Second Life anyone?

[SamNo.2]

I'm thinking about building The Slip an island in Second Life. Hit me privately if you're interested.
laters,
Sam

[Dan]

so your gonna buy an island with real money.... and then what?

[SamNo.2]

You should see Terrapin Station in SL, my friend.

[Dan]

screen shots?

[headnugg]

So I finally went over there a few weeks ago and signed up, but I really don't get it......Is this a game like the Sims? Or I thought this was a social networking site like Myspace?

It seems really complicated and they navigated me over to Paypal and wanted my acct. info. Like I'm going to pay to create some fake world.....


What the hell is the site all about?

[harrymcq]

From what I understand it is like an online RPG but you don't kill stuff, you just buy property and hang out. Kind of like a 3-D chat-room where you can build your own stuff. It sounds kind of cool but I don't have nearly enough for my first life so I've never tried it.

[headnugg]

what is the point of this website?

or is it just yet another way to waste your time.......?

[Dan]

what i hear is like your making virtual reality people sorta like the sims but you could code out like a car store so people want to buy cars, and you like make the cars out of nothing because you code them but people buy them for a lot of money. or you buy an island and code it to make it real pretty then sell it for more money or like have developments on the island...

f-ed up if you ask me
but cool for game designers i guess or computer game people

[diesel]

its just another sign of the apocalypse

[Colin]

doesnt look that great to me. just give me guitar hero and tony hawk and im good

[headnugg]

doesnt look that great to me. just give me guitar hero and tony hawk and im good

Guitar Hero I was half price at best buy the other day, the whole big box with everything was $35......

[tim]

doesnt look that great to me. just give me guitar hero and tony hawk and im good

Guitar Hero I was half price at best buy the other day, the whole big box with everything was $35......

that's a good deal, the cheapest i've ever seen the whole bundle was for $40 at the flea market(probably hot merch).

[KLUE]

http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam ... 0553380958

To learn about second life read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Oddly enough second life is inspired by and endevours to be 'the metaverse' from the novel. I agree with Deisel about the apocolypse thing. Read the book pretty frightening alagory.

[Phrazz]

Snowcrash is cool (and so is Neuromancer), but if you want to read something scary, check out The Diamond Age. This is about a probable future of nanotechnology. Some of Stephenson's predictions are already in the works at various skunk labs in a few technologically-advanced countries. The novel also deals with social issues as well as having some great characters and is one of the best "hard" sci-fi novels out there.

http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Illus ... 62-3351269

-Phrazz

[mjm]

Snowcrash is cool (and so is Necromancer)

You mean Neuromancer.