No, after all you can do lots of things simultaneously But I know what you mean, in the end it remains to be subjective what is a waste of time and what not. Would spending an equal amount of time on World of warcraft be more or less of a waste? Depends on the person I guess. I spend lots of time playing music and not doing anything special during that time, people have told me they find that a waste of time too..
i never listened to the consensus so if i say its a waste of time... it is in fact a waste of time and nobody else can change that fact. but if you are entertained it is never a waste of time even if nothing is accomplished.
It just was that in that doc I watched it also showed people that by a (unvoluntarily) lack of social life they 'd look for the best alternative on there. So yeah, from my point of view it is a waste of time since they were still craving for the real thing.
i imagine sex with an hiv patient you might even say i crave it. but it is no waste of time to just leave it as a fantasy rather than the real thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPu4SVDfw6g"]Second Life Documentary Machinima - On the Grid - YouTube
I saw this on CSI (TV Show) where they were using it as part of an investigation. I actually did not know it really existed.........silly me. It seems rather harmless if used as a game. If it becomes your life then maybe it is not the best. Like all else.
I seem to recall a Japanese woman discovered her husband's sim was having an affair;so she killed his sim character-and got sentenced to imprisonment! She hired a sim private detective,who set a sim honey-trap to catch him out. Yes,I know it sounds bloody silly-but here's the item. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/10/24/woman-jailed-after-killing-virtual-husband/ [Beam me up Scotty-this place is scary]
you've got to be kidding that no one on here has an av on sl. i lost interest because its too all about money. you can float around and visit places that are not protected by security walls, and you can completely customize your appearance, but that is all you can do. you can't just homestead some empty place and build things there, which is what would interest me, without paying in some way. even if you supposedly buy a lot or an island or whatever, you still have to keep paying a maintainence fee, which i fail to see as making any kind of sense as being any different then paying rent. if it weren't for that particular aspect it would be wonderful. there is also for this reason, an extreme shortage of useful public transportation. of course being able to levetate, teleport, and float everywhere more or less makes up for its relative abscence (there are kiddy rides and there are relatively limited areas that are served by public transport of a sort. but that's about it) i want there to be public transport everywhere because it is fun and aesthetic. that and somehow having to pay and keep paying to be able to build anything perminent anywhere, are why i lost interest. i think, other then those limitations the concept is sound. and would be great fun for people to be able to build things that in real life they could only dream about doing. i'm sorry but i really don't see any other problems with it. besides those two things. there's tons of free stuff if you wander around and look for it. just no place you can set any of it up, without paying and paying and paying. i'm not accusing the lindens of operating at an excessive profit or anything like that, just that it is insuficiently realistic to have that much depend on money, like some kind of libertarian lasse faire wet dream fantasy. there's lots of open water. no reason the couldn't let us build houseboats and live on them in it, but there's no provision, again, for building anything without constantly paying for a place for it. there ARE sandboxes, where you can practice building things. but nothing is allowed to remain there when you're done building it. you can keep it in your inventory, which is nice, but you still can't give it to the world. i did find one place that would let me camp out. but i think that might be because it was a place that seemed to have been mostly abondoned and if so, has likely been de-rezzed by now.
People are willing to pay. It's easy to justify to ourselves when we spend money on our hobbies and interest. "It's only a few hours work, and it would give me joy!" Whether that be a new power tool, sports equipment, a skin for a character in an online game or something else, we take real joy from it and pay happily. I've heard that time you enjoyed wasting was never wasted at all.
of course, the time we are doing what we enjoy is what we all live for. but there's nothing natural about making it have to be about money. doing so 2/3rds defeats far too much of the whole purpose. now if i'm paying for materials and tools, i can use over and over again, to create with, then i've got something for my money, but to have to pay to experience something, to me that is kissing it by by. that's why that's the one downside to the more perfect thing, a multi-participant imaginary graphicly real, alternative environment, that isn't about having to kill things, that second life would otherwise be.
