In my last post you could read how I was banned and ejected from the UWA sim by my friend LaPiscian Liberty, but what really happen?
I received an invitation for a money raising event for children with cleft lips, nothing wrong with the initiative, so I went to have a look.
When I arrived in the megalomaniac stadium of UWA there were 3 people sitting where there was room for a 1000. 2 “artists”, type Josina Burgess and Medora Chevalier with large flexi dresses, Venetian masks and for sure experienced Hippie Aqua Sky Dancers, were ready for the show. But there were some pose balls not in use so as the former wheelchair pole dance queen of SL I decided to help them out for the good cause. I started fire juggling, drove around on a unicycle on a high wire and performed some dangerous back and forward flips what sure would excite a large audience. But as always after 2 minutes came the request to stop and one minute later I was lying bruised on the simfloor.
Now let’s first talk about the place where the event took place. What stupid thinking is the cornerstone of rezzing this kind of megalomaniac stadiums? 1000 people never visit an event as the sim would crash so why build all those seats, with large staircases and enormous roofs for the rains that never fall? Why build seats anyway as everybody who wants to see the performance has to use zoom to see it as we are seated on almost a kilometer distance. Why not build one box with 50 pose balls inside were we can pile up the avatars like sardines in a can and after cover it up with a large invisi prim so we don’t see all the ugliness they are wearing? After they can all use their zoom to see the performance. Event were movies and paintings are shown inside SL should be forbidden anyway as it doesn’t add anything to a virtual world. Paintings are better seen on Flickr for example and movies on YouTube.
Then the performance itself, why should we, when we visit a sim and there is something happening, behave like RL visitors of a theatre or museum? Why shouldn’t we join in, add, contribute, disturb, tease and challenge to come to a shared experience? When we visit YouTube we choose what we want to see but when we visit a virtual event we have to behave as if we are not in our own screen with our own windlight settings, choice of view and rendered or derendered items. Why the silly performers assume that the glued visitors are watching the performance and not doing their tax papers in the mean time, watch the Dutch contribution to the Eurovision song contest or zoom in under the skirts of all the man with female avatars to see if they are wearing underwear?
Let’s finish with the ridiculous money raising events in SL. On the UWA blog you can read that the Mother Teresa’s of UWA raised a shocking 15,699 Linden for the poor children with cleft lips. 57 real dollar raised by some pseudo artists who abuse the sad situation for those children to do some freaky particle and circus show. When they would close their computers and would go collect from every student on UWA 50 cent they would have had a better result.
That’s why I solemnly swear that I will continue to abuse on a large scale any event where we are forced to behave as real life persons. I refuse to accept that my secondlife is becoming a sad infusion of real life and I will continue to challenge everybody to make use of the unique condition secondlife offers us, without kitchens (we don’t cook in SL), without beds (we don’t sleep in SL), without roofs (it doesn’t rain in SL and when it does we don’t get wet) and without art galleries (we don’t need galleries to show art).
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I don’t agree on one point: we DO need bed – including german ones – to f*** on them, come on, don’t loose the sense of reality!! But this detail put apart, one can only nod to all the lines and laugh, specially at “Why the silly performers assume that the glued visitors are watching the performance and not doing their tax papers in the mean time, watch the Dutch contribution to the Eurovision song contest (…).
Fuck in beds?????? Come on CAT, where have you been all those years??? What is more exciting than fuck on a large, boucing pink flexi megaprim or on the back of a DanCoyote Antonelli coyote dog?
We don’t need beds for that either Cat. Think of the freedom of sex in the sky without gravity! Unlimited viewing! Unlimited dollhouse games without the lab rat maze to hamper you 😉 Procrustes is dead – long live SaveMe Oh!
sex in the sky with diamonds?
SEX IS NEITHER THE QUESTION NOR THE ANSWER
But it is the conjunction.
I once again stand in awe, and commend Saveme Oh, you know there are some valid points that would decrease lag on most sims. I was at the Posefair, and its all mesh blocks here and mesh blocks there and some of my favourite pose stores where not invited. Lag is awful because no one really understands mesh.
I am all for living in a cardboard box aka the hollow prim, derendering anything that lags and make my second life world on high lag sims, look like an under water scene from little mermaid, without the prince.
Princes are highly over rated, yet, the ridiculously crazy garb of women in second life, and some men adds to the costly lag. Primmy skirts, or mesh boots, wearing everything in ones wardrobe. Hair, blingy jewels, more hair, furry hair on coats, hats, boots, oodles more bling o bling on shoes, on anything on the appendage or avatar that moves. Scripts, titlers, annoying tummy talkers for pregnant women. All this adds to lag and if people considered others for one minute in second life they would delag and come as primless as they dare.
So well done to Saveme Oh for once again highlighting, lag and lack of self worth in avatars that baaa like sheep, sit still, won’t move, are terrified to comment for fear of disfavour or banning from a sim.
Bravo to Saveme Oh for speaking out playing with pose balls, thinking outside the box and making a valid point about many things in SL.
Second Life is not real life, but never forget that behind every computer there is a human being, and behind every human being there is a bot waiting to escape.
Well said.
If others wish to make a second life replica of a real-life circus, or a theatre, what gives you the right to disrupt it? There are people who are using their avatars to escape isolation caused by physical and mental disabilities. Some need to see a simulation of a thing they can’t experience any more in Real Life, such as being in the audience of a circus or a theatre. Disrupting such a show and shattering the illusion they seek is cruelty and vandalism, not an act of creativity. It’s rude and deeply uncivilised to abuse the hospitality of others whether in real life of a virtual space.
People in isolated situations also need impulses, surprises and the unespected. That keeps them alive! It’s called live!