Pixel Firemen?
Ok, I have blogged before on my confusion over pixel police and their inability to understand that they have no more rights or tools than us mere virtual civilians. But now I’m even more confused. Pixel Firemen? What?
I saw someone dressed as a fireman earlier with some title that indicated he was chief of his ‘fire department’ so I took a look at some groups. And it seems there are plenty of people around in game who believe it’s their mission to put out all the pixel fires. Now I don’t know about you, but if my little pretendy campfire miraculously got out of hand, I would just pick it up and tuck it away in my inventory again. Nice and safe. And completely doable without the assistance of some wannabe superhero.
So then I began to ask myself what else firemen do and came to rescuiing pets! If my pixel pet ever gets stuck in a tree, am I likely to call the Second Life™ fire department or am I more likely, once again, to just pick it up? Even if the little creature gets out of my sight, there are plenty of tools to help me locate it or even return it to myself from the estate tools. And I think that pretty much sums up the only two things they’d be required to do, right?
Perhaps they should all get jobs dancing in some club? I hear the women like those uniforms…