Seeing as my recent blog post earned me some animosity, I might as well move on to a safe and non-threatening topic. Like religion. Telling me that my support of the right to choose is advocating murder is the quickest way to end any kind of discussion on the topic with me. Period. End of [...]
Archive for the ‘controversy’ Category
Hypocrisy
It’s not very often that something really ruffles my feathers. This morning was one of those times. I woke up with my coffee and browsed my Twitter feed for the previous several hours, as I usually do – and I found out that I was one of a few people being ”schooled” by a high-profile [...]
A Small Update
Since my last blog post *somethingsomething* months ago, Google appears to have relented and plans to provide some form of pseudonymous access to Google+. Whether this means the “nym wars” are over or not remains to be seen. Personally, I’m not impressed at all and I have no plans to return to it. This whole [...]
Resisting Negativity
I am as guilty of it as anyone else, believe me. Last night, however, I had a moment of clarity after spending some time on a web forum – well, one thread and one person in particular. Sometimes you know something, but it takes a certain situation for something to sink in (or rather slap [...]
R.I.P.: RedZone, Innocence.
Marx Dudek is barely a blogger. There, I’ve said it. It’s true. In the time since my last posting, the rumblings over RedZone swelled into an activist movement, the creator’s alleged shady past and dealings with law enforcement were uncovered, RedZone was delisted, existing devices were neutered, the creator was banned along with his alts, [...]
Pride Cometh Before a Change in the TOS
As much as LL won’t come out and admit it openly, I think it’s safe to say that they appreciate alts. The good kind, of course. Not ones created to cause grief. Every time an alt is created, chances are the owner is going to spend money to make that alt look good. Linden Dollars [...]
My Banned RedZone Post
(I reprint here what the moderators of the official Ess-Ell blogorum rejected and removed. I will leave it to you to decide if it was “abusive” or a fair assessment.) It was bound to happen sometime. A post recently posted to RedZone’s own support forum: Ok – there is a HUGE problem here. I believe [...]
A (Possible) Former Linden Speaks Out
I know that some of you absolutely refuse to visit Prokofy Neva’s blog – and generally, I don’t blame you. But a comment was posted yesterday that, if true, confirms most of our worst suspicions about the State of the Linden. Since some of you still won’t visit her blog, I’m reposting the comment below: [...]
Oy.
I have this feeling that September is going to be a month of high drama in Second Life. So far, we’ve had a viewer banned and blocked, a group of developers and their PR agent permabanned, and a fashion designer put in time-out for erecting a Linden concentration camp, complete with ovens. Meanwhile, others are [...]