Comments on: Buzz : Avatar Puppeteering in Second Life®

By: Takuan

Takuan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:52:30 +0000

Oh, hell yeah!

Besides that, the ability to actually have an opponent appear to get hit would be nice, actually get a little knock-back from a strong hit

And my personal favorite of all… Aikido-like disarm and throwing techniques!

By: Zero Gee

Zero Gee — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:34:10 +0000

All I can think about are the cool possibilities for finishing moves with this!! Interactive nut cruncher move!!

By: Takuan

Takuan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:05:59 +0000

does this opensim / realxtend stuff mean there will be a potential competitor or alternative to SL?

Yes, it does, and I’d be willing to bet very large sums of money that in many ways it will be superior to Second Life. Certainly in the area of not having to have 100% backward compatibility, and being able to make changes for the good of the system in the early days without people screaming their heads off about “breaking content”.

In many other ways, though, such as being “where everyone is”, I think Second Life will win through intertia more than anything else. Well, that and the fact that I have yet to hear any solid plans from the OpenSim community (OpenSim is all Open Source, hence the name) about how they intend to protect privacy or foster a solid “economy”.

You should follow up on those links if you are so inclined, there’s lots of information about it there, and much of it is pretty interesting stuff.

By: Kasumi Hashi

Kasumi Hashi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:12:58 +0000

Please forgive my ignorant non-techy question, but does this opensim / realxtend stuff mean there will be a potential competitor or alternative to SL? I guess its lazy to ask you instead of doing a bunch of surfing, lol… but I’m anxious for the next thing that isn’t SL but like it to pop up (I bet you can guess why).

By: Takuan

Takuan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:28:40 +0000

So, yeah… While I have been known to gripe about LL adding new features while the grid is still unstable… This is one of the features I’d just LOVE to have.

It’s almost enough to make me wanna spend some “quality time” alone, haha. Okay, not quite, but you get my point.

Speaking of “quality time”, though, can you imagine what Stroker Serpentine would do with this kind of capability?

By: Malachi Rothschild

Malachi Rothschild — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:05:03 +0000

*removes his jaw from the ground and carefully reattaches it to his skull*