For those of you paying attention you will recall form an earlier post this is the blog on Hamlet’s topics. This and all the other Big Bad Blogger 2009 Competition posts are in the BBC2009 tab up top.
No. I am not slow. Well not dramatically slower than most anyway. I have a full-time job you know and more importantly I need to see what the competition is up to. Sure, I could have slapped together a quick piece on the first 5000L I made building houses for underprivileged noobs that I sold for only 10% over cost and had a good story. I could have wrapped it in a big pretty bow by saying I took my first profit and purchased Hamlet’s book from Amazon.com and couldn’t recommend it more to others. The only problem being that is total bullshit and I while I know I can get some things past you, that is a bit much (for most of you anyway). Besides, I wanted to see who clocked in first to help me better choose between Hamlet’s three inferno levels.
1 – Take a photo of a real world item that you purchased after converting L$ to US$; tell us about how much it cost, what you did to earn the Linden Dollars that bought it, and what that purchase means to you.
I’ve never made a dime in SL* and my weekly 300L weekly stipend covers only a fraction of my shameless impulse purchases. I lack the ability to go for self examination, but looking back on the aircraft carrier that is joined by a destroyer and nuclear sub to make up my navy, Air Force One, a UH-60 Black hawk, and the rest of my air force, countless cars, trucks, jeeps, office buildings, HUDs that help me fly, protect me from inspection, tell me who is near , and countless other tasks no one needs, it is safe to say that even in the unlikely event I started making money in-world today it would never balance out.
Not a good topic to blog and I am not even including the necessitates like my 148 prim hair, outfits, and adult items.
2 – Upload a photo of a real world person, place, or thing which is directly related to your Second Life experience. Explain how it is.
Looking at the first two bloggers I know the model is making bank and can take on the first question and this is made for the second one. A life saving device? Come on! How can I compete with that? Its double dog bad given the life saving device is his minor. Most of his posts are related to many his successes in business (pretty much every one possible). It’s sort of like Jack Black with Trya Banks on one side and Steve Jobs on the other. I can fall down and make all the funny noises I want and get nothing.
This is also not a good topic to blog.
3 – For the inventive bloggers out there, discuss a mixed reality application of Second Life you use now, or think could become generally useful in the future.
Finally! Well let me tell you I know this topic like no other.
When I first went in the army the most sophisticated training device in our unit was a M16A1 range simulation program that allowed soldiers to practice without the expense of going to the range. It ran on a (get ready to laugh) a Commodore 64. Flash forward to 2009 and Apache pilots can train in simulators that allow to them to experience realistic flight controls, full 360 field of vision, and experience the unexpected even when a malfunction or ground fire is thrown in the mix to test their response. And not just training. An entire squadron in theater can view a mission from flight deck to target and back before they even step in the cockpit giving them knowledge of the terrain and distance in ways a paper map could never do.
More importantly, not all our scientists are laboring away in a dark basement in Virginia working on military projects scared to leave for fear of being smoked.
In a place where” Cymru am byth” makes sense and Torchwood lives, there is a man with a vision. A vision of us wanting to be freaky together (I mean me and you – not me and him). The problem is you are in Saskatoon and I am here. Sad? Not if we each had a life sized friend standing in for the other. We put on our special glasses and we see each other. If you touch your life sized friend I feel it and the other way. Where is this man’s Nobel price? He needs grant money now! This is a bit off of course, but he already has a patent.
It’s important to note on this topic I am in no way encouraging, suggesting, or even taking chaining myself to their corporate headquarters off the table should Linden look at any future technologies like this. The gird is not keeping pace with existing ones. I have to say I can’t understand how the fewer the people that come the slower it gets.
It makes me wonder what would happen if Adam Sandler made a movie where he played a wacky guy (yes – another one) and played Second Life in the movie causing a renewed interest. Can you imagine it? A flood of Sandler noobs. All dressed the same. All playing the same sound over and over. Until the grid just melts
The grid just melts? What the hell was I thinking? I should have gone with two.
Wait. Stop. Do over.
Yes, Hamlet. I do have a picture of a real world something or other that is directly related. Wait! Where are you going? Don’t go! I will not be ignored!
* Technically speaking, I did once make 500L in commission but it was not intentional. I had this….item…we’ll say it’s a body part. It’s given as a demo and when you buy the full version you are encouraged to give the demo to others if you liked the product. I didn’t have the note card examined by my lawyer or even read it so I wasn’t clear on the system beyond giving. Anyway, some time later I was chatting with someone about….items..we’ll say it’s a body part. Since they were in the market for one I gave the demo. A day or so later 500L arrives and I find out I am a part pusher now who gets a commission for each item…we’ll say body part sold from the demos he gives away. Anyone in the market for an item btw? We’ll say it’s a body part?
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