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joc1985 writes "An objective review of Google Lively after a few hours of playing around. It seems to be a bad copy of Second Life. Somehow all the rooms are crowded, and porn has made its way in there already"
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It was slow. It was clunky. The interface was pretty disappointing. Hell, even the 'Avatar choosing' part was badly done. I couldn't tell if I was supposed to be designing my own somewhere or just 'using someone elses'. It seems to be a half-baked beta indeed.
Goatse I guess I can understand, Rick Rolls are damn funny but really, is there a huge endorphin rush that comes from saying 'first post' that I am missing? I would think that after the first thousand times it really would not be fun for even the most childish of people.
~ Ron Fitzgerald
It seems to be a bad copy of Second Life.
That's a severe accusation. I tried Second Life. I thought of it as all the design 'quality' and intelligence of myspace, now with 3D goodness...
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
But then again, remember this blog is from "The Random thoughts of a Christian IT Professional."
Hey! I'm a Christian IT Professional, you insensitive clod!
Direct hit to the nail head. I was truly let down with Second Life. I will even go back here and there to see if things changed but they never do.
Last time I ventured into second life I searched for 'Beach' and was treated to a picture of a girl fingering herself.
I had hopes for Second Life for businesses that I work with to have open house and virtual tours for lodging. I would not think about suggesting it anymore.
~ Ron Fitzgerald
it's not interesting enough in itself for me to want to spend time playing with it.
Looking at it in terms of a "20%" product that one of their engineers whipped out on their 'spare' time, it's fairly cool. I don't think they really expected the level of interest that would be shown though, or they would have held it back a bit longer for some more polish.
It has been in testing before this current release. I can't remember which, but it was released to a university a year prior for their student community to play with.
In a year, when it's been hammered on a bit more and Google either rolls it into a full fledged product or cuts it loose, I'll start paying more attention.
So, I installed and played with it for a few hours...
Not impressed...
It takes for-ever to load, and then everyone stands around changing their settings, waiting for it to load, adding or moving or deleting furniture...
Chatting is the last thing on people's minds...and the way you can interact with others is odd...body slamming, slapping, kissing...
So there is a lot of that going on...and most of the guys in one chat room had female avatars...
I don't see it as the "next generation" of chat...text is still too easy and useful...
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Its a well known fact that secondLife has really taken off and made a hit with everyone that can pay for it. It is essentually one virtual world rather than many virtual rooms. I really wish Google would have taken this approach rather than just launch some embedled 3-d chat rooms. There is so much more potential, if Google wanted to, it could take a majority of secondLife's users just by modleing after it except making many aspects of it free. Their was also the potential of virtual ads, virtual web browsing, and opening it up to developers to really (and I do mean really) play with. Right now it looks too unrealistic and childish.
I am a lowly high school student... please dont assume im an expert.
Read the article again, and pay close attention to the context that the author used your excerpt in.
As far as the adults go, it's not a question of needing to be protected from it... Most adults are perfectly aware of where to go to get it if they want it.
The point that the article's author was making was simply that there was no discernible means of verifying age, and since most states in the US have laws on the books stipulating a legal age to obtain sexual material, failure to have limits in place to prevent minors from getting that stuff is illegal...
Personally, I believe there's a time and a place for everything, especially sexual material.
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.