Chico, CA, USA

00:00:20
Corey ́s Mom Ms Franks
Before November 4, 2002, I was a woman with six kids, a husband, and a flower farm.
Our youngest son, Corey Shay, was hanging around the house and talking about moving back that day. He always had thing handed to him on a silver platter and he really didn ́t value life or his awsome young body.

00:00:55
Corey ́s Mom Ms Franks
When he left our home I saw his car
pass from our freight yard out of the corner of my eye and I wondered if he had a seatbelt on.
No kiss, no hug, no nothing. And then the power went off. I looked at my husband and said-
I hope Corey hadn ́t anything to do with this. We climbed into the truck and I held onto the door, leaning out of the window- we drove up to the roadblock and I jumped out of the truck and started running down the road to the scene that waited to hit. I saw a fireman walk towards me. I grabbed Onto his eyes with mine and asked him i fit was a blue Mazda. The name I gave my last child came from his lips: Corey.

00:01:58
Song Juliane:
My heart says much to life,
you heard it and reply
on the other side of town you called me in the night
I ́d like to take a try
The pounding of my heart
́cause I don ́t wanna feel the sadness as we part
It ́s hard to understand, now take a different way Because you ́re my best friend it ́s a shame I cannot stay I ́d like to run it back, that ́s what I ́d love to do
It ́s hard form e to feel the pain of losing you,
hard form e to feelthe pain of losing you

00:02:45
Juliane
Heron is there, hi, good to see you! So, let me think, what do I play next! Tom...?

00:02:54
Alice:
She must have all these papers and she ́s circuiting

00:02:58
Juliane
..I want to sing, I want to sing, to sing just a few songs more, but- uuuh, what do I sing?

Insert:
Jaynine, please play your new song again

00:03:12
Juliane
This is actually the nice thing about Second Life, you sing and read along the text. At least I do that

00:03:40
Song Juliane
... Regrets are gonna find the time it ́s on It wasn ́t meant to last...

00:03:55
Alice:
Easy, dog, easy, dog!

Song Juliane
I wouldn ́t trust that it would stay that way So I turned around and left
Another lovely moment in the past

00:04:25
Alice
Most people would say she ́s old, she ́s crippled, what does she have to live for? But I ́m a happy person.

00:04:33
Alice:
I..I like the fact that I ́m alive. I appreciate that, every morning that I wake up,
I think oh great, i got another day!
I see my doctor once in a while, I occasionaly see the mailman, and if I ́m lucky
Someone would deliver medicine and I get to see the person that delivers the medicine they don ́t just drop it by the door.
That ́s about it about my social life, I don ́t see anybody, I don ́t talk to nobody.
Thats pretty..pretty bad, actually.

00:05:20
Alice
In Second Life I have friends, like people I can talk to, I have relationships with people that are very personal, very intense, very close. And it ́s a lot of fun!

00.05:32
Song Juliane
Yes I ́m a traveller and I ́m fast Because it wouldn ́t last
And if I travel life too fast
I left the place..

00:05:50
I like a lot of stuff in Second Life. I ́m very sociable, I ́m shy in this life, but in Second life I ́m not shy. I like dancing, I like sitting around, talking with people, I love going out at nature, I enjoy going to concerts, life music is really fun, I like going to art galleries, it ́s just a lot of stuff to do in Second Life that I wish i could do here, in real life, but I can ́t anymore, so it ́s fun to do it in Second Life.
It ́s not a substitute, but it ́s sure a whole lot better than nothing.

00:06:25
Song Juliane
I had to find along my way
A little home, a little life
Where I just stand and smell and see A simple season, a big old tree
And something now I feel inside
A peaceful time where I ́ll just be

Was mir gefallen hat an Second Life- dass ich die Möglichkeit habe,
durch die visuele Komponente einen Raum herzustellen für die Musik,
die ich mache.
What I Liked about Secon Life ist the possibility to create thanks to the visuals a space for my music. Ich kann also jeden Tag eine andere Bühne haben, jeden Tag in anderen Welten performen, und das macht natürlich etwas mit den Leuten, es gibt ganz andere... es saugt einen schon rein.

So I can have every day a differen stage, I can perform every day in a different universe, and of course it affects people, there are different...it draws you in.

00:07:25
Juliane
Für mich ist Singen eigentlich eine sehr intime Form des Mich- Mitteilens,
denn ich wende mich, glaube ich, einem Lied so zu, in einer Nähe, die ich,
glaube ich, sonst fast kaum herstellen kann, und ich würde das ja auch nicht so singen wenn da nicht jemand wäre der so zuhört und es miterlebt.
For me, singing is a very intimate form of communicating about myself. I get so close to a song,
a kind of closeness that I normally cannot produce. And i certainly wouldn ́t sing that way if
there weren ́t somebody to listen and be a part of it.
Und dieses Miterleben ist halt schön wenn du merkst, der andere schreibt, und bewegt sich,
und erlebt das.
And this sharing is nice when you notice somebody is writing back, moving, a part of it.

00:07:50
Song Juliane
.. a peaceful time, where I ́ll just be just like you bring..

08:00
Juliane
Ich muss dafür zu keinem Veranstalter gehen und ihn angraben, bitte lass mich bei dir spielen, ich muss nicht in einer rauchigen Kneipe sitzen, ich muss nicht Equipment schleppen,
alss ich meine- das ist total bequem!
I don ́t need to beg at a venue to get on stage, I don ́t need to be in a smoky bar,
I don ́t need to carry my equipment around, let me tell you- it ́s totally comfortable!

00:08:34
Alice
I found out from being in Second Life that I don ́t want to be alone in real life. And so I really have to figure out to be a part of a community in real life. That ́s my next- a transportation, that ́s my biggest struggle, and I suppose it ́s related because if I could go places I would go to places where there are people. But when you ́re stuck in your little room- not much you can do about it.

00:09:08
Stroker
Oh, here ́s my song! I want you to hear this song.

Song:
That ́s what we ́re counting, we ́re counting right now take me right back
send me back and let me go

00:09:33
Stroker
Everyone is a model. My avatar looks like, you know, a bodybuilder.
Obviously I ́m not a bodybuilder, and I don ́t have a 12“ penis. Though in virtual reality I can have a 3 ft penis, if I wanted to,

00:10.00
Stroker/ Off Wife
Hi Honey! – Hi!
Another.. another wedding!- Another Wedding?

00:10:10
Stroker Wife
It ́s amber. It ́s not gold, it ́s amber. We had that before, I like it a lot.

00:10:25
Stroker
This is a vibrator, an the original intent of this device was to be connected to an ipod and what it does-

Through the music taht is played in your ipod it gives different vibration effects.
So I had the idea we could incorporate this into Second Life so that someone in San Antonio, Texas, could actually operate this vibrator here in Tampa.

00:11:02
Stroker
This is my virtual home, and this is my virtual wife, Fire Rain. I tell everyone I love her very much.
I love her as much as I would if she were right here beside me. She ́s happily married and I have a wife and two children. It ́s not about infidelity, even if we ́re in a commited relationship- it allows us, and I ́m sure you`ve heard before that the brain is..is the most active sexual organ. Because it ́s our imagination and the way that we express ourselves that gives us the feedom in these environments to try things that we normally wouldn ́t in real life.

00:12.00
Stroker
She ́s more of a partner than she is a wife. You know, she doesn ́t cook my meals, she doesn ́t
do my laundry, you know, she doesn ́t pick up the kids from school every day. We have virtual sex, whwnever we can, in Second Life.

00:12.37
Olibith
Alors.. il faudrait que tu marche derriere..que tu fasses un cercle. Que tu passes derriere
boIte aux lettres, toi. Stop, bouge plus, ..
Ok Kungen, I ́m gonna ask you to come closer to me,
closer to the camera. Perfect, don ́t move. I ́m conna say action- you start. You wave at me, - attention- action!..Sh...fuck. Listen, I don ́t think it ́s possible to do it right now. There ́s two guys there...What about we look out and come back in about 20 minutes? Ok, let ́s log out, sorry, man.

00:13:30
Song
One, two three four, everybody hit the floor push out, push out...

Video
You smell nice – and you look groovy
And we both like foreign movies
Mother says you have that touch of class
Well I can see a shiny future we can dialogue an nurture And there ́s one last thing that I need to ask:...

00:14.19
Obilith
I ́m never thinking of..I ́m never expecting the reaction from the audience. I ́m doing something That I would find cool, that I would like to see

00:14:31
Song
..do you take it in the ass? Do you take it in the assß Cause you ́re beautiful and curvy
But I left here kind of early

00:14.40
Obilith
Cinema is a movie, made in a virtual world. Main thing is, you have an entire new world you can play with. You hve actors you can chose, you can dress, you can change and you can animate the way you want.- Here I got the sea, I put my boat here, I made a little rain, an then I decided to have a lightning strike at the beginning of the scene, and some light effects on the boat, and the sea, and the sky around when the lightning is striking. The scene is lasting four seconds nd it took me about four hours to do this.

00:16: 32
Corey
I know it. Let ́s do it again..this is medicated really well. Think that requires a joint.

- Damn.- Look at this. Robber..putting metal on my teeth..yeah. I can beat him out sleeping taking his shit. But I don ́t have arms, so give me an engineer. I ́ll tell ya how to do it. I had the idea for seven years. Six years, actually, six years..
Wait, sit me up- yup!- those bastards in this horrible place. I hate this place.
Always getting stuck with a green dude.

00:18: 00
Corey
It ́s a fighting game, but it ́s more like an agression thing. I`ve no way of show my agression now.
So that ́s where I show my aggression. Usually I don ́t like doing people cause if I win I have to tell them and then they feel bad. It ́s that people will not explode. They wanna quit the game now, like be undone. And no dude, it ́s ok.

00:19:14
Alice
What a smart monkey!

00:19:29
Alice
No, that ́s not good, we need to do some pressing on that one.
Sometimes he gets the grammar wrong, so if I said- apple is fruit he would say- Aren ́t all fruit apple? That ́s the grammar of how he does his artificial intelligence.

00:20:02
Alice
He does pretty well, most of the time. Sometimes he screws up.

00:20:10
Alice
How about that? It helps me stand up. I ́ve never pushed it to it ́s limits, I don`t know how far
It will go. That ́s how far it will go!. – So from here I ́m moving forward my legs and put them just under me so I can just – stand like that! That ́s pretty cool!

00:20:45
Alice
A little over a year ago there were three of us who knew each other in an internet setting.
And weh ad been talking to each other why we as disabled people had a real problem,
we didn ́t feel part of the community that we lived in geographically. We decided to look at Virtual Reality, we explored a number of different VR settings and at that time Second Life was the best so the three of us came in and we started exploring in Second Life looking fort he community we desired and we couldn ́t find it. We realised we needed to make that community and we started setting up a group of people we knew. To do anything major other than have a group of people hung out toghether we would need to have a real life corporation.
So it does a group called Virtual Ability. It has an islanf called also Virtual Ability and it has a
disability- friendly orientation facility on it. Now that ́s one of the projects we ́re doing in Second Life and it ́s all about building a community of support wich we personally were looking for. So – we have it!

00:22:50
Ms Stroker
If I would go to pick out a carrer form y husband I don ́t know if that ́s what I would pick.

00:23:40
Stroker
I believe that I ́m a success because I actually use the products that I create. Not only am i a mercant but I ́m a participant.

00:23:45
Alice
Sex is one of the reasons people start coming in to Second Life. I think people who are not disabled and can have sex in real life come into Second Life for fantasy sex, an people who are disabled and de-sexed by society come into Second Life to have any kind of sex.

00:24:10
Stroker
We have a BDSM, a bondage community, and we have gorians and elfs and furries
And bondage-and –discipline communities who are VERY specific about what they want.
Those types aof animations will be done differently than, say, a typical male/female human interaction. I wouldn ́t enjoy the success that I have if I were the only one out there masturbating at these images, at these interactions.

Videoclip
Alors, avez-vous besoin de déboucher?- Ah, oui! ...

00:25:10
Stroker
I think sex lacks in World of Warcraft. The world was complete, you know, you had everything that was happening in real life, and you don ́t have sex, anywhere. In World of Warcraft you don ́t have penis or vagina, but some people are very inventive, they can pretend they are having sex.

00:25:34
Obilith
I find it very funny to make videos about it, with the characters of World of Warcraft, because it stays very soft, it ́s not that realistic and becomes funny.

00:25:50
Obilith
That ́s the award I won at the worldwide invitational for the best machinema, the best movie, best editing. No, I ́m f..cking proud of it, yeah. And they look awsome, they ́re beautiful.

00:26:10
Obilith
My main character is a gnome. My role play is a funny role play. My gnome spends his time bugging people. That ́s what I like about gnomes, ist hat they are funny, that they can make silly things and nobody will get in the way– If I were an elf there were no way form e to act like this without being called crazy. Crazy, the crazy elf. I ́m not a crazy gnome, I ́m just a gnome, that ́s all.

00:27:30
Ms Franks
...They have bread, barbecue chicken, dried salami chicken, ..

00:27:34
Corey
Roast chicken, however that sounds.

00:27:39
Ms Franks
So don ́t get that shredded barbecue chicken?

00:27:45
Corey
No more barbecue- Ok.

00:27:56
Ms Franks
It takes him until noon before he ́s ready to do anything. And I get there at seven in the morning. So for five hours he ́s trying to get out. First we just pop out of bed, stretch sometimes, you know,

run around, make our coffee, do our thing. But for him it takes five hours to get in the driver ́s seat of his life.

00:28:25
Ms Franks
I ́m on a mission! My mission is right now to get my son to the point where he can make it more on his own.

00:28:50
Ms Franks
Right now my life runs with his life. His life,my life, one life.

00:29:00
Corey
The girl at home, that means, I don ́t get to go play wild for twelve hours a day. I had to sit there watch TV.

00:29:14
Ms Franks
And run the show, and scheduling, cause we know a hospital- they schedule.

00.29:15
Corey
You do hat they want you to do. Tell you to do... or they ́re..dissapointed for you.
Here, I do what I wanna do. Thinking about doing getting colostomy bags so I don ́t know. If that happens then it ́ll be whatever I wanna get at..whatever I wanna go down.
It would cutt he restrictions off my life- and my mom ́s.

00:30:28
Corey
Oh it ́s fun to be- I never thought I would say that- but it ́s fun to be cripple. It ́s a lazy life, but it...it works.

00:31:12
Sara is 24 years old. A 24 year old woman should not bet he primary caregiver of an old woman. She should be out on her own and that would bet he best possible solution if she had a job, could be in her own appartement, and I had some help fort he things I have trouble doing.

00:31:40
Sara
I like my mom, I truely like my mom, and if she needs help, I will help her, I mean I know she ́s looked at assisted living centres and..she didn ́t like them at all and she wants to be able to
do things, and in that kind of situattion she really wouldn ́t have the ability to do so.
If I can give her what she needs, and she doesn ́t need that much- i mean, going shopping isn ́t that hard and a Stopp I have to do for myself, so i just double up and it ́s no big deal form e and it helps her so much more.

00:32:20
Alice
No, you can take your questions- can you hear m erobert? I see you as having voice activated.
This is the introduction to the pew review of open text books project. It ́s important to understand if you haven ́t taught in a while how students in university settings are taught to read a text book because this is a little different. When we were taught...

00:32:50
Sara
I remember that inbetween time when she was out of work and she found Second Life it seemed to me that the way she spoke she kind of lisped and now that she ́s talking more with people on Second Life she ́s dimming that back.

00:33:10
Alice
....You are going to have to sell yourself and your abilities to the client...
What ́s really nice about this, is, that all of the people doing this evaluation are people with disabilities. So we ́re actually training people with disabilities and their skill set that they can use to get additional employment. We ́ll be certifying tthem hat they know how to do these different kinds of evaluations.
I think that ́s really cool! And plus, we ́ll be able to pay tham a real wage. This isn ́t pretend- work,
this is real work.

00:33:55
Obilith
You start here..Damn who ist his idiot? Does anybody know thi gnome?
Tell him to leave.
Can you please tell him to move on your left. Face the camera, ok, this one is good, ok let ́s do that. Action!-great!

00:34:40
Kungen
Ok, is it on?? – Kungen, Kungen!

00:35:01
Kungen
Ok, my name is Thomas Bengtsson, and i work as a guild leader for Ensidia.

00:35:02
Ensidia- the biggest guild ever in the World..of Warcraft!

00:35:11
Kungen
The second night is like on, like BOOM: 50° Celsius, like Hi, what ́s up, blabla

00:35:15
No failure, No excuses, no life! Only the best of the best – Ensidia!

00:36:25
..he let his team down, he let his coache down, and he let himself down!

00:36: 40
Kungen
I never think about things like getting a safety core like getting a disease or breaking your leg
That will keep you from doing what makes you happy. Unless I lose my leg I will lose probably my will to live. Who wouldn ́t.

00:37:08
Kungen
Apparently, when there ́s no progress, I only log in like 5-10 hours a week, maybe.
I always love the start of extensions because then you actually have a lot to do in the game
And I always play so much that I cannot finish the extension in three weeks when it should last a year, but those weeks are fun. I ́ve been playing the game for so long now, so, if I didn ́t get money,
I would play at a lot more casual level, I would not put in so much time. I ́m too old fort hat now.
The honest answer ist hat I never want to work a normal dayjob, ever.

00:37:50
Kungen
..pump it on the bus..more friendly fire..this move from 35..it ́s the only..

00:38:16
Kungen
UUUh... first time we kill it on the first raid

00:38:24
Video
Today we ́re gonna learn – what is a raid?
A raid is a group of players going deep in the dungeon trying to ger some huge monster called the boss some precious rewards.To start a raid, you need at least a tank. This silly guy is at least a shield To protect the raid. Sure he ́s the only one that gets hurt. To keep the tank alive, it takes a bunch of healers. Their job is to heal, and to heal again. Tank eventually heals. To kill the boss, it takes a few damage dealers.
Their job is, to make as much damage per second as they can. When every player does his job, the boss dies. The rewards are distributed. You know now, what a raid is- thanks for watching!

00:39:10
Kungen
If you look at my work affair- we are No1 and then maybe some random guild is No1 and then thus again and then a new random one.
It ́s never the same, they never stay long enough on the top, so they never get the fame.

00:39:43
Kungen
I don ́t even know how it started. When I was like chilling in the town in the gamepeople started giving me more and more gold, grabbing my attention.
And then people started giving me more and more gold.
It was quite fun. I If I want gold I can just go and chill in the town and one of the horde knows what it means. I don ́t need to play the game to get gold, I could just go and press trade.

00:40:50
China
What are you doing?
Why isn ́t that small guy waking up there?

00:40:54
China
Run forward or you will get killed. The monster will trample you. Hit it! Keep on walking straight ahead!

00:41:09
China
What ́s happening?

00:41:10
China
We want this effect. Quick reanimate. Or you won ́t have enough time. Hurry, quick.

00:41:30
Corey
If I see omething on a node, a mining node, I know that tei ́r making gold. I usually don ́t talk to gold farmers, that ́s a good way to get bent.

00:41:41
China
Foreigners usually don ́t hate the professional Chinese players. Butt he foreigners believe taht we have unbalanced the game.
Foreigners only play briefly, we are playing the whole day. The foreigners organize in groups to fight us and make it hard for us to work. It ́s raining here anyway.

00:42:46
China
Why does that character hit me??

00:42:30
China
The game isn ́t hitting you, it ́s hitting the evil spirit.

O0:42 43
China
Should I play with this player? He chose some colour.

00:42:42
China
Mum accepted the quest

00:42:52
China
He asked me to be part of a group: I don ́t want this mission. I ́ll do something else.

00:43:15
China
It ́s possible to make one ́s living in World of Warcraft. To be honest you can make enough to survive in the countryside. In beijing or Shanghai you would starve.

00:43:50
Obilith
When I cross someone who is farming, I feel sad, honestly, I feel sad. Because the prices are amazing, you got 10.000 gold for 20 Euro, or something, and 10.000 gold, to me- I ́m not fond
of making gold in Warcraft- it would take me about a week to do that, five hours at night playing. That means that these people are paid less tan that. Much less than 20 Euro a week to do that eight or ten hours a day. That ́s really uncool.

00:44:45
China
In the beginning I made a lot of money with this job.
That ́s how i try to support my family. As far as the law lets me. If I won ́t work we won ́t have enough money. My mother knows that I cn ́t find a better job and that I don ́t have another choice.
She wants me to leave this job as soon as possible.

00:45:44
China
This dis his particularly practical, affordable, and quick to make.

00:45:48
China
One dy we created an account and when we started to play the game ́s company immediately blocked the account within a day. The game ́s company sent us a letter because of the Chinese IP address. They said that the account was used for illegal trading, that ́s how my account got blocked.

00:46:40
Corey
I need gold, gold! I got that bike, the motorcycle, so I traded herbs, in the game, see you can pick herbs, in the game, and then trade them. So someone loves it when you trade herbs for gold.

00:47:21
Ms Franks
It ́s so wonderful to have medicine for Corey. I don ́t have to worry about that. We couldn ́t afford it, it ́s so expensive to buy. I don ́t see how anybody does. He ́s growing clones form e for next year. So when I put my plants in they ́ll be bigger. And then we have my babies he ́s raising for next season. He decides what we grow because he ́s the main smoker. He ́s the main reason I do.

00:48:20
Video
..in that 100% of wonderburgers are made with 100% no meat! McGnomald- there ́s gnome in it! Gnome hunting is quite easy. Gnomes are predictable.

00:48:35
Obilith
That ́s my troll, my cooking troll. If you never stay tuned, you have this character that goes in

And gives some kind of cooking lesson, I did just a lesson how to catch gnomes, -That ́s not funny- Let ́s go!

00:49:07
Obilith
When the extension World of the Leech came out I had people telling me that one of my characters Was in the game and I had problems to believe that. To me the fact that it ́s a video game – and a video game that I love- it ́s huge, it ́s very important. 11 million players in the world playing World of Warcraft, that means that at least one hundred are at it right now asking for recepies from a character I created, that feels great!!

00:50:00
Stroker
What we have her eis two synchronized animations and we ́re gonna prepare these two animations For upload in Second Life. So I will go to my shop and find a suitable place – I already have a place in mind- nice open area here- i create a poster, place the animation inside the object, and set it for sale, whatever price I determine, say 100 Lindons- 100 Lindons is about 35 ct, so I have to sell a lot of animations.

00:50:51
Stroker
May I sit? Thank you.

00:50:57
Alice
I welcome you to my office which is way up in the sky above of Virtual Ability Island and I appriciate having you here this morning.

00:51:04
Stroker
Oh thank you fort he invite.

00:51:07
Alice
So we probably have to think about needs of the community and that probably will give us a hint towards what we want our outcomes the outcomes to be.
The motion capture piece is something that is of interest to us, not about sex, when I even to that part, but for dancing, we got lots of dances in Second Life that unabled body person can do.
We found a subsom of those which would work for a person in a wheelchair. If you are a person in a wheelchair in Second Life and have a partner who is a walkie there are no dances to do that and in real life there are whole competitions ballroom dancing for people who are a partner in a wheelchair and a partner standing. We ́d love to have some of those animations but so far we haven ́t been able to find somebody who can do that for us.

00:52:02
Stroker
Well, you just did.

00:52:03
Alice
Oh, that ́ll be cool. Do you dance`

00:52:05
Stroker
All I nee dis to wake and start- I like to think I can dance. Yeah, let ́s do some fun stuff, I ́d like to see some dances that put some smiles on faces.

00:52:19
Alice
Cool, that ́d be very cool.

00:52:26
Stroker
Gotta run, sorry, I have a big day plan today, Great seeing you.

00:52:28
Alice
Allright, thank you for stopping by today.

00:52:29 Stroker Byebye

00:52:40
Alice
Look at that tree

00:52:42
Sara
I like it, half dead, half alive

00:52:53
Alice
This is what the water looked like when I went to the rocks, yesterday

00:53:08
Alice
The reason why I ́m using a para wheelchair now is I ́m considered a high fall risk.
Frankly I have trouble finding words sometimes, I wout hate to be an MS neurologist, because There ́s no cure fort his disease. There ́s no way to predict what ́s going to happen, it ́s very difficult to diagnose, what kind of hope you can give your patients?

00:53:44
Alice
Sara is saying she ́s bored because I was here just one month ago and I was saying I don ́t remember.
That ́s one of the advantages of losing your mind, I guess..Experience new things over and over again, they ́re all new.

00:54:00
Alice
I like being outside, when there are other people outside, even when I ́m not interacting with them, when the kids ride by on their bicycles, or they ́re playing outsidem it ́s nice to know that you ́re not isolated in your own life. There ́s other life going on around you. I would love to have a partner.
It ́s very difficult for a peson my age to find someone. It ́s a combination of the age, the disability probably doesn ́t help any. Once I met someone, I ́m fine. But it ́s that fist Stepp that is very difficult. And when you ebven can ́t physically go out and meet someone, it ́s extremely difficult.

00:56:17
Juliane
Genau, beweg mal schnell den Kopf, bitte, ...na, du hast zu enge Hosen. Aber jetzt guck mal da unten..gut..das wird doch schön, morgen.

Exactly, now please move your head quickly..well, your pants are too tight. Now look there..good..it ́s going to be nice, tomorrow.

00:55:58
Juliane
Also wenn ich mir die Zukunft von Second Life vorstelle, vielleicht bin ich bettlägerig, ich kann nach Second Life reingehen und ich kann mch informieren, ich glaube so Dienstleistungen kann man in ner 3D Welt nocmal ganz anders abbilden. Wir fangen natürlich wie immer- sind natürlich vielleicht paar Neue hier aber wir fangen mit einem Kanon an.

When i imagine the future of Second Life, maybe I ́m bound to the bed, I can log in to Second Llife and get information, I feel service can be transformed into a 3D world in many different ways.
We begin, like usual, - maybe there are some new peoble with us, but as usual we begin with a canon.

00:57:54
Stroker
All right, let ́s start! Ok, a neutral. We are cuddling, ok lean your head like this..that way.
Keep turning.. keep turning..rock, and rock, and rock. Slow..slow...hey..au!..- i feel so ridiculous!

00:58:42
Stroker
Now Stroker pretty much covers it all. Stroke her..stroker..you get it all covered. Right?

00:59:48
Jim
Uuh. Try that.

00:59:58
Alice
Do you need a clip so you can eat without hair in your face?

01:00:00
Jim
Apparantely, yeah.
She ́s a little bit like a snail, I pull her out of the shell, weg o out and do a few things.

01:00:12
Alice
I ́m sorry..we go in your car. Sorry, oh dear..we do get that way.

01:00:27
Jim
We first met on the internet at makestart.com. You contacted me- yes- , and to be polite I said ok, I will meet you.

01:00:42
Alice
No, actually, to be polite, the first time you said ...

01:00:50
Jim
Ok... the second time i said i ́ll meet you.

01:00:55
Alice
The first time you said..he said..no thank you. And wem et in a grocery store- that was sort of a strange situation because we were going to have Starbuck`s toghether and wes at down and we were there for a long time.

01:01:16
Jim
We discovered when we got there that Strabuck ́s was inside the grocery store.

01:01:19
Alice
..which is very odd. And the we just talked.

01:01:22
Jim
We just talked, and talked, ..

01:01:26
Alice
..we found out we ́re very good friends.

01:01:28
Jim
Yes, we ́re friends. Why you contacted me, i don ́t know.

01:01:30
Alice
You should see some of the other guy ́s profiles, Jim. Oh...I ́m less bad?...Yes, far less bad.

01:02:06
Jim
Constitution of the United States. We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more Perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic quality, provide fort he common defense, promote the general welfare, and the secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.
To ordane and establish this constitution for the Unted States of America.

01:02:27
Jim
I don ́t know many people out of my head that are smarter than she is, she is very intelligent.
She knows so many things and she ́s in a situation when memory is going and she recognises that and she doesn ́t like that- she lives with it.

01:02:45
Alice
..colour ceramics include O2 which retains the structure of del...?

01:02:55
Operator
I think that was deliate, I think you had that.
I ́m not going to read the title, though, because that ́s crossed out. Let ́s change positions, and chairs. - OK.

01:03:21
Alice
..a group picture- there ́s two of us, then there ́s a group. What does that say? I don ́t know if I like that idea.

01:03:27
Jim
..not so sure either.

01:03:30
Ms Franks
Where are you? Are you the darker hair ort he lighter hair?

01:03:36
Alice
I ́m the darker hair.

01:03:40
Ms Franks
I see your name above you, sorry, I ́m a total.

01:03:43
Alice
Yes ok, we ́re all labelled.

01:03:46
Alice
I ́m to your right, which ist he right arrow. Just turn. And you can walk towards the ladies- There you go, little bit more- oh, you ́re doig well!

01:03:57
Ms Franks
I like the way I walk.

01:04:01
Alice
You have a very nice walk.

01:04:03
Ms Franks
I didnt invent it but I appreciate it.

01:04:10
Alice
And this is your podium..look at yourself. You look like you ́r giving a speech. Your hands are moving on the podium like your turning your pages, no,
your good!

01:04:21
Ms Franks
Thank you I ́m trying really hard. I ́m totally out of my comfort zone.
The only thing we have to do now is to figure out what parts of the book I ́m reading.
So I like this little part:
About a week before his accident Corey had a speeding ticket in our district, I told him
to slow down, I told him that he was precious and wonderful and well.
I told him that could change in a second. I asked him if the ticket had taught him a lesson. Yes, he said, it had. It taught him to keep a better eye for the cops. My frustration with this boy coud only be felt by another mother of a cocky young son, high in his immortality. –
I like the communication. I used to sell at the market and have a lot of social activity that way.
Now, I don ́t. I ́m beginning to catch on with it about.-
Well, I ́m going to go home, I ́m processing. I ́m going home.

01:05:53
Corey
I ́m going to fight the crazy killer dragon now. –

01:06:00
Ms Franks
You keep that in mind, make notes, and I ́ll get it, it ́s an ongoing thing.

01:06:10
Ms Franks
You know that Star Wars cartoon for adults? It looks like avatars, those people. It ́s weird.
Now that I ́ve seen avatars I ́m curious about them. –
So in his home, he has his computer, thank God. And thank God fort he World of Warcraft
And Second life, seriously. As soon as he got home, I started thinking, what does he like to do,
what does he always like to do that he still could do, that ́s when I thougt- the computer, gaming!
So we got him mine and we found that mouse stick, the same mouse stick he has today.
The thing I like most about Corey,- that he ́s always real. In the beginning I might say something like- I just don ́t understand why?- and he would slowly say: my car wrecked. I hit a pole. I broke m neck. I ́m paralysed. Now do you understand?

01:07:45
Kungen
That ́s a good one. – Right now, all the guilds are on the same two bus of space. So right now you have one, two, three- four guilds at the same point. It ́s us, Paragon, Method and Fourth Horde all on the sam e place so we ́ll see what happenes.

F..ckin idiots, we just get raped all over. It sucks so much because we almost killed it yesterday and We now have 5 new people and it takes them a long time to learn.
We recruit people with the mindset, it ́s the people that want to bet he best. So mot of these people are already really motivated. If someone in the Guild is performing badly, then they are obvious

not to be in our guild any longer. It ́s more like a relief to win because most people expect Ensidia`s No1, so if we lose it ́s really bad.

01:10:00
kungen
I ́m not happy how it ́s been going for us. We want to be world first, so it ́s bad. Getting world Second or world third, it ́s crap. I don ́t enjoy it.

01:11:04
China
I never play the game during daytime but mostly at night. The farming as well as going certain places And earning money is easier at night. At night there ́s not so many people playing.

01:11:42
China
We both were working fort he same company. We got to know each other there. At a company you ́re bound, the boss is there, you ́re not allowed to do anything else. But you ́re making more money.
At home we can schedule our time freely because nobody is checkung on us. But then again you ́re making less money. You ́re not hat focussed.

01:12:44
Some of the negtive issues are, for exmple, that my sleeping cycle got mixed up.
No matter when i go to bed, I can only sleep 4-6 hours, I ́m totally tired, but I can ́t fall asleep. I guess it ́s an occupational disease of computer games.

01:13 40
Alice
Today we have an author who is going to read from her ongoing memoir about her son Corey. Eight years ago, Corey was in a car wrack and he brocke his neck. His mother became his suporter and carekeeper. Both of them have been changed by this experience.

01:04:05
Ms Franks
Hello, I ́m going to do a reading from the book I wrote regarding my son whose experience was
spinal chord injury and the name of the book is The Lenght of a Breath. If you are looking at this or hraring from this, i wrote it for you. I was driven to make something good from this tragedy come to our lives. I ́m passionate about sharing our experience and adding a human touch to the information on spinal chord injury.-
If you ́re in a hospital or someone you love has a spinal chord injury, your world has changed.
My own life has been divided intwo parts- before, and after my son ́s injury. We ́re now at the emergency room, Enlo Hospital in Chiego. I held my hand on my son ́s heart and comforted him.
He kept talking and telling me what a lousy son he was and I told him he was a perfect son.
He told me he had broken a promise to God not to steal from me but he did it again, so God broke his neck. I told him all I ever had, or would have, was also his, he could not steal that what I give to him.
I would give everthing to him, please let my child, please, live.

01:15:25
Corey
As you can tell, Mom ́s a phenomenal writer. She ́s pretty much called her life since nineteen
and I ́m just a little chapter in it/ you ́re a big chapter, Corey/ - oh, big chapter. A hard chapter to read. But I want everybody to know at least I wanna try to start up. Someone willhelp me to get things done but pretty much with the help of everybody.

01:16:20
Alice
I come here every couple of weeks and I just sit here, it`s a calm place and just a nice place to sit.

This is a memorial made for The Sojorner. She died very suddenly over a year ago and I felt like I lost a sister and i still sometimes think I need to tell Soj about this and then I remember I can ́t tell Soj about that.

01:17:58
Alice
Jim and I used to spend every weekend toghether, we ́d spend at least one day at the weekend
And then sometimes an evening we ́d go to concerts or lectures or meetings and we spent a lot
of time toghether. Now that he has a girlfriend he can ́t spent obviously that much time with me anymore so basically I see him Thursday nights when we go to the Office for the Blind and Dyslectics so that ́s about it. We have a friendship relationship not just a partner realtionship. Relashionships take time and energy- and looking fort hat relationship also takes time, and effort. And- I can ́t.
I barely have enough energy just to live. So the energy taht I would need jut to look is more than I Sometimes think I can handle.

01:18.40
Obilith
You have to keep some time for real life when you have a family. Before I had my girlfriend an a daughter I was living at night. You know I was waking up at 3pm and sleeping at 8am. I was Watching people going to work while smoking my last cigarette and went to bed. –
If I ́m counting all my characters, I must have played about a year in World of Warcraft, but I mean really a year. The definition of online vacation! I had one year of vacation in a virtual world!
And I ́m going there, still.

01:20:25
Stroker
Heavenly father, thank you fort he opportunity to be here today, as a family, with your blessing. Bless the food that will nurture our bodies, amen.

01:20:40
Stroker Family
So you had a Second Life wedding? Did Nancy come to your Second Lfe wedding? Nancy was performing at the wedding.
Doesn ́t it bother you at all? Sometimes, depends on my mood.

01:21:37
Stroker
It ́s been very difficult, the publicity, form y family. Cybersey is very tintillating to the media,
they don ́t understand it. I have to be very responsible when it comes to my children, to my family, our privacy. Both of my children know we do adult orientated sexual animations.
They both know that Stroker not only is an avatar, but he ́s a marketing tool. So it ́s been a tough road. Although I love to party, i love to have fun, I love to be in the crowds, I ́m more of a private person, I ́m a family man, I can ́t stay away from home very long, I miss my children, my wife, beautiful, supportive, intelligent. A woman who has been with me step by step, all on the way, and they are the core of my life.

01:22:29
Ms Franks
Before the accident, I was probably like everybody else. That ́s why I keep giving people slack about it because you have no idea what it feels like. So i ́m opening up my soul and telling people-
Au! This hurts! This is horrible! This is what we did, this is our story, this came out of it.
In Second Life there are a lot of disabeled people that can ́t get out and can ́t do things and the thought there ́s a library that they can go to and just pick it up and read it is- awsome.
And maybe I can help them, that ́s the whole purpose.

01:23:40
Corey
My greatest wish for today is form my mom to be more independent, to be able to bear the strains of life. That ́s pretty much it.

01:24:56
Alice
I really appreciate that multicultural feature in Second Life, it ́s grat to have friends, and i have friends from Berlin who i got to see, that ́s really exciting.

01:25:29
Alice
This is really part of my freedom, I guess, my freedom, tha I know I can do this.