A proposito de mais um artigo ignaro sobre a SL…

Fui eu ‘a pagina do Portucalis, quando me deparei com a chamada de atencao para mais um escrito a revelar como o preconceito grassa por mentezinhas ignaras e sem capacidade reflectiva.

Por capacidade reflectiva, classifico a capacidade de ter o bom senso de nao se pronunciar sobre o que se desconhece.

O artigozito pode ser acedido por aqui:

http://braingoo.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/but-i-already-like-my-first-one/

 

Eis um excerto elucidativo:

“For those of you who don’t know what Second Life is, well, I really can’t help you.

Ok, ok, I’ll try. But really, I don’t think there are enough words in the dictionary to describe this online anomaly. It’s just too… freakish. Second Life is, in a nutshell, a social networking site on crack. It’s the circus side-show second-cousin of the Godzilla of the social network internet world. It’s like Alice in Wonderland meets Carson Kressley throwing a giant virtual masquarade tea party in the middle of the Japanese Times Square and requiring everyone to smoke a big fat peyote blunt right before they arrive, then stealing their wallets when they get there. It’s like… well you get the idea.”

 As amigas Summer e Winter la responderam com candura.

Mas eu nao estava para isso, ate porque conheco, por dentro, algumas das referencias que o “erin” fez. Assim resolvi responder-lhe “a letra”, pelo menos penso que o fiz…

Sendo esta pagina minha, porei aqui o que la escrevi – provavelmente ninguem lera’, mas enfim:

Portugal Decosta said,

July 17, 2008 @ 10:50 am

Well erin,
I find this line very curious:

“I expected to get some negative feedback about this post…”

Meaning you were just provoking people.

I’m always amazed by people who go on and on posting about issues they know nothing about.
But that’s why there are millions of blogs.
Otherwise there would be just a few…

I wonder why Second Life is bizarre while “Mario and Myst” aren’t.
By the way, what on Earth are they?
It’ funny to know you spent “forty bucks” to “get hours of entertainment”.
Well, what productive outcome resulted from that $40?

Second Life is a virtual environment where spending $40 can create real value.
Can actually generate more money!
Are you able to do that in “Mario”?

Tell me erin, who is more alienated:
a person that spends money to play with a machine and writes blogs, which may, or may not, be read by other human beings;
or people that use a FREE virtual environment to:
see friends;
to have fun;
to visit virtual exhibitions;
to listen to music;
to watch movies;
to appreciate theatre or ballet performances;
to create virtual reproductions of monuments or any other art form;
to deliver classes;
to learn;
to build up companies;
to have corporate meetings;
to express their creativity as never before?
All of the above without leaving home or spending money – I never spent despite being a SL resident for more than a year – and with the least possible environmental impact!

You spend four bucks on a latte a couple nights a week to be with a few friends…
Well, I spend NOTHING and I can be with hundreds of friends from all over the world without leaving my room!
Who is better off?

At least I’m not ripped off by that capitalist juggernaut called Starbucks, which besides ripping off its customers, employees and suppliers, steals other countries’ coffee production areas names, to make even more money.
Thank you for contributing for global poverty!
Keep spending your $4 in Starbucks and keep Howard Schultz happy and filthy rich!

PS If you go to Caribou Coffee it’s pretty much the same…

Bem.
O “amigo erin” ja leu a minha resposta!

erin said,

July 17, 2008 @ 10:58 am

I can assure you that provocation was not my intention, and I’m very sorry that you are offended by my post. Thanks for the feedback.

Parece que a resposta foi entendida como tendo sido “a letra” tal como eu queria.

Vamos la’ ver se lhe serviu de emenda…