Comments on: Of Metaverses And Flying Phalluses http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/ Random Comments About Gaming And Tractors Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Underage nn model http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6391 Underage nn model Sun, 25 May 2008 10:42:02 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6391 panw kxvd rdnfvlj dvxbcq panw kxvd rdnfvlj dvxbcq

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]]> By: Yunk http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6389 Yunk Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:35:00 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6389 You know "cyber rape porn" is going to be the number one search term to get to your site soon, right? here I will help: cyber rape porn cyber rape porn cyber rape porn cyber rape porn ok thats enough You know “cyber rape porn” is going to be the number one search term to get to your site soon, right?

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]]> By: CmdrSlack.com » Virtually Exceptional (Or, ZOMG, Flying PENIS!@!) http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6388 CmdrSlack.com » Virtually Exceptional (Or, ZOMG, Flying PENIS!@!) Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:36:30 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6388 [...] Thanks to Lum and his finely-tuned Second Life media radar, I had the chance to read Warren Ellis’ op-ed piece over at the Reuters in SL page.  Ellis discusses the clash between two different perceptions of Second Life, illustrating it in terms of the griefing of C Net’s coverage of  Anshe Chung’s “SL millionaire” press conference.  Flying phalluses aside, Ellis’ analysis of the event and its subsequent flurry of nasty letter writing raises some interesting questions. [...] [...] Thanks to Lum and his finely-tuned Second Life media radar, I had the chance to read Warren Ellis’ op-ed piece over at the Reuters in SL page.  Ellis discusses the clash between two different perceptions of Second Life, illustrating it in terms of the griefing of C Net’s coverage of  Anshe Chung’s “SL millionaire” press conference.  Flying phalluses aside, Ellis’ analysis of the event and its subsequent flurry of nasty letter writing raises some interesting questions. [...]

]]> By: J. http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6380 J. Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:58:04 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6380 Linden Labs *declined* an interview request from a halfway-savvy public radio program featuring business news? The end is near. Linden Labs *declined* an interview request from a halfway-savvy public radio program featuring business news?

The end is near.

]]> By: brent http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6387 brent Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:35:20 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6387 Not to contribute to the piling-upon the whole Second Life hype machine for the largely ridiculous enterprise it is, but... ah, hell, that's exactly what I'm out to do. So I heard this on the radio today: (from marketplace.publicradio.org) TEXT OF STORY KAI RYSSDAL: When the Democrats took over yesterday, the action wasn't just in Washington. Residents of the virtual world Second Life could watch the events unfold on a simulated Capitol Hill. Congressman George Miller of California even held a press conference there. Or at least his avatar did. Frankly, it's all a bit confusing. But it is completely clear politicians are trying to cash in on the Second Life phenomenon just like many companies are. The site has more than 2 million users. Or does it? Marketplace's Amy Scott reports the virtual world may be in for a reality check. AMY SCOTT: It's true Second Life boasts more than 2.3 million residents. But that refers to the number of avatars — or online personas — people have created. Clay Shirky teaches technology at New York University. Recently he started questioning how many real people actually use the site. Yesterday a reporter from Fortune got the numbers from Second Life owner Linden Lab. Shirky says just 1.5 million people have actually tried Second Life. Only 250,000 have returned a month after signing up. CLAY SHIRKY: So these aren't terrible numbers, but it's certainly a much more modest success than we've been led to believe by the business stories saying "there are millions of people using Second Life and it's growing by leaps and bounds." So why does it matter how many real people inhabit a fake world? Well, remember that tech bubble that popped a few years back? Jimmy Guterman writes for Paid Content. He says journalists who fell for the hype were part of the problem. And he's worried that may be happening again. Guterman says a recent Business Week cover featured the boyish founder of digg.com, with the misleading headline, "How this Kid made $60 million in 18 months." GUTERMAN: It's a result of someone sort of extrapolating what something could have been worth if it were liquid, rather than what has actually happened. And I think it's sort of a classic example of bubble journalism, where we print what we believe, rather than what we checked. Linden Lab declined an interview request. But in a statement the company said it voluntarily publishes a wealth of information about its usage. Guterman says it's our job as reporters to find it. In New York, I'm Amy Scott for Marketplace. Not to contribute to the piling-upon the whole Second Life hype machine for the largely ridiculous enterprise it is, but… ah, hell, that’s exactly what I’m out to do. So I heard this on the radio today:

(from marketplace.publicradio.org)

TEXT OF STORY

KAI RYSSDAL: When the Democrats took over yesterday, the action wasn’t just in Washington. Residents of the virtual world Second Life could watch the events unfold on a simulated Capitol Hill.

Congressman George Miller of California even held a press conference there. Or at least his avatar did. Frankly, it’s all a bit confusing. But it is completely clear politicians are trying to cash in on the Second Life phenomenon just like many companies are. The site has more than 2 million users. Or does it?

Marketplace’s Amy Scott reports the virtual world may be in for a reality check.

AMY SCOTT: It’s true Second Life boasts more than 2.3 million residents. But that refers to the number of avatars — or online personas — people have created. Clay Shirky teaches technology at New York University. Recently he started questioning how many real people actually use the site. Yesterday a reporter from Fortune got the numbers from Second Life owner Linden Lab. Shirky says just 1.5 million people have actually tried Second Life. Only 250,000 have returned a month after signing up.

CLAY SHIRKY: So these aren’t terrible numbers, but it’s certainly a much more modest success than we’ve been led to believe by the business stories saying “there are millions of people using Second Life and it’s growing by leaps and bounds.”

So why does it matter how many real people inhabit a fake world? Well, remember that tech bubble that popped a few years back? Jimmy Guterman writes for Paid Content. He says journalists who fell for the hype were part of the problem. And he’s worried that may be happening again.

Guterman says a recent Business Week cover featured the boyish founder of digg.com, with the misleading headline, “How this Kid made $60 million in 18 months.”

GUTERMAN: It’s a result of someone sort of extrapolating what something could have been worth if it were liquid, rather than what has actually happened. And I think it’s sort of a classic example of bubble journalism, where we print what we believe, rather than what we checked.

Linden Lab declined an interview request. But in a statement the company said it voluntarily publishes a wealth of information about its usage. Guterman says it’s our job as reporters to find it.

In New York, I’m Amy Scott for Marketplace.

]]> By: J. http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6386 J. Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:53:52 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6386 "Time to Cock" on SL was measured in nanoseconds. Now you can <b>buy</b> cocks for your avatar, which like all the other "prims" are most typically made by the only sorts of people monomaniacal enough to learn how to use the in-game tools: the twisted and the broken wretches of the Internet. Everyone else just watches. Those in the virtual world business, I imagine, occasionally cringe at the notion that if they didn't provide their user bases with enough handcrafted entertainment to sustain them, eventually they too could have pink dildoes floating through their walls, destinations and penetrations unknown. And then they slam another Mountain Dew and get back to work. “Time to Cock” on SL was measured in nanoseconds. Now you can buy cocks for your avatar, which like all the other “prims” are most typically made by the only sorts of people monomaniacal enough to learn how to use the in-game tools: the twisted and the broken wretches of the Internet.

Everyone else just watches. Those in the virtual world business, I imagine, occasionally cringe at the notion that if they didn’t provide their user bases with enough handcrafted entertainment to sustain them, eventually they too could have pink dildoes floating through their walls, destinations and penetrations unknown.

And then they slam another Mountain Dew and get back to work.

]]> By: Random Poster http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6379 Random Poster Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:48:03 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6379 Could someone please kill Second Life. Could someone please kill Second Life.

]]> By: BadMisterFrosty http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6385 BadMisterFrosty Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:19:56 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6385 Another case of "Time to Cock" isn't it? :D Another case of “Time to Cock” isn’t it? :D

]]> By: Schlecht http://www.brokentoys.org/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/comment-page-1/#comment-6384 Schlecht Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:18:57 +0000 http://sjennings.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/of-metaverses-and-flying-phalluses/#comment-6384 This is why the internet is man's greatest invention. This is why the internet is man’s greatest invention.

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