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What are your favourite Second Life activities? (self.second_life)

submitted 1 year ago by taladar to c/second_life

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Personally, apart from spending time with friends I do enjoy sailing and motorboats, dancing, live concerts, flying my planes, blimp, paramotor/trike, Shergood Aviation helicopters.

In the past I have also roleplayed in various medieval fantasy, urban fantasy and sci-fi regions but that activity, while fun, always took up a bit too much of my time to leave much for other things I enjoyed.

For sailing and motorboat use, apart from doing so on my own, I like to go on cruises with groups that design routes in advance. It is a good way to get to know the grid better and see how it all fits together and it is a fun way to get to know people in the group over a shared activity.

I don't like land vehicles as much because the roads often cross through sim corners or go close to banlines and security orbs I would like to avoid.

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[–] Hyacinth 3 points 1 year ago

As aggravating as it can be in SL, I love sailing. I also attend church services at UUtopia region on Thursday nights.

I love to build and create mesh avatars and clothing, make surfboards and waves, but I do that in OpenSim. We have 3500 SL sized regions that costs me less than a 5000 prim homestead.. and our surf areas are 768m or 1536m across.. so you can get up a good head of steam. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me for the better part of the last 20 years on second life, pretty insane to think it has been that long. It has been tied to DJing and music. For almost as long as I've been on second life I have been streaming at clubs etc.