Comments on: Could Sims 2 Baby BBQ Seriously Help SL Survive?

By: Get a Life

Get a Life — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:26:46 +0000

All these virtual universe including these stupid social network are the bane of human social interaction. It will be a huge problem in 5 or 10 years. Its a drug but autorities will not see it before long…

By: EX-SL Addict

EX-SL Addict — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:10:16 +0000

A poor justification called “creativity” to justify escapism, unhappiness and addiction. These games are dreamlands and a trap for unhappy people.
Best thing would be disappearance of these lame virtual universe in which people get trapped.
Of course addicts will deny they are … sigh !!

By: hobo kelly

hobo kelly — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:45:16 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDHrmsCEjQ

By: Gundel Gaukelei

Gundel Gaukelei — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:11:41 +0000

@banprok link

24 total signatures?

Thats off by one

By: D.F.

D.F. — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:18:25 +0000

“And I don’t just mean internally to the world through politics (because that’s normal and acceptable) but externally too, metagaming the experiences of others through corrupt viewers, external databases of alts and so on. ”

In all fairness, there were problems long before Emerald and such. And I mean *years* before it.

I agree that the full blame falls with LL, for not doing enough to stop people from trying to run ohers’ second lives and in some cases even lending full support to them as the case was with JLU.

But all in all, the problems caused by other residents could (and can) easily be avoided. Even things like greifing is easily avoided and/or ignored. Turning particles off fixes particle bombs lagging, turning sound off fixes screaming cubes, and sitting down avoids being pushed around.

Not once in my 5 years have I had a problem caused by other residents, only had problems caused by LL themselves.

Like the irritation I feel every time they add new chrome to the junkpile before fixing the technical problems that have been plagueing SL from the start.

And not only technical, also social. People getting banned for seemingly no good reason while known griefers are even being offered jobs at LL.

I know, dead horse and different departements, but I still feel that where money is spent by LL on ‘new shiney’ would be better spent on bugfixing and finally, finally making SL a stable running program.

The biggest problem with SL is still ineptitude of the Lindens. Or carelessnes, I cant figure out if they simply dont care or that it is that they simply miss intelligence to figure it all out. Maybe a little bit of both.

By: Yep

Yep — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:03:31 +0000

Leaping into the air her multi colored pom pom’s thrusting upwards as she cheers ” Go getem Tiger!!!!”

By: Axel Oakleaf

Axel Oakleaf — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:51:58 +0000

I’m 33 and what is this

By: hobo kelly

hobo kelly — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:32:53 +0000

“i know that the MTW used to live on Ravenglass with this prokofy neva character that you showed me the link to, ive done my homework you know, and I read about a whole battle that started there as the MTW attempted to take over Ravenglass and rend control away from its owner neva. and since Woodbury used to live there too, on Ravenglass, and you add to that the Herald Connection… it makes me think something is going on. it makes me think that the whole region is on fire…”

“Blondin Linden is still asleep. he only thinks he’s awake” the bug oozed blurping sounds out of its bug mouth. it was still talking. i was wishing for the trip to top out. “we give him occasional Bug Juice injections with our little bugpositors. you call them bug straws. he never really wakes up. with us in his head, we give him soothing hallucenations that allows him to carry out his daily duties without going insane. in return he tells us certain things… things like how Woodbury has returned to a fairly high presence in second life, all under the radar of course, and how one Tizzers Foxchase is stepping up with an Official Petition to Remove Prokofy Neva from second life…”

My jaw dropped open. If I was a full on Secret Bug Agent and had turned into a bug, I guess I would be oozing bug juice down the edge of my mouth which would be frozen in disbelief right about then. “the whole region IS on fire” i thought to myself. it will crackle and flareup worse than grilling a Zooby Prim Baby over too many coals. I clicked the bug link to have a look:

http://www.petitiononline.com/banprok/petition.html

By: hobo kelly

hobo kelly — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:33:54 +0000

so the bugs showed up again. they came right into my bunker through the walls saturday night. right when things were really getting good. ain’t that the way it always goes. like gout or something. right when things are really getting good, *things* start to edgecast, then they start to sausage cast, then comes the word salad spewing fourth from the Saladshooter, then the technocommunists bugs all start to chatter their mandables when you start talking like that. lordy. “We hired and trained you to be a spy in the Blake sea” the main bug, the biggest bug started to say. “you haven’t even tendered a report yet. some spy you turned out to be…”. talking bugs are bad enough, but when they come through your walls right into your hobo bunker, you don’t let them talk to you like that. not in your own bunker you don’t. “Dont start bugging me already” I bleared, blearly blurted out, to the bug. “So far I have connected Pixeleen Mistral and Mark Twain White at the very beginning of your whole bug laden mess” some spittle may have actually flown across and hit the bug because it blinked and cleaned its video pods or whatever they were just then, with its feeler. “and furthermore I think we have seen how some kind of extortion against Linden Labs was used to secure some kind of tastey deal, because the MTW is still patrolling in full force around the Blake…” the bug looked like it was falling asleep… “You’re forgetting someone” the free bug said, modulating some bug puke that spontaneously came out of its bug mouth while it was bug-talking. “blurf barf, read this, it might blurf barf, help you out. the interesting parts are in the comments. shes giving it to the MTW and Heidi the JLU agent in one post, blurf barf..:”

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2009/01/the-lindens-cross-the-bloodbrain-barrier-the-sea-of-fic.html

By: Senban Babii

Senban Babii — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:31:54 +0000

@Paul
“How could LL continue that idealism in the face of copybotting, adfarms, pyramid schemes, and child p*rn?”

This is a good question so I’ll share my thoughts.

The brave new world as you call it had enough space in it, physically and philosophically for virtually everyone to have their own piece of it and be happy. And that even includes room for people to try and take advantage of others through pyramid schemes, that’s just the human machine in action. Same for adfarms, that’s just marketing ingenuity as much as they were an occasional eyesore on the grid.

The problems arose quite simply because individuals and groups arose who attempted to in effect take control of the Second Lives of others. And I don’t just mean internally to the world through politics (because that’s normal and acceptable) but externally too, metagaming the experiences of others through corrupt viewers, external databases of alts and so on. And Linden Lab ENDORSED it all, only withdrawing support when those things became politically hot potatoes. Not once were they seen to be proactively doing the right thing to protect the residents from those trying to create problems for their own greed and ego.

If LL wants the residents to stay, they need to do something to restore confidence. It’s that simple. Because ultimately, what’s killing SL and LL is the customer’s lack of trust and confidence in the provider.