In the Belly of the Beast: Harry Linden Cheaps Out on Bears
by Pixeleen Mistral on 25/04/10 at 9:23 pm
Apparently erasing all signs of Woodbury from the grid became Harry Linden’s top priority sometime wednesday morning. I had just stopped by the Woodbury parcel in Ravenglass sim to take a picture of the plot when all the objects present disappeared!
Despite the destruction, I was elated – the reclusive Lindens were almost certainly in the ‘hood. With the possibility of scoring Linden Bears for our collections at the top of our minds, Phausk Claven, ASAYLUM Inaka, Epacsten Subagia and I scanned mainland Woodbury plots for a game god.
We were in luck! Harry Linden was seen flying over Cartmel sim and I was offered a teleport to join the group.
Harry Linden trapped in the wild
As we flew high above what was previously a store where some of the members of the Woodbury group had run a business, I reverently approached Harry and said “hi”.
In previous encounters with Lindens in-world, I have learned the proper next move is to ask for a Linden Bear as a keepsake commemorating the glorious event. Serious players know that a rare Linden bear is something you can exhibit with pride for years – or until your account is terminated for any reason or no reason.
Unfortunately, Harry Linden was not inclined to play along – he fell silent, then disappeared. This seemed more than a little unfair – we had trapped a game god in the wild and should have gotten bears. What is this virtual world coming to? Is maintaining good Linden/player relations was going to take a back seat to wanton deletion of player assets and players? Apparently so.
moments before Harry Linden removes all Woodbury objects from Ravenglass sim
A bit later, both Phausk Claven and ASAYLUM Inaka disappeared from the people list – more victims of the Linden Woodbury ban.
I felt bad for Phausk and ASAYLUM — they came so close to getting a Harry Linden bear in their last moments in world, but ultimately died in vain. Perhaps they can come back on alt accounts and try again.
Meanwhile I still feel that Harry Linden owes me a bear – isn’t that how the game is played – or is the Lab changing the rules again?
Scout Detritus
Apr 25th, 2010
I had about 17 Linden Bears before my acct was deleted. Still waiting on a reason why it was deleted in the first place…and that WAS my store, RX Pirates in the sky that Harry was deleting.
Jumpman Lane
Apr 25th, 2010
I GOT TORLEY LINDEN’S BEAR FROM TORLEY the other day. This is Jumpman Lane’s time in the sun. Let that be a lession to the likes of that fat plumber Stroker Serpentine
Pappy Enoch
Apr 25th, 2010
“Let that be a lession to the likes of that fat plumber Stroker Serpentine”
“lesion” am the right spellin’ for that term, Jumpy.
If’n you keeps gittin’ naughty wif that-there bear Torley done give you, you am a-gonna git you a big ol’ lesion on yo’ Main Part.
Not that I reckons you gits to use yo’ Main Part much, nowhow.
Jeffry BigBear
Apr 25th, 2010
ey harry, I got sum Bears 4 ya…
Baloo Uriza
Apr 25th, 2010
Harry is a meta-account, so I’m not terribly surprised that he doesn’t have a bear and isn’t talkative. Corner Rodney or Michael some time (Michael can often be found along the LDPW highway system working on the public works, sometimes with a dumptruck nearby).
Judge Joker
Apr 26th, 2010
So what next a friendship bear for Harry Linden made by Woodbury?
Maybe you can give it a little Tizzers er I mean Zindra.
MOAR
Apr 26th, 2010
lol. good ol’ harry “triggerhappy” linden. he does shit like that since 3 years…
note to self: include harry linden detector in my combat hud. though when you see him it’s usually too late…
IntLibber Brautigan
Apr 26th, 2010
I hereby pledge a goodly percent of my lawsuit winnings, when I get said money, to whoever outs Harry Lindens real life info and location. He evidently is very lonely and needs far more love than he gets presently.
Sylauxe
Apr 26th, 2010
“I hereby pledge a goodly percent of my lawsuit winnings, when I get said money, to whoever outs Harry Lindens real life info and location. He evidently is very lonely and needs far more love than he gets presently.”
How much of said lawsuit money are you planning on spending on snack cakes and Japanimes?
IntLibber Brautigan
Apr 26th, 2010
Sylauxe,
“How much of said lawsuit money are you planning on spending on snack cakes and Japanimes?”
Well I get Fullmetal Alchemist for free on Funimation’s website, so that costs nothing, other than enduring a few Red Bull commercials.
and the Caek is a Lie….
As I own 63% of BNT, I’ll keep ~2/3 of whatever I win (minus taxes). Teh rest goes out to teh people whose trust and investment helped make BNT great, and the envy of many a jealousy-consumed blingtard newb. Thats a lot of twinkies….
knucklehead
Apr 26th, 2010
I would settle for a Prokofy doll. I really want one bad. Can you get those in-world?
Baloo Uriza
Apr 27th, 2010
IntLibber: Pay up. Harry is a meta-account, much like “abuse@” email addresses don’t generally go to a single person.
Baloo Uriza
Apr 27th, 2010
Re: Prokofy doll: Hmm…anybody know voodoo?
IntLibber Brautigan
Apr 27th, 2010
Baloo,
Harry is a british fellow of middle age who works out of the Brighton office in a cubicle somewhat next to Jack’s. He’s not a meta-account unless he died of consumption and others took it over, but that would have to have been recently. Meta accounts are like Agent Linden, which is run by the Agent Linden team (5 people). Meta accounts do not act as supervisors/directors of teams, which Harry was, director of the governance team after he ousted Michael Linden from that position. Michael approved of the carrot and stick juvie strategy of dealing with griefing that I came up with, which Harry hated. Harry is a dick and knows he’s a dick, hence while Michael is linked to me on facebook, Harry doesn’t want anybody outside the lab to know who he is.
So, sorry, but no dice.
IntLibber Brautigan
Apr 27th, 2010
Knucklehead,
There are Prokofy hand puppets around SL you can get, they’re scripted to repeat in public chat anything you say on channel 1, which makes it nice to inject tasty Prok quotes into public discussions.
Ask any w-hat goon for a prok puppet, most all of them have it in inventory.
NOTE: the puppet is a reproduction of Proks RL visage, so if the hovertext on it says “Prok”, you’ll get a disclosure TOS violation for using it. Change the hovertext to say “crazy cat lady” or her RL name, and you will be TOS compliant.
Tux Winkler
Apr 27th, 2010
Harry is a real chap from the Brighton office. I will post a pic if I can find it. And yes, he is quite unfriendly if you have so much as a blip on your account.
BTW there are reasons why LL chose Brighton. And it has nothing to do with the countryside – XD.
IntLibber Brautigan
Apr 27th, 2010
FYI, 2/3 of 500k is 333k, a 5% share would be worth around 16.5k US… so those of you in the Brighton area, this is a project worth some effort…
Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia
Apr 27th, 2010
@IntLibber: That’s an easy device to make. I have it in my Roleplay HUD. Here’s the code. Just copy this into a script, put it in a box and wear that box on your HUD. All you do is type the name you want to speak as on channel 2 and type the message you want to say on channel 1.
For example, if I type “/2 the air” and then type “/1/me is cold and damp” then I get “the air is cold and damp” in main chat, seemingly without a speaker (I hope you can see how this could be useful for roleplay). If I type “/1 hello!” then it outputs “the air: hello!”
If you rez the box without it being attached it will rename itself to your avatar’s name.
Have fun driving prok ape shit!
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string newname = “Micker”;
default
{
on_rez(integer start_param)
{
llResetScript();
}
state_entry()
{
key Owner = llGetOwner();
llSetObjectName(llKey2Name(llGetOwner()));
llRequestPermissions(Owner, PERMISSION_TRIGGER_ANIMATION);
//This is just so it runs in no-script areas
llListen(1, “”, Owner, “”);
llListen(2, “”, Owner, “”);
}
listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
{
if (channel == 2)
{
newname = message;
}
else if (channel == 1)
{
llSetObjectName(newname);
llSay(0, message);
llSetObjectName(name);
}
}
}
Baloo Uriza
Apr 27th, 2010
In either case, I think Michael’s doing much better now in his current role with Linden Public Works.
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