Basically doesn’t work. (._.)

ATTN: Linden Lab.  Immy is telling you, you FSK’d up. (=_=)

I log in just now to see NCI group chat displaying the frustrations of our new 2.6 client…

[08:52] ****: im with one here now, i just recommended her to relog :(
[08:54] ****: she got bored and left…
[08:54] ****: grrrrr

And, there already seems to be a rumor going around…

[08:52] ****: yup…can do nothing…only walk and chat
[08:52] ****: andu  must ever explain them that they must log off and come back in advanced-.-
[08:53] ****: and then they think the advanced itsn free ://

So… What are the attributes I see so far? (=_=)

  • It’s optional
  • It seems to be the current install default
  • Which totally cripples the user from the beginning
  • Leaves little to no information about what their options are
  • Confuses them
  • Places extra load on volunteers to explain why SL seems so limited
  • Quickly becomes subject to rumors about additional usage fees

DUUUUUDE!!! DX

I don’t know what was going through their heads when they decided upon this.  It should have been run through beta and user research stages, quite frankly.  The concept is only half okay.  It’s quite reflective of the other virtual worlds I’ve seen… And seen fail. (._.)

It’s great to want to simplify and minimize things.  I’m quite aware of the learning curve that SL comes with.  But, if this (O) is the problem, this (.) is not the solution. (=_=)

I do hope that this Basic mode eventually comes with a survey for new users, support, and volunteer helpers.  Something has gone very wrong.  Now is the time to say “oops” and go back to the old drawing board. (>_<)

/me pokes Rodvik.  I grumble in your general direction! (=_=)

 

 

 

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Failure to read an open book. (-_-)

In a way, I’m enjoying the malarkey being flung my way.  It’s quite entertaining how wrong and inconsistent someone can be yet still stand, expressly indignant, by their own stories. (^_^)

Where to start?… (>.>)

Hmmmmmm. (-_-)

Well, there’s a lot of stuff I talked about before.  I’m guessing it would be silly to rehash it all yet again.  And, all I got was this silly nickname. =^-^=

My interests!  Hows about that? XD

Well… To get something out of the way.  My mindset; I am Immy.  That is to say I don’t “use” Immy, I don’t “play” Immy, and I don’t “control” Immy… At least not any more than my mind is using, playing, and controlling my physical body. (^_^)

Oh, and a recent change.  Have I mentioned it here yet? (O.o)

Well, I buried the hatchet with my crush… Or, former crush, that is.  And I guess it was a “me” thing to do to have a “breakup haircut”… Of course, can’t really break up what wasn’t there and SL haircuts don’t really bode well.  So, I’ve turned human.  I’m still up in the air about things, so, I haven’t shifted my profile.  But, I seem to be settling in to a chubbier, fleshier, more ‘bio’ Immy. (^_^)

Now that I think about it, I have mentioned that before. (O.o)

Okay, well, that’s out of the way. =^-^=

So, I’ve gone from a Tesla project gone wrong to a flesh&bone being…

Where am I going with this? (O.o) ….

AH!!! My friends.  =^-^=

By the way, yes, I’m pretty much just typing my flow of thought. Xp

I did the gynoid thing in hope to fit in with my closest friends.  Most of which have immersed themselves in doll roleplay… Which, in turn, has a ton of BDSM aspects.  I’ve never been really clear how deeply I wanted to explore things… I’m still not clear.  But, “when in Rome”… You know? (^_^)

So, I popped the tubes on, modded a neck piece from a full AV outfit, and rode the wave for quite a while… Including some of the BDSM trappings (pun intended, badump-pcshsh!).  I’ve actually had a pretty large gambit of gear.  Collar scripts from Dari’s Haus, Amethyst, ToKon, and currently Open Collar.  Can’t say I use much of it, though.  In fact, once in a while I get quite miffed to think about all the money I spent on that junk simply to never put it to work. (._.)

Hm… But, what am I well known for? (O.o)

Nehehehe. =^-^=

The ballgag! XD

I remember why I was wearing that.  I’m prone to chronic self deprecation.  My friends, not wanting to hear it anymore and quite aware that I was hurting myself, required me to wear the gag.  It was my indicator that I had to be silent.  Or “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all”. (._.)

I took the picture as a self reminder.  And I think I even used it in a forum post to indicate that I’d shut up for a while.  Either way, I surely wasn’t shy about it.  I was being silenced.  A few people saw the ballgag as something of a sexual nature, but, as far as I know I don’t share a sexual relationship with my friends… Particularly the friends that gagged me. (>_<)

Not happy times, then. (._.)

Later on, to mock someone… Who?… Amm… Gun… Big Guns! Or was it Gunz? (O.o)

Anway, to mock him, I generated a new picture. (^_^)

Cuter hair… Actually, that was the Truth Christmas freebie at the time. (^_^)

“Immy in a ballgag” is at risk of SL meme status… Heh. (=_=)

Funny thing.  It’s been said that I deleted the first picture… Which surely hasn’t happened.  Otherwise, I’d have had to go back in time to replace it or nail down some sweet deal with Cris.  Someone who, at best, tolerates my presence on his site… I doubt I’m in a position to ask him for any favours. (>_<)

Much of the rest is a matter of “am” and “was”.  I insist that my third avatar shape is an adult.  Young adult, yes.  18, if someone wants a number.  But, that’s how I put it.  (^_^)

Note, I called it my third shape.  My first was very very little.  Best described as a loli-imp.  I related to kid avatars quite a bit and even joined the Second Life Children group.  When I got involved with the friends I’m mentioning above, well.. I had to sprout up.  They were almost always at some doll place with some sort of latex clad male fantasy hovering around somewhere. (=_=)

So, my second shape was actually a rather rushed project.  I used a leftover shape that I made for sale for people who wanted “realistic” proportions.  Though, it was extremely tall.  Or, at least, tall for me. (>_<)

In comes my third shape.  5’1″ “Immy”, carefully trimmed into my ideal of what teh cutenezz is.  I really found my “me” in that shape.  As well as adapting it into the cyberdoll/gynoid that I spent a year as. (^_^)

Though, there are two or three people who want to say that I’m still a kid AV.  I guess getting taller, developing my face, and sprouting boobs wasn’t enough to convince that select few that I’m no longer a kid. (=_=)

Well, meh. (=_=)

None the less, I put myself out there, quite public.  Forums, blogs, and such.  If someone wanted to know something and I was sure they actually cared, I’d let them know.  Of course, this is ammo for the few who want to point out the splinters in others’ eyes.  So, I get this run of “Ohmygod, she admits to this!” “Ohmygod, she does that!” and I’m all, “Ohmygod, get a life!” (O.o)

I’ve quite often spilled my guts about things and seen my words spun into whatever to be used as an accusation against me. (=_=)

The story about me resulting in a screwed up mother kicked out of a bookstore and mall gets spun into some shady tale of me exposing kids to Anime porn. (=_=)

My asking for advice on how to handle someone who had deceived me into age verifying them, eventually to announce their 18th birthday gets spun into me “going too far”. (=_=)

And, maybe y’all remember my three bans.  Each being a calm situation until my AV is bouncing off barriers.  Only later to be spun into me being a “bobbing and weaving” participant in some sort of grief raid. (=_=)

Meh… (=_=)

In celebration of this rather exciting run of events, I present…

=^-^=

I guess, for a while, I let these things get to me.  From the looks of things, there’s a short list of people who will believe the crap.  But, so far, they’re friends of the crap flinger.  And, no not Crap.  She-he-he-she-it-that-GAH!! is a friend.  One of the kindest old grumps I’ve met.  (^_^)

**That said… Tell me your preference.  Inworld, I see “she” but you often claim “Mr. Crap” and it becomes a juggle.  Maybe I should keep a coin to toss? (=_=)

Anyway… I put myself out there.  Ya’ can’t miss me.  I don’t go away. =^-^=

I’ve made myself an open book.  All you have to do is read and you’ll know me.  It’s not my fault that some people are illiterate. (^_^)

I wonder… Should I speak of my relationship/role in NCI?  Dunno.  Long story short, the community is what it wants to be.  They can do that with and/or without Carl and myself.  Not sure why their decision to refuse to volunteer in an exclusive group has anything to do with me at all.  But, some make it sound like the current state of NCI is the result of “Immy’s hostile takeover”. (=_=)

Someone please explain that logic to me.  It still gets to me regardless of how totally illogical it is. (=_=)

I haven’t checked… Does my profile still mention my bell?  I’ve temporarily taken it off.  I think I’ll put it back on this weekend.  People worry when I show up without it. (>_<)

A touch of advice:  When faced with an open book, consider reading it before you tell anyone what it contains.  You’ll only make yourself look the fool when people decide to read it for themselves. (^_^)y

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I just gotta say… =^-^=

YAY! Linkbacks! \(^o^)/

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Basically basic. (<.<)

This does not look very promising.  SL “Basic Mode”… Hmmmmmmmm. (=_=)

I’ve tried it.  Basically with basic you get the most basic controls for what’s considered basic usage.  Basic enough? =^-^=

But, what is “basic” usage?  At this point, the labbies have determined that it means no preferences changes, no inventory, no money, no map, no minimap, no HUDs, no avatars beyond the pre-allotted selection, no means of teleporting beyond what’s already listed in… well… From this point I’d have to make things up… (._.)

Why? (O.o)

Well… SLPLUGIN.EXE STILL DON’T FRIGG’N WORK FOR ME!!!!! DX

So, with nearly all media based content, I’m left with gray boxes that I can open and close yet never see any content. (>_<)

I don’t know what directions the labbies want to go with this.  But, even without my webkit issues, basic is an overshoot by far.  It’s the same mistake I see Apple make quite often.  They target a goal of making something as easy to use as possible yet wind up making it impossible to do anything. (>_<)

Hint: The reason people have to deal with such a steep learning curve is that they can’t find the controls they’re looking for.  Further making it impossible to use any controls at all simply… no, basically amplifies the problem. (=_=)y

 

 

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Is there hope for the forum? (-_-)

I post on forums.  (^_^)

Been doing that stuff forever.  I posted on Megatokyo forums, Hongfire, some car stuff, some music stuff, and for the past few years my subject has been SL. (^_^)

The original LL forums were okay.  Prokkie was banned, Strife would intermittently buzz a post or thread, Cybin and Millie would show up once in a while.  But, it got super neglected… Their vBulliten code got all outdated and the Labbies wanted to find something more…. Well… I dunno what the heck they were looking for. (O.o)

So, in came Jive.  That’s what it was called, right? (o.o)

Anyway… So, they renamed the whole thing Second Life Answers and attempted to follow the Yahoo answers thingie that has seen some relative success.  What they forgot was that… Well… Nobody really wanted that. (=_=)

Okay, so, closed beta starts with recruits from a Mentors group, including myself.  Some of the first things we pointed out was the confusing threading layout, no real means of flagging threads that have been read/posted/or not, no way to report posts, and a generally un-navigable junk site. (>_<)

So… They released it anyway. (T_T)

And, yes, it stunk allmighty.  (>.<)

Given some time, money exchange spammers and a one Wasted Engineer PWNed the forums with page-length updates and epic trolling.  LL pretty much proved that they can’t manage a forum in Jive, soooooooooo… LITHIUM! XD

Now, they’re using the Lithium forum thingie.  Actually, I don’t even think they’re hosting it from their own servers anymore.  Maybe that’s why the TOS change lately? (O.o)

But, nothing’s really any different from Jive.  The thread lists are a tiny bit easier to navigate, but, the site itself is still a mess… Still getting trolled by Wasted… And, what’s this? Money exchange spam!!! XD

Add… Rodvik joined SLU recently.  What conclusion is a SL user supposed to come to?  Well… Maybe LL don’t know how to manage a community.  There ain’t anyone in the lab who can slap together a spam-free forum with a reasonable interface.  Though, throngs of inworld individuals seem to manage that just fine. (O.o)

Should LL bother with forums anymore at all?  I dunno.  It’ll cost’em.  Either they pay for a community rep or they simply shut the forums and lose that customer feedback.  (=_=)

Transparency isn’t one-way glass.  C’mon now. (^_^)y

 

 

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How ironic is it… (O.o)

That a statement like this: (http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2011/03/groups-who-want-to-take-power-over-second-life.html)

Or there’d be riots from other groups at the thought that anyone was going to take power — one thing I opposed vigorously — and wasn’t alone in this — was Cabinhead, a project by oldbies to take over the new user experience on an island where they’d get to block anyone they didn’t like, ejecting griefers but also not allowing in anyone else that formed any competition to them.

Is followed during the same weekend with a topic like this: (http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2011/03/crap-marinerlaurence-simon-banned-from-posting-here.html)

Crap Mariner/Laurence Simon Banned from Posting Here

Heh.  Crazy people are funny. (^_^)

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