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I have lately tried to use a computer game. It is called “Second Life” and there is a book about it available. It is not a game where you go around and shoot everything in sight, but rather you interact with other people whom you meet on screen. Everybody is represented by an “avatar” and this av, short for avatar, can be moved around the area. I particularly like the possibility of having my av fly and see the general area I am in from above or move fast from one place to another. Even faster is teleportation, but then you don’t see what is going on and how you are moving from one place to the other - a bit like “Move me up, Scotty”. By now I have made some acquaintances from Bucharest and London, communicated (wrote) in English, German, and Danish, and met one of my sons at the Pirates Cove. One can buy ‘land’ and build a ‘house’ or anything else you like to do, and some of the items I’ve seen are really phenomenal (excuse me ‘awesome’). At the moment I am trying to find the av who uses a red tri-plane with a machine gun imitating “The Red Baron” ala Snoopy. In ‘public’ places violence and nudity is forbidden, and gambling all together. If you are interested in those things you must do it in a private area. One of the war zones is called “Combat” and I advise everybody to stay away from that place.

Posted by Synergy on Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 12:55 PM | Permalink