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- SLINSIDER profiles Kasteel Verloren -- 9 days after SECONDSEEKER profile of 13 March -- slow-assed copycats (or dog, or whatever -- Akela Talamasca is a furry av) can't find anything else to do but plagiarize another website?
- MOBILE AVENUE hyping Calvin Klink crap
Their advertising blurb says: "Situated on Avalon, the first island in Second Life to command a real-world land value..." -- which is absolute bullshit, classic marketing hype with no relation to reality, ALL ISLANDS IN SL HAVING REAL-WORLD VALUE SINCE YOU HAVE TO PAY REAL-WORLD MONEY TO GET ONE. Avalon is owned by RIVERS RUN RED, marketeer droids who are associated with "Hamlet Linden" who became one of the first SL bought-and-paid-for mouthpieces for marketeer droids - a pseudo-journalist from the start who sold out FIRST to Linden Lab, then to a corporate advertising flackhouse (the same flacks who threatened me over the name of my gallery/shop in Oct/Nov 2005, and who I told to fuck off).
- Someone tell me why SLB's search tags are still FUCKED?
I had set up a search for JEWELRY: HIGH TO LOW (price)... and got various things like rugs, dresses/gowns, and fruit & cheese plates included. Obviously, CATEGORIES worked before, but TAGS do NOT work. The search function throws in random crap that has nothing to do with what the shopper is looking for. Why should anyone waste their time on this fucked-up "shopping" site when they cannot find what they're looking for?
And running a search for FEMALE SKINS is even worse - everything tagged with FEMALE gets thrown at you, which is an even WORSE waste of time.
TELL FLIPWIT (AND THE REST OF THE SHEEPWITS) TO FIX THE FUCKING TAGS!
- I was hoping the Hare Krishna announcement was a bad joke... one more bunch of religious wackos in SL....
I'm one of the aging-hippie Baby Boomers; I had friends who got into this chanting cult and, like people who get into $cientology, had to stage an ESCAPE to get away. One friend's husband got sucked in while in drug rehab -- he forced her to wear saris, walk behind him in public, live in a filthy commune, quit her job and stay indoors all the time, doing nothing but chanting and bowing to all the men -- she was not allowed to use the phone, or watch TV, or listen to the radio, and the kids were taken out of public school and taught by their father (who was barely educated enough to read himself). She finally begged her parents to come and rescue her, and hid out on the West Coast until her husband's parents got HIM deprogrammed. She still filed for divorce, and got custody of the kids, and her husband spent some time in a mental facility. The entire cult is insane, and run by authoritarian "gurus" and "masters" who demand unquestioning faith and obedience -- very Nazi in operation.
- CALVIN KLEIN'S NEW IDEA STINKS...
It's not bad enough that every asshole landowner in SL can inflict their bad taste in music on anyone that flies over their land -- now we've got this ARROGANT MEGABUCKS CORPORATE ASSHOLE and the marketeer droids in RIVERS RUN RED trying to inflict perfumes on us too?
You know, when I went to the local mall during the pre-Christmas shopping season, some little bitch tried to squirt perfume at me, and I told her I'd beat her fucking face in. Most commercial perfumes make me sneeze my head off, and I won't tolerate someone attacking me with a squirt bottle of ANYTHING without asking my permission FIRST. I don't CARE what you want to smell like; when I'm online, I don't WANT to SMELL you -- if I wanted to find someone with perfume/cologne to talk to, there's a local bar I can go to. If meeting you online includes having to SMELL you, I'll pass.
- MAN BREAKS PENIS
Now all we need is an SL attachments designer to create a bent wienie, so all the sex-happy SL-ers can prove what enthusiastic bonkers they are.
- You thought I was kidding about "INVENTORY BLOAT" and LAG?
Note the comment by Sansarya Caligari (discussing how it feels to log in as an alt):
| " I felt like I was in strange skin, even though my alt has my same shape, skin, hair, and some of the same inventory items that Sansarya has (though I do have to say what a difference it is performance-wise to own only 1,667 items as opposed to 34,559 items, sheesh!)." |
Now go back and read my PROPOSITION 1392 again.
May 2007: Apparently, Caligari thinks I "hate" her inventory. What a witless twit - I simply noticed her blog comment and used it to illustrate my point about inventory bloat and lag. If she's so damn stupid she thinks I "hate" her inventory, it's no big surprise that she's still playing "pretend-married" in SL with her cartoon character/avatar and a married man's cartoon character/avatar, after wringing her hands and whining on her blog about him not dumping his wife and kids for her whiny ass. That she "retaliates" for my simply citing her blog comment by such asinine name-calling on her blog without thinking about the point I was making simply proves her stupidity, but then she's hanging out with the self-important and pettily vicious morons in the Second Citizen forums.
- SL HACKED:
Great -- now some little script kiddie has 250,000 alts. Real professional security, Flip.
"On September 6 we discovered evidence that an intruder was able to access the Second Life database through the web servers"... .
Stupid twits. The asshole lawyer that gamed the webserver to get access to an auction before it was open already did this, MONTHS AGO. Did you really think no-one else would figure out another way to do it?
- POLICE BLOTTER -- MON, 9/11/06
Let's see... lots of abuse of alt accounts, account security (using someone else's account), forum misbehavior.... gee, someone flaming a Linden in the forums, big surprise. Someone "starting a poll to attack Lindens"... sounds like the devolution of Second Life is proceeding apace. The amount of time the Lindens spend policing the forums is amazing -- it's like they're trying to make everyone behave like nice little kindergarten kids, which is amazingly asinine, since they supposedly require anyone on the main grid (yeah, right!) to be at least 18. Hmmmm: "... inflammatory posts which are unproductive and detract from constructive communication in the community". Still trying to circle the wagons and make the settlers behave as good little slaveys, corraled into spending their own time, money, and creativity building a virtual world for Philip Rosesdale to sell off to the highest corporate advertiser.
- "Would you buy a car from a talking penis?
There's a great article on a blog called VIRTUAL WORLD VIEW (blog theme: telecommuting/conferencing), which makes a point that very few people seem to think about -- Can SL be used for serious purposes as well as the salacious entertainment of the pornmeisters and greedhead casino owners?
Would you buy a car from a Talking Penis?
In the RW, porn theaters and adult bookstores share the streets with IBM and TOYOTA, and businessmen ride the same subway as hotel maids, restaurant waiters, retail flunkies, the military guys who work at the Pentagon, teenagers on their way to/from the local high school, and the hairdressers in Old Town Alexandria. I don't see why the same can't be said of SL.
However, there is one major difference between RL and SL: in RL, there is nearly universal ZONING; residential areas where kids are likely to be are separated from business areas, and the business areas are separated from the industrical areas; there are areas which are high-ticket real estate (like the SL islands), and there are slums (like the SL mainland). Furthermore, people ARE REQUIRED TO CARRY IDENTIFICATION to prove they are of legal age to use the casinos, strip clubs, and adult video/bookstores, and to identify them when they are caught abusing the rights of others. In RL people who harass others are not tolerated -- in RL, every city, town, and county has COPS, who may not catch every bad guy/flaming idiot, but they try. In SL, we only have the Lindens, who apply capricious standards rather preferentially.
Businessmen may crawl in X-rated gutters after-hours, but they don't expect the sleaze to be right outside their own building. They don't like dealing with dirty, smelly homeless guys who park on their doorsteps and accost them when they're walking to the parking garage to pick up their Beemer to drive home, and they don't want to see talking penises during SL business hours/events (unless it's a company who manufacture/sell condoms).
Of course, this is why SL has private islands and property covenants -- to enable landowners to "zone" their property and to restrict the activities and "style" of the area, as well as to police it and ban idiots who parade as talking penises from pestering their preferred habitués. So, I think the concerns of the blogger on VWV are a little hysterical -- given that that the only time a businessperson is likely to see a talking penis is when he/she arrives at a Welcome Center, fresh off Orientation Island (or during a tour by some marketeer Linden). The only way to prevent this is for LL to provide a completely separate, protected Orientation Island and Welcome Center solely for business users, and the great mass of the unwashed and "unverified" would be channeled to other OI/WCs. That way, the tender sensibilities of the suits won't be subjected to undue distress... at least, until some corporation buys SL and uses it ONLY for their private corporate business conferences. It would be kinda boring without the rest of us, though, don't you think?
- Friday, April 27, 2007: Interesting datum in SLNN article:
"The majority of the land added was on the 1154 new islands created in March. Since LL started releasing land data in October, approximately 70 per cent of all land has been on islands."
Of course - will no NEW LAND created for newbies, who are now forced to buy land at market prices, which hardly encourages newbies to stick around to become veterans of SL, then the only place anyone WILL (rather than can - of course they CAN buy land on the mainland, if they want to live in a slum) buy land is on a private island that they can control totally - with no noisy neighbors with spinning spam ads, griefer builds, no army bunkers, no casinos or sex clubs or camper/beggar's "sweatshops". The only mainland areas for newbies to even RENT land are in enclaves run by landlords like Prok Neva, who runs communities with clearly worded rental agreements stating what type of builds are allowed, what type of businesses are allowed, and what type of advertising is allowed. It's the closest thing to ZONING (which is LL's idea of a dirty word, unless it impinges on their own prerogatives) in SL at the moment. LL's biggest profit comes from islands - they get a "double-dip" payment, first for "creating" the island (it's a fucking computer file, people, they don't create it, they just copy the fucking file from a backup storage file to an active server), then they get tier fees on top of that, which effectively pays for the electric bill for running that server, except that the tier charges amount to something like 20X the actual electric bill. They may think they deserve that much "overhead" for servicing the grid, but IF THEY ACTUALLY STABILIZED THE EXISTING SOFTWARE INSTEAD OF CONTINUALLY PATCHING IT WITH NEW "FEATURES" THAT ARE UNNECESSARY, they wouldn't need to charge that much... so they are bullshitting everyone about actual per-sim costs for hosting/management. Most of the "management" is done by the owners, and "concierge services" to island owners can't take up that much time for Linden employees if they can ALL take each and every fucking weekend and holiday off (and EXTENDED HOLIDAYS, at that).
- SPAMMING THE EVENTS LISTINGS... REDUX
When scanning the CONTESTS/GAMES listings for some clue as to which casino had been running a contest with a prize of $1,000,000L, I ran across this little spam item:
4:00PM MAKE MONEY TAKING OUR SURVEY! Andy Evans
On the linked page, Evans tags it with "Arts and Culture" and includes: "Conducted by First Opinions Panel in SL, a service of the Social Research Foundation".
Evidently Evans thinks his little spam item belongs in this "event" category BECAUSE THE SURVEY ASKS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY "RELATED" GAMES AND CONTESTS. He even admits to spamming several categories of the listings to get enough responders from their spam.
He's working for the FIRST OPINIONS PANEL (firstopinionspanel.com), which is an marketing outreach group fronting for the Social Research Foundation, which supposedly is devoted to "changing lives through online, interactive education programs". Now why would some foundation relating to education be doing a survey hyping some television show? The ad linked to the events listing states: BRING FAVORITE TV SHOWS INTO SL!
Tell a major media company if you want to:
- Meet the cast...
Obviously this has nothing to do with EDUCATION, but alot to do with marketeers and commercializing SL even more. Please email the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of this spamming outfit, Andy Mallon ( andy@socialresearchfoundation.org ) and tell him what you think of their spamming.
- Gary Hayes/Gary Hazlitt (in SL)/Korky (also an SL identity) has some data to share on corporate-build traffic and traffic measurement/formulas
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