What the fuck is with you people
So, Babbage wrote a bit about his time at Euro FOO and a silly little variation on the game petanque, only with pianos in Second Life.
Prokofy found this all quite disturbing enough to write one of her signature brain dead comments . Thank you Prokfoy! Please shut up.
Now follows the complete comment from Prokofy. Please prepare yourself.
I find petanque with pianos to be whimsical as a scene to watch like a movie or a ViewMaster; I find it disruptive and unsettling as a world *to live in* when they hurl by me and disrupt the world. I know I’m *supposed* to like it and say wow, art, kewl, but…I don’t.
I know that ‘disruptive technology’ is one of the favourite expressions of the neo technological elite; I realize all the connotations it has, good and bad, and I merely point out that disruptive is also…disruptive. There’s nothing wrong with appreciating the fine aesthetic of a piano in its place, Jim. Get one of Sue Stonebender’s pianos and enjoy its classical lines and songs, what can I tell you…
I find the difference between self-replicating party hats and spheres hurling around the world — the spam from griefers that these griefers would also like to call ‘art’ — and you deliberately playing petanque with pianos and couches to be…almost one of semantics. Not a distinguishable difference in kind? Except…one eventually crashes the grid, and the other merely crashes my expectations of a rational Second Life — a Second Life where the world qua world is valued for its worldness as much as the platform qua platform is valued for all the groovy stuff it can do.
It indicates a different mindset, a different aesthetic, a different view of the world, as bendable, breakable, expendable — because you make it. To you the opensource thrill of it all overlays the need for order and security in a virtual world that others of us with simpler and less technical pleasures and aspirations wish we could secure in Second Life.
I hope I’m making myself clear here.
Yes, alright… No, I don’t understand. Please explain to me why I should care about your world view. You see, that’s the thing about Second Life. I get to experience the world how I want to experience it.
Pianos to grid crashers, sure I follow that logic.. Semantics sure is powerful Prokofy, thanks for explaining. Groovy.
