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A Second Life for MTV leads to confusion

Second Life Insider

Jan 31st 2007 6:42AM There's a Laguna Beach in SL already. But not the kind of thing a TV station that censors the word "god" would care to endorse :)

Online status - trying to connect

Second Life Insider

Jan 30th 2007 7:31AM It's already like that.

I get messages from my online tracker if I'm online, and when I look up the person to IM back they show offline because they're hiding it.

Then during the day or night when I'm asleep, my email gets "hello? are you on?" because people assume I'm probably hiding my online status anyway, the way they are I guess.

Just Askin': Do you have an alt and why?

Second Life Insider

Jan 3rd 2007 8:55AM I have one I originally created around a year ago to spend time with a friend who was being Griefed By Drama and wanted a new account to hang with a few friends- so her friends all got alts including me. It grew more social than originally intended, eventually most people I had on my friends list from that account I introduced to the main me anyway. I still keep it current for tier and the 500/wk is handy. I made a new one for building quietly recently. The privacy tools are foiled by my store online trackers and friends online page anyway, not to mention general friends list problems meant I've already been mistaken for "hiding offline" when in visible sight of people. I have never (except to test it worked) used the Hide online status option, preferring to use the alt. I rarely use this alt- I still spend more time yakking than building- but if for one evening I just need to do some work, it's there. It also has a nice clean inventory with very little but textures in it which is handy.

Kokomo: the unedited version

Second Life Insider

Jan 3rd 2007 8:41AM "You also understand and agree that by submitting your Content to any area of the Service, you automatically grant (or you warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted) to Linden Lab and to all other users of the Service a non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, transferable, irrevocable, royalty-free and perpetual License, under any and all patent rights you may have or obtain with respect to your Content, to use your Content for all purposes within the Service."

Those purposes within the service include ctrl-shift-S, right?

Second Life - Just say no!

Second Life Insider

Dec 18th 2006 9:51AM The Register's attitude against SL seems particularly personal. I was talking with a friend how I thought it strange that El Reg chose to report on UK proposals for new laws on internet child pornography by making it about SL. The law is something that covers use of the whole of the internet, not some small scale virtual world with a few score thousand regulars in it, but El Reg made it about SL. You have to wonder why. A friend suggested that The Register has gone on witch hunts before when someone upset the editor, so if that's the case you have to wonder what King Phil did :) Of course, the Reg article, after frothing about how sick disgusting and wrong the activities going on in SL were, then offered a link to a staged goon video of it. Ban this sick filth! What sick filth? This sick filth here (click for closeups!)

I'd swear it was parody if it wasn't the reg.

Just Askin': How often do you change avatars?

Second Life Insider

Dec 18th 2006 9:10AM I have "my" shape that I stick to all the time these days... I change clothes each day or so- more often when my friend Nicky Ree hands me something she just made :D At weekends I'll put on my white skin and mahoosive curious kitties hair. I do have a collection of funky avatars (three big Daryth Kennedy dragons etc) but I only switch into those rarely to surprise people :) I do dress for the occasion if I'm visiting a themed area, usually.

Just Askin': Are We Growing Too Fast?

Second Life Insider

Dec 15th 2006 9:54AM I hope not. It will probably have been a 1stland-grabber's latest alt.

Just Askin': How Useful is a Reputation System?

Second Life Insider

Dec 13th 2006 9:43AM It's only any use to see who joined SL before early mid 2005 or so. Because it's quicker to see someone has +500 ratings from the big rating party times than check their birthdate.

It was nice last week when someone gave me a + rating out of the blue for my building with a nice comment, though. As an actual coded enforced "reputation" system? Yuck. It's one thing for someone to say "Hey everyone says you're a scammer" or something, at least you can argue back or find out where that started (Sellers Guild knee jerk mobs most likely :) ) It's quite another to walk around with some black mark or red letter because a bunch of harpies and heathers decided to have it in for you. You're just slandered by the system then, there's no way to work that out. Actually they do have that generic badge of shame, it's called No Payment Info On File, but at least you can maybe buy your way out of that one.

So that's why I came up with my Ace's Graces reputation enhancement system. You pay me 100L$ and I tell the next three people I meet how cool you are. Only available in world ;)

Sex slaves of the Agni Grid

Second Life Insider

Dec 10th 2006 12:57PM I don't know... If I felt I had to camp for L$ I doubt I'd waste that tediously earned pittance on scripted sex parts for people to abuse. Or numb them or something. In fact, if people are sitting on masturbation pads in order to earn enough L$ for a talking clitoris, then that just goes to show how messed up the sex situation in SL is.

This isn't new, back in about March or so, I was looking for one of those inner tubes you could splash around in I'd seen at a place near a store I checked out. They had those mats (and a "girls only" paying pink ball of a sex anim pair) and I had a pleasant conversation with the avie who was sat on it earning money for texture uploads. She didn't see it as anything specially significant, just a fairly immature thing to put out to get traffic, and it paid better than most.

What's in a name?

Second Life Insider

Dec 1st 2006 11:04AM Eh.. plenty of opportunities to regret my name but it's stuck pretty well I guess. What was kind of wierd was only a month after I first signed up (I didn't log in much that first month) Acedia joined. So she has like my name, plus some more letters- if you ever search for me, you'll always get her too. Kind of random anyway. But yeah I've had friends with the "omglol432" names and their profiles usually say "Call me Lol" after two weeks in :D