Comments on: Lindentown Provokes Land Baron Outcry: Stop GOMing us!!!

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:34:19 +0000

I agree with what you’re saying on the aesthetic front, Bob, I just think that the Lindens shouldn’t be in the content creation business after flakking this stuff about “your world, your imagination” — it just hurts business.

By: Bob the tomato

Bob the tomato — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 03:50:17 +0000

I’ve been around Blumfield and I find it fascinating.

Not everyone – myself included – has an overactive imagination or strange fetish that we need SL to make ‘reality’….. in fact, I’d say it takes much more skill to build a “50′s style” house and decorate it realistically than it does to chuck some blocks together, buy some dance floor scripts, and make YET ANOTHER DAMN CLUB!

SL is all about celebrating diversity and the creativity of its players, right? So why should a development of 50′s style housing be a less valid creation than some new fetish gear or porno script? Absolutely nothing.

My guess is that the only reason people are ‘protesting’ is because they feel it ruins their gameplay by having ‘normal’ stuff in game. Well guess what? NOBODY is forcing YOU to go THERE! I’m no fan of pvp but do you know all I have to do to avoid it is not visit Jessie. Quite simple really.

I’m sure that if I looked up the properties of any of those vocal against Blumfeld I’d find plenty of things to criticise because I happen not to like them. But it doesn’t actually matter, does it? What will it achieve? Nothing. So why do people feel the need to criticise something that doesn’t affect them either?

There are some truly rancid creations that pass themselves off as properties in SL – I would have thought that a campaign against that would have been much more productive than a campaign against something that – shock horror – is actually quite pleasant, and harmless!

Given a choice between another ‘zoned development’ and another W-Hat outing…. what would you choose? I know which one I would.

Bob

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:03:27 +0000

I don’t know of any zoning restrictions in Blumfield, and that’s why it didn’t surprise me to see a store. I could be wrong.

coco

By: Patch Lamington

Patch Lamington — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:15:45 +0000

Actually, all this debate has made me reconsider pulling down…

I think I’ll see if I can start a Blumfield preservation society to keep it just the way it is

Patch

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:42:27 +0000

Store? So they aren’t keeping it with residential zoning?

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:02:45 +0000

Yes! It is fascinating! That’s why I’ve been saying, this is going to be fascinating to watch!

Already there was one industrious resident I saw putting up her new yellow brick store.

coco

By: The Abusive Granny

The Abusive Granny — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:53:45 +0000

Yawwwwwwn what is the point of all this? Say somthing interesting please

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:08:34 +0000

Oh that’s fascinating! I can’t WAIT to see what they put up instead. And I BET that what they put up instead will draw even MORE fire from the uber-architecterati ROFL.

By: Cocoanut

Cocoanut — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:33:48 +0000

You can’t SELL the lot for 3 months is what I was told. You CAN tear down the building any time you want – and at least two people have already.

coco

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:10:51 +0000

When are you going to be able to rip down the building, Patch? It was my understanding that you had to keep the house and lot the way it is for 3 months? Or? What are the terms, exactly? How will the Lindens keep the “look” of this community?