rec room end, vignettes
Mar. 31st, 2026 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
comix64rec room, the roblox-like hangout game, is shutting down this year. it was kind of a shock i guess, but i dont really feel strongly about it. i had a junior account for most of my time on there. i played the game without hearing any voices, i couldnt talk to anyone since i had a junior account. it allowed for a lot of introspection. i mean, you're running around firing paint at floating heads and bodies, not hearing anyone at all, just the pip of the paintgun. at the time i had no music player or library, especially on the headset, and the game's soundtrack was very quiet. i backed up my photos to Mnemosyne. i realize i missed some devices on that list i made... let us make this! a footnote1! but anyway, i spent a lot of time on rec room. i wouldnt say i was a big fan, because i also had long periods of forgetting the thing existed. i havent booted up the game at all this year, for example, and so i will never again play the game. i was gifted a couple gift cards for the game and had some friends (which is strange because to reiterate i was incapable of communication on the game for most of my time playing it2) and so it shutting down now is still kind of unfortunate for me even though i play it sparingly these days. i won't miss it too much. i won't miss it enough to break down and such. i can live with rec room shutting down. there're other things i spend most of my time on anyway.
i like Infinite Jest because it's a series of vignettes. i mean, it starts to be the same 3 or so settings and characters, but i still like how it's set up, a series of vignettes. my love for vignettes extends to photos and videos too, which is why i really like the early Flickr style, because it feels very lived in. photos as an art are good because they do not speak. they are something to percieve. this is good to communicate vignettes. and videos are good for slice of life vignettes, which is another good quality of that kind of art. for example, this flickr photo of someone's wedding3 is a good vignette, because it starts to introduce characters and a setting, and stops there. or this flickr video4, which is a good vignette because it also introduces characters and a setting, but also puts in a few events, that is, a snippet of dialog. i like these sorts of arts.
1 Mnemosyne is a NAS, which is to say that it is a little Linux box that has some complex RAID disk setup, which is to say it holds a lot of backups of pirated or familial media that're splayed between 3 hard drives, and serves them to any hungry 'puters or media players on the LAN.
2 however, i did have a normal account for a while, and i vividly remember walking into the main center room thing which was called ^RecCenter, and hearing a young'n, maybe 6, screaming a racial slur. i mean, i kind of expected it; that's just how it is online these days.
3 i pick this image specifically because it happened to be in my favorites. why was it in my favorites, this random wedding photo? because the guy on the closest-right of the image looks a spectacular 1:1 identical to how i pictured James O. Incandenza. which is kind of striking to find perusing a wedding album, isn't it? like, that's just James O. Incandenza right there. identical.
4 isn't it kind of ridiculous flickr allows videos? since when was that a thing? what're you, youtube? i wont go out and say stick to photos, though, because flickr's rules on ownership/capture make it so videos have to be similar to photos, that is, they're all as vignette-y as the photos are, there's no ridiculous how-to videos or reviews of products or anything.
i like Infinite Jest because it's a series of vignettes. i mean, it starts to be the same 3 or so settings and characters, but i still like how it's set up, a series of vignettes. my love for vignettes extends to photos and videos too, which is why i really like the early Flickr style, because it feels very lived in. photos as an art are good because they do not speak. they are something to percieve. this is good to communicate vignettes. and videos are good for slice of life vignettes, which is another good quality of that kind of art. for example, this flickr photo of someone's wedding3 is a good vignette, because it starts to introduce characters and a setting, and stops there. or this flickr video4, which is a good vignette because it also introduces characters and a setting, but also puts in a few events, that is, a snippet of dialog. i like these sorts of arts.
1 Mnemosyne is a NAS, which is to say that it is a little Linux box that has some complex RAID disk setup, which is to say it holds a lot of backups of pirated or familial media that're splayed between 3 hard drives, and serves them to any hungry 'puters or media players on the LAN.
2 however, i did have a normal account for a while, and i vividly remember walking into the main center room thing which was called ^RecCenter, and hearing a young'n, maybe 6, screaming a racial slur. i mean, i kind of expected it; that's just how it is online these days.
3 i pick this image specifically because it happened to be in my favorites. why was it in my favorites, this random wedding photo? because the guy on the closest-right of the image looks a spectacular 1:1 identical to how i pictured James O. Incandenza. which is kind of striking to find perusing a wedding album, isn't it? like, that's just James O. Incandenza right there. identical.
4 isn't it kind of ridiculous flickr allows videos? since when was that a thing? what're you, youtube? i wont go out and say stick to photos, though, because flickr's rules on ownership/capture make it so videos have to be similar to photos, that is, they're all as vignette-y as the photos are, there's no ridiculous how-to videos or reviews of products or anything.
