This is all too much like SL

[animats]

Someone in Russia made a game that's intended to be boring - "It's Winter"

It’s nighttime and you find yourself in a small, dark flat in a nondescript suburb in Russia. You look out of the window and see the courtyard covered in snow, illuminated by street lamps and the cold neon glare of store fronts. You turn on the light switch and look around your apartment.

You can make eggs on toast, turn on the radio, take a bath, and take out the trash. You leave the flat and go for a walk around the deserted courtyard. The corner shop and beauty salon are both closed and the playground is eerily empty. In fact, there are no people to be seen wherever you go. “Nothing awaits you: there is no chance to get out, no room for adventures, nor a breathtaking plot. All you have to do is experience the precisely detailed, pixelated mundanity of the world around you."

Somehow that feels all too familiar.

[Ceka Cianci]

I would have made everything around me..all he can make is eggs on toast.. hehehe

 

[Drakonadrgora Darkfold]

1 hour ago, animats said:

Someone in Russia made a game that's intended to be boring - "It's Winter"

It’s nighttime and you find yourself in a small, dark flat in a nondescript suburb in Russia. You look out of the window and see the courtyard covered in snow, illuminated by street lamps and the cold neon glare of store fronts. You turn on the light switch and look around your apartment.

You can make eggs on toast, turn on the radio, take a bath, and take out the trash. You leave the flat and go for a walk around the deserted courtyard. The corner shop and beauty salon are both closed and the playground is eerily empty. In fact, there are no people to be seen wherever you go. “Nothing awaits you: there is no chance to get out, no room for adventures, nor a breathtaking plot. All you have to do is experience the precisely detailed, pixelated mundanity of the world around you."

Somehow that feels all too familiar.

There are several games out there that have sl flavoring.

[Rachel1206]

6 hours ago, animats said:

Someone in Russia made a game that's intended to be boring - "It's Winter"

...

It is part of an art project including poems, videos, music. A commentary on modern busy life as well as not least the big games where contemplation and reflection rarely are a hallmark.

Now, Penn & Teller did something similar in the mid 1990'ties with the real time game Desert Bus, where the player drives a bus from from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, in real time going max 45 mph (72 km/h). It takes 8 hours and you do not encounter anybody, see anything but empty desert.

[Garnet Psaltery]

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

[BelindaN]

1 hour ago, Rachel1206 said:

It is part of an art project including poems, videos, music. A commentary on modern busy life as well as not least the big games where contemplation and reflection rarely are a hallmark.

Now, Penn & Teller did something similar in the mid 1990'ties with the real time game Desert Bus, where the player drives a bus from from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, in real time going max 45 mph (72 km/h). It takes 8 hours and you do not encounter anybody, see anything but empty desert.

That reminds me of an experience my friend told me. Flying to Australia, crossing the west coast at whatever thousand feet, the terrain quickly changes to red desert, and stays like that for five hours. That's a lot of empty red desert.

[Conifer Dada]

I watched the video and my first thought was 'Sansar without sunshine". 

I wonder if some people will get trapped in the miserable apartment game, addicted to the hope that interesting new features will come along one day!

[Drakonadrgora Darkfold]

1 hour ago, Conifer Dada said:

I watched the video and my first thought was 'Sansar without sunshine". 

I wonder if some people will get trapped in the miserable apartment game, addicted to the hope that interesting new features will come along one day!

Yep some people will. Because they are hopelessly and foolishly optimistic about things getting better. 

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

10 hours ago, animats said:

Somehow that feels all too familiar.

Isn't it just that they're all in lockdown?

[CaerolleClaudel]

5 hours ago, Conifer Dada said:

I wonder if some people will get trapped in the miserable apartment game, addicted to the hope that interesting new features will come along one day!

Now that *does* remind me of SL!

[Scylla Rhiadra]

More Dostoevsky than SL, I'd have said.

I get the point, but to some degree, and to a much greater extent than RL, your SL is what you make of it. Mine is filled with people. In fact, sometimes my challenge is getting "alone time."

[Madelaine McMasters]

14 hours ago, animats said:

turn on the radio

 

[Rowan Amore]

Do you even have an avatar?  I didn't watch all if it but it's weird with things just appearing out of nowhere.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

For Madeleine, I'll see your Hartford and raise you

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbFydtLF-Y

[Scylla Rhiadra]

Well, if we're going THAT route . . .

Just dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio, right?

 

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

Can't seem to find it on YooTooBe but I'd follow on with the Young Farmers quartet doing "Hay Hay - Ewe Ewe - Git orf of moi grownd"

Edited November 29, 2020 by Profaitchikenz Haiku
It's me, what other reason than sperlink?

[Garnet Psaltery]

 

[Prokofy Neva]

In the real Russia, there wouldn't be a corner store that is so convenient like that.