it's gettin' hot in here...

It's not, actually. It's QUITE chilly indeed at Mill Pond right now. We've transformed the whole sim into a veritable winter wonderland of magic for the holiday season and it's shaping up to be a very enjoyable time.



We've got ice skating, an igloo, a gingerbread house, snowpeople, sleds, blizzard machines.. you name it. It's a blast. I've uploaded some photos to flickr so check those out.

My best friend Grace recently posted about the NBC tree lighting event in Second Life and I'm going to have to agree with her on her post. I must say that when I arrived in the NBC 17 sim, I was really impressed with how realistic it was. The texture work was really very good and they captured the 'feel' of the area fairly well. There were free gifts around in cute boxes under the trees (scarves, hats, mittens) and they had the ice skating rink just like Rockefeller Center does. It was all very 'pretty', but it was lacking.

What was lacking? The energy and excitement that you'd feel at the real event. It was very mundane, and dull. You could walk around or ice skate, but that was it. No shopping, no doing anything else really except chatting with folks who were as bored as you were waiting for it to happen. And truly, when the tree was lit? I was awfully 'eh' about it. Plus as Grace mentioned, we were being shot into the air by a griefer that was apparently even more bored than we were.

Yes, it was realistic as far as the textures and 'feel' of the area.. but where was the love? Where was the excitement and energy? Where were the crowds of people huddled close together to keep warm. Where were the puffs of icy breath from people's mouths as they stood waiting for that magical moment when the huge tree would come to life? It wasn't there.

I think that some events translate beautifully into this world, but after attending the tree lighting event.. I also think that some are better left in the 'real' world.