WoW!!!!

[Jabe Adaks]

Warning, link contains fake nudity!

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,698 ... =rss.index

Looks like people are more creative in the MMORPG's that you don't pay a monthly fee for.

Jabe

[Ekade]

WoW is not going to be the end of SWG.. THAT game is.


But seriously.. where do I sign up?

[Sai'nu]

Porn: The MMOISG! (do I need to translate what ISG is?)

Webcams required!
Just click 'Yes I'm 18!'
....get ready to discover the birds and the bees and the stork of the virtual world.

Or... something like that.

I'll bet Vivid Entertainment releases it first... with an attempt to be made by each star/starlette of the industry trying to release 'their own' version. The 'Jenna Jameson Experience: MMOISG' so on and so forth... Ultimately leading to a battle with the player base against Howard Stern for dumbing down the webcam allowability because the people having him produce the game started asking for more money to view their webcams while in game.

This of course being the NCE feature... or New Cam Enhancement.

[trasgo]

Second Life certainly isn't only about sexual content. Some people create some amazing things in that game and I feel a lot of times when I see press regarding Second Life that usually gets left out. It is a giant sandbox and everything in game is player created, so naturally there is a lot of sexual content. I have had an account there for nearly 2 years and I play it once in a while, and it is a nice escape from other games like SWG. It will never take over though because there is no directed content. If you want goals to attain you won't find them in SL, at least not in the traditional sense of MMO's.

The funny thing is one of those models posing nude in that article is one of my good friends in game.

[warsloth]

any way you look at it porn is porn.

Each instance of which is equally destructive.

[X'an Shin]

any way you look at it porn is porn.

Each instance of which is equally destructive.

And delicious.

[Dwilah]

Pornography is a tool. Like all tools, it can be used very well to good ends, very poorly to bad ends, left in the backyard and get rusty, you can accidentally hurt yourself or others with it, can become profficient in the use of it, can teach others how to use it well or poorly depending on how you were taught, can collect and enjoy it in its materialism, can be handled with many different techniques quite successfully, and also like all tools, it has no life or volition of its own.

I believe that it's important to remember not to blame the tools but more to examine the ways people handle them and then simply consider if it's different from your own or if it's actually harming someone.

[Jabe Adaks]

Pornography is a tool. Like all tools, it can be used very well to good ends, very poorly to bad ends, left in the backyard and get rusty, you can accidentally hurt yourself or others with it, can become profficient in the use of it, can teach others how to use it well or poorly depending on how you were taught, can collect and enjoy it in its materialism, can be handled with many different techniques quite successfully, and also like all tools, it has no life or volition of its own.

I believe that it's important to remember not to blame the tools but more to examine the ways people handle them and then simply consider if it's different from your own or if it's actually harming someone.

I enjoy my tool.

Jabe

[Sai'nu]

Pornography is a tool. Like all tools, it can be used very well to good ends, very poorly to bad ends, left in the backyard and get rusty, you can accidentally hurt yourself or others with it, can become profficient in the use of it, can teach others how to use it well or poorly depending on how you were taught, can collect and enjoy it in its materialism, can be handled with many different techniques quite successfully, and also like all tools, it has no life or volition of its own.

I believe that it's important to remember not to blame the tools but more to examine the ways people handle them and then simply consider if it's different from your own or if it's actually harming someone.

I enjoy my tool.

Jabe

Another moment in comedic history has been made. That was THE perfect set up!

[xyryn]

Hmmm, so business schools are getting into Second Life? And it is being used to help autistic children and people with cerebral palsy?

I think that is far more interesting than the porn angle, which is, after all, only to be expected when guys can play girls.

[Oeree]

Hell yeah.

[Jabe Adaks]

Hmmm, so business schools are getting into Second Life? And it is being used to help autistic children and people with cerebral palsy?

I think that is far more interesting than the porn angle, which is, after all, only to be expected when guys can play girls.

I've covered other articles on second life. I posted this cause I found it a bit off the wall. I am continually amazed to what lengths people will go to to build a richer life in a virtual world... even as a dedicated roleplayer.

Jabe

[xyryn]

Jabe, if you hadn't posted this, I wouldn't have found out about the other stuff. Keep bringing us interesting articles.

And yes, I found the porn mag angle interesting...well, mostly amusing...but the other stuff about the autistic kids and the CP adults was really interesting. I hadn't stumbled across those islands of experimentation in my exploration. I wonder if "they" will be publishing results of these attempts at bringing people into normal human interaction.

Considering the stores and the advertising for the stores in SL, I'm not surprised that a bunch of them are by business school students. I think that they are getting a skewed view of how their ideas work, tho. The players become CONSUMERS in very quick order because, if they don't create a roleplay community, there is virtually nothing else to do. Except adult one on one....

[Sai'nu]

Still... in movies, tv ads, magazine ads, games... it is still true that sex sells! That is at least one reason why I'm never surprised to see the focus center around that and not other cool things you can get out of a game.

[xyryn]

I would guess that, given what I have seen for sale in SL, something sells better than sex...and that is a place of your own. Something that you put together that is safe and reflects you...not your culture, not your upbringing, not what others think you should have.

The players seem to put more into their houses or apartments than they put into or onto their skins. The number of micro-encephs (pin heads) running around is amazing! Obviously, they are more interested in their surroundings than in how they themselves look...and how they themselves appear is directly related to sex.