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Life or something like it: in the online game Second Life, players can choose a new virtual existence.(Web)

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If you could reinvent yourself, what choices would you make? Would you be tall or short, heavy or thin, outgoing or shy? Or would you become a different species, such as a dog or a cat? In Second Life, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from Linden Lab, players can be anyone, or anything, they ever wanted to be within this immersive, realistic 3D world.

"Second Life is a place where you can completely stretch your imagination and the boundaries of reality by exploring a personal fantasy that is outside the realm of possibility within real life," says Robin Harper, senior vice president of marketing and community development at Linden Lab, ...

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