Freaks

I didn't believe what I heard about 2nd life for awhile, so I created a free account to check it out. Now, I've seen what I figured was the worst the internet had to offer, or so I thought. It's not the shock value of some internet images, but the creep out factor of seeing a baby animal in a diaper offer sexual favors.

Fortunately I got my hands on a gun to launch people into space, that made the game fun for about an hour. Otherwise stay away, it's the 8th circle of hell.

Second Life desperately wants to be Teh Intarwebs in 3D, but its credibility will forever be laughable as long as a large portion of its users are virtual furries yiffin' it up.

Something Awful has some amusing 'safari' stories as well.

Obvious tag gone missing somewhere?

That being said, 2nd Life is a fascinating concept with open modelling and scripting tools for a virtual community. Too bad it's for the perverts.

/A couple weeks was too much of that shiat. . .

Ah, Second Life. The power to do anything you want with the motivation to do nothing.

What's all this about flying penis attacks? Oh nobody in this thread actually mentioned... um... nevermind then.

I think what scares me about this article the most is that he could replace it with some of his writing on The City in Transmetropolitan and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Warren Ellis should speak for himself.

/now if he had said no one needs to see it in fast motion...

It's an interesting article, if you don't mind him repeating himself. Because every few paragraphs, he repeats himself. And I don't think anyone needs to see someone repeating himself.
/from books to VCRs to the Internet, sex advances media-related technology; accept it and move on
//or join in and fap

pcat, you're just loosing track of where you're reading from overpowering wishful thinking...

though a more important question comes to mind... this is apparently a Reuters related? Can we even trust the accuracy of spelling?

My fiance is into that crap and as far as I can tell he just really likes to play poker and build stuff but I still think it's just creepy.

http://www.getafirstlife.com/

The hell? I want five minutes of my life back.

And you simply can't start an article with "It's not often you come home to find people having sex in your house." and then go on and on about some weird ass alternate reality/virtual world/whatever game.

There's a good article on Sadville at theregister:

The phony economics of Second Life.

"I resisted the urge to pull a weapon and blow them off my land like an enraged farmer."

Hahahaha

Secondlife has the potential for greatness...but no one can take it seriously when you go in and see some bs like a baby fur or any farking furry for that matter named "DarkSabreWulf666x" or some other ****.

The concept that you can create anything you want and play with it (heh) in a dynamic, virtual world is fantastic...it's just too bad the majority of the people in SL use it for stupidity.

I've made a bunch of awesome stuff using their simple building tools and I don't understand why more people don't take it up...it's as simple as legos and fun, I think.


I made this a lil while back

/will give a cookie if someone knows what it is

PedanticSimpleton: will give a cookie if someone knows what it is

That's a Curtiss R3.

Pedantic Simpleton

It's a Streetlight! Floatplane.

It's mystery Iraq weapon #3...yep it's a seaplane alright

/gives a cookie to TappingTheVein
//extra credit if you can name the livery

PedanticSimpleton: extra credit if you can name the livery

Stearman ?

FTFA: Frankly, if it's on the Internet, you can be certain that sooner or later (and usually sooner) it'll be used for shagging.

Truer words were never spoken typed.

Two issues in and already I'm bored of his Thunderbolts. Certainly I enjoyed Transmet but he's sucked the joy out of one of the few Marvel comics I've been on board with since the start. Civil War sucks.

But its making them money I guess, the masses are fools. He must know this, that's why he's hardly trying to entertain me, knowing his followers will eat up anything as long as it has pointless violence and sex in it.

Someone post my pic on the studman_69 cliche, because that is how I feel about this broad.

Dosen't he know about rule 34 of the intarwebs?

inFARKshun

Second Life desperately wants to be Teh Intarwebs in 3D, but its credibility will forever be laughable as long as a large portion of its users are virtual furries yiffin' it up.

You're describing the 2D intartubes about 15 years ago.

bearded clamorer

I lol'd.

McMaster University is buying up "property" in Second Life to create a virtual library for its students, so they can get virtual reference. It's the biggest waste of money I've ever seen.

will give a cookie if someone knows what it is

It's the Spruce Moose, hop in!

McMaster University is buying up "property" in Second Life to create a virtual library for its students, so they can get virtual reference. It's the biggest waste of money I've ever seen.

Oh marvelous. Now instead of running back forth between Mills, Thode, and Health Sciences (because heaven knows Mac just CAN'T put all their psychology books/journals in one building) the next time I'm doing a research project, I'll have to run back and forth in cyberspace as well as reality.

/grrr

RTA and all I can say is 'amazing'.

I admit to being more than slightly out of the loop...but this crap? OMG.

Well, on one hand it just shows the broadness of human sexuality.

On the other? A TREMENDOUS 'ick/yuck' factor.

Dont worry, it will outlawed sooner or later and I have no problem with that.

Mom?

Mister Peejay: You're describing the 2D intartubes about 15 years ago.

Ah yes, the Information Superhighway, or "web" as we called it, was indeed faced with the challenge of shaking the image of eel sex and horse hummers, to become the cultural and economic juggernaut we all know and love today.
It needs a new name. Second life is "teh ghey", to use intartube lingo, like "information Superhighway" was. I don't have any ideas, because I don't have a second life. I'm just saying, the name kinda sucks.

/ the old web was kinda cool
// 31 next week. "senior" web user.
/// get off my lawn is a phrase I use regularly, even though I have no lawn.

andychrist420It needs a new name. Second life is "teh ghey", to use intartube lingo, like "information Superhighway" was. I don't have any ideas, because I don't have a second life. I'm just saying, the name kinda sucks.

The real problem isn't the name, it's the fact that the software is farking terrible. Neat idea, poor implementation. Give me something that doesn't feel like a shiattily rotoscoped cartoon.

No one needs to see a man getting sexual relief from a cat in slow motion. Trust me."

How about speeded up with Benny Hill music?

andychrist420


Mister Peejay: You're describing the 2D intartubes about 15 years ago.

Ah yes, the Information Superhighway, or "web" as we called it, was indeed faced with the challenge of shaking the image of eel sex and horse hummers, to become the cultural and economic juggernaut we all know and love today.
It needs a new name. Second life is "teh ghey", to use intartube lingo, like "information Superhighway" was. I don't have any ideas, because I don't have a second life. I'm just saying, the name kinda sucks.

/ the old web was kinda cool
// 31 next week. "senior" web user.
/// get off my lawn is a phrase I use regularly, even though I have no lawn.


The WWW did not exist 15 years ago. Back then "all we had" were MU*s, Usenet, e-mail, and FTP.

/and we liked it
//we loved it

"No one needs to see a man getting sexual relief from a cat in slow motion. Trust me."

Uh... [raises hand slowly] ...actually...

PedanticSimpleton: will give a cookie if someone knows what it is

That's the plane Eddie Rickenbaker used to break the world seaplane speed record oh so many years ago, isn't it?

/probably misspelled Eddie's last name

No one needs to see a man getting sexual relief from a cat in slow motion. Trust me.

How about speeded up with Benny Hill music?




Now that there's funny, I don't care who you are.


/ Lord, I apologize.

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There is more to Second Life than that.

I've always thought that the internet was like that room filled with an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters. Except instead of Hamlet, they crank out every possible and impossible perversion. Second Life looks to be setting the process up to 11.

Reed Solomon: Two issues in and already I'm bored of his Thunderbolts. Certainly I enjoyed Transmet but he's sucked the joy out of one of the few Marvel comics I've been on board with since the start. Civil War sucks.

It probably wasn't his idea to fill the team with psychos and killers. Besides, the old team is supposed to be getting their own title.

PedanticSimpleton

You know what's really sad? 24 hours to get a login and *STILL* no one got that it was the Blue Angels livery.

/slashies
//because I can