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It looks like they are developing a ‘portal’ concept in second life. Also, furries, yiffyiffifif.
Jesuit missionaries may soon venture into Second Life, intent on saving virtual people from virtual sins.
Again, the author of On the FastTrack mentions Second Life in his strip. Is he a hardcore player? Why does he keep mentioning it when your average comic reader probably doesn’t understand what the hell he’s talking about. I’ll do some investigating to find out! Chances are I won’t find anything out, but we’ll see.
EDIT: HE’S A FURRY. THE ARTIST FOR ON THE FASTTRACK IS A FURRY. WTF.
Penny Arcade Expo is approaching. I’m pretty much ready to go (registration? i’ll get around to it, i swear!). What fun things will we see/hear/experience there? And what is PAX exactly? I find myself having trouble explaining it. When I say “gaming” people just don’t understand what I mean by ‘gaming’. You can’t make it any more simple than that! And I swear I won’t miss my flight home this time. Promise.
Last night/Today was the airing of the last episode of Death Note. POOLS CLOSED! 4chan /a/ celebrates it with a sticky! I also managed to pick up Volume 12 tonight at Borders. WOOBOY. Guess what I’ll be reading.
We’ll also talk about why Sims 2 is so goddamn fun even after like, 4 years.
I think this is what disturbs me most about Second Life. They clamp down on the ability for casinos to spam ad the system due to potential Feds/legal problems (as far as I’m sure most courts are concerned, SL could be considered harboring/agenting online gambling and since they’re an American company hosted here, this is completely illegal). This doesn’t mean they’re killing casinos, just not allowing them to advertise easily (read: not allowing the feds to pull up a quick index for a report).
And yet, check out these comments *shudder*
You’d think a 12-year-old online furry Che Guevara had just been captured by the CIA and executed, and the guerrillas were brandishing their shouts for their new martyr.
Looking through my daily newspaper this morning (The Washington Post, the 6th largest newspaper in the country with over 600,000 readers daily), I came across this comic in the Style section.
Now it makes me wonder. How many people actually understood this comic? And how many people looked at it, said “I don’t get it” and moved on. I saw it and was surprised that something I assume is so esoteric that not many people outside the genre would understand. I haven’t extensively been exposed to Second Life, but it’s almost alone the lines of the ‘World of Warquest’ in the comic ‘FoxTrot’. Like an inside joke amongst certain groups.
As the younger generations age, will the line between the internet and real life be blurred?
Two Internet Scientists, Oizys and Zug, are forced into becoming forensic investigators, (think CSI.) They are tasked to investigate real-life crimes and can determine what organizations or people did it by the clues they leave behind.
oizys: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/02/second_life_john_edw.html
oizys: best quote:
oizys: “You see countless news stories about this, over and over again: the sorry gray drones of political parties or corporations rushing to establish a presence in Second Life because it’s the thing to do, only to find themselves staring in horror directly into the collective Goatse.cx of the Internet’s soul.”
zug: hahahahah
zug: woah that’s some big shit
oizys: http://blog.johnedwards.com/images/user/23704/Snapshot_002.jpg
zug: dude
zug: wesley willis hahahahahha
oizys: over 9000
oizys: yeah
zug: and hey just plain showed the giant balls
oizys: yeah monitor cat/dog
oizys: this is /b/’s fault
CASE CLOSED.
WHOOOOOOOOOOO R U.
O RLY,
O RLY.
WOKE UP IN A SOHO DOORWAY, A POLICE MAN AT MY HEAD
HE SAID YOU CAN SLEEP HOME TONIGHT IF YOU CAN GET UP AND WALK AWAY.
I seriously can’t make this shit up (well, I could but that would be dangerously close to FAN FICTION).
The summary is: Second Life seems to be exciting the Netherlands’ Ban Hammer. While virtual child porn is already banned, virtual sex with virtual children is not (adult players acting through child-like avatars) but this is looking to change fast. A prosecutor with the real name Kitty Nooij will start bringing cases to the court to set precendence.
So uh, what’s the “Time until Kitty” when someone takes on that name or persona as a Second Life avatar? I see penii in the near future. Also, Dutch psychologists are calling Second Life “by definition a school for paedophiles”. Funny, I thought that was called Elementary School.
Maybe it’s my warped way of seeing things, but after reading this article I immediately thought of an alternate reality episode of “Saved By the Bell” meets “Doug” where they’re all in middle school, and some furry cereal-box-top character named Kitty comes to warn them of the dangers of the 2006-real-world version of Screech. If someone re-enacts this episode in Second Life, I want royalties.
Shit, so much for narrowly avoiding the Fan Fiction tag.
More on the PENiS-saga, now rape is being charged for the incident. Harassment, yes, but rape? Now You Gonna Git Raep has a whole new meaning.
