Drew Tries Second Life
The always hilarious Drew from Toothpaste for Dinner (Weekly Geek interview here) took the plunge and tried playing Second Life. For those of you who don't know, Second Life is like Everquest without the quest. It's almost like a giant chat room where people go to have puppet sex. From his writeup:
Yesterday I downloaded something called Second Life. It is like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, except you can't shoot anyone, and you can't hit people. You just walk around. There are no prostitutes, and everything costs real money, and you can't rob anyone to get money. You have to use your credit card, with real money, to buy fake money to use in the game. It's not actually like Grand Theft Auto at all.Second Life is free to play, and I keep seeing people referring to it in the news, so I had to take one for the team and just dive on in. I knew it probably wasn't going to be intriguing when I got to the signup part and couldn't even make a one-word name. I had to use some fantasy-ass last name and I couldn't even use cusses. The best I could do was call myself Wenis.
Wenis Swindlehurst: How do I hit people
Foxbrand Leprechaun: You can't
Wenis Swindlehurst: I need that shit you drive.My character came pre-loaded as a "cybergoth". Most people I saw in the game, jerkily wandering around, also had fantasy-ass names. They also had fantasy asses. Perfect, round fantasy asses. Which left me with only one choice: I had to become what they were not.
I imagine I would have the same experience, were I to take the plunge. I have avoided playing Second Life for this very reason. It looks horrible, and the community looks like all the stupid BBS cosplay LARP crap that I thought was so lame back in high school. He makes the point that everything was like a preteen's idea of sex. It seems like a place for emotionally stunted or immature people to gather and try to feel important. I don't need that. I'll go play fun games, thanks.
