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3 Cool things in Second LIfe
Surfing- While I was in Spain, I stumbled upon a surfboard. This was funny, you could actually surf. It was more like I was just hovering on top of the water and moving around, still fun nonetheless.
Skydiving- Again in Spain, they have a place to skydive. Not super cool, but kinda funny. Your avatar sits in a chair on this platform. Then you pick how high you want your avatar to go and hit START, your avatar is lifted into space to this height, then it free falls for a bit. You can't see much from the skydive until you get closer to the flying level and you can't make your avatar really do anything crazy while your up there. I thought this was fun still and funny to think that someone designed this to be like skydiving, eventhough the part of skydiving that is supposed to be fun is absolutely impossible to replicate in a 3D environment. What is the point of doing things like this? There is no adrenaline rush, no sense of freedom, no freefalling or floating, and you cannot see the amazing panoramic view of the world below. Why not just go skydiving if you want to skydive?!!! 
Campfire- This campfire was on the beach in Spain also. Your avatar can sit back and relax next to it with others and chat. Again, I find this kinda funny. I have grown up in a family that loves to camp and be outdoors, this beach campfire in no way replicates what it is like to sit around a campfire with family and/or friends and share stories and food and good times. Its so goofy to me to do these types of things that require a real world environment in a 3D world that can in no way give the same feelings as if they were done in real life.
Surfing- While I was in Spain, I stumbled upon a surfboard. This was funny, you could actually surf. It was more like I was just hovering on top of the water and moving around, still fun nonetheless. 
Skydiving- Again in Spain, they have a place to skydive. Not super cool, but kinda funny. Your avatar sits in a chair on this platform. Then you pick how high you want your avatar to go and hit START, your avatar is lifted into space to this height, then it free falls for a bit. You can't see much from the skydive until you get closer to the flying level and you can't make your avatar really do anything crazy while your up there. I thought this was fun still and funny to think that someone designed this to be like skydiving, eventhough the part of skydiving that is supposed to be fun is absolutely impossible to replicate in a 3D environment. What is the point of doing things like this? There is no adrenaline rush, no sense of freedom, no freefalling or floating, and you cannot see the amazing panoramic view of the world below. Why not just go skydiving if you want to skydive?!!! 
Campfire- This campfire was on the beach in Spain also. Your avatar can sit back and relax next to it with others and chat. Again, I find this kinda funny. I have grown up in a family that loves to camp and be outdoors, this beach campfire in no way replicates what it is like to sit around a campfire with family and/or friends and share stories and food and good times. Its so goofy to me to do these types of things that require a real world environment in a 3D world that can in no way give the same feelings as if they were done in real life.
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