This is a question people tend to ask me a lot.

Second Life is a good outlet for my creative moods and is a really fun 3D chat room at the same time. I can build whatever I like, whether it is psychically impossible or not. I meet a lot of people from all over the world  which makes it amazingly interesting too.

The media

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OMG, SECOND LIFE IS ONE BIG SODOM AND GOMORRAH WITH ILLEGAL PORN, GAMBLING AND A BUNCH OF ANIMALS HAVING RANCID SEX!!
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Yes, it’s true. Partially tho. Because the ones who accuse Second Life and it’s residents of this, should have a good look at their own “real life” surroundings and country. Thing is, SL is not that much different from RL. Only difference is, that in you cannot die in SL, you don’t need food nor have to take a crap in the bushes.

Dubious porn will be everywhere and gambling too (although it’s banned from SL) About “animal” sex… hehehe oh well, aren’t we all a little animal inside sometimes. Don’t tell me you didn’t growl once when you blew your load. I will come back on this particular subject later this week.

Machinima

So yeah, besides all the weird things that happen in there, there are also some quite interesting things to mention. It’s a very good place for Machinima for example. I’ve even bought a special mouse for it, since that makes filming a whooooole lot easier.

SIC49 A video impression from FoxSan Yosuke on Vimeo.

3D and Art creations

What I cant create at work (because of that stupid thing called building code and gravity) I can create in SL. Trying to keep things as realistic as possible withing the boundaries of available building blocks. Yeah… available building blocks. One cant just create something without having to keep a certain amount of building blocks in the back of his or her mind. Per square meter of land, one has a fixed amount of building blocks. Too much hassle to talk about it right now.

Exploring

This is probably the most interesting part of whole SL. With almost 1.800.000.000 sqm of land, the world of Second Life has become really -REALLY- big. Same thing with the users. Back in 2006, it was considered a busy day when there were 15.000 residents online, today it nearly reaches 60.000.

I will actually go travel around in SL and try to stay in-world permanently for a week or so. Ofcourse, crashes and other failures may interrupt it briefly, but the goal is to stay in-world for an extended period of time.

My goal? To meet more people and see many weird creations too.

I’ll keep you posted about this

Mah Novo has no mojo. We’re talking about NovoKing here.
Another China-land SL clone with great potential!

I’ve written about this in my previous blog and it was kinda fun to walk around there. However, if you’ve read my post about HiPiBye and Twanger err.. Twinity, I am not so positive anymore about new and upcoming 3D worlds.

Downloading and installing NovoKing

Just as HiPiHi, the install file of NovoKing is on a slow, very slow server. 211Mb to download, it took forever.

Installing could be fairly easy, but ofcourse everything is in Chinese and NO option for English. But okay, no worries here. I know Chinese and i’m sure some Chinese know me. What? Who? Never mind. On with the install!

Just keep pressing “??” and all will be okay!

Do NOT get mislead by these pretty pictures.

Running the software

Okay, the usual startup screen, all in CHINEEZE but you’ll discover which button to press and which not.
I’d go for that big yellow round button saying “OMFG LOGIN HERE”. But then in Chineeze ofcourse.

Intermezzo

We interrupt this message for the folling announcement

Running the software

Since WHEN does software have legs? Well? D:

Running the software (2)

Well, all hopes are on that BIG… YELLOW… BUTTON! Click click, but no response. Oh boi, whats wrong this time? Then a blinking thingy in the taskbar caught my eye and i clicked it. This is what i saw:

IMMA FIRING MY UPDATORRRRRRR ===D:

Yes, i’m not bullshitting you. UpdatOr… Bahahaha. Omg. Welll, lets find the updatOr, okay?

Where aaaaarrrrreeeeee uuuuuuu?

I am so done with this crap. Just like HiPieBye, I’ll return in 6 months to see if there is any improvement….

LOL. =\

Just a short post this time.

Currently I’m testing New World Grid and I’m currently running two sims there.

Want to see and test?

1. Create a free account at http://www.newworldgrid.com
2. Make a copy of your SL shortcut
3. Right-click and select properties
4. Look for “Target”
5. Remove everything AFTER “C:/Program Files/SecondLife/SecondLife.exe”
6. ADD  -loginuri http://grid.newworldgrid.com:8002 -loginpage http://grid.newworldgrid.com:8002/?method=login
7. Press OK

Alright, the complete line at the Target should look like:

“C:/Program Files/SecondLife/SecondLife.exe” loginuri http://grid.newworldgrid.com:8002 -loginpage http://grid.newworldgrid.com:8002/?method=login

Yes, i know… I’ve used forward slashes in the first part, but that’s caused by wordpress. So it is backslash indeed. O.o

EDIT: Look for the “Bad Bunny” or “Good Fox” sim

As a resident of SecondLife, I’ve always been interested in new players on this market.
So far, I have been testing HiPiHi, NovoKing, ActiveWorlds, Lively and more 3D stuff.

Today, I’ve registered to beta test Twinity.
I can’t tell yet how long they are active, but the domain name is registered at the end of 2006, so I am supprised that I haven’t seen this one before. I stumbled upon this via a Google-ad o.o

Registering for beta testing

Registering for the beta is quite easy because it’s an open registration and it is in English. I say that because HiPiHi (closed test) and NovoKing (open test) are both in Chinese which makes registering a leeetle harder.

After filling in the required data and running the setup.exe (which might be an idea to change to Twinity_install_35313.exe or something to make things more clear) my first attempt to login failed.

The client contains an auto-updater, so that is a good thing.

Log in screen

Something I have not noticed with other 3D world clients is a good diagnostic tool, in case there are any problems. Hmmyeah, so my screen gets stuck at “connecting to jabber server” but diagnostics says that everything is okay.

LEMME IN! D:

Contacting support

The good and rather cute thing of an upcoming company and it’s product is that support works via simple email. I’d like to see them using a ticket system, but all in time, i guess. Okay, I cant log in, so i wrote an e-mail (sent at 11.45am) to the support and now it’s time to wait and see.

Time is critial for happy customers and I still have no reply as of yet. (12.45pm)

I still have no reply and after reading the forum, it seems to be an ongoing problem.

Goodbye Twinity. You failed.