Has it occured to anyone that SL has not only jumped the shark, but has actually entered into an entirely different absurdist universe where no SL'er has gone before?
And - not to get too existentialist about it - but does anything really matter here anymore?
Anyone can come into SL, and anyone can do anything in it, and no one can be permantly banned.
Only those of us who have invested in our businesses and/or our reputations will care about the rules, partly because we are the only ones the rules can hurt.
The Lindens are corraling the wagons, taking inside with them those selected residents they like best, in a program irrelevantly titled "Second Life Views."
Technological solutions backfire - someone jacks up the ban lines way high and apparently makes some mistake, making it for everyone rather than just for those on a ban list. No one can fly around and things are worse than they were before.
The forums have gone from a relatively controlled (if facist) place where a hardy group of oldbies happily ruled, overseeing the punishment of dissidents at the slightest peep - to a free-for-all where everybody and everybody's Dog Replacement creates meaningless mayhem for all. Witness this thread, and the counter-proposition.
Griefing and thievery of IP and money are on the increase in SL, and what little LL used to do about it is now completely meaningless.
The Linden left hand apparently never knows what the right hand is doing; heck, the index finger doesn't even know what the ring finger is doing.
The Lindens are busy trying to talk a good line and sound like they are still in control of anything. Actually, I think they have lost control completely. The only thing they are actually in control of, in my opinion, is trying to distance themselves from the whole mess as much as possible.
Last really good thing I saw happen was P2P.
Maybe everything is all absurdist chaos now, but there is one good side to that: If nothing matters, then, well, nothing matters . . . so we can all just relax and stop caring about it.
I also wonder - surely the Lindens realize this is chaos; surely this goes beyond their classic distaste for actually making rule-breaking people behave in any way; and has to do more with . . . some plan we don't know about. There's GOT to be some apparent method to this madness. What is it?
OK, so I'm feeling fairly nihilistic at the moment. I have a tendency to get overwhelmed and do that. But things really do look to me like they are now totally out of hand.
Plus I get really tired of only the good people being the ones LL ever really comes down on. I hate that.
coco
And - not to get too existentialist about it - but does anything really matter here anymore?
Anyone can come into SL, and anyone can do anything in it, and no one can be permantly banned.
Only those of us who have invested in our businesses and/or our reputations will care about the rules, partly because we are the only ones the rules can hurt.
The Lindens are corraling the wagons, taking inside with them those selected residents they like best, in a program irrelevantly titled "Second Life Views."
Technological solutions backfire - someone jacks up the ban lines way high and apparently makes some mistake, making it for everyone rather than just for those on a ban list. No one can fly around and things are worse than they were before.
The forums have gone from a relatively controlled (if facist) place where a hardy group of oldbies happily ruled, overseeing the punishment of dissidents at the slightest peep - to a free-for-all where everybody and everybody's Dog Replacement creates meaningless mayhem for all. Witness this thread, and the counter-proposition.
Griefing and thievery of IP and money are on the increase in SL, and what little LL used to do about it is now completely meaningless.
The Linden left hand apparently never knows what the right hand is doing; heck, the index finger doesn't even know what the ring finger is doing.
The Lindens are busy trying to talk a good line and sound like they are still in control of anything. Actually, I think they have lost control completely. The only thing they are actually in control of, in my opinion, is trying to distance themselves from the whole mess as much as possible.
Last really good thing I saw happen was P2P.
Maybe everything is all absurdist chaos now, but there is one good side to that: If nothing matters, then, well, nothing matters . . . so we can all just relax and stop caring about it.
I also wonder - surely the Lindens realize this is chaos; surely this goes beyond their classic distaste for actually making rule-breaking people behave in any way; and has to do more with . . . some plan we don't know about. There's GOT to be some apparent method to this madness. What is it?
OK, so I'm feeling fairly nihilistic at the moment. I have a tendency to get overwhelmed and do that. But things really do look to me like they are now totally out of hand.
Plus I get really tired of only the good people being the ones LL ever really comes down on. I hate that.
coco
Yes, I agree with almost everything you say.
