Reading Radar

Have you ever wondered “Why am i Here?” No? Well, whether you have or haven’t, you should really get Here now and find the answer to your question.

The inimitable Torley Linden has created himself a sim that you can’t miss. You can try, but you can’t miss it. I tried. I failed. You see, Chug put a link to it in the Destination Station. And since it was there, and I’d read about it in Torley’s blog, I had to check it out. I had no choice, no freewill, no way of getting around it.

But, that’s cool, because it’s actually a fun sim. It’s certainly not like any other sim I’ve been too, and this should be right up Mathaios Brandenburg’s alley. I do admit to growing weary of seeing the same old pretty human cities recreated in cyberspace when anything is possible, imaginative options are endless, and we choose to create a mirror of RL. But Ha HA!! Friendly Greetings, because THIS is not THAT!

Upon teleporting in, you realize You are HERE! somehow.. not sure how, something subtle perhaps.

We all know about the watermelons, the piano, and other famous Torleyisms, but he must have something for big birds too. Not the sesame street kind, but realistic huge birds that could peck your head in.

There’s kind of a watermelony easter island thing going on near the landing area.

There’s also a 60+ prim cube that I really wanted to twist and scramble like a Rubik’s cube, but no such luck. I couldn’t get it to do anything. Bummer. Torley, I wanted to twist your cube, man.

Here I am, trying to blend in with my green shirt. Where’s my PURPLE PANTS, DAMN IT!?

And playing the piano, the way I can only in Second Life.

Up There is a vid tut station for watching video tutorials. I didn’t bother to try to find out if you could change videos. The one they had playing there was about changing SL time or daylight settings or how to be a man that looks like a woman.. I’m really not sure anymore.

From there I went to meditate on what I’d watched, with Big Torley watching over me to make sure I didn’t pee in the pool or something.

Speaking of Big Torley, that’s a head that could fill a sim.

We found a couple weird things, like this interesting dance/pose/something something.

And a man eating plant with a link to some videos on building or something on top of it.

Personally, I kind of dug the Starship Watermelonrind.

Torley also posted some of his philosphy in “read me from across the sim” high letters.

I dug the fact he had a small parcel that allowed terraforming just to let people do it, and play. Very cool. I made what looked like a triple dinosaur horn thingy, whatever dinosaurs had horns. I’m sure some dino or other must have. You can’t be a respectable species if one of your kind doesn’t have a triple horn on its head.

After that, we found a natural pool area with floatation devices. I chose the monkey. It’s my way.

We talked to Jack1.24Gigawatts (actually it was JackSomeReallyLongNumber) for a few minutes and then poofed outta there. But not before I took one last look at the sim called Here, created for and by the man named Torley. Truly the only one-name SLebrity (or celebrity, for that matter) that I can stand. And this sim is very Torley in that it’s education oriented, providing resources for learning more about SL, and just generally showing that you don’t need to take a sim, build a town, and generally bore the shit out of people in some apparent desperate need to make sure they’ll never come back.

So git on ova theya, ya heah? And check out the torley meister’s sim sim, sim ba la dim.