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Damet Neumann
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11-14-2008 15:33
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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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11-14-2008 16:11
But we wont be in the news for long once people get home and digest the economic forecasts for our globe.
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Dilbert Dilweg
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11-14-2008 16:12
No Different than what goes on in the real world. Just a new place to be caught with your hand in the cookie jar lol
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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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11-14-2008 16:45
No Different than what goes on in the real world. Just a new place to be caught with your hand in the cookie jar lol As the actress said to the archbishop _____________________
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Bree Giffen
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Join date: 22 Jun 2006
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11-14-2008 19:04
Any news is good news. I just talked with someone who just joined because they heard about it on the radio. So every time SL pops up in the news it's like an advertisement. I mean have you ever heard much about other video games recently? Besides Wow of course.
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Eve Drechsler
A RL Catherine Willows
Join date: 21 Oct 2007
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11-15-2008 02:05
Yup Bree, probably see an influx of new people after that story. There is a huge article about it in one of the UK dailies, where it appears the people involved have given their sides of the story. The whole shebang is in there RL and SL inc pics.
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Rock Vacirca
riches to rags
Join date: 18 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,093
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11-15-2008 02:44
As the actress said to the archbishop No she did not. What she actually said was, "With balls like that you should have been a canon"! |
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Deira Llanfair
Deira to rhyme with Myra
Join date: 16 Oct 2006
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11-15-2008 02:45
Yup Bree, probably see an influx of new people after that story. There is a huge article about it in one of the UK dailies, where it appears the people involved have given their sides of the story. The whole shebang is in there RL and SL inc pics. I agree - I've just read the newspaper story and it's absolutely hilarious! _____________________
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Skell Dagger
Smitten
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
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11-15-2008 02:57
Even Auntie Beeb's just taken it up, with the intriguing question: "How do avatars have sex?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7729207.stm Users can make their avatars sit, lie or stand for sex, says Kieron Gillen of gamerzines.com, but the intercourse is usually an animated sequence triggered by a click of the mouse on an interactive "node", although it depends how they are programmed.  Some Second Lifers have been known to misbehave - a US journalist was attacked by flying penises when conducting an interview in his virtual office. And infidelity is not the only thorny ethical issue thrown up by virtual sexual - some players have had sex with animals.  _____________________
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Cherry Czervik
Came To Her Senses
Join date: 18 Feb 2006
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11-15-2008 03:05
LOL
Bless, for those who complain and bitch when others say (to directly quote someone) that SL is all sex and morons. She was being flippant but what would SL do without all the virtual jigging? Maybe those stories should point out that virtual prostitution is completely tolerated ... I do think it's funny how people are represented as being happy with some poseball hopping. How DULL! _____________________
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Aeslyn Dae
over and out
Join date: 12 Jul 2007
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11-15-2008 03:05
Even Auntie Beeb's just taken it up, with the intriguing question: "How do avatars have sex?" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7729207.stm Interactive nodes? Is that what all the trendy kids are calling poseballs these days? It won't be long before some suit at the Beeb hears about Furries and signs up David Attenborough to make a documentary. -- Aes |
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Skell Dagger
Smitten
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11-15-2008 03:10
It won't be long before some suit at the Beeb hears about Furries and signs up David Attenborough to make a documentary. -- Aes _____________________
It always ends in chickens...
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
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11-15-2008 08:00
There was a thing on BBC about virtual worlds addiction and possible harmful effects - but this time it was World of Warcraft (whatever that is!) getting the stick!
Re. the divorce thing, I wonder if a wife who'd been waiting years for her husband to do up their shabby house would have grounds for divorce if she discovered he'd built himself a luxury palace in SL _____________________
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Dakota Tebaldi
Voodoo Child
Join date: 6 Feb 2008
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11-15-2008 08:21
I love it when a major news outlet like NBC or BBC run a story on Second Life. It gives me a delusionally false, yet comforting sense of being a part of something important.
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Toy LaFollette
I eat paintchips
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11-15-2008 08:54
SL, the soap opera of the metaverse
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Ceka Cianci
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Join date: 31 Jul 2006
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11-15-2008 09:14
bad publicity with SL seems to work better than the good..
maybe we'll get a rush in this ole ghost town hehehe _____________________
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Jezebella Desmoulins
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Join date: 4 Nov 2005
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11-15-2008 09:32
I love it when a major news outlet like NBC or BBC run a story on Second Life. It gives me a delusionally false, yet comforting sense of being a part of something important. I felt the same way when CSI did that episode about us. And then I felt sad that CBS apparently had a much more robust and flashy version of the grid than us little people get to play on. |
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Raudf Fox
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Join date: 25 Feb 2005
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11-15-2008 09:33
MSNBC is behind. CNN covered it yesterday morning.
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Iain Sullivan
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Join date: 3 Oct 2008
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11-15-2008 12:04
bad publicity with SL seems to work better than the good.. maybe we'll get a rush in this ole ghost town hehehe Its great for those that run adult business here and long may it continue lol |
