Pure Digital Thought

I was reading in AFKGamer that Second Life now has a free basic account. You can create a character, login, and do stuff with the free account. I figure what the heck and I signed up for an account just to see what the heck Second Life was about. I figured it was basically a chat room with a 3D look. I read a bit on the site and saw that you can create your own objects and write scripts with the little programming language in the game. I thought that sounded interesting so I downloaded the client and fired it up.

It’s a bit wierd at first since it doesn’t seem like there is much to do. People stand around and talk or they interact with objects and scripts. You can fly around in the world so I flew around a bit and then teleported to something called the Rose Mall where there were some events occuring. As I teleport in and I’m waiting for all of the objects, textures, etc to download I wander a bit. I start hearing moaning and whipping sounds. WTF? I think. So, I walk around a bit more and I see where it’s coming from. Basically, there are a bunch of characters running around in leather whipping each other. I noticed I was in a “mature” zone. So bascially, the Rose Mall area is a big fetish zone. W T F? Okay, if you enjoy that stuff in real life, that’s your own deal. But what the hell? In a game?

Okay. I’m a bit disturbed and confused. Someone is going to jump all over Rockstar Games for putting in a hidden and locked area in GTA:SA that requires someone to actually hack with the game to unlock but no one is going to say a thing about sick virtual fetish people in an online game? Sure it’s in a “mature” zone but I didn’t see anything that prevented me from getting into that area. I didn’t hack anything, sneak in, get carded or anything. I just clicked a button. Porn is one thing, as the mall sold nude skins, but virtual characters acting out fetishes in a game is outright sick and demented. IT’S A FREAKING VIRTUAL WORLD. You have to be disturbed to not realize that line between virtual worlds and reality.

Yeah, Second Life is boring as all hell. So, go play a MMORPG if you are so bored that you have to become demented. Okay nevermind, I don’t want you in my next MMO so cancel that order. The last thing we need is another Cecilantas causing an uproar on the boards.