Retiring Avatars

<3 love you Jen. Whatever makes you happy and lets you relax is okay in my book.

Thank you! Its like everyone just proved Prokofy right after months of arguing and proclaiming him a total loon for even suggesting it. There is no FIC -- except that there is. Its a joke thats taken way too seriously. I've always been a bit against the grain when it comes to things like that. I have always hated being lumped into the FIC thing by association.

I am looking forward to the freedom of anonymity.

Well I still think it's complete bullshit, but that doesn't mean that people don't start to take themselves way too seriously. It also doesn't mean that if you get very well known people won't attribute you with all sorts of qualities (both good and bad) that you don't actually have. Fame sort of happens. I don't think it's something people go looking for. Once you have it people will accuse you of being FIC no matter what you're actually like.

The thing that irked me most about the FIC claims was the implied insult to our creative efforts. You, Flipper, LordFly ... lets face it, anybody who succeeds ... you are all certain to be faced with claims that your success had little to do with your talents. The underlying message is that you aren't good enough to have earned your success, therefore it must be the result of favoritism or (according to rumors about me) nepotism.

Getting a fresh start with an alt sounds really nice, Jenn. Best of luck!

You guys should form a FIC support group.

omigod aimee!! those are just rumors? well, i will stop spreading them now.

jennyfur, i made an alt a long time ago for some of the reasons you list, then promptly told everyone so all my friends know my alt and so then i had to make another alt and soon i had told to many people and so i gave up on it. let that be a lesson to you.

You misunderstood it, and still do.

coco

I know some of what you mean, Jennyfur. I've been staring at the same stripey back for a long time now. Back in December, I finally decided that running a free apartment building was more effort than I wanted to put into a hobby/passtime/entertainment. And so I made the decision to close the apartments. Not three hours later, Linden Labs announced they were phasing out the Developer Incentives, the very thing that kept the apartments running. I would have thought I was FIC-er than even *I* knew... Except I hadn't told anyone my decision yet.

Since then, my RL job has been taking all of my free time. But, as anyone that knows what my RL job IS could tell you, that drag on my playtime is about to end. Now I just need to find the right activity to engage my attention once more. Right now, my land sits fallow.

But I'm not going to abandon my Tiger persona. He's just resting his stripes for the moment. I made my last possible alt recently and have been having more fun with it that I had with Tiger in quite some time. Tiger is a workhorse (to mix mammalian metaphors), but the new alt is all play. This fresh look at the world of SL through new eyes has been... eye-opening. I can see quite a number of things that need work if the lives of newbies are to be improved.

I think this new alt will be a dual-prime, along with Tiger, for the forseeable future. The two will form the dyanmo to get my creative juices flowing agian. I hope.

Good luck with the new alt. I'm having good luck with mine so far!

Ooh, crinkly foil!


And have fun with your new Second Life!

I remember hearing once that "the people who live in the palaces dont see the slums from their window".

I'm no believer in the 'FIC', as that gives an implication of far more deliberate conspiracy than I think it is. But one saying one is only being treated in such a way 'because youre successful' is just an easy excuse to put up blinders and pretend those slums dont exist.


"If the people dont have bread, let them eat cake!"


Or to coin a phrase of my own...if it is colored brown, it smells like brown, and tastes like brown....it may not quite be chocolate on the end of one's nose.


I guess not all of us have the luxury of being able to bitch about being 'FIC by association.' Clearly someone's opinion of themselves is far higher than the rest of the SL population does, to even think it.


- Newfie

I'm sorry you feel that way. Our perspectives are radically different. I think if you ever got to know me, you would change your mind.

That's a double-sided statement. Can't say though I'd ever be the one complaining about having to change my in-world ID because I was 'considered too special'.


Takes a lotta ego to think a person is 'too special/FIC'.


- Newfie

Wow, talk about ego.

You mean Jenn? (She is the one talking about doing this, not me.)

I have never known Jenn to have an excessive ego or to have considered herself "too special." She is a very grounded person and I think her reasons for moving to an alt are resonable.

Have you stopped to think that having exactly this kind of crap attributed to you is just the kind of thing someone might want to get away from?

Jennyfur is leaving this account to assume one under her real identity ..yes I am outting you jen... aka Gracie Slick.

Awww Jen!

Sad to see you go as Jennyfur, but happy you are staying, hit me up and lets play guess the alt! I LOVE THAT GAME!!!!!

I am nowhere near as high profile as yourself, but I wish I could just pack up Willow and move to one of my alts, but hey, no transfer sucks arse in that scenario, and ain't no way i'm leaving behind my skins and hair!! NO SIREE!!

All the best to you, and I hope you enjoy your new found anonimity <3

All fear my ego! Heh. I am usually fairly modest about things. I find excessive praise to be unsettling and don't always like the trappings of being popular.

Thanks WIllow! OMG my no transfer inventory is killing me especially in the hair and skin department. Jennyfur will still come around on occasion once I get my accounts switched up and inventory transferred which is sucking balls at the moment between switching permissions, having to make new folders and send them on to my new avie.

lol

good luck with your second second life jenn

So would that be "third" or "fourth"?

wow talk about talkin out of both sides of your mouth!

Good luck JennyFur, I know i dont know you well, but believe me, ive had similar probs in yaho, and switched main accounts in there a few times to avoid crtain people and situations, although i always reverted to my original account as recontacting friends could be problematic at times.