The Last Roll: An SL Avatar Builder Makes a Fun Game For Real Life

One of the stranger and more aggravating, or amusing, aspects of the Coronavirus crisis is the numbers of people buying up as much toilet tissue as they can, leaving the rest of us without it. Wanders Nowhere, known for his work at Prehistorica, responded to the absurdity of the situation by coming up with a funny board game: The Last Roll. In the game, players compete with one another and dodge cartoonish obstacles in order to buy up the most toilet paper. The Newser contacted Wanders, and he had a chance to describe how he came up with the game and some of it's craziness.

Read the story in Extra.

The Dawn Kingdoms : Walking with the Dinosaurs in Second Life

Ever since we're kids, people are fascinated by dinosaurs. Creatures of the past, sometimes huge ones, that walked a wild primitive Earth of long before man. We read about them, we see them in movies and TV, but can we ever interact with them. Maybe we can, at least in Second Life. Wesley Regenbogen checked out Dawn Kingdoms, a place where visitors can walk a landscape where dinos roam (and roar if you get close).

Read Wesley's article in Places.