Racisim in Second Life

Well I thought I would blog about it as I have shared in the forums and its an adventure of Distilled1 in a way.

I recently decided to create an Alt Avatar that was ethnically black or African American, not just an over tan Caucasian. I started out with the newbie avatar available but had already looked and found a decent ethnic skin that wasn't just tinted. so first thing was to TP from the orientation island after a bit of small talk and helping a few, I have to say here at orientation isle I was welcomed and talked to by everyone like I was any other Avatar. It started when I hit the Welcome Area in Korea, now this was just a few second stop to open and goto the LM I had sent to myself. I was called a Nigger no less than 3 times within 1 minute of landing. I went on my way to pick up the skin I wanted, as well to grab some decent hair and one nice set of clothes/shoes/assc.

well I was out about 30 min all set up went and did the shape painstakingly making the facial features ethnic without exaggerating them, and made the avatar a health looking body. got dressed and decided I was ready to take on SL in a minority human avatar.

I clicked HOME and went back to Korea (I always forget Alts homes are set to the first welcome area until I change them) immediately again two lovely bling whores started talking about my color or race, I was sent an I'm to go find my own place, I was shouted at with the Nigger name again and again. I didn't say anything I just walked a bit closer to the two that were I assumed talking about me. Well they were talking about me and as I sat on a wall near them they started talking to me and how I should be "WHITE" because no one wants nigger avatars around. knowing I would get myself in trouble being rude back, I proceeded to log in Distilled1 on the old can rez anything PC and TP close by as well, as to start logging the chat as well as the alts log as I knew I was going to be ARing soon.

they went on and on about how I didn't belong and used every derogatory name you can think of, now I have seen greifing even rudeness but never such outright racism. And the kicker the leader of the name calling was an SL MENTOR yes I checked yes it was a real tag and yes she was saying the things, I would actually post the logs here maybe I will..
Any way I ARed both of them with the local chat log and then had the Alt AR with the local chat and IMs.

Now Distilled1 Gets even, this is when I can hit on my alt, talk in open chat and pretend to help the alt and call the Bling Whores (both of who were dancers/escorts as well, at least belonging to a few of the groups, and hey that's fine I assume they are afraid my alt can take all there business lol) cheap blingy cunts.


well I TP'd both of us out after I had my name calling spat. and I can take the names I know who I am, but what worries me with things like this, and I know SL is world wide and there are going to be all kinds here, but what worries... no what really pisses me off is what if my alt was a true newbie, who worked very hard to make the avatar represent them in RL (I know many say well its SL you should be who you want, but many as myself try to make a representation of RL us) what kind of welcome is that? and from a SL MENTOR no less! I t hurt me I can't imagine how it would hurt someone of that ethnicity that was really exited about SL and all it has to offer. And so what if that newbie wanted to go dance and have fun or maybe teach or build or learn or share in a world wide virtual world where things shouldn't matter like avatar color, race, size, look...

Well I just think SL is getting worse from when I started in 06 and well I was there in 05 but not as Distilled1 and only for a trail week. as More and more log in there is going to be more and more of this going on... its sad. Remember 6000 users logged on and you could almost find everyone? I do SL was a happier place then and so much more fun and others were so much more accepting.


what do you think? can SL still be a open accepting virtual world or is it becoming a segregated bunch of bigots?

Been Away so long

Distilled has been away from Second Life for quite a while, yes he has popped in to check inventory offers pay a rental or two, even one late night live show. The main gamer PC is having instant hard crashes using SL only, so its been logging in on one of the old PCs that run an FX5200 or a lame 400 128k nvidia thing. the lap top runs SL like a dream but its so hard to build or for that mater even enjoy live music on the lap top speakers... I can't play live using any of it and enjoy it, I supose I could log SL on the lap top and use the gamer rig to stream only but .. well yeah just not fun for me.

anyway going to try and re do the land set up with some of my house builds and make the Swank Lounge inside one of the homes. as I watch the mainland prices to try and sell but I don't think I will see 10L a sqm for a while if ever again. maybe to one of the neighbors but I doubt it. such a empty sim.

RFL Show and more

Long time see why I never blog?

Well this Saturday at 11 pm SLT (pst) or 1 am my time Sunday I will be playing during the official Relay for life walk for an hour, now I have to keep it PG and I think most of my songs work, I think I may go blues jam for about 1/2 with some boogie drive for those that are walking what do ya think? I am sure I will have a buzz being its a early am Sunday and I will no doubt have been drinking so I will have to try hard to not say fuck or shit, damn is a word I hear in PG movies so I shall use it if I do LOL.

in other news, this past week I tore down the Swank Lounge :( no worries its all ready to go back up, when I think its ready, I have a lot of land, and a pond plus a stage that I would like to do and maybe not have walls at all, maybe re build it is almost 3 rez years old in somewhat the same form as the very first club on that little 1024m lot... I just don't know if I have the patience to build from scratch again!
But I want to have a place like it was with events and live music contest and people coming and having fun, its been so slow and I just haven't had the heart to do it all and cant pay help to do it..


anyway theres 7 seas fishing and a stage indie music streaming 24/7 stop by if you want and help me decide. http://slurl.com/secondlife/November/80/196

SL5Birthday

I have spent the past 2 days in SL at the 5tyh Birthday celebration.. wasting away summer LOL.

I did get to see part of the opening speeches by Philip and M linden, although it was pretty lack luster, and I missed the keynote on music as I goofed the date! oh well... I am doing a lot of photos of the live music on the main stage and hope to have a lot from the other areas as well. my home base is Bibi Banllingers exhibit, its set up like a woodstock era camp site great place to just chill, around the fire and listen to some indie tunes, as well hopefully there will be some open jaming going on... yes I hope to do a jam there as well :D

its right next door to Slims SLMC info area great info on all of music in SL venues, musicians, DJs, info on how to etc. make sure to check it out! well I am out for now, may be back as I explore some more

~Rush

First Blog ever!

So Hi! This is Distilled1 Rush I am a Second Life resident and musician. Thought I would blog about some of my adventures ... shows I do and go to as well some of the escapades I get into! I hope to post about new music as well as Indie music you may not know. I hope you if you are there reading enjoy what I blog and maybe just maybe will find some great music in any case:D I have been absent from preforming in Second Life for a few months but have some great gigs coming up at Rocky Shores (the old is pictured above) thanks to the wonderful Ticious, I will be playing July 9th at 5 pm SLT and again on July 26th at 1 pm SLT CALENDER

Well for today that's it I did manage to grab Shared Svoboda BLOG (an shared AV experiment I find fascinating!) for a couple minutes today lets see if we can get the pic of her playing air guitar at my club and home ;)