Wherein this avatar's fates, adventures and experiences in, his thoughts and feelings about and his reactions to his first and second life are depicted with written messages, images and other audiovisual tools.
I am Bock in SecondLife and Bock is I in first life. We share thoughts, opinions, feelings, actions and reactions. We are one and the same and inseparable. On this blog I choose to share both my realities.
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Pretty cool. I also play Left 4 dead 2 and Half Life 2 (still waiting on the much anticipated episode 3 of Half Life 2). The rest are not my type of games as I usually only play frist person shooters.
ReplyDeletePretty interesting that SL is on the list. I personally would not call it a game in the traditional sense but then again what is really traditional any more lol.
Hello, I have never commented on this blog or others until now. I can't explain why I felt it was important to do. I have felt very strongly (almost always very positively) about this blog and most others regarding SL. I would walk from the U.S. to southern Sweden in barefeet on a bed of nails for Bock :)
ReplyDeleteI do take deep exception with those who characterize SL as a game. Perhaps, this is because I am not a gamer. Some of the best advice I received about SL was from a very good friend when I first came inworld. He told me SL is not RL. While I very much agree with him, I do think that SL (for those who understand there are real and very good people behind most of the avatars)is an extended form of reality. I remember one of the Lindens once commented that he analogized it to the difference between talking with someone face to face and talking with someone on a telephone in the early 1900s. Most people today would not understand how bizarre that feeling was for most people in 1900 or so.
So, while I realize that SL is not RL, I do take exception with those who feel I am playing a game. It has never been a game for me. I would get on the first plane to Stockholm if Bock needed me to in the same way I would hop a plane to Phoenix to see an old RL colleague.
Very good news, thanks for sharing, that might help finding new users to SL. In response to DJ InsyX, secondlife is such amazing place and of course there is so many RPG into it that´s why i believe it can be counted "ALSO" as a computer game this is the strenghness of SL that it is so many things into it hard to categorize it. :))
ReplyDeleteI think we must accept the fact that non-residents call SecondLife "a game", although I wholeheartedly support everything all of you say.
ReplyDeleteSecondLife is not a game to me, it is an extension of my real life with a few extras - like teleportation, flying, dancing (I usually never dance in my first life) etc.
I am so happy you finally broke the ice on commenting, Diana! ...and I would jump on a plane for you too! Hugs! ;)
interesting to see SL listed top 10 even it's not anything 'new' really, speaking for games I don't take it as one. But it is. Like Tombraider is PLUS real time human interaction
ReplyDeleteI just noticed that AVERAGE MINUTES PLAYED PER WEEK was higher (611 minutes) than for any of the other 10 top ranked "games".
ReplyDeleteMyself I only had 480 minutes this last week.. have to shape up!!
Damn right Apmel! We cannot let those numbers drop.. ;)
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ReplyDeleteI could not agree more there is really no way to categorize SL because like RL it is what you make it.
Diana:
I also agree strongly. Yes SL has the back bone and graphic enhancements of a computer game, but there are many who put their RL selves into it as an extension as Carl stated. I think it would be better viewed as a game within a world. Let me explain. There are video games within SL like Simball, RP sims, Street Racing and so on. This is why I believe SL is more of a virtual meeting place or game platform like Steam or GameSpy or Playstation Home. SL is not the game itself but what you can do within SL is the actual game.
Of course, that is only if that is what you do in SL. SL for me is more of a part of my RL...I have so far met 22 of my 1000s of friends in SL in RL. Some were visiting NYC here where I live...Others I traveled to visit, or they were just happening to be in the same area I was vacationing.
For me the best thing about SL is the new people I meet with similar interests and exploring the things I want to do or the things I am doing in RL by using SL as a testing ground so to speak. The other good thing is that long distance phone calls can be expensive. SL takes that factor out of the equation, as well as large amount of air fare prices lol.
Anyways, I loved all the comments on this topic. Well time to get back to my Second Life. Hugs!
Nice chart! Got my favorite games on the list. Wonder how those figures would be for the next months to pass. Interesting!
ReplyDeletefoun this interesting post from April, 2006 (!!) by Philip Linden
ReplyDeletePhilip Linden, 4/7/06: "I'm not a gamer, and SL isn't a game. From the start, we/LL observed that something like SL would have it's first uses in entertainment, and then grow beyond those uses and people became more confident in the capabilities of the new platform/OS/whatever-we-want-to-call-it. So we focused on making SL very exciting and visceral and inspirational, but not on making it a game.
The future that we are all most passionate about is creating a new version of the world with a fundamentally different and better set of capabilities, and then see what happens when we all move there. This means we want SL to be able to reach everyone in the world, to be able to scale to 100's of millions of users and millions of servers, and to remain an open decentralized system in which creativity rules."
original page and post can be found here:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages
Thank´s for that comment, I always knew there wa a reason why I love Philip Linden so much - and you my BIL! ;)
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