Sim Crash Featured In Torley Linden’s Holiday Film Special

by Alphaville Herald on 30/12/08 at 6:51 pm

PN Griefer attack's aftermath confuses Linden film maker

by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media/Film critic


“Technically its not off line – I’m right here… ohhh I don’t have a good feeling about this… hahahahaha … oh… what are those particles?…. this is just so surreal…where is everyone?” – Torley Linden

The Holidays wouldn’t be complete without some snow-themed seasonal movie viewing, and a trio of films – two of them from the daring young director Torley Linden – left this viewer feeling that virtual snowball fights have now been covered from all possible angles, with varying degrees of artistic success.

Filmmaker TheGreatGigantor of the PN griefers documented a grifer attack and sim crash of the Linden Lab snowball fight event in Hatton sim with a rather grainy cinema verité offering that follows the well known PN plot line – cubes falling from the sky, resulting ultimately in a sim crash and involuntary logout. However, in a nod to the festive season, a blackface Santa Claus texture lightens the mood. Normally this sort of film would not be worth comment, but it explains a curious dream-like sequence in Torley Linden’s live film covering the various Linden snowball fight sims.

At 3:15 into his video, Torley Linden encounters a deserted sim, brings up the map and sees that the sim is listed as offline. Torley’s monologue is pure comedy gold as the watermelon-obsessed game god slowly realizes that something is not right – then quickly flees the scene, as he realizes that some players might not be following the Linden friendly greetings script.


Winterfaire – Residents vs. Lindens Snowball Fight! from Torley on Vimeo

Rounding out the offerings is a high-sheen Linden marketing hype video that was featured in the Linden Blog. Notable for an over reliance on quick cuts and various forms of gaussian blur filters, this film presents the sort of idealized image of the metaverse that the Lab hopes will help erase some of the bad feelings created over the last few months.

However, the film is listed as a joint effort between Torley Linden and his RL wife Ravenelle, and the Linden-by marriage status Ravenelle has achieved — along with favored access to the Linden publicity machine — is not likely to sit well with residents who might wonder if the playing field in M Linden’s game is level.

8 Responses to “Sim Crash Featured In Torley Linden’s Holiday Film Special”

  1. George Zimmer, Founder and CEO of Men's Warehouse

    Dec 30th, 2008

  2. Alyx Stoklitsky

    Jan 1st, 2009

    Cool sim crash bro.

    Also that marketing video is utter shite.

  3. mootykips

    Jan 1st, 2009

    guys i don’t think you’re supposed to rely on the reaction from a linden to make stuff funny

    dropping boxes is a little old hat don’t you think

  4. Gomalt

    Jan 9th, 2009

    “However, the film is listed as a joint effort between Torley Linden and his RL wife Ravenelle, and the Linden-by marriage status Ravenelle has achieved — along with favored access to the Linden publicity machine — is not likely to sit well with residents who might wonder if the playing field in M Linden’s game is level.”

    You say that like it’s a bad thing. You know Real Life works that way too, right? That’s how most people get jobs, they become friends with someone working there. Don’t be a sore turd about it. The key to getting places in life is knowing the right people. Props to her for meeting a nice guy and then being invited to work with a great company, don’t try and make it sound like a bad thing.

  5. Anonymous

    Jan 10th, 2009

    that marketing video would have convinced me that SL is a piece of shit with ugly graphics if I had been an outsider.

    choppy ass framerates.

    linden labs should really fix their shit before marketing it. hurrr

  6. Archie

    Jan 16th, 2009

    Never mind all those gas emissions

    Tell us -did the nasty boys get canned and how?

    I want to know what happens to these creeps.

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