wtf have you done lately anyway – except whine, winge and biatch???

TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE

Okay, then… try this one:
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/02/15/1427222.shtml

Of course, anybody can form any interest group they want in SL. Then other interest groups are also entitled to form and cry “foul” and cry “FIC”. Note that I don’t deny Hiro’s right to lead, or participate in something called the “developers’ group”. I ask WHAT he’s developing, FOR WHOM? WHO develops? And for WHOM? These are all reasonable questions for people arrogating to themselves the godlike powers of actually creating the world and its features.

For example, one funny little idea someone had recently was to have “script bounties”. They’d put up ideas on the forums and offer money, and get others to pool money, for ideas for scripts that would “help the community”. It’s the quintessential tekkie-wiki. The oldfashioned way would be to have a start-up company with a good idea hire good staff and attract venture capital. In fact, that’s the old-fashioned thing that Linden Lab itself did in that old-fashioned meatworld. But of course, in virtual worlds, developers think they can re-invent the world, so they get up a kind of barn-raising or, er, wiki. A paid-for wiki, lol (usually wikis are free and are supposed to be open-sourced and are said to benefit the community — whatever *that* is!).

So Hiro puts up $50k and others come along like Gwyn and put up $4k or whatever. Hiro’s idea is to have a website where you have an automated shopper service. That is, if I want a 50-prim men’s boutineer for my tuxedo, I post that on this http://www.mySLshopper.com and then within 30 minutes, someone has to start the clock to go racing around websites and inworld hunting for my 50-prim men’s boutineer, which I then pay them a commission for.

Of course, there are at least 10 goofy things with this idea — all the fun of shopping is looking around, asking friends, and buying stuff on the way which you had no intention of buying. Shopping for others is hard work, and should have more than 30 minutes without this imposed, fake competition of others appearing to undo all the work you just did. It will easily be gamed as people prime it with their own lossleaders and fake shopping expeditions to amp up their points on the “reputation board” to make it appear that they are excellent shoppers. Etc. etc. The usual automated Internet junk designed to improve human relations and actually destroying them further.

Of course, there may be someone out there for whom $172 USD is so attractive, that they’ll spend days wiring this stuff up LOL. What I liked best about this Hiro-size exercise is that he said he was doing it “because he didn’t have time but liked to give ideas to the community” ROFL.

I think it’s important to keep criticizing pompous and ridiculous stuff like this that appears in SL, and whether or not I’m some profound “achiever” or not is besides the point. Hey, I sold $4 worth of Flamingo Court ashtrays today and at least a half dozen of my $10 Flamingo Court postcards, and several Aging Hippie Tie-Dyed Men’s Pajamas. I make $100 a day in content sales of stuff I just made out of the library or appearance mode. God, I love this game : )

Um, I’m blanking on the reference to the “Communication Standard”.

Yes, it’s very hard to get things done in SL, do I know it. There’s always a peanut gallery of naysayers and critics. Yep, been there, done that. And I’m going to be a particularly harsh critic, knowing just how hard this bunch harassed and bullied and intimidated me and forced me off the forums for doing simple things like buying a whole sim, parceling it, and selling it as zoned — and trying to defend property rights and decency (yes, hard to remember, but that was once a big deal attracting hatred on the forums! now there are dozens of new people doing it a week lol).

I’m also wondering why Prok feels that Hiro wouldn’t be a part of this development group, not so much because of anything he may or may not have done lately, but simply because of his well known name in the SL development world.

I wonder if Prok still feels that he/she is some champion/god of SL, and that compared to him/her every one’s elses acheivements are miniscule. No need for me to go into the whole lack of acheivement/ability on Prok’s part again, it was all covered in the TrannyPet Barmy interview thread It’s a good idea to not throw stones if you live in a glass house Prok

I could say more on the Communication Standard mentioned, but i prefer to play that one more close to my chest

TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE