Comments on wednesday september 28, 2005 : daily

11 Comments on wednesday september 28, 2005 : daily

BigJoe

I found this vblog on the second life virtual world quite interesting. For some reason, Dungeons and Dragons came to mind when perusing the website. I never played it as a kid, but I’ll betcha those that did would really enjoy setting up a virtual world based on the fantasy game. Any rate, thanks for the clip, it always amazes me what is out there. –Big Joe.

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Susan

Wow… that looks incredible!

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Jerry/SNOOPYbrown Zamboni

Cool! Amanda, it was a total pleasure interviewing you in Second Life a couple of months back. We’ll definitely have to hook Rocketboom up with an SL correspondent to vlog interesting events in that world like the stuff covered by http://secondlife.blogs.com and http://secondlifeherald.com. Along those lines, I think you’ll get a total kick out of this comedy talk show made in the Halo video game: http://www.thisspartanlife.com/1002_mod2.html.

For those with a burning interest in all this, the first Second Life Community Convention is coming to the New York Law School on October 8-9 (http://slconvention.org) back-to-back with the State of Play conference on law, video games, and virtual worlds (http://nyls.edu/stateofplay). Nephilaine (interviewed in the trailer here) and Pierce (the filmmaker) will be there along with a bunch of other entrepreneurial SL residents and the creators of the platform. ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll be *quite* the get-together :-).

Rocketboom on!

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Paint

Second Life is cool. Snowcrash anyone??? “There” are other worlds out “there” too :)

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Ricky

I still playing “sims2″ now, so what’s big different with “secondlife”?!

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qarl

the difference between second life, and the other virtual worlds (there, sims, wow, everquest, etc…) is that second life’s world is completely (and i mean completely) built by its users. the core of the game is exposed, and it allows anyone to (more or less) build anything.

for example - i’ve built (and i sell in game, if you’ve got some cash to spare) “erogenous zones”. that’s not possible in the other worlds.

K.

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Jerry/SNOOPYbrown Zamboni

Paint > Second Life is cool. Snowcrash anyone??? “There” are other worlds out “there” too :)

Ricky > I still playing “sims2″ now, so what’s big different with “secondlife”?!

Hopefully helpful: Torley Torgeson, Second Life’s most beloved watermelon-colored muse, has a nice write-up and a couple of pics from her recent metaverse-trotting experiences across a bunch of different social virtual worlds, including There and The Sims Online at
http://torley.blog-city.com/macross_the_universe.htm . You can read why she personally doesn’t dig There and slides by The Sims (note: the online version, not what you’re playing with TS2, Ricky). It’s a great read, translating the Torley identity from world to world to world.

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Torley Wong/Torley Torgeson

Thanx for the link, Jerry… and thanx for bringing my attention here! Nice to see this.

Amanda, if I may ask… what is your SL name? Looks like something-Nerd?

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Dawg

You continue to impress.

The best part is… it’s never expected. It just happens, over and over.

Cool stuff. Thanks. Loved it.

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Carl Weaver

I have to admit complete ignorance to this stuff. I don’t know how it works. However, my friend Matt plays Everquest and I think that’s neat, although he hasn’t gotten so attached to his characters that he kills himself when they die. Thank goodness for that.

It’s all a little creepy to me. I guess I am in the wrong generation. In my day we played the chess and the Scrabble or else we went outside and kicked a can. We made our own fun. Things sure have changed.

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flameape

cant see the QT- only audio- anyone else having this problem? or am i a maxi-zoom-technoweenie?

love the show.

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