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- CaptainNoPants, on 10/12/2007, -16/+217$50,000...for absolutely nothing of any real value. What a waste.
- davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -7/+92Why do stupid people seem to have so much money to throw away?
- senorcool, on 10/12/2007, -9/+65So...can you get high in the virtual Amsterdam?
- Renton, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57"A fool and his money are soon parted"
- JoshuaH, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52Damn...I thought it was real, and Pirate Bay had bought it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40"The overwhelming majority of the shops in Second Life's Amsterdam sell sexual merchandise. And avatars posing as streetwalkers hang around near the train station, openly soliciting cybersex-for-pay with any avatar who stands still for a few minutes and many walking through."
wtf is going on in this game?? - alanflores, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39i cyberagree. maybe less than a cybermonth, id say..
- iwanttodiggthis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38An excellent investment. Every day more than 50,000 cybermen visit this cybertown to see a little cyberbooty. I predict that the cyberbuyer will recoup his cybervestment in less than a month.
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Wo0T Since when can you buy Gallons of Mountain Dew?!?!?!!1!!
- xcheats, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35Yeah. ^"Same exact thing, but different." (Rolls Eyes).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Everyone login and let's trash it.
- PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I'm not that pathetic. I drink liters.
- sonaro, on 10/12/2007, -20/+43Can't the be said about Digg or Google? It's intangible. There are people frequenting a virtual area, that means you can profit from it. Same exact thing, just different.
- raithetarkon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24that has 50 grand to blow? Sorry... I don't think thats it.
- SamsLembas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23More importantly, where are they? I have some stuff to sell....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Judging by the picture that has a random person floating in the sky, it's a city that defies the laws of physics, so the $50,000 -might- have been justified...
Might. - draebor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Schmoke and a pancake?
- starguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+181. Put up some chunk of world from your failed cyberverse for sale, for some ungodly amount
2. Have your friend (a second account) "buy it", but no actual money is exchanged, only a small percentage in fees paid to ebay for the transaction cost (think of it as cheap marketing). Unemployed people living off their credit cards who hang around on Digg all day, bust a nut over this outrageous stupidy, and cluck like hens over the absurdity. Suddenly though they are all pouring into a cyberverse they've never heard of, to see what its about. End up staying and spending $19.95 each to buy a few credits to pimp out their avatar with something other than the default orange jumpsuit and brown shoes so they won't look like an escaped convict noob.
3. (you know it was coming, what can I say...) Profit! - fcekuahd, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Yeah, it should be called NO LIFE instead. What a bunch of ***** losers.
- Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19It might not be anything real, but it does have value.
And I bet the owner will make that money back in no time with all those hookers there! - pennvneff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16You know what's a fun game? First Life.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'm stuck on level three :(
- raithetarkon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Since you know... the netherlands was a country, and even before that.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13What else would it be?
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12people in secondlife have guns that shoot penises, jetpacks are not much more complex.
- fpssledge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11This is very interesting, because there was a digg submission that stated how ebay was no longer going to allow "virtual" goods to be sold on ebay. It was a few months ago. I'm surprised this was allowed.
(I am not saying it should or shouldn't be, but merely pointing it out.) - chronodev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11link to ebay auction
http://cgi.ebay.com/Amsterdam-Sim-in-Second-Life_W0QQitemZ160098805353QQcategoryZ4596QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - EvilFerret, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Throw away? I haven't played Second Life, but from what I understand you can charge *rent* to people who visit your land.... The person who bought it made a business decision with hopes of making a profit from his investment.
- LordZodd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That's better than the $24 that Peter Minuit paid for that "New"-fangled place.
- MattyLite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Lol, sounds like a cheap way to make a ton of money. You ruined the joke though . . . you're not supposed to actually have a step 2, let alone a good one.
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7as silly as second life is, it is a HUGE step towards something big. go read Snow Crash and draw your own parallels. the Metaverse is coming!
- shanesemler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Sigh. It's like spitting in the wind here with all the idiots who clearly have no clue what they are talking about but I'll say it anyway: Second Life isn't a game any more than the rest of the internet is a game.
- l2OI3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Spot on starguy. Your probably right because it was bought as a BuyItNow and I can't imagine any item that expensive getting buy it now-ed with no previous bids in the first place.
- Jeral, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Unless, of course, Mommy is still paying him $20 dollars a week allowance to clean his room and he has a savings account that he's been holding on to since he found out that, no, his virtual reality helmet friend thought he was just as dull as real people did... then maybe...
- goosman99, on 10/12/2007, -20/+24No, it has a value of $50,000 obviously. *you* might not pay $50,000 or even $0.50, but that does not mean that the value is less than the $50,000 that was paid for it.
Second Life may not hold any value for you, but some of us are doing productive things in it. Some of us are also getting paid for what we're doing in it. Real money, US$ kind of money. If "virtual" currency has "no real value" why are the Chinese so up in arms about the QQ? It's no different than Linden Dollars. There's probably even a QQ to Linden exchange, but I'll leave it up to someone else to verify that. - returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I am waiting for the next SecondLife post on Digg,
"Guy sells virtual Amsterdam he bought for 50k to News Corporation for 100 million, then buys Digg and redirects it to goatse" - voyvf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7considering that everyone in secondlife can fly, jetpacks are sort of redundant. just my opinion, though.
@turpenine:
guns that shoot penises are old hat - they have dancing penises that follow you, as well.
i suppose one could call them "*****-tails" :D - xnyhps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5About 1306.
- wiremonkeymommy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4hangout in SL for any length of time and you'll meet a lot of "non-techie everyday people" that have some extra time to kill socializing, and don't think twice about spending a couple hundred a month on doing the same thing they do in meatworld; buy new furniture, clothes, gadgets, anything that will better represent their identity and impress others.
it's a business model, can you grok that? - aussieaubs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4you could have bought 5 google shares :)
what a waste of $50,000!! the guys a knobhead!! - bastardo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Interesting. Amsterdam is where the Tulip craze and financial crash began.
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5People pay money for something they enjoy. Is it that hard to believe people enjoy SecondLife? Why 20 years ago people were playing text-adventure games for fun.
- superfuzzyazn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7WOW is a bit different.
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4People give the place value. Ever heard of traffic and advertisers? Digg must be filled with idiots to digg such a stupid comment up.
- sizbo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@night141
'There's more than one way to get high, baby.' - TechTraction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're absolutely correct. There is no way to verify the $50,000 transaction ever took place. Was the transaction real and the original report legitimate news reporting or is the whole thing a promotional scam? Sorry...I'm going with the promotional scam because I really want to believe that people are smart enough to NOT pay $50,000 for nothing.
- andysa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And the buyer has an ebay rating of zero? I'm a bit suspicious that the sale won't actually go through.
- sheonger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Have you played it? The craze is that it's a profitable game; much like life is a profitable game, hence the name of the game is second life. People make money on this game and enough to the point where they can make a living off of it. Of course you don't '*****'ing understand it, cause you don't care to. I don't care to play it cause I can't sit in front of a computer all day.
- PEteandPEte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i sure as ***** dont understand the whole second life craze.....whooo, let me tickle this chicks action ***** to talk to her......yup
- topace3000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Buried for Second Life.
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