Patrick is helping me explore Second Life. “Dude, someone made a Mario land,” he just told me.
I don’t know how to explain Second Life. It’s brilliant, though. The business model just blows me away. Get people to build a virtual world and charge them for it. Even better, we love it!
Right now it’s all exploration. Eric Rice was my tour guide. He says “follow me” and I follow. Last night he took me shopping for some new clothes. Then we checked out a music store where musicians put their performances up. And I listened to some weird radio station.
Oh, and by my big evil software company building people left me a bunch of gifts. A Make Magazine. A Channel 9 guy. A welcome poster. And more. Thanks!
i dont s’pose SL is for everyone. i’ve tried it & maybe its just me, but i couldn’t see the attraction. again, maybe its just me but i’ve got too much going on in the real world to devote my time to replicating those exact same events online. i can’t criticise those who enjoy it but as a concept, its main focus seems to be nothing more than a series of contrived commercial exchanges. as the saying goes, a fool and his money………..
perhaps we would be better off as a species if we collectively took the time otherwise spent in pursuit of virtual exchanges & devoted it to focusing our attention on the people in our ‘real’ environs? maybe im alone in thinking that its cheaper to strike up a conversation in a pub than to subscribe to a SL account.
i dont s’pose SL is for everyone. i’ve tried it & maybe its just me, but i couldn’t see the attraction. again, maybe its just me but i’ve got too much going on in the real world to devote my time to replicating those exact same events online. i can’t criticise those who enjoy it but as a concept, its main focus seems to be nothing more than a series of contrived commercial exchanges. as the saying goes, a fool and his money………..
perhaps we would be better off as a species if we collectively took the time otherwise spent in pursuit of virtual exchanges & devoted it to focusing our attention on the people in our ‘real’ environs? maybe im alone in thinking that its cheaper to strike up a conversation in a pub than to subscribe to a SL account.
“Then again maybe you were just spouting a bunch of vacuous BS.” And maybe you’ve got a dictionary next to your toilet. Who knows. I know exactly what he meant; to condense it for dilettantes like yourself is quite easy: a sandbox.
“Then again maybe you were just spouting a bunch of vacuous BS.” And maybe you’ve got a dictionary next to your toilet. Who knows. I know exactly what he meant; to condense it for dilettantes like yourself is quite easy: a sandbox.
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