QotW10: The Simple 'Second Life'

My Very First ‘Second Life’
I felt quite disappointed seeing other classmates having so much fun in Second Life, teleporting to cool places while I was having problems accessing it from my home computer. Thus, I decided to use the computers in our SIM computer labs but those wouldn’t allow me to teleport either! Taking the last resort, I borrowed Benjamin’s lap top over the weekends. It worked fine at first...until I tried to TELEPORT. Yes, it hanged the lap top.

Sadly, my Second Life was spent and explored on the Orientation Island. Still, I tried to make the best of it and get some screenshots while watching my avatar drive cute vehicles, attempting to talk to strangers, getting shocked by other avatars falling from the sky then landing right in front of me and sitting on huge grey rats and then not knowing how to get up! It was really funny.

My Avatar: You Can Call Me “Nicki Cazalet”

I was amazed at how many different characteristics of the avatar I was able to edit to my liking. Being rather boring, I decided to attempt to just create an avatar that looked like me. However, it was more difficult that I had expected! In other words, it is much easier to create an avatar that does not resemble your real appearance.

I edited nearly everything from skin color, height, hair length, and hair volume to clothing, thickness of lips and removing the eye shadow. I dressed myself in a top of my favorite color and put on a simple pair of three-quart jeans. Even after nearly 20 over minutes of editing the avatar’s appearance, I was left with something that still didn’t quite look like me. When I was done, I asked my classmate Wei Yang if it looked like me and he replied, “It’s O.K., but you have lesser hair volume.” And so, it was back to editing the avatar again! It was pretty fun in some sense. However, the final avatar did look much better than the default avatar which had way too much make-up on! Scary…


(UPDATED!! -- Successful teleporting! Finally.)

Screenshots:



Grand Prize: This is Nicki Cazalet posing as a DJ in some club area found in Osaka, Japan. I think this photo and place is really cool. I have always felt that being a DJ looks really fun, just that I've never tried it before. Well, not until Second Life...Thus, this is my favorite place I've chosen!





Second Prize: This is Nicki Cazalet in beautiful Venice. Lovely...

Third Prize: This is Nicki Cazalet enjoying life in Hawaii...

All in all, Second Life was really pretty fun. Well, apart from the occasional lags and many technical problems. I also took a while to get used to navigating my avatar around the place. I think that if these areas could be improved on, it would make our second lives much better.