Where Politics And Video Games Collide

Here I see a bunch of adult gamers going back and forth about what kids may or may not like...because, you know, they're experts in that sort of thing. It may surprise you fellows to know that minors are real people too, rather than the legion of ADHD robots some people think them to be. Judging by the fact that I made both main grid AND teen grid accounts when I was just 16 years old, I would say that SL does not try particularly hard to verify one's age. The only reason I stopped playing was because I didn't know many people and Second Life's community was bad enough that I had no intention of meeting people, so I just sat around on a friend's floating island palace fooling around with code till I got tired of it and left - like any social game, though, Second Life becomes quite playable if you've got enough friends who're also playing it.

Additionally, Second Life IS a major issue and it's about time that I've seen it addressed, since the real world has been desperately trying to root itself in SL for years. Many real-life businesses, banks, religious organizations, political groups, and even schools have official "outposts" in Second Life. It gives the game a certain air of legitimacy, and parents are more likely to hear about that than they are likely to hear about the fact that Second Life is the only MMO where you can actually purchase or even make virtual genitals for the purpose of cybersex.