Second Life

About a year and a half ago, someone told me about Second Life, the mmorpg. I got a character there and I even bought a new video card to play there. I was very psyched about joining. I spent a couple of weeks learning how to get around and building my character. But after that, there was nothing to do except go shopping or build things, and if you’re not into code, building things is kinda boring and frustrating. So I stopped going even though I have several VR friends who go there. It seemed to me that people don’t really RP there the way they do on mushes, so I just wasn’t interested. It reminded me a lot of Furrymuck. But now Second Life is really huge and I keep seeing stories about it popping up in the press. For instance, someone named “Stroker” just sold his “Amsterdam” site on Second Life for $50,000. Wired has an interview with Stroker that’s sort of interesting. Last year, Reuters opened a virtual news bureau office on SL. Most recently, Sundance has held a virtual screening of a film from the festival. Maybe I should go back.