Comments on: Missing Lindens: Where’s Cheerful $Larry? http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.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/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29293 Prokofy Neva Thu, 31 May 2007 00:04:50 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29293 Are you in the right thread with that comment about Aimee? She wasn't relevant to this story AFAIK. I had a good laugh at your concept of "Mayberry SL" and "Manhattan SL". So true! I remember the days when there was a Linden in the WA and even Lindens on my lawn. They actually made house calls! I agree that it wouldn't it be the worse thing to make even those fake corporate announcement like "Lawrence has left to pursue new challenges blah blah" where you feel at least there's some "normalcy". But...there isn't. Hence...my lonely vigil on the unforgiving shores... Are you in the right thread with that comment about Aimee? She wasn’t relevant to this story AFAIK.

I had a good laugh at your concept of “Mayberry SL” and “Manhattan SL”. So true! I remember the days when there was a Linden in the WA and even Lindens on my lawn. They actually made house calls!

I agree that it wouldn’t it be the worse thing to make even those fake corporate announcement like “Lawrence has left to pursue new challenges blah blah” where you feel at least there’s some “normalcy”. But…there isn’t. Hence…my lonely vigil on the unforgiving shores…

]]> By: Nacon http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29292 Nacon Wed, 30 May 2007 21:07:11 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29292 Uhh... Aimee didn't post anything about this. (wtf?) Uhh… Aimee didn’t post anything about this.

(wtf?)

]]> By: urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29291 urizenus Wed, 30 May 2007 19:45:24 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29291 My point in throwing the this back at Aimee is that I have real issues with people that come to this blog and start dropping the L word when they don't like prok's story, because it seems their real intent is not to give fair warning but rather to have a kind of chilling effect on the writers and posters here. It really pisses me off. For the record, I don't mind big ass retractions, and clear ammendations but I don't believe in hiding fuck-ups. My point in throwing the this back at Aimee is that I have real issues with people that come to this blog and start dropping the L word when they don’t like prok’s story, because it seems their real intent is not to give fair warning but rather to have a kind of chilling effect on the writers and posters here. It really pisses me off.

For the record, I don’t mind big ass retractions, and clear ammendations but I don’t believe in hiding fuck-ups.

]]> By: Nacon http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29290 Nacon Wed, 30 May 2007 19:24:41 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29290 "Nacon, I gave you the positve ratings because I felt so bad for you after humiliating you. You might know about driving virtual go-carts on Pontiac Island, but you don't know shit about drifting, as we learned in real life." What the hell was I humiliated from? I didn't even race on that day, idiot. It's a freaking go karts. I came to watch with my pals. And why the hell are you talking about drifting? Drifting isn't something to brag about, idiot. Now I know you don't. (youre dreaming like a noobs) Play again, will ya? “Nacon, I gave you the positve ratings because I felt so bad for you after humiliating you. You might know about driving virtual go-carts on Pontiac Island, but you don’t know shit about drifting, as we learned in real life.”

What the hell was I humiliated from? I didn’t even race on that day, idiot. It’s a freaking go karts. I came to watch with my pals.

And why the hell are you talking about drifting? Drifting isn’t something to brag about, idiot.
Now I know you don’t. (youre dreaming like a noobs)

Play again, will ya?

]]> By: Inigo Chamerberlin http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29289 Inigo Chamerberlin Wed, 30 May 2007 16:37:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29289 'This is an interesting post. Who are the gang of three? Philip, Corey and...Andrew? And...who? I'd never heard that term before. Who is in the gang of 3?' The gang of three is: Philip, Cory and Robin. Thought you'd have got that. :-) Basicaly Robin and Cory conspire to limit Philip's wilder excesses. NOT always sucessfully... ‘This is an interesting post. Who are the gang of three? Philip, Corey and…Andrew? And…who? I’d never heard that term before. Who is in the gang of 3?’

The gang of three is:

Philip, Cory and Robin.

Thought you’d have got that. :-) Basicaly Robin and Cory conspire to limit Philip’s wilder excesses. NOT always sucessfully…

]]> By: Nacon http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29288 Nacon Wed, 30 May 2007 14:53:53 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29288 Oh good, another wishful thinking non-sense from Prokofy. I know you were hoping to think that I'd be on your side/friend, not to with you but that was only because I was asking you and Pixeleen some questions about Prok and Herald crap mistakes in the past. Bribing me with tiny penny rating crap. Some old boots and a few low profile tires from the days when I chewed them up handing Urizenus his ass in our drifting contests. One is left to speculate that Prokofy bolted from this insane asylum when he got the chance -- he was a smart guy, and like I said, affable to someone like me, so that tells you that he's more than decent! Or perhaps I "violated the Tao of Linden" and my mom got scared and said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air I whistled for a cab and when it came near the licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air. I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later. Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to settle my throne as the prince of bel-air. Oh good, another wishful thinking non-sense from Prokofy. I know you were hoping to think that I’d be on your side/friend, not to with you but that was only because I was asking you and Pixeleen some questions about Prok and Herald crap mistakes in the past. Bribing me with tiny penny rating crap. Some old boots and a few low profile tires from the days when I chewed them up handing Urizenus his ass in our drifting contests. One is left to speculate that Prokofy bolted from this insane asylum when he got the chance — he was a smart guy, and like I said, affable to someone like me, so that tells you that he’s more than decent! Or perhaps I “violated the Tao of Linden” and my mom got scared and said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air I whistled for a cab and when it came near the licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air. I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later. Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to settle my throne as the prince of bel-air.

]]> By: Prokofy Neva http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29287 Prokofy Neva Wed, 30 May 2007 10:12:13 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29287 >Inasmuch as anyone has an inkling of what the real cash flows in SL are, people like Lawrence, and, er, wossername, the financial genius who used to run some little California town's finances - they should have the best idea of what's going on. >Admittedly, trying to sort it all out, with continual meddling from the gang of three does drive them mad pretty quickly, so I guess LL has to unperson them and keep them quiet and isolated. Because the information they are privy to is probably Linden Lab's biggest and most sensitive secret. >SL Finance is pretty much a poisoned chalice - I wonder how much time Zee has left? My bet is that Zee will not make it through the end of the year. Because he's a *real life* CFO interested in real-life business stuff -- and the Lindens don't really want that. They want a church, a cult, a revolutionary movement, not a business like what Zee used to be in. This is an interesting post. Who are the gang of three? Philip, Corey and...Andrew? And...who? I'd never heard that term before. Who is in the gang of 3? Poisoned chalice indeed! Yes, Lawrence would have had as good an idea as anybody what was really happening in the economy, what the real real numbers were. And to his credit, and to Zee's credit, they have steadily put up more transparency. But perhaps they are advocating for too much, because at some point, there is the dirty little secret that the thing just doesn't make the money everyone imagines. That's not so terrible, but they think it's terrible and that makes it dirty. >Inasmuch as anyone has an inkling of what the real cash flows in SL are, people like Lawrence, and, er, wossername, the financial genius who used to run some little California town’s finances – they should have the best idea of what’s going on.

>Admittedly, trying to sort it all out, with continual meddling from the gang of three does drive them mad pretty quickly, so I guess LL has to unperson them and keep them quiet and isolated. Because the information they are privy to is probably Linden Lab’s biggest and most sensitive secret.

>SL Finance is pretty much a poisoned chalice – I wonder how much time Zee has left?

My bet is that Zee will not make it through the end of the year. Because he’s a *real life* CFO interested in real-life business stuff — and the Lindens don’t really want that. They want a church, a cult, a revolutionary movement, not a business like what Zee used to be in.

This is an interesting post. Who are the gang of three? Philip, Corey and…Andrew? And…who? I’d never heard that term before. Who is in the gang of 3?

Poisoned chalice indeed!

Yes, Lawrence would have had as good an idea as anybody what was really happening in the economy, what the real real numbers were. And to his credit, and to Zee’s credit, they have steadily put up more transparency. But perhaps they are advocating for too much, because at some point, there is the dirty little secret that the thing just doesn’t make the money everyone imagines. That’s not so terrible, but they think it’s terrible and that makes it dirty.

]]> By: urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29286 urizenus Wed, 30 May 2007 08:49:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29286 Nacon, I gave you the positve ratings because I felt so bad for you after humiliating you. You might know about driving virtual go-carts on Pontiac Island, but you don't know shit about drifting, as we learned in real life. Vividly. May I suggest you go hang out in Toon Town? The "Kart" races are toontastic! Nacon, I gave you the positve ratings because I felt so bad for you after humiliating you. You might know about driving virtual go-carts on Pontiac Island, but you don’t know shit about drifting, as we learned in real life. Vividly. May I suggest you go hang out in Toon Town? The “Kart” races are toontastic!

]]> By: Too yellow to use my real name http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29285 Too yellow to use my real name Wed, 30 May 2007 07:41:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29285 Inasmuch as anyone has an inkling of what the real cash flows in SL are, people like Lawrence, and, er, wossername, the financial genius who used to run some little California town's finances - they should have the best idea of what's going on. Admittedly, trying to sort it all out, with continual meddling from the gang of three does drive them mad pretty quickly, so I guess LL has to unperson them and keep them quiet and isolated. Because the information they are privy to is probably Linden Lab's biggest and most sensitive secret. SL Finance is pretty much a poisoned chalice - I wonder how much time Zee has left? Inasmuch as anyone has an inkling of what the real cash flows in SL are, people like Lawrence, and, er, wossername, the financial genius who used to run some little California town’s finances – they should have the best idea of what’s going on.

Admittedly, trying to sort it all out, with continual meddling from the gang of three does drive them mad pretty quickly, so I guess LL has to unperson them and keep them quiet and isolated. Because the information they are privy to is probably Linden Lab’s biggest and most sensitive secret.

SL Finance is pretty much a poisoned chalice – I wonder how much time Zee has left?

]]> By: marilyn murphy http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/05/missing_lindens.html/comment-page-1#comment-29284 marilyn murphy Wed, 30 May 2007 07:38:58 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=1264#comment-29284 ty answer man! i remember a linden. i forget his name, :(. he was around for a long time and his avatar was a little turkish man in a suit wearing a fez. danny linden? he would drop in on me now and then. i remember when he left there was some conjecture about all not being well in LL. however, although i do like it when prok writes like this, isn't this sorta normal stuff for any company? employees come and go. reasons vary. i tell you tho, i liked sl better when a linden was always standing at the wa. when i could get ahold of one on line any time and discuss problems. when cory would visit my place and personally find that griefer object that was there. sigh. i know this is pointless. talking about the "good old days" is pointless but its nice to remember that time in sl. to be fair. (and i am always on the fix problems rather than develop shiny side of this issue) we didnt have animations, prim clothing/hair, new building tools i dont understand to this day, and such either. nor was the economy such that it would support that ten top earners list. so i do miss the mayberryesq quality sl once had, but the manhattanesq quality it now has, has good points also. therefore, i think its logical LL employees will come and go. it's just the nature of the thing, and not due to any evil on LLs part. the evil on LLs part is this bizarre lack of communication. they truck out torely to talk positive so much he has lost all credibility. a shame. why not have a little blurb explaining why the economic linden left? hey he found a better job and good luck to him! or, we decided to go in a different direction and we wish him well in his proffesional future. (meaning we canned his lazy ass) either way it would make LL seem more user friendly. it would be a touch of that old mayberry sl i miss. ty answer man!
i remember a linden. i forget his name, :( . he was around for a long time and his avatar was a little turkish man in a suit wearing a fez. danny linden? he would drop in on me now and then. i remember when he left there was some conjecture about all not being well in LL.
however, although i do like it when prok writes like this, isn’t this sorta normal stuff for any company? employees come and go. reasons vary.
i tell you tho, i liked sl better when a linden was always standing at the wa. when i could get ahold of one on line any time and discuss problems. when cory would visit my place and personally find that griefer object that was there. sigh. i know this is pointless. talking about the “good old days” is pointless but its nice to remember that time in sl.
to be fair. (and i am always on the fix problems rather than develop shiny side of this issue) we didnt have animations, prim clothing/hair, new building tools i dont understand to this day, and such either. nor was the economy such that it would support that ten top earners list.
so i do miss the mayberryesq quality sl once had, but the manhattanesq quality it now has, has good points also.
therefore, i think its logical LL employees will come and go. it’s just the nature of the thing, and not due to any evil on LLs part.
the evil on LLs part is this bizarre lack of communication. they truck out torely to talk positive so much he has lost all credibility. a shame. why not have a little blurb explaining why the economic linden left? hey he found a better job and good luck to him! or, we decided to go in a different direction and we wish him well in his proffesional future. (meaning we canned his lazy ass) either way it would make LL seem more user friendly. it would be a touch of that old mayberry sl i miss.

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