Ok, so maybe I’m a bit late in noticing this but my SL time is somewhat limited these days, but I read the Linden Prize Shortlist and noticed Sion Chicken was on it.

WTF?

Sion Chicken? As in those laggy arsed irritating, pecking virtual pissing hens? What?! The Linden $10,000 Prize? Huh?

Ok, so excuse my outburst. But honestly, that’s the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard. Almost.

The Linden Prize claims will be rewarded, according to the Linden Lab website, to “one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.”

SO maybe I sound cynical, but has anyone’s real life actually been positively impacted by their virtual chickens? Really? Does anyone wake up in a morning thinking, “My God, the world is good and it’s all thanks to my pixel chickens?”

I know people will say it’s because others were able to create a business by selling accessories etc, but if that qualifies for the short list, what about Loco Pocos, which are incredibly cool avatars that people can sell accessories for!? They’re less laggy too, by the way….

It’s actually fairly infuriating, particularly when you consider the typesof projects it’s up against. How on Earth are Sion Chickens in the same league as Open University? Really?

It’s madness, I tell you.

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