Originally uploaded by RichPav.
A furnished house, a tree with a hidden loft, hot tub, sandbox, two buggies, a monster truck, a feelium ball (it was a freebie) and an invisible hoverboat.
Why? Because There.com is as addictive as crack.
And if some Eastern European nutjob decides to take up residence next to me, I can simply pick everything up and put it back down someplace else.
The rest of the podcasting world can stay in Second Life. I like There.com a whole lot better. Less cluttered, less smutty, less complicated and better physics.
You’re all invited to our house. Just send an IM to “Pavster”.
Update: Here’s the teleport link. Don’t worry about interrupting me in the middle of cybersex. I don’t have the imagination for it.
great outfit XD!
I wish I could get away with dressing like that in real life, but I’m in the wrong line of work for that.
Hey Rich,
Loved your podcasts, too bad you’re not doing them anymore. It was cool you let everyone in on parts of your life and I totally respect the decision you made to stop. Anyway, everytime I go into There, I can’t find anyone-no matter where I go. The place is empty. Is there something I’m missing? Maybe I’m too much of a noob to figure it out. I’ll try your teleport link.
No idea why, but recently they changed the location where nubies arrive in world for the first time. They now arrive on an island in the middle of nowhere surrounded by an enormous invisible barrier that prevents anyone from driving, flying or building anywhere even remotely near the area. Simply out of habit, lots of people still hang out at the old spot.
The trick is to teleport elsewhere. At the bottom of the screen there’s a row of menu buttons. Select “places” and teleport to Karuna Plaza or Duda Beach. Those are two places where people congregate and tend to be friendly. Just remember to take of that nerdy yellow newbie shirt first or somebody will knock you down, kick sand in your face and steal your lunch money.
The podcasting animals are on SL because many of them have macs. Do you need to pay real money to buy lands on There?
You exchange real money for Therebucks to buy stuff in There. I use tbux.com because they offer a better exchange rate (2000 tbux = $1) and because they accept purchases through PayPal.
You don’t have to buy land. I only did it because my kids wanted to. (That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.) You don’t even have to pay the one-time $10 membership fee. But if you do become a member, you can buy clothes, vehicles, property, etc. and you become able to use a compass to get around and to also use voice chat.
That being said, I get the feeling you might like SL better because you’re more technically inclined that most human beings, and they have a scripting language and modeler built into the client. The language itself isn’t that great, but it is quite fun create “real” objects and script them. It’s probaby one of the closest things you can do to performing real magic.
What I like about There is it’s easier to start up conversations with people. SL is so huge you’re pretty much anonymous, like living in a big city. Also, for some reason there are a lot of Spanish-speaking people in There, and I like speaking Spanish once in a while. It makes me feel like I actually got something out of my bullshit university degree in the language.