Whats your Second Life?
I am currently listening to SL Under the Radar’s part 2 of The Toilet Bowl and it got me thinking, what on earth is Second Life to people. What is it that they do?
Me?
I am an evil tyrant who wants to wage nuclear war on Nowhereville who is secretly an evil timelord.
Why?
I love Doctor Who and thats why I am an evil timelord. The nuclear war thing is because I am scared of Nuclear War. I used to have regular nightmares about Nuclear War but for some reason, since I started playing around with nukes in Second Life it sort of eased my fears and I haven’t had a nightmare about it in a long freaking time.
Thats a sort of insight to why Warf is Warf. What about you? Do you do anything wacky that you wouldn’t do in Real Life that you do in your Second Life? Is this post entirely pointless to you?
Not long now…
… I hope …
In case you aren’t aware, for about 10 weeks my main machine which could handle Windlight well went out of action. At first we thought it was the Motherboard that was bricked so we sent it off with the warranty and then found out that it was not the case. So then we discovered it was really the graphics card that was to blame for the problems. Assuming that everything else is fine I should have the machine back very soon and enjoying Second Life like I should have. It’s annoyed me to no end because I wanted to fully experience things like SL5B and the Relay for Life.
So while I was in the downtime I managed to get my old computer up and running again. During the downtime some things went wrong with the machine. But it gave me a chance to experience Second Life from the older hardwares perspective. It intrested me because I always hear people with low end machines complaining that their machines are unbearably slow and get 1fps. It makes me think, what exactly are they putting the Settings at with the viewer. Case and Point this screen capture of my settings, hardware and frames per second.
This machine right here is about 4 or 5 years old now. Yet I seem to be getting 17fps on this low hardware. The only problems I get sometimes is that the machine will hang for a few seconds. But that is down to the machine having 512 MB of memory. Now I understand that some people having laptops and they really do suck for Second Life if they are cheap laptops but the fact is if you buy one of those cheap laptops you are shooting yourself in the foot for any 3D application. I know because I got one for the laptop and yes it sucks big time. I wonder what other people with older hardware get when they are on Second Life. If you read this blog let me know in the comments.
…I wouldn’t mind Creative Commons either
I was checking out the feeds on Google Reader today when I noticed that the popular blog, Not Possible in RL, asked this of Linden Lab.
The Not Possible in Real Life group hereby requests that Linden Lab add a Creative Commons tab in the object editor, as well as a Creative Commons option in the right click pie menu, so that everyone can see, with a simple right mouse click, what the rights are on an object.
I personally second this motions because I am a supporter of Creative Commons. Even though I don’t make it painfully clear on my podcasts I pretty much grant people to use and mashup anything inside of it because it is a good thing.
So, will the guys in charge pay attention and accept Creative Commons into Second Life?
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.
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 
Oh Boy…
At first sight this may look like i am supporting this guy, but if anyone knows me in real life, i absolutely do not like Justin Timberlake. For some reason i think that this event will just be a failed attempt to garner traffic and will attract the wrong crowd who just want to listen to some free music….assuming they are letting avatars and will end up in disappointment because it is seemingly a behind the scenes show.
edit - I know it seems like i am in myself promoting this event, but i think that alot of the readers of the blog will not visit this event or…they will which defeats the purpose of the rant. Ah well…
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