Second Life

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Second Life (SL) is a privately owned, partly subscription-based 3-D virtual world, made publicly available in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, and founded by former RealNetworks CTO Philip Rosedale. The Second Life "world" resides in a large array of servers that are owned and maintained by Linden Lab, known collectively as "the grid". The Second Life client program provides its users (referred to as Residents) with tools to view and modify the SL world and participate in its virtual economy, which concurrently has begun to operate as a "real" market. At precisely 8:05:45 AM PDT, October 18, 2006, the population of Second Life hit 1 million Residents.

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http://secondlife.com/

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"The Korean National Tax Service has announced they will be tacking on value added tax (VAT) to real-money transactions (RMT) in virtual worlds beginning 1 July."

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[motorollin]

I have enough trouble making time for real life, what with this site and Eve taking a large amount of my time :-o

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moto

[blobrana]

Hum,
time is money....gotta rush....

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Nah, as a true Amiga fan, 2D is the way to go.
Considering online, it's Soldat :-D

[McVenco]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Nah, as a true Amiga fan, 2D is the way to go.
Considering online, it's Soldat :-D

Bah, all these graphics... Text-only is a lot easier :-)

www.Inselkampf.co.uk (or .com, or .de)


OT: Second Life is by far THE most overrated Internet hype of the last decade. In Holland there are maybe 2000 people who play it somewhat regularly, yet a lot of companies and even local governments are pumping tens of thousands of Euros into this "game". Retards...

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"A British orchestra is to become the first to perform a professional music concert in the virtual online world of Second Life, it said Tuesday.
The Liverpool Philharmonic said audience members from across the world will "sit" in a three-dimensional virtual version of its home venue in the north-west England city and listen live as the real orchestra plays.
The concert on September 14, featuring works from Rachmaninov, Ravel and contemporary Liverpool composers John McCabe and Kenneth Hesketh, will be conducted by its principal conductor Vasily Petrenko."

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[NoFastMem]

I think the SL thing is really creepy and in some cases downright sad. I thought the awesome thing about the internet was meeting new people as an extension of real life, just a tool. Now people want to interact solely via an internet connection?

Is it to save money on deodorant?

It's like we were shown a new way to paint and then decided we'd rather just stare at the freaking brush.

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NoFastMem wrote:
Now people want to interact solely via an internet connection?

Nah, which is why nobody plays Secondlife, only the marketing guys try to make you think people do.