The Featureati

The Lindens' new website is really a thing of great beauty and joy! Check it out!

It is marred by some of the usual prejudices, however.

Now...why are we not surprised to see the same-old, same-old FICs among the Feature-ati? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it gets *so tiresome* hearing Prok yammer on and on about the FIC -- but I mean, do I make this stuff up? There it is on the website once again, blecth.

On the one hand, here's what the ad copy says:



Party endlessly -- got that?

Now note what the featurati say:

Marcos Fonzarelli
Joined: Feb 27, 2004
SL Profession:
vatar customization
Store: ARMORD Space Needle Complex
SL Income: “I make enough to pay my tier and have some left over.”
Location: Miramare (x,y)
Sign: Aries
Likes: Building avatars and structures, Hanging out with friends.
Dislikes: Clubs & casinos
Tips for beginners: “If you want to have a business, make something you like. Put your creativity into it, and someone will most likely buy it and enjoy it too.”


Aimee Weber
Joined: February 2004
SL Profession: Clothing designer
Store: *PREEN*
Location: Umber (91, 164), Hawthorne (195, 200)
SL Income: "I make much much more money than I actually need. I give a lot of it away."
Sign: Scorpio
Likes: Socializing, flirting, making clothing, building really gritty city scenes, and making people laugh
Dislikes: Dance clubs, griefing and sex balls
Tip for beginners: “Focus on yourself and your work and try to find joy in what you do. Every moment you spend trying to bring down your competitors is a moment you are not improving your own skills

Cubey Terra
Joined: September 2003
SL Profession: Aircraft builder
Store: Abbotts Aerodrome
Location: Abbotts (40, 160)
Sign: Libra
Likes: Building, scripting, modeling, skydiving at Abbotts Aerodrome, visiting Luskwood
Dislikes: Clubs, casinos, malls
Tip for beginners : “Don't come out of the gate expecting to earn wads of cash. SL isn't about cash. It's about people. Meet people, learn what people do and like in SL, then figure out what YOU want to do in SL. If you're really good at it, then you'll probably make money at it. If not, then hey... you'll probably have fun anyway.”

See what I mean? On the one hand, lure in the masses with promises of endless parties in clubs where you might meet that special someone and couple up!

On the other hand, the hand-picked, selected, feated inner core featureati are here to tell you with great disdain that they "dislike" clubs, casinos, and sex balls. Yuckies! So, take home that message please! If you, too, want to succeed, HATE clubs and casinos! BOOOO!

Now, I was dying to see what they'd say about busineses!



See? Every single job or profession is denoted without any bias. Gunsmith is just gunsmith, not "manufacturer of death machine". Even "nightclub owner" is just "nightclub owner" -- not "owner-of-thing-Aimee-hates".

But...a person who buys and sells land is a real estate speculator...BOOO!!! HISSSS!!!!

EBIL CREATURE! *Speculating* in land -- flipping it over to make a profit! HORRIBLE!

The Lindens always let you know what they are really up to. They do it every time. They are encouraging masses of people to try the game. They are about funnelling some of them in a kind of medieval guild apprentice system through some of the selected artisans and guild chiefs. They are about discouraging mass, low-brown entertainment like clubs and casinos by letting every know what the elite say about them.

Of course, by fronting those "randomy selected" FIC-ites, the Lindens have plausible deniability.

Interesting, a few other people featured like Trimda Hedges and Mistress Midnight had no "dislikes" they had to inflict on anybody.

Am I just looking for conspiracy theories? Am I just perpetuating an interesting myth?

No, I'm looking at a website, and taking home the message I'm meant to take home.

Tekki wiki scripterati wakka wakka woo
Architect, megabuilder, featurati too.

If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be
exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the
groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.

in a word:
yes

You may laugh, you may post non-sequiturs and meaningless garble, but Lector, you *know* you are lying away at night in RL, wondering why they didn't pick you...wondering why they give Aimee not one, not two, but THREE WHOLE FEATURED SPOTS on this website.

$50 prize to the first 10 people who can name those 3 spots, excluding Aimee and all the people who make personal insults of me LOL.

Let me be the first to say:

Prokofy, go choke on a bucket of cocks.

Also, I really wish the ignore feature would make all traces of people you've ignored on the forums vanish.

Lemme guess, mad because someone is popular and it is not you. Big shock.... on both accounts. But hey, I am sure you can change things with vinegar, angst, and melodrama, I mean look how much you have changed already!

Er, well, wait a minute... you haven't changed a thing.

Oops. My bad.



Wow. Projection much? "You lay away at night in RL wondering why they didn't pick you."

Looks like I am right on the money 'bout you, you pitiful thing.

Can someone remind me again why this poor fool does this?

Oh. Wait. I remember now:

What featurati? I looked at it again, I don't see where these people are featured?

where should i be looking?

coco

Whatever guy, have fun it's your secondlife or maybe your only life ?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh man I so called this yesterday.

Aimee you owe me L$20

This thread has been brought to you by the Envious of Everyone clique.

Would someone mind dreadfully answering my question?

coco

Isn't there something somewhere worthy of being plagiarized somewhere?


Why must these forums always be tainted with this bitter garbage. If your bitter contemptible ass was featured on SL.com as the Rental Developer Extraordinaire, I doubt we would be hearing all this static. Since you can't get the recognition you crave in SL to fulfill your empty hollow real life, the rest of us are subjected to this bullshit.

Back on ignore.

Aimee provided Philip with sexual relief, which is fair barter and justifiable. So I see no wrong doing whatsoever.

Perhaps you should consider being more "giving" if you would like a spot...

Coco you'll need to direct the question to Prokofy as he is the only one seeing it.

Jarod Godel: What do the Lindens think of the "techie/wiki" community? Or the Feted/Fetid Inner Core?
Robin Linden: I think it's an interesting myth.

I mean these little interviews:

Marcos Fonzarelli
Joined: Feb 27, 2004
SL Profession:
vatar customization
Store: ARMORD Space Needle Complex
SL Income: “I make enough to pay my tier and have some left over.”
Location: Miramare (x,y)
Sign: Aries
Likes: Building avatars and structures, Hanging out with friends.
Dislikes: Clubs & casinos
Tips for beginners: “If you want to have a business, make something you like. Put your creativity into it, and someone will most likely buy it and enjoy it too.”

Where are those? I don't see them.

coco

Ooh, tinfoil's shiny. o.o
*plays with her hat.*

I'm amazed it took a full day before this thread happened

Coco, the little av profiles are on the right side of a lot of the subtopic pages. Go to any of the main sections (from the links across the top) and then to the subpages (the links on the left side). Not every page has one.

I'm on the Commerce page Coco, in a sidebar. Click the "Commerce" link above the map.

YES.

Give it a rest.

I lie awake at night wondering how Lecktor became such a stud muffin in SL!

Coco,


Click the different links. Different people are under different things.

http://secondlife.com/features/communication.php -Mistress Midnight

http://secondlife.com/features/avatars.php -Chip Midnight

http://secondlife.com/features/scripting.php -Cubey Terra

http://secondlife.com/vland/cost.php -Katykiwi Moonflower

http://secondlife.com/vland/islands.php -Trimda Hedges

http://secondlife.com/commerce/ -Marcos

http://secondlife.com/commerce/business.php -Amiee Weber

Well played.

LOL! Could you post the "personal insults" you are describing please (the ones by me)?

Where did you call this yesterday at, Marcos?

coco