"I been very very good at biting my tongue over this PBR fiasco and been an old timer on SL since 2007
Kudo 's to Ziggy starting about this topic. ...Why even biting on ones own tongue for the mess created by another ?
Maybe because being the messenger of inconvenient truths is not wanted, maybe some do not have any issues of lags, maybe because they have the best of best PC 's, maybe because they outsmart the majority, or maybe they only like to pretend. ...I think i did type SOME.
If Second Life is described as a social platform in a virtual environment, a 3D chatroom, then some might ask how much 3D has to be left in order to call it 3D, because when PBR requires draw distances of near nil it becomes pretty flat, 2D. Oh surely,textures can look very pretty on a flat surface, in particular when it even can reflect like a mirror. ...When most Sl inhabitants are no more able to move because of lags, and crashes, the social part is perhaps staring at ones own image in a virtual mirror. ...I wonder what LL will see when it looks at itself. Will it be happy to be left with a Some who have those fast PC 's and are almost as smart as LL is ?
I still remember my time as biker... I could drive in the highest gear adding boost crossing 2 sims by air and manage to land on a track driving on. I could fly ,a fighter jet at 100 knots, crossing sims, or making the most insane acrobatics in one sim, while listening to music, making my bike or plane like an instrument, making it dance.. True, this is non social individual dumb fun, but did I not crash. Now, when visiting a crowded dance club I see orange clouds for at least 5 minutes. If I need to get something from inventory, SL starts lagging and from experience I know I am close to crashing.. sometimes even getting a total inter disconnect... Not much time left for even getting mesmerized by those fancy PBR effects...
Is this what LL and some fortunate users like ?