I had someone on my LiveJournal Friends List who made it a point to have a DAILY 'Fashion Show' for her freaking SL Paper Dolls. She'd go into detail about each outfit and was so excited in her descriptions. It went beyond strange.

I was just about to de-friend her until one of her friends in Iraq told her to put the pictures behind a cut.

I'm sorry, if you're one of my friends and you're into RPG, be prepared to get a lot of shit from me.

sick burn, Tommy



I would suggest saying it yourself real quiet before you say it out loud . . .

I actually wrote a big article on Second Life this time last year for my International Law class, because Second Life really pushes the limits in respect to jurisdiction and presents some really interesting issues because Second Life acknowledges that all of the content users create is their own intellectual property as opposed to Worlds of Warcraft, which says its theirs. I actually spoke with the guy at American Apparel responsible for taking them into Second Life (they were the first major company to take up residence there), and a lot of the copyright and trademark issues are really interesting. Also, there is a woman named Anshe Chung who purportedly made well over a million dollars in profits from the buying and selling of Second Life properties. Lastly, and perhaps the most interesting...there is a massive push for the recognition of virtual property as something distinct from intellectual or real or personal property, protecting things such as an email address or land owned in a virtual world. Why you might ask? A few years ago a kid that was gold farming (playing with virtual weapons in Worlds of Warcraft to increase their value then sell it off) killed someone who borrowed his virtual sword then sold it.

I don't play video games whatsoever (except maybe wii) and never had more than a gameboy, so all of this stuff amuses me. I do have a SL screen name (Jarvik Karski), but I've not played it since last year when I was writing this piece, and I could never figure it out.

I actually have 3 friends who are very heavy into SL...

1 is heavy on the fashion side of SL the other 2 are very heavy into consutling and providing office space and the like.

I don't understand it...not into it...but meh...

but I am into RPGs....and I have never played WoW. KoL is enough RPG for me, thank you very much.

In a career development certification course I was taking last year and this year, they talked about SL as the future of interviewing and such. I was like umm probably not, y'all. They had us create accounts and all. I'm not impressed.

me to...I'm :confused: about all this...how do you "sell" virtual property and make "real" money??...so people are really paying for this property...

I joined last night (while the SVU episode inspired by Second Life was on) and all I could do was fly. That was cool. But otherwise I can't get into it. Will probably uninstall it tonight.

im waiting on the Law and Order episode of this Second Life business to come out.

one look at the home page of SL and im freaked out. ill pass.

haha, posted before but my pc is acting wonky. i missed the episode? darn.

you missed it:

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/200...sex-playgroun/