Location: Dominus Motor Company

I’ve had some driving lessons, and well, it was time. Dominus Shadow: the one-and-only standard for muscle-cars in Second Life.

Yes, materialistic as all get-out, and as pictured the very same “fake American dream” that so many of my countrymen and women try to make in SL. I love to criticize the MacMansions and crappy plastic SL suburbia that replicates the worst of our real American experience.  Now, here I am in a dream-car I’d never afford in the real world, but as Emerson put it “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.“ The new ride is my treat-to-self this year as well as a first SL birthday present.

Being so “car proud” I had to invite anyone online to stop by to see it.  Cynthia (in her cowboy hat) and Tenchi (in a wild demonic outfit and a “Fast and Furious” 2007 Mustang) popped over. I discovered—Tenchi will cover this in a column soon—that Pontiac is leaving SL at year’s end: their return on investment was not good enough to justify expenses for their well regarded Motorati racing track and car-related builds in SL.

Cynthia and I tried a lap there—she was smoking me with her motorcycle—until both of us “fell off the edge of the world” when we hit a boundary for an area requiring age verification, the first one I’ve encountered in SL.  My Dominus vanished, as did Cynthia’s bike, and we were both tumbling through space wildly as a message stated that we did not have permission to enter.  Some race!  Such problems help explain why so many people try SL for a while and leave; the illusion of reality to still too illusory.

But enough of Scrooge. I hope everyone has a bright and merry holiday season. Whatever spiritual tradition you follow, or if you follow none at all, be kind to your friends, real and virtual, as we celebrate a season of peace and light.

And smoking tires and shifting gears. I’m off to the track.  This thing drives itself!

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We’ll find another place to have a race. Age verification - pffff! I’m old enough to drive a virtual car! :D

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