By [name classified], guest writer
Location: Classified FOB in Indonesia

My codename is Midnight Angel.

I am an avatar (the electronic form of a player in a computer game) of a night operations Delta Force commando involved in UN Joint Operations intervention of the insurgency of Indonesia.

Each day players log on to Joint Operations computer servers

and fight in an Indonesian rebellion via a first person shooter (FPS).

We carry out rescue operations of captured civilians, downed pilots and kidnapped diplomats. Strike missions where we take out or capture installations. We also do straight-out assasinations of BGs (Bad Guys) such as rebel leaders or disloyal Indonesian military officers.

Equipped with the latest technology in warfare, our operations are often complex and difficult with careful thinking and tactical teams in realtime voice communication make or break the mission.

We in the FPS world have begun to hear of Second Life.

And to think, as a military, this is what we fight for. :(

The right for academics to wear a gorilla suit and boogie. A place where people fly, create flattering images of themselves and kinda just go here and there. Oh, and talk.

Sure we joke and talk all the time, but it’s down to business and things get very exciting.

Second Life? The pulse-pounding, vein-exploding excitement of talking to perfect strangers as things you are not, while floating around like a hummingbird, dabbing hither and thither with other lost souls.

Be still my beating heart.

In my next entry, I will compare the two with specifics. . . (to be continued)

Mistopher Midnight Angel, you dun writ about the “pulse-pounding, vein-exploding excitement of talking to perfect strangers as things you are not” in yur blog fer ol’ Wiggly Onnagodadavida.

It am troo that in Secund Life HE ain’t no Go-rilla.  It am a sorta soot he puts on tu tarrify the wimmin n’ git me reachin’ fer my scatturgun. I cain’t stand no kritturs (‘cept dawgs).

But let me ax yu: am YU a reel speshul-farces feller in reel life?  Yu sez whut yu duz am a game. . .what Secund Life IS am dee-baterbull fer some SLers, (but fo’ me EBBERYTHANG AM A GAME).

In reel life I did drink me a mess o’ Shine n’ store-likker before I got stuk in the fake wirld o’ SL.

Soennyhow, if’n you ever gits tired o’ shootin’ stuff, make yersef up an avamater fer Secund Life n’ I will show yu wun grate time.  If’n yer avamater am a gud-lookin’ feller (cuz Pappy am long on charm but short on looks) I kin evun interduce yu tu sum purty gals hoo will bee rite anxshush to meet a feller in (o’ out) a uniforms.

Wun gal I met wares hersef a uniform made out o’ chokerlate.  Now THAT am a soot tu make a feller kum tu attenshun.

Hope yu kills sum tourorists an’ pree-vents tourism in Indianamnesia fer us po’ civvylions.  I’m a-rootin’ fer yu.  I don’t wants no tourism in Secund Life.

Pappy.

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