Random Blog Sightings Weeks of May 19 - June 11, 2011

Second Thoughts


I confess I'm not a major reader of Prokofy Neva's blog, mainly because I'm not as conversant in Second Life issues as I would need to be to make much of it meaningful to me.  But I do peek in from time to time and find myself occasionally rewarded with some Prok-Play.  Those are the golden moments and there's been a pleasant rash (or rush?  for gold?) of them lately.


Here are some examples:


1.  VIEWER 2 SUCKS -- MAYBE IF I EXPLAIN IT IN CARTOONS THEY WILL GET IT


2.  War on AnnMarie O'Toole

War on AnnMarie O'Toole

Tanks are amassing in Durango.

3.  UnHoly Rimpoche Kiama

Prokofy Neva said:

The first time I saw the name Rimpoche Kiama on the visitor tracker after my chickens were killed, I didn't think that it could possibly be him griefing -- I thought he just happened to be one of the many people who visited the sim to see it, or buy eggs even.

Prokofy Neva said:

But how do I know it's him who came on my sim last night at 11:30 pm and broke every single chicken egg and returned the chickens to inventory by pushing them off world.

Well, because the eggs send you a message, see, like this:

The object 'sionChicken egg' has sent you a message from Second Life:
I was crushed by an object of avatar 5dd676f6-236e-48b6-85dd-a4db6d57b974

Prokofy Neva said:

I thought given the w-hat scraping and recording of so many avatar UUIDs, this egg-crusher might be in the list, so I plugged it into Google.

Prokofy Neva said:

So his name appearing on the visitor tracker is merely a confirmation -- and here I thought he was just a visitor, not a griefer.

Imagine, methodically going around a sim, to different locations, and hunting down somebody's chicken eggs and crushing them. What an asshole!

Prokofy Neva said:

[23:18] Prokofy Neva: Why are you coming and killing my chickens and crushing their eggs you asshole? And you've been caught now -- I saw you on the visitor tracker and didn't think you were capable of such a thing, now I have you recorded as the avatar crushing the eggs, it's your avatar UUID -- you've been reported.
[0:00] Prokofy Neva: oh stop it you're ridiculous
[0:00] Rimpoche Kiama: what's rediculous is that you feel a crushed virtual egg is...?
[0:00] Prokofy Neva: well you tell ME why YOU find it meaningful to come on a sim and crush chicken eggs?!
[0:00] Rimpoche Kiama: now I"m confused!
[0:01] Prokofy Neva: er, no, but there, you've confessed
[0:01] Prokofy Neva: you tell ME why you'd have a need to come and crush chicken eggs on my sim

Prokofy Neva said:

What would make someone do that? Only one reason: not liking what I write on my blog. Well, you don't have to like what I write on my blog, but that doesn't entitle you to deceptively come on my land and destroy my chicken eggs and chickens. Oh, and then go through the usual word-salad that this doesn't matter, etc.

Who would be obsessive enough to come and find *ten chicken eggs* at various locations and then come and crush them? Only somebody who is unhinged.

Prok said:

Well, I'm busy sweeping up dead chickens again

How can you read "Who would be obsessive enough to come and find *ten chicken eggs* at various locations and then come and crush them? Only somebody who is unhinged," and not laugh?  That combined with the slack-jawed, gormless-looking pic of said egg crusher...priceless.

4.  If You Lived Here, You'd Be Gone Now

If You Lived Here, You'd Be Gone Now Check this out! Visit Brownlee (241, 222, 178)

5.  Prok Planking in Second Life

One last note, Prokofy Neva's real-life human operator recently celebrated a birthday.  Happy birthday!

Reposts.

The Forum Confidential

Sleazy, silly, sometimes cruel, often fun, almost completely tongue-in-cheek...the Second Life tabloid that is "The Forum Confidential." 

Recent stories included:

MOB RULE- GANGBANGERS! SLU HAS IT ALL!

THE FORUM CONFIDENTIAL: LIGHTHEARTED VS MEANSPIRITED

CATO COMMENTS

BRADY STRATTEN: I AM MARTIN SHEEN'S ALT!!!

READ THIS BLOG SHOUTS ANONYMOUS! THREE TIMES

MODERATOR MODERATOR BAKE ME A CAKE

SCN-MK II COMES OUT SWINGING!!

BLONDIN CAUGHT IN TEH SECKS!!!

SLO: DEAD ZONE!!

PROK PROWLS IN OFF HOURS!!!

WHO IS LEEHERE?

Just be careful wading into the coffee-and-bile klatch comments section of this internet rag.  If you find some forums insular, incestuous, fixated, egocentric, self-indulgent and/or dramarific, you will likely suffocate in the intensely small, histrionic and tumultuous world that is the comment section of The Forum Confidential.  If you love extended soap operatic dramas with a handful of players you can get to know and love and hate, then this might just be your cup of tea with a side of lemon.

Ishy's Coherent Rants

Ishtara's blog likely got a big uptick in views when links were passed around in the forum after Ishy retreated to Ishy's blog to write about an unpleasant experience in SLU discussing sexuality.  I say "discussing sexuality" rather than "discussing bestiality," which was the original topic, because the discussion evolved, as these discussions will, to include child molestation, rape and various other subtopics that might be included in the broad and loosely defined umbrella of sexuality.  The upshot is that Ishy seems to feel that the SLU posters turned into an angry mob.  And at the center of this mob?  No surprises for any forum follower...Joshua.

Excerpt from Ishy's blog:

When I signed up for a forum account at SLUniverse, I was aware that things might get a little rough. But it still came as a shock to experience the lynch mob mentality firsthand at the receiving end of the molotov cocktails, and to watch otherwise somewhat reasonable people turn into vicious harpies.

It all started with a thread about Florida's new anti-bestiality law. 

It started to rapidly go downhill when some immature, furry-hating dweeb called Joshua Nightshade informed me that I was "insulting the shit out of him" by suggesting that men have a fair amount of control over their nether regions, that he was "losing his patience", and that I had "reached the limit of his tolerance".  

Ishtara had a few thoughts on the SL-themed forums too.

I had been posting for a few weeks at the SLUniverse forums, since the rest of the Second Life forum landscape looks pretty bleak nowadays. The few remaining veterans of the official forums have succumbed to a Lithium-induced stupor, GotVirtual has devolved into a tiresome cross-forum flamewar, the circle jerk at the SL Offworld forum has slowed down to a one-fap-per-week crawl, and admitting myself to the online psych ward that is Second Citizen MK II is simply not an option. I might be crazy, but not that crazy. 

Hybrid Angel


Exciting news on Hybrid Angel. Grady's avatar was featured in a real-world book.  

Fashion Drawing ~ Michele Wesen Bryant

Congratulations Grady!  Well-deserved indeed.