Well this summer I was bored with VMK and was trying to figure out what the next VMK would be like, so I got a Second Life (http://secondlife.com).
Well with that said, I have no clue what to do in there.. I have logged in a few times since, but am clueless about the whole thing. It looks really cool, and the options on what you can make/wear seem endless for creative types.
Does anyone here play it? If so is there a Disney community or group area? And if so again, how the heck do you find it?
-BBÂ :cool2:
Awww, Be in a hammock :) But why don't we get any face shots? I want to see how well you recreated your nerdy self!
It looks gorgeous! If only I had a better computer... *sigh*
Awww, Be in a hammock :) But why don't we get any face shots? I want to see how well you recreated your nerdy self!
It looks gorgeous! If only I had a better computer... *sigh*
The avatar is still too close to default Second Life. All I've done is made it shorter, skinnier, non-blonde, removed its bulging muscles, and taken away its initial skin-tight clothing. It still needs a more plain / boring looking face, and geeky glasses, and then it will just start to more closely resemble me. There should be a way to make it look more sleep-deprived. Oh, and more preppy / less night-club; need that too.
My aim is to be one of the few clearly unattractive avatars in Second Life... without using the simple expedient of being green.
Well, I found a nice sushi bar in a sim Kyoto...
(http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q290/greenbezoar/th_sushi.jpg) (http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q290/greenbezoar/sushi.jpg)
Al, funny you should mention Club Penguin! LOL, Mason and I got on it this past weekend at around 12:30 am or something like that, lol. It had been such a long time since I played it...it was funny to move that puffy little penguin around...not to mention the downhill racing!
Oh and Alyssa...you can't play with a second life because you have yet to get a first one! Just kidding, I still <3 ya! lol.
I was begining to think that I was the only one who thought that SL was incredible. I am amazed by the AMOUNT of quality content in there. The "World" is HUGE.
I just don't understand how there can be so much quality user built content in there.
...the other alternative multiplayer game...club penguin LOL
...the other alternative multiplayer game...club penguin LOLÂ
What is this "Club Penguin" you speak of? :o
club penguin is a mainly for little kids, multiplayer but also have a free characters too. Your character is a penguin and you can throw snowballs, and play games, and own a small pet thing... you can't buy anything unless you hand over really money first... it's quite cute.
i think one of the VMkids on the dis posted it one day, and i was searching at four in the morning for something to do, and i found that.
Actually my avatar is the Robosapien Toy. Talk about geeky, but it gets a bunch of laughs.
No Kidding! Sex really doesn't "sell" with me but I am very curious about this game. Sounds neat. Is there a way to play it and just not deal with too much of that part of the game?
I knew I shouldn't have gone in... I was up until 12:30 last night exploring! :lol: I know for some of you thats nothing, but I have to get up at 5:30am so thats a bad thing for me.. :P
I haven't even started to try and build anything yet, but had a good laugh changing my characters appearance. I still feel pretty lost in there though. :D
I created a group called Yensid Wanderer's.
The description is: Sharing the love of the magic everywhere we wander. No BS, VMK
I'm not pretending to know exactly what this means or will do, but would love to have anyone join me! Come on out of hiding you closet SL'ers!
So are you joining? ;DI created a group called Yensid Wanderer's.
The description is: Sharing the love of the magic everywhere we wander. No BS, VMK
I'm not pretending to know exactly what this means or will do, but would love to have anyone join me! Come on out of hiding you closet SL'ers!
Just FYI, you need to get at least one other person to join the group in the next day or so, or the group will be automatically disbanded, and you'll be out L$100.
So are you joining? ;D
Arg, as if I need yet another game to get addicted to. Darn you Be, that link you posted got me curious, I love the clothes! ::)
OOhhh... tag lines.. something like.. "Wootastic Pool Boy"?? :notme:
Clothes? Where are the clothes! :lol: :lol: :lol:Oh, I have to come find you girl! There are all kinds of places to go to get free and cheap clothes!! I even found some decent hair.. shoes.. jewelry.. pixie outfit. We need to do some shopping! woot!
Seriously I only have a shirt the came free in the tutorial and in the library! LOL
<<<<< hmmm, I am liking this seventh post number, anyway i can keep that! :D
I have to figure out how to bestow those titles now :lol: Now talk about lame.. I had the thought today of designing mickey ears. Oh, and I now have a pet dragon that follows me. :lol:
Nah, I was thinking more along the lines of "Lamerful script geek"?
I logged in just long enough to join your Group :)
Clothes? Where are the clothes! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Seriously I only have a shirt the came free in the tutorial and in the library! LOL
<<<<< hmmm, I am liking this seventh post number, anyway i can keep that! :D
I have to figure out how to bestow those titles now :lol: Now talk about lame.. I had the thought today of designing mickey ears. Oh, and I now have a pet dragon that follows me. :lol:
Clothes? Check out the link I posted a page back from a SL Fashion Magazine... And there is SERIOUS shopping to be done in SL... a pity I'm not much of a shopper. And tens of thousands of freebie items too. For newbie / freebie stuff, try:I've been to all but one of those and just a heads up, especially on Sarah's. Be careful if your kids are around, there are some naked avatar pictures on the walls, and some of the clothing is past PG rating. Not everything is adultish though, and its definetly worth visiting! If your doing a search you will need to allow mature content to be searched or you won't find the places.
- Free Dove
- New Citizen's Plaza (search NCI)
- Sarah's Freebie Paradise
- The Shelter
- Yadni's Junkyard
Cool -- I'd like to see the dragon. I was thinking of learning how to write scripts that do following / sensing and whatnot.Oh my gosh... your description of bulding mickey ears had me rolling! So funny. Now magic pins.. that sounds very cool, and the best part is you can give them away freely!! Woot!!
Regarding Mickey Ears -- great minds think alike! I was not in SL for more than 2 days, before I tried my hand at making Mickey Ears, and learned quickly that I am NOT a builder / texture artist. What I did was take a picture of my black ears at home, uploaded it as a texture, and then built the bare bones of a Mickey hat: hat made from a hollowed out half sphere, and each ear as a end-slice of hollowed out spheres. Then I tried to apply the texture.
It looked awful :) Either my hair stuck THROUGH it (I didn't know about invisiprims then, or removing hair, before wearing hats), or I had to resize it so big that it looked like I had a giant inverted black bowl on my head. Nobody in their right mind would be caught dead wearing it.. That's about when I turned to scripting.
Actually, what could be kind of entertaining would be to re-create VMK magic pins in SL... Easy enough to do Inferno, Teleport, Fireworks... And they are just vague enough, that I don't think Disney could try to sue for copyright infringement ;)
Woot! I found my free clothes! Now can I get free land? Because I will be damned if I shell out real money for a game! :notme: ;) :D ;) :notme:
Oh and how do we get pets? Is that what your dragon is jewel?
LOL Places? I am still fixated on my appearance! ;D
Hmm, what is this scripting? If I can use virtual money to turn into real money to then turn into virtual money, there is really no money involved! :D
I like the new look Jewel!:lol: :lol:I know, I know. It takes a while to get your look just right! Especially for us girls!
(Your previous one, well, uhhh, ummm... oh, I'll be blunt -- you scared me!)
Arg, clothes has hooked me yet again. I guess I am now officially registered. I hope this does not cut into my vmk time. lol ::)VMK?
I feel like such a newbie, I have tons of questions but will keep to a minimum since I really can't take so much new information. I did what I could and practically finished the whole tutorial. The only thing that is really bugging me right now is that I can't seem to finish the tutorial on how to move. I do the driving part, I do the running over the rat part and I do the flying part but I'm still missing a star. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? And after all is completed does it tell you what to do next or you're left to yourself to find out?
I'm still looking around, trying to figure out how to earn money. It looks like I'm a spender real life and virtually. I see a pair of shoes that are about L400 and I want them bad. lol
Anyways, I went around yesterday checking out the shops and whatnot, I began to see how incredibly talented these people are with their creations. I am at a lost for words when I see all the work that goes into each and every one. Maybe one day I will also get to create some designs myself. Be, to design hair, makeup, clothes and all those goodies; do you need to know scripting? Any help in that area would be great. Also, when you upload patterns do you need to pay for that?
After reading all of this, and being a total non techie, I can't help but wonder.......
Does anyone have a first life anymore???
After reading all of this, and being a total non techie, I can't help but wonder.......
Does anyone have a first life anymore???
Please excuse the observations of a semi-illiterate, (that does not mean I don't understand trucks!) "ancient duck". :notme:
I just like to stir things up now and then. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Woot! Four of us were on at the same time! That was really fun, even though Be tried to run me over with his Bumper car, then pushed my car clear out of the ring!! :o Thanks for taking us to Phat Cats Be, its a great place! I invited Pirate to our group too. I'm beginning to wonder if I should change the group name to Beauties and the Geek? :lol: Seriously, I can change it to anything at all if we want to brainstorm on it.
Thats an excellent question! Yooo hooo!! Belllll Boyyyy, come out come out, where every you are! :notme:
Name of the group would be fine by me, but where's Bellboy?
I have a 2yo and a 4yo. That means -- NO, I don't have a first life anymore. ;)
My only hope for a substitute was to try to have a second life.
Of course, that hasn't worked either -- as I sit by myself on a platform, writing computer programs.
Personally I suggested to him he was hunting for a bear rug.. and well.. he might well now be looking for a tig(g)er rug!! :hypno: Hey, if he could use a Herbie couch for the bear.. no telling what he could do with a bumper car! :lol:I wonder how, say, duck down compares to goose down?
Anyone find this place yet?That's an incredible castle. You had mentioned a while ago finding people who were trying to recreate Main Street -- it doesn't come up in obvious Searches, and, frankly, I'd be surprised if the Disney Co. didn't clamp down on them if they tried to recreate it too faithfully. I kind of think that any recreation of Disney parks would need to be private / not-publicly accessible, or risk getting shut down for copyright violation, which is really too bad.
WOW I gotta get back in there. Sorry stepped away for a while.
Seems like you all took to it. I gots to catch up with you all, once I download this new version of SL... Seems like I always have to do that?
Anyway the wife said I could come out and play so can I join the club?? Pretty please lol
Anyone find this place yet? http://secondlife.com/_img/content/developers_index.jpg (http://secondlife.com/_img/content/developers_index.jpg)
Anyone patient enough to take me under their virtual wing and "un-confuse" me?
Also, I am VERY confused about the money part. I have read / heard a lot and understand that people make real money from Second Life. This would be great! However, I don't really "get it."
How do you leave your avatar in a camp chair without being disconnected for inactivity? Also, what about if my computer goes into sleep mode? If I could find a decent camp spot I'd like to try leaving it all night just to see how much I could get.
In the long run, camping and lucky chairs got rather dull (for me anyway), so I started looking for ways to create things, which I happen to find fun. But you can get plenty far with freebie items.
OK, I am still avoiding getting a second life...I am SOOOO tempted though. sigh.The first SL Millionaire was probably referring to Anshe Chung, a Land Baron(ness). She is the single biggest land broker in SL, and has reportedly made more than $1M USD in the business.
But I just wanted to say that it must be popular all over the world. I saw articles in TWO French magazines about Second Life in the last few days! One said something about the first SL Millionaire. That's about all I could get out of it...my French isn't so good. lol
OK, I am still avoiding getting a second life...I am SOOOO tempted though. sigh.The first SL Millionaire was probably referring to Anshe Chung, a Land Baron(ness). She is the single biggest land broker in SL, and has reportedly made more than $1M USD in the business.
But I just wanted to say that it must be popular all over the world. I saw articles in TWO French magazines about Second Life in the last few days! One said something about the first SL Millionaire. That's about all I could get out of it...my French isn't so good. lol
And what, pray tell, is keeping you back from SL? ;)
So, how about my first issue? Can any of you SLers tell me what is there to do if you don't script or design, other than looking around?[/color]
And what, pray tell, is keeping you back from SL? ;)
I guess as I just explained to Kit, that despite all the troubles that VMK has.. for me it is a "Disney fix", albeit virtual. I haven't been able to go to the parks for 10 years now. I need that "fix". It also doesn't grow old, as when I make new friends, it appears "fresh" again. Seeing it through their eyes.
OK, Be...
I am registering as we speak after getting supremely frustrated at trying to log on tonight...
Hehe! >:D You gonna tell him about the "you" you made? Or do I get to hold that over your head little missy? >:D :lol: Teasing gf, but oh so very funny!
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OMG Kit!! You did just warn me about this post! While hysterical to read (except for the sitting duck reference :mad: ), it IS NOT the "promotional" story to entice me to join!!
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Edited to add:
After confirming that Kit was both detached from her Couch of Love, and umm, "decent", I had the pleasure of meeting her briefly in SL. Apparently, her adventures with clothing (or lack thereof) have inspired her to perhaps overcompensate. I am too nice a person to post screenshots (OK, I was laughing so hard I forgot to take any), but suffice it to say that Her Royal Highness Kit looks quite dashing...
...wearing chainmail?
I may be first to buy land for us to hang out in.
We will see.
Be, how do you check IM offline. Is it in the secondlife online account somewhere?
If we're going to do land.. I just might have to chip in too. I was in a little zoo yesterday and I kept thinking jungle cruise. :D Roll up.. roll up... ;DThere are a few things to be aware of, regarding land:
And, wow, Islands are expensive!! The people who already own islands.. are they or did they pay that much too?
Yes, Fan...you are the ultimate makeover artiste girl...and I thank you so much! Many improvements made to my avatar yesterday (a few more to go, lol). And, wow, are YOU hot! :-*
Heh heh...Thanks Be! :cool2:
Heh heh...Thanks Be! :cool2:
So, what did DH think of the virtual you?
Is second life always like that?Sorry you had that experience, but I would say it's really not all that uncommon.
Griefer: Someone who enjoys ruining everyone else's fun, while drawing attention to himself/herself. Usually adolescent males with no life and even less moral fibre.
The morons who run around SL caging, shooting or orbiting innocent bystanders are the most readily visible form of griefer. But anyone who intentionallyy sets out to ruin other people's fun, usually while trying to draw attention to themselves, also fits the mold. So a person who buys the parcel next to your nicely landscaped home and fills it with flaming phallic symbols and blaring music is a griefer, as is the guy that intentionally dumps prim garbage on your land, or owrse yet, builds stuff on his land next to yours in a way that it intentionally pushes over into your space.
Yes, that was a griefer you encountered. Basically a griefer is anyone intentionally behaving in a disruptive way as to interrupt one's game experience. From caging to push weapons to simply stalking someone to verbally harrass them.
Here are two griefers I ran into as a newbie. I was several days old and I decided to return to orientation island as i thought i had missed some of the lessons. There was a griefer in a sort of a darth vader get-up who told me I was ugly and jumped around in my personal space. There he was at orientation island being mean to newbies like me who didn't know what end was up and hadn't yet put together a good looking avatar.
I joined Yensid Wanderers too. No one was on, but hopefully I can hook up with all of you soon and join in the fun.
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Cant wait to find all of you! Do you have a set meeting time - or just happen into each other?
Awww.. I echo that remark! The flying carpet was awesome last night!! I mean really.. VMK flying carpet.. HA!! Now we just need that ring of fire to dance in... Oh scripter geek.. :notme:
Awww.. I echo that remark! The flying carpet was awesome last night!! I mean really.. VMK flying carpet.. HA!! Now we just need that ring of fire to dance in... Oh scripter geek.. :notme:yes, really that flying carpet put's yavn's carpet to shame, just look out for the turbulace and trees.
The flying carpet was awesome last night!! I mean really.. VMK flying carpet.. HA!! Now we just need that ring of fire to dance in... Oh scripter geek.. :notme:
Didn't you pick up a "Fuego!" on Orientation Island? Just do that, fire up the Salsa moves, and you're all set ;)I was sharing the following yesterday: 1 year in vmk and I dont have inferno or magic carpet magic. Two weeks in SL and I have both. I have officially passed the point of no return. Now, where did I put that First Life? :-\
...just look out for the turbulace and trees.:notme:
Awww.. I echo that remark! The flying carpet was awesome last night!! I mean really.. VMK flying carpet.. HA!! Now we just need that ring of fire to dance in... Oh scripter geek.. :notme:
Didn't you pick up a "Fuego!" on Orientation Island? Just do that, fire up the Salsa moves, and you're all set ;)
Fuego! is a silly attachment in one of the freebie boxes. When you have it attached, and ANYBODY says "Fuego!", your avatar lets out a scream, and bursts into flame. A real party trick ;)That sounds great! You won't make us enter 5000 codes to get it will you? :lol:
If it's full-mod (I haven't checked), I could re-script it to remove the scream, and add in a dance loop. Oh, and make it only respond to your command, so not anybody can force you to burst into dancing flames ;)
I have some wicked magics to share with you all too!
My favorite is Partyicules.
If any of you see me online, and have some free time, lets share stuffs!!!
I have just created a Second Life as if running one life wasn't enough. The cool thing is that work actually encouraged me to do it. :D There is a whole educational component to this world that I am still trying to figure out.
Anyway my character name is {PM me to find out} (I don't want to compromise anyone's privacy) :read:{{{Thanks KIT}}} :grouphug: ..find me if you want to play! 8)
I just got off of Orientation Island so I am completely lost! :lol: :lol:
~Anne
And, is there a decent collection of "getting started tips" that people can post?
Anyone else having trouble getting in? After it came back up from maintenance, I haven't been able to log in.... >:(follow this http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/04/25/problems-with-login/: SL is aware that there are issues and they are working on them..doesn't help us today but at least someone is looking in to it!! :mad: