Comments on: Second Life Diseases

By: IntLibber Brautigan

IntLibber Brautigan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:30:19 +0000

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.

By: Morgana Hilra

Morgana Hilra — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:40:30 +0000

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?

By: kesseret

kesseret — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:34:13 +0000

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

By: Veyron Supercharge

Veyron Supercharge — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:09:29 +0000

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…

By: Not funny

Not funny — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:51:35 +0000

It’s not funny to make light of people who have diseased in real life. real tacky.

By: Corcosman Voom

Corcosman Voom — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:13:42 +0000

OCGD - Obsessive Compulsive Gesture Disease - uncontrollable repetition of the same gesture until it loses what little meaning and/or humor it had.

By: ArminasX

ArminasX — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:48:41 +0000

I’ve often encountered people with “Echotinittus”, an evil malady that occurs when people don’t use headphones when voicing.

By: Timeless Prototype

Timeless Prototype — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:18:41 +0000

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. :)

By: Veyron Supercharge

Veyron Supercharge — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:43:41 +0000

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

By: Ak Yip

Ak Yip — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:27:22 +0000

Avatautism - losing friends in RL day by day. OMG, it’s ME!:)