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Second Life “Winter” Festival - good old ethnocentrism

Started by Lowell Cremorne · 11 months ago

Linden Lab have announced their fourth annual winter festival. I can’t resist making an obvious comment - who decided that a virtual world has seasons that match the US / Europe seasonal cycle?
Ethnocentrism at its very best. Bah humbug.
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Ben T. Johnson
1 year ago

Generally, the people who make the program can do whatever they want, 'cause they're God, y'know?
Besides...now you'll get to know what normal seasons are like! bwwwAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! ahem...sorry...

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Marianne McCann
1 year ago

/me shrugs

SF, CA, USA based company, so they're likely going ot mirror what they see outside their door. Likewise, I'm sure the Winter festival started when SL was largely a US thing.

Frankly, though, I'm not gonna get worked up one way or another. Genocide in Darfur or this, you know?

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Illyria Illyar
1 year ago

The reason that SL follows the European weather cycle is simple. Linden Labs is based in the United States. Nuf said.

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Alyx Sands
1 year ago

*Yawn* What a non-issue. Change it into an event in July, and the other half of the population will complain. Hobson's, really.

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