Second Life, now with Booty Bounce

I've tried it, it works. Too fucking funny.

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Liden Lab get an "F" from the Better Business Bureau

Ain't that the truth

Reasons for this rating include:
72 complaints filed against business
Failure to respond to 2 complaints filed against business.
Length of time business has taken to resolve complaint(s).

Btw, the new Viewer 2 ruthed me on first use, and if you use Second Life you know what a crime that is.

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Second Life Digital Suicide?

Group message from within Second Life...

2day a well known x tribe boy and jungleboy DARRENJAMES has faked his own death to watch his friends and SL family suffer and to watch his own funeral. he posted in group his death details typed by his wife. Its a real shame that the only hospital in his RL area and police department have 0 records of any deaths today or road accidents, furthermore his wife login onto Second life to report his death hours later. My offical comment ; invite my [sic] to your RL funeral and i will piss on your grave u selfish tick

Update;

DarrenJames Whitfield: What a NUTJOB. My husband died. Too bad this lunatic doesn't know that hopitals and police DO NOT release details of death to anyone but family. Really mature to not show respect to someone who has passed.

[21:42] jenner Mistwalker: Taylor some advice ???
[21:42] jenner Mistwalker: Youre known for your good tolerance ?
[21:42] Garrett Ceriano: tolerance only goes so far jenner
[21:42] Garrett Ceriano: :)
[21:42] Taylor2 Spyker: well while darren is back creating more drama
[21:42] Taylor2 Spyker: sure
[21:43] Taylor2 Spyker: im trying but this fuck keeps posting in group
[21:43] jenner Mistwalker: Let this shit walk away from you dude
[21:43] Taylor2 Spyker: its anonying and it pisses me off that he can do this to his friends
[21:43] jenner Mistwalker: ban him
[21:43] Taylor2 Spyker: i have he keeps rejoining group
[21:43] Garrett Ceriano: can you permaban someone from and open group?
[21:43] Garrett Ceriano: nope
[21:43] Taylor2 Spyker: no
[21:43] jenner Mistwalker: what a cracking bore

Such is Second Life...

Second Life Claims Social Network Crown

OK, guys. We get it. Second Life is not a fad. But a rival to social networking sites? We're having a little trouble with that one. The idea was floated in the latest collection of Second Life usage statistics released by Linden Lab last week. The press release stresses the claim that users have spent more than one billion hours in-world, but it also describes a few pieces of information that seem intended to put the 3D virtual world way ahead of the social networking pack in several key areas:

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The Herbert Estate overreacts

"The small Dune roleplaying community in Second Life got a legal notice from Trident Media Group, the New York literary agency that handles the Frank Herbert Estate, via Linden Lab, which develops and manages Second Life...

...received legal notices from Linden Lab via Trident Media Group, a New York literary agency which maintains the Herbert Estate. "In particular," the notice reads, "Trident Media Group has complained about your use of characters, concepts and other material associated with 'Dune' in the Second Life environment."

Yup, go after your biggest fans. They must have learned that lesson from Paramount....

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The Wharf

The Wharf, Second Life

Death in Second Life

...SABRE & MACE, a company that offers virtual characters the opportunity to experience death as a way to close their user account permanently. The project examines the notion of feeling sentimental toward a virtual character and examines the link between sentimentality and tangibility.

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Dealey Plaza in Second Life

Somewhat unsettling full sized recreation of Dealey Plaza in Second Life. You can stand in all the famous places, the views are eerily accurate.



You can ride the limo now. More to come...

SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse Gives Full Range of Motion to Second Life Avatars

3Dconnexion's SpaceNavigator, a rubber-capped multi-axis metal dial meant mainly for 3D design, has been put to even better use as a pan-dimensional controller for Second Life. The video says it all: watch as Beast, one of the "Lindens" who works at Second Life's founder company, demos movement of his avatar on both land and in the air, and even use SpaceNavigator side by side with a mouse. It's perhaps even cooler in build mode, where you can twist, push, pull and tilt—basically have free range of motion—when doing heavy construction. The SpaceNavigator is already available for $60, and works with Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop and a bunch of CAD and GIS apps. It will be available in Second Life at release 1.20.

See more here.

SL Rez Day

One year

The Frightening State of Cat AVs in Second Life

The sad state of cat avitars in Second Life

Universal avatars bestride worlds

A virtual character, or avatar, for all the virtual worlds in which people play is the goal of a joint project between IBM and Linden Lab.
The computer giant and the creator of Second Life are working on universal avatars that can travel between worlds.

The project aims to open up virtual worlds by introducing open tools that work with any online environment.

The companies hope to boost interest in virtual worlds as well as make them easier to navigate.

Read more here.

Xcite!™ Xposed!™

At this point I must state that I am not an Xcite!™ customer.

As only an American could envision, you are born into Second Life sexless. Well not so much sexless as genital-less.

Embarrassing.

No sir, not embarrassing, because you're going to take care of it with another American concept. Free Enterprise comes to the rescue in the form of Xcite!™

Xcite!™ is the Microsoft of Second Life, by far the largest suppler of "The Finest Sexual Equipment". Thus equipped, you are compatible with all the other Xcite!™ users. No software issues. It is so MS-like in fact, many Xcite!™ users are genuinely surprised that some would choose another brand (overheard once: "If you want to have sex in Second Life, you have to have Xcite!™").

Xcite!™ is usually the first place newbies go to fill their "sexual equipment" needs, normally on no better advice that from another recent newbie saying "It's what everyone buys".

So before all the fun, we too have to go dick, umm excuse me, cock shopping (my apologies to our female readers for a lack of info for them, but I do know Xcite!™ makes a wide range of Clits, just for *you*).



The Xcite!™ main store has a wide selection for all budgets.



Thoughtfully packaged *sexual survival kits*. Before you have a heart attack, those prices are in Lindens, the currency within Second Life. That 1,200L is about $4.80 U.S.

And this doesn't included all the other wonderful bits available: Xcite!™ shoulders, Xcite!™ lips..I believe there is even an Xcite!™ whip.

But we came to buy a cock. If you are looking for the very best, look no further than the X3.



This sizable fully functional and tintable Hindenburg-like creation is the must have of 2007. On its first day of release, proud new owners were seen across Second Life, whipping out X3s, comparing size and animations. This competition guaranteed that most users had theirs dialed up to "Horse".

And one did not buy the X3 directly. No, you first had to buy the X2 (if you were not already a proud owner) and then *upgrade* to the X3. What a feeling of entitlement it must give!

[There are stories that the early X2 had a bug during the upgrade process, causing it to scurry away like the baby chestburster in Alien...]

Once worn, the X3 user is greeted with dialog boxes and buttons (a HUD, or "heads up display"), taking all that silly guesswork out of cybersex. Xcite!™ is truly for those who don't know (or possibly care) what real sex is actually like (remember gentle readers, these products are designed and made by *programmers*...I rest my case).

Another charming aspect of Xcite!™ products are their chattiness. Once *touched*, it will emit an endless stream of text based "erotic" responses (or on special occasions, audio of someone faking an orgasm). Ripped from the pages of very bad 50's porn (oh um, about which I know nothing), it has a very bad habit of turning up in very public spaces (usually the result of newbie exuberance at finally experiencing sex in any form. "Hey everybody! I'm getting laid on the dancefloor!")

God forbid you should be near someone having an Xcite!™ orgasm (again, these happen in clubs while dancing). It doesn't so much resemble an orgasm as someone being kicked in the back by a horse...repeatedly.



The Master/Slave movement is big in SL, and they are not forgotten. Finally, ChainAnywhere 2.0 Technology. No more runaway slaves ruining your garden party.



There's something for everyone. But we will leave the Furries and Gorians for a later date.

Oh and by the way. If you're really looking to purchase the best dick in SL, ask the black guys, duh.

Second Life's Infidel Burka

And it comes loaded with goodies



(nod to secondlifeherald.com)

Dancing in Second Life

Second Life pVIII

A report from inside.

I've been inside for a month now, and have learned more about SL (as it is referred to inside. Outside is RL...)

On the downside, SL is expensive if you want to "own" land and build. First you pay outright for the land, then a monthly "land fee", depending on how much land you own.

I am presently at 1, 536 sqm, and am desperately looking around for a money raising scheme.

What makes money here? Land, gambling and sex (as well as clothing and body enhancements. Penises seem to go for twice the price of a whole body...and they're are different models and levels of functionality).

At the end of the day, SL is a chatroom (ok, rooms). It has its strange subcultures (Furries for example), and worlds of roleplay and violence. But it is multi-varied and always visually interesting (or shockingly tacky. Malls here can be nightmares).

When if finally comes in. Like a gif in the 90's, worlds in SL can take time to download and complete ("rezzing"), resulting in wonderful surreal landscapes.



My own landscape grew last week with the purchase of a piece of land next to my first. I took down the "house/gallery" on the first, replaced it with a park and began to build a new gallery.



So I settling in to the new world, developing my character and his role there...

Second Life pVII

Whatever influence Second Life is having...it can't be good.

Second Life pVI

Second Life pV

I am a land owner in Second Life.

Here I stand atop my building in progress.

I am such a geek.