Comments on: Outback Online…WTF?

By: james mitchel

james mitchel — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:34:49 +0000

lol – interesting how everyone assumes that outback online is going to be set in the outback or be about outback as a single territory..

By: dealicious » Outback Online - darauf haben wir gewartet

dealicious » Outback Online - darauf haben wir gewartet — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:55:20 +0000

[...] verbinde das australische outback mit gÃ¤hnender Leere. Etwas drastischer hat das Duncan Riley von 901am formuliert: As an Australian Iâ€™m naturally inclined to say lots of good things about the project, [...]

By: Vince Williams

Vince Williams — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:00:54 +0000

You Aussies really get around. I travel a good bit around the world, and wherever I go, I’m sure to meet an Aussie. It’s always a pleasure.

By: Vince Williams

Vince Williams — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:53:05 +0000

I think you misunderstood me, Duncan, I was acknowledging that they are similar, but that there is more of the Outback.

I do know my geography, unlike so many of my countrymen, including our president, who is not a true Texan, by the way.;-)

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:53:05 +0000

Sorry Vince,
The outback is the size of Western Europe, Texas is about the size of Spain isn’t it?

By: Vince Williams

Vince Williams — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:50:43 +0000

I think it’s perfectly appropriate that the main developer of this project is from Texas.

With all due respect to my Aussie friends, who as a group, I hold in high esteem–the Outback ain’t got nothin’ on West Texas for sheer emptiness and desolation, except that there’s more of it.

If Outback Online is populated by plenty of Aussies, I’m sure their outsized, colorful personalities will more than compensate for the lack of content in the environment.

And there’s got to be an Australian Beach Online subculture to accommodate all those surfers.;-)

By: Vincent Blog-potato

Vincent Blog-potato — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:17:31 +0000

I’m really looking forward to the stories of all the virtual tourists lost in the virtual outback with a compact hire car and a small bottle of water. You forgot to mention the wonderful wildlife of the outback. I would be disappointed if virtual users didn’t frequently drop dead from spider and snake bite or get attacked by crocodiles when they go swimming.

That reminds me that Survivor – Outback was the lamest series so far as contestants complained about the heat, the flies, the lack of food, the flies, the mossies and the flies.

You could include “the bush” which is rocks and trees and shrubs and the tropical rain forests of North QLD and the old growth forests of Tasmania. It’s not all red dirt!

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:11:23 +0000

Not all of the outback is red dirt and scrub. Some of it is brown dirt and scrub. A very small bit of it doesn’t have any scrub either. But yes, I agree with your point.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:32:07 +0000

Martin
you and I agree. Outback=red dirt :-) People who dream differently have NEVER been there :-)

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000

Most folks around the world think the “Outback” is this awesome, tough country kind of place – a “must see”.

Balony! As a city boy myself, I’ve spent some time in the “Outback” and trust me … there’s not much to write home about: endless dirt, dry, hot and … ’tis about it. It’s a wasteland of (red) dirt that goes on and on and on…

I’ll stick to the East Coast any day as the far majority of us Aussies do.

Sorry to spoil the “outback” dream, folks. :-)