it ain't there yet

[egypturnash]

prickvixen is visiting hatch for the weekend. On an idle whim, I turned on her computer and connected to There, for the second time ever. (Hope you don't mind, Ashy.)

I puttered around for a bit. The same feeling that I originally got when playing it, that it's at once fascinating and boring, returned. Except this time the fascination of the new was gone. Running around and looking at all the plastic Barbie and Ken dolls, knowing that I, too, was a plasticy Barbieoid, was empty and depressing. I didn't want to try and strike up a conversation with any of the plastic people. I knew from watching over Ashy's shoulder that most of them are quite dull. I didn't care to explore, as I haven't put real money into the system and don't have enough pennies to buy a dune buggy or hoverboard to get around the immense continent; I had no luck running about looking for a forgotten one before boredom kicked in. I've seen many of the Cool Places in There looking over Ashy's shoulder.

Add in the fact that I'm sitting at a Windows machine instead of a Mac, grumbling at some of the weird interface things that come with that, using a keyboard that feels uncomfortably flimsy as all PC keyboards tend to*, and is just Not Mine and configured to someone else's preferences...

I'm back on my Mac as I write this, with a muck client window open, idling as I write this and eat supper. Pretending to be a perfect plastic person like everyone else is boring, even when it's 3D-modelled. I'd still rather be a fabulous monster via text. I don't see what the fascination of There is. Maybe I'm immune to the subliminals. Ashy's been so hypnotized by it I figured I'd at least find it amusing...

I'm going to bed shortly because I'm suffering under an unexpected short deadline, and must go in to Spümcø tomorrow to try and deal with it. Blah. Spending the weekend there will mean I have no qualms about blowing off the later half of the week for E3, but I find I really need the break regularly to stay sane.

*not that Mac keyboards are necessarily better; since the iMacs, they've been pretty horrible. The ones that they've put on the latest machines, the white-key varieties, feel nice, but the black-key keyboards are really nastily mushy.

Comments

I know this is wildly left-field...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...but gah, you're right. I've spent $60 and up on a keyboard... only to return it, or wear it out a month later in one case.

Know what keyboard I'm using now, and have been for over a decade at this point? One from a dead Monorail 'hardened luggable' computer, the ones IBM used to make, and that Braille still uses by the boatload as their 'portable computers' to send with folks that are quite likely to inadvertantly bash holes in walls with them, or dunk them in a puddle on accident.

I know mine's been run over by a truck, had a Big Fat Fanboy stumble across and trip over it when I dropped it dragging my computer out, and had numerous other hair-raising encounters of the kinetic kind... and it still works as good as ever, so long as I pop off all the keys once every couple years and go at it with a toothbrush for 30 minutes. :-)

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I've not been hypnotized for it for at least a month and a half. My interest in it now is simply to take it over by incorporating as many of my creations in it as possible... and once that's well underway, cultivating some sort of fan base. :) This is working out fairly well so far.