Last night, your dashing hero (that’s me) battled lag, viewer updates, being unable to move safely and risky teleports to catch a glimpse of Rodvik at Second Life’s eighth birthday celebrations (AKA SL8B). Rodvik didn’t make a speech, he seemed to have saved his speaking for a Massively article (well worth a read). He also didn’t sing, despite Inara Pey’s encouragement. I did ask Inara to encourage Rodvik to get on stage and break out in a chorus of “Alex Mcleish’s Claret and Blue Army” but she refused on the grounds of bad taste… umm some Villa fans would agree.
However whilst Fedora Jones was singing, Rodvik arrived, to much chatter, only for me to ask Inara where the bloody hell he was because I’d only came to see his toga! However I was to be thwarted, as I discovered that amongst mutterings about nanobots and taking over the galaxy, Rodvik had turned into a Spaceship!
Now so far I was managing well, having walked past Lexie Linden who was lurking at the back I’d found myself a spot behind Mal Burns, who was disappearing and returning before my very eyes.
So far so good, at this point Inara Pey buggered off to be closer to the cool people and I took a couple of photographs, and then came the start of the trouble, Inara asked me if I wanted a Teleport and sent a request, I very sensibly said no, as I’d crash …. but like a big red button that says “Don’t Touch!!! ” I found my mouse inexplicably moving towards the accept teleport request and before I knew it, I was in Teleport hell!
Several minutes later I found myself stood in the middle of a chair, at which point I realised Daniel Voyager had vanished, Inara Pey could shed no light on my apparent spotting of Daniel Voyager other than to tell me he’d left! However I then spotted DJ Emma Gerain, said hello and promptly crashed. However I did manage a picture of sorts of the DJ:
After what seemed an age, I managed to close the crashed Second Life client and then groaned as it started to update to the latest build, it really does seem to take ages to disconnect from Second Life these days, especially when the music stream is on. When I returned, people had left, lots of people. Fedora Jones was now amongst the crowd:
I also noticed that the vanishing Daniel Voyager had returned:
I then surveyed the scene of dancing avatars and listened to a few songs by the rather impressive Becca Baxton and decided to call it a day.
So what did we learn here? Well the four sim trick to increase capacity works well to a degree, sim crossings still feel perilous and beware of geeks bearing teleport gifts!