For all of you Second Life players who got scared off Firestorm with the PBR viewer release and haven’t gone back since, it might be time to try. If you thought you owned a pretty decent laptop but couldn’t turn …
How to get a real job on Second Life if you live in a low-income country like Nigeria, Laos, Indonesia or similar…
And, also, how to give a real job on Second Life to a real person if you live in a 1st world country on a disability pension.
The reason why it might be difficult to find a real job on …
Second Life is built for 9 foot men, but inhabited by 7 foot people when 5 feet X inches would do.
I build in strict 1:1 scale on Second Life, because it’s the only scale that makes the slightest bit of sense to build in. This means that I equate one real life meter directly to a Second Life meter, without …
It is possible to build to realistic 1:1 scale on Second Life without making your own mesh.
It may feel impossible to achieve an exact 1 RL meter to 1 SL meter scale on Second Life if you’re limited to using someone else’s mesh objects. However, it is entirely possible to build to a realistic scale on …
Finding Your Niche in Second Life: A Guide for the Creatively Quirky
Let’s be honest: finding your niche in any community can feel like trying to find a quiet corner at a family reunion. Everyone’s already formed their little clusters, and you’re stuck wondering whether you’re more of a “dance floor with …
Take a friend riding horses on Second Life without a Teegle Pet. :o
Ooh, what a discovery!
In the default avatar menu, you can find two horses; the girl with a bow and arrow (Rhiannon) and the boy (Thomas) with a sword next to her, both have horses. They both can be used …
Second Life is for intuitives and dreamers.
Second Life is not for everybody. It is fiddly, cumbersome at times, everything takes time to be created. It is slow and quite unpredictable. It takes patience to even learn how to walk without running into things – sure, it’s …
The new BPR Firestorm. (The first impressions:) LOOOVE.
It feels like turning 21, Second Life has finally reached maturity. It can now adopt its own children and drink hardened spirits, in addition to only taking part in creating X-rated movies as a teen. To celebrate this momentous achievement, …
My biggest Second Life pet peeve: Sizes and scales.
When I first joined Second Life, the one thing that drove me away from the platform was the crazy disregard to the humble meter. While there is a very reliable metric system background to the world, people simply blatantly ignore …
What is the Second Life appeal with the smarter end of the adult spectrum.
I am not entirely sure if it is true; that the average Second Life user is a tad smarter than the average flat Internet user. I think it is. Naturally, the whole complication of Second Life appeals to a smarter …