Holding out several days is great. I remember when last year you more or less did daily resets.

Jess can be a totes bitch tooo.
Sooo methinks we are allowed sum bitchness too.

I get the whole player vs residen thingy. Where I was before I was a player. I came on had sum fun and left and being gone for a week was no biggiy for me. Now I a happy for the time I can spend in SL and even trivial things as hanging with my friends are more meaningful than when I was a player.

Methinks its important to add that not all players see others as NPCs in their own game. I was and still am fully aware that there are other peeps in virtual worlds than me. The simple rule don’t be an asshole applies to SL as much as to RL.

Methinks in my player phase a virtual world was more a casual thing for me.

Oh payback will come, I’m just unsure how or when but it will come…

We grow stronger by learning from our experiences. Sometimes moreso from our failures than our successes.

No hard feelings, boss, right?

…Right?

Although I am most likely biased as I am *firmly* one of the residents, I feel that those players who treat this shared hallucination we both call Second Life as a game are missing the depth of experience available to residents.

Of one thing I am certain. When residents and players interact, there is a *huge* potential for conflict and misunderstanding as the two perspectives clash. Because of that, I ensure I know where others place themselves before I invest my time and emotions into any interaction. While players may be bemused and possibly confused by residents, they are seldom as traumatised as residents may become when treated as little more than a “non-player character”.

Whatever your perspective may be, it is *essential* to treat others, be they players or residents, with the respect they are due as human beings.