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16 years ago
So I really hate Second Life.
I've been on it, I've even spent money on it before, I've tried to get it working, and made it work for me. The issue isn't how inefficient the actual clunkmeister of a program is. It's the content and the attitude that comes with it.
It's the bane of online existence, it is everything that is chavvish or guidoish about the Internet, and it's slowly latching its hideous claw-prims into real life. Fat assholes meet on it, get married (on it since they can't afford a real wedding lololol) and get divorced in real life because they found their husband's imaginary internet body merging unrealistically with someone else's imaginary internet body. There's the sense of superiority and 'coolness' a lot of people who use it exhibit and it's just so retarded.
Firstly, Second Life looks fucking bad. Yes, there are some incredibly talented people out there who can make passable things in it -- By importing it from Maya or Sandbox or Zbrush or whatever usually. However, the movements are largely unrealistic, the clipping is worse than N64's Goldeneye, and the graphics, which is SL's entire point, are awful.
Even the premise is retarded, it's not so much a game as it is some fantastically ugly twin of the abortion that is Furcadia. It's a visually based chatroom.
Here's a better version of a visually based chat room: A bar.
OH WAIT. THAT'S ALL THERE IS IN SECOND LIFE, TOO. BARS AND GOREANS. Except you can't get drunk and make an ass of yourself in SL. At least, not to the same effect that you can in real life. Also, if you want to see bad CG characters fucking repetitively... Why not just get yourself a copy of Poser and make an animation loop? You won't have to meet anyone, there's no gay typefucking to destroy your faptime, and the characters will look better. (Though not by much.)
Oh whatever I had a point somewhere in this SL SUCKS BALLS.
I've been on it, I've even spent money on it before, I've tried to get it working, and made it work for me. The issue isn't how inefficient the actual clunkmeister of a program is. It's the content and the attitude that comes with it.
It's the bane of online existence, it is everything that is chavvish or guidoish about the Internet, and it's slowly latching its hideous claw-prims into real life. Fat assholes meet on it, get married (on it since they can't afford a real wedding lololol) and get divorced in real life because they found their husband's imaginary internet body merging unrealistically with someone else's imaginary internet body. There's the sense of superiority and 'coolness' a lot of people who use it exhibit and it's just so retarded.
Firstly, Second Life looks fucking bad. Yes, there are some incredibly talented people out there who can make passable things in it -- By importing it from Maya or Sandbox or Zbrush or whatever usually. However, the movements are largely unrealistic, the clipping is worse than N64's Goldeneye, and the graphics, which is SL's entire point, are awful.
Even the premise is retarded, it's not so much a game as it is some fantastically ugly twin of the abortion that is Furcadia. It's a visually based chatroom.
Here's a better version of a visually based chat room: A bar.
OH WAIT. THAT'S ALL THERE IS IN SECOND LIFE, TOO. BARS AND GOREANS. Except you can't get drunk and make an ass of yourself in SL. At least, not to the same effect that you can in real life. Also, if you want to see bad CG characters fucking repetitively... Why not just get yourself a copy of Poser and make an animation loop? You won't have to meet anyone, there's no gay typefucking to destroy your faptime, and the characters will look better. (Though not by much.)
Oh whatever I had a point somewhere in this SL SUCKS BALLS.
If your looking for Roleplaying I would stick with the MUCKs, if your looking for adventure and combat get WoW, second life sucks for both. If your just looking for a means to kill time for awhile and maybe talk to someone while you do it then Second life is ok. You just have to realize for all the crap people come up with and try to make you buy, Second life is just a glorified chatroom.
I'm not denying that other people have fun on it, I just personally think it sucks.
Gotta admit, it took me a couple of rereads of this to make full sense of it. When skim-reading (as you do) it does read like you and yuor brother are mated.
I understand that's not the case, though.
But, if they go out and have kids with others, then their kids will most likely be deformed, it's weird how it works, that's why Eugenics is bad.
They went open-source, and nothing happened. Their build process is still ungodly kinds of convoluted. You can't get new features in without being an experienced programmer, since they force updates at a decreasing but still unpleasant rate and the grid is never backwards-compatible. What they needed was a plugin system, so people could add pretty crap or stereovision or whatever without a degree in Comp Sci.
The worst part in my eyes is that there's no concern whatsoever for how much of a memory hog it is when it's just IRC with graphics and music. Their solution to 512MB systems being unable to handle SL and Firefox at the same time was to PUT A BROWSER IN THE GAME. Fuck that, just let me set a maximum texture size of 256x256 and ignore anything out-of-parcel! I'm in a skybox, I clearly don't give a shit about my neighbors.
... my neighbors, by the way, who live in an apartment-sized plot of land just like my own, but with a house that's somewhere Frank Lloyd Wright and Lego disaster. I cannot for the life of me understand why, in the infinite possibilites of cyberspace, the XY density of prims is identical all over the grid. Why isn't there even one sim that's four times as large and a quarter as dense for people who want a twenty-prim ranch house without having to spend a thousand bucks a month on eight million prims they're never going to use?
Bleh.
Still, I pop on occasionally to see people I know. It's not beyond hope or purpose, it's just flawed and full of stupid people - same as the rest of the internet.
In the end, I completely agree with you there...
Meh, maybe I just have a grudge against MMORPG games because they all seem to crash my computer...
But the reason I put you on my watchlist is this journal entry.
why do people think i am being srs 4 real
it's just something on the internet i don't like
I'm interested in is making my fursona on there since I can't make art at all and have that as a reference.
When I first heard of the game I though "cool, gonna try it!" and when i saw the graphics I thought it'd run smoothly on my computer (since they're not that good).
So I installed it... played 2 days... and then I was like "" de-installed it.
So I began playing Halo on my shitty computer, even the graphics for that are like 10x better and online is so much better.