Comments on: And Then There Were 99,999,999: Virtual Candidate Drops Out http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/10/virtual_candida_1.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Prokofy Neva http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/10/virtual_candida_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-41697 Prokofy Neva Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:27:32 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1861#comment-41697 I think my thought is pretty good here, dude. I think my headline is genius. And I think my run-on sentence captures that surround-sound feel of all the hype we're getting now. Hey, look at some of the sentences the PR folks are slinging. I think my thought is pretty good here, dude. I think my headline is genius. And I think my run-on sentence captures that surround-sound feel of all the hype we’re getting now. Hey, look at some of the sentences the PR folks are slinging.

]]> By: urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/10/virtual_candida_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-41696 urizenus Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:24:34 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1861#comment-41696 At the Herald we don't follow the archaic rules of prescriptive English. We *write* the rules. Your grandchildren will talk like Herald reporters. Deal. At the Herald we don’t follow the archaic rules of prescriptive English. We *write* the rules. Your grandchildren will talk like Herald reporters. Deal.

]]> By: Chambers Commerce http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/10/virtual_candida_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-41695 Chambers Commerce Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:49:40 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1861#comment-41695 "In Lindenverse, we're so surrounded by huge swathes of cotton wadding in the form of push-media coming from the white expanses of the newsless LL Blob, the Big Business corporate-speak press releases, the breathless paid-for blogola, the hyped, hyperventilating hypervents with their 39 avatars lagging out a sim that we live as if our draw distances on Real Life are down to a drugged-haze-like 64 m2." Is this even English? It is definately a run-on sentence. But wait... Prokofy IS a run-on sentence. My bad... It's just that I thought the self-proclaimed critic of all SL media would have been able to form a better thought than that. I guess I had my expectations set just a tad too high. -Chambers Commerce Nope, you never heard of me before. “In Lindenverse, we’re so surrounded by huge swathes of cotton wadding in the form of push-media coming from the white expanses of the newsless LL Blob, the Big Business corporate-speak press releases, the breathless paid-for blogola, the hyped, hyperventilating hypervents with their 39 avatars lagging out a sim that we live as if our draw distances on Real Life are down to a drugged-haze-like 64 m2.”

Is this even English? It is definately a run-on sentence. But wait… Prokofy IS a run-on sentence. My bad… It’s just that I thought the self-proclaimed critic of all SL media would have been able to form a better thought than that. I guess I had my expectations set just a tad too high.

-Chambers Commerce
Nope, you never heard of me before.

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