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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
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10-14-2005 20:24
An overview of Second Life in the Scotsman.
 Environments of computer generated splendour inhabited by figures with superhuman powers. Experiences that stretch and stimulate the imagination. Opportunities to be all you could never otherwise hope to be. Logging on to www.secondlife.com, I suspect I have glimpsed our future. Read the "Brave New World" article here._____________________
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Roberta Dalek
Probably trouble
Join date: 21 Oct 2004
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10-14-2005 20:30
"According to Wagner James Au, the journalist who documents the site's goings-on for its very own virtual newspaper, the Dragon's Cove Herald..."
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
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10-14-2005 20:37
"According to Wagner James Au, the journalist who documents the site's goings-on for its very own virtual newspaper, the Dragon's Cove Herald..." Okeydoke, so I neglected to mention this article in fact comes from a parallel universe...  but wait! There's more!From his trade in customising avatar "skins", Marcos Fonzarelli says: "I make enough to pay my tier and have some left over." Like many, Fonzarelli is simply ensuring that his pastime pays for itself. Marcos makes skins? I mean, mechatronic powered ARMORD is one thing, but... !?! Aye at least they didn't call Kermitt "Quick". Hehehe. _____________________
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
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10-14-2005 22:27
Never let those pesky facts get in the way of a good story!
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nimrod Yaffle
Cavemen are people too...
Join date: 15 Nov 2004
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10-14-2005 23:55
God, I hated that book!
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Euterpe Roo
The millionth monkey
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10-15-2005 11:21
"Yet, the creative and social possibilities of Second Life echo the intellectual melting-pot of the 18th-century salon. . ."
Finally, it seems that someone out there gets it (well, at least part of it).  _____________________
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Hamlet Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 9 Apr 2003
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10-15-2005 11:34
"According to Wagner James Au, the journalist who documents the site's goings-on for its very own virtual newspaper, the Dragon's Cove Herald..."
WTF?! "...It's like a creative agora [marketplace where people gathered to swap ideas] from ancient Greece." WTF?! I said that like a year and a half ago at an SXSW talk-- I called SL a MMOCA ("Massively Multiplayer Online Creative Agora".) Maybe someone in Scotland went a little wacky with some last-minute Googling from the Internet terminal of a noisy Edinburgh pub. _____________________
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Torley Linden
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10-15-2005 13:13
Hey Ham, thanx for the clearing that up. At least we know you weren't drunk or anything!
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Hamlet Linden
Linden Lab Employee
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10-15-2005 21:32
I didn't say I wasn't drunk!
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
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10-15-2005 21:38
That article is poo. Is he sure he actually tried Second Life and didnt go somewhere else by mistake?
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
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10-15-2005 21:55
That article is poo. Is he sure he actually tried Second Life and didnt go somewhere else by mistake? Come on now Kris, that's unusually gentle of you. Say what you REALLY mean! _____________________
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Marcos Fonzarelli
You are not Marcos
Join date: 26 Feb 2004
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10-16-2005 16:41
Okeydoke, so I neglected to mention this article in fact comes from a parallel universe... but wait! There's more!Marcos makes skins? I mean, mechatronic powered ARMORD is one thing, but... !?! Aye at least they didn't call Kermitt "Quick". Hehehe. Yeah this is lazy journalism at its worst. He pulled my quote from the front page of the website. Makes one wonder whether the author actually spoke to anyone in person.  P.S. I wrote a letter to their editor, quoted below. I heard from a friend that I was featured in an article online. I hadn't remembered giving any interviews recently, so I followed her link. I was quoted, yes, but it was a quote from my member profile featured on www.secondlife.com. John Davidson, who wrote the article, didn't bother to actually speak to me in person. He wrote that I create "skins", which is incorrect. I make robot or "mecha" avatars, which are quite different from skins. He also made several other factual errors throughout the article. One wonders if the author actually tried Second Life or just skimmed the website so he could vomit up an article on deadline. |
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Martin Magpie
Catherine Cotton
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10-16-2005 19:22
"According to Wagner James Au, the journalist who documents the site's goings-on for its very own virtual newspaper, the Dragon's Cove Herald..." WTF?! "...It's like a creative agora [marketplace where people gathered to swap ideas] from ancient Greece." WTF?! I said that like a year and a half ago at an SXSW talk-- I called SL a MMOCA ("Massively Multiplayer Online Creative Agora".) Maybe someone in Scotland went a little wacky with some last-minute Googling from the Internet terminal of a noisy Edinburgh pub. LOL "WTF" LOL gawd I love you still |
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Icon Serpentine
punk in drublic
Join date: 13 Nov 2003
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10-16-2005 20:34
An overview of Second Life in the Scotsman. Environments of computer generated splendour inhabited by figures with superhuman powers. Experiences that stretch and stimulate the imagination. Opportunities to be all you could never otherwise hope to be. Logging on to www.secondlife.com, I suspect I have glimpsed our future. Read the "Brave New World" article here.Funny they would impart the writings of Alduous Huxley's unhinged mescaline binges upon us. Sure the title sounds fitting, but we're not ALL hallucinating here, are we? _____________________
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Vivianne Draper
Registered User
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10-17-2005 07:45
Sure its Huxely he's referering to?
I took it as from Shakespeare, in the Tempest, when Desdemona, upon seeing men who are not her father for the first time in her life, says: "oh brave new world that hath such people in it!" Or something like that. I'm doing this from memory so I probably got a bit of it wrong. |
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Merwan Marker
Booring...
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10-17-2005 08:03
Sure its Huxely he's referering to? I took it as from Shakespeare, in the Tempest, when Desdemona, upon seeing men who are not her father for the first time in her life, says: "oh brave new world that hath such people in it!" Or something like that. I'm doing this from memory so I probably got a bit of it wrong. You got it right enough...  _____________________
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Memory Harker
Girl Anachronism
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
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Uh!
10-17-2005 18:18
I'm doing this from memory so I probably got a bit of it wrong. You are so, so, SO reported! |
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Memory Harker
Girl Anachronism
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
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*gag* *retch*
10-17-2005 18:48
"its very own virtual newspaper" Awwwwww ... izzums gots izzown virtual newspaper? Izzums a BIG widdle baby avatar now? Yeah, great, John Davidson. tyvm. "the suspension of disbelief required to keep the virtual world compelling" Yeah, exactly. Because I'm just making all this shit up, right? I'm only *pretending* that that griefer pushed me ass over teakettle and three sims away from where I was shopping last week, that Trinity Serpentine and Nala Galatea are SL's most adorable DJ duo, that Malachi Petunia "tried" to sneak up on me by wearing a Giant Camo-Colored Box over his avatar, that ... and YOU were there, and YOU were there, and ... aaaargh! (Although, sure, save for those minor instances of condescension (as well as condescension to the Scotsman's own readers --- what eBay is has to be defined? (!) ), and for the Fonzarelli debacle, the article wasn't bad at all. Especially see Euterpe's take on it in her earlier post.) . . . But, you know, it's kinda that whole graphic-novel sort of situation with non-SL journalists, isn't it? Where a reviewer covering Marjane Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS, say, feels the need to interject something along the lines of "Heh, heh, comics these days, boy howdy! They sure ain't just fer kids who wanna read about Spandex-clad superpeople anymore!" Grumble, grumble. (Smiley Sneerwell, WTF's taking you so long with that Midol you promised?) |