Second Life Diseases
July 28, 2008 8:55 pm
A very nice meme, started by Miss Eladrienne Laval - da steampunk kitty - on Plurk:
If Second Life had diseases, what would they be called?
My favs - either because I suffer(ed) from them, find them incredibly original, or both:
- PTDs - Pixel Transmitted Diseases.
- SLasthma - When so many people are IM’ing you, you can’t catch a breath.
- Perioprimtinitus - Prims stuck in the butt disease.
- De-primitation - When your prims just won’t rezz.
- Blingmania - The state of believing sparkling jewellery is a good good thing.
- Clackophobia - Unnatural fear of those accursed clicky-clacky shoes.
- BlindFaceLightitius - The compulsion to turn away for fear of being blinded by face lights.
Up to now undefined virtual Second Life diseases:
- SLamnesia
- SLagony
- SLTC
- SLurgy
- SLag
What diseases do you find typically Second Life - or Virtual Worlds? What SL caused disorder do you suffer from? Feel free to contribute definitions or newly discovered diseases to this list of virtual medical deficiencies, here in the comments, on Eladrienne Laval’s Plurk topic or on your own blogs. (But let me know where they are then! ;))
10 Responses to “Second Life Diseases”
Avatautism - losing friends in RL day by day. OMG, it’s ME!:)
Well there’s the ever common SLaddict. Which, ahem, SLaddiction we all suffer from.
Or the ever dreaded SLagoraphobia or fear of leaving your home SL space. I even recall reading about an avie last year (forget who it was) who had it.
-Veyron
There is a naturally-occurring phenomenon similar to SLasthma except it’s so bad it’s called an IM Storm.
If there was a Beaufort scale for IMs, an IM Storm would be about a 10. Anything higher is probably extremely rare and would most likely involve flame IMs too. IM Hurricane territory should be avoided at all costs.
A level 10 IM Storm is quite often friendly IMs that pop up and scroll off the screen to the right within seconds, usually caused by logging on and people all seeing you’re online at the same time, just wanting to say hello or ask for detailed help via IMs. :) However, it’s very hard to recover from this without logging off and moving to time-shifted communication via offline IMs.
I’d put SLasthma anywhere between 7 and 9 as there is at least hope of recovering from it within about 30 minutes, without just clean logging off and walking away.
SLasthma symptoms can be relieved using a fairly simple remedy that I’ve invented: offer a teleport to everyone in IMs with you. The result is a split between those who accept and actually get to see how overloaded you are and end up chatting to eachother anyway once they’ve arrived; and those who don’t accept and make up some excuse to end the conversation. Both of which are socially acceptable choices.
As far as new diseases go, I’ve recently started suffering from Bugaphobia. If I’m online and start to become aware of a bug in SL, such as asset server failure, I can’t bare to go through the hope and dismay process, so I just log off.
Clearly, I need a nurse. :)
I’ve often encountered people with “Echotinittus”, an evil malady that occurs when people don’t use headphones when voicing.
OCGD - Obsessive Compulsive Gesture Disease - uncontrollable repetition of the same gesture until it loses what little meaning and/or humor it had.
It’s not funny to make light of people who have diseased in real life. real tacky.
I suppose we could ALL just stop making fun of death. After all that would be tacky since we all will die in real life…. And you know life is not funny at all. It’s very serious since none of us get out of it alive…
Avatarexia: An avatar so skinny I want to feed them 1000 cheeseburgers.
They can has cheeseburgers.
And this is not making fun of people who are sick… hah
Ok, not sure what to call it but, how about one named after all the people that do not know how to control the volume on their voices?
Umm, SlBleedinEar Sydrome?
Itsatrapism = The delusional belief that being a female avatar and refusing to use voice will not be rightly seen by everybody else as you actually being male in RL.
Care to comment?