2nd Life

[Moruitelda]

@Treads4Heads

It may be stupid, but that company is doing something right. My stepdad works for Xerox and was explaining how the advertising group spent 1.2 mil on a program called Second Life and he had no clue on what it was. Once I explained it he was floored by some of the stats he pulled up and how obsessed people get.

Someone in Xerox’s advertising department needs to be fired.

[Treads4Heads]

LOL at rain of genitals, I would love to take part in such events. Nothing would make me feel better then pelting srs online lifers with a big pair of balls

[Moruitelda]

@Treads4Heads

LOL at rain of genitals, I would love to take part in such events. Nothing would make me feel better then pelting srs online lifers with a big pair of balls

The screen shots and narration are hilarious. The idiot who they pelted, IIRC, then issued some bogus legal threats to the website (which were handled by star attorney Leonard J. Crabs, Esq.) based on e-sexual harassment.
:roflpicard:

[boxxa]

I had a girlfriend in second life. She was mad hot.

[boardjnky4]

there is a video of some the hack pranks that have been pulled. Pretty funny stuff.

[Moruitelda]

@JayS

If it weren’t for all the bank privacy laws it would break I’d send you a screen shot of a customer’s account I was looking at a couple months ago while troubleshooting a “not sufficient funds” issue.

This chick was spending thousands a month in secondlife.com purchases, to the point where she was getting hit with about 20+ NSF charges a month because of it. Up until seeing 14 pages of $3-$6 purchases at secondlife.com and letting my curiosity get the best of me I’d never even heard of it.

So I would say their business model is praying on sad lonely people. /presentation.

100% right

And businesses that are stupid enough to think that sad, lonely, pedophiles who spend all their money on virtual swag are going to have money to spare to spend on the products that they advertise on their private island.

[Joe]

Ah, so the genitals have crabs. Got it.

As their attorney.

[Treads4Heads]

Any way you could post some of those screenshots? Could use a good laugh at work

[Skurge]

@Moruitelda

No, I wasted about 30 minutes of my life on this game (including download time) before I decided it was the most retarded thing I’ve ever played in my life.

I’m also very active on SomethingAwful and am highly amused by the Second Life Safari. They’re the hackers that made bouncing, multiplying balls that crashed the SL server a few times, destroyed a CNet interview with Anshe Chung by pelting them with a rain of genitals, and celebrated the release of the movie 300 by running around like a bunch of menaces in crudely crafted Spartans.

IMO, its not even a game, just a bunch of random crap that you can run through…i tried it for about 5 mins…the controls are so shitty and the “game” does not run smooth at all, I dunno how anyone could actually pay attention to it

[Treads4Heads]

I also played for about 30mins. It was badass running around as a dinosaur with a sword trying to start shit with people, then I got hit by a truck and quit playing.

[Bacon]

Oh SA, so great. <3

[Skurge]

no joke, for the whole 10 mins i was on this game…some lame fuck followed me around and kept asking me to be his friend

[JayS]

@Treads4Heads

It may be stupid, but that company is doing something right. My stepdad works for Xerox and was explaining how the advertising group spent 1.2 mil on a program called Second Life and he had no clue on what it was. Once I explained it he was floored by some of the stats he pulled up and how obsessed people get.

Harvard offered a class in secondlife.

Scion, Nissan and Pontiac sell cars in secondlife.

Real cars drive into Second Life - CNN.com

1.2 million seems a bit excessive but advertising budgets are amazing at big companies and they’re always looking for new ways to reach an audience.

[Moruitelda]

FLCC held classes in World of Warcraft… I take this to mean that FLCC > Harvard :lol:

[Bacon]

Sounds like a worthwhile career level skill that will take you quite far in life.

[Moruitelda]

@Joe

Ah, so the genitals have crabs. Got it.

As their attorney.

Basically. Leonard “J” Crabs vs. Limitless Horizons, Inc.

@Treads4Heads

Any way you could post some of those screenshots? Could use a good laugh at work

Write-up

Video

[boxxa]

@Skurge

no joke, for the whole 10 mins i was on this game…some lame fuck followed me around and kept asking me to be his friend

Sorry about that.

[Treads4Heads]

fuck, blocked at work. Ill have to check it out at home

[Moruitelda]

@Treads4Heads

fuck, blocked at work. Ill have to check it out at home

I’m unsurprised, Something Awful is appropriately named.

[Fry]

You can buy your own private island for US $1675 plus a $295 monthly fee. You also have to pay for a $10/mo premium membership to own land. You can buy a plot of land on the main continent for US $195/mo. You get a monthly $1200 e-dollars stipend if you own land. That’s equal to US $4.44. There’s a $60 million dollar per year software industry around second life.

Get this: In December 2007 US $20 million dollars (yes real dollars) changed hands via second life business transactions, for avatar clothes, scripts that gave your avatar dance moves or something, land, etc.