Month: November 2012

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Machinima Expo Open Now!

I was asking on Twitter “What has happened to Metareality Podcast?” being as the site hasn’t been updated for a month, when I received the shocking news from @Draxtor:

“we all died of food poisoning and I’m speaking from beyond grave. Meantime – check @machinexpo kicking off today!!! ”

“Oh no! How terrible!” thought I, quickly followed by “Wait a minute …. they’d have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids!”

Therefore I found myself at the Machinima-Expo website. A quick step off topic here, if we could have Group pages similar to our profile pages, just think, not only could people follow this on Twitter, they could follow it via mysecondlife too! Where was I, oh yes, the machinma-expo. The expo runs from November 16th – November 18th and is being broadcast live 24/7.

The expo is taking place in Second Life, so you can attend there or via the website I linked above.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Reverie/227/31/23

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Second Life Cited In Divorce Case

I sometimes google news of Second Life, or Rod Humble, to see if there’s any news on Second Life or Rod Humble! So today I discover a story that claims that a man’s addiction to Second Life was cited in a divorce case. The story claims that the man, who can’t be named (and nor can his avatar) spent twenty five hours a week in Second Life.

He was also said to be addicted to watching porn on his computer, one would hope he was not partaking in adult activities in Second Life and then going for more outside of Second Life! There are claims that this may be the first case whereby Second Life has been cited in a divorce case, but it’s unfortunately not, in 2008 there was the Dave Barmy affair. This one involves all sorts of shennanigans, including a honey trap!

Then there’s a case that was apparently reported in the now defunct News Of The World, but made its way to the Huffington Post: Second Life Divorce: Woman Catches Husband In Virtual Gay Affair :

“I saw John’s little person having it off with another man in a dungeon on the screen,” said horrified Lisa, 28.

This sort of thing isn’t specific to Second Life, Facebook and other social media sites have been cited in divorce cases and I expect this to increase, especially as we embrace the digital world more firmly. The issue isn’t really Second Life, or Facebook, there will be far deeper issues involved in all of these cases, ones that will make more sense and should be taken more seriously.

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Unhinged Kicks Off

Unhinged Music Venue

SLURL To Shopping Area: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Port%20Seraphine/191/131/28

SLURL To Music Venue: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WaterWorks/4/174/28

Unhinged, the month long event to raise money for Eku’s head, has officially opened. The aim of the event is to raise funds to pay for a prosthesis for Eku to replace a damaged bone, the full details can be read here. The event has kicked off with a twenty four hour DJ marathon, well different DJ’s are involved, but it’s going on for 24 hours so you have plenty of time to pop by. DJ’s include:

  • The Doctor, Bronxelf
  • Cruel Britannia
  • Sredni Eel
  • Grace Adamski
  • Lokii (the Lokapottamus, the Fapmingo, the Freakkitteh Herself) Violet
  • The Divine Ms. M
  • Siggy Romulus
  • Ailsa Muliaina
  • Aribeth Zelin

Unhinged Party Goers

The DJ’s are supported by hard working hosts too! For full details of the opening event (bearing in mind it has already started) go here.

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The Garden Gets Message Of The Day Boost

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Garden Message Of The Day

So I was trying to download the http project viewer, I have no idea what this project viewer entails. On attempt 876 it finally downloaded, well it wasn’t quite that bad but I’m having ISP issues. I ran it and couldn’t login, but I don’t know if this is due to the project viewer not working or whether it’s my ISP.

However I did notice thatThe Garden is now getting publicity on the message of the day, do they still call it message of the day? I took a look at The Garden here.

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New Premium Offer

The expected premium offer has arrived, A discount on a quarterly membership of 50%, meaning it will only cost USD$11.25 … I think! Now, if you’re cute with the Lindex, you can get someone else to pay for this in three months time, if the L$1000 bonus is included, you can get someone else to pay for this and have enough left over for a coffee from a company who may well divert the profits to avoid paying tax, but that’s a whole different ball game.

There’s also a new premium gift, as announced on the blog. A new airplane, with which you can fly in a premium only airfield. Personally I’m not that keen on the concept of premium only areas beyond sandboxes. I think it’s a good idea to give premium members exclusive early access to places, I’m not so keen on exclusive perks like airfields or even the wilderness. However if it works in keeping people premium, then fair play to Linden Lab.

Premium membership isn’t that bad a deal, you get 512m tier or a Linden Home, with mainland parcels so cheap these days a parcel may be a better option, Linden homes have restrictions on events and those parcels can’t be group owned, which means you may miss out on some features. On top of that you get a stipend of three hundred Linden Dollars, unless you’re a returning oldbie whereby it may be four hundred Linden Dollars, although if you’re a really old returning oldbe, it may be five hundred Linden Dollars. I don’t know if they still put you back at your original stipend level, they certainly used to.

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