Posts in the "First Life" Category

• Season’s Greetings!

  First Life
  

  Have a great Holiday Season, everyone!

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• Happy Diwali

  First Life
  

  Diwali, for those of you who don’t know, is the Festival of Lights for those who adhere to Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism. It celebrates, in Hinduism, the return home of the god Rama after 14 years, who was welcomed with rows of alight lamps.
  The essence of the festival is the same across all the [...]

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• Immersive Avatars

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  I saw Surrogates recently, which stars Bruce Willis as an FBI agent in a world where people minimise risk to themselves by living their life through an artificial being which is an idealised representation of who they want to be.
  Sound familiar at all?
  The whole idea seems rather far fetched, even if we are living an [...]

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• Taser Stuns Linden Lab

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  A story like this really just writes its own title.
  Taser International Inc. have filed a suit against Linden Lab, XStreetSL and the former owners of XSL, VirtuaTrade. Taser are the biggest producers of stun guns, of course, and it seems they’re unhappy about those residents who are infringing their trademark in SL.
  It’s interesting to note [...]

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• A New Chapter Begins..

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  A few people have asked me recently why I’ve added new writers to Metaversally Speaking.
  Truth be told, it’s because I’m finding it harder to sustain regular writing. It takes a lot of work to post an article daily, and to maintain being amusing/informative/insightful (pick none).
  So for the past month or two, I’ve gone periods of [...]

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• Friend

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  Is it odd to have close friends in Second Life? People who you’ve never met in the first life, but who mean the world to you? People who you’d help in any way you could?
  I’ve seen the notion that “internet friends aren’t real” bandied around before, yet it feel incredibly real. I’ve come to the [...]

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• Dude.. where my attention sp.. ooh, a cookie!

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  I’m pretty certain Google has destroyed my attention span.
  Google is my browser’s homepage, and when I click for Firefox to load, I expect Google to pop up instantly. This set a dangerous precedent when I then do a search, and again expect the results to be accurate to what I’m looking for, and to appear [...]

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• Get a Real Life

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  Okay – I’m pretty sick and tired of seeing the same comments and posts up in various places, all saying the same thing:
  “Go outside, meet a real person, read a book, have a walk, live a REAL life!”
  I mean, jeeez. Get over yourselves. This “real world” myth that people who use the internet are all [...]

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• Music

  First Life
  I’ve been DJing in SL for about 2 years, although it’s far from being my primary activity in world. I have a passion for music – everything from rock and indie to trance and hip hop, and a lot more in between. There’s not a musical genre I won’t listen to.
  My headmaster at primary school [...]

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• Life as a Smarmy Brit

  First Life
  I actually had to look up “Smarmy”.. it didn’t mean what I thought it did.
  I regularly get picked up about my sense of humour, in both worlds. I daresay it’s one of the first traits that anyone will pick up from me – I have a wickedly dry sarcastic tone, coupled with a quick wit [...]

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