Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Social Structures, Social Upheaval
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Via Gazira Babeli's blog which has more details Discussing the topic of drama and griefing in SL, longtime SLer Jumpman Lane compares and contrasts what griefing is considered now, versus what it once was: Drama is not new to Second Life. It's also not as bad as it's been in the past…by a LONG shot.…
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Responding to the question, “Does Second Life Have Way More Player Drama Than Traditional MMOs?“, longtime SLer Jumpman Lane (no stranger to drama himself) offers a first-hand compare and contrast: I would say the chief difference between drama in SL and say drama in The Elder Scrolls Online is a matter of scale, a matter…
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Bugs in Second Life may be less annoying than they are in structured, standard MMOs like Elder Scrolls Online, but here's something that does bug some SLers — the open-ended virtual world seems to have way more player-to-player drama. At least reader Alicia, a veteran of both MMOs and SL, makes that case: There is…
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This is an epic, thought provoking new article in the latest SL-focused ECLIPSE magazine on real life Black people in the virtual world, reflecting on Black Lives Matter and their experiences in SL. It’s written by New World Notes contributor Cajsa Lilliehook. She interviews many Black SLers, who discuss racism in SL — everything from…
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Emuna Zamani, a warm and chatty virtual world YouTuber, recently posted this moving video where she starts by talking about her anxiety and anger over recent real life events — first the pandemic, and then the international uprising over the killing of George Floyd and other Black people, along with the systematic racism which contributed…
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Last week we noted that the SL Marketplace was allowing racist slurs to be used as product tags — and that some vendors have been taking advantage of that to advertise virtual world content promoting racial stereotypes. While a Linden Lab staffer said they were looking into this issue at the time, it had not…
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New World Notes contributor Cajsa Lilliehook just pointed me to this Second Life forum thread of users complaining that the SL Marketplace allows racist slurs to be used as product tags — and that some vendors are taking advantage of that to advertise virtual world content promoting racial stereotypes. I've been able to confirm this…
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It's the first Coronavirus-related death I'm aware of to hit the Second Life user community, but it certainly won't be the last: Longtime SLer Uccello Poultry reportedly succumbed in real life to COVID-19 recently. I say "reportedly", but this news comes from Uccello herself. Before she died, she wrote a number of letters to friends…
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