Second Life

[mark]

any out there, whats the word, used, no thats not right, played, no still not right, involved maybe??

really struggling to get my head around the concept

a totally virtual world, where people exchange real money for 'virtual money' (linden dollars) then buy 'virtual' stuff from you which you can then exchange back to real money?? people are actually paying real money for pretendy things! emperors new clothes springs to mind

eh??

Linden dollars are apparently now trading on wall street as a recognised currency...even though it doesn't exist??

just can't get my head around it.

least its mainly americans that are spending their money! although one women in america is now a millionaire (in real money) by selling virtual things in second life

The whole thing is a bit like Sims 2 I suppose and as the bairn is onbsessed with the sims, I've created her an account, bought a plot of land on which she built a shop and is designing and selling virtual clothes

cost for the plot is $5 a month (real money) current exchange rate is 4 linden dollars to real one

she's designed/made some 'virtual' clothes, and some saddos out there have bought them! we now have $280 linden dollars in our account which we can swop out for real dollars - US$70, so 35 quid, in 3 days and she's only just started. whats the world coming to?? HBOS, vodafone and loads of others are now trading in there as well, charging people to have a pretendy mobile phone WTF!!!

the plot is on the 'virtual ocean' so I'm gonna build a virtual pier, and a virtual fishing boat to take people virtual fishing in exchange for virtual money.

Am I dreaming all this or is it actually happening?

[Stores]

No Mark, I've been dreaming of virtual fish for 50 weeks of the year and beating everyone in every comp on the horizon. Can I fish from your pier (mark 1001) at the top of every tide.
Sad really isn't it?

[mark]

some people are clearly taking it very seriously! just wandered into someone elses virtual house and got bludgeoned by their 'security orb' and told that further transgressions will result in me being reported to the 'virtual plod' whereupon know doubt I will accidentally fall down some virtual stairs on my way to the virtual cells, wher I shall embark upon a virtual dirty protest and smear the walls with virtual poo!

[Charlie_Thompson]

I created an account a while back and had a shufty

"Charlie Tombola" that's me, my avatar looks like an oarfish with acne. I have all of the dance modules downloaded (essential)

[Charlie_Thompson]

I have patented "The Wheel" in my Second Life and am waiting for the royalties to fly in. I bought it from a man with a fishes head and green monacle called "Honest Diana" it only cost me about Ł400 real cash. I have realised though that it is possible to fly around in SL and also sort of teleport so I feel I may have been a bit ripped off.

People will always need wheels for something though

[mark]

still struggling to get my head around the fact that you get money for nowt and that other folks will give you money for nowt

decided we're going to call the shop 'grot' as an homage to reggie perrin, seems apt I reckon

[pottsy]

I have patented "The Wheel" in my Second Life and am waiting for the royalties to fly in. I bought it from a man with a fishes head and green monacle called "Honest Diana" it only cost me about Ł400 real cash. I have realised though that it is possible to fly around in SL and also sort of teleport so I feel I may have been a bit ripped off.

People will always need wheels for something though

Sell it to the people who own the dungeons scarey place

[Charlie_Thompson]

There was something on the radio about Second Life heads and they were interviewing these 2 people who were well into it. One was a journalist, probably with an ulterior motive who will eventually sell out and slag off her virtual pals. The other fella was paraplegic and the interviewer seemed to assume that his SL persona would be all upright, muscly with loads of limbs and running about. The lad said no it wasn't - I am disabled in SL as well, why not?

[pottsy]

Good for him. I find it strange that when you join you dont even have a full complement of body parts and have to buy "working" versions

[mark]

my business partner in manchester opened a computer shop in second life, and is doing ok with it, however.... one of the guys that works for her chose a disabled avatar, in a wheelchair, thinking that people would be sympathetic and buy more. the showroom is down some virtual stairs, when he goes down them in his wheel chair he falls out at the bottom and as he's disabled can't get back in it so has to quit the app and restart!!

funny as **** in a way, especially if you witness it happening. no accessibility requirements and DDA in second life then!

[Charlie_Thompson]

my business partner in manchester opened a computer shop in second life, and is doing ok with it, however.... one of the guys that works for her chose a disabled avatar, in a wheelchair, thinking that people would be sympathetic and buy more. the showroom is down some virtual stairs, when he goes down them in his wheel chair he falls out at the bottom and as he's disabled can't get back in it so has to quit the app and restart!!

funny as **** in a way, especially if you witness it happening. no accessibility requirements and DDA in second life then!

[Charlie_Thompson]

Years ago a mate of mine who was normal in most ways, revealed himself to be a closet Dungeons and Dragons freak. He told me some very strange tales about how it all worked. One example he gave was of a time his Island was about to be attacked by a boat load of little people with beards and axes. He remembered that he had a spell he'd won off fighting an oarfish or something which was called "Ginghams Dwarf Dance" his bio level was sufficient at the time to allow him to hurl this spell across the water enveloping the boat full wee folk. They dropped there weapons and let loose of the sailing levers and started dancing uncontrollably, the ship ran aground on a reef and all of the dwarfish invaders drowned.

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