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Bank Run in Second Life
Jamie found an interesting bit about a bank run in Second Life. The recent ban on gambling combined with a $12k theft from the 2L stock market has caused people to try to get their money back. The article mentions that this could supposedly affect 8.5M players even tho most estimates of actual hard core players in the system are in the 5 to low 6 figure range.
I'd be alright if I could get a decent exchange rate for all these Simolions...
What is this "2L" thing? It's not Second Life, because the whole friggin' world abbreviates that to "SL" and nobody is pedantic enough to come up with a totally new abbreviation when a perfectly good one already exists. So what does it mean?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Every time you use "tho" in place of the actual word "though," God kills a kitten.
So we have to read articles about news in a fake world?
You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's imaginary house...right next to yours. And in the imaginary Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's imaginary house, and a hundred other imaginary houses. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them?...Now wait...now listen...now listen to me. I beg of you not to do this thing. If Potter gets hold of this Virtual Building and Loan there'll never be another decent imaginary house built in this imaginary town. He's already got charge of the imaginary bank. He's got the imaginary bus line. He's got the imaginary department stores. And now he's after us. Why? Well, it's very simple. Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. And because he wants to keep you living in his imaginary slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Joe, you lived in one of his imaginary houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that imaginary broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments. You didn't lose your imaginary house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other.
Never play chicken with a passive aggressive.
You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's S & M fetish dungeon...right next to yours. And in the Kennedy's warehouse of flying penises, and Mrs. Macklin's Fur-suit emporium, and a hundred others. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them?
Could be "Girl builds computer in online game while online boyfriend watches. Look, he has screen shots."
> Here's a hint: if you think money is generally created by printing more currency,
> you obviously don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Wait...wh-? Seriously?
Oh, shit. Excuse me--I have to call Kinko's and cancel an order right now.