- Joined
- May 31, 2023
- Messages
- 34
- Location
- Grid time + 9 hours
- SL Rez
- 2020
You don't get new users often, or are they too lazy to introduce themselves?
Anyways, here's someone who has been in OpenSim for three years and a month and... wait for it... never been in Second Life at all. No, really. (Insert We Exist meme here.)
Yeah, I've been going on people's nerves by not going with the mainstream/"how everyone does it" in many many ways for that long.
Like, for example, I prefer legal content over ripped SL stuff. I even try to advertise and promote legal content so that fewer people think that everyone in OpenSim was copybotted from SL. I was one of the first to use a Roth2 v2 mesh body, and I still do, also because it's the only male mesh body that suits my workflow. Thus, I was one of the earliest BoM adopters on the Hypergrid.
Nonetheless, I'm a dressman (or trying to be one) and not one of those guys who don't know what "outfits" are in viewers, much less how to handle them, and who don't care because they only ever change their clothes every couple months, if ever. Nor do I have to wear a black leather jacket everywhere and all year round like most other male OpenSim avatars that wear at least some mesh.
Immersion is important to me. OpenSim to me is a system of virtual worlds that I love to use as such and not a glorified chat app with animated 3-D profile pictures. So I behave accordingly, e.g. I prefer natural ways of moving like walking or riding vehicles over teleporting or flying, and if I have to teleport, I try to do so where nobody can see it.
I have a little in-world sister, Juno, who is exactly one year younger than me. People barely let me go to parties without her anymore. She's just as much an individualist as I am, all the way to the Ruth2 v4 body, with her own sense and style of fashion that goes hard against any and all post-2014 established OpenSim standards. I'm not sure if people are deriding her behind our backs or rather admiring her for daring to do her own thing.
We're both in the Fediverse, not on Mastodon, but on Hubzilla: My channel, my profile, Juno's channel, Juno's profile. I also have an OpenSim-centred blog in the Fediverse that isn't as active as I wish it'd be; I'm not going to link to it here because it's entirely in German.
Anyways, here's someone who has been in OpenSim for three years and a month and... wait for it... never been in Second Life at all. No, really. (Insert We Exist meme here.)
Yeah, I've been going on people's nerves by not going with the mainstream/"how everyone does it" in many many ways for that long.
Like, for example, I prefer legal content over ripped SL stuff. I even try to advertise and promote legal content so that fewer people think that everyone in OpenSim was copybotted from SL. I was one of the first to use a Roth2 v2 mesh body, and I still do, also because it's the only male mesh body that suits my workflow. Thus, I was one of the earliest BoM adopters on the Hypergrid.
Nonetheless, I'm a dressman (or trying to be one) and not one of those guys who don't know what "outfits" are in viewers, much less how to handle them, and who don't care because they only ever change their clothes every couple months, if ever. Nor do I have to wear a black leather jacket everywhere and all year round like most other male OpenSim avatars that wear at least some mesh.
Immersion is important to me. OpenSim to me is a system of virtual worlds that I love to use as such and not a glorified chat app with animated 3-D profile pictures. So I behave accordingly, e.g. I prefer natural ways of moving like walking or riding vehicles over teleporting or flying, and if I have to teleport, I try to do so where nobody can see it.
I have a little in-world sister, Juno, who is exactly one year younger than me. People barely let me go to parties without her anymore. She's just as much an individualist as I am, all the way to the Ruth2 v4 body, with her own sense and style of fashion that goes hard against any and all post-2014 established OpenSim standards. I'm not sure if people are deriding her behind our backs or rather admiring her for daring to do her own thing.
We're both in the Fediverse, not on Mastodon, but on Hubzilla: My channel, my profile, Juno's channel, Juno's profile. I also have an OpenSim-centred blog in the Fediverse that isn't as active as I wish it'd be; I'm not going to link to it here because it's entirely in German.
