It inspired me to say..."I was knocked off-kilter, askew like an environmentally-friendly telephone book in the midst of an acid rainstorm. And then one dot seven dot one space bracketopen two bracketclose came and I got my groove back. For mine eyes-in-hand, as ears-in-foot, the Great Gray Gridstorm of '05 had subsided, and there was bountiful, beautiful color to be seen in scenes everywhere. And that's when I noticed I got my groove back (intentional), that emphatic bounce of my main coreline, injection into the bloodstream of the primal pixels—some stray frays remained in decay, but like an oak battered by ghosts of dishonorable "warriors", the trunk is so thick and it keeps on growing even if some branches get torn off. We cannot be divided.
I entered back, inworld, battle cry 27-10-2086, dropped myself in the middle of intense textural zones and camscanned around. Idled myself between the empty space of the Instant Messaging window and the wind was silent at my feet, showing no disrespect. Like an insectoid drum 'n' bass track commanding the clattering snares and rubbery bass only Buddha's palm could thrust forth, the textures began loading, streaming forth, proximity mines to the aboriginal arrowhead of my mouse pointer, the tempo increasing pace as a ghastly chant phonemetrically interpred as 'yeow-hai-yeoo-vaytay' drenching the blue skies, elixir of azure, as I tip my hat because there is peace. And explosions everywhere!
A pause, like a comma, then a longer pause, like a semicolon; and then the sun smiles upon us all, and even if you have yet to feel the warmth, it still shines overhead, magnitudes of zoom from one classical movement of the interface to another. This is your personal elementalelectrofunk calling your name. I smile some more.
I beam off, headed back like cosmic diamonds from the carbon soul, resistant like a lonely monk's seven children who've lost touch with the true origin of the style, then snap back together, two electronite shock troops pulsing and scanning the digital landscape as I bow my head in honor of the elder gods, and again repeat the experiment in a cluster of textures, throwing them back without much effort and watching the resolutions increase, more hi-fi than the street ghetto stereo sound, pure in its essence to deliver the knowledge of this platform boot. This is no accident, this is a deliberate vital strike to the form of the lag hag, wicked evil that she is, frail like a paper towel in a commode, as I spin around again, watching the rippleshock wave bend the unlearned stupidity into sharp lines that could cut the morale of an ox—it bisects it in such a way that the bells of the prosperous clocktower beam forth their divine truth like crystal stairs, ascending each one with the erudite philosophies of drunken sages.
I'm here in cyberspace now."
- I can really feel a positive difference. Things may not necessarily "load in faster" per se (doesn't seem to be a YUGE jump in my bandwidth usage), but they feel like they do. The perceptual intent is mint.
- I went to some dense shopping areas JAM-PACKED with textures that used to slug me down. Now, I feel more elastic upon entering these zones, and when I place my cursor at a given spot, it seems to give priority not only to what I'm pointing at, but what's around it too. This also appears to apply in proximity—i.e. I camscan far away from my physical location and point in the middle of a wall full of dressy images, and they rez in significantly faster than I've ever seen before.
- I've made mention before that even if the graphics lag, the text shouldn't; textual communication should still be speedy and "pipelined" a different way. (For example, typing quickly to tell your friends "My av is lagged and I can't come to meet you at the other end of the danceloor just yet!) The overall UI feels more responsive to me during moments of "lagdrag", with the exception perhaps of a current bug that seems to require me to double-, even triple-click on tabs to select them when I have low FPS. I've filed a report. Onwards ho!
- I'll emphasize this again: repeatedly, and I tested this a lot, it seems a LOT smoother to browse in stores now... "waiting for the textures to load" certainly isn't as problematic for me as it used to be. Instead of single drops from a clogged tap at nite, we can get more of a nice torrential rapid now.
Really enthused, awesomely thrilled am I. This uplifts my spirit and sends me into transwarp again. I can imagine, and in fact have already experienced, how much better this is gonna make my existence on SL. To those of who still having problems that didn't exist under 1.6.x, I truely with you all the best and hope you will get to taste these benefits too!
