I’ve just heard some noise about adult content in Second Life®. Again. So I dragged my lazy ass to the official Linden Lab blog to see what’s it all about. And, of course, there is a story about how they will filter search results (don’t we have that already?) and how adult areas will be separated from the rest of the mainland and how private islands will be flagged and that there will be some verification but paying info counts. All that will be done so that everybody can enjoy Second Life® without fear that they might encounter occasional nipples or some other adult content. There is only one thing that is not clear to them: what IS adult content?
And there is one other thing that interests me: Who fuckin’ cares about all that? Read more »
Party is good and promising to be great. DJ is spinning the great tracks. Two or three dozens of great looking avatars are there. Ongoing chat is interesting. Club is loaded with particles and effects. Bandwidth meter just managed to fall out from the red, and almost nobody is gray anymore.
Then you hear it:
~~*-HOOOOOOOOOOO-*~~
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Few nighs ago, I was minding my own business in one of the popular shopping places of second life. Out of nowhere, IM from unknown name came, saying that, in order not to die in this game, that guy has to drink blood. So if I would be so kind to donate a bit of mine? How charming.
Unfortunately for him, I was not in gaming mood, busy, a bit bitchy that night and usually prefer introductions before encounters… so I simply offered to end his immortality with a couple of chosen bullets. But it happened again, just ten minutes later, from another guy. Tonight, I've learned there is much more than a simple game here. Read more »
We were talking yesterday about reasons for pseudonymity that are fun, that are connected to exploring and re-creating yourself, living like a celebrity and having a fully developed nickname. But, there is another kind. One that is connected to contemporary society and the Internet. One that we don't like that much.
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Tatery Nino takes her guess why Linden Lab is working on inter-grid teleportation and predicts that soon enough we might see CorpGrid – Second Life grid dedicated for corporate and governmental use.
Safe. Sanitized. Quiet — where the only content is made by businesses for their own use, or for display or conferences. A sober place of business, events and advertising (if they can entice people to come and visit — which doubtless, some will). And none of those embarrassing users native to the Agni grid.
It would be the fourth of Linden Lab's grids. So far we have Agni (the main one), Teen and Beta Grid. While Beta grid is understandably on its own and Teen grid is a matter of discussions, CorpGrid sounds as a weird idea. Read more »
