is a fun game, but no matter how real the people behind the other av are, it still is a game. And if you´re looking for love in SL, you´re only going to get hurt. Better avoid that drama alltogether and keep in the back of your head that it´s all a game.

And emotions of people playing the game might have, do not alter the fact that it is a *game*. (I recently finished a nice horror FPS based upon what happened at Chernobyl in 1986. I definately felt some emotions there. Fear mostly. Doesn’t make it less of a game either does it? Just makes it a good one.)

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:54:32 +0000

Wow, your column sure got a few people talking Fox!

LOL@Muziekfreak1980 & Ψ

To get back to the column subject and title, avatars most certainly have no feelings. They are 2D and made up of pixels, ‘robots’ in a way. There are a multitude of emotions that one can experience in SL, besides love.

Whilst avatars have no feelings, the emotion felt when even barely interacting with another avatar can certainly be felt beyond the computer screen. This emotion can be prevalent through any activity – from communicating, exploring, creating, entertaining. Feeling is experiencing. Feeling is broadening your horizons. Feeling is putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. Something that we do each and every time we ‘log on’ to SL.

Experiences in SL vary for every single avi in this strange but ever-changing virtual world.

By: Ψ

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:25:23 +0000

@Muziekfreak1980

SICK BURN, BRO! Also l2/proof read and spell check.

By: Muziekfreak1980 miles

Muziekfreak1980 miles — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:34:56 +0000

Forgot to add this..

Before filling in the blanks for me…
I met my rl wife inworld…3 years together, got a daughter ectra.
That you choose the insides of your palmhand, and got beaten by your mom developing a hate towards the word love. Does not i do so too…

The more i read that stupid ass statement Ψ you just made..the more i laugh maybe im to “dutch” for your bs. lolz…or just like you stated before to stupid.

Atleast im not so mindfucked like you are pretending to know someones life in here then to judge ppl as such.

Your the weak one in the chain amoebe…not me