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The Glitch Brigade takes over Second Life

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For those who have somehow missed Deroiste Quijote's First ever Wall-o-Glitch in Second Life. You can see the wall in action here

Deroiste has been kind enough to start up a Glitch group in SL under the name Glitcher and has put together a great tutorial on how to build your own Wall-O-Glitch, which you can find here

So far in the Glitch Brigade we have:

Derioste Quijote aka Derioste Quijote and Glitcher in Second Life
Myself ~ Divine Reverie in SL
Pheobe Springback ~ Mayda Darkrose

Now if you are not already in SL I gotta warn you, it's no Glitch. You will have to download some stuff and install it and set up an account. The graphics make me physically ill with all of that spinning around, but, lets help them out anyway by Glitchifying the place. 

Add your name here if you have constructed a Wall-o-Glitch, or any other Glitchy thing, in SL and feel free to send me a friend request. We will do the best we can to help you out, though I may have to figure it out real quick myself. 

Let the Glitchification begin. 

Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Okay, I have to admit this whole SL thing is something of a nighmare, between Bubbles the Pervert, it outright shutting down my computer and no Friends requests to be found. Nor do searches for people seem to work ..oh my ... 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ROFL .. okay I am standing on a deck, did manage to get someone to tell me where one of these sandbox things are and suddenly a speed boat comes cruising through and wipes out an entire crowd of people, now the cops are here. This is way too real .... 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I could be wrong, but I think it's broken, won't even give me a basic menu to touch the freakin' ground. Restart. Again.
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LoL!

    Yes SL is the bomb.

    Don't know how long it will take you to glitch-enhance SL, as there are 2+ million folks playing there...Ah for the days when there were only 75 - 100,000.

     
    Posted 19 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Umph ... right click, I just learned NOT to use that button ... if all else fails read the directions ....

    I won't say what comes to mind when you mention bombs and SL in the same sentence right now .... 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Still needs some work but... introducing the Cube-O-Glitch . Wanted to put the trailer on it but couldn't get it to play.... 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • oh wow - I'm an oldbie in SL though I haven't been in for a while. I'd be glad to help anyone out  - before they stopped having mentors I was one - I'm sure I've got some extra clothes and skins around. 

    I'm Moxie Grumby in SL - and it certainly is no Glitch. It is incredibly immersive, but therefore take a lot of tweaking to your avatar. There certainly are large numbers of nice folks too but also plenty of perverts. 
    Posted 19 months ago by Wren Bramble Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm assuming this will appear to leave me seemingly thickheaded but I still don't get what SL IS if it is NOT a game? Is there something I can read about as I didn't find any info on the game page itself.
    Posted 19 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've been an active resident of SL for nearly 5 years and I can agree that SL for an unprepared user can be a nightmare. SL is not a game as such - it can be whatever you want it to be. I built an entire world there myself (confined to a private region, or sim).

    However, it can be boring for a person with no imagination and application. Or it can be a wonderful place for meeting people and staying in touch.

    Glitch is a wonderful place, too. Whilst SL is mostly aimless in ordinary game terms, and, with the level of detail close to real life, Glitch attracts me with an imaginative storyline and out-of-this-world graphics that makes me feel inside of a fairy tale.

    Does any of you remember an online game There? I loved it, too; mostly for its cartoon-like environment  which had nothing to do with the real world. Unlike SL, games like Glitch and There tend to carry us away from the real life hustle and in a wonderful cocoon of a land of pure imagination.

    In contrary, SL closely replicates real life, even with its gameplay communities, such as Steampunk and Gor.
    Posted 19 months ago by Dengo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Holly it is sort of like a virtual version of reality, only even less friendly as a rule, because people have the anonymity of having their real identities masked, we have that, but we're intrinsically nice soo... Can be pretty sleazy and hostile. Derioste told me a story the other day about building an entire island for a convention only to have some corporate type power come and seize control of the entire thing. It is not something that appeals to your typical FSR/Glitch type person, myself included. I just wanted a giant wall of Glitch now I have a cube and a wall and I am pretty well done .... 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well now Divine, i guess the question remains Am I curious enough to download and check it out or am I secure enough to know it's not for me?  Thanks for the info.
    Posted 19 months ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • SL and Glitch are very very different. I've been in SL for years now (and was invited here by friends from SL)... However if you would like to experience SL in a way that's slightly similar to Glitch head over to Raglanshire.  It's sims for tinies (usually tiny animals). It's PG, and it's residents are fun and funny and very very helpful either with building or just helping a newbie get situated in this weird place.

     I am only a tiny cat in SL and rarely venture out to where the biggies are unless we are planning on raiding a biggie sim and pranking them (we have gone on vampire hunts and christmas caroling. Most often we just show up and start 'riverdancing')  We don't have drama/sex/nudity. It's about creativity and play.
    Posted 19 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Vi but I have that here without graphics that make me sick. I ainta goin' back ... okay maybe for a sec just to play on my Glitch Cube but thats it !
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Graphics made you sick? Can you describe them? I may be able to help you sort it out.
    Posted 19 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I get nauseous playing minecraft, or watching 3D movies, some graphics can do that to some people. I haven't tried 2nd life, but I have a feeling the graphics might have the same effect on me. It sounds interesting though.
    Posted 19 months ago by FrankenPaula Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Vi - what she said ^^^ I also can't play racing games on PS2 , XBox etc. even if it doesn't go in a circle but just moves too fast, nope can't do it ... but thanks for offering to help. 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've been in SL for 5 years also.  I'll stick a Glitch wall on my land next time the game's open.  (Did someone find out if it's OK with the devs?)

    Aside: SL provided a lovely setting for meeting up with my now-husband during the years when we were living 5300 miles apart.  We discovered we had similar taste in art and architecture when we built and decorated a house together in SL.
    Posted 19 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I forwarded it to a dev, who forwarded it to GOD and since I been pokin' at it for two days and haven't yet been hit by lightening or anything, I'm gonna have to go with okay. Call it free advertisement ....  The story of you and your husband, very cool !
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow, so much to comment on here..  I get the dizzying thing.  I have played some games that have the 3D 360 effect and it can tend to cause a kind of motion sickness.  Btw, 3D movies totally give me a headache (think tri-focals ala an astigmatism), but I love watching them anyway.

    I'm no regular on SL.. actually had uninstalled the viewer until I saw Divine's post.  Being an amateur geek I had to go try it out.  Funny, in between I had tried Google SketchUp and found that experience really helped me when working with my Glitch Screen.

    When I first joined SL I found the tutorial aspect very annoying, just wanted to get going and find out what was there.  Last I remember I was stuck in one, but when I logged in today, no tutorial, YAY!

    That being said, it's no "World of Warm Fuzzies".  I LIKE warm fuzzies.. A LOT, so it will never be "my world"!

    Voilet, since I have re-downloaded the viewer I will visit Raglanshire.

    Divine, speaking of some such as "Bubbles", there was this person in the sandbox I landed in that kept asking to "alter my avatar" as in - he thought he was a vampire and wanted to bite me.. LOL.  Of course, just like in Glitch and other games, we can block.  Um.. yeah.. I did say no :)

    It's probably not quite such a scary place as it might seem, but I imagine one needs to maintain a fairly strong sense of self to get along there.

    Bottom line.. I wait with joyous anticipation for every "Game is Open" sign and cannot (but must) wait until the day we are in it 24/7/365.  Good things come to those who wait, right!

    Love to all, Princess Fi
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Fi - I did try to warn you :) Yeah, Glitch 24/7 definitely the game version of Nirvana for us tame freaks who much prefer humorous innuendo over outright in your face raunch. 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yeah, that's for sure :)
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eleanor Rigby, that is so cool..  SL to RL.  Wonder how often that happens?
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We just had a wedding in Raglan today for two people that met on SL and married in RL.  Here's the video- so cute.   You can also click on the youtube channel from that page to get an idea of what our world is like there. (right sidebar).  It's not Glitch- it's not a game.  But it is a community of fun creative people and the innocence of it is really refreshing.

    Oh and Fi- download the Phoenix Viewer for SL.  Less crashy less bulky. Much better than the SL one.
    Posted 19 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eleanor, I just don't know what to say.. That was so sweet and touching..  I had no idea SL had any capacity for such sweetness.  What a wonderful celebration!  Thank you for sharing :)

    Will look for the Phoenix viewer.  Every time I load the SL viewer my hard drive sounds like it's going to explode.  I really don't have great graphics capacity.
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My how the threads do wander.. :)
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It would be really great to have an IM capacity along with the forums and groups.  Not that I don't want to share my thoughts.. ya ken?  Might keep the topics well.. more on topic :)
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well we do, it's just intermittent. When the game goes live we will have that ability all the time. @Vi I have to admit that is really cute and sweet and looks like the perfect area to find nice folks who would like Glitch, we don't want all those pervos in here after all :) 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Divine, Your right.. we do.. I'm just such a mental "wanderer".  Sometimes I feel well "guilty of" is too strong of a description, but still, like I'm taking the subject in too much of an off topic direction - to a place that doesn't serve the interests of most of the people looking for info on the topic being discussed.
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey this entire thread doesn't serve the purposes of what most people are looking for so I don't mind ... seems to me you've been on topic anyway :) Glad you escaped vampire dude unharmed XOX
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe I'll put up a glitch board on my property in Raglan.  Then Glitch would be over run with tinies...lol.
    Posted 19 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Vi - that would be awesome, can't think of another group that would fit in better (and isn't already here). Tiny Speck, Tiny Speckles, tinies ... seems like a perfect match to me :) And they are ohhh so cute and sweet. 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OK, the more I watch these tiny videos the more I love these tinies , now I'm gonna have to figure out how to make a tiny avatar so I can go meet them .....
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I looked at the idea of SL years ago, and decided that if I ever suffer a severe enough maiming that I can't do art at all, I'll be too maimed to play on a computer, so I'm not worried about SL.

    Or to put it another way, it looked like such a massive time drain that I would NEVER get any work done at all. And I'd rather make real art than fiddle around with SL. And if my hands work enough for using a computer, I can do art. So there's really no point at which SL would be anything other than a total waste of time for me.
    And no, not because of the "weirdos" or "pervs". By many folks standards I'm probably both, and I'm pretty good at avoiding people I don't like. The problem is the learning curve, and then all the time spent on building and customizing. Too labor intensive for something I'm not getting paid for, really.

    On a less Bah Humbug type note: The little furry avatars ARE cute.
    But possibly TOO sweet for me. But still, VERY adorable.
    Posted 19 months ago by Murri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gosh, its too bad to give such a negative impression of SL. It is *not* overrun with perverts, griefers or vampires. just as in rl, you can find those things and you can avoid them. The first and second day in SL don't give you an adequate idea of what SL can be. And "newbie" areas are to be avoided, imo. I tried to find Devine in one last night, and it was wildly laggy because so many avatars were there. Also, griefers tend to go there to "play" with a newbie. But there's an almost unlimited number of other places to go, and an amazing variety of styles. When I first started in SL, I rented a lot in a place called Thistletown. It was filled with wonderful, friendly, helpful people, and felt like a real neighborhood. I had such fun decorating a house I bought and installed, landscaping with trees, glowing bushes, butterfly emmiters, a fawn, squirrels having a picnic....much more, and we dont have time for that, haha. I went to a class at at a library, which taught how to avoid griefers, vampires etc. I've really never had a problem with those elements. The people with those tastes have their own communities. Yes, SL isn't for everyone, if you're not a focused person, you can eventually get bored with flying, chatting and exploring, and its unfortunate if you have a bad experience your first day in. But I wouldn't want to discourage people from trying it, and finding a "world" full of wonderful experiences. SL is what you make it.

    Ah, the viewer. I cant stand the SL viewer, its very clumsy...but some people love it. I use one called Imprudence. Phoenix is very good too.
    Posted 19 months ago by Phoebe Springback Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1,000,000 Phoebe Springback

    "Your world, Your imagination" (old SL tagline that we all dearly hold on to)

    Second Life truly is anything you wish to make it. It just takes a lot of intelligence and imagination.

    As for the adult behavior - it has its own continent now, has for quite some time. It is kept far away from most of SL. The majority of SL is an amazing place made beautiful and fascinating by its Residents.

    Unlike Glitch or any other game, SL is a virtual world and is created entirely by the people who inhabit it. So please remember, that when you put SL down you are not putting a company down but rather the people who have created SL each and every day.

    I hope I don't offend anyone by pointing this out, but maybe not everyone understands that we create everything you see there. I've been trying to find the kindest way to do so ever since this thread began.

    Again, a thousand apologies if I've offended anyone.
    Posted 19 months ago by Dandilion Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Eleanor - I met my fiance in SL 4 years ago and we are now living together happily ever after.

     I am forever grateful to SL and the folks I met there. Second Life (and the Sims Online before it) helped me have confidence in myself in RL in myriad ways and I might still be a spinster in my parent's attic had I not found them. 

    I didn't mean my comment to come off so negatively - just that Glitch and SL are like apples to oranges for me. I slid into the land of Glitch effortlessly, and that doesn't aways happen in SL, even though the rewards can be huge once you do. 
    Posted 19 months ago by Wren Bramble Subscriber! | Permalink
  • During the time I spent checking out SL a few years ago (never really got into it), I also spent some time checking out Active Worlds, which had been around a really long time and was kind of on a downhill slide until the popularity of SL gave it a boost of interest.   All of the different areas were classified as worlds, and had various different themes, all of which had one thing in common:  they were generally 98% devoid of people. 

    The eeriness of that was really compelling for me, especially since some of them were huge, really built out places that you could wander around in for hours...but I kept stumbling across the artifacts of these old forgotten events like this birthday party, which despite being years old of course looked like it had been set up minutes ago.  Talk about cognitive dissonance.  It provoked this mega-pack of feeling: voyeuristic, fascinated, admiration for the skills and hours that were clearly put in to create the place, but also kind of creeped out and sad.   
    Posted 19 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have set up a group in secondlife called Glitchlife free to join.
    Posted 19 months ago by Deroiste Quijote Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Since we're already totally off-track, here's another SL testimonial that I can't resist sharing.

    My elderly father, then about 85 years old, had been caring at home for my mom for 20 years after her strokes.  He himself was confined to a motorized chair and used oxygen almost full time.  He set up a SL account for himself after her death (at my suggestion) and had me help him get his avatar all gussied up with a tuxedo, shiny shoes, and suave hat.  One night, he ping'd me on AIM and asked me to get into SL and join him.  He teleported me to his location: a dance hall where one could waltz, jitterbug, or tango with one's SL partner.  I put on a lovely ball gown and our avatars danced for an hour.  He later told me that he got into SL every night and went dancing with partners from around the world for an hour or two before bedtime... because it was something he could no longer do in RL and it gave him pleasure to remember what dancing with a beautiful woman was like.

    I've always wanted to thank Linden Labs for that.  (Along with my own happy story, of course.)
    Posted 19 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hi Deroiste - Thanks a bunch for all the videos you have been putting together, and as soon as I figure out how I will join the group.....To the rest of you, no offense taken and none intended, I gave an actual account of my experiences there, I am in the ballpark of Murri, while I think it's cool that you can create these things and indeed some of the creations are awesome, I simply do not have the time to spend over there. Glitch and my FS/Glitch Facebook groups (which get very little attention these days) take up the huge majority of my time and that is not likely to change. My only real interest in SL is in Glitchy things in there. I think it would be really cool to have a field of Glitch walls for folks to play on in there and the tinies would be awesome little Glitches. The wider the base of super nice Glitches we have the less pain everyone is going to go through at live. As you can see I eat, breathe, and live for Glitch and I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that it succeeds. Not only because me and my 400 or so, closest friends don't want/need another world to go poof but because I believe in this company, this game and, of course, GOD.
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Deroiste, I cannot locate the Glitchlife group in SL, nor can I locate your profile to befriend. Too bad we don't have an IM option here when the game's offline, so we can figure this out without boring everyone else who's not interested....
    Posted 19 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well it's nice to know I'm not the only one. Feel free to talk Glitch/SL here all you like and need, that's what this thread is for :) 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For those of you who like myself, are less than thrilled by the standard SL Viewer here is where you can download Imprudence 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There is even an Imprudence Wiki , cool ! 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eleanor, I sent you an IM response. This Viewer is definitely better, went with the SSE2 enhanced version, though the controls are very hard for me to see and it's functionally different so I have to relearn it, with a magnifying glass....  Would I scare the tinies if I showed up as a biggy ?
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've set up a  group in second life called "Glitchlife" ; I am an very early SL Builder now a Glitch fanatic. The viewer I use is the SL standard, latest version. 
    Posted 19 months ago by Deroiste Quijote Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You won't scare tinies if you show up as a biggie.  Though you may hear things like "Why are you so tall" ,"Helloo knees!", and "One of us. One of us. One of us". You should have a tiny avatar in your inventory or if you like you can purchase one.  The Wynx Whiplash avatars (the ones you see in the video I posted) are L$350.

    I'm also Violet Faulds in SL.  Send me an IM when you're inworld and I'll TP you to Raglan
    Posted 19 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anyone in this thread in SL back when Merwan Marker and Apotheosis started the SL Exchange - the very 1st web-based Second Life shopping site?

    Just wondering...
    Posted 19 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • eh, MeherMan, Amazon was started in 1994, eBay was started in 1995, nearly 10 years before SL. 
    Posted 19 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • SL Exchange was the first Second Life web-based shopping website where a player could buy content created in Second Life and their purchases were delivered inWorld.

    Didn't mean to imply first shopping site ever on the web - rather the first for buying selling Second Live content created by residents. 
    Posted 19 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Vi - thanks, I still want to come meet the tinies, even when they insult you they are cute. But gonna have to wait til tomorrow. Hopefully will see ya then :) 
    Posted 19 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks to Divine~ and Deroiste for starting this group (I knew there must be more of us here!), and to Dengo, Phoebe and Dandilion for sharing why Second Life can be so much more than the media and rumors would lead one to believe.

    And, like Eleanor and Wren and many others, I too found love in SL and have just moved across the country to be with my favorite (ex-)Linden!

    - Lina (Lina Lageos)
    Posted 19 months ago by Lina Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Even though I don't have time for SL, I am loving the chance to hear you guys share your stories. Especially as someone who found her soulmate in an RPG chat and moved from KC to NC to be with him. (We've been together in person since 2002, married since 2008)

    And for the record, what I said before wasn't intended as a put-down towards SL.
    Just the truth- I've been trying to cut back on my internet time and get more done in the shop, so there is no way I can play around with (another) new game.
    Posted 19 months ago by Murri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So Divine.. I joined Glitchlife.  Can't see my name on the list though.. Hmm.. definitely joined.  Also visited with Violet in Raglanshire, sweet place:)  Have to go get some sleepies now.  Pleasant dreams all!
    Posted 19 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Any one needs help in secondlife IM Glitcher, Sl Glitch group is called Glitchlife
    Posted 19 months ago by Deroiste Quijote Subscriber! | Permalink