Burning Life Lottery Exploit

Not entirely true - the problems involving Prok stopped.

Just like the problems involving Ulrika stopped when she 'never ever again would post on the forums'

Not meaning any offense or malice toward you, but...

Bullhocky!

I just MENTIONED Prok's name a few months back, and nearly was nailed to the wall. Getting rid of Prok did nothing to improve the forums. The ones who screamed about him were still here as well.

Not saying I'm mad about it, but once targeted by it, your not going to ignore it either...

Did I unethically enter twice to increase my chance of winning or did I not realize that there was a one-entry per human rule and made a mistake?

Well, Uma...I accept your apology, but, wouldn't it be better to accept your punishment and be involved with Burning Life some other way?

The display is a postive one, showcasing the faces of many people that you and I both call friends. I want it to be a larger-than-life celebration of all of us. Besides, I spent 20 hours coding a 40 m wide sphere, what else am I going to do with it?

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The solution is that all my land has been returned and that I am disqualified from the remaining rounds of the lottery.

For those who have seen my Burning Life entry and are concerned that it won't be seen, relax. I've specifically designed it to wander about a sim at a high altitude such that it doesn't even need a plot of land. Frankly, I just love Burning Life and am happy to contribute and share in the artistry whether or not I have a plot of virtual earth.

{ and in another thread that I can't reply to there }

BL2006 Entry - Giant Head
My burning life entry is built from ten prims. One large 40x40x40 m sphere serves as a screen, while nine other raster prims spin around the screen drawing pixels made from particles. The raster spin rate is timed such that a pixel is just fading out when its raster returns to refresh it. The image on the sphere is a face repeated in each quadrant and changing over time. The result is a giant ever-changing face that looks down on all participants.

More abstractly, the display represents our digital nature in Second Life. It is a mutable facsimile with many faces and its lack of permanence represents the transient nature of the medium. To complete it, I need your help.




Right now I just have Uma and Ulrika's faces but I need more. If you're interested in having your face on the Giant Head, post an image of your SL face (at least 512x512) in this thread. If I select it, I'll ask you for L$720 to cover the upload cost (I have a 8x9 grid of images I have to upload for each face). I'd like a total of twelve faces, with a new one shown every five minutes, so there's room for ten more.

So to review, here's the procedure:

1. Post an image here at least 512x512.
   
2. If it will work with my display, I'll reply to you.
   
3. You send Uma Bauhaus L$720.
   
4. I'll upload the image and add it to the Giant Head.
   
5. Fame and fortune will follow.
   

But (72x) (512x512) particle textures PER face and you're going to add faces? It sounds like it could easily saturate some folk's bandwidth.

Good God almighty.
I said at the time Prok was banned that he wasn't the cause of forum problems. And indeed, they never stopped.
"Saved our forum-culture" - I don't think so. The forum culture has been rotten since the day I got here, and doubtless was before I came. A more corrupt place I have never been party to.
coco

But (72x) (512x512) particle textures PER face and you're going to add faces? It sounds like it could easily saturate some folk's bandwidth.

(and how do you make 1 prim into a 40x40x40m sphere? )

The sphere was created using an exploit from an old client that allowed the creation of extra-large prims. It was given to me in the Burning Life arena by a helpful fellow. The prim was unfortunately set to no transfer.

Once again you make it OK for YOU to use an exploit... *shakes head*

I have been away, Coco, so I don't know how things have been recently. But I know how things looked to me then, and I decline ever to interact with Prok again. I also decline to interact with you about her. We'll just have to agree to disagree - a perfectly honorable position.

I really value the forums, and am sad to see them go

I'm going to keep bumping this with the above information every few hours for the next week. Live with it.

No. I think losing my land, being excluded from the next round of the lottery, and vilified in the forums is punishment enough for a mistake.

The display is a postive one, showcasing the faces of many people that you and I both call friends. I want it to be a larger-than-life celebration of all of us. Besides, I spent 20 hours coding a 40 m wide sphere, what else am I going to do with it?

Uma, I know that you have every right to decline to satisfy my curiosity at such a personal question, and I have absolutely no right to ask it, but what is your background with regard to belief systems, faith, religion etc ? I really would like to know where your inflexible sense of your superiority came from. Were you taught it, or did you conjure it yourself ? This is a genuine inquiry, and honestly not intended as a put-down attempt. I have an interest in how we evolve our self-image, and you are pretty far out, girl.

That is a fascinating question and believe it or not I was actually wondering the very same thing about you. I really would like to know where your self righteousness and penchant to engage in cruel public persecution come from. I was imagining that this is due to a puritanical religious upbringing where one was taught to engage in an inquisition through the process of unmitigated character assassination. Although it sounds like I'm mocking you, this is a serious inquiry and honestly and I'm not putting you down. I too have interested in how we evolve our self-image and I'd love to know why you question peoples ethics using the most unethical methodology possible.

Uma, I know that you have every right to decline to satisfy my curiosity at such a personal question, and I have absolutely no right to ask it, but what is your background with regard to belief systems, faith, religion etc ? I really would like to know where your inflexible sense of your superiority came from. Were you taught it, or did you conjure it yourself ? This is a genuine inquiry, and honestly not intended as a put-down attempt. I have an interest in how we evolve our self-image, and you are pretty far out, girl.

The unexamined life is not worth living. Just sayin.

That's my "just sayin'"


just sayin'

Naw, yours has the ' at the end. I haven't upgraded to that yet.