What you get in this alternative world are houses, home decorations, clothes, jewellery, cars, motorbikes, casinos, strip clubs and shops in which to sell all these things to cartoon characters representing their computer owners, who ‘live’ in the houses on the virtual land they have bought, titivate their interiors, change their clothes, hair and jewellery, drive the cars, gamble in the casinos and stand around gazing at naked pole dancers.

titivate (v) : make neat, smart, or trim [syn: spruce up, spruce, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up] – Jowls are available: Jenny Diski on ’Second Life’