Age Verification will still not work!
This is another rant but also i don’t think that the new voluntary Age Verification may work in preventing minors from accessing the adult content of Second Life.
Lets come up with a theory that due to the large size of Second Life is a plausible idea. Lets say there are two sisters/brothers who are in Second Life and one of them is overage (ie. 18-21) but her sister is underage and is roughly 14-16. Now the older sister created her sisters account but as an alt but the older sister could indeed own either an escort club or a strip club to attempt to make some money in real life and the younger sister wants a piece of the action or help her sister out in her venture.
When this verification comes into play the younger sister will be cut off from this community because obviously the older sister will have verified the account. What will it look like the older sisters dancers at the club now that the younger sister has not verified the account. It will look very suspicious indeed , So the older sister has two choices. Class the strip club as mature and risk getting flagged by the Lindens…OR verify her younger sisters account and continue what the younger sister was doing.
Am I crazy for thinking this idea up? perhaps i am a little but then again I do know of places with situations like this. So when this method of verification comes into play i will be interested in seeing what happens.
Personally, even though i know its going to look odd, but I am not going to be verifying my account. I have no need in my Second Life to look at sex clubs within Second Life because the industry doesn’t interest me one bit. I do not see the point of seeing a texture based on these polygons dancing around on a poseball. It just seems like a waste of time to me so I will not verify.
Sure there may be a trust issue with me then but in my opinion but I don’t think that just seeing Mature content will affect me at all.
Are you an addict to SL?
I got an IM from Lilu Deluca asking me to mention her book thats shes doing and gave me a notecard which i shall copy in now.
Hi.
I am putting together a book with the help of you all. The name shall be:“Are you an addict to SL?”
It will have a series of oneliners; some examples are:
You are an addict:
1) If you look for the fly button in your car when the traffic is terrible.
2) If you want to cuddle with your partner in RL, but you can’t because you cannot find the balls in the bedroom.
3) If you try to spend some long time in RL under sea and die like a silly.
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Send your oneliners by IM to Lilu Deluca. We have allready 62.
They shall appear in the book with your avatar name.The book shall be for SL, free distribution.
Hugs to all.
Lilu Deluca
So go ahead and IM Lilu Deluca with your oneliners 
Physic’s Phun #1 - 193 Collapse
We all know that Second Life’s physics engine is not the best thing in the world. But it can produce some of the funnest enviroments (in MY opinion) in Second Life.
For the first in the series of Physics Phun, i bring you the 193 tower prim (consisting of 9 4X4X0.4 prims per layer) and simply turning Phyics ON!
Sorry Crap, I am leeching off your bandwith… But you can find these pictures at the IFOC Gallery
Next Week, I don’t know what i will throw up but it may be insaner than this…be warned!
My Teen Grid Theory…
I have speculated about this idea before in IM’s and general conversation and after hearing about the Adult Verification scheme mentioned once again at SLCC I had the theory pop into my head.
I consider Mature content to be accessible to people who are 16 years old or more. Where as content that is Adult to be 18 years old or more. Therefore PG which does stand for Parental Guidance to be all content that can be deemed appropriate to anybody under 18 as long as a parent approves of it.
How does this relate to teens coming onto the grid? Well as we all know the main grid has currently got two types of sims. Mature and PG. PG seems to be maintained as a clean area where no swearing / sex / mature and adult acts happen. But in a world that is mature in nature and requires the user to be older than 18 (although we all know that can be easily bypassed) seems to be a little farfetched to me.
Forbes Guy…
Everyone is talking about this idiot at Forbes who seems to be moaning about the “economic crisis” in Second Life. So as i write this i am going to be watching this video and telling you my thoughts on this.
After Post Note - WHY is there so many advertisements just to watch one freaking 300 second video
Note 1 - Gambling was NOT shut down months ago, only the advertising of it
Note 2 - It is not one of the only ways to earn an income in Second Life, theres clothing, building, entertainment such as Live Music, DJing, sadly the Sex industry which may become a target next as everyone is rumouring. Theres owning land and profiting from that along with rentals. Theres all sorts of other methods for earning an income in Second Life.
Note 3 - Why is “most of things going into sex”. BECAUSE THE MEDIA HYPED IT TO BE A SEX CRAZED WORLD!!!!
Note 4 - You may have spent a lot of time in the world but WHERE DID YOU SPEND TIME (sorry the rant mode is ON)
Note 5 - I think the corporate businesses are already losers because they ultimately have made their purpose boring and dead. Sure the openings are filled but they offer absolutely nothing after it. Stuff like Woodstock which was a homegrown effort gained popularity for what it was and has shown that sex and gambling is everything when it is not. People tipped the artists like crazy and because i was once married to someone in a sex club i can tell you the artists EARNED up to 10 times more in one fucking hour than those sex club workers. L$1000 for an hour night in some cases compared to L$10,000 for an hour shows the POWER of other places.
Note 6 - Of course its stupid to have a washing machine in Second Life. You don’t need to wash your clothes in Second Life and also it does nothing. Washing machines that eat an avatar up and spins them round for 10 seconds is far more intresting than that
Note 7 - World of Warcraft firstly is a waste of time. I spent about 10 hours and was more bored of the newbies going around saying stuff like “TRAD WTIH M3 B4 I KIL YOU” on a server which people don’t fight each other…only the monsters/creatures. Also do you hear live music in WoW? Do you actually have fun? Has anyone died playing Second Life on a 57 hour spree? No is the answer!
Note 8 - How is Mario Kart and Second Life related? Pre - Made cars which you can change a color to blue, red, white etc. ?
For a Video to this detailed and obviously smarter guy than I am click this link
That felt good to rant, I don’t do that often 
Woodstock…
Since it kind of is too late to talk about Day 2 and 3 of Woodstock…i advise you to go check out these two galleries. Sorry for missing them out, i wanted to cover them but now i am missing other blog entries cos of them.
Crap Mariner’s Woodstock Gallery
Sundays…OK it’s now Mondays Priority
With Woodstock now behind us, I am behind on my Woodstock entries. Sundays priority is to go through 120 photos and figure out who was who and where and then cover every performance. Sorry that i am late on the Friday and Saturday entries, but I went to experience Real Life and was there longer than i had originally expected.
EDIT - For some reason i am still recovering from Woodstock and have overslept big time. I will do the entries after I have recorded the Podmafia Woodstock Special with Yxes and Gomem on Monday. Also Gomem may be producing the show from now on, just because I am lazy and do not have the time with stuff popping up very soon.
Woodstock Day #1 - That S’Life coverage
The SLCN (Second Life Cable Network) show That S’Life hosted by Starr Sonic covered the Woodstock event live before the event started. So here is the link to the show (if you look carefully for a guy in a purple shirt in the back, that is myself </ego>
This is the link to the show covering SL Woodstock and other events in Second Life!
Woodstock Day #1 - Aftermath
So the first day of Second Life Woodstock has come and gone. From what I could tell looking at the map we had about 100 avatars at one time all together on the three sims, Edloe also had 50 avatars on the sim. So personally i think that it was successful, there was seemingly no griefer incidents, the Sims stayed alive and everyone did their best to prevent anything going wrong.
But, personally I was shattered after all the music was finished with. I went to sleep at 6 am, and only got out of bed at about 3 PM. But still I am willing to do this again tonight because in my humble opinion, This is one of the greatest events I have been to yet in my Second Life which i have been experiencing since May 2006. So it is saying alot for the event, also I have only really missed about 30 days of Second Life. There are 2 days of Woodstock left…It has only just begun, This is going to be great
Woodstock Day #1 - Grateful Stryker - Edloe Act #2
This was the first time I ever listened to Grateful…I was blown away. Grateful did a fantastic performance and it really did keep me awake and feeling alive. I can’t really say much more than that, so here are 5 pictures to end the first day of Woodstock coverage.
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