Comments on: La Tourista

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:57:12 +0000

>In all honesty we had no idea that this ‘Urge Gainsbourg’ fellow was a reporter until this article came out.

Hank, how did he get an invitation to the group then?

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:44:18 +0000

That article by Gross really was a total abortion. Would the Times travel section send someone to Italy and have them report on going shopping at an American Apparel store, staying in a Starwood Hotel and going to a concert by Ben Folds? You can do all of those things in Italy, but only a fool would think that going to those places had anything to do with Italy. So how is it different to come into SL and think those corporate sponsored invasions had to do with SL. Nauseating, really.

By: Nobody Fugazi

Nobody Fugazi — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:56:25 +0000

La traduccion de ‘Tourist’ en espanol es… ‘turista’, o, ‘la turista’.

The rest of the article was an interesting criticism. Perhaps some Michelangelo is in order:

‘Criticize by creating’.

By: hank hoodoo

hank hoodoo — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:43:51 +0000

Pixeleen, one clarification. In all honesty we had no idea that this ‘Urge Gainsbourg’ fellow was a reporter until this article came out.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:42:30 +0000

When I saw this piece I quickly came to the conclusion that ESC and/or MOU saw the Times piece they *didn’t* control that had gone in 2 weeks earlier and featured your humble correspondent being critical about the corporate invasion, and they wished to spin away any of the criticism of corporations in SL so they got the mediameisters working overtime.

They went to work feverishly trying to find a reporter they *could* groom for having the controlled, airbrushed experience and they actually got him to recycle that ridiculous and heavily-criticized Ben Folds event, which was trashed all over the Internet for two weeks, about which Matt Gross remained oblivious. Ben Folds will forever, in eternity, til the heat-death of the sun, be imagined as being ever available in Second Life wielding his light sword and ready to play “let’s fall down drunk in Second Life” with you forever. It’s amazing. He was never available even to those on the ‘special’ list in the first place on a sim that holds only 40 people, and he’ll likely have forgotten all about SL by now lol.

I also marvel at how Svarga keeps getting mentioned over and over again, and yet the salient fact that its owner and creator is trying to sell it and plans to close it is never mentioned. I also marvel that Laukosaurus Svarog, the owner, doesn’t seem to parlay this media saturation somehow into getting the donations to keep it running — but I suspect that it’s becaue one of the hardest things to do in SL is get people to donate to cover tier. She would like to find a buyer, but it’s only after first removing the interesting scripts that create organic-like life — which was its main selling point. Of course, it’s understandable she’d not want to prematurely sell something proprietary that is so interesting which no doubt will increase in value in the future.

Then all the usual chimes are rung — you are so right, Pixeleen, it’s like the deeply-worn groove of Pathfinder’s Picks:

o that guy with the schizophrenia stuff
o American Apparel
o Midnight City

etc.