Recent Comments:
"Second Life is boring, nothing much to do."
Second Life Insider
Aug 29th 2007 2:09PM SL is a social/creative place. Spending an hour just looking around and expecting some NPC to hand out a make-work quest like WoW is a bit like going to a nightclub, slouching against a wall, and complaining there's nothing to do.
I've heard it called a 'feminine MMO'....
Just Killin': Avatar Murder
Second Life Insider
Mar 9th 2007 9:02PM I'm sorry, Ryzou, are you seriously suggesting that without your daily dose of Counterstrike you would run out and shoot someone with a gun, causing a chain of organ failures that ends with the victim dying and puking blood?
I used the melodramatic language to make a point; there's a very wide gap between even the most gory video game violence and the real thing. Also - as mentioned - let's not confuse 'violence' and 'murder'. The violence in most games, movies, and television shows is generally given a context that makes it acceptable. Even an ardent pacifist may concede that should you be on Phobos Base when demons break out of Hell, grabbing a shotgun is entirely called for. Counterstrike is nominally about counter-terrorists versus terrorists. Even the most 'pointlessly violent' game that gets touted in the media, Grand Theft Auto, has a certain amount of context. I've only played Vice City, but there Vice City is portrayed as a corrupt town through and through, and while your character is a nasty sort, the story does not REQUIRE you to involve 'civilians' - it's always gang members, other Mafia guys, or the (corrupt) police department.
To make a parallel with sex, we're looking at other legal or consensual-crime situations.
Just Killin': Avatar Murder
Second Life Insider
Mar 8th 2007 3:59PM Hm. My comment didn't seem to get added, so... try it this way.
I think the difference is, we don't generally shoot each other in SL as a way to subliminate an urge to shoot someone in the flesh; it's a game from the get-go, with as much bearing on the real world as a kid playing with toy soldiers.
Sexual ageplay seems to be a way to indulge pedophiliac urges without breaking the law. I can at least see a little twisted nobility in that, but the point remains that some part of that person's psyche thinks having sex with kids is really, really cool. And that's kinda sick.
