I read this weekend that one of my favorite places to hang out in Second Life has shut its doors and gone away. The outgrowth of one of my favorite podcasts, the Harping Monkey was a fun Irish pub style place, where I first learned how to swordfight and where I enjoyed Irish music and cool art shows and the like.
And now, it’s gone.
This is part of the Second Lifecycle, which I am starting to understand as this:
- Discover Second Life. Be amazed, confused, and bewildered.
- Spend every waking moment in Second Life. Learn building and scripting.
- Decide to buy land.
- Decide to open a business.
- Get your first Tier bill
- Have some kind of dramatic explosion associated with your land or your business.
- Get your second Tier bill.
- Stop hanging out on SL so much.
- Get your third Tier bill. Ask yourself, “Why am I paying so @$@$@##$ much for something that does not give me joy?
- Close your business, sell your land.
- Hang out every so often, just to see neat things, play with nice toys, and talk to those folks who are still in SL whom you care about
I don’t enjoy flux in my life. I’m one of those people who doesn’t like to move, doesn’t like to change things. So, Second Life really kicks my butt in the area of change.
But maybe it’s a Change / Chaos simulator. Maybe it’ll be good for helping me get over the anxiety over change.
Anyway, Harping Monkey in SL, you were a fun place. Sorry to see you go. I loved your whole setup, from the Tudor-style pub to the charmingly-hidden smoochie-booth to the parties we had there.
And if you want to still enjoy Harping Monkey goodness, the podcast, forum, and website are still up and running and will be probably long after Second Life is but a memory.
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6 Comments
1. Sam replies at 26th March 2007 um 4:49 pm :
“Anyway, Harping Monkey in SL, you were a fun place. Sorry to see you go. I loved your whole setup, from the Tudor-style pub to the charmingly-hidden smoochie-booth to the parties we had there.”
Sweet Jesus, you need to get a real life, bro.
2. Sam Chupp replies at 26th March 2007 um 4:59 pm :
Hey, I got a real life. Sometimes too much of one! Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy a VR one too. Isn’t that what SL is about?
3. Cyn replies at 27th March 2007 um 2:08 pm :
Obviously the other Sam believes that your entire life is displayed online! That would be both impossible (although with the employment of an amanuensis, perhaps supplied with a digital video camera, maybe not?) and more than slightly tacky.
SL, by its very nature, has to run on internet time. Or is metaverse time even faster?
4. Vint Falken replies at 29th March 2007 um 10:22 pm :
I’m in phase two I guess. I’m not falling for phase three though. :p
5. Vint Falken replies at 29th March 2007 um 10:24 pm :
PS. I love the little flag/OS/browser thingie… How do I…? Plugin?
6. Cyn replies at 30th March 2007 um 5:37 pm :
I think that started happening when I upgraded to the most recent version of Firestats. And look at that - it isn’t the “most recent” any more! They release updates like all these plants release pollen this time of year.
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