What kind of people play this game?
people who played it.game is 20 years old lmao
>>722309629old people. autistic people. perverts. people who are combinations of these things (mostly all three).there's a general for it on /vg/ believe it or not.
Degenerates
I want to get my virtual twink ass caved in by a hung futa. XIV, VRChat, or Second Life?
>>72230962950+ year old rednecks and indians
>>722309629Absolute fucking burnouts if they're still on second life.And nobody under 32.
>>722310158XIV will be a troonVRChat some obese nerdSL has the highest chance of it being female (mentally ill ofc)The choice is yours
Quite a few Germans from what I can gather. It's probably the only virtual platform left where you can be openly explicit.
>>722310158You need Jesus Christ and fresh air.
Furries, Deviant Art goths, and men with arrested development looking for poon. The rest are literal rednecks.
people with too much sunk cost to play VRChat instead
>>722310607Which one has the least chance of being a woketard and the highest chance of being into guys?
>>722309629I played this game before it got a reputation for being a haven for degenerates, back when it was ugly and primitive and people actually played it just to meet people. My newbie stomping grounds was a pub with a sandbox lot outside of it.
>>722310108You'll never make friends with that attitude.
>>722310251This. There’s so many old rednecks on this game. Their avatars are all gothic cowboy biker “bad boys” stuck in 2007. They’re the users to form pretend families and have a LDR with an obese redneck woman in another state.Remember that Cobra lolcow dude? Think of that guy if he did meth and reached the age of 50-60.
Furries who don't have the specs to run vrchat, pedos and fetishfags.
>>722310857Back then I used IMVU because my laptop was garbage. Played in a browser. Nothing but scene girls.
>>722310973>don't have the specs to run vrchatSL runs like dogshit regardless and it filtered even more boomers with adding PBR.
>>722311032I used the family imac with 1GB of ram which ran SL like fucking shit, eventually I learned how to upgrade it to a whopping 2GB and wooooaaahh, it still ran like shit. Hated that computer.
>>722310815SL for sure, sadly. But its basically a ponzi-scheme. There is a good amount of deprived females that are just kinksters but they'll only reply if you have a pimped avi (prolly 100-250$?). Afterwards you can have the choice between meeting up for free with 40+ burned out sluts or simping for 20-30s old hoes.Basically you should only bother if you are mentally ill with disposable income and you want some faint chance to bag some even more mentally ill gamer/scene girl before she moves on.
>>722309629calling them "people" is a stretch already
>>722309629People in 2005 who want to hang out with their friends online for free.
>>722311505>prolly 100-250$?Starting fresh, you're probably looking into the ballpark of ~L$10,000 ($40 US) for a furry and surprisingly even more for a non-animu humie, who has more difficulty crossing the uncanny valley than the North Korean border. This is considering in a modern mesh body, head, other assorted parts, textures for them, and clothes without falling for the no-mod jew. At least a good chunk of stuff is ultimately reusable, and if you go into niche fetish things - can definitely cut costs.
You'll meet people like britbong
>>722309629The only people I ever met who played it was a coworker of mine who met his wife on it. They had a dom (him)/=sub (her) virtual relationship that they took into real life.
>>722309629Nortubel fans
>>722309629Maldavius Figtree
>>72230962940 year old black people who never had a chance to be hoodrats and like to roleplay as them
impguts.resident
>>722309629MeThe game feels like it's dying. All the popular sims suck and it's just the same people there everyday. Also almost no one is capable of making a visually appealing avatar>>722309958The general is genuinely full of pedos and weird freaks
>>722310607>female (mentally ill ofc)tautology
>>722309629Did everyone move to OSGrid or whatever it's called?
>>722311505>100-250$honestly you can make a solid avi for 40 to 60 dollarsafter familiarizing yourself with sl, if you have some sort of creative skills, you can make stuff for the MP and get money for the game that way
>>722315321>Did everyone move to OSGridwhy do u ask?
>>722309958>>722310108/thread
>>722315321No
I like it as a dress up sim, I can't imagine walking around and poseballing with other dudes.
>>722315731this, i also enjoy exploringif i want to pose with someone, i usually ask a friend and if they are not online i will just pose with my alt
>>722309629People who don't even have a first life.
>>722309958And another on /mlp/
>>722309629>people
Probably the most mean people online next to arma boomers and it's probably because of boomers specifically. It's not even people being nasty like they say 'Fuck you fag" or whatever but these old insipid boomers that never achieved anything take on this drill sergeant mentality when they turn the game on.
It's fun to make a nice avatar and decorate your sim/home and roleplay and hang out with friendsYes there's a lot of weird freaks and degens but that's fun too
Mind sharing any stories?
None of the anons here are correct90% of second life and also a lot of vrchay is sassy black women
>>722309629The most disgusting vile coomers you can possibly imagine. Even brapposters are sophisticated gentlemen compared to these freaks.
>himbo daddy type I've been fucking on and off for the past year or so>turns out to be a girl irlAre women just deceivers by nature?
>>722319278https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT7nBG2w01w
>>722309629Boomers and Gooners.Also, Furries, but they tend to stick to themselves.t. SL player for 10+ years
>>722319278I had a skeleton avatar that showed up to a art deco african themed wedding and I was hanging out in the rafters like spiderman yelling nigger while they called people on the phone irl to log on to find out where I was, at least 10 of them were all screaming.
>>722309629Watch MrMoonshouse video on it and you'll understand
>>722309629your mom
>>722309629Didn't they all move to VRChat?
A lot of people hate voice chat so they will never play VRChat
>>722323782wtf is this real
>>722309629The exact same kind of people who play VRChat but 15 years older.
>>722319278>made friends with some Korean furry>went traveling around all kinds of sims>find Egyptian-themed sim, enter a tomb>teleports us into another sim with a museum unprompted>it's basically just a pro-African soapbox with WE WUZ written all over it and (crediting all ancient Egyptian inventions as black inventions, etc)>had an interactive stand with 'click here to exploit African resources' with mining, including victory pose>strangest part is that it had its own pro-crypto exhibit alongside things like space programsAfter a while, we just went back to the Egyptian place and used prims to push a rideable camel up some stairs and into a resort pool.
>>722324439>'click here to exploit African resources'Fucking lmao
>>722324616It wasn't quite those exact words (you can see the actual plaque there) but it's still goofy. Needless to say, the entire museum was built on copium and I believe it still stands since I saw it as a banner on the marketplace website this year.>>722324167It encapsulates the RLV experience, so close enough.
>>722326634The shitty RLV experience you mean maybe. There's no reason to explore those shitty unsupervised "trapped" sims by yourself. RLV has two purposes, an immersion improver in ERP which requires an ERP partner, or making cool games or utilities and systems with its capabilities (like wardrobe editing, or escape rooms that prevent cheating) which obviously requires the game or whatever to be well designed
>>722309629Aging, degenerate furries. Mostly the same people who still play Furcadia and inhabit F-List.
>>722309629Literally just perverts who only hang out in their private sex dungeons. Which is a shame, because in its prime, Second Life was a lot of fun to just fuck around in if you had the right friends who were creative.
>>722328093it could still be fun. it's practically made for running tabletop RPGs in a full 3D environment.nobody does much except stand around. the community is what's holding SL back.
>>722327395Sadly I've never actually found a ton of escape room sorts, the closest I often see something custom is usually when it's a means to reasonably deter people from cheating their mazes. There was one I found with annoying laser sensor dodging but some interesting use of physics manipulation to reach and navigate a secret area, kinda cute but that's it, and knowing the place's other theme, one could doubt most people interested in visiting even bothered. Most places are just shitloads of different 'furniture'.JasX stuff is more or less a novelty but it's neat from a technical level. Of course at the end of the day it's meant to be a kink roleplay supplement, which absolutely goes either way.
>>722328667Man that bingo reminds me of Restrained Freedom isle. It has this cool as fuck asylum that got redone thrice now. It used to have a whole haunted abandoned section but now has jack shit. I also miss this one gay sim with is huge pyramid labirynth. I think the owner died or something so it died. Sad.Not that many places that do horror+BDSM.
>>722321907SL has more stuff VRchat is only worth it if you have VR
>>722328667Yeah it's not common afaik, deterring from maze cheating is also the type of stuff I was talking about though. I have also seen utility scripts, for example like I said wardrobe management is just so much more flexible using RLV than built-in viewer UI that it's not even funny.>kinda cute but that's itThis describes an overwhelming amount of SL interactive stuff though in my experience. Even when the system is built to be really elaborate, it's still going to be laggy and janky enough that there's never a reason to pick some "SL game" to play over a real game made in a real engine. (Contrary to roblox for example, which I've never played but from what I know you can actually create worthwhile playable shit in it.)As such everything in SL is ultimately mostly just cute and only useful for roleplay purposes, or "fun with friends".
>>722321907The platforms aren't really comparable. VRC is best with VR, everyone mostly uses voice chat (especially in VR), there's very little in-world content editing and in-world interactivity.SL is a sandbox where you can create stuff directly in-world (including spawning shit from your inventory gmod-style, and built-in basic editing of simple 3D geometry) and have extensive scripting capabilities.VRC is good if you wanna hang out with people and chat in vc while pretending to be furries. SL is good if you wanna hang out in a sandbox, without voice, in an environment heavily built by various random users throwing shit together and a gmoddy sandbox feel. People who hate voice and who don't have VR basically have no reason to switch to VRC.
>>722309629Permanently online troons
>>722321907VRC stuff needs custom rigged models and good luck with that unless you have time to spare. Because everything down to clothes has to be baked into your model. And rigged. And you want someone else to do it? That will be $2k+tibb. Sure VRC is fun to fuck around but it is such a sanitized experience it's crazy plus entry cost is much higher
Nobody in these threads ever mention the large Japanese communities in this game, I think I've ran into a fair amount of Germans online too. Most of the posts in this thread talking about furry sex dungeons don't even scratch the surface on what SL is it's like nobody here even played it.
>>722329873Im surprised I didnt troon out with the high amounts of pretending to be a girl I did on SL for years
>>722330264Ive seen maybe a couple Japanese playersI guess I never tried to find out where they hang out, and I bet they all have boring anime avis anyways
>>722321226wtf lmao
>>722309629Same people who play FF14 and WoW.
>>722329096I went to that place not long ago, they had a peculiar adventure game segregated that was ostensibly updated this year, poking around a big house at the height of a mouse. Lots of walking but it was kind of cute.>Not that many places that do horror+BDSM.Reminds me, sometime ago a friend and I investigated a placed blatantly called HORROR RAPE ASYLUM and needless to say we were kind of underwhelmed. Most of the place was like, a space station and the ground had a racetrack, its asylum was just a tiny area.Also, not sure how long it has been going for but findom types have especially taken up shop, shit's widespread. If you look up nearly any kink in searching places, you'll probably see a dime-a-dozen different parcels tagging every fetish under the sun and it's just like one or a couple of rooms with scripted furniture to siphon lindens from anyone retarded enough to fall for it.>>722329587Not one for dealing with tons of dialogue menus, but things like Whim's wardrobe and those places with web-based attachment selections understandably have their use cases. In-viewer selectors could definitely use something more modular.>it's still going to be laggy and janky enough that there's never a reason to pick some "SL game" to play over a real game made in a real engineMaybe the one thing I'll give them is if they fixate on your avatar(s) as some part of it, since that's probably one of SL's remaining strengths. BARE and Go Thongs have avatar stripping as a discernible mechanic, so there's at least novelty there. Failing that, it also has to compete with actual vidya like you said. But despite this, there might still be things like pic related, though I know plenty play GTFO, which seems to be a decent excuse to travel the actual mainland and not the shitload of ivory towers everyone's built.
>>722330430They have normal AVs, they play SL differently they don't want to be the giant robot but recreate it autistically. I suspect there's a shitload of middle aged Japanese women on SL too based on a lot of stuff they create.
>>722330960Sounds cool, yeah if anyone was going to push the limits of what you can create in the game it would be them.I havent played SL for a few years now, maybe Ill come back when I hit middle age, could be fun again maybe.
>>722330264There's a perhaps surprising amount of insular communities in general. But it's really not too dissimilar to how discord is known for furry gooners and tranny groomers, but there's an immense amount of various completely insular discord servers which exist as a standalone community that some place on the internet created to have a place for real-time chat, and which has little to no relation to the rest of the chatrooms except from occasional members cross-pollinating from other places. And language barriers always massively help in creating segregation for shit like this.
>wave of Pokémon stuff on the marketplace apparently gets hit by a C&D>creators just move all the shops and items in-world
>>722330789>pic relatedYeah, I know there's a bunch of autistic shit like this, there's also combat stuff like SLMC, I've seen at least one pro wrestling league with fully scripted fighting move systems and tournaments and stuff, etc.But again, the only point of all this is if you're already so invested in SL that you want to see "your second life self" do these things with other second life people you know, and just booting a game on steam or whatever doesn't fulfil that. It's basically never worth it for the gameplay alone.>GTFOSame deal here, I actually know some people who do this, but to me it basically looks like discount truck simulator except you get ejected from your vehicle on every sim corner. The novelty is kinda neat at first as you drive around the mainland and get to look at all the normie builds, including many absolute ghost builds from literal decades ago, but for me it quickly got boring and the thing is the mainland islands really aren't that big when you're driving at reasonable speeds. 99% of builds fall into some basic categories you'll have seen thousands of times, and the only reason driving across the mainland takes more than like 10-15 minutes is because each sim crossing lags you for several seconds.
>>722309629I hear second-generation Blizzard employees play it
>>722309629QUIT TARGETING ME
>>722329587the reason is basically the reason SL is even still alive today. 20 years of user created content.why play SL over another game? because that other game doesn't offer so many niches instantly, in a multi-user full 3D environment.basically, SL isn't going anywhere until ai generative tech takes off.bare minimum, it will take a model trained on the human skeleton, that can spit out animations based on text prompts. once we have that, SL's days are numbered.
>>722309629>game
>>722309629My mom
>>722311132>filtered even more boomers with adding PBR.Boomers love this shit
>>722332490I know some enjoy GTFO just to meet other people they normally wouldn't find anywhere else otherwise, but trust it would likely wear off out of frustration than anything. Nothing wrong with encouraging people on the platform to actually do things, I guess.>>722334287Suppose we then need to render PBR in PBR, so you can poseball while you poseball.
>>722334558>Nothing wrong with encouraging people on the platform to actually do things, I guess.Oh yeah absolutely.The point I guess I intended to make is that SL's appeal is as a virtual world. If you judge almost anything in SL on its own merits, it generally falls flat compared to standalone options available elsewhere, hence the bit that started my replies of calling it>kinda cute but that's itBut if you're invested in SL's virtual world and want to drive a truck in that virtual world, or play football in that world, etc. etc., then that's where all these systems shine. Not on their own, but simply because they exist in SL and lots of people enjoy SL as, to use the new corpospeak about it, an actual metaverse with a surprisingly vast amount of content.
>>722309629every single person I've heard say they've ever played this was a 35+ oldfag tier furry I swear
>>722335238There's surprisingly a fair few in their 20's, probably got in due to the lockdowns years ago or some other kink-related reasons.
>>722309958https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyC_2nGU-f8
>>722314678It almost certainly is, but highly dependent on where you go for visually appealin avs. I've seen plenty of well put together ones, its just that they tend to be from crowds that are very cliquey or people I wouldn't associate with.
>>722335238Theres a lot of not furries in SL. Probably more than the furries if I had to hazard a guess, but it highly depends on where you hear your information from. If its 4chan? HIGH chance of furries just cause of this place.
>>722314678Its more alive then precovid, you can see the number of people online right now >35010Thats a lot more people than a few years ago
>>722333710LL is already doing tests with AI-made avis and items. It's not quite "make me an avatar based on this prompt" yet but it could very well get there within the next few years
>>722336474It would wreck the economy though
>>722336330Not really. Back when I started in 2017 there were 40-45k people online at all times. The numbers are still high when compared to any other game but the community is certainly getting smaller
knew someone irl who used this, it was a big sad.then social media basically made everyone into a lite-version of a Second life user. That is, allowing them to pseudo-live their lives in some shallow virtual world instead of going outside
>>722328093It's still kinda fun if you can find people to do stuff with I miss the days of playing in sandbox sims or places that had full perms in them. I was no pro at coding, but I could do a lot with the LSL and I'd make magic happen. Got lots of scripted products on the store still and still peddle my ancient wizard wares whenever I'm on. Own one of the oldest SL accounts in existence so it's kind of obligatory to get on every now n then
>>722336539I remember seeing the number around 20k oftenCould be time zone shenanigans
