Second Life Trolls Meta's Legless, Crotchless Avatars for April Fool's

"[My boyfriend] went to try one of those other metaverses and ever since, he hasn't been the same... down there."

Pretty well-played, Linden Lab! I guess you could say "other metaverses" include equally leg-less Rec Room, but Meta's Horizon Worlds is the clear target. Wonder if Philip Rosedale, who recently returned to helping develop Second Life as a alternative to Meta's "ad-driven behavior modification Metaverse", had a hand (leg?) in this April Fool's smartassery.  

While the announcement is all about avatar legs, the Viagra-scented video of sexy babe avatars talking about their boo's problems "down there" make it pretty clear what we're actually talking about (wink wink):

Avatar crotches. For avatar sexy times. Or like I put it recently for an article on smashing in Metaverse:

It’s a real paradox. Most of the leading metaverse platforms are currently attempting to both promote themselves as the successor to the mobile Internet, while also prohibiting activity that’s essential to human socialization.

ROBLOX bans avatars from even holding hands. Meta’s Horizon Worlds restricts its users to avatars that resemble floating hand puppets with no legs, reportedly for technical reasons. But which, by a nice coincidence, also means they come without crotches.

I'm seriously skeptical that Meta's avatars are only legless for technical reasons as opposed to pre-empting virtual sex. Then again, Meta didn't do anything to preempt virtual sexual assault.

Comments

[TonyVT Skarredghost]

Our Legverse was even better :)

https://skarredghost.com/2022/04/01/legverse-leg-metaverse/

[Luis]

Hey I am writing an article about Meta. Can I use your picture in my article?