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Nine Souls, One Body

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the online-gaming-as-therapy dept.

Second Life blog/newspaper New World Notes reports on an interesting resident, wilde Cunningham. wilde is actually nine separate people on one account, all of them with physical handicaps that keep them in a care center. From the article: "We formed the man avatar first, because that day, we had more men in the group. We always wanted a female one, but we haven't taken the time to create her yet. Mary and Johanna would like that very much. We decided on how wilde would look first by starting with skin colors. We have both black and white in our real life group, and didn't want to have those because neither is better than the other. So we picked orange."

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  1. Weird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wish they would post an explanation of stories like these. I can't go to the website because work blocked it, so how the hell am I supposed to translate this small paragraph into something tangible.

  2. Poorly written... by b0r0din · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All I can say is the story itself is very poorly written, the slashdot submission equally poorly written, and the story itself not particularly interesting in any way aside from a fairly boring human interest story with absolutely no analysis or conjecture. So disabled people interact using an MMORPG barely anyone plays. Wow.

    I invite someone to respond and get modded insightful for explaining why this matters like I'm a 10-yr old. :)

    *crickets chirping*

    1. Re:Poorly written... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I do understand this, and I sympathize with people who have disabilities, but maybe had the author not tried to pluralize an avatar's name to be gimmicky, it wouldn't give me fits. For instance,

      When wilde Cunningham gets their Second Life sea legs, they'd like to build a house.

      There are so many different ways they could reword this to not sound stupid. Fine, ok, don't capitalize the first name for your own conventions. Whatever. Yet it continues, for paragraphs. It's anguishing. Not to mention the fact that they could have done a real human interest story, the full thing, interviewed the actual people playing, something remotely akin to journalism. But no, it's someone's blog.

      To me, this is like someone submitting a teenage girl's livejournal entry to slashdot.

      "So me and Pedro walked to the Target. He didn't even need anything, but I found this cute Isaac Mizrahi dress. LOL. So we looked around and didn't find anything but oh my gawd ....blah blah blah"

      You get the idea, don't you?