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Old 02-11-2010, 02:56 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by virrginia tombola View Post
What's right in Second Life is not the increasingly glitchy platform with its idiosyncratic creation tools, but the people.
Well, its gotten less glitchy actually, but yes, content creation in Second Life is a lot like building a ship in a bottle. But it's getting less so lately. Most good content creators worth their salt are mainly developing in external programs. The idea that you have to work inworld is a builders bias, not a bias from people who create textures - who always had to work in external tools.

Ultimately, its the people who just hang out and do stuff, not just content creation, who really matter. Social butterflies matter a great deal too.
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