Camp Chair Toilets – Metaverse Just Keeps Getting Better!
by Pixeleen Mistral on 04/03/07 at 6:08 pm
Even more improvements likely in the future
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Critics of Linden Lab’s betaverse metaverse were gobsmacked today as news of the latest innovation in camp chair technology – camp toilets – spread across the grid. Camp chairs pay residents to park their avatars in one place to inflate land popularity ratings of stores, clubs, and casinos. A lack of innovation in camp chair technology recently threatened to derail Linden Lab’s ambitions as a business and education platform for the 3D internet – and caused some to question the Linden Lab’s vision and foresight.
Coming soon to a metaverse club near you!
But several plucky entrepreneurs are pioneering a revolution in camp chair technology – toilets and urinals that pay avatars to relieve themselves. Independently developed as a recent upgrade to the SLAB prison and as a prefab public restroom by Dragos Zaoh, camp toilets are sure to improve nearly everyone’s virtual experience.
A concern for some metaverse citizens could be the lack of facilities suitable for furries. Perhaps another entrepreneur will step forward with camp catboxes and camp fire hydrants for our fur covered friends – or maybe they would be more comfortable using flowerbeds and lawns? Putting aside the issue of furry discrimination, Wrestling Hulka and I investigated Dragos Zaoh’s demo public camping toilet.
Wrestling Hulka: alright I’m gonna try to go inside. wish me luck
Pixeleen Mistral: don’t fall in
Wrestling Hulka: wait. i need a suit
Pixeleen Mistral: smart move
Wrestling Hulka: this should work
Wrestling Hulka dons an environmental suit before testing the facilities
Wrestling Hulka: I’m going in
Wrestling Hulka: wonderful artwork in here
Wrestling Hulka: someone left a mess
Wrestling Hulka: green pee – should get that checked out
Pixeleen Mistral: ewwww
Pixeleen Mistral: I’m sure noobies will love this
Pixeleen Mistral: just what they wanted from the metaverse
Wrestling Hulka: My avatar is surely enjoying this urinal
Wrestling Hulka: omg no ceiling!
Pixeleen Mistral: you must really have needed to go bad
Wrestling Hulka: my comfort meter is up to 100! this thing really works
Wrestling Hulka: wait wrong game.. .
Pixeleen Mistral: the TSO people will be all over this
While ex-TSO avatars may feel at home, the lack of a prominently displayed “Linden Lab Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To Work” sign was a concern. Hopefully the owner will fix this before the SL Health Department inspectors visit. Sinks would be a welcome addition as well.
I was a little disappointed to find that there was no toilet paper in the women’s room, nor was there a baby changing station. Mr Hulka suggested condom dispensers might be a nice touch in the men’s room. When I contacted him, Mr. Zaoh pointed out that these sorts of add-ons are possible – but low prim operations will probably go for a more spartan approach.
Although there is still work to be done, I left feeling optimistic about our world and contemplated creating toilet paper origami while earning L$s. The forthcoming addition of voice to Second Life will surely create wonderful synergies when combined with camp toilets and unverified 13 year old griefers. The future looks brighter than ever!
the SLAB prison now has a toilet
Artemis Fate
Mar 4th, 2007
Wow, they’re charging 2,500L$ for that crap?
The camping work stations (person on ladder cleaning, gardner, playing guitar for money, etc.) were cute, these are just stupid.
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 4th, 2007
HAHAHAHAHHAHA oh god that’s great.
dandellion Kimban
Mar 4th, 2007
very bad idea!
now all the public toilets will be jammed by avies just sitting there doing nothing. where will we go just to answer the mother nature’s call? is there any script to check if avatar is occupying faccilities with purpose or just pretending for the money?
janeforyou Barbara
Mar 4th, 2007
As shopowner i dont like the idea of camping at all, a mall that puts in 24 campers gets a ” traffick” on 25-30k.. but its realy only 5k there if you take away the campers
And The mall charge 200 L a week for a 15 prim stall ” cuz of the hight traffick”
Am a SIM owner also,,,i never had a camper, i still got 60k traffick, it just take a lot of hard work, a lot of fun and a bit of L$ to marketing
Nacon
Mar 5th, 2007
Well it’s not even a bad idea at all, I think Linden Labs are even happier to see someone getting creative with it since the moral of “camping chairs” has sicken everyone.
Think about it… if you going to have camping chairs (just for boosting up your ego…I mean traffic), why not do it with humor or creative way?
(Not that I support camping chairs, but being creative for once is good to see.)
Hexx Triskaidekaphobia
Mar 5th, 2007
Oh my. One can only pray now that the smell-addition will remain a mere concept.
Lewis nerd
Mar 5th, 2007
Although I remain very much against the ‘camping’ concept, I did float the idea of ‘camping crappers’ some time ago, but did nothing about it.
I don’t see it as being very long lived though, just a flush in the pan.
Lewis
Wayfinder Wishbringer
Mar 5th, 2007
Well, the basic idea is creative and funny. But just another way to distort “traffic” figures.
If we want to get rid of camping chairs– get rid of traffic. It’s a useless figure anyway. The honest way to attract people is by advertising or word of mouth. SL doesn’t need bogus traffic figures to attract people to spots they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in.
otakup0pe Neumann
Mar 5th, 2007
Lol Awesome ? My favorite camping chairs were in Jessie. Best place to test nerve gas.
Ombrone
Mar 5th, 2007
Very interesting article.
I would like to thank you deeply for unveleing this last astonishing development, surely a solid milestone on the road of developing a new immersive enviroment for the virtual humanity.
Only thing I can really point out is a certain lack of investigation on side problems of this new tool, as for example bad aim while using urinals (a sad problem, too often hidden, hard hitting a lot of ashamed people).
Btw I understand that was only a short article and not an academic research paper, and that surely developers will shortly deploy new more advanced version.
Bravo! Pls go ahead this way Herald!
You got my first prize! Finally smiling after a bad day at work!!!! Tks
shockwave yareach
Mar 5th, 2007
Some of you have said for some time that SL is turning into a sewer. I… I should have listened.
(said in jest, btw)
urizenus
Mar 5th, 2007
Flush twice everyone, it’s a long way to the asset server!
cuecumber
Mar 5th, 2007
Wonderful ! I love new ideas . I went to see the toilet and is just great. Of course missing some toilet paper
)
I don’t find it so expensive cuz the items are mod and copy.
I remember i bought a camping bucket and i spent 600L only for 1 item…no copy !
Congratz for the article, full of humor
Great job SL HERALD !
marilyn murphy
Mar 5th, 2007
it’s just hard to give a crap about this. the idea of camping pisses me off in the first place. this just looks like bathroom humor to me. the author has a potty mouth. you people need to get your mind out of the sewer and back on sex where it belongs. don’t try to pretend you did not have that book in there.
CC
Mar 5th, 2007
At least make them port-a-potties with a door so you can amuse yourself watching the campers open the door on each other..and an animation when you click the door so the person has a surprised look…hahaha better yet when the camper gets up have a flexible piece of toilet paper stuck on his heel…
Maria LaVeaux
Mar 5th, 2007
When i was told about the Camp Chair Prison idea the other day, And the toilets it made me Laugh. Yes, i Know camp chairs are supposed to be Evil, but i still thought it was Funny.
Even if you don’t like the chairs, you can’t fault the highly creative things that are being done with them.
Maria.
Wayfinder Wishbringer
Mar 6th, 2007
I can’t help but agree Maria. I think camping chairs are an abuse of the system. There’s no doubt they totally invalidate the traffic system and they lag sims unnecessarily by causing un-used avs to congregate (avs themselves are arguably one of the laggiest things on the grid).
However, that said, some of them are pretty ingenious. I saw a drive-in movie with cars and speakers and the whole works… plus a movie playing on the screen 24/7. The toilet one above is a bit creative. And I enjoyed hearing about the guy standing on a ladder painting. It could be argued that these items actually add to the environment– and probably do when compared with the “blah” ugly chairs in a room.
If a person is going to use camping chairs… at least the “chairs” can be creative and fun and offer a chuckle in the process. Then people might not object so much to their use.
But they still do cause sims to lag unnecessarily. No matter where you are…. stick 30 avs on a sim and it’s going to slow down considerably.
Plus, I have a question: how is it that camping chairs offer any degree of advantage over the competition when every nutcase on the grid is using camping chairs? I mean, if you have 200 sims using camping chairs… what do traffic figures mean anyway? They’ll all have virtually the SAME traffic, as the same number of people sit in the same number of chairs…
One just has to wonder. Don’t they have anything better to do with land costing them $295 a month?
Linden Lab should just shut off the traffic concept for good. It’s as outdated as the old subsidizing sim fees concept that was used to get SL going.