When your friends are on holiday, your avatar’s questionable decisions become your best entertainment.
Tag: virtual worlds
Second Life Dilemmas #2: Social Situations, The Unwritten Rules
Or: The Unwritten Rulebook Nobody Ever Gave You There are Second Life residents who log in, teleport wherever they feel like, happily start conversations with complete strangers, join voice chat without hesitation and somehow end the evening with six new friends, three group invitations and plans for a beach party next weekend. Then there’s the…
Club Hopping in Second Life: Notes from the Dance Floor (Part 2)
Beach parties, trance, happy crowds and Huck, who definitely wasn’t watching the football…
Second Life Dilemmas #1: Why Every Decision Feels Like a Life Choice
Because choosing between two virtual coffee tables shouldn’t require a committee meeting… and yet here we are.
Club Hopping in Second Life: Notes from the Dance Floor
An tour of Second Life’s nightlife, featuring great music, welcoming communities and questionable dance moves
Coffee, Calculators & Complimentary Marketing
Two avatars, one hotel lobby, one coffee machine and an unexpectedly philosophical conversation about affordability, creators and the invisible work that keeps Second Life alive.
Waiting for the Mists to Part: Getting Ready for Fantasy Faire 2026
There’s a very specific kind of impatience that sets in right around now. The kind where I keep checking the calendar (yes, it’s really opening on Thursday, April 23), peek at teasers, and start mentally planning outfits you absolutely don’t need but will 100% end up buying anyway. Because it’s almost time for Fantasy Faire…
6 Second Life Rituals That Absolutely No One Agreed On, Yet We All Perform
The unwritten rules of SL we all follow
Trying to Find Community Without Joining a Tiny Kingdom: Cliques in Second Life
A fun but slightly serious look at cliques in Second Life
The Museum of Useless Inventions: Finally, Technology That Solves Absolutely Nothing
A visit to Second Life’s most gloriously pointless museum.
A Rainy-Day Escape: My Visit to The Eldritch Archives
Come for the folklore, stay for the poison recipes