Comments on: Power to the SLitizens!: Here Come the SL Anarchists! http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Trevor F. Smith http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34110 Trevor F. Smith Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:09:58 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34110 What if they really did just flip a switch in '03 and now they're just switchig things on and off to watch us react? Now that would be a good story for the SLH. What if they really did just flip a switch in ’03 and now they’re just switchig things on and off to watch us react? Now that would be a good story for the SLH.

]]> By: Inigo Chamerberlin http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34109 Inigo Chamerberlin Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:13:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34109 You really don't LISTEN do you... Never mind. You really don’t LISTEN do you…
Never mind.

]]> By: Jesper W. http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34108 Jesper W. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:44:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34108 /me thanks Inigo for the application form, though not for the sandbox tone-of-voice Of course SL is infinitely scaleable, it's just code - but the code has to run on something, and, like everything else, computer-related and not, needs steps of implementation as well as maintenance. I bet you've defragged or something like that a few times on your, what, 10 computers ever? - well, SL runs on thousands of machines, need I rub this in any more...? Besides, saying it is scaleable doesn't mean it scales itself. I never said there isn't probs, I have lost inventory and L$ too - what I said was, hold the flak, meaning keep the crits constructive as opposed to the usual 30-odd-something or (many!) more responses to every grid status annoucement, saying "SL SUCKS AND LL ARE ALL LAZY MALICIOUS IDIOTS" or words to that effect. But I guess you still think they flipped that red switch back in '03 and, since then, just annoy the users for the hell of it. Oh, and I don't really need your permission to have an opinion, oh Obi-Wan - I am left wondering what you're still doing here after all those years you're talking about if SL is a piece of crap run by a bunch of incompetents. Who is the more foolish, the fool or the guy who keeps following him? Jj /me thanks Inigo for the application form, though not for the sandbox tone-of-voice

Of course SL is infinitely scaleable, it’s just code – but the code has to run on something, and, like everything else, computer-related and not, needs steps of implementation as well as maintenance. I bet you’ve defragged or something like that a few times on your, what, 10 computers ever? – well, SL runs on thousands of machines, need I rub this in any more…?
Besides, saying it is scaleable doesn’t mean it scales itself.

I never said there isn’t probs, I have lost inventory and L$ too – what I said was, hold the flak, meaning keep the crits constructive as opposed to the usual 30-odd-something or (many!) more responses to every grid status annoucement, saying “SL SUCKS AND LL ARE ALL LAZY MALICIOUS IDIOTS” or words to that effect.

But I guess you still think they flipped that red switch back in ’03 and, since then, just annoy the users for the hell of it.

Oh, and I don’t really need your permission to have an opinion, oh Obi-Wan – I am left wondering what you’re still doing here after all those years you’re talking about if SL is a piece of crap run by a bunch of incompetents.
Who is the more foolish, the fool or the guy who keeps following him?

Jj

]]> By: Inigo Chamerberlin http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34107 Inigo Chamerberlin Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:58:37 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34107 Dunno Jesper. Seems to me I heard King Philip declare that 'SL is infinitely scaleable' in which case there AREN'T any scaling problems with SL. Are there? Or are you daring to suggest our beloved leader is a liar? Anything any of us perceive that APPEARS to be a problem, you know, like outages, lag, missing items (ah yes, I need to find out WHERE that L$3500 Royal Dragon's gone - thank you for reminding me), broken TP's, etc, et-bloody-cetra, must be some wild hallucination generated by out overheated imaginations? Right? Suggest you continue studying your Danish Anarchists and leave those of us who've been here a few more years than you sound like you have to remark on those lovely 'guys and girls' (always a risky division to make in SL!)you are gushing on about Inigo passes Jesper a poorly photocopied and slightly crumpled Linden FanBoyz Club application form. Dunno Jesper. Seems to me I heard King Philip declare that ‘SL is infinitely scaleable’ in which case there AREN’T any scaling problems with SL. Are there? Or are you daring to suggest our beloved leader is a liar?

Anything any of us perceive that APPEARS to be a problem, you know, like outages, lag, missing items (ah yes, I need to find out WHERE that L$3500 Royal Dragon’s gone – thank you for reminding me), broken TP’s, etc, et-bloody-cetra, must be some wild hallucination generated by out overheated imaginations? Right?

Suggest you continue studying your Danish Anarchists and leave those of us who’ve been here a few more years than you sound like you have to remark on those lovely ‘guys and girls’ (always a risky division to make in SL!)you are gushing on about

Inigo passes Jesper a poorly photocopied and slightly crumpled Linden FanBoyz Club application form.

]]> By: Jesper W. http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34106 Jesper W. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:55:45 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34106 Second Life is not at game. It is, in fact, a simulation. Simulators are operating to provide a realm in which to be, but infinitely more importantly, the users are simulating being, well, people, for better or worse. Among the things simulated are the mistakes of old and not-so-old, anarchy being one of them - to begin with, what the hey is "organized anarchy"? - and why is it that anarchy only emerges in a system which provides enough backing for the anarchists to exist as such in the first place? (meaning, if all the non-anarchists were not there, the anarchists would not be there either, as there would be no "there") Anarchy is a case of sawing off the branch one is sitting upon - this is true in RL, and since SL is a simulation of RL, no less true there. If there were no private property and the other rules anarchy hates, they would be created - if not by a game god, then by the users. Such is mankind, too. Oh, I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, we just had half the city torn apart by a bunch of anarchists demanding that the society they so don't want to be a part of GIVE them stuff, or else they would continue to wreak havoc on the property of the same indiviuals whose taxes would be paying for said stuff. Pardon me if I don't have much patience for this ilk of thinking... Regarding LL retiring, I'm gonna go ahead and jump on the same band wagon Gwyneth is on (imagine this said in George C. McGinley's voice) - do you really think the Lindens just flicked a switch and SL was on, and now they're only fiddling with it to annoy people? Those guys and girls are working their collective behinds off just to make SL work for another week, all the while taking what I believe is an unfair amount of flak - no, make that flame, about pretty much every aspect of functionality anyone can think of. I for one would like to see SL still exist in some form this time next year but if LL throw in the towel, or even take a week off, that'll be all she wrote...I mean, who is going to scale the system to accomodate another 10.000 users pr. day, you? Fat chance. I'm just sayin' Jj Second Life is not at game. It is, in fact, a simulation. Simulators are operating to provide a realm in which to be, but infinitely more importantly, the users are simulating being, well, people, for better or worse.
Among the things simulated are the mistakes of old and not-so-old, anarchy being one of them – to begin with, what the hey is “organized anarchy”? – and why is it that anarchy only emerges in a system which provides enough backing for the anarchists to exist as such in the first place? (meaning, if all the non-anarchists were not there, the anarchists would not be there either, as there would be no “there”)
Anarchy is a case of sawing off the branch one is sitting upon – this is true in RL, and since SL is a simulation of RL, no less true there. If there were no private property and the other rules anarchy hates, they would be created – if not by a game god, then by the users. Such is mankind, too.

Oh, I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, we just had half the city torn apart by a bunch of anarchists demanding that the society they so don’t want to be a part of GIVE them stuff, or else they would continue to wreak havoc on the property of the same indiviuals whose taxes would be paying for said stuff. Pardon me if I don’t have much patience for this ilk of thinking…

Regarding LL retiring, I’m gonna go ahead and jump on the same band wagon Gwyneth is on (imagine this said in George C. McGinley’s voice) – do you really think the Lindens just flicked a switch and SL was on, and now they’re only fiddling with it to annoy people?
Those guys and girls are working their collective behinds off just to make SL work for another week, all the while taking what I believe is an unfair amount of flak – no, make that flame, about pretty much every aspect of functionality anyone can think of.
I for one would like to see SL still exist in some form this time next year but if LL throw in the towel, or even take a week off, that’ll be all she wrote…I mean, who is going to scale the system to accomodate another 10.000 users pr. day, you? Fat chance.

I’m just sayin’
Jj

]]> By: Inigo Chamerberlin http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34105 Inigo Chamerberlin Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:48:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34105 Inigo quickly crafts Prok a wiki entry slightly like Uri's, slips a couple of pills in Prok's coffee and runs for it Inigo quickly crafts Prok a wiki entry slightly like Uri’s, slips a couple of pills in Prok’s coffee and runs for it

]]> By: Provoky Never http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34104 Provoky Never Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:51:43 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34104 Listen bolshevik, _I_ will define what it means, and it means anything I don;t like or pretend to not like in an attempt to further glorify my name. I have got to get a wiki entry like Urizenus that portrays me as "one of the 10 most influential gamers of all time"! So you are condemned! I am not sure exactly what it is you're condemned to, as I have absolutely zero power over you and LL barely tolerates me, but it makes me sound really tough, kind of like an articulate pro wrestler, so get used to it you pernicious FUCKTARDS! CRIMINALS! THESE ARE REAL CRIMES! You are to be CONDEMNED! Listen bolshevik, _I_ will define what it means, and it means anything I don;t like or pretend to not like in an attempt to further glorify my name.

I have got to get a wiki entry like Urizenus that portrays me as “one of the 10 most influential gamers of all time”!

So you are condemned! I am not sure exactly what it is you’re condemned to, as I have absolutely zero power over you and LL barely tolerates me, but it makes me sound really tough, kind of like an articulate pro wrestler, so get used to it you pernicious FUCKTARDS! CRIMINALS! THESE ARE REAL CRIMES! You are to be CONDEMNED!

]]> By: Inigo Chamerberlin http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34103 Inigo Chamerberlin Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:34:15 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34103 I think you'll find 'fucktardry' is a word used to describe the day to day activities of fucktards... Therefore the inescapable conclusion is that those guilty of fucktardry are fucktards - simple really. NOW all we need is a finely tuned descriptive term for those to blame for 'enabling' fucktards... Suggestions here please, there may be a small and utterly useless prize for the winner. I think you’ll find ‘fucktardry’ is a word used to describe the day to day activities of fucktards…

Therefore the inescapable conclusion is that those guilty of fucktardry are fucktards – simple really.

NOW all we need is a finely tuned descriptive term for those to blame for ‘enabling’ fucktards…

Suggestions here please, there may be a small and utterly useless prize for the winner.

]]> By: Lucy Tornado http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34102 Lucy Tornado Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:59:56 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34102 What does "fucktardery" mean? I love the sound of it. If I use it 3 times it will be mine. (at no charge) Stuff in SL is kind of like words...you know? What does “fucktardery” mean? I love the sound of it. If I use it 3 times it will be mine. (at no charge) Stuff in SL is kind of like words…you know?

]]> By: From the ANON ONE http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/power_to_the_sl.html/comment-page-1#comment-34101 From the ANON ONE Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:24:14 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1401#comment-34101 **coughs** none of this is real. Wake up NEO! **coughs** none of this is real. Wake up NEO!

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