I am not against any group of people in the metaverse/social experiment. However, I to this point retain a detatched reality. This is all a business venture at it’s roots, so I’m trying not to over-emotionalize things. If I honestly thought that the chaps at LL had crossed a line or done something out of order I’d be at the front lines in the other direction. To be frank, I don’t know you, Prok… And I’m not judging you as yet. I just like, pick a metaphor: goring the bull, spooking the herd, advocating the devil…

The court is a splendid idea, for what it is worth and I hope it takes off. I should go visit the building and talk to some people about it.

Urizenus, If they come out and fix my cable modem some time this week (Damns to hell the evil gods of connectivity glitches) I might just look into starting a few pieces of either Op/Ed or Featurish stuff, though I make no guarantees. Tag me in game some time and we can talk possibilities.

or are you too busy now with your new role as chief medical examiner of the Metaverse Board of Health?
(self appointed, I might add…how kewl is that….ewwwwwwwwwwwww)

are you sure?
It’s a sign of supreme arrogance to assume things you know nothing about…but I suppose as you are a rather godlike figure you really do know it all.

As for looking at your virtual duchy, kudo’s for some of your attempts at right minded virtual social engineering, but your Donald Trump like boasts of landholdings and strip mall ownership dulled the impact a little.

If you really wish to impress, show some specific SL (ie: Second Life/Slum Lord) differentiated examples with real quantifiable economic, social, or qualitative outcomes that have actually been achieved.

I wasn’t booted from the forums for being any malicious stalker, as even the most cursory readings of my voluminous posts can tell you. It’s just that persist fighting of those who *are* malicious stalkers is something the Lindens find “not good for business”. Pity.

Dude, that is the pot calling the kettle black.

If you think the paranoid schizo waffle you write passes for original critical thought then your are even further up your own arse than I thought.

“you’re just the malicious stalker from the SL forums Nolan/Cienna/whoever you are lol”

umm…lol…whatever…rofl…I think this descibes a certain prokofy neva recently booted from the SL forums for being a malicious stalker and thread ho.

I like harrasing you proky…it speaks volumes about your real character that you can dish it out but you can’t take it. A typical personality trait of critical personalities who hate creatives beacuse they are either too lazy or incompetant to be original themselves.

As for original critical thought I find volumes of material for reply in the often innacurate statements that you try and pass off as “fact”.
Someone has to put the record straight…it’s certainly not you, of little mediocre mind.

It’s the easiest thing on earth to stand on the sidelines and carp away by being hyper-critical, as you so often do with anything that diverges from your world view of how business should run their operations.

Actually making something…infinitely harder, my sad loser critic.

You should try it some time…it might take the edge off your bitterness when you finally grok how difficult it is to actually build things (physical, social, or otherwise) rather than just be a shrill harpy bitter and twisted journo.

Have you tried applying for a job at Fox news? You would be a shoo in.

All you’re able to do is bully and harass me, you have nothing original to say about anything else. I guess you’ve said it all with your comment that you’re “content to read the paper and poke me in the eye”. That’s pretty obvious, and it’s good you’ve admitted it so we don’t have to waste numerous column inches establishing the fact that you’re a loser, unable to do anything else but react to another person. Is there a name for that condition? Certainly nothing you say would ever give me the slightest pause before I type, you’ve never said anything the least bit thought-provoking — you’re just the malicious stalker from the SL forums Nolan/Cienna/whoever you are lol.

I’ve responded multiple times in many forms to your paranoid asinine takes on many of the articles here. Some have been poking fun, as in the above (well, partly fun) but many have been critical deconstructions of your fallacious arguments. It’s interesting to see you try and twist arguments and avoid facts..in fact it’s the most interesting part of playing with you. It reflects greatly the level (or lack of) of critical thinking ability lying under that thick neo-con skin. The quote above is a pure illustration of the points I have just made, as the reality is completelty opposite of you assertions..as usual.

Call it “revenge of the nerds” or just plain bad luck, but if you take it upon yourself to harass other people with weak, argumentative, fallacious bullshit and blather…why can’t someone harass you in return with factual responses that force you to intelligently defend the crap you pump out.

As for my own ideas…well…we’ll see that come out of the lab when the time is right. Currently I’m content to read the paper and poke you in the eye when you speak rubbish.

If I make you think a little bit more before you type then my mission has been successfull.

What a load of Bollocks.

How you have the nerve to accuse other people of “harangue and hector” is beyond me, as your past history and the general quality of your posts indicate that you were doing exactly that.

Little put downs of “incapable mediocre minds” of anyone who does not see the subtlty of the grat prokofy or disagrees with your points is a cheap tactic worthy of the lowest political operator…capitol hill or kremlin based.

What’s that sound I hear?
Is it a machine gun?
A woodpecker on crystal meth?
Nooo…it’s prokofy neva typing another self promotional diatribe against intellekchewal mediocraty [wipes foam off screen].

You must be an amazing touch typist with your head that far up your arse!!!

If you’re implying me to be one of those types who is allegedly “bitter” and has “nothing but bad to say,” well you don’t know me. I spend hours and hours in this game, essentially selling it to other people, helping them to get adjusted, helping them to have a home in it. I love my job in this world and I love the world, especially the part of it I make myself. I look at the Lindens as talking a good game about letting us make a world and merely being helpful gardeners in this game…but I see them constantly stepping in, unable to stop tweaking their creation in political and social ways that I find intrusive. I think they need to get out of the way more and allow more of a free market and stop the social engineering they do. They still view the world as a kind of 3-d byproduct of their computer and social engineering experiements. That’s why it’s called a Lab.

I find that most of my debating isn’t even against Lindens, who are usually pretty sensible and who at least understand your point, even if they disagree with it, it’s fighting off the hordes of mediocre minds that are incapable of even understanding the subtleties of positions and just harangue and hector just out of a sense that they’ve been challenged and don’t like the feeling.