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Are You Actually A Dragon In Real Life?
When I meet an AV that looks like a dragon, I always ask them to voice verify. They have to literally melt my speakers for me to believe they are as they present themselves to be. I've never had that happen - which, truthfully, is disappointing. I mean, who would not want to meet an actual dragon?
Even if it doesn't melt your speakers, in-world voice can present a problem. Some people don't seem to understand that Open Sim is not a dating site. It is not a hook-up site. And it can be more than a costume party chat site. At it's best, OS is an immersive world for role-play. And most people don't have the voice and/or the acting ability for the role they are playing. At best, in-world voice is a distraction. At worse, it can make it impossible to deeply and actively engage.
In truth, our avatar is but a pixel puppet. For some reason there can be an extraordinary interest, by some, in who exactly is pulling the strings. I just treat people as they present themselves in-world. Anything else ruins the show many of us take a part in creating.
Even if it doesn't melt your speakers, in-world voice can present a problem. Some people don't seem to understand that Open Sim is not a dating site. It is not a hook-up site. And it can be more than a costume party chat site. At it's best, OS is an immersive world for role-play. And most people don't have the voice and/or the acting ability for the role they are playing. At best, in-world voice is a distraction. At worse, it can make it impossible to deeply and actively engage.
In truth, our avatar is but a pixel puppet. For some reason there can be an extraordinary interest, by some, in who exactly is pulling the strings. I just treat people as they present themselves in-world. Anything else ruins the show many of us take a part in creating.
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"It is an immersive world for role-play."
It's that for you, it's that for me, it's that for a precious few other users, those whom I like to refer to as "character-centric" users.
Sadly, for most other users, it's just a glorified chat app with animated 3-D profile pictures which they use to get into contact with other real-life people. I like to refer to them as "user-centric" users. They generally don't immerse; they don't even know what that is, and if they did, they'd call those who do silly. And they keep trying to look past the avatars straight at the users behind them. They're barely interested in the avatars and even less in the world around them.
That's also why most OpenSim beaches suck at being beaches, but except for myself, Allie Dawson and maybe a few more, nobody notices, much less cares. And it's why the majority of sims is neither immersive nor even remotely realistic.
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It's that for you, it's that for me, it's that for a precious few other users, those whom I like to refer to as "character-centric" users.
Sadly, for most other users, it's just a glorified chat app with animated 3-D profile pictures which they use to get into contact with other real-life people. I like to refer to them as "user-centric" users. They generally don't immerse; they don't even know what that is, and if they did, they'd call those who do silly. And they keep trying to look past the avatars straight at the users behind them. They're barely interested in the avatars and even less in the world around them.
That's also why most OpenSim beaches suck at being beaches, but except for myself, Allie Dawson and maybe a few more, nobody notices, much less cares. And it's why the majority of sims is neither immersive nor even remotely realistic.
I have a farm that is immersive - at least I feel that way about it. You can come by one day and help me out with the farming and feeding of the animals. Just don't go to the beach area...I don't have showers nor changing rooms set up yet. But I do have a market there with ice cream! :P
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Yup. Like I said, this can be more than a costume party chat site. At it's best, OS is an immersive world for role-play.
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