Second Life Sketches
August 14th, 2006 | researchmaterial
Kelly Sue DeConnick always says, “Second Life always feels like it’s going to be really important. I just don’t know how.”
(This, I suspect, may be part of the puzzle.)
I bought a piece of land. Actually, I bought what was on the land — a small castle, with, I discovered with mixed feelings the other day, a small dungeon hidden underneath it, where presumably people masturbated over their partners being guillotined. If warrenelliscom readers want an “official” meeting place on SL, use Integral Castle, at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rogla/174/120/124/ — which is to say, Integral Castle, Rogla (174, 120, 124). Switch your music control on if you go in, I’ve got an old Apparat Programme podcast streaming to that location at the moment.
I decided I wanted a homebase there because the potential of the Second Life system outstrips its now infamous uses as a peculiar setting for prostitution and an enabler for fursex and ageplay weirdness — in searching for a place to buy, I unfortunately came across “Ito’s Ageplay House”, a purchase apparently being considered by the other visitors, avatars of an older Papa Bear man and what looked horrifically like an fat-kneed Little Orphan Annie.
Someone recently said, in fact, that SL could be the germ of the next major operating system. It, or something like it, could conceivably be the backbone of what comes after the web.
After six or seven months of just peering at it occasionally (and finding out where the good music is streamed into SL), I’ve decided to make a little side project out of moving around SL and looking for the seeds of the future, if any, in it.
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