"I Don't Know But I Been Told, The Army Wrote Some SL Code"

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 14 Comments

US military to invade, occupy Second Life

Over the next thirty to forty-five days you might, if you’re one of them Second Life avatar dudes, that likes to go populate islands within Second Life, you will find an Army island in Second Life.

Well, then.

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  • JuJutsu

    The army has never had to deal with Prokofy Neva before….

  • Sheepherder

    Is it just me or does that quote read like a keylogger post on the WoW forums?

  • Morgan Hardy

    Four million “young” people who regularly access SL?

    You -have- been oversold.

  • Bri

    The potential for bad jokes is almost too much to resist…

  • http://emergentfuture.com Arrakiv

    I’m inclined to agree with Bri, on this one. I can’t even pick which one to go with…

    Still, I can’t b entirely shocked by this news. Heck, the army developed a game for recruiting, why not set up shop in an existing online world?

  • kildy

    Does Don’t Ask Don’t Tell extend to furries?

  • Walter Yarbrough

    “Four million “young” people who regularly access SL?

    You -have- been oversold.”

    QFT

  • dartwick

    How the Army deal with an influx of middle aged women and male sex addicts?

  • Njal

    ” How the Army deal with an influx of middle aged women and male sex addicts?”

    I dunno they’re pretty desperate right now…. they might just sign em up.

  • hkedi

    We had to DoS the server in order to save it…..

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com/ J.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/nov/23/reuters-quits-secondlife

    The only thing worth reading from Reuters about SL was Warren Ellis’ column about what a freakshow it all was.

  • http://bifftheunderstudy.wordpress.com Dan Gray

    I remember when one of the software dev. chaps I work with checked out second life. He booted it up and within about 10 minutes was recieving rather… exotic messages.

    Poor guy didn’t know quite what to do.

  • Joe

    Doesn’t the Army’s recruiting policies preclude the majority of SL’s inhabitants from joining in the first place?

  • Prokofy Neva

    I don’t know if I’m banned already or they just didn’t open up the island yet because it says “You cannot teleport to this region”.

    I plan to protest their age discrimination, they only hire up to age 41.