Well, it did not take me
long to have a Second Life experience
that made me LOL, so I thought I would share it with you. After once again visiting
the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, I thought I would enjoy checking out
my hometown. I was unsuccessful in trying to find it in Massachusetts. I also
could not find anything remotely close to a modern-day setting of a
Massachusetts town or city. I teleported to “Boston Harbour,” but that was an
eighteenth century location.
Then, I found “Boston
Nightlife.” I teleported there and explored a random house that was nearby. As
I walked around the first floor, it seemed like a typical wooden seaside house out
in Cape Cod or Martha’s Vineyard. Then, I walked upstairs and caught sight of
two forms (which had not loaded yet) that were sitting on a chair. By accident,
I walked on top of the two of them and continued walking into the other room. After
turning around and seeing two (now loaded) avatars, I had trouble deciphering
the foreign names above their bodies. Next thing I knew, I was outside of the
house and a message popped up in the top right corner of my window stating that
I was banned. From what I gathered, a man and woman created this home to have a
private life in a place they call “Boston Nightlife.” Now, when I attempt to
enter their “property” on Boston Nightlife, yellow lines appear and a message pops
up, saying the following: “Cannot enter parcel, you have been banned.” I guess
I entered on an intimate moment between two avatars.
From my random encounters
thus far on Second Life, it seems
that I will be no longer be using it in my free time. This is because I would
need to use it for tens of hours in order to remove the unwritten “noob” status
from my profile.
Look what you did, Adam. I read your post and I was curious to see what you missed out on, so I looked up Boston Nightlife and teleported to that location. I had dreams of walking into the house, well-mannered and well-attired, and striking up a conversation with the residents about that madman who had broken into their house yesterday and stepped all over their furniture. Instead, I got this:
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Look at this, Adam. They were so shocked by your sudden intrusion that they've essentially set up a security system around their house. They've shut their doors to even well-meaning people like myself, just because of the trauma they experienced at your hands.
I hope you've learned your lesson. Actions in the virtual world have real (virtual) consequences.