Comments on: Utopia Hidden Underground: Another Look At SL

By: Phoenixa Sol

Phoenixa Sol — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:48:40 +0000

hmmm, Easy Babcock (Creator: Sine Wave Island dances) Extremely successful.

Aargle Zymurgy (Creator: Zyngo, other games of skill) Extremely successful.

Kermitt Quirk (Creator: Tringo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tringo which I currently play on my Nintendo GameBoy Advance in Real Life) Extremely successful.

Many others I’ve met as well, (musicians, artists, DJs etc) in my travels in secondlife.

Shrugs, I guess it all depends on where you look, but I’m glad none of these men disappeared from secondlife and that they’re all extremely successful as I’ve enjoyed the results of their labor.

Enjoyable read otherwise!

Oh and to #21, Just Some Guy: “there is little else to do in Second Life but play the “people game”.”

Oh I cant do that very much because I’m too busy choreographing and creating dance videos, (thank you Easy Babcock, Abramelin Wolfe, Ben Stravinsky, Jesse Murdock, Cristiano Midnight, Jamal Mfume and many others who created most of the animations I use) and a few dance animations of my own here and there. Perhaps down the road I might make some more time for socializing, but it’s time to go dance some more.

By: Chance Abattoir

Chance Abattoir — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:30:52 +0000

“laughably utopian/libertarian Linden Labs”

PSA: There is only one.

Also, pie.

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baseball betting tips — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:09:54 +0000

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By: Metaverse Territories » Metaversal DNA, the Augmented Reality of Me

Metaverse Territories » Metaversal DNA, the Augmented Reality of Me — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:37:11 +0000

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By: Mikyo

Mikyo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:04:29 +0000

Bravo. This is one of the best reveiews of Second Life that i have found.

By: Carl Metropolitan

Carl Metropolitan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:15:39 +0000

“Second Life is a level and class driven MMO”

Only in the sense that any society is, if you define “level and class driven” broadly enough. The old RPG mechanic of level and class (now coded into hundreds of MMOs) can work as a metaphor for RL social interactions. Only because Second Life straddles the border between MMO and a RL culture is that metaphor obvious, or even in any way meaningful.

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By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:08:48 +0000

Hi, I’m not an “ex-Sovietologist” merely because the Soviet Union collapsed, as the countries that make up the former Soviet space are still countries I’m involved with in my RL jobs and that’s how I make my RL living — as a Russian translator and consultant. Sorry to disappoint, I know it made a nice meme. And I’m nothing special. I just happened to fetch up here earlier, and apply all sorts of intelligent, common-sense, universal human-rights principles to a very totalitarian situation — anyone could do it — lots more people are doing it already and will be doing it, and you’re one of them.

Re: “Another surprise was that the further you went in levels, the more the men disappeared. The top tier of Second Life is run by the women.”

Oh, totally. And lots of them are real, real-life women too — and what’s even more interesting, women from racial and ethnic minority groups in society and non-North American women.

It’s a girl’s game; it’s a loser’s game; they all win. You lose.

By: Just Some Guy

Just Some Guy — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:21:14 +0000

Good writeup. Of course, Second Life is only a game in the same ways as First Life. Since the primary engine of both is other people, it should be a little more obvious . . . but it usually isn’t.

Unfortunately, you still seem to have missed the real point of it all. From a consumption-oriented point-of-view, there is little else to do in Second Life but play the “people game”. Aside of various in-world toys, this is the only way to “play” Second Life at all.

If the web were a one-way medium, you’d likely be just as disenchanted. Then again, you wouldn’t have this blog.

To actually understand Second Life, one needs to:

1. Right-click on the ground somewhere
2. Choose ‘create’
3. Go from consuming to contributing

Second Life is not meant to be “played”. It is meant to be used.

Also: Many prominent ‘high levelers’ have no skin at all, to speak of.