About. A magazine and blog about all things SL.
This is a compilation… mainly of things I, Cat Boccaccio, would love to read about the quirks and apogees and dirty bits of Second Life. This means a mix of art, ideas, shopping, relationships, fun, issues… everything. That’s me. You might prefer only art and reviews, or only shopping and relationships. So we have set up a category system to help you filter what you want to read.
Feel free to comment on any of the articles posted here, and your suggestions, comments and submission ideas are also welcome via email: catbocca (at) gmail.com. Second Life, SL, and inSL are trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. slum magazine is not affiliated with or sponsored by Linden Research. slum magazine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Like this: Like Loading... Why Anyone Who Cares About the Metaverse Needs to Move Beyond Second Life; Now, Not Later. Tl;dr: If we want to see the metaverse happen in our lifetime, we need to invest our time, money, creativity, and resources into making it happen.
It isn’t going to come from Second Life or Linden Lab, and the metaverse can’t wait. Five or six years ago, you could not have found a more enthusiastic and engaged supporter of the Second Life platform than me. Like many, I was inspired by the technology itself and especially by the vision of a company who promised us a new world built from our imaginations. Back then, the leadership of Second Life actually said things like “I’m not building a game. I’m building a new country.” SL Newser - People. The Metaverse Tribune - News and Opinions From the Virtual World. Metaverse NewsWatch. Fashion. Role-Play. Combine it. Role-Play Styles. Metaverse TV. One woman's views on Second Life.
Dwell On It: Tateru Nino writes about virtual worlds, second life, statistics, culture, law, gaming, and eclectic oddities.
60 SL blogs you should read. Iris Ophelia (IrisOphelia) For this answer, I'll assume you're both roleplaying in Second Life, at least in the sense that you haven't shared any real life details with each other.
Since you're both roleplaying, you shouldn't feel any more responsible to disclose your real gender than you would to disclose any other RL details, since it's a given in these situations that you're playing a character on some level. If you're roleplaying as this gender in the general population and not in a roleplaying environment, it can be a little trickier. Don't go out of your way to be deceptive, but your true gender isn't everyones business... Unless they're pursuing you romantically. Even if you are both roleplaying, if this person is clearly trying to put the moves on you for more than a one-time session of anonymous pixel-grinding, you should give them the facts.
Honour's Post Menopausal View. LnL Square. Farewell sLiterary. Few places in SL have shaped my inworld life as much as sLiterary, so it was with great sadness that I read this weekend of the closure of this and its neighbouring sims. sLiterary has been the home of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) - due to kick off next week - for the past four years and it was my first SL NaNo - AFK - which kick-started my identity as 'writer' in the metaverse.
I wrote AFK in November 2007, checking in at the NaNo Cafe in sLiterary each day to update my word count, and the other writers I would talk to there became my first real experience of literary community. Of course, there are so many other projects based there, such as the amazing Globe theatre, but the NaNo Cafe and shrine have always had that special place in my memories; one of those places that feels like 'going back home' whenever you drop by for a visit. I made my last such visit today and took a series of pictures of the shrine and Globe. Virtual Outworlding. Dusan Writer’s Metaverse.
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