Location: None of Your Business

I’ve often wondered about the “weapon” pictured in this photograph.  The fake world of Second Life®  Liberation Army set off a bunch of nukes in the American Apparel’s now defunct store (they are not reading this so I won’t bother with the stupid “®“  that Linden Lab®  so loves now).

As the photo shows, the ultimate weapon in SL™ can orbit all the avatars in a location, pushing them far up into the virtual stratosphere.  Such victims must then log off and on again. A student reports that a friend suffered this fate. I still need to have it done to me.

“Push” really sounds fun—I think that the Linden Lab® people did this to me at their last Town Hall, when I kept insisting that I should get into the crowded arena. I was suddenly flung through entire regions at supersonic speed…it was rather fun. I did manage, eventually, to sneak back into the gathering disguised as a gorilla, but I digress.

“Sim Crash” is a nasty thing indeed. The virtual nuke will produce enough visual special effects to paralyze the processor of the computer that runs that particular region of SL™ so it must reboot.  That means the entire region (sim) shuts down and everyone there is banished, probably with the SL™  client crashing so they must log on again.

Of course, most of what I describe would certainly make one a SL™ griefer.  But one sleeps safer at night knowing that ultimate retaliation is only a few clicks (and many thousands of LInden Dollars™ ) away.  I simply must have one!  I do wonder if sims that turn off scripting (a rather heavy-handed tactic) could escape the atomic fury of this weapons…no scripts, no big kaboom?

The fun one could have!  I like furries just fine; Goreans creep me out (gentle readers, if you don’t know what they are, Google the term).  Let’s nuke ‘em!  I need some vengeance for the time I’ll never get back again after trying to wade through one of John Norman’s books in my teens…

What IS Option #3?  Can you RIDE a fake nuke down to atomic oblivion, as Slim Pickens’ character (Major T. J.  King Kong) did in Dr. Strangelove?

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