I agree with you on that. There’s generally some good content on Flickr and blogspot with the fashion bloggers to make a start there. For one, the Second Life community is full of artists putting in time and effort to make beautiful things.

It has a lot of potential and uses, more than most people realize, its not just about “sex” or “dress up”.

Thats the beauty of it all, you can use it for whatever you like, as a business, as entertainement, for exploring your creativity, for socializing, education, etc etc.

Im actually planning on doing a video series…

Im right with you there aisling, I turned 8 years old in SL last month and it always grinds my gears how little research is done to properly study or portray the SL community, usually it is in a very ignorant and negative way.

ROE is definitely not the first of its kind, but if this at least catches people’s attention…

Also it SHOULD be pointed out that any “enemy” that can be made will probably be janky as fuck. Imagine SL to be a more complicated 3d version of Little big planet.

Well to be fair, Kotaku has some of the worst headlines ever in the gaming media.

This story makes you look like an asshole. I’m not sure you realize that.

There is a store in Second Life that sells mesh items that you cannot modify (except add different texture skins to it) and that is one of them, the store is called The Mesh Project.

Usually those mesh heads go around for 5000 linden dollars which is roughly $20.

Of all the roleplaying sims in secondLife to showcase. The article makes it seem like this a rare occurrence but communities like this are very common. It would have done well to put more research into the communities before making this article, becuase ROE has a reputation for very ‘staged’ roleplay events(meaning…

March marked my anniversary #8 on Second Life.

Ive come to realize that most of the gaming community including the media (yes, like you Kotaku) have been very quick to judge and usually paint in a very bad light the Second Life community, through multiple articles in the past.

“Second Life is nothing but sex”

“People…

Silly dog, you are reading Japanese upside down.

Nice to see an article on SL that doesn’t make it look like it did 10 years ago.