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Name: Rick
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Dayton
Birthday: 9/20/1988
Gender: Male
Interests: Computers, webcomics, anime, art, sci-fi, GIMP, video games, sleep, dreams, Japan, music, astronomy, Stargate SG1, Serial Experiments: Lain, Douglas Adams
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Art
Message: message me
AIM:  rkroslof
Member Since:
4/16/2005
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| Wow . . .
You may remember the link I had
a few posts ago. I just clicked on it to take a look at the
results of my "sould stealing," and I found that either my xanga has
gotten a lot more readers, or someone else has used the same name,
cause the number is up to 20141. I own a lot of souls 
I still want to play Second Life, as I mentioned in my last post. It is very frustrating.
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| I have been looking at a lot of online games recently. I'm looking forward to Kothuria and RF Online coming out, but what I really want to play is a game called Second Life.
In it, you can build anything you want (by using easy tools in the
game), change your avatar, own land & build stuff on it, and use
your creations and sell them to other people. The in-game money
can also be converted into real money, which is awesome.
I really really really really really really really really really want
to play, but there is a problem that I have come across in the Terms of
Use. As it turns out, you have to be 18 to play the game.
If you are not, or have lied about your age, and play it, your account
can be deleted. This sucks, because I won't be 18 for another 7
months and 11 days. They also have a clause that says accounts
can't be transferred to someone else, so I can't use my mother's name
until my birthday and then change it to my name. There is a thing
that they developed for people from 13-17, but it is crap and only open
from noon to 10 pm. Also, I think that you cannot change from the
"Teen Second Life" to the real game after you are 18, and you will lose
your land and stuff if you can. If I become well known in the
game, and they find out that I wasn't 18 when I registered the account,
they could delete my stuff. This would suck.
That said, I still really want to play, but can't. It REALLY bugs
me. A lot. There are no loopholes, and I can't do anything
like use a friend's name because of the transfer clause, so I am
stuck. It REALLY bugs me. I understand why they would want
to control who has access to the full game, as it most likely doesn't
have censors on it as the other version most likely does, but
still. If they had something like promoting people who played the
teen game well to the real game, I would actually play the dumbed-down
version. After all, I am more mature than some people in their
twenties, so I would be fine in the real game.
This just makes me angry. Aargh!
Edit: I told my mother about the game when she came home from
seeing the play tonight. In general, she doesn't like the fact
that I play video games. When I have a game, I do play it a lot,
and she sees this as being antisocial and not what I should be
doing. She does not see talking to people who you don't know in
real life as being social, even though I speak and do things with
people more during the weeks I play MMOs than during those that I do
not. Also, if I did not have my computer or my television, I
would spend my time reading and drawing and writing, which are LESS
SOCIAL than online games.
She also warned me against being "sucked into games that involve real
money." She does not understand how I interact when it comes to
money. I will explain; so far this year, with the exception of
meals, I have bought a shirt, one music cd, some blank cds, and some
stuff that I was trying to use to do something with the internet on her
computer. During the end of last year, I bought christmas
presents. Before that, I bought some shirts in september.
In short, I DON'T SPEND A LOT OF MONEY. There are things that I
have wanted to buy for over a year now, but have not because I didn't
want to spend my money on them. Admittedly, there are some
impulse buys that I have regretted, but I would not spend money
wastefully. My idea of what I am going to do in Second Life is
that I will make things and sell them and gain
money. Over 175,000 worth of stuff is sold every day, so I could
get at least one of the 13 thousand members to buy what I create.
I will never exchange real money for game money, no matter what happens
in the game, because I would not part with my real money except for the
subscription fee of $10 a month. I want to make my own things,
and what other people make is not what I want to have and use.
GAME MONEY GOES OUT, REAL MONEY DOES NOT GO IN. I wish she
understood this, but it doesn't really matter. I'll be an adult
with my own credit card (which I will never max out) soon enough, and
then I can play the game and make more money for myself. Who
knows, I may wind up like many people who are playing now and make more
money in the game than they did with their old jobs.
Anyway, I can't wait until I am 18. It will be remarkable.
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| Yay! I got Ghost in the Shell O.S.T. 2! I kind of feel bad for
getting it, since I have been saving up my money for a while now in
order to get a new computer sometime in the spring, but even those
plans are changing. I had been planning on upgrading my current
computer and taking it to college with me, but I am now thinking that a
tablet PC might be better for me. I will be able to take it with
me to classes, take notes on it, and I hope to create a webcomic
someday, so it would be very useful for that purpose as well. I
don't think I'll have the money to get both, so the problem is
this: if I get a tablet, my life in college could be easier and
it could help me with future endeavors, although it is not as powerful
as a desktop, and it will not be able to play games my upgraded
computer would be able to.
What do you think would be good?
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| I just finished watching Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. They are amazing.
Anime is awesome.
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