Comments on The Library Dungeon: One life or two?

I've thought about trying SL, but there are severa...

2008-05-16T19:23:00.000-07:00

I've thought about trying SL, but there are several reasons why I haven't. I don't know what I'd do there since it's not a game. If I do find something I like, I might get addicted to it like I do to most new interests (yes, I had the WoW phase, but I'm much better now, thank you). If I do get addicted, I'll be playing it without the husband because he has zero interest in it. So I think I'll just close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and sing la la la la. Besides, it might cut into my City of Heroes time.

LOL, true. There are a lot more accounts than acti...

2008-05-16T16:16:00.000-07:00

LOL, true. There are a lot more accounts than active users, but that's true of any MMORPG, and I still think SL is an amazing place. And yes, there are vast tracts of nothingness in some areas, but that's what the Search feature is for. That way you can just teleport to wherever you want to be. And let's face it, even though there are a lot of inactive users, there are still many millions of active ones.

Honestly, the best thing about Second Life, as far as I'm concerned, is that it's really the next step towards truly virtual reality, which is probably the single technology that I want to see before I die. A world like SL is only a sensory I/O system away from being the Virtual Reality world I've always wanted to see.

And yeah, there are a lot of weird things to stumble across, but that's the best part of it. Like the picture I linked to says: Second Life - For all your WTF moments.

My radio show actually got started in Second Life....

2008-05-16T15:42:00.000-07:00

My radio show actually got started in Second Life. Our club (Club 138) is still there, and we stream live to it every night of the week.

One thing to keep in mind about SL though is that yes, there are more subscribers to SL than any other MMORPG, but that is more because it's free than anything. For example, I have 3 registered accounts and I haven't logged on for ages.

Ross Wolinsky said it best when he said: "In reality, the actual number of active players is always much, much lower than the sum total of all registered users. That means that people create an account, build a house for their in-game avatar to masturbate in, and then they stop playing and never come back. What does that mean for you, the curious, newbie player? It means that walking around Second Life is like walking around in some weird, virtual post-apocalyptic zombie movie, only instead of encountering zombies, you occasionally stumble across some dude dressed up like a mechanical teddy bear having sex with a giant cat."