Eventually, I found a nice German gentlemen who offered to be my guide in a space themed bedroom. It looked nice, as most things do in RLC, and we got down to business.
The first thing I noticed was that you can’t use the sex toys without being naked. You can’t just hop on a sex toy as you can in SL to just see what it does. The second thing I noticed was that you can’t be naked. You can remove your top and bottom, but your shoes stay on. As it truly bothers me to see shoes on a bed, this was an issue.
Also, you cannot use a sex toy without someone with you. Luckily, I started out with my German friend. Later, I found Robots, which look like other residents, that you can invite to have sex with. I tried it but it was creepy knowing that this was just a plaything and not a person.
Having sex gives a resident two columns of options. On the right side are options for various sex acts; Male Oral, Female Hand job, doggy, spooning, etc. On the left side are options for various responses; deeper, faster, I’m cumming, etc. On the upper right is a Cum option for when you are done.
3.11.2008
3.10.2008
Red Light Center Exposed -- Part 2: Vanilla
Sex with robots - while keeping your shoes on -- the discrete charm of a Red Light Center VIP account
The Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life
Eventually, I discovered what I could about Red Light Center (RLC) as a basic member and it was time to open more doors so to speak. I bought a VIP membership and started exploring the non-kink side of things.
VIP membership costs $20 US per month and it allows for age verification. Not only are you allowed into the adult areas of the RLC grid, you are allowed into the adult areas of everyone’s profiles. On the profiles, you find that people sometimes like showing off their Real Life naked bodies as well as what they’ve done as avatars.
But there was exploring to do. There were a few adult theatres where if you go in and click, you’ll find pornographic movies that will open up in your web browser. If you are concerned about cost and you pay for porn as well, this might be the economic option for you.
The Herald explores worlds beyond Second Life
Eventually, I discovered what I could about Red Light Center (RLC) as a basic member and it was time to open more doors so to speak. I bought a VIP membership and started exploring the non-kink side of things.
VIP membership costs $20 US per month and it allows for age verification. Not only are you allowed into the adult areas of the RLC grid, you are allowed into the adult areas of everyone’s profiles. On the profiles, you find that people sometimes like showing off their Real Life naked bodies as well as what they’ve done as avatars.
But there was exploring to do. There were a few adult theatres where if you go in and click, you’ll find pornographic movies that will open up in your web browser. If you are concerned about cost and you pay for porn as well, this might be the economic option for you.
3.07.2008
More about WSE
To counter potential Linden Lab concerns about their role playing game, the WSE decided to transfer all stock holder's balances from Lindens to WIC's. Previously, the exchange rate was 1 US dollar equaled 1 WIC. With WSE 4.0, 265 WIC's equals 1 US dollar. All previous WIC balances have been adjusted to reflect this new exchange rate. The WIC can be bought and sold on the WIC currency exchange for US dollars, Australian dollars and Euros via PayPal, Paymate and in the future Western Union. In addition, prepaid credit cards will be usable by those under the age of 18 to take part in the role playing game that is the WSE.
Vanderverre took the time to remind stock holders that CEO's of companies on the WSE are not really CEO's, but also role playing participants who are simply learning the stock exchange game themselves.
The reason why the new roll out is taking so long is not only due to using Ruby on Rails as their development language, but also that the WSE cannot afford their own full time developer. So within five days of the developer being finished, testing will commence and trading will resume. Previous versions of WSE have been afflicted with bugs due to unrealistic timelines and hurried expectations.
Many times throughout the announcement, Vanderverre reminded users that both the Linden dollar and the WIC are fictional game tokens that represent a limited license right that users buy and sell the right to, not the underlying Linden dollar or WIC themselves.
While selling off is predicting, Vanderverre reminded stock holders that there would be buyers who would be willing to make a profit off of buying low and then later selling high, although this is not an investment, but rather a role playing game.
With the technology in place, Vanderverre sees the WSE providing 24 hour/7 days a week trading capability and potentially handling real stocks and securities. [will WSE still be fictional at that point? - or is pretending it will be real someday part of the roleplay? - Editrix]
Additional features for WSE 4.0 include the ability to make buy and sell limit orders and not solely making market orders.
Vanderverre took the time to remind stock holders that CEO's of companies on the WSE are not really CEO's, but also role playing participants who are simply learning the stock exchange game themselves.
The reason why the new roll out is taking so long is not only due to using Ruby on Rails as their development language, but also that the WSE cannot afford their own full time developer. So within five days of the developer being finished, testing will commence and trading will resume. Previous versions of WSE have been afflicted with bugs due to unrealistic timelines and hurried expectations.
Many times throughout the announcement, Vanderverre reminded users that both the Linden dollar and the WIC are fictional game tokens that represent a limited license right that users buy and sell the right to, not the underlying Linden dollar or WIC themselves.
While selling off is predicting, Vanderverre reminded stock holders that there would be buyers who would be willing to make a profit off of buying low and then later selling high, although this is not an investment, but rather a role playing game.
With the technology in place, Vanderverre sees the WSE providing 24 hour/7 days a week trading capability and potentially handling real stocks and securities. [will WSE still be fictional at that point? - or is pretending it will be real someday part of the roleplay? - Editrix]
Additional features for WSE 4.0 include the ability to make buy and sell limit orders and not solely making market orders.
3.06.2008
WSE Swaps Fictional Currencies, Might Be Trading In March
LukeConnell Vandeverre of Hope Capital Ltd, made an announcement via video link outside of Second Life on Sunday about the status of the World Stock Exchange. (WSE). The WSE went dark fifty one days ago with an announcement that they would be down for a month.
In his opening remarks, Vandeverre reminded market watchers that the WSE is the first Internet based stock market/bank and role playing game. Vandeverre also reminded people about the history of the WSE, and how back in December of 2006, he saw a need for a virtual economy to have a virtual stock exchange. After the virtual financial history lesson, the topic turned to what is happening with the WSE in relation to Second Life moving forward.
While both the Linden dollar and the World Internet Currency are both fictional currency and game tokens, only the World Internet Currency was going to be used on the WSE from the time the stock exchange becomes operational again in mid to late March. The reason given was that with the banking ban, which is formally known as a ban on paying interest, the WSE foresaw the Lab making many decisions not in the WSE's interest, including possibly doing away with the Linden dollar entirely.
In his opening remarks, Vandeverre reminded market watchers that the WSE is the first Internet based stock market/bank and role playing game. Vandeverre also reminded people about the history of the WSE, and how back in December of 2006, he saw a need for a virtual economy to have a virtual stock exchange. After the virtual financial history lesson, the topic turned to what is happening with the WSE in relation to Second Life moving forward.
While both the Linden dollar and the World Internet Currency are both fictional currency and game tokens, only the World Internet Currency was going to be used on the WSE from the time the stock exchange becomes operational again in mid to late March. The reason given was that with the banking ban, which is formally known as a ban on paying interest, the WSE foresaw the Lab making many decisions not in the WSE's interest, including possibly doing away with the Linden dollar entirely.
3.05.2008
Primjackers Trash LL's Digital Rights Management
Copy "protected" prim hair, motorcycles now easy to copy -
In-world economy threatened?
Recently it came to our attention that certain devices have begun to circulate inside Second Life that allow object owners to circumvent Linden Lab's digital rights management/permissions system. These new products are simply LSL scripts that are able to copy themselves into every prim in a linkset, and then they use the llGetPrimitiveParams function to detect prim shapes and position within a linkset.
Once the target prims have been "enhanced" by the addition of the prim copy script, they can communicate the prim's size and position information to another object which then rezzes a number of cubes that automatically change shape, adopting the shapes and colors of the original prims and position and link themselves -- making exact copies of linked objects. The only missing elements are the textures and the original scripts, which current prim replicators do not currently steal duplicate.
In-world economy threatened?
Recently it came to our attention that certain devices have begun to circulate inside Second Life that allow object owners to circumvent Linden Lab's digital rights management/permissions system. These new products are simply LSL scripts that are able to copy themselves into every prim in a linkset, and then they use the llGetPrimitiveParams function to detect prim shapes and position within a linkset.
Once the target prims have been "enhanced" by the addition of the prim copy script, they can communicate the prim's size and position information to another object which then rezzes a number of cubes that automatically change shape, adopting the shapes and colors of the original prims and position and link themselves -- making exact copies of linked objects. The only missing elements are the textures and the original scripts, which current prim replicators do not currently steal duplicate.
3.04.2008
One Night with the Free Women of Port Kar
A Green Caste enters the Courtyard. “Lady, I hear you are looking for a Feminist in Gor!” So began an interesting and enlightening night in Port Kar.
Readers of the Herald, or those who just like seeing naked men, might remember Hanze Melnitz, Admiral of Port Kar, posing for Post Six Guy many months back. I recently returned to Gor and started to notice that the women far outnumbered the men and sometimes the Free Women outnumbered the slave girls. I decided to take a night off from my own role play and travel to Kar to talk to the Free Women there.
As I telepoted in the market, I was lucky to see both the Port Administrator Dark Starr and his Free Companion, or what would be on Earth a wife, Devyne Daligdig. I introduced myself and my paper and asked if I could talk to the women out of character about their experiences. I had to explain a few times how I wasn’t a centerfold photographer but rather just a journalist/editorialist.
I changed into some Free Women clothes and teleported down to the Docks of Kar. Seeing Kar reminded me of why some people take part in Gorean role play in SL. There were small details of seagulls and turnbuckles. Everything was designed to replicate the feeling of being on another similar world but by the sea, in this case, at the mouth of the River Thassa.
My reception in Kar also reminded me how people can be judged by their groups. Combining a few Gorean groups with my Feminist group and a female domination group conjured this image of myself as a man-hating lesbian. Add the fact that I was asking these women why they willingly covered their entire bodies, including a veil on their face, surrounded themselves with barely dressed, fawning girls who are referred to as sluts, knowing that they themselves could find themselves naked in a collar for certain infractions, and submitting to a variety of restrictions on their movements and actions and it was not the warmest of receptions. At one point, the Free Men sent me a picture showing them abusing innocent women.
Readers of the Herald, or those who just like seeing naked men, might remember Hanze Melnitz, Admiral of Port Kar, posing for Post Six Guy many months back. I recently returned to Gor and started to notice that the women far outnumbered the men and sometimes the Free Women outnumbered the slave girls. I decided to take a night off from my own role play and travel to Kar to talk to the Free Women there.
As I telepoted in the market, I was lucky to see both the Port Administrator Dark Starr and his Free Companion, or what would be on Earth a wife, Devyne Daligdig. I introduced myself and my paper and asked if I could talk to the women out of character about their experiences. I had to explain a few times how I wasn’t a centerfold photographer but rather just a journalist/editorialist.
I changed into some Free Women clothes and teleported down to the Docks of Kar. Seeing Kar reminded me of why some people take part in Gorean role play in SL. There were small details of seagulls and turnbuckles. Everything was designed to replicate the feeling of being on another similar world but by the sea, in this case, at the mouth of the River Thassa.
My reception in Kar also reminded me how people can be judged by their groups. Combining a few Gorean groups with my Feminist group and a female domination group conjured this image of myself as a man-hating lesbian. Add the fact that I was asking these women why they willingly covered their entire bodies, including a veil on their face, surrounded themselves with barely dressed, fawning girls who are referred to as sluts, knowing that they themselves could find themselves naked in a collar for certain infractions, and submitting to a variety of restrictions on their movements and actions and it was not the warmest of receptions. At one point, the Free Men sent me a picture showing them abusing innocent women.
3.03.2008
SL Laser Eyes Worth Looking Into
More residents improve vision with heat, X-ray, and lasers
Remember how Superman had that great heat vision, and could just squint a little and turn a bad guy's gun into a puddle of molten steel, or slice Braniac's spaceship into pieces with these long, red beams from his baby-blues? I don't know about you, but that always made me get all quivery inside. I wanted to DO that! I wanted to be able to blast things with my eyes, burn down trees with a hot, seething glance, cut through a steel door with laser-like precision.
Cyclops from the X-Men was pretty good too, but with him it was more of a curse, because he couldn't open his eyes without blasting away. He had to wear special glasses or goggles to keep from cutting apart homes, furniture, cars, and family pets. Still, it would be neat to be able to flip up your fashionable dark glasses and blow away the bad guys, right?
I looked into whether my dream could come true, and sure enough, you can trot down to your local goodie shop and buy yourself some heat vision. It comes in some interesting varieties, some of it hot and burny, some of it with more of a kick in the teeth sort of punch.
For this little endeavor, I needed to enlist some aid. Shooting at targets is all well and good, but sometimes you just need a willing conspirator to let you blow them away. Hence, my friend and all-around Good Sport, Macbeth Shostakovich, who has agreed to be my crash-test dummy for this and other weapon tests. Say hi, Buster!
Remember how Superman had that great heat vision, and could just squint a little and turn a bad guy's gun into a puddle of molten steel, or slice Braniac's spaceship into pieces with these long, red beams from his baby-blues? I don't know about you, but that always made me get all quivery inside. I wanted to DO that! I wanted to be able to blast things with my eyes, burn down trees with a hot, seething glance, cut through a steel door with laser-like precision.
Cyclops from the X-Men was pretty good too, but with him it was more of a curse, because he couldn't open his eyes without blasting away. He had to wear special glasses or goggles to keep from cutting apart homes, furniture, cars, and family pets. Still, it would be neat to be able to flip up your fashionable dark glasses and blow away the bad guys, right?
I looked into whether my dream could come true, and sure enough, you can trot down to your local goodie shop and buy yourself some heat vision. It comes in some interesting varieties, some of it hot and burny, some of it with more of a kick in the teeth sort of punch.
For this little endeavor, I needed to enlist some aid. Shooting at targets is all well and good, but sometimes you just need a willing conspirator to let you blow them away. Hence, my friend and all-around Good Sport, Macbeth Shostakovich, who has agreed to be my crash-test dummy for this and other weapon tests. Say hi, Buster!
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