You know which cloud I am talking about? The one that shows up before your avatar has rezzed. The glowing mass that floats and soon enough (providing that asset servers haven't gone to hell again) will get its shape and textures and become a nice looking avatar.
But before that, it can be anything. It can turn out to be anything at all. Millions of possibilities that glow right in front of your eyes. Why am I telling you this? Read more »
Best Moment of my second life was my assignment for 1st annual Mix'n Match. "Dammit!" – I said, from all the nice topics like Toilets in SL, Digital Suicide or SL as a Tool for Self-improvement, even The power of llHttpRequest or that experiment of staying 5 days off-line…. I had to get something like writing the best moment. I cursed Vint's paw that was drawing the assignments from the hat and Crap Mariner that suggested the topic and started rewinding my personal history, searching for what should be the best moment of it. Read more »
You wouldn't believe how Help Islands in Second Life™ look these days. Once again, newspapers made a "breaking" story about a guy who cheated on his RL wife and SL partner with another avatar while the wife was chasing orcs in WoW.
Moral of the story was, as it seems, go to second life and get some sex. So the hundreds of same looking avatars fall from non-existence down on the Grid and make me think what is in their heads? Read more »
Alicia Chenaux started this train of thoughts asking why the guys in second life are (almost) always going after blinging bimbos with oiled skins, big boobs and short skirts. Answer seems to be easy, those guys are after quick cybersex, the version of it that relies more on pixels and animations than on exchange of ideas and phantasies. And so are bimbos with oiled skins. And they are communicating that message very well. But there is the rest of us, so where is the problem? Read more »
People will start drama over anything. It really doesn't matter if it's stolen boyfriend, creations that look similar, somebody's way of life, branches of a prim tree going over the parcel line. Drama can be made up of anything. What matters is that they need to get their private sitcom going. Question is whether you want to play a role in that sitcom. Read more »
