Comments on: BMW’s No-Drive Zone

By: Dannyboy Lightfoot

Dannyboy Lightfoot — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:16:38 +0000

I love the Recent Comments feature on the Herald. Right now it tells me that at some point of the last twenty four hours someone called Rock Ramona came on here and vented a volley of spleen on three stories related only by the fact that they’re tales of SL as we find it in early 2007.

I love Google. A quick search for Rock Ramona digs up a single previous comment posted in response to the Blue Note Jazz Sim crash, telling the heart-rending tale of the self-styled ‘happiest man in second life’, whose dream was destroyed when somebody with an alternative vision came along and turned the neighbouring sim into a mall with a volcano and a lagmonster waterfall.

I love Second Life, and the stories it gives me. Take The Ballad of Rock Ramona. Just another sad story, full of metaversal truth, but most telling in terms of what it says about the human condition. After all, when you’ve watched your dreams dashed upon rocks of your own invention, how else to respond than by going out and wishing the same fate upon the next guy?

By: Rock Ramona

Rock Ramona — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:47:26 +0000

in other words………..ya,we f**cked up,followed the hype,realized what a pile of crap sl is and are trying to figure out what to do now………….

By: dildo baggins

dildo baggins — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:03:58 +0000

“Even if they didn’t want a drivable car, there’s a whole lot they could have done and still had a car you could sit in”

eh? Hiro, you sound like a real fun guy to be around.
That’s the sort of experience you sell your clients?

my…god….how cutting edge…right click…select sit…go whhhoooooooottttt…lookeee here mama i’s sitting in mah new vir-tu-al beemer in sl…wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

By: Baba

Baba — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:33:32 +0000

I love BMWs

By: Johnny Ming

Johnny Ming — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:58:24 +0000

BMW motorcycles are “Beemers”. BMW cars are “Bimmers”. And that… is your useless fact of the day.

By: Frederic Preost

Frederic Preost — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:56:28 +0000

When these corporate residents get any clue?

So………………

My child ask me to buy him an island in virtual community, with a fee of up to 200 US$ a month or so.

he tells me,

I don’t know what to do, but i decided to have a island there, because of Second life’s creative possibility and “its challenging global community”.

Would I authorize him to proceed in this new “business endeavor”?

No, I would not.

Oh wait, I’m not a corporate executive… ROFL.
What would I know anything about Second life, right?

By: Fiend Ludwig

Fiend Ludwig — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:01:02 +0000

@ Khamon – Munich did mention during our discussions that BMW did not use the services of a metaverse development agency, and that the project was directed in-house, so any jocularity should be aimed in his direction.

By: Hiro Pendragon

Hiro Pendragon — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:52:27 +0000

Uri:

I dunno, I read it as, “Guten tag, vee are BMW and our German engineering is too good for you!” Even if they didn’t want a drivable car, there’s a whole lot they could have done and still had a car you could sit in.

By: Khamon

Khamon — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:39:34 +0000

“A very open, curious, extroverted, and challenging global community, which makes it a very interesting one for us to talk to.” – Munich

Ha ha ha, which metaversal consulting company wrote this stuff? I must know so my jocularity may be aimed within precise parameters.

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:18:23 +0000

“At this point in time we are not planning dynamic product experiences, since the available programs (graphics and physics) do not allow us to develop an adequate BMW virtual driving experience.”

It’s encouraging that they figured this out and didn’t plunge ahead anyway. Trying to drive in SL is absolutely not a rewarding experience and I wouldn’t want to link my product to such an experience.