Jan 24 2007
Second Life(less)
I keep reading these thrilling tales of Second Life riches. It’s pretty appealing. Then I always get to the part about “even furries get their own city.” That little enclave of deviant teddy bear fetishists is the bit that scares me off. That, plus the bit about never getting to kill Trolls, fly spaceships, or mine ore. It just sounds…boring. The promise of fantastics virtual real estate wealth kept pulling me back in though, until today. Nice write up (found on Slashdot) comparing the Second Life real estate phenomena to a pyramid scam.
My vague interest in Second Life stood on a pretty wobbly pedestal, that’s now totally been knocked down. There’s still some neat potential in Second Life, like this project Matt Biddulph is working on, but the whole “get rich quick” take on Second Life is officially dead to me.
Also, there’s a bunch of furries in there. Don’t forget about the furries.
I was at a Borders yesterday and randomly ran into this book called The Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life. I pretty much have the same opinion as you regarding SL, but this book was $10 and I liked the “touristy” approach to it… SL’s the kind of place that I’d be interested in visiting every so often, for free, avoiding the furries and sex-crazed vampires, but I’m not sure how keen I’d be on living there. It looks like ass, for one thing. But this book was a good impulse buy.