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Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World
no.good.at.coding writes "Google has launched a Windows-only, in-browser (you need to install a client first, though) 3D avatar world — Lively — that you can embed in websites and use to interact with other people. It's not as expansive as Second Life yet, but expect things to get better."
I for one can't wait for google to replace their homepage search bar with a friendly, brightly colored, animated search assistant avatar. It'll be the next revolution in user interfaces!
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
The term "jump the shark" is so yesterday. The current correct term is "nuking the fridge".
I recommend a paper clip.
I'll save you the trouble of asking and go ahead and get off your lawn.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
"I mean, it is kind-of like chatroom v. 2.0 or something along those lines. But when it gets to be where you spend more time living in an imaginary dreamworld, then it's time to seek help."
Yeah, I hear there's a chatroom just for that.
Need Mercedes parts ?
Ah, WinBlows... a clever strike at their evil greedy hearts! Surely it will take months for them to recover from that blow. You might be interested to know the title of my woefully unpublished "Star Trek" novella, "Gates of Borg". From my parents' home in Reykjavík, I stab at thee!!! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/7/22/
I think something is wrong with my lively account.
The first time I logged in, some funny looking feller who looked like Colonel Sanders greeted me, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the google. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here."
So, I punched him in the hoohaw with my Papa Smurf avatar and quickly logged off. Is thing still beta?
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
SL will never be replaced, just like WOW is the best MMORPG and not changing. They're too big, too old, to developed to be exchanged with something new.
"It seems to me that you are searching for porn"...
My I suggest you the "Kleenex Ultra Smooth" link?
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Oops, I forgot I'm still using Windows 2000 at work.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Well log on to second life and make one.
No, I'm really 6'4", ripped with an 18" cock and squirrel ears.
Can people interact as themselves rather than cartoon characters? Are there that many people into dolls and make-believe or are there too many people who are too depressed just being themselves? Then they don't need avatars, they need help.
And that XBox of yours isn't a real musical instrument, either. Stop having fun!
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no, a purple chimp would be better.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Do not try to comprehend the idea of a Google 20% application leaving Beta. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth: there is no Beta.
which is totally what she said
We have met the 1 tenth of 1% and he is us.
Maybe the avatar could be a friendly Santa who gives kids sexually suggestive answers!
On the contrary. I'm very much looking forward to a big hug from an animated Wang.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
You know, it's much easier to call it an apathetic sausage fest... Wait, you meant literally?!
Eeeewww.... I knew I liked the real world better.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
If Google launches an MMO, I am *so* out of here.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
In this space, there are professional-looking avatars...
do they have sticks up their asses?
... and things to pick up and examine.
sticks? to put up their asses?
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Lucky you. I got stuck with the Oracle, and all she talked about was indexing.
Yes, but we put them all in Washington D.C. so I can avoid them
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
I got bored waiting for it to load, then it crashed ff3 so I gave up.
There was an interesting loop in the waiting room though, displaying what I can only assume were search queries.
One query in particular confirmed this.
Are you nuts? With all the lobbyist assholes running free there, you have a faint idea what this could lead to?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The problem with dell.com is that the Lawnmower Man can't kill you while you shop.
*sigh* Dick politicians and lobbyist assholes, and they still get it backwards!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
No, he's saying "Jump the shark" has nuked the fridge.