I’m rather pissy tonight, so do excuse any bad language. I’m usually rated U for Unreadable, but coherence was never a trait I picked up.
I’ve no idea why anybody would care about Linden Lab branding SL as having a “counterculuture”. Seriously – are things really so good on the grid now that we’re down to bitching about dumb crap like terminology? If that’s the case, I’m making a public call for the return of Wednesday downtimes and the grid to randomly be taken offline. Oh, and that missing water bug too.
And why the fuck are people still talking about fucking chickens?!?!
At this rate, I’m going to fly out to San Francisco and take out a few servers with an electro-magnetic pulse. Because when you’re still looking at bitching about poultry.. well somewhere, someones life is really missing something.
Which strikes me true of the pillock who’s taken a dislike to Dusty Linden, and feels the need to publicly go after her. This particular individual was working on Burning Life until he tried to sabotage the event, and now he’s whining like a sore vulture. Assuming vultures whine.. I think they might squawk.
So vulture-boy gets pushed out the event for being a bit of an idiot (there’s no two ways about it.. when you set up a website explaining that you got pushed out, but don’t explain why you got pushed out, it’s kinda clear you have something to hide). Normally I’m all for getting both views, but if it’s gotten to the point where you’re buying a domain name for the sole intention of hatred over a simple event, you really need to step back and re-evaluate your life.
And of course, there’s the immature, dumb sheep who go “zomg – LINDEN HATEZ!!!!11ONE” and pile on top of one another in a foul-smelling orgy as they try to apply pressure to a rather pointless wound.
The end result to all this will of course be that Linden Lab will stop endorsing Burning Life and Second Life Birthday events. It’s not like they profit out of it, and they cause a load of pointless drama each year, and nobody seems to be interested in reading anything unless it’s trying to stir up drama.. So why bother with community events at all?
Why bother with community at all? It seems clear that there needs to be a reason for someone to fly off the handle at someone else, regardless of how trivial it may be.
Forget Counterculuture. Welcome to Second Life. Like First Life, only it’s one long civil war.
Teena on August 28, 2009
Why not tell us how you really feel Prad?
Honour McMillan on August 28, 2009
I had to laugh at the “protest video” …. I spent so much time counting all the spelling mistakes I pretty much lost track of what they were trying to say.
Tary Allen on August 28, 2009
I’m clueless about the Burning Life drama, but, please, if you go to San Francisco don’t take any piece of chalk with you
Edward on August 28, 2009
The protest against Dusty is because she is being paid to do BL and also is connected directly to BurningMan, her RL husband is a founding member of BurningMan, Dusty assists BurningMan in RL so it’s going against one of the the 10 principles of Burningman which is demodification.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
commercial sponsorships = Linden Labs who provide land and resources for BL and pay Dusty.
The 10 principles have also been adopted at BL – but seems Dusty is not including herself in them.
Dusty is paid by Linden lads to put on the virtual event of BurningLife – which is the virtual counterpart of BurningMan.
The event has been resident run for 6years so far, but Dusty it has been said has hijacked the event for her own agenda, pushing residents views and opinions aside. The residents are the backbone of all such community events and it’s a shame that Dusty has been so apposed to resident views and idea’s, which only serves to make the gap bigger between the community and the Lab.
Some have refused to work with Dusty again due to her lack of understanding and limitations in SL – so there is a protest against Dusty Linden and rightly so imho. Isn’t her job to facilitate events and not run them with an iron rod and personal agenda?
Ari Blackthorne on August 28, 2009
YO, DUDE…
One.
Effing.
Word…
DITTO.
Spot-on. You’ve seen my stuff in the old days. My blogging was all like this for the longest time.
Guess enough of the steam has been let out to ease the pressure. Doesn’t mean I don’t still feel the same way.
So, uh, yeah.
What you said.
All of it.
Adric Antfarm on August 29, 2009
Labels hurt. How would you feel if someone summed you up as a fluffy emo blogger always going on about his feelings and– ohhh.ummm. Never mind. Don’t go getting any ideas people. That’s my gig.
Try to avoid “pillock” it just makes us yanks blue screen of death. Let me Google… OHHH…. Well done in it’s 16th century form. I didn’t know you had it in you.
This is too dark btw. I know I’ve been a dick in the past about your thing, but you are at your best when you are you and this is not you. It’s a bad day and we all have them.
Emerald Wynn on September 1, 2009
*sobs* Prad, sometimes I HAVE to write stuff about my chickens. I’m not one of those “Chicken Bloggers” though. I did name a chicken after you. You can come over and swing the hatchet on her if it’ll make you feel better.
A friend actually is donating part of his sim and an 1,875 prim allowance for me to create a monthlong love/hate artistic chicken installation. Like a maybe a chicken discotheque to celebrate them and a chicken dungeon in which to torture them. Or any other decent idea. And I’m thinking a big damn flashing building shaped like a giant chicken head, to symbolize the eyesores that they are.
And I think you should totally build this artistic installation to work out your chicken rage. It would make SL poultry history, Prad! DO IT DO IT DO IT! We could be partners in pissing off the chicken people. It would take the freebie heat off you for a while. (laughs)
I could only pay you in rare scarce eggs though. And flashes of my boobs.
SO CALL ME! I’m serious!
As to the other stuff, all I have to say is that the editor in me screams that “subculture” would have been a better word. That’s why those damn Lindens need to hire me. I’ve sent them my resume 9 billion times.
*flashes boobs and runs like hell*