Well, I finally figured out how to restore hair to my character, and minus the fact that I have knives in each of my boots, I have arrived a pretty non-outstanding avatar. I wanted to highlight a particularly nice spot I have found on second life--the tea house on top of the mountain outside of the stanford university second-life library. (See screen shot). Except for the fact that I can't actually drink the tea... it is pretty much an ideal hang out for me. I can see how this sort of world could be a means of living idealized existences, though I'd rather live my dreams in person... .
I wonder about the function of a place like second life: helping in the generation of dreams and income to be used in the non-virtual world? Or a place to assuage ones lack of social mobility... to do what outside of "virtuality" seems unattainable...? Or perhaps a world onto its own, generating its own meaning, mobility and internally coherent life satisfaction...? Maybe all three, and different for different people...
No comments:
Post a Comment