Good Times on gV

High stakes too.

Cato Badger, not to be confused with Caitlin Tobias, is currently engaged in a semantics battle with Dakota Cody over whether the Badger always says "its not always malevolence but occasionally incompetence."

Cato Badger said:

"As I always say its not always malevolence but occasionally incompetence."

Dakota Cody said:

"Liar. This is the first time I've ever seen you say that."

And so on for twelve more posts and two pages with no end currently in sight.

Take a look at the choice of insult being bandied about between the two.

"You are HumptyDumptying."

Caitlin Tobias, for her part, is currently passing tout like a battle ship in the argumentative night, just missing each other over some long not-lost and not-forgotten SLF forum grudge that involved, you guessed it, Pep.  Much of this is going on in, of all places, the "gV Unofficial Useless Statistics" thread opened by Lias.

Just prior to all that the argument over who can lay claim to the forum use of "I'll be your Huckleberry" raised it's shaky head again. Lias continues to support her gV claim and Grady's SC MKII banner claim. Fuckwad's first use of it on the Utherforums remains largely uncontested, though Maryanne feels she used it more and there may be a higher claim in that. Which has more weight? First usage or amount of usage? I went off-forum in pointing out the 1993 usage in the movie "Tombstone" and Pep took us to 1900 with his blog post on the subject.

Jolene and Lias have been arguing over who is stalking who.  I'm not even gonna link ya.  It's all over the place.

Remember these blog posts?

gV Drama...It started with a little thread about desktop images.
gV Drama...It started with a little thread about desktop images. (Part II)

And this thread on gV? "What Computer Desktop Image Do You Use?"

Well you can get new episodes in these threads:

"Reddit pervs and pedos put paid to: no more Loli for you"
"2 or 3 Lollies, cosplay and circumstance."

Enjoy.

Wasted is back again shilling for his own forum and going on about how, yep, you guessed it, "The SL Related Forums Positively Suck."  He's also been going through a heart-wrenching roller coaster ride in his relationship with Lias.   All he can do now is stand back and trust that she is doing the right thing.

Did I mention that ew0k made a brief and nearly forgettable visit to gV?  Yes?  No?  Oh well, never mind.

"Forum Feedback" is back! Current discussion? The alt policy and an opt-out feature.  Funnily enough, the "legal threats/actions, death threats, etc" thread also sprang back to life.

nina said:

"sockpuppeting generally means using an alt to agree with your own arguments or team up with yourself against an adversary. or perhaps even using the alt to agree with an adversary and align with them using a strawman argument or otherwise trying to discredit their argument via 'guilt by association'.
rorting the trophy system is just that. using an alt to like your own posts to inflate trophy points and such."

"i have been contemplating the idea of having two opt-out options. one option to opt out of nsfw and another to opt out of sfw. if one opted out of either they wouldnt see any trace of any forum with that classification."

Lias said:

"I only did that to try to get normal functionality so I could like other's posts, select a mood, make an album and do some other updates.

If people could register a new account as an alt account and it could be given normal functionality immediately then that would be helpful."

Maryanne and Pants got a little overwhelmed.

Pants said:

"Oh dear, i cannot sort the CaTos and the catos and the Caitys. Who are the bad guys? I need to know"

"me groans. Ok just tell me who to Like please"

Maryanne said:

"Wait....

You have a manifesto?!?

I gotta quit skipping meetings."

masonboob lover got booted and banned for being underage while forum whoring and perving the "Naughty" thread.

masonboob lover said:

"ha ha very funny im 12 years old bitch and my iq is prolly on the up side of 110"

What is the up side of 110?

It appears Bunnie got both her groove and her forum avatar back as the Spam can is gone.

Speaking of Bunnie, the latest post in the "Standing invitation for SCMK-II and SLU People who have an axe to grind....." thread is this one:

Bunnie said:

"After hiding out for I don't recall how long, I see Don Mill is Bulldick! posted over on SLU. Must be looking for someone else to file a suit on. Cristiano better watch his step! "

Last, but not least, consider enjoying a few drinks in the Saloon.  You'll need 'em.

ETA:  In addition to the "gV Unofficial Useless Statistics" thread started less than 24 hours ago, we now have a new companion thread complete with detailed scorecard graphic courtesy of Lias. "Absolutely Useless Unofficial gV Statistics"

ETA2:  This one is from Earth in the "Absolutely Useless Unofficial gV Statistics" thread.

ETA3: The Badger explains "Humptydumptying."

"Humptydumptying means claiming to use a word in a particular way that is not the way in which it is usually perceived to be used like using say when nothing has been voiced or in forums when you have been caught using the wrong word like prosperity rather than posterity at which point you attempt to claim the moral high ground by saying that everyone knew what you meant and that it was only a bunch of letters with spaces on each end anyway and english is not a fixed language and if enough people use a word wrongly it becomes accepted usage and anyway english is not my first language and how many languages do you speak anyway and you are discriminating against me because I am a foreigner and I am a professor of linguistics in my own country and am an international soccer referee and can say penalty in sixteen different languages."

And this helpful quote and link from the changeling operating Mitch Wexler's avatar at present*:

"There is the problem of humptydumptying, whereby a person gives an unusual and private meaning to a word with a more common and public definition and thus causes unnecessary confusion."

*Mitch used to have a bit of a tendency to prompt other posters to say JFGI on the screen, under their breath and/or in their minds, so I have no idea who this Googling, surfing, quoting, linking fool operating his avatar now is or what has happened to Mitch.  It's what prompted me to say this in gV earlier.  Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Fine print: "Fool" here is meant playfully as someone doing a lot of something with a certain amount of abandon, not an unintelligent jerk.

Ooh, look. A philosophy forum.

mickthinks said:

"Lewis Carroll had Humpty Dumpty say 'Words mean what I want them to mean'."

ETA4:  A link to a list of gV posts with the most "likes."

ETA5:

nina said:

"a thread is nothing more than an initial post."

ETA6:  Snapper is back.

ETA7:

Cato Badger said:

"You know what that reminds me of? This might annoy you though, but still: there was like a "movement" a little while ago, where homosexuals wanted to start calling themselves "Gays" rather than homosexuals because homosexual had too negative of a connotation or something. Well this caused a lot of consternation, because using the word "gay" to describe someone colloquially means you're calling them gay, and trying to refer to homosexuals exclusively as "gays" implied that they were gay to the exclusion of those who were not "gay". They tried arguing it, like "but gay is a noun!", but everyone knew it wasn't, and eventually that silliness just kind of became accepted because otherwise the homosexuals would have complained of homophobic discrimination.

Pep (And so we lost a good meaningful word.)"

Cato Badger said:

"Did you like it because I thought that since I have been posting like Pep and everybody has been suggesting I was Pep I would give everyone ammunition to point to in days to come to prove I was Pep.

Pep (Did it strike the right sort of resonant chord???)"

ETA8:  Poor Saffy Pants.  We're going to drive her mad at this rate.    See here.  Hey, this is why I pick a name and a forum pic (and even a color) and stick with it.   ;)

ETA9:  New stats from Lias.

ETA10:  Good times.

ETA11:

ETA12:  Ishina.  http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/standing-invitation-for-scmk-ii-and-slu-people-who-have-an-axe-to-grind.243/page-255#post-111002

Back on the ranch in the saloon...

Saffy Pants posted this in the "London's burning: Rioters trash police station" thread on gV:

"Oh dear nina. This sounds very like a report from the Iranian News Service and is quite, quite wrong. If it was some kind of revolt against poverty and injustice i might have had some sympathy and even cheered them on.
But this was simply the black drug gangs who run large parts of London suddenly realising that if enough of them went on the rampage in enough different locations they could not be stopped and their sheer audacity caught like a bush fire.
In many cases they went for poor Asian shopkeepers, they ransacked their own neighbours' houses and corner stores, they terrorised and robbed old people and torched their homes. In one terrible incident, when a group of Asian shopkeepers stood guard over their street, they simply drove a car into them, killing three of them. It was a mindless, causeless, drink-and-drug-fuelled rampage of insane greed. Incidentally the guy whose shooting started it all was a known gangster who was armed."

Lias responded in "The Saloon" thread:

"What clever black gang members, to start a riot for no reason so they could steal candy from poor Asian shopkeepers. At least no Caucasians were killed. You can thank your White God for that at least."

Saffy Pants replied:

"Think this is in the wrong thread Lias, but never mind. It is quite true that the trouble started when members of the black community gathered to protest at the death of Mark Duggan. Anger boiled, a window was smashed, chaos ensued, the police stood off, more windows were smashed, a shop was looted and suddenly it was all over the Blackberry group messaging net and the orgy started all over the country.
I can't believe you are trying to justify what happened."

On-topic discussion for no more than about a page and a half, including me mentioning what appears to me to be a personal policy change for Lias (I was later corrected, natch) and then Lias called out Tarzan:

"Pathetic is YOU Tarzan. Your sad and desperate 'backchannel' thread only had 77 responses and 656 views in 6 days.

My thread has 112 replies and 732 views overnight.

Do better. Don't lash out at me because of your 'shortcomings'"

Bunnie said:

"I have you all beat! The Naughty Thread(Pics, vids, etc. There will be nudity!)
And yah! Take that! I don't know how to tell views and all that, but I bet it kicks your threads asses! Plus you get nakedy goodness!
I rule!  

  "

LeeHere said:

"Forum Feedback, while not naughty per se, and certainly not as popular as Bunnie's fabulously successful thread (128,391 views), has over 22,000 views. Just sayin'. 

p.s.Lain (is Bams)' Standing invitation for SCMK-II and SLU People who have an axe to grind..... thread has over 50,000 views."

And from there, can you guess, yes, more talk about jealousy, mental health, necro-stalking, net nannying, obsession, passive-aggressiveness, post counts, reading comprehension, rude snark, trolling and emoticons...not so much about riots.

A forum stats thread was suggested.

Lain (is Bams) said:

"Only is we get kill points and the ability to collect the avatars of our victims on a trophy page.  
  "

Bunnie said:

"   Kinky banana says let's do it! (The thread idea, pervs.)"

Lias said:

"Post counts are important."

"I was here first."

Lias kept score, suggested badges and made a banner.

"I would like some nice shiny badges under my avatar picture to show off my accomplishments Nina."

And gave Jolene a time-out.

Lias said:

"Your time-out ends on August 20th.

Use that time to figure out how you can converse without name calling and trying to incite fights on a discussion forum."

Joshua was invoked.  Again.  Cristiano too.  Again.

Lias said:

"Colleen, CaTo and Lee were fun tonight.

Jolene is on a time-out until she can pull her head out of Joshua's ass over at SLU."

Jolene carried the message to Joshua over on SLU.

And then the muppet thread was maligned.

Lias said:

"I won't even click the 'Sesame Street Gay Marriage Petition' thread because it is stupid. Colleen should lose 500 post points just for starting the thread."

I'm not making this up.

Kick defended the muppets and talked about his name-watching hobby.

I took one for the team.

Kick relived his angst over the Snowman competition.

And Mitch said this:

"I'm a fly in your ointment.... the sand in the crack of your ass at the beach... the ants at the picnic.... but go on.... keep pretending that I'm not here....."

Bunnie enjoyed the activities.



Links:
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/londons-burning-rioters-trash-police-station.2340/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/the-saloon-a-mature-area17-nsfw-red-thread.1200/page-34#post-106080
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/the-naughty-thread-pics-vids-etc-there-will-be-nudity.410/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/new-petition-seeks-to-out-sesame-streets-bert-and-ernie-as-gay.2361/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/the-saloon-a-mature-area17-nsfw-red-thread.1200/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/necro-stalk-a-mature-area17-nsfw-red-thread.2368/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/take-it-outside-ii-area17-nsfw-red.1162/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/take-it-outside.806/
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/take-it-outside.806/page-25#post-41838
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/take-it-outside.806/page-21#post-41456
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/zomgwtfbbqgtfololcats/62816-i-hate.html

gV Drama...It started with a little thread about desktop images. (Part II)

Here's an update on the "What Computer Desktop Image Do You Use?" thread on gV.

A new poster personality, Rudolph Ukka, made an appearance on gV (SLF and FC too) and caused some alt hunting, natch, before one of the planets orbited him.

Rudi said:

"I saw this fucking thread written about in LeeHeres blog so I singed up to come and say that you are a bunch of fucking pussywhipped morons leading a fucking wimp of a fucking owner by the nose becuase Immy has not been proved to break any laws not even the rules of this fucking forum. Immy has got an infraction becuase she did something against the kultur of this forum or at least the kultur of the most vocal fucking morons here. You suggest that fucking Lucifer over in fucking SCII has stated that cartoon lolis are illegal in his country but you dont even know what fucking country he lives in. Is it Ireland England or fucking Scotland. And what are you going to do if I tell you that fucking lolcatz are fucking illegal in fucking Tristan Da Cunha? Does that mean that you all have to promise to stop posting fucking pictures of fucking lolcatz or even links to sites that have fucking lolcatz. And get rid of all the fucking posts in this forum that have fucking lolcatz in them. Rudi"

Charming, eh?

Lias responded:

"LeeHere has a blog? How frightening."

Pep said on FC:

"Pep (is surprised Rudi's posts are still up in the official forum; are the mods there confused about whether his posts have already been moderated?)"

Which is all the more humorous both if you know the current moderation practices on SLF and if you've seen Rudi's posts there.

colleen was accused of Donning the thread (as in posting like Don Mills, not actually wearing the thread).

A discussion about the merits of the individual sartorial styles of both colleen and Lias ensued nonetheless.

A discussion about the merits and significance of high post and like counts ensued.

Storm entered the fray and stirred things up managing to both publicize FC and draw Jolene's rapt attention in the process, which inevitably led to a rehash of the Seicher Rae-Ima-Willem brouhaha on FC and even a little of the Jolene-Jumpman-Wasted debacle and many more posts and pages.  Lain's Larry was mentioned.  Fuckwad too.  Even Gnat was invoked.  Scylla too, natch.  And of course, the more current drama surrounding the rumor that the Ts are, in fact, our own Storm and Venus.  Ima finally sorted out her password problems and jumped into the mud with everyone else.  If you haven't posted or been mentioned in this thread yet, you might want to call your publicist.

Storm said:

"FORUM CONFIDENTIAL killed Mulch. Stayed tune for details."

Storm said:

"I have a question for this forum, or anybody who is reading this thread: how many alts do you think it will take to put out the fire that Jolene started on this thread? I say 4."

Jolene said:

"I just vehemently will fight his little games to get his blog posted anywhere."

LeeHere said:

"Well, I guess Storm is the Donnie Deutsch Trump of the SL-circuit then. I want to see a reality machinima next."

colleen said:

"I do see, but .....just like IRL The Enquirer ....wants to know. Headlines gotta come from somewhere. huh"

nina weighed in on Immy's links.

"i dont have much of an issue with the link personally
that being said, it could be interpreted as a violation of the community standards, so mercury was right to infract imo."

nina finally got around to asking colleen and Lias about their falling out.

"i must have missed something...
i thought you two were mates?"

LeeHere said:

"Jeebus, but you are behind. Still not reading your own forum?"

nina said:

"i am aware that they havent gotten on for a while now, but this is the first i have asked about it."

Bladyblue (Lias) made an appearance.

Mitch threw spaghetti at the wall.

Mary and I reminisced about my Candy Tetris quest.

GradyE bucked the thread trend and posted a desktop image with a subtle little plug for Mulch's new Feted Inner Hangout forum.  I've already been instructed not to call it "fetid."



colleen may have summed up the thread best when she said:

"Christ its like a nightmare that never ends."

Links:
http://direct.gotvirtual.net/community/threads/what-computer-desktop-image-do-you-use.2342/page-16
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/08/gv-dramait-started-with-little-thread.html
http://slconfidential.blogspot.com/2011/08/newbie-troll-of-week-rudolph-ukka.html
http://slconfidential.blogspot.com/2011/08/gv-in-uproar-over-immy-images.html
http://slconfidential.blogspot.com/
http://fetedinnerhorde.com/forums/

Oh, and Harvey wants y'all to see this.



ETA:  Isakk Hunt has joined us on gV.

gV Drama...It started with a little thread about desktop images.

This is the OP.

Lias said:

"I like a dark screen image that's not too busy."

And she included this picture.



So far, so good.

Kita posted links to hers.

Tarzan posted this.

"I have had this one since even before she was famous."

Post #4, Immy posts this.

"Can't. It'll probably get me banned. =^-^="

This is where I imagine veterans of SC MKII, SLU and the SL blogorums roll their eyes, groan and push flashbacks of old threads out of their heads. Non-veterans or the unfamiliar might be doing a combination of "uh oh" and "what?" Regardless, anyone reading that one line knows it's the beginning.

Couple more posts about desktop images. People ignoring the bait.  Here comes more chum.

Immy wades back in and on post #9 contributes a post that has since been edited, debated, defended and derided multiple times with no end currently in sight.  [Warning:  Think twice about clicking the links (here and below).  Immy likes controversial lolicon images and tends to post from the full continuum with the qualifier that one end of the continuum is her wheelhouse and the other end of the continuum is what a minority of other people enjoy, but, ya know, check it out or something.]

"I'll do it this way: #ECCHI# http://darkly-cute.com/images/Desktop 110807.jpg #ECCHI# open at your own risk. =^-^=

It's a dual-screen set up and I make a big enough image to span both, each with its own scene. Set to tile and it fits perfectly. (^_^)y

Oh, I can show off my workplace desktop..."

"Ain't I the narcissist? =^-^="

"WARNING** This site goes even beyond ~MY~ boundaries -- Lolibooru <link broken by me - see explanation below>

But, anyway. (^_^)y"

"#1 rule of online safety: Unless you're clearly aware that you're directly seeking that which is behind the link, DON'T CLICK THE LINK!"

"Blind rage is entertaining."

More postings of desktop images and then post # 19.

Lain (is Bams) said:

"Linking to pornographic images of children isn't exactly above board with the rules, now is it?

It's clearly material we have outlined as inappropriate for posting, I don't see a link to the material as much different, and I'm pretty sure the laws will fall in that direction as well.

I, for one, would appreciate you having more tact and respect and keeping this filth to yourself in the future.

Thanks in advance."

Aaaand we're off to the races.

Here's a quick bullet summary:

• Immy posted links to potentially illegal pornographic images thereby endangering both the site and the members who might have clicked on the second link.
• Immy posted links and not images and members were not compelled to click the links.
• Members weren't warned either.
• The pictures are of drawings, not actual people.  No one was harmed in the making of them.
• The pictures are illegal in some countries and offensive to many people.
• The gV community standards say "child pornography or the sexualisation of a child, real or not, is explicitly forbidden" and no shock gore either and we agreed not to put the site in legal jeopardy.
• Immy is trolling.  Again.
• Immy is a hero for being open, honest and vulnerable and exercising such great restraint.
• Immy is just posting.
• Immy thinks the pics are cute and on-topic.  She also thinks they express joy, freedom and liberation.
• Immy objects to her favorite form of art being characterized as filth.
• Immy hates being an adult, but is forced into it in real and virtual lives.
• Immy is a married middle-aged man with a compulsion to post lolicon pics, seek attention and cause drama.
• Immy is like a flasher on a subway.
• Lias is old enough to be Immy's mother.
• Lias sounds like colleen's mother.
• Lias is accused of harping.
• Tarzan tells Lias to "shut up."
• Immy wants a cat.
• Someone shoots a confidential email to PETA.
• People state and quote laws and rules and so forth.  Jurisdictions are discussed.
• People tell each other they are wrong.
• People accuse each other of net nannying.
• Everyone is just expressing opinions as they have a right to do.
• Immy wants to know why, if these images are illegal as so many people are telling her, are they still up and why have they been up for years?
• What Immy actually knows or doesn't know is debated.
• People are clutching pearls and being provincial and fussy.
• People are just asking Immy to respect the wishes of the community members.
• Lain (is Bams) does a pseudo-flounce.
• Lain (is Bams) returns for a quick summary and chastisement.
• Lain (is Bams) CoCos the thread.
• Lain (is Bams) Godwins the thread.
• Tarzan Godwins the thread with more Freud.
• Mary invokes the Archivist.
• Everybody else invokes Wasted.
• Another image is posted for comparison and discussion purposes.
• Storm tells everyone he has a picture of Lias on his desktop (clearly baiting Orfeu who posted a pic early on and buggered off before the drama fired up.)
• Bunnie supplies the thread memes:  pilgrims and reruns.
• Jolene provides an updated summary on page 14.
• Lias provides the first list of the thread.
• Kick interprets and mediates.
• I get slaphappy.
• A planet gives out infraction points.
• Lurkers either mentally slit their wrists or eagerly refresh for more.

Oh, and CaTo posted this:  

And Lias made a banner.

Here's Immy's post about her room. Post #32.  Brace yourself.

"No. That is actually my Windows desktop. (^_^)


And, this is my room. (^_^)"

Links:
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/what-computer-desktop-image-do-you-use.2342/
http://www.secondcitizen.net/Forum/showthread.php?t=1745
http://www.secondcitizen.net/Forum/showthread.php?t=3531
http://www.darkly-cute.com/blog/
http://imnotgoingsideways.blogspot.com/

I'll link you to a post that has the second link, the more inflammatory pic site, rather than repost that link on my own site.  You really want to see it, you can click through to gV, click the link there and head on over to Lolibooru. Yes, I did click. I know what you'll see if and when you get there. Don't say you weren't warned.

Here's the link to the post with the link:  http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/what-computer-desktop-image-do-you-use.2342/page-4#post-105421

ETA p.s.
My comments on FC explaining the differences in what people might have been seeing with regard to the second link could possibly clarify things a bit.  http://slconfidential.blogspot.com/2011/08/gv-in-uproar-over-immy-images.html

From the rabbit: