The poetics of a nuclear catastrophe

Disaster and tragedies in the atomic world have been a recurrent theme in the sims of Second Life. From war to ecological crises, we have repeatedly seen some devastating scenarios in SL referring to calamities that happened in real life. Since earlier this year, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, the Chernobyl catastrophe, […]

The funky end of the world as we know it

Tableau is a post-apocalyptic sim in SL – but a very particular, funky one. The story it tells, which can be found on a sign on the top of a mesa that rises lonely in its landscape, explains what I mean: it seems that the desert resulted from the war between fashionistas and blingtards in […]