Premium Episode 85: Second Life (Cursed Community) Sample
Furry gatherings, predatory land barons, and a vigorous sex trade. Second Life is a massively multiplayer game launched in 2003, but the game is so creatively empowering that its communities remain active to this day. Within its virtual world, portraits of humanity veer from the touching to the profoundly cursed.
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I'm an admin of the First Act Sim and a friend of the owner.
On the release date of the First Act Werewolf avatar, I spent hours standing in the shop
telling furries to take their X-rated attachments off.
First Act is not an adult sim, and this was their first anthro avatar release, so it was
really shocking that furries were teleporting in, wagging their dog dicks around like it
was perfectly normal behavior.
Then again, I know a lot of furries who'd say it was perfectly normal behavior.
This is blatant anti-furry propaganda.
By far the worst avatar was some kind of bondage hermaphroditic cow which had oversized boobs
and udder with multiple dicks in place of teats.
This is awful.
Ugh.
What else did the cow have?
Finish it.
And a butt plug.
No!
Yes!
And a butt plug with flexi dripping liquids and a tag which read, cum dumpster.
I don't like this.
I wanna go home.
This is definitely the horniest episode we've ever had.
Horrible.
Unintentionally, of course.
Yeah.
One user talks about trying to head to an in-game business meeting, getting off at the wrong teleport spot, and finding himself in a Roman vampire orgy.
Another talks about a floor within a floor where a female avatar is encased in a glass case filled with urine and feces with a note from the building's owner claiming he stole the girl's avatar and has imprisoned her soul forever.
Dude.
But not all of Second Life is smut.
In fact, there's still a huge community of people who engage in far more wholesome activities and share their creations.
Second Life has a thriving community of musicians.
They have concerts, they set up virtual storefronts to sell merch and CDs.
It makes sense.
There are a lot of safe communities for LGBTQ folks.
For example, there's a memorial that honors trans people who have lost their lives to violence.
Second Life's Terms of Service even provide explicit anti-LGBTQ harassment protections.
Linden Lab specifically posts trans-friendly areas in their Beginner's Destination Guide, and there were, at least at its peak, almost 700 areas within the game that contain the keyword trans.
And while, of course, it goes without saying this can't possibly speak for every trans person's experience in the game, some have claimed to have found that the identity they are allowed to be in the game has helped them prepare for transitioning in real life.
New World Notes, a popular second life blog run by Wagner James Oh, interviewed a number of transgender users who had had positive experience on the platform overall.
A woman only identified as Kayla was quoted as saying, When it came time to come out and transition, I realized that I have a role model for the kind of person that I want to be in real life.
The girl who I had been in second life for nine years was a perfect template for how I wanted to express my personality and my gender in the world.
It's like I totally understand how people can get that out of it.
It makes perfect sense to me.
One of the more wholesome tales I've heard about Second Life is actually a personal story that comes from a good friend of ours, Westbrook, who has done music from the show.
So his brother is actually the guy I was talking about earlier who got a job within Second Life, and in fact, they got their mother into it.
She was a music teacher in real life, and traveled from realm to realm helping musicians organize concerts within the game.
Her name was Lady Hightower.
In fact, two months before she sadly passed away, she had organized a huge benefit concert for Haiti within Second Life.
After her passing, Westbrook told me that her friends in Second Life put together a second online funeral for her, complete with photographs, memorials, and a three hour long online concert performed by many of the musicians she had helped in the virtual realm along the way.
He had attended it and said, quote, it was wild.
He then told me he had logged back in to see if he could take me around, but all of his mother's places were gone.
Her house, cars, areas they traveled together.
It made me sort of see this like, sorry, this like weird, sad, beautiful place hidden beneath, you know, the trance clubs and, you know, the shopping malls and shit.
And unlike Adam's mother, who had many gifts and talents, that she almost needed a second life to expunge them all, many of the users are there because there is something lacking in their lives outside of the game.
Many have suffered abuse and prefer to live in a world where no one can physically hurt them.
And I totally understand that.
And I, for one, am all for shit like this to exist.
I mean, shit, I kind of want to make an avatar and live out my fantasy as a giant baby with a rattle and a cigar.
Oh, sorry for getting emotional there, boys.
It's all good.
It's a reference to a movie that's actually good, which is why I'm so surprised.
Reframe Roger Rabbit.
Fantastic film.
We can agree, finally.
And so we don't end on too sad a note.
I want to bring you guys to the last section about our deep dive into Second Life.
Just because the players in Second Life can't physically hurt one another,
that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't verbally abuse one another,
as you will soon find out.
Trolls.
As you can imagine, Second Life is packed to the absolute fucking brim with trollers and griefers, and in my deep dive into the bowels of the world wide web, I've been blessed with some of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.
One British YouTuber who goes by Nwork posted a video of a pretty heated argument after he asked another player to look up the word cuckolding.
The pair are seen on the other player's property, complete with a beautiful modern two-story home and two cheetahs on the front lawn.
Alright, so if you open up Internet Explorer.
Can you just leave, please?
And you, uh, go to Wikipedia?
No!
I'm not listening!
I'm not listening!
I'm not listening to you!
Just stay away!
Listen, I'm trying to be polite, I'm trying to, but you're pissing me off now!
Just stay away from the Sim and my wife!
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