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Death and the metaverse

Part One of a new Hard Luck story. A bullet with his name on it sends Luck on his last case ever, an investigation into the world of avatar death. They say that every bullet has two tales to tell. The first concerns its manufacture. The second is the story of how it came to […]

New virtual world ‘Plundr’ promises shipwrecking instead of shopping

If, like me, you thought the best part of last year’s BBC rebooting of Cornish period drama Poldark was the social conscience (and pectoral muscles) of its key protagonist, you would apparently be wrong. In fact, viewer surveys have suggested that it was the murderous shipwrecking scene which drew the most interest from politcally desensitised […]

Nine

Today Huck is nine years old in Second Life. To celebrate, I had round some of his previous avatar outfits for an evolution party. Like most such parties, if I’d known at the onset just how much work it would entail, I’d probably not had bothered… From left to right standing, we have: Huck aged one month, […]

Escape for a few days

I am always keen to answer the call of Wagner James Au, in this case his request for more Second Life animated GIFs. I knocked together the little clip above using FRAPS to record the video (I captured at 60 FPS), Windows Movie Maker to top and tail the clip (and to slow it to half […]

Look behind you

You thought I was joking about the whole fashion thing? Think again. Well, maybe it was a little tongue-in-cheek, but Caitlin Tobias only went and sent me some free stuffs in the form of her new ‘Businessman’ poses. How could I resist? You reckon a winter overcoat photo shoot is best suited for, well, winter, […]

So frakking not say we all

Following a link in Inara Pey’s blog, I’ve come to the 2016 SL Science Fiction Convention. This is good because it gives me an excuse to vent about the ending to Battlestar Galactica without having to contrive a reason for discussing a TV program on a virtual reality blog. Ahem. I recently made my way […]

Nusquam: A moving postcard

For the third of my moving postcards, I returned to Nusquam.  This pretty sim has been much photographed and blogged about over the last week or so (Caitlin Tobias added her own beautiful pictures to this growing pile yesterday), and it’s often very busy with people walking across the fields or along the rail tracks […]

Why cutting costs costs

1. Make some people redundant. Because you still have to meet your statutory responsibilities and now have less people to do it with: 2. Hire some agency staff. (Yes, it’s the same people you just made redundant). (Yes, you’re paying more for their services than you did previously). (Yes, because they’re now working in an […]

Fashion

I’ve decided it’s time I started doing fashion shoots. March 2016, after all, denotes the end of Huck’s ninth year in SL (31 March is my 9th rezzday, in case you decide I should be showered with gifts) and to have gone this long in the SL blogosphere without at least an occasional foray into […]

Nusquam

It’s an island, sort of. It’s a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. It’s fields and bales and horses and a tractor. Essentially it’s just open space at Nusquam, and where it isn’t then the packed-in clutter of small, murky interiors only serves to emphasise the openness outside. It’s a walk. It’s a stroll. It’s a […]