Infinite Lives: Confessions Of A MMORPG Addict
Posted on Tuesday January 20, 2009, 14:20 by Dan Jolin in Infinite Lives
There’s a certain kind of videogame that I just can’t get enough of: the RPG (that’s role-playing game to the non-nerds out there). This is largely due to a mis-spent youth playing Dungeons & Dragons (although, later, the Palladium system proved a smarter alternative, as the übernerds out there may appreciate), itself the result of a desire to put myself, or rather some aspect of myself — harder, better looking, much better at casting fireballs — into a world of adventure that could in some way be shaped by my actions.
Now I’m in my mid-thirties, with a wife, a child and the grave responsibility to watch bad films so that others may not, it’s not so easy to get around a table with my sad, geeky chums — only one of whom, you may wish to note, also now has a spouse and offspring, although I’m pretty sure they’ve all had sex without paying for it. Besides, while I still may have a Manual Of The Planes and Ars Arcana somewhere in... Continue reading... Comment Now (20 comments)
Back To TopInfinite Lives: One Night In Second Life
Posted on Friday August 17, 2007, 16:28 by Nick de Semlyen in Infinite Lives
 Second Life, if you’ve not heard of it, is a 3-D virtual world that you can enter through your internet connection. Once there, you create a new-look personality for yourself and are then free to do pretty much whatever you please. You can spend real cash in shops, purchasing a new outfit or a flashy pixel-based sports car. There are nightclubs for dancing and virtual cinemas for watching films. You can build your own house, or even visit a brothel (genitals cost extra).
Then there are the Second Life residents. Everyone you encounter is an actual, live person, somewhere in the world. Now and again you may even meet a real-life celebrity, like Bruce Willis – who recently assumed a creepily androgynous cyber-form to do a Q&A for Die Hard 4 (see right). Willis is the exception, though — most everyone who logs o...
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