I know I’ve posted about this a few times before, and I don’t want to sound paranoid… But reading in the circuits section of the New York Times, David Pogue’s interview with Phillip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab, the fuckers who’ve already turned two million crack heads onto the vicarious pleasures of “Second Life,” I have to ask myself what the fuck is going on here? Apart from the fact that everyone inhabiting this place has created avatars of themselves that in the words of the interviewer “makes them beautiful and skinny.” And you know for a fucking fact that in real life most of the people on-line at any one time, you would cross the street against on-coming traffic just to avoid the ugly fuckers. But, here’s the best bit… The average Second Life user is on-line for FOUR hours a day. That means some of them never fucking […]
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