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1. Theatre, Play, and Deception in SL, Which, When, and Why?

   you see the real point, as you can read in a few responses already ..

2. Theatre, Play, and Deception in SL, Which, When, and Why?

   I saw the potential for (presumably unintentional) bait, and ignored it!

3. What are you listening to?

   An old Dutch text : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebban_olla_vogala

4. Theatre, Play, and Deception in SL, Which, When, and Why?

   For me, it's pretty easy. Usually, I'm here to either roleplay, the literal kind, like playing an elf in a fanrasy rp sim, or to "explore", sometimes to shop or "build". While I like immerse when roleplaying, I can easily flip the switch, and am either in character, or out of character. When in character, of course, I play, "deceive", that's "expected behaviour", after all, for the RP purpose, RP won't work, else, and I'll also try to keep any ooc IMs to the minimum when on an RP sim. When out of character, I'm interested in other people, what they do, build, why, etc., and playing would be counterproductive there. Of course, if I don't want to answer specific questions (yet, to a specific person, in a specific situation,...), I won't, but if they, for example, ask where I live, I might say "Europe", or maybe "Middle Earth" if on my "Elf" account, ss a joke, not replying umtruthfully, but avoidant. When I already log in in "explore mode", that's also on a different account, with a more "neutral" name, and different outfits, including lines under the eyes and some gray in the hair, the last few years. I don't "play" on that account (or also on my Elf account when not on an RP sim and OOC), or at least not more than we do "in real life", too, tp some extent, in all our roles as family, friends, neighbours, fellow users of public transport, etc. My "out of character account" pretty much mirrors my "real self", I'd say. And while I've been in-world almost exclusively for actual roleplay for many years since discovering SL, over the last 5-10 years, I'm there out of character more and more; by now, it's maybe down to 25% roleplay, or less, so, usually, you'll get my ooc self, these days. I still "play", but in the sense of, yes, if you have a Ferris wheel on your sim, I'll use it. A really interesting and extensive topic, which is also very much on-topic, in whatever direction one reads and thinks or reads about it, or does some soul-searching and reflection of one's"SL history" on, and hopefully will stay open long enough that also people who don't check imto the forums every day or week, will still spot it.

5. How Does Your SL Look Today?

   My fat ass thought that triangular lighted object looked like cake.