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If you build it, they will come

Okay, let me see if I have this straight. We can build anything we want in Second Life, without the restrictions of building materials, regard to physical laws, or even the dicta of good taste. Wood never rots. A single beam can hold aloft a structure easily ten times its size. And finally, we can all fly. Why, then, do I see so many split-level ranch-style houses? Why so many office buildings? Why so many blocky, steel-and-mortar, non-opening-windowed edifices?

I want to see more buildings that look like paramecia! Buildings of interlocking rings, suspended from a giant chain being held in the beak of a purple squid that's on fire! Hell, let's have an office park consisting entirely of Habitrails! C'mon, you know it'd be fun, and nearly half of SL is Furry anyway!

Seriously, kidlets, we're missing some incredible opportunities to play with dimension, color, optics, mass, and a whole lot of other terms I don't know 'cause I'm just a big white werewolf. We can build ANYTHING! So let's do it!

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