Second Life

[deathboy]

"Played" Second Life a bit more last night at theinnocence's urging. Met a few nice people, enquired about land and suchlike.

I still think you'd have a more solid gaming experience if you replaced your PC with a Playstation 1 and a scratched copy of Tomb Raider, and ran IRC at the same time, but I'm beginning to see some of the draw. It certainly helps when you know a few people.

Highest on my list of weird things was to have been "shown the ropes". A friend asked me, given that I was a noob, if I knew about sex in Second Life. "Negatory", I replied... he then obligingly summoned another friend, who I believe cybers in SL for money to give me the lowdown.

This began with her giving me a range of penises. SL males have no external genitals by default, they're a wearable item. Though I later discovered that it is bad form to attach the penis to your eyeball in polite company and cry "Look! I am quite literally a dickhead!" Wasn't received well.

With my array of peni, I was first instructed on the more efficient ways of dressing / undressing, then how/where to attach my penis appropriately.

Next up, a quick tutorial on poseballs (which, contrary to expectations, were not a pair of particularly impressive testicles), objects which can control a user's animations, thus allowing two users to appear to be cuddling / rutting like wild monkeys, etc, and finally a bed object that had a wide array of fuck-specific animation control functions.

Surreal moment came half way through testing my new 3d penis when I realised I'd not friended the young lady assisting me. How rude of me. We'd not met five minutes and she'd given me a bag of cocks and proceeded to squat on one, yet we weren't even friends.

Thanked the young lady for her hints and tips, then popped over to join theinnocence, who was picking out bits and bobs for a room she'd just acquired.

It's a rather strange setup over there. It's definitely more fun if you have a few mates guide you round "the good bits" because lots of it is shit and most of the fun could be had on IRC, because most of the fun is other humans. Cynically, I'm now going to research into how (if at all) the band can exploit SL to release music / provide "gigs", etc. because while it's not going to be my new living space anytime soon, it does seem to be slowly building in popularity.

Weird shit.

Comments

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

I joined, but all I did was blag a lot of free clothes and fly.

[drfairlyevil.livejournal.com]

You may be already aware of this story (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/03/second_life_gig/). Apparently the 'comedian' Jimmy Carr has performed in this space and will do so again.

[red20.livejournal.com]

I just found out that penes is a plural form for penis.

Thus, I propose the next Deathboy album be titled "A Plethora of Penes".

[reddragdiva]

Call it "First Life" or "Third Life" or "Zeroth Life"

[alienfox.livejournal.com]

Though I later discovered that it is bad form to attach the penis to your eyeball in polite company and cry "Look! I am quite literally a dickhead!"

Hahaha. I just laughed so hard, my shit started to bleed.

At the risk of making myself sound like I'm a luddite who flaps around Dartmoor fingering trees, I must admit I'm finding the whole Lives on the Internet thing quite worrying and/or frightening.

[bridd.livejournal.com]

Wang related SL story :D

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

I started a profile but I just got confused and didn't even make it off the help island thing because i kept being bombarded by blokes trying to chat me up in Spanish or something *lol*

And i can see how it could eat away at your time - i spent over two hours on it and i only managed to sort my avatar out! But yeah, i'd get on much better if I could meet up with people in there i think *lol*

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

USORNAME PLZ!!!1

I'm DeathBoy Nozomi :)

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Well, the thing was that I was left with an overall feeling that that's how you should do it in REAL life... get stepped through it by a knowledgeable professional, shown the rudimentary stuff, thanks very much and off into the world!

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

Though I later discovered that it is bad form to attach the penis to your eyeball in polite company and cry "Look! I am quite literally a dickhead!" Wasn't received well.

hahahaha!
this is exactly the first thing i would do, too. well, that and wearing it outside of my clothes.

[rachelsoma.livejournal.com]

I came across a guy who didn't know how to attach his penis to his body. Poor fuck was wandering around shouting "AM NOT NO HOW TO MAKE PENIS GOOD". I honestly tried to help but I told him to right click on it he went nuts "THERE IS NO RIGHT CLICK U R NO HELP! WOT IS RIGHT CLICK?!!!! I HAVE NEW IBOOK U R DUMB"

So I left him there, his penis bobbing around about 2 foot away from his body at shoulder height.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

goddamn mac users. :P

[maxrael.livejournal.com]

lol!

[kest]

any minute now one of my workmates is going to ask me why I'm laughing so hard....

[missjanette.livejournal.com]

hah.

oh noes.

you met my friend who runs the SL club Heck last night.

thanks for the luvz0rz. : >

I hear many many tales of SL, but I have not been drawn towards playing it.
I think I'd rather fix my first life first. You know how it is.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

yar, I did :) actually, I don't think that at that point I'd sussed out how to add users as friends ... do you have (by any chance) usernames of folks Wot I Ought To Know / Add?

:)

hope you're well, darlin'! x

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

Rowena Stardust

(and it just took me about 10 minutes trying to find my username and work out which email address i'd signed up with *lol*)

[cyberpunkgrrl.livejournal.com]

...and put that reply in the right place after *your* reply, not in a random place like the tard that i am

XD

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

A numer of bands already have performed live on Second Life, so it must be possible.

A little poking around has found this article which mentions by name a promoter within Second Life and links to streaming music into the second life world.

This also raises the question of creating Deathboy t-shirts to flog in game too. Time to persuade Bob to set up Line Out in Second Life as well ;)

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

http://secondlife.com/music

uck

[lineoutrecords.livejournal.com]

While I'd like to avoid it I have a horrid feeling I'm going to end up using it at some point soon. I've already had a couple of people mail me asking if Line Out have a presense in there. Frankly I spend most hours of the day in front of a computer, I've no desire to add any more.

Bloody interwebs.

Re: uck

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't starting a degree, I'd volunteer to have a go at putting together the label's presence on SL. Shame really as it'd be good fun! (possibly). Having said that... SL ran like a 2 legged dog on my mac...

Set up a club with your radio stream pumping out on a loop, put a stage in there and whenever one of your bands plays live, try to take a recording of it and have them play a gig in SL. Create merchandise to flog to people... stuff. It has lots of possabilities, but it all necessetates time and expense for land purchase, venue construction etc. etc.

[yaruar.livejournal.com]

I'm really suprised SL has so much exposure, they must have one hell of a pr department. Especially as they are a MMO with what looks like (from the analysis i've seen) a relatively small userbase (they claim over 1,000,000 population, but it's more likely well under 100,000 people actually playing regularly) And yet they get a write up every week on the BBC website and most major papers, it's the informationsuperhighweb bubble all over again :)

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

It seems to be getting lots of attention because it's so freeform, allowing people to write their own additions to it. Plus it's actually become it's own online economic empire as you can buy and sell the SL currency and items for real life money.

Lots and lots of cash seems to change hands as was shown by that guy buying the space station last year for millions (thousands?) of real dollars.

It certainly has potential.

[drcuriosity]

I think a lot of its popularity with the media is that - following the money.
Of course, a whole bag of flying dicks every now and then probably doesn't hurt matters as far as media sensationalism goes, either.

(Yes, that is a SL subdomain on Reuters.)

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Congrats. I am now terrified of SL. XD

(Incidentally, have you ever read Snow Crash?)

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

of course.

though I adore Diamond Age more.

[godgirl.livejournal.com]

is it worth creating a second life when there seems to be so little time in the first to do the things one should?

does is just become a substitute for real interaction?

and is sex in a second life infidelity?

[kest]

I have a suspicion that in a world full of useless things, second life may be one of the most useless.