Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: SL Humor
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Tech! Kit! For Friday fun, watch this pretty hypnotically hilarious video, featuring YouTuber Creamy and his pal Tim Apple randomly bopping around Second Life in their Apple Vision Pros, marveling at the virtual world and all the assorted avatars in it. Side note: If “trolling” is interrupting a virtual social space to be an a-hole,…
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For all your "This is Fine" meme needs across all realities — and good god there so many occasions for this right now — Mad Pea Studios has this animated stool which comes with a cup of coffee and a cartoon bubble. (Raging fire not included.) Also: "The raging flames are part of the attachable…
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If you’re on Instagram, @slgridmemes is definitely a fun follow — like the account name suggests, it’s a near-daily cascade of chuckle-worthy memes only active Second Life users are likely to find funny. (I.E, IYKYK) Created and run by Ryan Johnson in his spare time, now with nearly 9000 followers, Ryan joined the virtual world…
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It's a Friday miracle! After an absence of some six years, legendary YouTuber Soda Gnome is back with a new Second Life machinima to utterly wreck some "Take on Me" karaoke. First sighted by Redditor u/GeoffreyLannister, we've been missing his wryly goofy humor, a gnome-shaped light amid the sea of fashion and trolling videos. Though…
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Avatars without bodies riot in frantic search for new heads Academic speculates on appeal of mirrors in virtual worlds, ignores "To look at own boobs" hypothesis Milestone in AI achieved: Make Will Ferrell's Steve Butabi seem more human by comparison Adorable purple cloud delivers important corporate advice on UX design Exiled monarch starts second life…
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In Ebbe Altberg's Second Life, Linden Homes live IN YOU. Click here to get your piece of the Soviet dream in the highly desired mainland sim of Milbank — rubles or Linden Dollars accepted. Better hurry, though, avatars are streaming in by the boatload as I write this. Official (unofficial) announcement below.
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"THIS MAY BE A RELAXING TIME WITH A VIRTUAL SHEEP BUT I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES HAVING BEEN SHEARING THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS LIKE SHEEP SINCE FDR AND ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" One great thing to come out of the Biden inauguration yesterday (I mean besides that whole "undermining a…
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Antonio Giano recently wrote and posted this SL variation of the famous defenestration meme on a private Facebook group for Second Life users — and as you probably would have guessed if you read New World Notes on the regular, it provoked a long back and forth of outrage and argument. Which as Antonio tells…
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In the latest hilariously ribald video from Ms. Carmen King, YouTube gaming doyenne and unofficial queen of Second Life, we find her searching for a mansion to buy in Second Life as only Carmen can. (NSFW of course, unless I guess you work at a tattoo gallery.) "[My SL] apartment is beautiful," she announces at…
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Ms. Carmen King is a gaming YouTube celebrity with nearly 1 million subscribers, and earlier this month, an amazing thing happened. "If you've watching my channel lately," she announces, "I've been talking about how bland the Sims 4 has been getting — that Star Wars pack did not make it any better, bitch." But rather…
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