Battleangel

Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life. Linden Labs are amused. Probably since their take on life is as pathetic as the original.

With all the hoopla about Second Life, virtual news agencies on virtual matters, taxation and virtual embassies it is starting to get more than a little creepy. It is starting to smell like a fad. I’m simply not as amused as I perhaps ought to be, but then again I do not tolerate this sort of social bunk in “first life” either. So on a side note, it is rather typical that not even in our “second life” can we avoid the basic principles of everyday life, like interaction, capitalism or other forms of nonsense.

In fact, Second Life does little other than emulate capitalism. Its brazen love for its Linden dollars and its virtual capitalism is more than I can stomach. After all the hoopla surrounding the game I decided to take a look, but aside from the nauseating business model the game also suffered from massive network latency plus a clumsy and confusing interface. What are you supposed to do in the world? Just fly around? Pay for a premium account so that you can pay for land, build a house a show off? Sounds exactly like the unjust “first life” to me. Nor was I able to frag anyone with the celtic sword I found in the inventory. I mean come on. What do you have to do to start a virtual revolution, land reform or lop off some heads?