Comments on: Super-cranky old fart http://thefatguy.com/2008/04/super-cranky-old-fart/ Not-A-Pundit: Just a guy writing about food, music, books, and tractors Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jane http://thefatguy.com/2008/04/super-cranky-old-fart/#comment-459095 Jane Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:26:48 +0000 http://thefatguy.com/?p=6061#comment-459095 Web 2.0 and serious gaming, baby. A lot of it is the emperor's new clothes and a fatuous wankfest(not to mention pixelated penis attachments), but there are some actual, real, concrete benefits to virtual world use...eg, a college in a city growing too fast to manage infrastructure and with real estate costs through the roof has 25 instructors conducting classes in Second Life, and it works fine. NASA has private areas where they do 3d modelling for projects. One state is so desperate for IT workers that it's conducted a virtual job fair. And all that means $$$$ to developers that aren't smoke and mirrors types like Electric Sheep Company. Plus there are no wrinkles in SL...if that isn't reason enough to have an avatar, I don't know what is. Web 2.0 and serious gaming, baby. A lot of it is the emperor’s new clothes and a fatuous wankfest(not to mention pixelated penis attachments), but there are some actual, real, concrete benefits to virtual world use…eg, a college in a city growing too fast to manage infrastructure and with real estate costs through the roof has 25 instructors conducting classes in Second Life, and it works fine. NASA has private areas where they do 3d modelling for projects. One state is so desperate for IT workers that it’s conducted a virtual job fair.

And all that means $$$$ to developers that aren’t smoke and mirrors types like Electric Sheep Company.

Plus there are no wrinkles in SL…if that isn’t reason enough to have an avatar, I don’t know what is.

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