http://www.phawker.com/2008/07/10/second-life-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted/ Curated News, Gossip, Philadelphia Concert Reviews, Fearless Political Commentary. Plus, the Usual Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll Wed, 02 May 2012 22:23:55 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.phawker.com/2008/07/10/second-life-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted/#comment-90659 Bob Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:22:52 +0000 http://www.phawker.com/2008/07/10/second-life-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted/#comment-90659 Curious, I created a SL account a couple years ago after a lot of press coverage hype. The first time a logged in, I remember looking at a statistical screen showing how many users were currently logged in. That number? A rather dystopic zero. Not the way a imagined spending my second life, wandering the streets alone as if in some classic episode of The Twilight Zone. I poked around, realized that this SL world held little of interest to me, then bid adeau ( "Hello? I'm leaving now!", I tried to exclaim. ), and returned to FL, first life, which is seaming only slightly less dystopic at the moment as well as having too many people logged in. Curious, I created a SL account a couple years ago after a lot of press coverage hype. The first time a logged in, I remember looking at a statistical screen showing how many users were currently logged in. That number? A rather dystopic zero. Not the way a imagined spending my second life, wandering the streets alone as if in some classic episode of The Twilight Zone. I poked around, realized that this SL world held little of interest to me, then bid adeau ( “Hello? I’m leaving now!”, I tried to exclaim. ), and returned to FL, first life, which is seaming only slightly less dystopic at the moment as well as having too many people logged in.

]]> http://www.phawker.com/2008/07/10/second-life-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted/#comment-89724 :::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » The Philebrity Promise: “For Reasons That Remain Unclear, This Piece Never Ran” Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:11:24 +0000 http://www.phawker.com/2008/07/10/second-life-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted/#comment-89724 [...] Promise #319: We’ll never brag about kill fees. [...] [...] Promise #319: We’ll never brag about kill fees. [...]

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