Psst!, wanna buy a working amiga walker?

[Sig999]

I was into Second Life, back during and after it's Beta trials - it was a pretty cool 3d persistent world that was entirely created by it's users with in game 3d modeling tools and scripting language.  After it's 2nd year they had a 'paradigm shift' where their ingame money (the 'linden dollar' - for linden lab, it's creators) could be sold to other users for real money.  Since then it's become a money grubbing den of 2nd rate 3d content, scammers, and hucksters who'll do anything to make a buck.  Development of the entire system is now half-arsed as Linden Lab dump 'feature upon feature' and when I say 'feature' I mean bug laden eye candy.

I still have an area in Second Life, though I haven't logged into it for over a year. Every 3 days I hit the web site and sell off any L$ my lil shop of gadgets and custom made animations may have accumulated.... I'll do so until it fails to pay for its own monthly bill and use the proceeds as pocket money.

In short - what you'd be doing is using your high level PC on your broadband internet connection to (hopefully) log into a very laggy and bug ridden 3d world to spend real money on a pretend computer.

[Sig999]

What bugs me about it is..... well everything...

Folks going there now and saying 'well it's all a bunch of TSO nutters, sexual deviants, and scam artists' would be pretty much on the money.

I had the fortune of being there when it was a small bunch of pretty bright people doing some pretty cool stuff - then watching it degenerate into a moneygrabbing cesspool.

But yeah - when they started having 'corporate islands' and other crapola I pretty much saw the writing on the wall.

On the upside - all those people wanting custom animations to sit in their virtual chairs and smoke their virtual pipes while talking to virtually everyone has paid for my ami

I enjoy not logging on at all - and once a day hitting up their website and having C note dropped into my paypal account... so long as that keeps happening I'll keep my account there.