Reading Radar

The discovery of new land was reported on the Linden Blog, and promptly derided by all the usual commenters for many reasons, some of which I’ll get into, but first - the new land: Nautilus. I hope that link works - I stole if off a google search after I forgot to get a slurl while in-world.

As implied by the name, Nautilus hearkens back to maritime civilizations of yore, wherever yore is. So far so good, but then the knowledge that it’s built by the Moles and is part of the Linden Lab project to spruce up second life and auction off land has already enraged the masses, and they spring forth to the blog with witty and bitter comments at the ready. All I have to say is, if you’re one of the people who think it’s the end of the world and the Lindens are out to get you, then yes it is, and yes they are, now go away so we can look at pretty pictures. I’ll let other people drivel endlessly over the politics and ramifications and moan and wail in ashes and sackcloth.

Nautilus is big. It’s over 20 sims, some of which are Open Sims for waterways, some of which are sims built up for land auction and inhabitation and no doubt commercial use. It’s too big for me to capture it all here, but the level of detail in the project is impressive. There’s a lot to see both on land, on sea, and underwater.

There’s two big guys who I guess are either standing guard or selling tickets. They didn’t really ask me for any ID or anything, and I just kind of snuck through. Guess they didn’t notice the katana.

Like I said, there’s a lot to sea, er.. see, so without further talking, which only enrages people and causes them to block me on all those social networks I don’t belong to anymore, here are the visuals.

I’ll admit I don’t really get the glow crystals either, but for the most part, it’s a really nicely done build with great texturing and detail. The moles did a great job, as far as I’m concerned. It will be interesting to see what the auctions bring.