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Walker Spaight takes the field of honor

Second Life resident Ordinal Malaprop has created a new dispute resolution tool for Second Life: a set of dueling pistols and a ring specifically designed for, as Ordinal puts it on her blog, “the settling of scores by the skill of arms.” The pistols are easy to use, can be loaded with a single bullet at a time (in proper yesteryear duelling fashion), and announce to all in the area who has drawn first blood. I’d love to see residents start using dueling pistols as a real dispute-resolution mechanism, but I’m skeptical that Second Life — or any other virtual world, for that matter — could support a system of ethics and honor that significantly surpasses that of the world around us. Still, these should be fun. Grab your own at Ordinal’s property in Theretra. [<–SL link] Pistols at dawn, anyone?