Posts Tagged ‘real’
Too tired of “virtual is not real”
For some silly reason, I’m unable to post a comment on http://mashable.com/2010/05/03/second-life-users-file-class-action-lawsuit-over-virtual-land/ so I’m pasting my comment here instead: Jolie, I really appreciate that you’ve posted the data with the numbers on your article It avoided a lot of the typical “get a second life” one-liners and “why are people taking this serious? it’s just a game” kind of comments. They were fun when they were a novelty… a decade ago…
Fake Avatars and the Duplicates Paradox: An Essay by Extropia DaSilva
In ‘A Tale Of Two Avatars’, Wagner James Au reports on the discovery that there are two ‘Hamlet Aus’ on the social networking site ‘Avatars United’. Like many things to do with life on the screen, a superficial consideration of this discovery leads to a clear-cut and simple conclusion: There is the real Hamlet Au, and then there is a fake Hamlet Au. However, again like so many things to…
Obsessive about Real Identity?
I had started to write this in mid-October but never finished it… and the database crashed at some point while I was in the middle of writing it, losing almost all of the article In the mean time, the recent interest in this topic, as well as M Linden’s announcement that they would allow people to register avatars with their real life names, as well as Wallace Linden’s strange article…
What is “real” anyway? – An essay by Extropia DaSilva
This fantastic essay by Extropia DaSilva is kindly reprinted here with her explicit permission. It makes for very good reading, and goes straight to answering the difficult question of what reality is. – Gwyn What is ‘real’ anyway? An essay by Extropia DaSilva. It’s probably the question that is put to every SL resident who creates and sells products in-world. “But why should anyone want to pay for something that’s…
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