# Er..... I'm going to go now. Bye. (An odd experience on Second Life) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770 "2008-10-20T18:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/1 "2008-10-20T18:46:45Z")
Last night I decided to install and play Second Life. Once it was installed I did a little exploring. I went into one place which seemed like a fairly tame nightclub type place. I went upstairs, this guy walks over to me. I walk away, and he follows me. He stands next to me. All of a sudden I start hearing… _sounds_ coming from my speakers… It sounds like… OH SHIT. THIS MAN IS PLEASURING HIMSELF! I think I might go… now. Bye. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/2 "2008-10-20T18:55:35Z")
Well, that confirms everything I’ve ever read about Second Life. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/3 "2008-10-20T18:58:52Z")
Leave now? And miss the gambling, the porno theaters, the furries, and the orgy raves? If you stay away from the nightclubs, the game can be pretty interesting. I stopped playing pretty quick because of the lag though. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/4 "2008-10-20T19:14:39Z")
The Lag and the rather crappy look of it is what stops me playing for very long. Which is why I posted a thread in asking if there were any alternatives… > **[Is there anything out there better than Second Life yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=488544)** > > I’ve always thought second life looked a bit rough and ready, and the graphics were a bit jerky. While I try and get it again I thought I’d plop this thread out. Is there anything similar/better out there? And I see that someone has finally replied to it. Off to read those replies… p.s. when your character is running he or she looks like he/she is having an epileptic fit. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/5 "2008-10-20T21:15:18Z")
There is something about online games that brings out the nutters. I once had someone, out of the blue, send me a message asking for gender, age, location, sexual orientation, and if I wanted to cyber (as in cybersex). I spend the next 1/2 hours following him around asking, where everyone else could see it “What? You want to cyber? Is that what you mean, Fred? You want to cyber?” I think I made him cry, because there had to have been hundreds of people that read that. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/6 "2008-10-20T21:22:52Z")
Okay, but Second Life isn’t actually a real game, is it? Like, it doesn’t have rules or anything, right? You just sort of…are. But online. I’m not really getting it. I can hang around pointlessly in my first life. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/7 "2008-10-20T21:28:15Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > I’m not really getting it. I can hang around pointlessly in my first life. Yeah, but you aren’t doing it on the intrawebs; therefore it’s not as cool. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/8 "2008-10-20T21:31:14Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Okay, but Second Life isn’t actually a real game, is it? Like, it doesn’t have rules or anything, right? You just sort of…are. But online. > > I’m not really getting it. I can hang around pointlessly in my first life. Can you fly? Or build architecture that doesn’t have to obey certain rules of physics? The _idea_ of this game has huge potential. It just hasn’t been executed very well. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/9 "2008-10-20T21:50:20Z")
I just downloaded it to see what the fuss was all about. It’s laggy and not very interesting (to me). To be deleted shortly. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/10 "2008-10-20T22:04:42Z")
I installed this and managed maybe fifteen minutes of “play” before I got bored and removed it. Between the lag, annoying interface, and not exactly impressive graphics, I couldn’t see the appeal. Perhaps if I’d inspired noisy masturbation I would have felt differently? ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/11 "2008-10-20T22:10:46Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > I just downloaded it to see what the fuss was all about. It’s laggy and not very interesting (to me). To be deleted shortly. PS: Can I have my hour back that it took to load the thing, and build my avatar? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/12 "2008-10-21T01:32:05Z")
There are times when I’m glad I only have ultra-slow dial-up. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/13 "2008-10-21T01:36:38Z")
> [@lobsang](#): > > can you fly? Or build architecture that doesn’t have to obey certain rules of physics? Maybe! ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/14 "2008-10-21T03:35:22Z")
Was he really pleasuring himself? Did you have voice chat activated? You’d know because you’d see white dots over yourself and others, and if his microphone is on, his white dot would change to having green ‘sound waves’ coming off it to show his mic was on and activated. This is a first though, nobody’s done that to me yet. And you’d think it would have happened in the places I’ve hung out in. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/15 "2008-10-21T08:33:33Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Can you fly? Or build architecture that doesn’t have to obey certain rules of physics? Yep you can fly, and do other cool stuff. One person created a house that was a tesseract - you could go in any direction and eventually come back to the room you started in. Another person created a working ecosystem with some low level evolution and weather. I’ve been exploring but never done anything too creative myself. I did copy a globe somebody made, enlarged it to be bigger than myself and set it to carry mode so it looked like I was the globe itself. I would sit in a public area looking like a big statue people watching. And then I’d start spinning or moving to surprise people. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/16 "2008-10-21T18:41:16Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > I installed this and managed maybe fifteen minutes of “play” before I got bored and removed it. Between the lag, annoying interface, and not exactly impressive graphics, I couldn’t see the appeal. > > Perhaps if I’d inspired noisy masturbation I would have felt differently? Glad to help out, gimme just a second… 😉 just kiddin ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-im-going-to-go-now-bye-an-odd-experience-on-second-life/468770/17 "2008-10-22T03:21:21Z")
::singing:: Lobsang has a boyfriend ::singing:: Now ducking and running 😃