Elwing+Interests



I went to Club Carnage and procedied to mingle with the locals. Club Carnage is a SL dance club. The motivation for people to come and listen and dance for several hours on end is still a mistery to me. ( Music is okay. Mostly 80's rock with some new songs mixed in and they take requests.) The place has a grundgy sort of feel but a decent crowd and a male/female dance board. Overall its not the best club in SL but it has a nostalgic feel that just sticks to me. As I said I spent some small time dancing and making very very small talk with some people over a few days. Today in response to the need for material to further my web-deveolpment in the game I started to ask someone some questions. They were obviously uncomforatable and didnt respond well so I stopped asking questions. Well atleast I learned that even in Second Life people like to keep something private. I am still interested in "Night Clubs" so i will probably ask someone else in Club Carnage about ideas behind it or mabye it would be better to try a different club to have a "Clean State". People where enjoying themselves it was all free and tips arent required but given. This club is somewhat an example of an exchange culture rather than capitalist society.
 * Club Carnage - Mature http://slurl.com/secondlife/carnage/128/139/32/**



I was interested in finding a nation state on SL and it seems i found atleast a sudo nation state or atleast a hollow shell of one. The "State of Samoa" was just a tiny shack with a map and other various pictures on the inside and O'course in Monty Python tradition a FLAG! I wonder if this is just a very inthusiastic samoa-anite or actually sponsered by the government. Either way I found no literature or people inside to give me more information.
 * State of Samoa - PG http://slurl.com/secondlife/Samoa/37/178/45**



In the quest for nations in SL I stumbled on New Babbage a "commercial" Steampunk City State. This seems to be alot more common then any nations organizing on SL mabye because there are no geographiacalyy boundries? well there are a few i guess, but most of the sims that have been touting state or nation are actually just lines of shops with a common theme and yes O'course a flag. Im starting to think the only thing you need to be a state is a flag. While New Babbage was fantastic to see your old friend victorian theme grunged up and turned into steam punk I failed to see any evidence of a state besides the flag and the name. Why should there be anything else though? do these people need to be ruled? Are there any government functions that need to be preformed outside of what liden labs does to distrube money to your specfic character? Thoughts from class into my mind: The commercial has taken over and that is what I see in New Babbage just stores a theme and a flag, but the shops seem to be more locally owned and not some tentacle of a large corporate giant such as nike or Wal-Mart. The results from these small time shop owners seems to bring out some great steam punk. Although honestly Ive seen some better steampunk at more streamlined shops :P It seems like it was a bunch of shops with a flag.
 * Port District of New Babbage, a Steampunk City-State - Mature http://slurl.com/secondlife/Port%20Babbage/109/135/103**



The Free State Project - Mature http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sorens/225/161/76
So I went here and immedatily got accosted by a being in a scientfic fox outfit! Asking me if Batman was a libertairian, seing as i was dressed up as Batman. I told him no, and he left me alone, mabye a little bit to alone. As soon as he left I wanted someone to talk to also :P. So i guess i can use this time to think of questions to ask whoever comes next! Mabye After you lessen the influence of the state will you have a world that is like SL? Also ask them how they tend to seperate the public sector from the ever increasing private sector or if they wish to do that at all. Guess I scared them off with the Batman Outfit.



Welfare Island - PG http://slurl.com/secondlife/Welfare%20Island/146/225/42
Posing as Socialism while promoting the capitalist dream, keep it real welfare island, keep it real.