Weirdharold’s view of his first year inside Second Life
My profile informs anyone who takes the time to view it that I was “born” on 1/06/2006, and at the encouragement of TD Goodliffe will try to pass along to your my experiences of that first year.
We, most of the authors here at VTOR, came into Second Life with the idea MONEY could be made. At that time money could be made by simply camping in camping chairs… not much money nor very fast, but most of us have extra computers sitting around doing nothing, so parking an avatar into a chair and running a script which would keep Linden Lab from logging us out for inactivity would make us a small sum of money each months.
From the original meeting of VTOR (actually VTOR wasn’t started yet, but makes it easier for me to identify the group) we all went in separate directions inside Second Life. My direction was to begin exploring Second Life’s social scene… well simply just to see what I could see. One of the first things I explored was a “nightclub” called The Skydeck” (now exist as the Virgo Nightclub [slurl]) where I met a group of friendly people dancing to music which I liked to listen. Being as I can only make a fool out of myself trying to dance in real life, I enjoyed dancing and meeting people at the club. Enough that every night at the time the club had it event I stopped what ever I was doing and found my way there.
I explored and looked around Second Life with my mouth hanging open… amazed at the builds and ingenuity of the creators and their creativity… and not a clue how they actually did what they did. As I traveled the “world” and looked it over, I came up with an idea I couldn’t find anywhere in Second Life… I was convinced I would get rich not only in Second Life, but also off Second Life in the real world! I would be the next Anche Chung, but alas the platform was not capable of supporting my idea yet… I would have to just get by.
During one of those dances at what is now the Virgo Nightclub I met…OH, what was her name… a redhead that took my virtual breath away! I spoke to her that first meeting, thought she came with a date, but didn’t really attempt to charm her in any way. (actually as I think about it… that was my first time at that club and she was the reason I kept showing up for a while… until I got to know some of the regulars at the club) Later she invited me to see her beach side home, and before I left I had managed to tick her off by generalizing some of the redhead traits. (I truly have a thing about redheads real life/second life doesn’t matter) She thought she would never have much to do with me again. I was totally intoxicated with her perceived charms, and was soon engaged to be partnered in Second Life.
Unlike most of the VTOR group I soon found myself pouring in US dollars into the Second Life economy. I had one of the best “jewelers” build us a custom engagement/wedding ring set, I purchased property to adjoin to her assets in a new sim, and rented the use of a sim and wedding planner for the wedding. I am certain there were other expenses I am not remembering; believe me a marriage in Second Life is an expensive proposition. This marriage lasted less than a month. The grieving period of the very real hurt I experienced lasted longer. In fact she was remarried before my month of grief was over.
I must admit she taught me a lot of “secrets” about Second Life. She showed me where to buy my skin to get rid of the newbie look, took me to the xcite store to purchase my…umm…personal parts, taught me how to map friends, taught me how to fly, and taught me the hard lesson about jealousy in Second Life amongst other things.
To help me with my grief (honest), I went back to the club where I had been so comfortable. The interaction with others at the club kept me in Second Life where I went through a period of mourning. I mourned until meeting a newbie named Rain, who returned the next night as a redhead in a new skin (I didn’t tell her) and a friend arranged for me to meet a friend of hers. That is how I met rosie, a submissive, who was only in Second Life for her friends wedding. I met rosie (notice the small r in the spelling? That shows she is submissive) at a country line dance at the club. She wasn’t wearing a cowboy hat so I gave her one, and ended the evening by inviting her to see where I lived. Before the night was over we had taken a shower together (she was fascinated that I had a shower with running water) and made love. She was such a sexual woman, I was fascinated. Rain, rosie, and I became a threesome and a whole different side of Second Life opened up to me.
Both were sexual and sensual with very liberal thought about behavior in Second Life. I began looking around for some Erotic art, but only found real pictures downloaded from the web. I didn’t want real life porn… I wanted Second Life erotic works, and they weren’t available. I began photographing Rain and rosie, and Rain and rosie (how do I show it was the two in the same pictures and them individually) which was nice but still not what I really wanted. I then downloaded the SL pictures of them and opened photoshop (which I really didn’t know how to use) and began experimenting with filters and such and slowly but surely produced what many consider works of art.
I opened a business selling my images, but it was not very successful. Seems the average people could not understand why I was charging so much when they could get “real pictures” so much cheaper. Despite the fact I spent literally hours and hours on each of my works they expected to get them for 25 to 50 lindens. I was asking for about a US dollar for them, which at the time was around 350 lindens. Do not think I didn’t sell any of them, because I sold maybe a couple hundred over the next eight months, but I still haven’t recovered all my Second Life expenses. I got a lot of traffic people coming to look, but it took a special person to purchase. I heard many visitors praise the work, amazed by the work, send their friends to view the work, but the sales were not covering the tier expenses so I recently shut the doors. (I must remember to change my profile the next time I enter Second Life.)
I had a period of several months where I had some health issues and was unable to sit in a chair. Therefore, I didn’t spend much time inside second life for three or four months. Rain and rosie both have gone on with their lives. Rain is now DJing inside Second Life, and rosie moved in real life and discovered she actually could have an enjoyable real life and is now getting out meeting real people and enjoying a satisfying life out side what she calls “chat”. We still stay in touch.
I have recently began trying to cover live music events which I throughly enjoy, and look around for interesting things to blog about. Hoping to entertain and draw new readers to this blog.
I guess I did a lot over that first year, but I certainly didn’t get rich!
January 14th, 2007 • 
Weirdharold • 
Avatars, Dating, Drama, Funny, Pictures, Second Life, Virtual Life • 
comment | January 14, 2007 at 22:26 | individual comment-link
you are a loser…this is a fucking video game
comment | January 15, 2007 at 06:57 | individual comment-link
To some it is a game, homie, to others it’s not. Maybe it’s time to expand your intellect a little
comment | January 15, 2007 at 09:57 | individual comment-link
homie,
A loser I may be, but at least I am not going around attempting to post weak insults with profanity in comment sections. You could have made your post of value to me and others by going into a bit of depth as to why I am a loser. Maybe even give everyone a reason why they should accept your opinion. Are you an expert on losing? You hold a degree in psychology? Is there any reason I should take heed of your warning? You gave me nothing to go on… just an opinion with nothing to help open my eyes, but I do appreciate you taking the time to leave it and I hope it made you feel better.
comment | January 22, 2007 at 23:28 | individual comment-link
Hmm her name was and is Tiara, and I love how you left out so much. As why did Tiara leave you.. Ohhh thats right she caught you cheating.. naked in the apollo pool and not alone.. And yes she did leave and within a few months was remarried.. But… your timeline is a bit off… You were with Rain and rosie before Tiara was remarried. I know cause I was still living in dreamland alone and single.. When I was almost forced to show you, rosie and cal land to buy. It was that week I left Dreamland, quit my job as a Dreamland Angel and bought mainland and was about a month later that I was remarried.. So if you going to tell lies.. make sure you know who wont read it.
comment | January 23, 2007 at 08:40 | individual comment-link
Hello Tiara -
I don’t know you that well directly despite being the virtual best man who was late to the virtual wedding (and didn’t even have a shirt on — doh!), but what I do remember from last year was Harold telling me how you didn’t want him to write about stuff involving you. You felt as if you were being treated like a “lab rat” or something along those lines. Is my memory correct?
In fact Harold stopped writing for this blog for awhile and I’m still not sure if that was directly because of you or because he lost interest in writing about virtual worlds or something else.
I thought then and still do now that it was interesting someone in our group was pursuing virtual (and real?) relationships through these worlds and was curious to see where it led without being too nosey into the specific personal details of the relationships. It seems from what I heard, but admittedly didn’t directly experience, that you didn’t want anything written — even non-personal details of your relationship — about you. Is that correct or no?
So it seems entirely possible that he left out details above dealing with your relationship because he realized it was a significant issue between you two, not because he was trying to hide anything. You know, personal stuff.
In light of this, it seems odd to me that you are now complaining he hasn’t shared even more details. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t?
comment | January 23, 2007 at 08:50 | individual comment-link
Ahhh, after just re-reading Harold’s post (and I fixed ‘morn’ to ‘mourn’), I see he indicated he left SL for health reasons for awhile. I remember him telling me that now, so that helps explain his absence from the group for a little while. Hope your back is feeling better now, Harold.
comment | January 23, 2007 at 11:49 | individual comment-link
LMAO @ tiara…………..I’m Back!!!!!!!!!
comment | January 23, 2007 at 12:07 | individual comment-link
Tiara,
Your right, I left a lot out. I didn’t write about your paranoia nor your total insecurity issues. I didn’t write about how your imagination runs wild. Despite your being the most insecure woman I have ever ran across, and I know people that check your profile on a regular basis to “amuse themselves and see how many……..’she adores, cant live without, and this is the absolute one’” you go through on your profile.
I can’t tell you how many have contacted me and speak of you being a “troubled woman”. It seems to many that you simply are making a game out of seeing how many you can get into a Second Life marriage. Personally, I could care less! All I can say is you walked all over a heart that honestly cared for you.
I should have seen how unstable you are when you blew up over my publishing stories about our “affairs”, but I was blinded by the glow of your red hair (at least that is how I am dismissing your petty, silly, and totally false accusations)
It is plain you are never satisfied I was damned for writing to much personal information, and now damned for writing to little!
Just so as you know, YOU ARE NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE YOU BRING INTO ANYONES WORLD!
comment | January 23, 2007 at 13:47 | individual comment-link
TD, just so you know, I wasn’t happy about him sharing our personal life but if he is going to tell the story, he shouldn’t lie and leave out facts to make himself look good. He cheated and I caught him, those are the facts that he left out.. He didn’t mourn our relationship, he caused it and then went out and got what he wanted.
Rosie, I have never even spoken to you and have no beef with you at all.. and this is non of your business as it occured before you were in the picture.
Harold, your lies keep going on. If you are going to write about me, don’t leave out the stuff that makes you look like the low life you are. You cheated on me. You wanted more then one woman and I am very glad that after I left you, you were able to find that. A situation I would have never agreed to, as I have morals. Though you should have ended our marriage before you went around sleeping with others.
I am sorry you feel the need to keep checking my profile, and by doing so you have seen that since I was cheated on by you. I have jumped from alot of ppl. I can’t TRUST anyone thanx to YOU.
I have been married TWICE in 17 months.. WOW is that alot.. hmm I don’t think so…
I can honestly say I have never cheated on any person in any of my relationships.. Something you can not say. I took our vows serious another thing you can not say.
My life is very good and I am not or was ever a “trouble woman” as you put it. I did though have troubles after with my sl husband( YOU ) cheating on me and you know this is true; If I became what seemed to be a trouble woman it was because of the stuff you put me through.
I even left my job with Dreamland so I wouldn’t have to deal with you or see you. That was in April (when you were so called mourning….yep you waited what 2 weeks or so before you hooked up with 2 woman.. which is what you wanted ) When Cal brought you and rosie to buy land, is when I left my job and Dreamland.. But ty for that… seeing and knowing what kind of person you really are helped me get over you very quickly.
I came to this site cause a friend of mine seen it and knows what happened and wanted me to know that you weren’t telling the whole story…. If you are going to tell a story, don’t leave out the parts that make you look bad..
comment | January 23, 2007 at 15:27 | individual comment-link
Ok Tiara… If you wish to lie to yourself…what ever you say…
comment | January 24, 2007 at 07:33 | individual comment-link
I’m going to try really hard to respond to all this and remain a lady. It’s so hard to read endless lies and ignore them.
First, its apparent you do know me, and pretend to know all about me. The incident you keep referring to about Cal bringing Harold and I to buy land for me, seems to be stuck in your head. I remember that incident well too, since I had never seen a grown woman make such a complete fool of herself. My jaw dropped as i watched you go into some kind of temper tail spin, the likes of which i hadnt seen in years. I hadnt seen that kind of behavior since my kids were 3 or 4 yrs old and would drop to the floor in a temper tantrum. But thank goodness they outgrew that phase, its too bad you didnt.
You talk about Harold dating rain and i at the same time as if it were a bad thing, that you could never do because you have too many “morals”. Ha!! It’s called maturity, maybe you should look it up and study it. I think if you will check, you will find that in real life people often date more than one person at a time. Actually what rain and i were doing was picking up the pieces of a shattered man, a loving and totally trustworthy man, that i would trust with my life.
Rain moved on after a few weeks to be with her real husband online, but i stayed. And except for a couple of months i had to leave to relocate, I have been with him every day, never leaving his side. And there is no doubt in my mind if he ever saw another woman that interested him, he would tell me and i would understand, pretty well knowing that he would eventually come back to me. Wow, there’s that “maturity” thing again.
Get a grip tiara, move on, grow up and stop believing your own lies. Because believe me dear, no one else believes them and it makes you look kinda silly.
comment | January 24, 2007 at 09:39 | individual comment-link
This will be my last post as I wont lower myself again to this level.
You honestly have no idea what you are talking about rosie and really should have stayed out of it.
The day with the land and Cal, I left, didnt say anything in public chat and explained to Cal why in Im that I could not be on the same land with a man who cheated on me and broke my heart the way he did, I even asked Cal to contact Master Q to finish up the dealing of the land. I handled the situation in a very professional way. So I have no idea what you are talking about a temper tantrum, more lies and stories made up to make others look good..
As for my relationship with Harold, he cheated and he knows it, if he wants to live the lie that he didn’t and share that lie with others that is his business but he knows what he did.
As for his relationship with you and Rain, I never said anything bad about it.. I even said I was glad he found what he wanted.. You really need to read the words I wrote.
And I do have morals… I would never sleep with anyone on a first meeting.. real or SL!!!! I would not date and sleep with more then one guy at a time real or SL . Its not a mature thing to do is a sleezy thing. And if you chose to follow that path then so be it.. I didn’t judge you for it.. I just said I wouldn’t do it.
I have moved on,I hold my head very high with everything I do, but I don’t like ppl sharing lies about me. I live by the truth, the ppl who know me and know what I went thru, they know its the truth.. and one sent me here to see the lies.. And if the truth makes me look silly amoung a group of liars, the so be it.