{"id":24,"date":"2006-10-07T23:45:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-10-09T00:17:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T23:17:16","slug":"second-life-another-excuse-why-i-need-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Second Life &#8211; another excuse why I need a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Second Life<\/a> for the first time today. It is mentioned fairly often at work (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/developerworks\/blogs\/page\/Turbo?tag=virtual_worlds\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mention of Second Life on an IBM blog\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2006\/09\/21\/ibm_secret\/\" title=\"Article on The Register\" target=\"_blank\">there<\/a>, or pretty much any post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eightbar.co.uk\/\" title=\"Unofficial blog for some IBM Hursley guys interested in Second Life\" target=\"_blank\">eightbar<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kinda amazing how much time you can spend without actually doing anything! \ud83d\ude42  It&#8217;s been a while since I played <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_person_shooters\" title=\"Wikipedia reference: First person shooters\" target=\"_blank\">games like Quake<\/a>, so I spent quite a while on &#8216;Orientation Island&#8217; and &#8216;Help Island&#8217; to get the hang of the various controls, and customizing my avatar. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I realise that I&#8217;m joining this party kinda late, but in my defence I don&#8217;t have a PC at the moment. In fact, I was borrowing a PC to be able to give it a try today. I have been aware of Second Life for a while, but it was interesting to see what everyone has been talking about for myself. <\/p>\n<p>I need to get a PC, though &#8211; the computer I borrowed today was about 4 years old, and definitely not a gaming machine. Even after turning down all the graphics settings down to the bare minimum, it was still a fairly painful experience at times. <\/p>\n<p>Time to buy a new PC, then? It&#8217;s educational!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried Second Life for the first time today. It is mentioned fairly often at work (see here, there, or pretty much any post on eightbar). It&#8217;s kinda amazing how much time you can spend without actually doing anything! \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s been a while since I played games like Quake, so I spent quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}