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Second Life Super-Nerds Completely Miss the Point

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By Liz Miller January 31, 2007
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The point of a political protest, I always thought, was to increase awareness of an issue and make your opinions heard. So this Second Life anti-war protest makes absolutely no sense to me. For one thing, the only people who could witness this protest are the 25,000 maximum users who might have been logged into the virtual reality. For another, the only real opinion stated is that "war is bad" -- hardly a convincing argument for either side.

This video is essentially a music video of avatars with signs, inflammatory slogans pixel-rendered onto costumes. Featuring the stiffest posturing seen since the 2004 Kerry campaign, it's not hard to understand why this video has inspired so much mockery. Why can't supernerds use their powers for good? Not that I know what good is. I just know that this isn't it.

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Actually...

Posted by Anonymous User at 03:40AM February 01, 2007
...it's even more ridiculous than that... because you can only fit a maximum of about 40 to 50 people in a Second Life sim at a time... so once you have all your protesters, no one can even visit to ever SEE the protest at all! Still, if you can get a video and a bit of media coverage out of it, eh?

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Posted by Anonymous User at 10:45AM February 01, 2007
The point was to gain exposure to the issue. The fact that you have written about it and the fact that there is "so much mockery" of it essentially shows it has accomplished that.

Response to Bad Media Presentation

Posted by Anonymous User at 05:07PM February 14, 2007
If an idea is really functional then no matter who jimmies the approach that idea will survive. I wouldn't worry about dumb videos. They'll join the compost heap soon enough. Dale DeWitt
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