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SL bashing Resident 11/18/15 (Wed) 13:44:52 No.18683

I've been playing SL for about 6 years now. I started playing it long before I ever started using chans, and started playing it because I remember an article about it from way back when it first came out talking about how cool it was. When I started playing SL, I had zero knowledge of what it was, what is was like, or what public perception of it was. I went in completely unspoiled, and fell in love with it.

After playing it for awhile, I began seeing a bit of that public perception. Every single time SL has come up in conversation on 4chan, 8chan, and even other smaller chans, it gets ragged on endlessly. Even Urban Dictionary takes a huge shit on it. The general consensus seems to be that SL is super autistic and gay, and only losers play it.

Did you know about this before you started playing? If not, do you think it would have affected whether you would ever have started? Does it bother you that so many people hate it, and by extension hate you? Because it bothers me :(

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Resident 11/18/15 (Wed) 14:48:17 No.18685

I've known about SL since right around the time it was released.

At first it was actually pretty interesting. People saw a lot of potential, and it attracted large varieties of crowds. I saw it make the cover of many tech magazines, and I'd read articles everywhere about people running successful, virtual businesses.

Then it changed. I'm not sure precisely when or how, but it did and I saw it as it happened. It went from some interesting market opportunity to... well what people view it as now, which isn't really positive and rather perverse. I don't tell anyone I play SL because I know what they'd think of it. I think many argue the moment it went downhill was when people were no longer required to have credit card information to make an account, and then it attracted many teenagers and such.

Did I know about this before I started playing? Yeah, long ago. Does it bother me? A little. I'd find it extremely hard to explain why I like SL so much to anyone anyway, and therein lies the problem a little. People have such negative views on it because they also don't really get what it's about, and that answer varies for everyone.

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Resident 11/18/15 (Wed) 15:46:48 No.18687

It's a platform, like skype, tumblr, facebook.

I think it's a very interesting and unique platform.

I came into it knowing that it was used for ERP and by griefers. Since, I've found some interesting builds. Virtual experiences. I quite like that aspect of SL. I also like, in a way, how it's becoming like a deprecated cyber-wasteland. LL are trying to milk it for money. People are incompetent and still use prims to build shit. Land prices are sky high. There's no cohesive theme in areas, like LL tried to create. The place is littered with empty corporate and university sims.

Sure, there are a lot of losers on here. Then again, there are people out there who simply, out of circumstance, do not have a lot of social interaction, or have found that they need more than they set themselves up for. Most of us are in the 20-30 age group. That is currently where most people are finishing educations, and trying to get jobs. "Young adults" in a sense, people coming into adulthood. If people want to paint that age group as losers, that's their choice. Income isn't everything.

I think those attitudes you describe are due to a high entry threshold. For starters, people will have trouble learning what all the features in a viewer does, let alone how things work in SL itself. It's inherently unintuitive, and the tutorial islands only give you info on how to move and talk.

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