Lojak's Stupid Bullshit» second life

Wow. Another 2 months

Lojak — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:56:59 +0000

Hmmm. I’d forgotten how much trying to get a band together was like trying to herd cats. Especially when you’re trying to put one together from scratch. Finding 5 people that can get along together and have specific skills is trickier than you might think. and then they’re artists so they tend to be high strung. And they have to be into the kind of music you want to play. And be dedicated enough to make it work.

It’s all very discouraging.

So here’s a picture I threw together of me and Ziggy in Central Park. I honestly don’t recall where we were in SL (I could look it up if I was a little less lazy). I’ve been in world a few times lately and talked to Zig. Lately I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting up the podcast again as a video thing. I’ll need to have a co-host. I’m still just kicking around the idea though.

RIP, SL Under the Radar

Lojak — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:59:00 +0000

In a sad bit of news, Radar Masukami has decided to suspend production of SL Under the Radar, which IMHO is the best SL-related podcast available. I’m sad to see it go but I understand and appreciate his reasoning. Better to quit while it’s still good than drag it out for another 2 seasons (are you listening TV execs?). If your heart’s not in it anymore, you have to let it go. Thanks for the memories, Radar!

He says he’s going to take the site down in a couple of months so you should go grab all the episodes now.

Sony, Microsoft, and VWs

Lojak — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:34:39 +0000

According to an article in PC Authority, Sony and Microsoft both announced Second Life style VWs at the Tokyo Games Show on October 10th. Sony’s “Home” is supposed to be released for PS3 on November 19th but doesn’t appear to include user created content.

The Microsoft entry into the field is on the Xbox360 and titled, cleverly, New Xbox Experience. Microsoft’s John Schappert said, “Our goal is to make the Xbox experience more visual, easier to use, more fun to use and more social…We focused a lot on friends and other experiences outside just playing games.” Which is Microsoft-speak for we don’t know what the fuck this is all about but we’re going to throw money at it until it’s obvious we can’t do it right and then we’ll buy Linden Labs and pretend we invented VWs.

What neither of them appear to understand is that the failure of all the VWs before SL IMO was the result of a lack of user created content. What makes SL unique and special is that anybody– free users or premium users– can come into SL and start building as soon as they find a sandbox. And they can keep it up forever that way if they want to. I’m sure that there is a segment of the populace that doesn’t want to do that…. they play WoW and it’s not a dynamic VW. My guess is that neither Sony nor MS really want to get into the VW arena anyway because that’s not how they normally roll.