Blecch... still have a headache... anyway, I was thinking about Myst and how it looks like Cruikshank melted into Charles Rennie Macintosh with hints of something else on top - Max Ernst? On one hand it's appealing but on the other I have trouble with things that are ultra-tasteful - although I think the moldering, Ernst-like quality saves it from being quite that. Mostly it has limited appeal for me because you can't make anything, and I am just not someone who likes scenery. I get overloaded really quickly - it's almost painful to me to be touring in an area of great natural or manmade beauty as my eyes and brain get full right away and everything after that is trying to squeeze into the same space. That's true in virtual reality as much as in reality. The difference is that with v.r. one can nibble half an hour here then not go back for a week. As well as overload - or perhaps a component of it - is that my thoughts are forcibly dragged outside of me, when I'm by far happier dreaming up things internally.

And if you say, "Not like scenery? But you have a lovely view!" Yes, but it's the same view, more or less, every day. If I had a moving house (like Delta*) I would have a tough time.

*I go back and look at that every year or so - I wish there were new installments.