Never played Second Life. So would detonating a "nuke" actually cause "property" damage? Would it wreck the Reebok store in question? Or is nothing more than a temporary strain on the server and player video cards?

A nuke, huh? Now I'm almost considering getting an account just so I can make an Orbital Particle Cannon of Doom script.

@Doctor Proctor

Agreed. The problem is that it is a catch 22 situation, it is a cycle that media consistently passes through, in fact, I'd almost say it's a defining factor of popular media. The cycle works something like...

1. New idea is created.
2. People discover and spread new idea as something different.
3. New Idea is commercialised.
4. Idea is now just another mainstream commercial product with associated Junk mail, Club Card and prolific advertising.
5. Return to 1.

o_O?

Virtual oppression and virtual terrorism? What's next? Virtual divorce court and virtual custody suits if someone virtually adopts one of the younger residents? What is the virtual world coming to??? I thought that the whole point was for it to BETTER than this one...not just some crappy knockoff that you have to pay monthly fees for.

@cyde weys

"better because it's politically motivated"- So, it's ok to behave like an immature jack@$$ if you're doing so for "The Cause"?

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wtf. o_O

To me, SL is just a visual chat forum with graphic, animation, and good clothing. I go there because I'm a part of the fury community- and not in the sense of the people who dress up in fursuits, just the guys who draw stuff like Bugs Bunny and similar things. I just talk. That someone gets riled up over virtual economy and real estate, just doesn't seem logical.
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Incidently, I did see a homage to the Phlying-Phallus incident playing out at Rainbow Tiger Canyon. I laughed hard.

Some of these people seem to take the game much more seriously than reality.

SL if nothing more then a giant cpu eating version of MSN messenger. Though i still like my Chief aramaki Avataur. Perhaps i should finish my section 9 team and then mobilize them.

Second Life was a terrible community to begin with. The biggest three staples are dance clubs, casinos, and stores. Now count in that about 3/ths of all of those are sex-related. Not to say that there aren't cool places to see, but to do anything in SL you either need money to buy the stuff, or time to learn how to make it.
The best you can do is find a niche community and stick with them and only them.
If you like to shop, you'd better pump money into the game because the economy is retarded. If you like to roleplay, well you'll probably end up in a Gorean RP area where it's pretty much a BDSM heavy Lord of the Rings (I shit you not).
If you just want to shoot people, well you're in luck. there's freebie weapons and crap all over the place and then you just head to a weapons sandbox and go crazy.

The only redeeming quality of the game is building.

I'll tell you now, the worst a nuke could do is lag some people who are trying to walk around. If it was really bad the sim (chunk of land) would crash for a few minutes and come back. On very rare cases will a sim crash cause any damage at all. Maybe a few objects will be gone but they can be respawned.

Maybe these people should stick with their first life, and not even get a second life. Why pay for clothes you will never wear :S

Wow thats cool! Its like V for Vendetta! SL doesnt look that appealing to me, but it does look like you can do whatever you want.

Isnt that cool though? On one side you have the elitest players that are unfair to everyone else, and on the other side, the rebels!! So cooooool!!!

At least you can do something about it though. How often are you treated unfairly on forums and other areas that have elitests in them? Now you get to fight back.

Viva La Reistance!

I dunno, I took a look at this issue and I didn't find it to be a big deal at all. Specifically, calling terrorism is really misusing that word. All we're talking about is people goofing around in an online game. It could be described as griefing, at worst, but it's actually better than that because it's politically motivated (rather than being done just to disrupt others' gameplay experience).

Nuke Detonation: Latest Sign of the Class Struggle in Second Life...

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Anyone here played SL? I did for a couple days, I wish I could get that time back. Talk about absolute boredom. On top of that it loaded extremely slowly (not my computer or connection's fault) and half the time textures didn't even bother showing up.

The 21st century may be a bright generation, but question is, will we live to the day we see futuristic products and weapons being made, not I doubt not (unless if we can live older and older enough).

[...] SLLA a été fondé et dirigé par Marshal Cahill. SLLA a mené de nombreuses actions plus ou moins violentes “in world”. [...]

Interesting to me. I hope someone is studying the behavior of perople in the game, because I'm sure we could learn a great deal from how people 'live' in SL. I don't feel it matters what what 'real' damage this act causes, but the fact that the SLLA used a reality-modeled response to oppression (a real-world dilemma). Fascinating!

@Cyde

It is terrorism, that isn't too strong of a word. The only reason you don't see it as terrorism is because people aren't dying, but the goal of these people is to cause terror. You said it is “better because it’s politically motivated", but you do realize that is what terrorism is all about? I find it surprising how many people do not really understand what terrorism is (not that you don't, I'm just stating a feeling here). Those same people are the ones who actually think we can win the "war agaisnt terror". That is so silly. I saw someone mention V for Vendetta in these comments earlier, and while that may be a movie or comic, depending on who you are and what you like more, there is a good point in it. Terrorism, for good or bad (yea i said good, it is a prespective thing, depending what side of the terror you're on) it is an idea. And you can never kill an idea. So as long as people are around, you'll have terrorism. So I am not surprised this is appearing in SL. But hey....SL sucks...so whatever :)

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