So I found… I … [edit] saw this:
The official description from Google Video:
Operative J enjoys a night on the town. Sung to the tune of “Wolf Like Me” by TV ON THE RADIO
Those of you with the ability to offer analysis need no further encouragement to do so. I am looking forward to your comments.
By Osprey Therian
The current First Look viewer lets us see the early stages of the incorporation of WindLight into Second Life.
Look, I KNOW “We Are The Strange” has nothing to do with this blog, but LOOK MAN:
Coming August 2007!
-Free viewing on Youtube
-High Def digital download for sale
-Special edition DVD for sale
-Mobile drive in movie theater U.S. tourAdd We are the Strange to yer myspace! Help support independent animator weirdo’s!
http://myspace.com/wearethestrange1
Please scare everyone you know by sending them this trailer XD
Dewd? Seriously? I’m booking August off. This is what I’m doing in August. I’m watching “We Are The Strange” until all of my braincells simultaneously detonate.
by Onder Skall
This post officially marks the fact that I’m sick of holding back on cool gaming stories. If it’s a good story about online gaming, it goes up at Second Life Games. It’s official. I’m putting my foot down. My house, my rules. You don’t like it, there’s the door. You know, when I was your age … what was I writing about again? OH YEAH! FREE MMO!
NCSoft, makers of Lineage, City Of Heroes, and Guild Wars, have released Dungeon Runners. Free download, free to play, still not sure how they’re making any money although I’d bet it’s a micro-transaction deal like Habbo. I’m going to play it this weekend, I’ll take a few screencaps, and I’ll give you some first impressions.
[This article was originally published in Metaversed.com by 57 Miles, who I hope doesn't kill me for copy/pasting it here but it's right up our alley. BTW, that Things To Do group is really active and really great, I definitely fully endorse it!]
Despite vehicle related experiences in the virtual world of Second Life leaving much to be desired, at best, Renault F1 went ahead and launched a Go-Kart track last week. The Things To Do group, which is free to join for anyone looking to have fun exploring Second Life with friends, donned crash helmets and leathers yesterday evening for an hour of race track mayhem.
Despite the odd, jerky movement of the karts, odd behavior of crashed vehicles and general clumsiness of the simulated go-karting experience, members of the Things To Do group that attended loved the whole experience. I think this goes someway to proving what Second Lifers instinctually know: It’s all about people. It was fun because of the company, and the shared experience of trying to control the karts and race against each other. Certainly bloggers Gillian and Veejay seemed to enjoy themselves as much as I. “57′s virtual driving license has been revoked for trashing and drunk driving” said Veejay, who was admittedly quite a bit better at it than I 
By Osprey Therian
METAL Photography Contest Awards
Robot judges Alonso and Ned announce the winners of the METAL photography contest at the Photography Studio of Grignano. At the Photo Studio there’s always a contest or the exhibition following a contest. Next one has a steampunk theme, and will be announced soon.
by Onder Skall
Oh mercy! Lawd lawd! You’ve just got to check this one out, it’s precious! MyrtleBeachOnline published this article called “Keeping ‘virutal’ world at bay“. Right away you know you’re in for it… we stopped putting ‘virtual’ in quotes years ago.
He starts off with this wonderful line: “I didn’t watch all of them (I’m not that much of a geek), but the “Matrix” movies…” Wait wait WHAT? You have to be “that much of a geek” to watch three movies?
It gets better.
Seems while those of us with lives weren’t paying attention, up to 6 million of our friends and neighbors have (voluntarily!) signed up for “Second Life,”
Dude, just think for a second. If 6 million people are doing something, and you don’t approve, which one of you probably doesn’t understand the situation? You or the 6 million?
They don’t have to think about a mortgage or bills or neighbors. They had a similar technology years before computers came along, but they called it “beer.” I should know. I was what they call in the industry an “early adopter” and have now reached coveted “expert status.”
So kids, remember this for future reference: beer is better than computers! Stop clicking and start drinking!
Apparently this guy thinks that the music in the background of The Sims is “creepy”. He must crank the volume up to 11 whenever “You Are My Sunshine” comes on the radio. Check it out for a good laugh!
I found these here, got attacked by griefers, orbitted them, forgot to buy any of the costumes. Anybody have pictures of themselves in these?
by Onder Skall
I found this cool image (click for original) of a city from Digital Blasphemy (go there, buy a membership, it rules). I probably don’t have the rights to it or anything. He’ll probably sue me. Oh well.
Anyhow, I brought it into Photoshop, tweaked it, took a picture of my avatar, tweaked THAT, did about a hundred little adjustments… and voila:
Click the image above for a giant 1600×1200 wallpaper version.
It’s cool, but it’s still not uber… next time.
Best machinima rock video ever. Holy. I’m starting to think that Decomposing Monstre is my favorite machinima director.
You might remember his previous Fox Atomic contest winner:
Found this sweet shop filled to the brim with oldie gaming memorabilia. It’s called 8bit and I highly recommend a visit if you’re looking at fixing up the place a little. After several attempts at fighting grid crashing I got the SLurl for ya.
Hamlet wrote me hoping I could direct SLG readers to his post to get people to write in. I said no WAY man, no WAY am I directing people to his post just so people can suggest what game I should write about! And then we got into this big fistfight which you can see here and there were some explosions and earthquakes and lightning shot out of my eyes and Godzilla was there with his posse and then gravity reversed and then I did my cool victory pose:
by Onder Skall
Well at the risk of this becoming “video day”, I have another video for you. I was contacted today about the second video.
I never was able to get enough interest going about ARGs in SL to start a group, but I did come across more than one clandestine organization operating in SL. I have a policy, however, of not revealing people’s secrets. Let’s just say that the world is far stranger than it appears on the surface.
Meanwhile, I really do wish I could sign up as a Neurocam operative. Hooray for intrigue for its own sake!
Oh, here’s the vid:
#1 (no longer on the site)
#2 (currently up)
You know what… screw bug fixes. This looks damn good. About time the sky got a little beautified.
