All we're saying is, experience is real and experience teaches. With this in mind, lookpastit.com sponsors the SSCRPG within the virtual world of Second Life in order to provide both 3D film sets for our fun-and-educational fan-fiction series, as well as a relatively safe place for folks from around the world to learn about themselves, each other, and life, through play,  exploration and discovery. 

Roleplaying (RP) is Role-Play (Roleplay), which is to say that you put your mind into a "role" usually different than your own, and then "play" out said role in different scenarios to see what happens. That is all RP is; you (out of character, OoC) playing a role (in character, IC) for

the fun of it. In SSCRPG we roleplay in Second Life, through Avatars.

Alternate Reality Confluecing, ARCing, is the act of consciously choosing Out of Character to play/write do-and-don't differences as different realities one may or may not be conscious of In Character. This way, one can believe and play like the sky is green while the another believes and plays like the sky is blue, and the story continues whether or not either acknowlege the other's reality. ARCing is like a roleplay Mandella Effect, and it is up to each player to decide whether or not to acknowledge the other's version. Part ways Out of Character when necessary. 

Official Website: https://secondlife.com

One can think of Second Life (SL) as a 3D virtual reality that one experiences through their 3D avatar. Since 2003, Second Life pioneered the minority of 3D virtual reality community gaming in allowing just about anyone to create just about anything, and make it available to others

to experience for free or for a profit! As a result Second Life is HUGE (and older than Minecraft, for reference)! It is free to join and make your own avatar to explore Second Life!

How to Join Second Life:
1. sign-up for your free account on the official website. (NOTE: think of your username as an avatar-name that everyone else can see. An additional display name can be added later, but your user name will still be visible to other users as your resident name in world. So, choose wisely, it costs money to change your username after you sign-up.)

2. verify your e-mail.

3. download the Second Life viewer (or trusted 3rd party viewer like Firestorm.)

4. Sign-in to Second Life with the username and password you created, through the viewer you downloaded.

5. Choose a starter avatar, customize if you wish, and go!

To explore the SSCRPG, start here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tanus/144/108/2222

Official SL Website: 

https://secondlife.com

Official Firestorm Viewer Website: 

https://www.firestormviewer.org

Once one has signed up for SL, one has to download "viewer" software that allows one to interact with the virtual reality and everyone else in Second Life. Second Life recommends using the official Second Life viewer.

SSCRPG recommends the Firestorm viewer because they were kind enough to code it for Windows OS users, Mac OS users, and Linux OS users. :)

You can even test out SL's mobile viewer version by downloading the app in the Apple App store or Google Play store.

Official Website: https://secondlife.com

One must choose an avatar in Second Life because that is how one experiences the virtual world, and how one is represented to others. In roleplay, the avatar takes on the role of any character, and is customized and costumed to become that character, so that one may roleplay

as that character. Thankfully, one can even make and save

MANY customized avatar looks, and change them at will with "outfits," in your SL or third-party viewer.

Learn More? (Link coming soon.)

In SL, the whole virtual reality is made up of gridded "land," and each square in the grid is 256 meters by 256 meters, which includes 4000m of sky, and is called a "Region." Each Region can (it doesn't have to) be divided into smaller "Parcels" that may have their own names, but are still a part of the Region. Whole Regions that have only 5000 prim/land impact capacity, instead of the usual 20,000, are called "Homesteads," which one can only get if one is already paying for at least one full region. Often, "Estates" is the name we give to a group of land (regardless of type) owned by the same owner, be it an individual or a land-group made up of two or more individuals.

"Sims" are the simulated world built in/on the Parcel of a Region or the whole Region, including Homesteads, or entire Estates of parcels and regions and homesteads.

In 2003 when Second Life launched, the virtual world was made up of "primitives," which later became called, "prims."  As time went on, basic and sculpted prims evolved into "mesh" prims that basically have virtual wire frames that give them their shapes so that the only textures one has to change are the visual look of the shape. On average, one basic prim is one land-impact. Land-impact is just a nice way of saying server data impact. The more complex the object, the more land- impact it will have. Linking objects together into a greater scene or prop, like oxygen and hydrogen join into a molecule of water, can actually reduce land-impact sometimes.

Learn more: (link coming soon)

$1 USD = L$ 256 + or -

Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life,

and independent creators of Second Life, offer all sorts of FREE stuff for your avatar, and even props and furniture. The only thing you cannot find for free on SL is

land. That said, one can experience roleplaying in SL, on other folks land, without paying for anything. It its important to note that there are some Regions and Parcels which require "payment info on file" as proof of one's adult age, to even enter the land.

Paid upgrades require L$ (Lindens). Lindens can be purchased from Second Life directly, at whatever the exchange rate is at the time of purchase. Yes, the exchange rate varies, but averages around L$256 per $1 USD.  Too, Second Life created a series of games/quests one can play to earn L$, but even these games/quests require one to first add a payment on file and then use it to make at least one purchase of Lindens. Some games/quests pay L$ weekly and daily, some only once a week.

Learn More: (Link coming soon)

Experience is real and experience teaches. Technically, everything in the known cosmos is consciousness interacting with another facet of consciousness. Playing in Second Life, we experience a controlled microcosm of this intelligent infinity. As we see in real life, different folks do different things with their Second Life, and entire worlds have formed and been destroyed, with new worlds being build in their place, some of them with real economies that still flourish today. Why wouldn't we want to build our playgrounds and machinema film sets in such a thriving virtual reality?!