12.13.2006 BIG BROTHER SECOND LIFERS CAGED & BURNED
Ok, so I've never played Second Life for more than 10 minutes in my life, but I have a good idea of what it's like. That being said I read the two interviews on the event and I still can't quite picture how things played out. First of all, Big Brother is the most reality TV show you could ever watch, and I shamefully follow it every year in America, and this year even torrented the UK one for a while. Imagine living in a house of people for 2 months and never being allowed to leave or watch TV. They damn near kill each other and it never gets old to me - this year in UK a womanly gay male contestant on the show attempted to seduce a towering manly homosexual for a week straight before having repeated mental breakdowns filled with tears, which ended in him giving up and walking out of the house, thus giving up his chances at winning a ton of money.
Sound crazy? Evidently this is nothing compared to Big Brother online . . .
Second Life recently teamed up with Big Brother makers Endemol to bring the game to the internet, where instead of having no life and sitting in a house all day with others, residents would abandon their freedom by doing it online. They rolled out the red carpet and welcomed the chosen contestants, but wait - where's the security? The Big Brother TV show began in the Netherlands where the relaxed media laws allowed for quite the televised orgy that it quickly progressed to (exactly what got it banned from Australia earlier this year). Well in full cycle, the Netherlanders who made Big Brother famous on TV have now made it famous on the internet, because a few Second Life players from the Netherlands quickly figured out that this online Big Brother event was missing the security it desperately needed.
The result? The contestants were caged and set on fire:
DK: So what happened at the Big Brother opening?
Anonymous: The residents had to walk over the red carpet before entering the house. But they were caged and set on fire. No security whatsoever. So then the 15 residents are inside the house. I manouvre my camera through the glass walls, place a simple prim, sit on it, and now I'm a resident too! I changed a group name to “Resident” like they had. So the first 4 hours I was walking an chatting with them like a real resident. I even got interview roflmao.
DK: that’s mad
Anonymous: Pathetic. Oh my god I was laughing my ass off the entire time. Only residents were aloud to place objects in the house. Mine got returned to me 2 minutes later. So What I did was I got this female resident to make me a poster and put my picture on it. Its still hanging on the wall inside their house. Lol. I wasn’t the only one. I saw a 50 feet transformer climbing the big brother house.
DK: Did you cage anyone?
Anonymous: No I didn’t cage them, I burned some while in the house
If you're interested in reading more about how the whole thing progressed to pixel disintegration, you can read another interview here. If they actually put the video up I'll update this post with it.
