9.26.07 - More on Embodiment (Hayles), Second Life and (Sex) Clubs
The body has not disappeared with technology, not even in Second Life. Instead “a certain kind of subjectivity has emerged.” (193) This subjectivity cannot be placed within a frame of generalizations or overall trends, but is performative and “always to some extent improvisational.” (197) Avatars navigating SL for the first time have no choice to improvise their virtual existence as they probe the “world” and their avatar’s functions. Inevitably this randomness leads to pattern, and habits form.
When I first entered SL’s world no June 21, 2007 I jotted down a few notes:
“i’m naked. the sound of the rain and strange rats fill the air. people are learning to fly. the newbees buzz around the introductory island. i’m still naked. others are trying to teach me how to change my appearance. really all i want are clothes.”
It seems I felt a need to conform by clothing myself and reshaping my avatar. I can’t remember if I felt ashamed being naked in SL or if I felt I could do no exploring unless I was fully dressed. Either way, despite my RL dress, I had extended myself in SL, feeling the need to operate as I would in RL: performing a self. (I found out later, it took some time for the program to download the world and wouldn’t let me manipulate my avatar until it finished.)
SL is still new to me. I have formed no routine and still experiment, usually finding out the laws of the land in the process. (Example: I tried building an object the other day while in Los Angeles. I couldn’t make it do anything, nor could I figure out how to take it with me. So I left it. Today (Sept. 26) I get an email from SL saying:
“The object 'Second Life' has sent you a message from Second Life: Your object 'Object' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder from parcel 'Downtown Los Angeles' at Los Angeles 144.25, 77.5 due to parcel auto return.
= Second Life is owned by Langdon Holdings
= Location unknown.”
I have met others who duplicate their RL experiences and form routines, but tend to extend themselves in SL. I got into a conversation with two sisters (Yariel and Adinna) and their friend (Amy29) about what they did in SL.
I played dumb while they spanked each other, flashed me and joked with abbreviations I wasn’t quite familiar. My “ignorance” caused them to teleport me to a sex club (I think it was called Hae Hyop - Ready or Not Stri), where they were regulars. Club members (who when they joined were given gestures to pole dance) took turns dancing on poles and stripping. The place, as erotic as it might seem, was just a forum for people to talk, as far as I could tell. Everyone I went with knew everyone there: some met there every Thursday night as if they were going out to RL clubs.While they had their routine, there were few oddities, the most striking being Amy29’s. She said she was married in RL and was getting married to someone else in SL. Being embodied in SL (with possibility coupled with context and RL habits) created the circumstances for the faux marriage, wherein the “embodiment creates context by forging connections between instantiated action and environmental conditions.” (203) This includes the computer platform that mediates. “Formed by technology at the same time that it creates technology, embodiment mediates between technology and discourse by creating new experiential frameworks that serve as boundary markers for the creation of corresponding discursive systems.” (205)
[Halyes, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics]
Pasted below is the conversation I had with Amy29, Adinna and Yariel on Alady Island’s body shop mall that led up to entering the sex club:
[18:29] Gesture is missing from database.
[18:29] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Petton Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:30] Teleport System Click for Teleport Menu owned by Tracey Sassoon gave you 'Shapes N Skins Locations' ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/Alady%20Island/66/91/720 ).
[18:30] You: shue
[18:31] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations No Schridde, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:31] You: why do you want to take my picture?
[18:32] Yariel Rau: cause your so cute
[18:32] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Petton Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:32] You: ah. thank you. it took quite a bit of work to look this good.
[18:33] Yariel Rau: :o)
[18:33] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Constant Idler, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:33] Yariel Rau: thank you hun
[18:33] Yariel Rau: :o)
[18:33] You: What are you doing here?
[18:33] Yariel Rau: ,y sister tped me over here
[18:34] Yariel Rau: to look for angel wings
[18:34] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Ashlyne Shepherd, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:34] You: that's sweet. is she paying for them?
[18:34] Yariel Rau: no i wish ...she is cheap
[18:35] Yariel Rau: what are you doing here?
[18:35] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Anth Carnell, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:35] You: i'm not sure where here is. i only signed in a couple of times so far.
[18:35] Yariel Rau: aww how do you like SL?
[18:36] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello Mouse Canning, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[18:36] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Lyneal Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:36] You: it's disorienting, but i'm getting into it. how long have you been on?
[18:37] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations No Schridde, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:37] Yariel Rau: a lil over a month and a half
[18:38] You: how's it been for you? have you done anything like this before?
[18:38] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Petton Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:38] Yariel Rau: its interesting i explore and stuff meet new people like you
[18:39] You: i'm not sure whether i'm playing a game or socializing.
[18:39] Yariel Rau: its both :o)
[18:39] Yariel Rau: oh look and here is my sister
[18:39] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Desiree Messmer, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:39] Adinna Rau: ....
[18:40] You: hi sister.
[18:40] Adinna Rau: Hi...No.
[18:40] You: no what?
[18:40] Yariel Rau: lol your name silly
[18:40] Adinna Rau: Is this your boyfriend, Yariel?
[18:40] You: oh. that's right. kind of an odd choice for a name.
[18:40] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Avril Slade, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:40] You: you can have boyfriends in here?
[18:41] Adinna Rau: You can have everything in here.
[18:41] Yariel Rau: oh yeah you can do ALOT of things here no
[18:41] You: the most exciting thing i've been able to do so far is fly.
[18:41] Yariel Rau: lol
[18:41] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Adinna Rau, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:41] Yariel Rau: then your in for some treats
[18:42] Adinna Rau shouts: YAY I GOT A DOLLAR
[18:42] Adinna Rau: Hi Am--WTF?
[18:42] You: i got my first dollar here.
[18:42] Adinna Rau: Nice..PJs
[18:42] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello Mouse Canning, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[18:42] Amy29 Allen: i know
[18:42] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:42] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations galu Capalini, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:42] Amy29 Allen: i was sleepin on here
[18:43] Yariel Rau: wb amy
[18:43] Adinna Rau: Oh, sorry lol
[18:43] Adinna Rau: Can I live with you? Yariel's a slacker
[18:43] Adinna Rau: And won't buy me a house
[18:43] Amy29 Allen: i finally get to wear my newest preg outfit
[18:43] Yariel Rau: i will you heefer
[18:43] Adinna Rau: WELL THEN DO IT YOU HOOFER
[18:43] You: who has a home?
[18:43] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Ashlyne Shepherd, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:44] Amy29 Allen: ME!!
[18:44] Yariel Rau: amy does
[18:44] Adinna Rau: Amy has a home.
[18:44] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:44] Amy29 Allen: well a condo like thingy
[18:44] Yariel Rau: me and adinnna are gypsies
[18:44] You: are all three of you friends. what do you mean, gypsies?
[18:44] Adinna Rau: Yariel is my unfortunate sister and Amy and I know each other. :P
[18:44] Yariel Rau: we dont have a home we just wander around homeless..lol
[18:44] Amy29 Allen: Adinna are you pregnat??
[18:44] Adinna Rau: WTF no!
[18:44] Yariel Rau: whomp
[18:45] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:45] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Adinna Rau, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:45] Adinna Rau: YAY I GOT ANOTHER DOLLAR
[18:45] Amy29 Allen: then why do you have your skirt yanked high a nd dri for
[18:45] You: from real life or SL? Amy, did you just make a gesture?
[18:45] Amy29 Allen: yes
[18:45] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:45] Adinna Rau: lmao.. lemme change my outfit.. >_>
[18:45] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:45] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:46] Amy29 Allen: arn't i just so nice
[18:46] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations No Schridde, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:46] Amy29 Allen: i almost lived here once
[18:46] You: lived as what?
[18:46] Amy29 Allen: WOOT!!WOOT!!
[18:46] Amy29 Allen: you just wone a dollar
[18:46] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:47] Amy29 Allen: i'm drinkin my 3 coke today
[18:47] You: it's my third so far. i could sit here and talk and gesture for the dollars.
[18:47] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:47] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations No Schridde, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:47] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:47] Amy29 Allen: well
[18:47] Yariel Rau: your not gonna want to when you see what else you can do in sl
[18:48] You: like waht?
[18:48] Amy29 Allen: i think i missed somethin
[18:48] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations galu Capalini, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:48] Yariel Rau: no is new
[18:48] Amy29 Allen: ooooooooo
[18:48] Amy29 Allen: ok
[18:48] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:48] Yariel Rau: and his only joy in sl so far is flying
[18:48] Adinna Rau: Amy why are you soooooo tall?
[18:48] Amy29 Allen: then i did miss somethin
[18:48] Amy29 Allen: hills
[18:49] Amy29 Allen: can't live with them but can't live with out them
[18:49] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:49] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Constant Idler, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:49] Adinna Rau: BOM CHICA WAH WAH!!!!!!!
[18:49] Adinna Rau: You can go dancing..
[18:49] Adinna Rau: And shopping
[18:49] Adinna Rau: And... driving
[18:49] Adinna Rau: And flying..
[18:49] You: i know flying
[18:49] Amy29 Allen: and have some fun in bed >:-)
[18:49] Adinna Rau: Don't do the last two with Amy though.. she'll kill you
[18:49] Amy29 Allen: what
[18:49] Amy29 Allen: me
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: no
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:50] Adinna Rau: HAHAHAHA!
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: i would never thin it
[18:50] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Ashlyne Shepherd, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:50] Adinna Rau: Skydiving
[18:50] Adinna Rau: ...Jetskiing
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: i want that one
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: i love that gesture
[18:50] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello Mouse Canning, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[18:50] Adinna Rau: lol.. I got it from Mr. P's
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: i'm good at jet skiin
[18:50] Adinna Rau: Nooo! you aint..
[18:50] You: are they games within SL?
[18:50] Amy29 Allen: i ran her over
[18:51] Adinna Rau: Games? Like.. gambling?
[18:51] Adinna Rau: They have casinos.
[18:51] Amy29 Allen: 10 TIMES!!!!
[18:51] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Amy29 Allen, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:51] Amy29 Allen: YAY!!
[18:51] You: no, like jet skiing?
[18:51] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:51] You: more money.
[18:51] Amy29 Allen: Adinna i love your hair
[18:51] Amy29 Allen: oooppps
[18:52] Amy29 Allen giggles
[18:52] Amy29 Allen: >>>>>>>>>> *GIGGLES* <<<<<<<<<<
[18:52] Adinna Rau: Thanks
[18:52] Adinna Rau: Uhm.. yeah, what else can you do..
[18:52] Amy29 Allen: i thaught yariel was Adinna
[18:52] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:52] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Anth Carnell, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:52] Adinna Rau: You can build things. I'm bad at th--....Ew.
[18:52] Amy29 Allen: I'M GOOD AT IT
[18:52] Yariel Rau: LOL
[18:52] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:52] Adinna Rau: Like.. houses and clothes.. whatever you can think of, you can build it. I just don't know how to
[18:53] You: how do you get land without paying us dollars for it?
[18:53] Amy29 Allen: can't can you
[18:53] Adinna Rau: ...Work really hard in SL lmao
[18:53] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Ashlyne Shepherd, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:53] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:53] Amy29 Allen: that works
[18:53] Amy29 Allen: i just haven't got paid for it :-/
[18:53] You: what do you mean, SL lmao?
[18:54] Amy29 Allen: i'm gettin paid 4.5K
[18:54] Adinna Rau: Second life.
[18:54] Adinna Rau: WTF, Gimme some of that money. :3
[18:54] Amy29 Allen: if she will buy the damn Ls :-/
[18:54] Amy29 Allen: i need it
[18:54] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Ashlyne Shepherd, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:54] Amy29 Allen: i have to find a house to rent or somethin
[18:54] Adinna Rau: Oh yeaaaah for your wedding
[18:54] Adinna Rau: Oh yeah, you can get married.
[18:54] You: are you getting married in SL?
[18:54] Amy29 Allen: we only have 7 days left on out rent on the condo
[18:55] Adinna Rau: Amy is.
[18:55] Amy29 Allen: yes
[18:55] Amy29 Allen: YAY!!
[18:55] You: in real life too?
[18:55] Adinna Rau: Yariel, marry Cosmo.
[18:55] Amy29 Allen: i'm already married in rl
[18:55] You: oh. are you marrying the same person in SL?
[18:55] Amy29 Allen: i'm gettin married pregnat
[18:55] Amy29 Allen: no
[18:55] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Mouse Canning, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:55] Yariel Rau: ? why
[18:55] Amy29 Allen: he's to stuck up to get on
[18:55] Adinna Rau: So he can get us a house. Duh.
[18:55] Yariel Rau: im gonna get the house on my own
[18:56] Amy29 Allen: he thinks games are imature
[18:56] Amy29 Allen: i said well i guess i'm imature
[18:56] You: so you're virtual self is going to be married to someone different than your husband?
[18:56] Adinna Rau: .....This is a dejavu moment right now
[18:56] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:56] Amy29 Allen: yes
[18:56] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Amy29 Allen, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:56] You: congrats
[18:56] Amy29 Allen: i'm marryin a man who is married in rl too
[18:56] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:56] Yariel Rau: lol
[18:56] You: how do you find each other?
[18:57] Amy29 Allen: we're both married
[18:57] Yariel Rau: cosmo has a g/f in rl
[18:57] Yariel Rau: lmao
[18:57] Amy29 Allen: i forgot how
[18:57] You: does that feel weird or just like a game?
[18:57] Adinna Rau: So does Decoda xD
[18:57] Amy29 Allen: lols
[18:57] Yariel Rau: mmm more like rolepaly ..yes
[18:57] You: so its both
[18:57] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Petton Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:57] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello deia Klaar, you can be the next winner,so don't go anywhere!
[18:57] Adinna Rau: I just treat it as a game. :/
[18:57] Amy29 Allen: ok you have me confused
[18:57] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:58] You: so am i.
[18:58] Amy29 Allen: OMG!!!!
[18:58] Amy29 Allen: i am preg the test just came back
[18:58] Yariel Rau: yes its a game but there is a person behind every avi soooo somtimes emotions /feelings kinda evolve i dunno its weird
[18:58] Amy29 Allen: WOOT!!WOOT!!
[18:58] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:58] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations deia Klaar, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[18:58] Amy29 Allen: party at my house
[18:58] You: congrats! you just took a real pregnancy test while on SL?
[18:58] Adinna Rau: YAY, LETS GO
[18:58] Yariel Rau: no can i have your baby :o)
[18:59] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello deia Klaar, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[18:59] Amy29 Allen: no
[18:59] Amy29 Allen: back off
[18:59] Amy29 Allen: lol
[18:59] You: sure.
[18:59] Adinna Rau: Yeah, make another baby and give it to me. :P
[18:59] Amy29 Allen: look i've had well i forgot how many but that's beside the point
[18:59] Adinna Rau: HAHAHAHA!
[18:59] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations No Schridde, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:00] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello deia Klaar, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[19:00] You: instead of making a baby, can you make me a monkey?
[19:00] Adinna Rau: They have monkeys. :/ Somewhere....
[19:00] Adinna Rau: SOUKI!
[19:00] Amy29 Allen: lols
[19:00] Amy29 Allen: i just snorted in rl laughin so hard
[19:00] Adinna Rau: lol
[19:00] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations galu Capalini, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:00] Amy29 Allen: it was so funny
[19:01] You: can you gesture a snort?
[19:01] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello deia Klaar, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[19:01] Amy29 Allen: i don't know
[19:01] Yariel Rau: lol
[19:01] Amy29 Allen: Adinna you to close
[19:01] Adinna Rau: lol
[19:01] Yariel Rau: the crack head dance
[19:01] Amy29 Allen: for comfort
[19:01] Amy29 Allen: lol
[19:01] You: it brought me comfort
[19:01] Amy29 Allen: no commen
[19:01] You: do you have danceoffs?
[19:01] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations No Schridde, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:01] Amy29 Allen: comment**
[19:02] Adinna Rau: Yeah, you can dance at the clubs
[19:02] Adinna Rau: Theres like....58549393838384 of them in SL
[19:02] Amy29 Allen: lol
[19:02] You: i haven't been yet
[19:02] Adinna Rau: Just go to the search button and type something up and you're bound to find it
[19:02] Amy29 Allen: OMG!!
[19:02] Yariel Rau: hi galu
[19:02] Amy29 Allen: put a shirt on woman
[19:03] Adinna Rau: No, I saw you take a picture!
[19:03] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Lyneal Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:03] Amy29 Allen: who
[19:03] Adinna Rau: Nooo!
[19:03] Amy29 Allen: ???
[19:03] Yariel Rau: lol
[19:03] Adinna Rau: lol
[19:03] You: i've been taking a picture every time someone new gets on screen.
[19:03] Amy29 Allen: galu please put a shirt on
[19:03] Adinna spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 Allen: lols
[19:03] Adinna Rau: O.O
[19:03] Adinna Rau: Woops!
[19:03] Yariel Rau: lmao
[19:03] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:03] Amy29 Allen: lol
[19:03] Adinna Rau: STOPPIT
[19:03] You: what the hell?
[19:04] Amy29 Allen: you've been a bad girl
[19:04] Yariel Rau: i think galu thinks we are crazy
[19:04] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Lyneal Dwi, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:04] Amy29 Allen: we;; we kinda are
[19:04] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Hello Mouse Canning, you can be the next winner, so don't go anywhere!
[19:04] Adinna Rau: I'm not. I don't know what ya'll are talking about
[19:04] Amy29 spanked Amy29's ass
[19:04] Amy29 Allen: woop
[19:04] Adinna Rau: lol
[19:04] Yariel Rau: we should take no to his first club
[19:05] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Vatelemite Tomorrow, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:05] Adinna Rau: Hm.. lets take him to Ready or Not. xD
[19:05] Amy29 Allen: i'm goin to my baby
[19:05] Yariel Rau: lol
[19:05] Adinna Rau: Mmk.. Bye Amyyy
[19:05] Adinna spanked Amy29's ass
[19:05] Amy29 Allen: i think he's going to acctual propose
[19:05] You: ok
[19:05] Yariel Rau: and then souki will be there
[19:05] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:05] Adinna Rau: And then Souki will think you and Nooo! are together
[19:06] Adinna Rau: And he'll ask me out. And then we'll get married
[19:06] Yariel Rau: then hell get jealous
[19:06] Adinna Rau: And have little Souki's
[19:06] You: i wouldn't wish that upon anyone
[19:06] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Constant Idler, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:06] Amy29 Allen: lol
[19:06] Adinna Rau: lol
[19:06] Adinna spanked Amy29's ass
[19:06] Amy29 Allen: PINEAPPLE!!
[19:06] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:06] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:06] Amy29 Allen: HAHAHA
[19:06] Adinna Rau: ~*BYTCH I'LL FUK YA ASS UP ! *~
[19:06] Yariel Rau: Berries n Cream Berries n Cream, Im a lil lad who loves Berries and Cream.
[19:06] Adinna Rau: lmao
[19:06] Yariel Rau: BERRIES N CREAM BERRIES N CREAM, IMA LIL LAD WHO LOVES BERRIEES AND CREAMMUH!
[19:07] Adinna Rau: BOM CHICA WAH WAH!!!!!!!
[19:07] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Lostris Mills, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:07] Yariel Rau: Berries n Cream Berries n Cream, Im a lil lad who loves Berries and Cream.
[19:07] Yariel Rau: BERRIES N CREAM BERRIES N CREAM, IMA LIL LAD WHO LOVES BERRIEES AND CREAMMUH!
[19:07] Adinna Rau: Berries n Cream Berries n Cream, Im a lil lad who loves Berries and Cream.
[19:07] You: how do get the audio?
[19:07] Adinna Rau: BERRIES N CREAM BERRIES N CREAM, IMA LIL LAD WHO LOVES BERRIEES AND CREAMMUH!
[19:07] Amy29 Allen: lol
[19:07] Amy29 Allen: you people crazy
[19:07] Adinna Rau: Say Hi to Ern for me. :P
[19:07] Adinna spanked Amy29's ass
[19:08] Amy29 spanked Adinna's ass
[19:08] Adinna Rau: K, lets take Nooo! to ready or not Yariel :P
[19:08] Amy29 Allen: ok
[19:08] Yariel Rau: kk
[19:08] Diamond Money Ball V2.2g: Congratulations Constant Idler, you won L$ 1 just for being here! Next drawing is within 1 minutes! Stick around to win up to L$ 1!
[19:08] Adinna Rau: TP him.
[19:09] Yariel Rau: ill tp you no
[19:09] You: ok
Comments
Rhizome writes...
The body has not disappeared with technology, not even in Second Life. Instead “a certain kind of subjectivity has emerged.” (193) This subjectivity cannot be placed within a frame of generalizations or overall trends, but is performative and “always to some extent improvisational.” (197) Avatars navigating SL for the first time have no choice to improvise their virtual existence as they probe the “world” and their avatar’s functions. Inevitably this randomness leads to pattern, and habits form.
I agree with this...I was thinking about my beginning uses of 2nd life and how navigating and understanding it was such an issue. Now I have developed habits such as searching for groups, teleporting to random places, talking to "friends", and adjusting my avatars appearance. For example. Sometimes I will smoke in RL and I have noticed sometimes my avatar will smoke in SL.
When you were with these avatars did you tell them you were a researcher? They seemed open to telling/explaining things to you.