I am not going to rant about Linden's last raising of the OpenSpace prices. Because this time, it's not about running the biz wisely nor respecting the customers. It's about friends leaving second life or retreating because they cannot afford (or don't want to pay too much for) virtual land anymore. This time it's personal.
Because, that chunk of data, that grayscale image that renders into 3D mesh with ground texture, is a very personal thing. Read more »
It was last Friday that I had to rethink this world and our lives. Human was struggling with approaching migraine attack and everything sounded like another evening spent in bed with no sounds and no lights. Still, no matter how being in front of the monitor is painful in those moments, I had to log in. It was my rezzday. Of all the days in the year, how could I miss that one?
Humans get their names when they are babies. Names are given by parents and we hardly can be responsible for what we are called for the rest of our lives. One would think that avatars are in somewhat better position. Avatar gets its name from its human, so it's to be expected that there is some thinking about it and that there should be some sense and aesthetics in it. But, is that always the case? Read more »
Pseudonymity was not invented with second life. Nor even with Web and Internet. We all know that there was Norma Jeane Mortenson behind Marylyn Monroe and Samuel Clemens behind Mark Twain. It's not a practice reserved for the immortals. Most of us have a different name used by family or close friends. It's the same person, but personalities differ. We're simply not the same for different people and environments. Read more »
Once upon a time, actually most of the time, during the regular exploration of second life, somebody enters somebody else's home, click an object, try a poseball, trigger some hidden script… you know, nothing damaging, just exploration. Our world is pretty clean and hard to damage so most of those cases stay unnoticed.
Sometimes, though, our Goldilocks stay AFK on the scene or home-owning bears show up… and there the drama start. Read more »
