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#1
October 18th, 2007, 08:56 PM
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| Second Life Does anyone here participate in Second Life? I just signed up and clicked on the link to activate my account, and it brought me to a page that says I have to download and install the Second Life client in order to do anything? I didn't realize there was a third-party app/client involved. I'm always iffy about those things. Is anyone familiar with it? Is it safe?
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#2
October 18th, 2007, 09:05 PM
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| Second Life is really widely used, so I'd say it's safe. The application is what allows you to visually interact with the world and the people; it is far, far too complicated to do through a browser.
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#3
October 18th, 2007, 09:12 PM
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| Second life is a very popular MMOC - one of the most popular, I believe. They are credible. Apparently, the code is slower than the windows version, but I have found no reports of bad installs. You could always use something like AppZapper.
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#4
October 19th, 2007, 06:01 AM
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| Hm. I thought the same about iChat. Instead of running in a webbrowser, you have to actually use a separate application. I find those shady.  Seriously: You don't want such a thing as SL to run in a browser, performance-wise.
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#5
October 20th, 2007, 03:19 PM
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| Hey, guys, thanks for the input! But I'm a little confused now (as usual). A few of you mentioned Second Life is too complicated to run in a browser. Um, if I'm not running it through my browser, how will I be connected to the Internet? I thought I needed a Web browser to access the Web site and interact...
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#6
October 20th, 2007, 03:34 PM
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| The client will connect to the second life "world". It accesses the internet as a browser does, except it is getting data about objects, movements, etc in the world. The website is a different thing altogether - it's for news, downloads, etc.
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#7
October 20th, 2007, 03:36 PM
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| Ah ... I see! OK, thanks, folks. Guess I'll give it a whirl. I really don't know much about it. Do you guys play? I have it envisioned sort of like a personal version of The Sims. LOL
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#8
October 20th, 2007, 09:31 PM
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| Don't use Second Life if you have an addictive personality.  Fair warning.. that goes for World of Warcraft as well.. speaking from experience here. It's much MORE than a 'game' because it really isn't a game at all.. Second Life is many things to many people, but ultimately it's a social network with 3D graphics. It's being able to do all the things in your first life that you can't do because of physical limitations, and sometimes social ethic ones. That in itself is a powerful lure. |
