Lexapro. Lexapro withdrawal.

Sorry you didn’t understand. The 512m plots are in many cases being used as large adverts to sell bigger water plots and/or rentals. As a responsible land baron I support the Arbor Project, reclaiming ad space where and when I can and actively fight against ad farms.

So no i’m not adding to the problem. But don’t forget cheaper land means more adspace. People like Umnik Hax have started to buy 512m plots and cut them into 16′s because they can now afford to do so. These new ad farms normally appear in the nicest of sims with a few taunts from umnik saying he can do what he likes. Any suggestions on how to stop this will be gladly welcomed – unlike a lot of barons/traders I am always willing to put my money where my mouth is and take action.

I also think you have missed what the major part of the land market is about. People don’t want value add, they don’t want a house that I or someone else has created they want a flat, easy to build on piece of land that they can create their own things on. The resetting of the market (it’s coming) as happened earlier this year isn’t good for people. Sure you can buy more land and I hope you business continues to grow – you are in the minority. Reseting the land prices just as in RL makes people nervous, they will hang on to their land because they don’t want to see at a loss. Land barons like me buy at market peaks and troughs allowing a spread of risk – and if push comes to shove I can always dump 100 or so 512′s at a long way below market rate. But it won’t be you that buys any of them instead the top 3 traders will buy them (sadly I am not among them anymore) to hold and increase land values. Again this is not good the more land held by fewer people increases prices because of a lack of competition.

I would also like to challenge you – there are loads of creative landlords renting out good properties – but clearly you can do better…I’ll lend you some land for free for a month and you can show me what you can do and demonstrate just how easy it is.

Martin Squeegee can be found in his office in Reignier or building his new one in Mun Saari.

So you have to resort to ad farms to make a profit off of 512m2 plots? Is that what you’re implying? If not then you may want to clarify that.

If so then you’re adding to a problem that I hope is solved by this land “recession”.

Low land prices are good for the economy in my opinion. I’ve been able to buy considerably more land than before to help expand my room to build and sell my builds. I’ve been able to expand my business and entertainment pursuits because of my store’s success coupled with how much farther my earned money will go.

The only thing holding more people back from going premium and buying land for themselves is the performance issues that disuade people from jumping in.

Maybe if these “landbarons in distress” were to get creative or hire people that could be creative for them with their land maybe more people would be willing to rent space. The cookie-cutter “C.E.O. Barbie” houses with an ocean view only take you so far now that there are so many of them!

I’ve not made a comment for a while about your writing. This article was great, back to your form, demonstrating that you do understand the market. It’s a shame that people have as ever deviated off the topic so to try and drag it back let me add my comment.

I used to be (past tense) one of the bigger barons holding over 300,000m for sale plus some for rent. I have tiered down to 65536m and flip it like crazy, offering I hope good value land for a resonable price. The reality though is that I am losing the battle and my desire to keep prices down is probably only shared by Joep Buckler who sells his newly purchased sims at cost. Life is getting tougher for us down here – especially if selling 512m plots. I made some good money even as recently as december but since then the rollercoaster market has made some barons give up and many have retreated back to high cost waterfronts only using the 512 market as mere advertising space.

I don’t expect any sympathy, I am beyond that and happy to fight my own way. But just imagine for a few seconds a land market dominated by Linden (remember in the main they only sell whole sims at auction – can everyone afford that?) and a few big players who will own the market from 512 and up selling at a price they want to with competition. For all the pain of dealing with people like me you need me to be there to fight your corner and at least give you the choice to by a 512 or not. A 512 I might add that will aim to be the cheapest available.

Good to see you Prok, Talk Soon.

Martin Squeegee can be found in his office in Reignier but is moving soon.

The most amusing part of it however is that you constantly point to your own posts as ‘proof’ or to ‘counter’ a comment such as this one.

Why is it so amusing? anyone can go back over all of the comments and find instances where a person is nothing but polite to you … and you turn right around and give them a bile filled response – for no reason whatsoever.

You Dearie are nothing but a child pretending to be a mature and reasonable adult – your physical age is irrelevant, your world views are irrelevant, you moral code is irrelevant … Everything about your life is irrelevant Dearie.

Oh – I know you’re either going to ignore this comment or attempt to come back with some BS attempt to be witty (sorry Dearie, your ‘answering machine’ messages are little more than a coward’s dodge). Failing those two you’ll attempt to brush it off with your usual cowardly way – citing of BS ‘personal rules’ of a type that give you a cop out.

Welcome to the Internet – where only a fool gives out personal information tot he masses.

I think it’s good to expose alts, and draw out the poison. People think I’m a fun target to poke a stick at, and that I shouldn’t make myself a target, but I just do my thing, am targeted, and I document it. It’s virtuality, so being on “ground” that “sinks” and crashes as a server doesn’t harm me per say, although I do lose some tenants’ business sometimes. It’s not enough to make me pull out of SL.

I don’t see why I need to curb *my* freedom and be the way people want me to be, change my behavior, and do something in SL differently, ducking, cringing, fearing, hiding, and letting people do evil without comment. Why? It’s just not my nature.

These assholes aren’t kids; they’re conspiring adults. There are very much organized adults behind the kids. And different people buy their services with various sinister agendas. I think you have to keep striking for what is right, and not worry what some shooter NIMBY in Jesse says about SL or your actions with in it.

Um, is war in Jesse upon us?

They are not my peers, the never have been. You are not speaking to my level, you are speaking to your own. They are your peers, at least you seem to have made them as such since you get such a charge out of addressing them the way you do…What you don’t seem to realize (and probably never will from what I have gathered) is that you charge them right back. They are assholes. They need attention, and I am so glad you provide it for them, because it keeps them stuck to you and away from me…

Keep up the good work Prok. Perhaps they’ll construct an ice sculpture in your honor at the next SLCC, but I somehow doubt it…

/cheers..

Actually, it works great for Ravenglass Rentals, in fact, as people do indeed sort out what I say, and make intelligent choices : )

>Actually, Tizzers is in no way involved. We are employing a number of reformed griefers who are staying clean, not greifing, and are starting to enjoy SL as it was meant to be, building, being creative. Our OI has no particles, penii or otherwise, and will have very tight security against griefing, it will even ban people who regularly use words like “fucktard”, “leninist conspiracy”, “word salading”, and other common griefer phrases… he he.

Um, well, I’ll be fascinated to see how that works, with these griefers who are “staying clean”. And putting censorship on ordinary words in a mature region is downright creepy. Doesn’t sound like the libertarians *I* know.

>Thats funny Prok, cause until we IPOd on the stock exchange, you had more sims than me. Does that make you merely a very poorly performing megacorp, cause you waste your time writing trash for the Herald rather than working to build your estate and service your customers? 14 sims is certainly not a ‘mom and pop’ operation. Stop blaming others for your terrible business management.

Actually, I have more than 15 now. Poorly-peforming or not, I do well enough to keep in SL, support of land preserve of some 50,000 m2, and support 5 newbie communities with subsidized rents, sandboxes, etc. and I create public spaces for people to meet in SL. My business pays for it all. I can’t think of anything more dull than putting out 16 pancakes to bake in the sun, turning them once, and collecting only a few hundred bucks. I’d rather translate a few pages of text or write a consulting report and make far more per hour.

I’d also be embarrassed to IPO my company through one of these poorly managed and dubious “stock exchanges” in SL. I don’t think I could keep any promises to investors under the conditions they operate in.

Writing for the Herald doesn’t take up very much time; my rentals take more time but it’s only a part-time job. I like to have a variety in life.

Why should I? You give me all the free publicity I need on the Herald. The idiots who believe what you say will stay away from my estate, and the intelligent people who know you are full of crap will be attracted to us, so its a nice selection effect going on. It may not get us many intelligent customers, if only cause few intelligent people read your stuff.

Prok sez: Built by Alyx Stoklitsky of known griefing groups and others, helped by Tizzers whose partner is a banned gridcrasher, I expect the Orientation Island of BNT will be a carnival of sound and particle blasting, large penises attractively deployed around the area, and frequent crashes.

Actually, Tizzers is in no way involved. We are employing a number of reformed griefers who are staying clean, not greifing, and are starting to enjoy SL as it was meant to be, building, being creative. Our OI has no particles, penii or otherwise, and will have very tight security against griefing, it will even ban people who regularly use words like “fucktard”, “leninist conspiracy”, “word salading”, and other common griefer phrases… he he.

Prok sez: I don’t think the objective of LL and mega-corps like BNT should be to drive all the mom-and-pops out of business.

Thats funny Prok, cause until we IPOd on the stock exchange, you had more sims than me. Does that make you merely a very poorly performing megacorp, cause you waste your time writing trash for the Herald rather than working to build your estate and service your customers? 14 sims is certainly not a ‘mom and pop’ operation. Stop blaming others for your terrible business management.

You’re suggesting that everyone should sit back, and let these assholes take down Second Life. Never do anything about them. Not report them and risk thus being targeted by them. Let’s not forgot how they began to harass me — I stood up on the old SL forums and said that it was wrong to ridicule the victims of the 9/11 on a sim – that’s all. Nothing special. That led them to come on my sim, wearing a mock-up of the WTC, and bash into me, and use fake-Arab-named alts to crash planes into my restaurant. That’s the sort of thing they do. Over and over again. Ignoring them doesn’t change anything. What, you’re not *allowed* to express your opinion about their tasteless and indecent “art”? You’re supposed to ever and anon shut the fuck up over their obscenities, to ignore them, even if they come on your sim?

And totally by accident, I was flying around one day and saw Griefer Overlord staging a giant penis parade and rezzing other crap like my *real life picture* cut into particles and blasting around on Ansheland for sale. I abuse reported it; I summoned Lindens. What, that’s ok? That can stand? I’m supposed to shut up and never respond to shit like that? I have no idea while they singled me out for griefing then, as I had barely written a thing about them way back them; it’s “just because” I am a public critic. So, it’s ok to rez giant harassment busts of people in RL and harass them and do obscene things with them? This is ok? When do you think it’s enough?

Only by slapping you in the face verbally and using words like “fuckface” or “dickhead” can I speak to your LEVEL, so that you might grasp the magnitude of how these people put a chill on expression in SL, in the name of freedom of expression. How they spread death and nihilism. How they end people’s second lives. If you can’t see the moral issues at hand here, then you lack the moral compass that many of your type seem to lack these days. I’m not the problem. They’re the problem. YOU should be standing up to your geeky peers perhaps a decade younger and YOU should be telling them to knock it off – not me.

You cross the street to delivery a homily, a blast, and a personal attack on *me* — yet never, in your fucking entire life you lame pussy Jessie shooting weakling, EVER stand up to griefers in public and do *the same thing* to them.

Ever wonder why that is?

I deal effectively with griefers. They are a tiny percentage of problems in SL. They aren’t at all as widespread as people believe, and they know it. Sure, they make alts, but it’s not always instant, and they often give up.

By standing up to these people, by documenting what they do, by abuse reporting, I’ve been part of what has removed the major ringleaders from SL. And now what you see are petty foot-soldiers and wannabees who sometimes grief harder to get attention. *Shrug*. It doesn’t faze me. My SL doesn’t consist of them. On forums, they have a larger-than-life projection because a few of them on many alts post over and over again — and people like you don’t stand up to them.

Um, I got the goddamn skew/askew reference. In the Sims Online, there was a girl who ran a parcel called the View Askew that everyone visited and if they didn’t get it the first time, they got it the second 100 times. Spare me.

Yeah, I know Spin owns half the sim now, and that Uri owns some, and that’s it’s for playing shooting games and war games. YAWN.