Life in a Box Chapter 13

cover screen from my latest action video game from GoddGames.

If you stop to think about it, now that you have a little thinking time on your hands, this is the greatest opportunity to be of service if you have ANY online or digital skills.

You don’t have to go to the rock face and start digging. You’re not laying rail or logging or digging or anything that requires your personal presence at the scene.

The Coronavirus has changed all that, and now, you’re limited to what you can do at your desktop, laptop or smartphone.

Well, Hell, for a game developer, it’s total Heaven.

I developed this “Greatest Witch-Hunt Ever” from Trump’s whining and bitching about him being a total victim of everybody all the time, and in particular, his great enemy, the Media.

It’s because they insist on fact-checking the old fat bastard, and he hates that, because he lies, but only when his lips are moving, and some of us wish they didn’t — make of that what you will.

Speaking of LIPS, I’ll be resurrecting “Killer Lips from Outer Space” as a videogame in the new engine, which means a LOT of changes in the levels, because Claude and Dick have come up with some killer smart bots that will drive the average gamer nuts — a short drive at best.

“wake up and live”is the idea behind this fascinating video game.

I include “Nut-Job the Videogame” even though I never released it in full, and the reason I didn’t, is because he said so many stupider things that worked ten times better — but I decided to show you this game cover just to illustrate the point that I can have a 3-D shooter on the side, all ready to go to market, and then decide at the last minute what title I want.

As a matter of fact, because Dick has built in so many editing features to the Godd™ Game Editor, I’m able to change ALL the bots in there at a single blow or, if it’s three levels of bots, it takes three editing moves to make it work.

Sweeping Global Changes are the advantage when you’re making a game wholesale, which means multi-levels, prepared for the market, which means dummies walking into things, over things and under things they should have better sense than to blunder into, but they do, and we have to find those blundering points and eliminate them.

The average player uses about 10% of their attention to play even the most intense video game, and that’s being VERY generous.

This Street Busker would be dead of Covid 19 if he worked the actual street.

Street Busking and crowd busking are a thing of the past — even when “Normality” is restored, which is never, crowd mingling will always be a suspicious activity and full of dread, just like the singles scene — make the wrong move, you could die.

Well, if that isn’t a video game concept, what is?

So we have a street busker’s convention — not for money, just friends having fun together, in a group, a crowd, but always SAFE, because in the virtual ashram, you can’t get hurt.

This is the EMERGENCY HEALING CENTER in the Ashram.

The Healing Center is under reconstruction, as is the LRS Meeting Lodge and other such group activities, to accommodate the entry of a larger number of clients due to the Covid 19 emergency and the changing internet landscape.

The programmers and developers of internet products will be on full throttle to get their things out there while the getting is good.

People are freaked and lonely and need gathering places, and we make them, so it’s our duty to keep making them, and make them fun and relaxing and enjoyable and safe, above all, safe.

That means no games where your Avatar gets infected, which means taking out the medic’s wand in some games, or turning off the “hurt enemy heal friend” function.

Oh, your game doesn’t have a “same team” immunity? Well, all of mine do. You can’t hurt your own team, no matter what you do.

That can be frustrating, if one of your teammates is a Red Team or a Republican, so in games related to current events, that function is off.

Wynton Marsalis Art Backdrop Complete Setup offered for $1.2 million dollars.

This is the famous Wynton Marsalis Performance Backdrop I painted for the IAJE and it’s all licensed for stage, which means it’s been professionally fireproofed for safety, but imagine this is a high-roofed architectural house.

If the buyer can afford this, they have the house to accommodate it, believe me.

This is a very important cluster of paintings and they have a rich history of performance venue placement with the jazz greats of our time.

It is an art buying opportunity that is unmatched in the world — there is nothing else like it, and there won’t be, now that concert crowds are, well — toxic and dangerous, and you can’t even squeeze a band in this close anymore.

This is the end of an era of performance art, and the beginning of the Skype and Zoom Age.

Another example of how easy it is to create a videogame overnight to the news.

First I hadda build the White House, which took me three and a half days to complete and fully furnish — there are tons of screenshots of this build, but suffice it to say, it’s pretty darn exact.

I added the lawn sprinklers and the enormous fountain in the greens, and set up the golf course just on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue in the Prosperity Path Virtual Ashram.

I then drove — and parked — those stretch limousines you see in the driveway, and then I activated the Elderly Real Estate Dealer Avatar I had purchased in the Second Life marketplace, and dropped it onto the porch and had it do a bunch of hip-hop dances for the still camera and for the video FRAPS camera as well — the videos are posted on youtube.

It is my hope to annoy Trump to the degree that he brings a lawsuit — I want my day in court, to confront my accuser, as he so often intones on his own behalf.

I have no bully pulpit, just a snappy retort here and there, and a small group of friends who appreciate the comedy turn without getting hung about the subject matter.

This is my best-selling A-Line dress, Drippy #1.

My very best selling dress ever is this A-Line with the drippies, and as it turns out, it was the first one I ever created in my Real-Life Fashion Shop.

Yes, this is real. You can buy it, you can wear it, you can throw it into the washing machine and drier and you can wear it again and again.

It’s light, falls great and drapes fantastically — like I said, it’s my best, my very best.

I’m going to send you to my online redbubble store, but not the whole store, just the A-Line dresses, something which YOU could also do, with just a little time and attention and skills.

click here for the surprise of your life

See what I mean? Isn’t that f*cking amazing??? Imagine YOU putting up your own designs and fashions and such, and people can order them and buy them.

YOU could get a rep online for your fashions, all it takes is trying. Get a viral — you should pardon the expression — video up about your fashions, do a cake-walk or a runway show, all by yourself.

Use a green-screen effect to put yourself anywhere, and video the stuff and photo it and offer it everywhere, on every social media and marketing frontage you can find that’s free.

This miniskirt came out real good, don’t you think?

This tube mini could be a reputation-builder. It’s wearable, actual and reality-conforming to your present living space — in short, I ship these.

Now, think about this for a moment — what if the shippers will only handle emergency stuff? What happens to ordinary shipments of ordinary commerce?

I’ll tell you what happens — it rots at the docks.

If it can’t rot, it gets water-damaged or crushed or spilled overboard. Somehow, bad things happen when shipping and handling packages and crates doesn’t happen.

So now what? You can SELL your shit, but you can’t SHIP your shit.

Not only that, but no store, no sidewalk sales, no yard sales unless you want a high-risk occupation, certainly no in-shop sales, and if you’re thinking of opening a restaurant right now, you’re a little early — there will be lots of restaurants for sale, because few people want to plunk down $60,000 to $150,000 just to open their doors again and something happens just as bad as the Covid flu.

Yes, it could happen, disaster piled onto disaster, calamity after calamity. It’s happened before and it’s entirely within the scope of possibility.

In case you can’t ship anything,  this might be easier to deliver.

If you can’t ship out real apparel, you certainly can deliver this pixelated pixie’s bikini to anyone equipped with a Second Life Avatar.

Swimming and sailing? Sure we have them, in the virtual ashram, and there’s nothing like a great-looking bikini for a hot day’s sail.

You’ll enjoy flying over the ashram as well.

If you can receive packages, this might be an amazing acquisition.

You can get a giant wall-hanging like this on redbubble — go back to that url I gave you and fish around in there to see my other offerings — there are thousands of them just on that one site alone, and much more on cafepress, zazzle and paom, places where I have my fashions and toys manufactured and from which they can be shipped directly to you.

This wall-hanging bedside poster of the San Francisco jazz scene is available.

I made the original of this for the IAJE and Jazz Artists Association for their fundraisers, and now it’s available on redbubble for a fraction of the price.

Redbubble will ship directly to your client — you don’t have to get into the delivery chain at all, unless you have offered to hand-sign something, which I DON’T recommend — nobody cares about that sort of thing anymore, it’s all about plastic 3-d printouts.

I know it’s not Christmas, but I had this screenshot from the ashram right there, and I just sorta clicked on it, and here it is.

You are more than welcome to come into the ashram and take screenshots for your Christmas cards or any other kind of card you’d like to send to friends.

Please don’t invite just anyone to come in and do the same — even in cyberspace, there’s a limit to crowds, due to server limitations.

Like I said before, we can take a maximum of 100 avatars at any one time, but we often are up to capacity, so a lot more traffic wouldn’t help.

If you want to bring someone into the ashram, get help from a staffer, so it’s not YOU who has to convey the Rules of Engagement in Second Life — there are social rules here.

This is my Fortune-Teller’s Outfit, I hope you like it. The style is Medieval, the maker is long gone, but there are many Live Game Outfitters who will be happy to craft up a Medieval outfit to your size and shape.

I don’t mean that you should appear in public in a Fortune-Teller’s Outfit, but you can get one or make one and pose yourself in it — take a selfie, take several, take a few dozen.

Now use the best one of those photos for your publicity shot, and stay with that single photo for at least a year, unless it’s an instant total failure, in which case, do another photo shoot and don’t use that crappy shot again.

Okay, now find a way to read fortunes.

It doesn’t much matter what system you use, if any. It can also be totally instinctive and tuned into the Askashic Record, in which case you’re just reporting what’s already been written for their so-called “future”, which is, of course, merely another aspect of the present.

Time isn’t what you think it is.

This outfit is sold, but I have others I’m working on, and if you tell me your size, I’ll make something for you.

Am I a seamstress? No. I’m a designer. I hire seamstresses and they follow my pattern and make the dress.

The beads are also for sale, for $375 — they’re EMO beads with antique SILVER spacers and yes, that’s cheap for that quality of necklace, but I’m hoping you’ll have the guts to ask full retail for it and get it, then buy two necklaces and do the same again, many times over.

That’s my Theory of Retail. BOGO , BOGO, BOGO.

BOGO is a very popular expression — it means “Buy One, Get One”, meaning you get two for the price of one, a common offering in television product marketing.

But Wait!

If you call us within the next fifteen seconds, you’ll get a second one FREE!

This would look good on you if you were running across the snow, and I have it in YOUR size, whatever that is!

Problem is, can I ship it? Is it considered a necessity for survival?

To some fashion-conscious snow-bunnies, it is.

Can’t do this. This is a SuperBeacon Training Session that can’t happen anymore.

This is what a SuperBeacon Training Session looks like now, if you eliminate the people in the background.

You can keep your distance when using the SuperBeacon, or work as a Solitary.

The SuperBeacon keeps you in touch and gives you the opportunity to fly outside the body and outside the universe, into worlds yet to be explored and understood.

With the SuperBeacon, it’s easy to contact and read the Akashic Records.

You can exit the body and explore other dimensions. You can enter into higher states of consciousness. You can see the past, present and future.

The SuperBeacon also acts as a Household Guide & Protector, and can be used to attract angelic help, and help from other entities.

This is just one of my many exotic kimonos and hapi coats I have made for sale. If you’re interested, I’ll tell you where you can find them. As a matter of fact, I’ll tell you even if you’re NOT interested, because if you aren’t, perhaps someone else reading this is.

click here to see my paom shop

See what I mean? Not only can you make clothing, you can make all manner of products, both ACTUAL and VIRTUAL, and nobody living can stop you from having fun while you’re doing it, and believe me, creating this stuff is TOTAL FUN and it pays off in other ways, as well — notably in paypal receipts.

I’m not surprised that I’m doing as well now as I was at Christmas — online shopping is all you’ve got now, and you can own your own MALL.

Get with it, Pilgrim. Check out how to make it all work — meet me in the next chapter.

See You At The Top!!!

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