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Second Life Virtual World to Get Firefox
lecreuset writes "Clickable Culture has an article discussing the imminent wedding of Firefox and Second Life. From the article: 'The virtual world of Second Life will leverage an embedded version of Mozilla Firefox in a future release, supporting in-world web browsing and the display of web pages on the surfaces of 3D objects, according to developers at Linden Lab.'"
What is more dynamic than manipulating your world with the power of the written word? I never really understood why people want to see everything themselves, instead of using their imagination. I have found every attempt at a graphical role playing/virtual world game to be constraining and unpleasant.
Moving around in a pre-determined environment, and interacting with your world in only specified ways is hardly role playing/living a virtual life. It's unfortunate that the current trend has people who once would have picked up a book heading off to the movie theatre to see big explosions and horribly flat dialogue.
Man, have you ever been to http://www.gnaa.us? I did it just to see what their site was like. I was surprised at how professional the layout was. I mean, just listen to this little gem:
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Talk about masters of corporate IT bullshit buzzwords!
Nonsense. You don't even have the authority of a flimsy Slashdot userID. You can't speak for the English language - in fact, your incorrect capitalization excludes you from the group with a reasonable grasp of it. If you're not going to contribute anything useful, quit your whining.
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I have played Second Life for about 20 hours. I do have an account. However, it simply does not compare to textual worlds. Same experience with World of Warcraft (a different thing entirely I realize). I am hardly some old fuddy duddy denouncing new games and technology: I'm 20 years old. You really need to play in a great textual world to understand what I'm saying. In a graphical world, you can only act out what you have an emote for. In a textual world, you can do anything.
Yes, since we all know that A) Arguring with an AC proves anything B) Knowledge of a single language determines things such as intelligence.
Thanks for being the average "I'm better than you" slashdotter.
"If you're not going to contribute anything, quit your whining."
What are you talking about? Apart from the near-irrelevance of (A), who said anything about "intelligence"? Or even "I'm better"? Every post I've made in this pernicious thread, otherwise composed of unsubstantiable abuse, has 1> corrected a mistake, rather than merely criticize it, and 2> pointed out the useless nature of the purely abusive content of the posts attacking mine.
Now, it happens that I do think I'm better than those other posters - at posting, at the language, at debate, at any number of endeavors in which they've shown their hand, and come up short. But I haven't said so, until now. Where are you coming up with this stuff?
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You're content with the irritated response of a person who doesn't mind responding sensibly to a gang of anonymous idiots? Keep up those posts of your own - you'll have plenty more to chew on.
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