Believe it or not, people actually expect to be happy in life, and they even expect this happiness to endure. Who would ever think that? 🙂 🙂 🙂 Actually, real lasting happiness is achievable. It is just a matter of learning where real happiness comes from, and pursuing it. Conventional wisdom says it comes from money, and owning lots of
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I generally don’t like to talk much about the real world on this blog, but I have had an interest in the energy sector for almost as long as my interest in virtual worlds. I wouldn’t bother, but between the nuclear crisis in Japan, the revolutions happening in oil exporting nations like Libya and Bahrain, and the recent sudden rise
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All the stuff I wanted to do for version 7 is finally complete. So I am officially releasing version 7 of Ariane’s Dating Sim. The full release can be downloaded here. If you already have the 7beta version download, all the changes since then can be downloaded as a small patch here. The primary changes made since the beta release:
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So with a lot of State of the Union, and State of the Nation, and State of the State speeches the last week or so, how about a quick view at the state of the Metaverse? Growth: None Second Life has seen no real growth at all in the last calendar year. This according to their last quarterly report. IMVU
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My post about the new Apple TV sucking has generated a lot of traffic. I thought I’d follow it up with my own impression of what would be a whole lot better. About a year ago I started a project that I continue to fine tune, but I have perfected it enough to explain. This is a project so cool
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Like a lot of people this Christmas, I got myself a Kinect controller for my Xbox360. I also picked up a copy of Kinect Sports which is way better than the included demo game Kinect Adventures. In other words, I got myself an exercise regimen for Christmas. I guess that takes care of the new years resolution as well. A
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Yes, I finally finished it to the point it is releasable, and I’m declaring it version 7 because there is so much new stuff. I basically got rid of most of the video game screenshot backgrounds and replaced them with new 3D art renders. There are 291 new pictures, and I have at least 8 more I still want to
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As promised, I am showing some new stuff I’m working on for the dating game. I was hoping to be finished by now but I keep getting distracted by other matters. All I can say is it will be done when it is done. The sequel is likely going to be in Visual Novel format, which means I can do
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So I spent a fair amount of posts devoted to what seems to be a battle of “visions” going on in Second Life. A string of posts starting with this one I wrote a year ago. I have written so many I just decided to create a new sl visions tag. Click to see all the related posts. So here
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So here is another post with some new renders for the next version of the date simulator. These focus on the downtown restaurant. The old restaurant was somewhere downtown but apparently far enough that you had to drive from the restaurant to the downtown town shopping area. I am establishing a sense of geography now.
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