And Then There Were 99,999,999: Virtual Candidate Drops Out
by prokofy on 24/10/06 at 9:13 am
By Prokofy Neva, Political Affairs Desk
Did anybody notice? In Lindenverse, we’re so surrounded by huge swathes of cotton wadding in the form of push-media coming from the white expanses of the newsless LL Blob, the Big Business corporate-speak press releases, the breathless paid-for blogola, the hyped, hyperventilating hypervents with their 39 avatars lagging out a sim that we live as if our draw distances on Real Life are down to a drugged-haze-like 64 m2.
The other night I was at a RL reception of journalists and I was babbling like an idiot about the wonders of Web 3 Point D and the virtual world of SL and I added that Mark Warner even ran a campaign there — a saturation media event for our world
“But he dropped out,” someone put in helpfully. Um, right. A statement from his campaign October 17 says his supporters “continue to believe Gov. Warner is the right man, with the right message, at the right time.” I know that Random Unsung, ever nostalgic for lost causes, will keep his group membership in Warner’s “Forward Together” just because the name was cool. Metaversal pro tip: next time get a less creepy looking avatar? And come back as an elf or furry or something…
Chambers Commerce
Oct 24th, 2006
“In Lindenverse, we’re so surrounded by huge swathes of cotton wadding in the form of push-media coming from the white expanses of the newsless LL Blob, the Big Business corporate-speak press releases, the breathless paid-for blogola, the hyped, hyperventilating hypervents with their 39 avatars lagging out a sim that we live as if our draw distances on Real Life are down to a drugged-haze-like 64 m2.”
Is this even English? It is definately a run-on sentence. But wait… Prokofy IS a run-on sentence. My bad… It’s just that I thought the self-proclaimed critic of all SL media would have been able to form a better thought than that. I guess I had my expectations set just a tad too high.
-Chambers Commerce
Nope, you never heard of me before.
urizenus
Oct 24th, 2006
At the Herald we don’t follow the archaic rules of prescriptive English. We *write* the rules. Your grandchildren will talk like Herald reporters. Deal.
Prokofy Neva
Oct 24th, 2006
I think my thought is pretty good here, dude. I think my headline is genius. And I think my run-on sentence captures that surround-sound feel of all the hype we’re getting now. Hey, look at some of the sentences the PR folks are slinging.