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Kunisaki Izumo is a fascinating SL avatar and about as meta as they come. Based on the manga character of the same name, our Kunisaki imagines himself all grown up and running a kabuki theater company on Izumo island. Just as men played women’s roles in Shakespeare’s time, onnagata are men playing the female role. Kunisaki is an onnagata actor. This is a picture of Kunisaki playing Sagi Masume, the Heron Maiden. [For a guide to the kabuki play Sagi Masume: click here] I love that it is a blue/black duotone. It’s very dramatic. Kunisaki created an album from his theater’s performance. [Click here for album.]
For more of Kunisaki’s kabuki, click here:
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Can Philip Fix Second Life's Complex Avatar System? (Comment of the Week)
Good comment from Dee, one of many Second Life users welcoming back Philip Rosedale to advising the virtual world he founded:
This is all very true. Offhand, I'd estimate that a highly intuitive avatar customization system that was immediately fun and easy for the first-time user would grow retention by at least 5%. (I'm talking as seamless as it is in the The Sims series.)
If only. The core challenge is, there's already a massive cottage industry that depends on all that complexity:
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Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2022 at 02:10 PM in Avatars and Identity, Comment of the Week, Economics of SL, Linden Lab News & Analysis | Permalink | Comments (17)
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