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Get a First Life. Membership is FREE!

by Blake Snow on Jan 22nd 2007 2:57PM

Blogger Darren Barefoot has published a clever Second Life parody at Get A First Life dot com. The community boast over 6.5 billion residents (not inflated), free membership, and is the first 3D analog world sans server lag. Linden Labs, creators of Second Life, even sent the site a "Proceed and Permitted" letter (the opposite of a "Cease and Desist"). Nice to see the company appreciates a sense of humor. Now go outside and enjoy the beauty that is First Life.

[via Boing Boing]

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Tags: first life, FirstLife, humor, linden labs, LindenLabs, parody, second life, SecondLife

Reader Comments (31)

This dynamic weather mechanic sucks.

The only thing I really don't like about First Life is that if you die, there are no continues.

I seem to experience immense lag when I ask my parents for money in First Life. Any chance that could be looked at?

~PEACE

brilliant!

and lord deserves a star for that.

Well it's definitely better than that Second Life crap.

They've gone and summed it up nicely...

WORK
REPRODUCE
PERISH

Makes me want to play games even more.

you forgot to mention... joining is easy.

These re-spawn times suck

This crap is so unfair with no support system. The player run economy is strong which is good and bad, but the divide between rich and poor is worse than in Diablo 2. It is a pain in the ass to switch servers, plus you have to take stupid planes which OF COURSE cost a ton, which means:

TOO MUCH GRIND

yeah you grind for items, levels, skills, even for guilds (called corps like in EVE). also you can respec at any time but again more grind

what first life needs is some kinda system for casual players. like if you could spawn witha a lot of money, so you don't have to grind all the time to get decent items

Why cant I be a high paid hooker on this game?

Be careful when playing on the Earth Server PKing is extremely dangerous an not tolerated you can have you account banned for 25 to life or even have it terminated from the server.

Nerf Warlocks!

They should really allow alts on this game.

You also forgot the viruses, the lame breast bounce physics, and the lack of intelligent NPC's.

I've found this really cool cheat. When your in the school level, you can write all the answers in your graphing calculator and get a really high score. :P

Decent graphics, but definitely not "Next-Gen" and also, the A.I. is
horrible...

Just wait until Jack Thompson hears about the amount of glorified violence and gratuitous sexual content going on in this game...

Warning: Do NOT rely on the pathing code driving NPCs if you get the 'take 3 year old newphew shopping' quest!

There's gonna be hell to pay when Jack Thompson hears about this First Life...

Okay, I have to add the cheesiest possible response to that:

The best part is the multiplayer.

(Awwwwwww!)

HINT: Once you hit level 18, go to a good college. You'll thank yourself in the later levels, once the game starts getting harder.

Wow so not only is there a Hot Coffee-esque sex minigame, but it's actually vital to the game. Apparently, in the world of First Life you can only join after this action is performed by members(pr3nts) already on your server. There's even a rumor that the game ends for everyone if it's not done often enough. Oh man, Congress is gonna get so mad at this. I can't believe this game didn't get an AO rating.

Hey, I'm level 25 and I'm grinding in the Grad School zone on the USA server. How the Hell do you make any money in this game? It's impossible!

I've played this one before. It's a pretty decent sandbox-style sim/RPG with fantastic graphics and sound. My main gripes with the game? It takes awhile to get used to the controls at the beginning, leveling up just feels like a chore, and it doesn't take much to kill your character.

second life to me just looks like some really bad 3d virtual reality graphics from the 90s

I'm impressed. Rarely is it that the comments substantially enhance the original article and write-up. Thank you all for the insightful, satirical, or otherwise interesting comments.

The site's "Developers" tab doesn't link to anywhere, unfortuantely. I wanted to know whether they wrote about God; Yahweh; Jehovah; Allah; Brahman; Waheguru; Elohim; Zues, Hera, et. al.; curious aliens with lots more biology than us; Din, Nayru, and Farore; chaos theory; or natural selection.

No manual, but here are some tips:
To keep your health meter up go on lots of mini quests, talk to as many NPCs as possible, and don't forget to just enjoy the view.

For added bonus try traveling to as many other continents in the game, it allows your awareness meter to expand over time.

It costs way too much to alter your avatar's appearance...

Xeno: Head on over to the Los Angeles Hills. Choose a female avatar and find a Plastic Surgeon NPC. In exchange for sexual favors, he will offer you Botox. Also works well to gain entry into the movie guilds.

31. Anti-Virus seems to be down.

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