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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 20 Comments

I cannot express how epic a win this is.

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  • Jeremy Dalberg

    LOVE

  • pharniel

    wow. southpark callback for second life mockery.

    to quote Gir: “I love this show.”

  • kalain

    So. Wonderful.

  • Blackblade

    That was so awesome….

  • chabuhi

    I don’t see how you all can just sit here and joke about what amounts to virtually a terrorist training ground!!

    I wonder if I could get Congress to earmark a few billion $$ for my virtual war on terror … oh, wait.

  • http://beafraid.com hellfire

    For a measly 5 million I can and will mount a virtual war on virtual terror. I promise I will be at LEAST as successful as the war on drugs!

    Make the check out to “cash”, please.

  • syncaine

    The virtual war on terror is serious business!

  • Kayn Gliteractica Cookie 4

    “It’s official. Congress has given up on the actual world!”

    To quote Nathan Lane afterwards…
    “I shall be haunted by porpoise breasts for weeks to come”

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    /snicker

  • tannenburg

    The problem, hellfire, is that they’ll give you the money in WoW gold and Linden Dollars.

  • http://gawain.diaryland.com gawain the blind

    You realize what this means, right?

    SLS are anti-terrorist HEROES.
    http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/

  • DJ Larkin

    I loved i when I saw it last night, and I still do.

  • Anticorium

    Yeah, but has there ever been a congressional subcommittee about South by Southwest? Has there? No there has not.

    (It’s not so much that I want to dredge up old topics, as that I’m far too cheap to go to the bookstore to research my term paper on Russian politics of the late 20th century.)

  • TPRJones

    Needs more flying peni.

  • http://nwn.blogs.com Wagner James Au

    But if they actually shot Riggle’s segment in Second Life, the porpoise’s tits would jiggle:

    http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/01/like-a-natural.html

  • Stormwaltz

    “We’re sorry, but this video is not available.”

    Que?

  • Baroo

    Stormwaltz: I am guessing you’re located outside the US? I get the same message from north of the border.

    Try a proxy located in the US or a VPN service like Hotspot Shield to get yourself a US ip address temporarily. Works great for Pandora, and for watching shows/content on the US tv networks websites that they’re not allowed to broadcast internationally… presumably because they’ve sold the broadcast rights to individual networks in each country.

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    I’d like to hear from Sideshow Prokofy on this.

  • Anticorium

    Just saw this: the comments over at the Washington Post story (which was, in fact, quite a bit more sarcastic than Lum) are a lot more favorable about the obviousness of the awesomeness of Second Life and the cluelessness of anyone who would dare question the necessity of this hearing. And I cannot help but think it’s because it’s more fun to lecture than to listen.

    People know that if they took their utopianism here, they’d have to engage in conversations involving folks who know and build virtual worlds and can see through the exaggerations. They wouldn’t be able to lecture morons who don’t understand the concept (pfft). It kind of sucks having to admit that there are other people, who don’t love your perfect game not out of ignorance, but because they know something you don’t.

    But mostly, I’ve learned that conversations about virtual worlds with people who know nothing but Second Life are just so damn boring. It’s like trying to talk about pen-and-paper RPG design with a kid who’s never played anything but red box D&D. It’s their character did this and their character did that and they got this and that magic item and there was a rust monster over and over until you just can’t help but walk away.

  • d_w