Cool Places

From Russia: It was interesting, after viewing other students blogs I thought a neat thing to do instead of just roaming and stumbling upon something cool it would be better to search for it on the map and see what came up. Russia was my first stop. I got into a few conversations, but not being fluent in Russian made it difficult. However finding a circus was awesome. It was nice being able to get on the rides and actually ride them rather than just see them.



Next stop Space: Well not really. I wanted to go to space, but it looks as if no one has built it yet. This was the next best thing I suppose. I was able to look at shuttles and such, also a UFO. This place was interesting and also had some interesting finds. Outside the UFO there was a link to this book via amazon Lightcraft Model LTI-20 Technical Manual : An Intriguing Preview of the 2050 Space Command's LTI-20 Lightcraft

Book Description
Based on today's physics and real engineering drawings, this technical manual presents the LTI-20 Lightcraft—a prototype spacecraft that would reduce launch costs for space travel by a thousand fold. The Lightcraft is designed for a hypothetical U.S. space mission in 2025, during which it would transport six to twelve space commandos halfway around the world for a covert mission before returning to the continental U.S. without refueling. This latest blueprint for cheaper space travel also includes a CD-ROM with videos of actual Lightcraft flights and computer animations of flights into orbit.

and also there was this: Thank you for your interest in the Ivory Tower Library of Primitives.

This building and all it contains is intended to be an inworld, self-guided, self-paced, visual tutorial of the workings of the Secondlife primitives editing interface. It is presented to you in the hope it will be useful, and will provide you with a thorough grounding in all aspects of building in SecondLife.

I should have read through this, but I was kind of rushing through trying to see what else I could find.



So this is Hell?: Maybe it kind of was, considering I bought something from a store there and now my SL avatar is bugged and I cannot fix it. I even contacted the creator, and they said there was nothing they can do, the bug has been around since 2004. Doesn't this make you think they should take their shit down and stop fucking people over with faulty buggy products? *ahem* assholes. So this is hell? I'm not impressed.

Second Life Follies

It feels like every time I get on my laptop to play second life, something goes wrong. This has increased my willingness to play and has caused me to almost avoid it completely. I don't know why but my laptop and my iMac get so bogged down by second life that my avatar does nothing. When I start walking, my avatar walks so slow that I feel like evolution from the human perspective, it will take forever to do accomplish the smallest thing. This is not fun what so ever. Even trying to finish this assignment makes doing anything hell.

I don't know what the problem is though? my CPU isn't running through the roof as it has done in the past when playing, is it possibly not enough RAM? I'm not sure but when playing it takes everything forEVER to render. And I mean literally. If my avatar is standing idle it takes everything around 5-10 minutes for the entire environment to render. This is a big pain in my ass.


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p.s. how do you pick up the sl/url from your clipboard?

SL Avatar name

Wrest Aldrin

Bartle bee jones

The Explorer. I feel this is relatively accurate to my personality via gamer, and in life. It fits under both online persona and offline self. I'm quiet, but like friendship, good bonds. However as much as possible I always adventure and like to discover newer better things. I love to find the unseen and keep it hidden. Its always knowledge that I seek to gain. Part of the reason why it has taken me so long to graduate. I want to gain as much knowledge as possible before I have to leave. Though even after graduating I will still be seeking to explore more area of knowledge.

Presentation Day

This game is a little, well its graphic. I think giving the gamer the option to set up peace or set up war is nothing new in a game, but because it is applied to such a real life situation it has come up on the scale of it being just a game. The problem I see with this, this being giving the gamer an option is that most gamers, especially in the demographic of males are all about war and destruction in a game. I'm not too sure what the object of the game is, but it seems that it may not accomplish what it may be looking to, but I could be wrong. People actively seeing a video of real destruction of human life after they make a virtual decision may change their mind. Again, I'm not sure.




Beth's ideas are really interesting. The 2D news in 3D I liked a lot, the idea is a very good idea of how to change the news instead of it being so static.