Has anybody here tried Second Life?
I delved into it last week.
I learned on day one, to stay out of the full on public areas.
But, if you can find a decent, like minded group of people.
Then enable voice chat. Suddenly it becomes a whole different thing.
Suddenly, you are actually in real time contact, with real human people.
Just like this forum, but in real time, with
real peoples voices over the net.
I'm impressed so far. And. It is costing me the princely sum of,
wait for it.
LESS, than the cost of a pack of cigarettes per month, to rent a very nice apartment, on a Mexican resort island. In fact in USD? $2.74 per week. $12 per month for a very nice apartment over looking the beach, and the Pacific Ocean.
In Sim of course, you can, if you wish, see the world through your Avatars eyes.
Not at all like The Sims in any way.
That's why I missed the Shuttle launch. I was in Mexico.
At a party on the beach below my hotel. Chatting to people from all over the world.
If you try it out.
Add Shortdog Philbin (don't ask
) to your list of friends and IM me.
I'll send you a teleport invitation to come visit me.
Add a headset or even just a mike, enable voice chat, and we can natter over the fence.
As it turns out. US PST dinner time, is lunch time the next day for me.
And I usually log on, for a while about lunch time. My time.
Hell, it's free, and if you don't like? Cancel your account and uninstall.