Newt Gingrich, who may very well become the next President of the United States, has a second life. No, I don’t mean his second life as a lobbyist, I mean literally, a second life.
Second Life isn’t simply a virtual realm where people starve horses, troll others having sex, and traffic in counterfeit groovie-goolies sex devices. No, it’s also a network through which gangs discuss and plot their evil deeds, says none other than the Eff Bee Eye.
The Humvee drives down a crowded street in a foreign land. A child waves. Merchants display their wares. Suddenly soldiers raise their rifles as a suicide bomber runs into the street, detonating his lethal package. This is virtual PTSD therapy.
We’ve seen the Burning Man Festival, the World Trade Center and a lot of weird sex stuff recreated in the virtual world Second Life. A recreation of the 1955 Montomery Bus Boycott? That’s new.
A law passed in Oklahoma provides for executors to access social media accounts and, presumably, distribute their holdings. So if you don’t write out that will with LegalZoom, a judge will decide who gets your Second Life counterfeit fuck coffin.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival isn’t showing just one movie about gaming culture. It’s showing two. There’s French thriller Black Heaven with its naked bottom and now this, R U There with its awkward elevator propositioning.
