The Secret Treasure of SLsecret

Inspired by Post Secret and published every weekend, the SLsecret series compiled by Iris Seale of Shopping Cart Disco is a well-known guilty pleasure for many, a car crash smorgasbord of interpersonal drama, rancor, accusation, betrayal, and schadenfreude.

The real secret behind SLsecret, however, is why I still keep reading it: every now and again, you'll read a secret like this one -- perhaps from a chemotherapy patient, recently introduced to customized virtual hair? -- and discover, beneath the surface tension, the genuine and the profoundly moving undercurrent of Second Life. Image credit: SCD.

Comments

[Adric Antfarm]

I feel you bro. I read Barely Legal strictly for the advertisements in the back myself.

[EnCore Mayne]

you should be ashamed of yourself giving this dimwit and her partner's site SCD any play Hamlet. with more people like them degrading every experience of SL to a spectator sport of disconnected mockery you wouldn't exist. of course, we could always try to Exploit their Market now couldn't we?

[Adric Antfarm]

I think that comment is disingenuous to Hamlet who is a published book author and has been featured in major publications (I will omit Huntington lest I scold).

To say SCD or Alpha or any of them could negate what he does is bulshit and everyone knows it.

The simple fact is Hamlet is a reliable news source we need (like the 4 food groups). The Disco is like that damn bag of Gummy Bears & People Magazine I don't need but can't leave the store without. Fluffy yet enjoyable.

We would be fat, stupid, and soon dead of heart attack without Hamlet, but we would be less happy without the Disco.

I can find room for both.

[Gabby Panacek]

bwahahaha...that is a fantastic analagy of SCD v. NWN, Adric!