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The other part is that you can more easily host a server on a local network than on internet platform. That includes even creating a browser site that is entirely contained on that server and can't be linked once the VPN is shut down. It will cost quite a bit in IT equipment, but, if you're thinking on Burning Man scales, it's certainly not that costly.

To start, you probably have to create a closed circuit environment (such as, say, a virtual private network ) that exists solely as a virtual venue.

I think it's an ambitious idea that could be extremely rewarding. The problem I see is that trying to present this creation over the internet means that it's impossible to delete the source material itself completely.

Right. Extending that thought, what makes such a project really special is that the original performance or piece is completely lost to time. The only way anyone can vicariously experience it is by piecing it together through multiple recountings by those people that witnessed it first hand.

I'm just focused on the delete part. There wouldn't be a point of creating something just to delete it... unless the point was to create a lasting impression of that creation in those who viewed it: an impression that outlasts and, perhaps, eventually replaces the original creation.

OK, Cool. Making sure I'm not persona non grata or anything.

You know, I was on the Discord and then I didn't log on for a few months, and now I'm booted again. Feelsbadman.

Join the club.

Church's is so much better.

Of course not. What I’m getting at is that Burning Man performances aren’t intended to exist without audience participation, and that’s difficult when the performance starts out as a recording. That’s one of the specific conditions of your OP.

You already got one predictable vote.

I don't think that's what she's talking about. I don't think it's possible simply because there is a fundamental flaw to the medium. Theoretically, events such as Burning Man are perpetuated through a lens - as in the performances are transitory but the representation of these performances persist through the perspective of the attendees either through a photographic or videographic lens. There is separation between those lenses and the performers that is typically filled by other attendees, the natural setting, or even other performances in the periphery. In a virtual space, the lens is explicitly the domain of the performer instead of the audience and there is, consequently no separation. Furthermore, there is the issue of the inherent permanence of everything that exists on the internet; even assuming a recording of the event is saved by the virtual attendee, thus becoming the property (not in the legal sense) of his or her perspective, and promptly deleted from the performers space, the recoding continues to exist in near perpetuity in some form devoid of any additional lens space.

Do I have COVID?

That's why Mix is the storyteller for our times....

Fuck that. He’ll meet Brady and an hour later he’ll be his personal banker.

See, the only lyrics that stand for me in that song are him the " You lied to me," In the refrain. Which, it's also usually no help.

I did my patriotic duty.

I wouldn't want to meet J K Rowling because I just know RAC_G is going to show up on her scooter with a sledgehammer.

That's got a catchy beat.

You are lying.

That was the best Gundam.

Your entry was kind of half-assed.