The Unofficial Complete Fool's Guide to SecondLife: A book for the new and old!
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Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
Join date: 7 Mar 2005
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08-15-2006 11:44
After much work and effort, The Unofficial Complete Fool's Guide to SecondLife is ready for everyone to enjoy! Well, some of you know that I had been working on a project for several months now, and have been wondering when I would display it. You can download all 7 megs of it's 70+ page glory at SLDrama.com, either in the download section, or right from the front page. Get your copy and tell me what you think of it! It's a PDF guidebook about the basics of how SecondLife works. I hope you enjoy this guide, both for it's usefulness to new users, and for it's amusement value to the old hands of SecondLife. It covers the basics of SL in a humor-filled and educational romp through an avatar's first login! This comes to you free from he residents of Second Life and Foolish Frost. Please enjoy it, and tell your friends where they can get it! I hope to see you there!  |
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April Fool
Registered User
Join date: 21 Jul 2004
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08-15-2006 11:48
Thanks!
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pandastrong Fairplay
all bout the BANG POW NOW
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
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08-15-2006 11:49
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"Honestly, you are a gem -- fun, creative, and possessing strong social convictions. I think LL should be paying you to be in their game."~ Ulrika Zugzwang on the iconography of pandastrong in the media "That's no good. Someone is going to take your place as SL's cutest boy while you're offline."~ Ingrid Ingersoll on the topic of LL refusing to pay pandastrong for being in their game.
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Foolish Frost
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08-15-2006 11:52
From: pandastrong Fairplay Be nice. |
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pandastrong Fairplay
all bout the BANG POW NOW
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
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08-15-2006 11:53
From: Foolish Frost Be nice. I was being nice. I said yours was great work! Be real.
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"Honestly, you are a gem -- fun, creative, and possessing strong social convictions. I think LL should be paying you to be in their game."~ Ulrika Zugzwang on the iconography of pandastrong in the media "That's no good. Someone is going to take your place as SL's cutest boy while you're offline."~ Ingrid Ingersoll on the topic of LL refusing to pay pandastrong for being in their game.
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Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
Join date: 7 Mar 2005
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08-15-2006 11:57
From: pandastrong Fairplay I was being nice. I said yours was great work!
Be real. <pokes pandastrong with a dull stick> In ALL directions be nice... |
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pandastrong Fairplay
all bout the BANG POW NOW
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,920
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08-15-2006 12:01
From: Foolish Frost <pokes pandastrong with a dull stick> Weiner joke in 5... 4...3 (countdown joke loll).
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"Honestly, you are a gem -- fun, creative, and possessing strong social convictions. I think LL should be paying you to be in their game."~ Ulrika Zugzwang on the iconography of pandastrong in the media "That's no good. Someone is going to take your place as SL's cutest boy while you're offline."~ Ingrid Ingersoll on the topic of LL refusing to pay pandastrong for being in their game.
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Enabran Templar
Capitalist Pig
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
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08-15-2006 12:05
From: pandastrong Fairplay <3
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From: Hiro Pendragon Furthermore, as Second Life goes to the Metaverse, and this becomes an open platform, Linden Lab risks lawsuit in court and [attachment culling] will, I repeat WILL be reverse in court.
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Dimitrio Lewis
Aspergian
Join date: 3 Oct 2005
Posts: 54
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08-15-2006 12:25
I was more than a little surprised to discover that Colonel Sanders is alive and in SL, but his new book is every bit as genius as the chicken restaurant idea. Every newbie should own a copy. 5/5
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Aodhan McDunnough
Gearhead
Join date: 29 Mar 2006
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08-15-2006 12:29
I'm not even finished with it but I give it 5/5 stars with only one caveat which is if a newbie forgets that Avatar's story is a sort of roleplaying experience.
A must-read for newbies.
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Ilianexsi Sojourner
Chick with Horns
Join date: 11 Jul 2004
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08-15-2006 12:52
Looks great! Very cool to see the Avatar story again, with so many pictures. Very well explained, should be highly useful. I just want to mention (I hate to nitpick) that page 5 has a line that says 'You will also see the here. Read it.' Unless I'm displaying it wrong, it looks like 'TOS' or something similar was deleted from that line. (Sorry, I used to do proofreading, I can't help finding these things.) 
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Foolish Frost
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08-15-2006 12:54
From: Ilianexsi Sojourner Looks great! Very cool to see the Avatar story again, with so many pictures. Very well explained, should be highly useful. I just want to mention (I hate to nitpick) that page 5 has a line that says 'You will also see the here. Read it.' Unless I'm displaying it wrong, it looks like 'TOS' or something similar was deleted from that line. (Sorry, I used to do proofreading, I can't help finding these things.) Thank you! Already mentioned, and the new version is uploading as we type. Will just switch over when done, and everyone will be on their merry way! Went through 10 editors, and nobody noticed. You are all so FIRED. |
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Aodhan McDunnough
Gearhead
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08-15-2006 13:09
Saw that too and had no idea what it was supposed to say.
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Foolish Frost
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08-15-2006 13:22
From: Aodhan McDunnough Saw that too and had no idea what it was supposed to say. Fixed and a new 'b' version is set for download. |
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Rowan Carroll
She's So Unusual Shoes
Join date: 4 Mar 2006
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08-15-2006 13:24
Hey Foolish..
I was just posting about a class I'd like to teach, teaching the absolute basics of SL.. I think your book would be great for my class. and if not for the class. how about handing it out at NCI? I should be in world later tonight.. like.. around 11pm, 12 SL time.. drop me a line!
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Foolish Frost
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08-15-2006 13:28
From: Rowan Carroll Hey Foolish..
I was just posting about a class I'd like to teach, teaching the absolute basics of SL.. I think your book would be great for my class. and if not for the class. how about handing it out at NCI? I should be in world later tonight.. like.. around 11pm, 12 SL time.. drop me a line! NCI? |
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Rowan Carroll
She's So Unusual Shoes
Join date: 4 Mar 2006
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08-15-2006 13:30
Really.. it's amazing how few people know about NCI.. or New Citizen's Inc.. we have a huge freebie area, tons of notecards and other helpful things for Newbies.. we have three classrooms and a huge schedule of classes. Really.. come check it out.. just search for NCI.. should be the third or fourth one down, depending on traffic that day.. New Citizens Inc
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Foolish Frost
Grand Technomancer
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08-15-2006 16:07
From: Rowan Carroll Hey Foolish..
I was just posting about a class I'd like to teach, teaching the absolute basics of SL.. I think your book would be great for my class. and if not for the class. how about handing it out at NCI? I should be in world later tonight.. like.. around 11pm, 12 SL time.. drop me a line! Ah well. that's a bit late for me, I'm afraid. These old bones haves to get SOME sleep you know, and that's about 3 am my time... And oddly enough, it's been downloaded 73 time so far since it's release today. Glad it's entertaining enough to get that many downloads before news of it even has a chance to spread inworld! Later! |
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Foolish Frost
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08-16-2006 07:30
Woot! 100 downloads in less than 24 hours. This free stuff goes fast... Let me see, that would be about 700 megs of bandwidth in a day. And the site's still up! Guess my providor can handle the stress afterall. Unless it gets on slashdot, and then I'm seriously doomed. Anyway! Just a couple of things to mention. Near the kiosks for SLDrama.com in Ravenglass and Oakland are tables with a copy of hte book on it. You can click on them to get a link to download the PDF book from the website. A final thing, if you want to link to the book, link to: http://www.sldrama.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item7because if you link direct to the download and it changes, it can cause problems. And yes, you can share the book and such as you like, just make sure the copy on my site has not been updated first. You might be giving a copy that's obsolete, and that kind of defeats the usefulness of giving it to them. Anyway, I'm OFF! (or at least that's what my shrink tells me...) |
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Chronic Skronski
SL Live Musician
Join date: 23 Jun 2006
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08-16-2006 07:33
1.5 of those downloads were mine! Got stuck at 450k the first time. I have not gone over it word for word yet, but it looks great. Lots of useful info, and I like the way it is presented as more of an adventure than instructions.
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Foolish Frost
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08-16-2006 11:37
From: Chronic Skronski 1.5 of those downloads were mine! Got stuck at 450k the first time. I have not gone over it word for word yet, but it looks great. Lots of useful info, and I like the way it is presented as more of an adventure than instructions. I try. Thanks for the good word. Boring people should NEVER be the way used to teach them something... As to 450k, would that not be... About 6% of a download? So it would be 1.06 downloads... |
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Kyuubi David
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Join date: 30 Sep 2005
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08-16-2006 12:30
I so wish I had this back when I started. I can relate to the panic during that first login. Note: On page 13 (inventory), the "Library" is now at the bottom. Back to reading. Thanks for doing this, Foolish! |
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Chronic Skronski
SL Live Musician
Join date: 23 Jun 2006
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08-16-2006 14:51
From: Foolish Frost As to 450k, would that not be... About 6% of a download? So it would be 1.06 downloads... Hrm... I rounded up?
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Foolish Frost
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08-17-2006 03:35
From: Kyuubi David I so wish I had this back when I started. I can relate to the panic during that first login. Note: On page 13 (inventory), the "Library" is now at the bottom. Back to reading. Thanks for doing this, Foolish! Are you speaking of the picture on the next page, or the text? |
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Troy Vogel
Marginal Prof. of ZOMG!
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
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08-17-2006 06:09
Impressive. I am sending it to all the noobs on my team at my university. We have a lot of new users and my time is limited. This should help. Thanks Troy |
