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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
I have my whole Second Life ahead of me…
As a gamer and geeky internet kinda guy, I am regularly asked questions on gaming things and online stuff by my non-gamey mates. You know the sort of things: ‘have you heard of this console?’, ‘have you played this game?’, ‘which console should I get my kids?’, ‘how does that facebook thing work?’, ‘isn’t that Wii thing ever so lovely?’, etc, etc.
In general, even if I haven’t had huge experience of an element of video gaming (for example, I have scant experience with X-Box), I at least have a working knowledge of the current gaming market, innovations, game genres, fads, etc. In the vast majority of cases, as I have many gamey mates, I have at least seen or ‘had a go’ on most of the current gamey phenomenons.
Particularly because I am an open World of Warcraft addict (WoW being both internet based and gamey), people approach me to ask questions about Second Life. Questions I can’t answer with any amount of knowledgeable level-headedness or neutrality like I feel I can with questions like ‘which console should I get my kids?’. However, Second Life is not something I have ever properly encountered. Like most people, I have heard the sensationalist horror stories and have a vague idea of the concept of the game and its community. To be honest, on first impressions, it creeps me out a little and seems rather peculiar, even for gamers.
So, I thought I’d give Second Life a go just to see what it’s like, and also so I can form an educated opinion on this phenomenon. I can pick any gender, age, appearance, job, sexuality, faith, or whatever that I like. So… um… I’m a bit stuck. I am a relatively content and settled person in myself these days, so don’t actually really desire to me much else other than Mark Adams, and herein lies the problem. I guess I’d like to have a Second Life that is someone very different to myself, but how far can you take this? Things I feel strongly about in real life, such as anti-violence and anti-religion, are things that one can’t easily shed when roleplaying however much ‘it’s not you, it’s the character’.
So I’m putting this out there: please make some suggestions as to whom I should be in Second Life. In a week, I will have a look at everyone’s suggestions and then delve into the unknown territory of this internet phenomenon. :)
Big love,
M x
Current mood:
confused.Current music: The Final Countdown by Europe.