Thursday, March 01, 2007 Y
My dad introduced a game to my sis. Sounds weird? Oh yeah, it is. But that's the truth. Turns out, my sis heard of this game before...Both of them knew of this game, except me. Until now. It's call Second Life(SL). I explored a little of it during my exam times, as a form of destress, and REALLY played it after my exams.A little about the game. It's an online game, where u have to download it and play. It's something like SIMS. You create a character, and u can customized the clothes, hair, body, accesories to whatever you like. You can create someone who looks like you or someone who is entirely different from who you really are(like me). You can be a guy or a girl in the game, regardless your real gender in real life(RL).No one will know who u really are as the first name is whatever you wish to be called in the game. For the last name(surname), you get to choose from a long list. So dun be alarm when there are people who have the same last name as you. ^^ It's actually pretty cool. The other really awesome thing in SL is YOU CAN FLY!!!!!! WHEE!!!If you guys actually play the game, I'm actually known as Wyatt Carter in the game instead of who you know me as. But the personalities remain, whether or not the name changes. Personality is something that is innate, you can't just get rid of it, and it'll be shown through your actions, words and thoughts. So even the name change, personalities don't.In this game, you get to work different jobs. Dancers, greeter(my job), campers(my job), escorts, hosts, djs, casino dealers etc. There are thousands of jobs for you to choose from, and they play Lidnens(the money used in SL, nt sure if thats the spelling...what the heck)... Not only do you get to work, you can get free stuffs from places that just provides things for free, and not to mention free money hanging down from the money trees. Or you can just chill and relax at beaches, chat with friends or play at casinos. And believe me, THERE ARE ALOT OF CASINOS IN THE GAME, AS WELL AS BEACHES, PUBS, BARS, LOUNGE, CLUBS.There are places of mature contents, and there are places where don't categorized under the "mature" category. It's an adult version of SL, so u can expect more than just the usual. There's a teen version, but it's only until 17 years old, and I didn't know there's a teen version until one of my frens in SL told me about it. You can also join in clubs which are free of charge...I'm in about 6-7 clubs already, and they're all because my frenz invited me into the club or i joined them myself(like Louis fan club, Diana's passionate books club).Oh, and did I mention there're live performances??? Well, there ARE live performances by RL artists, like Louis Landon(aka Louis Volare in SL, who's on my fren list and is my new found idol) and many more. I'm really addicted to his music, and wanted to buy it...sads....no credit card, so can't order it off CDbaby.com... The more I listen to his music everytime during live performance, the more I wanna get my hands on his cd. Not only does he play the piano well, he can sing too! You guys may think like my sis: What's the RL performer(s) doing in games like SL? Don't they ahve anything else better to do? Are they that free to be playing games? Well....believe it or not, that's really true. I dunno how to explain so that you guys will believe me, but you will believe me if you see for yourself. It's just a feeling in me that they're nt juz regular hokey pokey stuff who cheats n lie off in the net. Rather, they're really who they claimed to be in RL. It's just a feeling, and it's strong enough and convincing enough for me to believe. Call me naive or simple-minded, or soft-hearted, but I truey believe they're true.SL is a great place for publicity and promotions, and alot more artists play SL and use it as a form of connecting to their fans and promoting their talents. What other ways can you spread and influence ppl from different parts of the globe but thru the net? And during the live performances of Louis Volare(aka Louis Landon in RL), he not only plays the piano in RL and stream it into SL for us, but he also has a mic and talk to us, like DJs in radio station.Another new found idol of mine is Diana Hunter(aka Diana Allandale in SL)...Yep, I also met her in SL, and it's really amazing. I love music and I met Louis Landon in SL as Louis Volare. I love to write stories(i'm writing one currently for fun) and who do I meet in SL? Diana Hunter, a RL author! And she's on my SL friend list too. I chatted with her, and read some of her stories in SL. Her stories in SL are excerpts of her RL books. Excerpts meaning, only a small part of the story is being extract from the whole storybook; about a few paragraphs. I've read all her excerpts and I wanna get my hands on her books. She's a really amazing author, her descriptions are so vivid that you can picture it in your mind, the more you want to read further on.She majors in errotic romance stories, about the other side of human, the dark n sexual side where many try to hide it. So unless you're alright with such books, you'll condemn her writings and push it aside. There's only one thing to say about her writings so far from the excerpts: They're really a masterpiece, each and every one of them. Her books made readers broke off from their comfort zone.Same thing like Louis' music, I wanna get my hands on Diana's books as much as I wanna get my hands on Louis' music...I've asked around in RL, yet I cant find a book on sale, neither can I find Louis' music. I told Louis about it and he said he don't thing his music is being sold in Singapore. So my next best chance is to order online..again. If i were to choose between Louis' music and Diana's books, I cant decide which one I'm willing to give up, because I don't wish to give up on either one. I wanna have both, if possible.I can't believe I could actually meet and make friends with RL solo pianist(Louis Landon aka Louis Volare) and RL errotic romance writer(Diana Hunter aka Diana Allandale) in SL. Such games really creates wonders and add spices to life. The net is really a weird place. It can be a terrible place but it also can be a good place. For example my acquaintance with them 2 and others...It brings people from different countries closer, bring strangers together to create a friendship, or rather to illuminate the hidden friendship that was there before.I'm really glad that my dad told my sis about this game,which I happen to hear from him. If not for the 2 of them, I wouldnt have meet up with 2 wonderful artists which are living half the globe away from me. I love chatting with the two of them, and I learn alot from the 2 of them indirectly. From Louis, he became my music motivator to complete my Piano degree. From Diana, through the conversations that we had, she taught me how to write good stories and used Louis' music as a guide(we had one of the conversations during Louis' live performance, and they're frens too in SL). "Play around with the words" that's her tip for me. Meaning to think out of the box, feel the story. And I read and got this from her blog: Talk to the characters, make them talk to you, so that your characters will be 'alive'. Another tip is to "Add Visual Image", meaning, let the readers picture whatever the characters are going thru.This game sucks, seriously. Why? Cos it's so darn popular that I often get lags and my pc had crashed for like at least 10 times since I've started playing. It's a game that was so popular.... Gosh! But though this game sucks during lags, it's really quite an interesting game. I never regretted playing or downloading it for that matter... Even if it crashed m pc and lags it like hell. :)Now one of them is my music motivator, the other one is my story motivator. Who are they? They're Louis Landon and Diana Hunter respectively. And I've also known more than just the 2 of them. I've mingle around and chatted, chilled with other players and some of them became my frenz in SL, and we really clicked. Well, they're older than me, but they're still so fun to hang out with. Ppl like Howdy, Thistle, Truus, Gayle, Louis, Diana, Blu, Aurora, Robin, Stv, Barb and more...they're really fun to hang out with. If there's a chance where you really play SL, I'll introduce them you guys..Who knows? :)
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