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There was an entry semi-recently on Inhabitat about how there was some competition to design an amazing house on Second Life, and the winner would have their design built, so I foolishly thought "Hmm, that would be interesting, maybe I'll go have a look."
I had no idea Second Life was so insanely huge and utterly banal. Today I have been wasting an *awful* lot of time sending my mini-me rollerskating underwater, sailing, attempting to find out how in the hell you're supposed to make money, sleeping in random peoples' hammocks, and nosing around houses. I now have in my inventory: a sailboat, a million zillion items of revealing clothing, a beard, lots of drinks, a snake-charming flute, and the batmobile. I did not find any buildings marked for the Inhabitat competition, although I did trespass as much as possible and have come to the conclusion that people are mostly not very creative.
The only almost vaguely interesting thing I found was a set of tutorials about corals by Mitsubishi, which included some microscopes you look at and it shows you actual pictures of corals and some info, and an underwater scuba path which was quite pretty, if not actually worth the time.
Thankfully I just accidentally turned myself into a man so that's enough of that nonsense.
I had no idea Second Life was so insanely huge and utterly banal. Today I have been wasting an *awful* lot of time sending my mini-me rollerskating underwater, sailing, attempting to find out how in the hell you're supposed to make money, sleeping in random peoples' hammocks, and nosing around houses. I now have in my inventory: a sailboat, a million zillion items of revealing clothing, a beard, lots of drinks, a snake-charming flute, and the batmobile. I did not find any buildings marked for the Inhabitat competition, although I did trespass as much as possible and have come to the conclusion that people are mostly not very creative.
The only almost vaguely interesting thing I found was a set of tutorials about corals by Mitsubishi, which included some microscopes you look at and it shows you actual pictures of corals and some info, and an underwater scuba path which was quite pretty, if not actually worth the time.
Thankfully I just accidentally turned myself into a man so that's enough of that nonsense.
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There are some genuinely amazing things there like the guy who made Van Gogh's Starry Night in it (linky) but a lot of it is just rubbish, much like most of the internet.
One guy I know makes money ingame from working as a pole dancer in a club in the game. I reckon that for most people, if you've got the time to be good at Second Life you need a better hobby.
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