This post may be a bit rambly, is rambly even a word? This post is also likely to be a bit disjointed, but on with the show!<\/p>\n
2012 has not been a good year, to be frank, and Frank isn’t my real name, it has been the worst year of my life. The Villa were crap, in a painful way, but that was put into perspective by a bigger personal tragedy for me that I’m struggling with and will continue to struggle with, which is why my blog has been a bit awol for the last couple of months, emotional pain scars and it leaves long lasting marks but that’s life and we all have to deal with things like this, no matter how painful it is, it comes to pretty much all of us.<\/p>\n
The weather has been crap too, here in England it has been raining for two months and in a land where rain is not a surprise, this amount of rain is depressing, of course we also have a Tory Government and misery and Tory governments do go hand in hand, so there’s that to consider.<\/p>\n
On the virtual world front, I’ve sort of lost my mojo this last year, the excitment has gone, that’s what happens I guess but I’m so out of the loop when it comes to socialising in Second Life. A performer handed me a notecard the other week asking if she could perform at my sim, it actually made me smile that someone made the effort to say they wanted to sing. I’ve always felt that LL have been missing a trick in not promoting Second Life as a live music venue.<\/p>\n
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Sure there’s the issue of small audiences but it gives independent artists a platform to display their wares, maybe if LL could find a way for artists to independently sell their original tunes and allow people to stream that purchased content in their sims, there would be more interest, there’s potential for musicians here.<\/p>\n
What I sometimes wonder with Second Life is, where did the magic go? I can still remember when it was all so exciting, and now, it just doesn’t have that feel, although I hope it has that feel to new users, the lack of interaction from Linden Lab themself seems to have made it feel a much more clinical experience. I miss that enthusiasm, whether I’ll ever get it back I don’t know, I guess it’s a time issue and after a while people feel jaded by the experience, as they do with most experiences, even going to pubs and clubs when you were a lad, loses its appeal as you get older.<\/p>\n
Giant Snail Racing used to be fun, it probably still is! I can still recall going to Club Crobar and meeting people, I never look for a club when I login now, where did it all go wrong? Part of the issue has been trying to do too much, the busier you get, the more you lose that loving feeling.<\/p>\n
The thing is, Second Life remains such a great concept, with such great potential, yet always at the back of my mind I’ve had the feeling that Second Life will be the CP\/M of virtual worlds and that eventually something else will come along with mass appeal that consigns Second Life to the dustbin of history as the close but no cigar venture, virtual worlds will grow, they will become part of our lives, will Second Life be remembered as the pioneering venture or will it be something that people talk of fondly but younger folk feel it basically sucked and the new virtual worlds were the real pioneers.<\/p>\n
The whole thing needs a bit of oomph, a reboot even, just something to grab the headlines and move it all forward.<\/p>\n