Goon Creates SL Promo Video
by Pixeleen Mistral on 13/01/07 at 2:22 pm
Futuristic machinima from 1930
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
“Second Life: The Virtual Utopia of the Future” is a retro-ironic vision of our brave new world available here on YouTube. The grainy 1930s-style black and white “talkie” machinima was created by Something Awful goon Mr. Decomposing Monstre and benefits greatly from the blurry YouTube video presentation.
For residents feeling a certain level of cynicism about that state of the world, the contrast between the cheerful voiceover narration hyping Second Life as land of opportunity , creativity, and equality and the contrasting imagery of Gorean slaves, cross burnings, and “jiving hep cats” may be just the thing to cheer everyone up. You can also play a sort of machinima “where’s Waldo” game by counting the Plastic Duck icons/costumes in the film.
marilyn murphy
Jan 13th, 2007
im reminded of the sienfeld episode where that dud comedian says to sienfeld, “it’s gold jerry!! gold!!”
this is gold, it’s marvelous. i laughed, i cried, i bumped my head.
Urizenus
Jan 13th, 2007
Freaking awesome. Pix, I think you should embed the vid directly in the post.
Artemis Fate
Jan 13th, 2007
Haha very well done!
Petey
Jan 13th, 2007
Goddammit. I told Monstre he shouldn’t send it to Prokofy. This was supposed to be the next Second Life Safari!
Scooped by the Second Life Herald! I’ll never live it down…
dildo baggins
Jan 14th, 2007
Hot damn, that be the funniest most incisive observation on SL since it went live. The 30′s worlds fair newsreel take is brilliant, nice work on the jolly announcer as well…esp the audio processing…love the little twist on entrepreneaur!
Left out the bit about also being able to fulfill your fantasy as a raving loony fucktard [ie: porkofy] – but then I guess that ones covered fully by that other perceptive video;-)
Bedevere Octagon
Jan 16th, 2007
LOL its ok Petie I posted it as a sneak on the forums only to have to retract it…
Go Goons!
Nacon
Jan 16th, 2007
You know when you fart and finds out that you’re bleeding out of your ass?
This is one of them.
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