Second Life

KentWhitten

Has anyone heard of this? I just found thins out. It's a little bizarre. People go walking around in a virtual world like it's really there and conduct business, transactions, whatever.

Creepy

http://secondlife.com/

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ProWallGuy

Sweet! Now I can finally go 'get a life'.

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WNYcarpenter

I know exactly what you're talking about... people actually make a living in the real world selling items in the virtual world.....for instance, you pay your intial start up and you have an account of such and such amount of $ in the virtual world. You set up a strip joint and people pay, through their account, to go to a vitual strip joint. It's like SIM CITY with real money. The money paid through the account to enter your business is then added to your personal account.

I doubt more than 2% of readers on this forum would either understand or even see the relevence. It is creepy, I agree...my explaination was poor but you get the idea.

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Tom R

I always thought this site right here was 'virtual' . . .

You mean you guys and gals are all REAL??

KillerToiletSpider

I'm a bot.

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Grumpyplumber

Not creepy...it's a literal mirror of commerce, this I gotta see!

realpurty2

Being a gaming junkie, I tried it months ago... and unless you are really into the roleplaying of your online character, it can get dull quickly.

You have to invest real money into the game in order to get to use most of the features, but yet there is only so much the characters can do. Why anyone would pay real money to see pixels on a screen slide down a stripper's pole is beyond me. But for those who are into "cyber fun", there's a adult area that is...well...um.. graphic to say the least. Not that I ventured into that area of the game or anything. I just heard about it...

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TempestV

I heard about a woman that is a virtual land developer- she buys virtual land from the company that runs the game with real money, designs the virtual buildings that sit on it, then sells the houses she designs, either for real money, or with the virtual money from the game, which can be bought and sold on ebay.

Tscarborough

Way back in the early days, I was involved. Once, a group of guys from another game, a World War II online game set up camp in Second Life and stirred up a major rukus that evolved into The War of the Jesse Wall. You can read about it here:

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2003/07/war_of_the_jess.html

The third time I played, I built a small Island and set up a toxic waste dump, complete with assorted truck tires, garbage, spewing smoke stacks, and a spreading oil slick, to say nothing of the autofire minigun installations. That didn't go over too well either, but I got bored before they kicked me out.

Driftwood

Pretty sad. Why not do something real? GO FISHING, TAKE A WALK WITH A FRIEND. HELP SOMEONE IN NEED MAYBE ?

RYANINMICHIGAN

I agree, Is this what society has come to? Might as well be the matrix. Insert feeding tube and lay down

Grumpyplumber

It's only a matter of time...programmable robotic wives....the horror, the horror.

A.W.Davis

hmmm I wonder if the beer is better over there

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ModernStyle

I seen something about this on TV, these 2 fat nerds were really into this whole thing and they met each other while playing it, then they got married in real life and the last shot of the story showed them both setting side by side on their computers playing their game together. It brought a tear to my eye. I never understood games like this, my sister played the Sims all the time and I tried it once. I dont want to play a game where I have to work and use the bathroom. If I am going to play a video game I want to do amazing things that I can not do in real life, save the world, dominate the NFL, get my wife to shut up, you know stuff that doesnt really happen.
Why would I want to make spend real money buying pretend houses and cars, isnt this like playing Barbies for grown ups ? Get off you a55es and go meet some people, get laid (atleast oncein your life), get drunk , get arrested for peeing in the street, anything. Dont spend your days decorating your virtual house while the cockroaches take over your real one.

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Grumpyplumber

Please, PLEASE, tell me where I can get that game....

WNYcarpenter

http://secondlife.com/whatis/

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dirt diggler

cuz we get it however we can!!!

uh, i mean ... "they" do


yeah ... they do

go do it

damn baby you got some nice looking pixels

Teetorbilt

I'm going back to flying my Thunderbolt P-47.

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Tscarborough

What online flight sim did you fly, Teetor?