Comments on: “People are suckers for fonts.”

By: d_w

d_w — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:41:35 +0000

For anyone like Stormwaltz try

http://www.spike.com/episode/26738/st/2969746?cmpnid=716&pt=sr&refsite=7103

By: Anticorium

Anticorium — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:54:00 +0000

Just saw this: the comments over at the Washington Post story (which was, in fact, quite a bit more sarcastic than Lum) are a lot more favorable about the obviousness of the awesomeness of Second Life and the cluelessness of anyone who would dare question the necessity of this hearing. And I cannot help but think it’s because it’s more fun to lecture than to listen.

People know that if they took their utopianism here, they’d have to engage in conversations involving folks who know and build virtual worlds and can see through the exaggerations. They wouldn’t be able to lecture morons who don’t understand the concept (pfft). It kind of sucks having to admit that there are other people, who don’t love your perfect game not out of ignorance, but because they know something you don’t.

But mostly, I’ve learned that conversations about virtual worlds with people who know nothing but Second Life are just so damn boring. It’s like trying to talk about pen-and-paper RPG design with a kid who’s never played anything but red box D&D. It’s their character did this and their character did that and they got this and that magic item and there was a rust monster over and over until you just can’t help but walk away.

By: Merkwurdigliebe

Merkwurdigliebe — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:09:24 +0000

I’d like to hear from Sideshow Prokofy on this.

By: Baroo

Baroo — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:15:14 +0000

Stormwaltz: I am guessing you’re located outside the US? I get the same message from north of the border.

Try a proxy located in the US or a VPN service like Hotspot Shield to get yourself a US ip address temporarily. Works great for Pandora, and for watching shows/content on the US tv networks websites that they’re not allowed to broadcast internationally… presumably because they’ve sold the broadcast rights to individual networks in each country.

By: Stormwaltz

Stormwaltz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:27:27 +0000

“We’re sorry, but this video is not available.”

Que?

By: Wagner James Au

Wagner James Au — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:17:35 +0000

But if they actually shot Riggle’s segment in Second Life, the porpoise’s tits would jiggle:

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/01/like-a-natural.html

By: TPRJones

TPRJones — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:52:46 +0000

Needs more flying peni.

By: Anticorium

Anticorium — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:26:50 +0000

Yeah, but has there ever been a congressional subcommittee about South by Southwest? Has there? No there has not.

(It’s not so much that I want to dredge up old topics, as that I’m far too cheap to go to the bookstore to research my term paper on Russian politics of the late 20th century.)

By: DJ Larkin

DJ Larkin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:07:31 +0000

I loved i when I saw it last night, and I still do.

By: gawain the blind

gawain the blind — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:54:40 +0000

You realize what this means, right?

SLS are anti-terrorist HEROES.
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/