I spend a lot of time role playing online in Second Life.  I’ve spent time in various sims playing a variety of characters.  I have had the pleasure, and the displeasure of meeting and getting to know all sorts of people .  Each person has his/her own reason for being there.  Some just come into the game for fun.  Some use it as a way to escape the sheer pressure of their everyday life.  Some even come into the game looking for a way to get what they are really missing in their real life.  That actually brought up a question for me; is it possible to get that feeling of satisfaction from online? Is it truly possible to find what you’re missing from some random stranger playing an avatar in a game where people can be anyone they want to be?

Over the past weekend, G4tv.com released its most influential people of the gaming industry in the last decade. It should come as no surprise that there were absolutely NO WOMEN on this list.

Ever have one of those weeks?  A week where you need something to do to get your mind off of things?  Yeah, I had one of those.  Read on to find out what I did to survive it.