As a follow up to my last post on There vs. Second Life, I want to briefly explain my own history and interests in these two games. Everybody’s tale is different, here is mine. As you may be able to tell on my There Magic page, one of my primary activities in There was exploring. This interest started all the
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Those of us into social virtual worlds have been debating this for 5 years: Which is better, There or Second Life? For the longest time, the answer was, “It depends what you want to do.” Building was always better in Second Life, communication and “toys” (pets, cars, guns, hoverboards, etc) were better in There. In the past year, the rules
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I was thinking of blogging a review of all the changes to Second Life over the past year, and thought it sounded boring. I was also thinking about blogging about the major FUBAR advertising mess at Facebook, but everyone else has already, and the story is pretty over now. But it got me thinking. I have yet to actually create
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So, on and off this summer I have been tinkering with the Dating Simulator game. Some of it was game balancing, some bug fixing, and in a few places, some new content. There were some unserved rare scenarios, like what happens if you go dancing in the club, and get kicked out, then go lingerie shopping and meet Rebecca who
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An interesting but long article about the merging of virtual worlds appears in this months Technolology Review. Here’s the link, but it will probably require registration to read it. This of course is an interest of mine. I love exploring multiple virtual worlds, and two favorites are Second Life and Google Earth. The cliff notes version of the article is
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I almost never check site statistics and I do not bother with site counters either (I think they look tacky), but recently I have been noticing a bandwidth problem on my site and so I checked and the Dating Simulator is bringing in a lot of visits. 125,000 last week alone. Well over 1 million hits since I moved it
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Twas the Day of Solstice and all through the net Snow Colored Pixels on MMOGs they did set Old Ascalon Covered in Wintry Delight Inspired many to engage in a snowball fight Then skating in SL at the Winterfest Inn An axel, a flip, and even a spin Then on to the ski lift, a ride to the top For
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