I recently picked up some things to distract myself with, including Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Goodness, it's pretty*. I don't really play graphical computer games, so I find myself comparing it to SL. It's really driven home for me how fugly SL's horizons are and how damaging this is to the overall look of things. It reminds me of the time I added sound to part of my parcel: I didn't realize how big a void its absence left until I added it. Look out into the distance in Oblivion and there are mountains and buildings. Look out into the distance in SL and there's nothing but smoggy haze, or an abrupt cutoff where things stopped being rendered, or gigantic square holes in the ocean. Everything's either dingy looking or blatantly unrealistic. And I know there is only so much LL can do with the horizon, but they could at least make the void ocean look better.

However, SL has better hair! It's like I'm stuck running around in Linden hair when I play Oblivion...


* And addictive. Must drag myself away to answer IMs. Oh, well. I was mostly just breaking lock picks anyway.