Alt Personality

I’ve found that when people create alts, an interesting thing happens: It seems to intensify their personality. When I’ve met people in their alt form they’re usually acting more intensely – more in your face, or more nice, or more cruel, or more honest, or even more funny. In turn, I also find that my [...]

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Suicide Watch

One of the most intense and recurring experiences in my time in Second Life, has been talking to suicidal people. In particular, trying to talk suicidal people out of killing themselves. I have decided to write this post about suicide and Second Life, for three reasons: The first is I want the people who use [...]

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Prad Prathivi

I’ve often considered doing a post solely about Prad, but the same problem kept coming up: When do I write it? He keeps doing new awesome things for me and I knew if I wrote one he’d just do something else awesome and I’d have to write another post. My whole blog could have ended [...]

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First Impressions of Sims

I’ve been doing a heck of a lot of sim-hopping lately – visiting about fifteen new places a day. And I’ve noticed something: A very large number of people put little effort into first impressions. They’ll do a write-up for their sim, they try to sell it’s appeal and the items available there, they spend [...]

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No Payment Info On File; Controversy and Difficulties

You may be aware that people can set their islands to only allow access to people with payment info on file. A friend told me about this a while ago and after a bit of thought I decided it was time to give Linden Labs my credit card details so I had payment info on [...]

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1 in 100 Americans Stalked!

A recent survey has revealed that 1 in 100 Americans is being stalked. When I heard the story on the radio today I was walking back home from buying takeaways for my family (yes I use an old-school radio walkman, not an IPod). I looked up my street and figured there were easily over 100 [...]

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Gender-Bender

I tire of reading posts that state that gender in Second Life is irrelevant; that we simply do not need to know whether someone is male or female. It’s always stated with a sort of righteous air, that the writer is ever so liberal and evolved and why can’t we just see the light too! [...]

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Sex, Women, and Second Life

I found a very interesting blog today about sexuality, by the author Jena Pincott. I liked it so much I read every entry. In my reading I found a few aspects that I thought shed some light on women and sex in Second Life that I’ve decided to share. I should warn you, some of [...]

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Chim Love

I have a very vivid memory of being given a free chimera (“chim”) at a Second Life club one night. Maybe it stuck in my mind because the club had railway tracks running straight through it with regular train crashes, which was very disconcerting the first time it happened! But the stronger aspect that stuck [...]

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Instead of Second Life

It is very common to hear people in Second Life complaining about the amount of time they spend there, it’s often been called an “addiction”. A friend recently posted on his blog a piece about why people shouldn’t be ashamed or embaressed about being part of the Second Life experience and the time they spend [...]

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