Viajero Pugillist

Absolutely, thanx for trying. LL proudly purports transparency in their stats; it's good you are gently attempting to hold them to that goal.

I'm shocked! Euphemistic, undefined words, and numbers without real meaning!

But it's great they're (partially) trying transparency. The marketing spin is ever-present, but they do seem to be better than most.

Those damned lies and statistics are addicting, though, and the graphs are pretty.

Thanks for the clarification, and I'm glad to hear there is not more than one personality inside you. Being as you are Aussie, I hope and suspect you wouldn't identify too closely with the Monarchy, either. :)

btw, Are your office group discussions virtual, or do you all share a cramped, dingy, smoke-filled newsroom with plastic avatar collector models? Now there's a novel idea for a film setting.

Should be a compelling yarn. More titilating make-a-buck crap for the masses, I betcha.

As an aside, who are the "We", as in "we're quite fond..." and "We're interested to see...".

How may of you are there, or should we address you as "Your Majesty"?

God, doesn't P. ever clam up? So bitterly yet confidently full of it, distorting history and reality destructively, addictively, willy nilly, ad nauseum.

Flying penises are bad enough.

In the short run Lively is also an opportunity. LL needs to find a way to reach and market itself to the percentage of new Lively users who are capable of handling 3D navigation and the multi-layered interface of SL -- people hungry for more.

That would be a whole lot of people new to VW's who will quickly realize that GooogleWorld is so limited and limiting. How can LL reach that segment within Lively?

LL is increasingly being pulled hard in many directions. But they should first prioritize repairing the glaring, growing disconnect with their userbase and their natural advocates by responding far more aggressively to the biggest typical customer complaints. Maybe that means hiring more employees skilled at listening. That is their best possibility to keep and grow market share.

I hope they listen.

It is neat to see how far SL machinima is coming.

Nice scene-setting and production values, and it is a good little story. The lip-syncing and voices are pretty well done, even if the dialog is a wooden and drawn out. Great camera work and music. The Rod Sterling voice at the end was convincing, even if the "moral" wasn't very compelling.

It does suffer from its editing -- it felt very slow. It would have been twice as entertaining if it was half the running time. Edit out some of the gestures that look obviously unconvincing, for example the hand shuffling at the toaster. But more importantly pick up the pace (x2 at least) to keep the story moving--it's admittedly very hard to let go of hard-won footage , but it must be done to keep the final edit crisp. Do these things and then it will indeed be easier to lose sight of the fact that it was shot in a virtual world.

By now we ought to have learned to be wary of the Dick Cheneys of the world deciding how much terrorism emanates from virtual worlds. Those inept prevaricating fuckups will see Al-Qaeda behind any avatar not wearing an American flag pin.

A good clip, both visually as machinima in WoW and SL, and in its scary content. "Bill Moyer's Journal" and "PBS Frontline" have produced insightful kick-ass productions, all available on the web. They do the messy job of straining through the constant copious diarrhea flowing from the mouths of the worst presidency in modern history.

Let's be wary of the Dick Cheneys of the world deciding how much terrorism emanates from virtual worlds. Those inept prevaricating fuckups will see Al-Qaeda behind any avatar not wearing an American flag pin.

A great clip, both visually as machinima in WoW and SL, and in its scary content. "Bill Moyer's Journal" and "PBS Frontline" have produced insightful kick-ass productions, all available on the web.

Yeah, what he said.

So what about it, M.?