New World Notes: Nylon Pinkney Is Online: Virtual Friends, Real War

Friday, January 10, 2020

Nylon Pinkney Is Online: Virtual Friends, Real War

Indie comic artist and illustrator Danielle "Nylon" Feigenbaum documents dubious adventures in SL, VRChat, and online worlds beyond for New World Notes. Her work has also been featured in Old Pal and the book Blocked: Stories from the World of Online Dating. Follow her on Flickr and Instagram.

Posted on Friday, January 10, 2020 at 01:47 PM in Nylon Pinkey is Online | Permalink

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Heartbreaking. I truly wish that all of this wasn't happening in the world yet it is..

Posted by: Granny | Friday, January 10, 2020 at 08:39 PM

anyone recall Vilerat? eve online?
this shit is scary. I remember clear back to my days in Everquest that every once in awhile someone would say "will be gone for a year or so". they sould sometimes come back an emotionally changed person...

Posted by: Ilsa Hesse | Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 12:04 PM

I like this one. Less BlackMirror "millennial bad" shtick, more emotion like this.

Posted by: Adeon | Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 09:14 PM

This is much better than cartoons punching down on individuals who give Hamlet their opinions on things SL-related. Also better than making fun of overweight people sitting at a computer, lol.

Posted by: Cake | Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 06:30 PM

Try being a Boomer and experiencing what we have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States#Cold_War_era_(1945%E2%80%931991)

And this list from wikipedia is just during the "Cold War" era. I don't mean to bring anybody down. But after a while, you just have to tune it out.

War is Hell.

Posted by: Joey1058 | Monday, January 13, 2020 at 04:45 AM

Joey1058,
Ok, Boomer...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/08/nearly-quarter-americans-have-never-experienced-us-time-peace/?fbclid=IwAR152uVnAN_H7L11uaGI8sKKVxJ8CXBhcZuseFw1BP3WGEFFbzgG7uH0XDE

Posted by: Ilsa Hesse | Monday, January 13, 2020 at 11:55 AM

I imagine a few of the sailors sent off to fight the Barbary Pirates a couple hundred years ago sent letters to friends and family before leaving port.

Posted by: Bixyl Shuftan | Monday, January 13, 2020 at 02:38 PM

I also known loads of military folks in various online spaces (gladly RL people I known just had to complete obligatory service in local bases) and first one I had come across had also been on SL. It was a girl from Iran who was being deployed while doing her mandatory draft thing and she was just a kid in my eyes. Like all those other kids going to war. Hope your friend is fine and comes back as fast as possible.

Posted by: Val | Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 02:36 PM

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