And I've got some pixels in Florida for sale...

/folks, if you need to spend money on something worthless, spend it on me!

And then you can get yourself a virtual wife to live with you in your virtual house and have virtual sex. But then she will start getting virtual headaches... because she is virtually getting it from the virtual milk man. You will want to get a virtual divorce, but she will have a hot shot virtual lawyer, and you will lose your virtual house, your virtual car, your virtual kids, and your virtual ass.

the future is here and I am weeping

Commit virtual suicide. Unplug your computer. Step outside, touch the dirt, smell the mulch, whatever. Get a tan from the real UV rays of the sun, not your massive 24" flatscreen LCD monitor that you bought with real cash you made from selling virtual plots of land.

there should be a system on here to flag and remove links for sheer stupidity.

people who pay for totalfark are just as stupid. Buying stuff in an online game, if it means more entertainment, who cares? Let people do what they want with their money

This is news? Basically this is just people EBaying shiat.

One guild in a game called Shadowbane spent $2000 REAL CASH on a town.

Yes, but will the Deliverator get me my pizza within a half-hour?

Neeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrddddddddddssssss

/Got Nuttin

Hiro would be proud.

You've got to be kidding. Couldn't we get a STUPID tag?

Interesting business concept, but I'm afraid most of the people susceptible to that addiction are already incurable EverQuest zombies.

I am virtually speechless.....

Wow, It took me a moment to place the snow crash reference until "The Deliverator" was brought up. Almost forgotten about that book.

Code_Archeologist wins the thread.

BigNick: If I made enough to buy a 24" LCD selling virtual real estate, I'd keep at it. Especially if I enjoyed doing it.

Fun+money = teh win.

When all the tech jobs finally dry up and the only thing the US does better than the rest of the world is high-speed pizza delivery, I'll be first in line to work for Uncle Enzo. Being the Deliverator is actually sort of a long-standing ambition of mine...

The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education PhD's, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Skyshadow is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills...

The Deliverator is a Type A driver with rabies. He is zeroing in on his home base, CosaNostra Pizza #3569, cranking up the left lane of CSV-5 at a hundred and twenty kilometers. His car is a black lozenge, just a dark place that reflects the tunnel of franchise signs -- the loglo. A row of orange lights burbles and churns across the front, where the grille would be if this were an air-breathing car. The orange light looks like a gasoline fire. It comes in people's rear windows, bounces off their rearview mirrors, projects a fiery mask across their eyes, reaches into their subconcious, and unearths fears of being pinned, fully conscious, under a detonating gas tank, makes them want to pull over and let the Deliverator overtake them in his black chariot of pepperoni fire...

in an online graphic role-playing game known as Second Life.

Sounds like these tards need to get a first life.

When does the fireworks display start?

/geek

A metaverse is just as lame and pointless as the internet.

Yes, you are supposed to interpret that however you want.

Virtual Realty

losers... 'nuff said

for anyone who doesnt already know there is a 7 day free trial for this game. I tryed it a few months ago. to tell you the truth it isnt bad at all. the best part of the game is that if you can code, you can make anything in the game you want. they have "sandbox's" in the game where you can go make what ever you want. Most of the ppl who play though are Euro's. what ever you do, dont say you are american. they seem to hate americans in that game. But other then that the game is pretty good. Its something that is not seen in the gaming scene now adays. If your a gamer and like MMO's i would say check it out. I liked it.

I smell a dot-com-bubble v.2.0

code_archeologist:
No, if she has a really good virtual lawyer, you lose any real counterparts to the virtual life, too.

No, sorry, that smell is me. My bad.

/ vows to just scrub harder next time.

sounds like this is like that game there.com
same concept.

/sad. oh how very sad.

No. Wait: I smell fine. That actually is a dot-com-bubble-2.0 I smell.

/Like burning tires

"And you may find yourself
In a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
Well...how did I get here??"

kittz_cat
Where does that virtual highway go to?

I'm betting it's not very common, the game I play (Asheron's Call) has had some major sales in the past - one character went for $8000. Characters do sell left and right on Ebay for hundreds of dollars, but it's not like EVERYONE is spending money on virtual property, probably only a handful who have a lot of money to waste. I would never buy but actually did sell some armor for $1000, and the funniest thing is now 3 years later it wouldn't sell for $5.

This is brilliant! I need to make a clone of myself who will play the next big MMO, get super uber and sell away the account for big money.

I rarely post twice... but I will here.

This "game" might not (read: is probably not) going to become the metaverse. But, the idea of a virtual world superimposed over our own (or something akin to that) isn't new and could be very interesting.

Something that isn't quite a game (it's totally open-ended) but isn't the internet (although it's dristributed over many independently owned servers) might be successful.

Would such a thing be better than reality? Unlikely. But could it be useful and entertaining? Probably. Could it be profitable? Perhaps, but probably not more than its equivalent internet site would be, whatever that would be.

I'm going to take a look.

"2004-06-04 01:44:23 AM Kung_Fu_Hamster


Code_Archeologist wins the thread."

so what does one get for "winning the thread"?

Perhaps they get Whuffie...

I came up with a funny idea today... someone should create a new genre of music, and call it Gangsta Country. That would be cool.

But anyway, these people spending real money on virtual "land" need to get some perspective. Don't they realize that with a 100 GB hard drive, they can create as much virtual land as they want? When the number of virtual friends you have eclipses the number of friends you have in real life, you have serious problems. When you get to the point of spending your money on something intangible like that, something that could be erased by a virus or a clever hacker, your problems are insurmountable.

But I'm serious about that Gangsta Country thing.

I lost my dog, I lost my truck
But I just don't give a f\/ck!
I capped that biatch and stole her car
Now I'm headin to the bar!

Swillin fo'tees of Old E
I'm an ill original G
Poundin down on the malt liquor
Eat shiat you honky pig sticker


BRILLIANT!

Haha, I wonder how many people can actually get that reference, CaptainWes...

G.I.S. for "evercrack"

Just what I always wanted...



To be virtual trailer trash

I see a "virtual world" being created as more then just a game, or a toy. Right now it is simply a simulation; a play-thing. Thus, it is not really a "world". It is simply a game.

It comes close in many ways, and interacts with reality, but it is not quite there.

If a metraverse ever comes into being, it won't be on "purpose". I suspect it would simply be a natural evolution of the current internet.

These folks should take the money they're spending on virtual land and save up to move out of their parents' basement.

Just sayin'.

/Almost 30 and haven't kissed a girl

CaptainWes Booze and hookers are the prize. You still have to pay for them, but you get Drew and the entire Fark community's official sanction when you make your purchase.

/party on, dude

LaughingBudda holy cow, that was dry (and obvious; read histerical)

First of all:
Sweet, my first approved link. That makes my day.

Secondly:
Don't bash it 'til you try it. The author of that whuffie book certainly enjoyed the experience.

Finally:
My "interesting" tag was changed to "amusing"... Hrmph!

/opens self to flaming

Sure, this is lame.
But in two weeks, virtual real estate could be worth more than its real world counterpart.
The end is nigh.

SecondLife is an awful bunch of wank, however.

virgosnake

Geez... This is the third time in the last few months that the world is going to end in the very near future. At least, the third instance of impending doom that I've read reasonably lately about. (Of course, I'm also usually on the tail end of things.) Point being, is the world going to end in revolution, economic ruin, or natural disaster? I'm so confused...