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Sony, Microsoft Begin Battle of Virtual Worlds
Slatterz writes "Sony and Microsoft are poised to do battle in virtual worlds. The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments at the Tokyo Game Show today. Both games show striking similarities to Linden Lab's creation. Players are represented by avatars which live a virtual life — engaging in relationships, going about day-to-day business."
I thought this was pretty cool, that is, until I read your post. Seeing the error of my ways, I will now live a life free of virtual worlds and offer my sincere apologies for having a different opinion. Please accept twenty self-inflicted lashes of the whip to my back to atone for my sin.
Bet nobody will buy Vista in their virtual world either.
Strange how people will sit in a bedroom controlling an avatar which is decorating it's bedroom
And strange how people will buy stuff to decorate a virtual bedroom from a talking raccoon. Dedicated gamers can earn bells, gil, plat, or whatever virtual currency a lot more easily than dollars.
Posted by someone with "Fox" in his/her name???
Todd: I hope it proves as delicious as the farmers that grew them
There may be less of 'em, but, my god, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
I have enough trouble keeping up with the first one.
Furcadia
Please! I just ate!
Verily I concede (while stroking your back and tickling under your chin).
Todd: I hope it proves as delicious as the farmers that grew them
be as lazy as you like :)
Isn't that a very elaborate way to be lazy?
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Its like reality TV, why would my daily business be sitting in an armchair watching other people go about their daily business?
Now I get it: it is a manager's tool!
why so people can fail in there virtual life aswell as in here real one? ....mmm twice the productivity! ;)
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
I think you're reading too much into my post. As stated, the pythonic "yaaay" and the rest of the sentence following it pointing out that that alone wasn't lethargic enough, it's not about intolerance, it's about complete and utter disinterest.
I couldn't care less about furries, so i place them into the same slot i place vegetarians and christians: people who i don't care about unless they shove their sexual preference, eating habits or insanity in my face. I merely find it amusing that both Sony and MS decide to clone something that is somehow dedicated to flying penises en masse, furries and misplaced "embassies".
Second life might get slashdotted now.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
It was well labelled. It even came with a note. Apparantly with some effort for keybinding I would be able to make it urinate *and* ejaculate. Also it was "compatible" with someones sex animation system, or whatever the hell.
I did put it on, scale it to around 12 foot long, and go walk around IBM SOA island for a while, while their foreign outsourced builders told me to "Please wear off that penis".
So I guess the moral of the story is that there is an objective to SL, trolling. I think I won, because I got booted by IBM :P
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.