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Anyone play around on this site?

I joined in the last week. It has potential to be something I could get into a lot but having problems with my graphics card so my play time is limited.

I have heard of it but it it just sounded like a glorified chatroom to me. I mean what is there to do in the game? You can buy things and sell things but that is designed so that you give the company lots of money.

I think Second Life Safari on somethingawful is about as close as I want to get...

I had a go at it once - its free after all (unless you want to actually do shit) - all I found was that I was TOTALLY LOST.
I don't know exactly what was going on but when I got to the mainland all I found was miles and miles of bizarre buildings and shops selling limbs and hair colours and insane contraptions, and not a single other player to talk to. It was eerie man.
I could fly tho, which was excellent.
After a while I just kinda, gave up. There wasn't.... anything, really. Surreal as hell.

its funny how real companies have set up shop in second life.

you can buy virtual real estate from real real estate companies. but in the end its not real so I can't see the point in spending money. some people do however :p

I got into SL not really knowing if I would play... that was August 2006 and I'm still playing. It's fun to drop like 5 USD in the game and buy some cool stuff. In total I haven't spent more than I would in ONE night of drinking with my buddies, so I can stomach spending 5 bucks every few weeks on something that's a really whacked out picture of human creativity in a virtual capacity.

I have seen some of the strangest things ever in SL

My game name is Pearce Griswold if you ever want to drop me a line in-game, just remind me you're from TFP

Random notes:
Well so far....I've found it offers a lot for anyone who wants to spend the time learning how to get around.

It also reminds me of a "visual" forum world in a way that you get together with a bunch of peeps and talk about shit.

I think I want to buy a piece of land someday and only allow my favorite peeps in there.

I wanted to get involved in some actual game playing and since I didn't know what I was doing, tried Slingo...how can you screw up slingo? Really...you can't but trust me, them people are god damn serous about their slingo playing and paying back in if you win.

And as someone else in this thread said, it's super cheap entertainment for me. My ony problem is I can't run it on my laptop so can only goof off on it at night on the desktop.

OH! And how could I forget??? Cartoon sex is absolutely hysterical. Not that "I" was involved in the actual act, but stood around popping off cracks with my buddies and it was the most fun I'd had in a long time!

I was on it about a year ago, but didn't have a lot of time to hang around there. Maybe I'l pop back in to check it out.

I downloaded it.. tried it for about.. oh 3 minutes and deleted it. Boring.