get the boxes off of our heads.
Oh man, I thought they were SUPPOSED to be there.
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Pallmor Bergman
Registered User
Join date: 1 Mar 2005
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07-05-2006 12:24
Oh man, I thought they were SUPPOSED to be there. -Eric |
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Wrom Morrison
Validated User
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 462
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07-05-2006 12:27
Supposedly there will be a script call that will enable us to determine someone's "verified" status. I'm sure this will lead to more efficient, automatic forms of elitism and discrimination than those available today. What irritated me more was that they didn't put any calls to the verified status in LSL when they implemented the current client. These calls don't exist on preview 1.11 or 1.12 as well. Without that we can't make scripts that determine if someone is verified or not. |
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Pol Tabla
synthpop saint
Join date: 18 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,041
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07-05-2006 12:31
You are avoiding the question I asked. You said: I think it's pretty clear that LL will limit newbie accounts before giving us better tools because they've already done so. I said: What have they done to limit unverifieds? I have yet to see you mention anything thats limited them. Clearly as a responsible paying resident of Second Life I believe that anyone who hasn't paid should be generally beaten on, humiliated and treated as belonging to a despised underclass as much as possible, particularly on my land, because that's the best way to deal with griefing and stalking and stuff. Or something like that. Look, I pay my hard-earned cash to LL and that means I'm a customer and the customer is always right dammit. _____________________
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Phedre Aquitaine
I am the zombie queen
Join date: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,157
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07-05-2006 12:34
Perhaps, instead of having a three-tier system (almost egalitarian, like some sort of communist thing) we can have the top two tiers being called "alpha" and "beta" and non-verified non-people put in "omega". I think that those omega avatars should be forced to wear taupe jumpsuits and be decanted from bottles liberally laced with alcohol. "I would hate to be an Omega, thank Ford I'm an Alpha! Alphas have it best!" _____________________
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,022
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07-05-2006 12:37
It's actually not my premise...it's Ordinal's: I quoted you directly, not Ordinal. |
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Pol Tabla
synthpop saint
Join date: 18 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,041
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07-05-2006 12:43
I quoted you directly, not Ordinal. _____________________
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,022
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07-05-2006 12:47
Why would you do a thing like that? Ordinal is much more sensible than I. I'll remember that for future reference.  |
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Aldo Stern
wandering madman
Join date: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 121
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eh, it's a living...
07-05-2006 13:05
I think that those omega avatars should be forced to wear taupe jumpsuits and be decanted from bottles liberally laced with alcohol. "I would hate to be an Omega, thank Ford I'm an Alpha! Alphas have it best!" Miss Aquitane, might I suggest that within certain contexts the omegas be relegated to serving as wet nurses for prim babies and washing flexiprim unmentionables with Jim Lumiere's wonderful washboards and tubs (never miss a chance to plug a good product, eh?). Well, that would work for the female omegas anyway. The males? hmmm....push gun fodder perhaps? I'm told that omegas make excellent soldiers provided they are led by Alpha officers. |
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
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07-05-2006 13:11
The problem with banning an entire class of avatars is that it won't carry that visceral satisfaction mentioned in the first post.
You really need to have some sort of unfair, highly unpredictable, socially bankrupt pecking order to make discrimination so intimate. As far as I'm concerned, the current toolset allows for such... _____________________
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,022
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07-05-2006 13:12
Just make it so only verifieds can file AR. Thats what some people seem to want.
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Io Zeno
Registered User
Join date: 1 Jun 2006
Posts: 940
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07-05-2006 13:14
I just figured out a way to house, feed and humiliate unverified newbies at the same time.
Indentured servitude. For, say, 3 months, to Alpha members. Sexual services optional. Regular beatings, mandatory. _____________________
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Annah Zamboni
Banannah Annah
Join date: 2 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,022
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07-05-2006 13:22
Why not make new non-verified newbies spawn into gorean sims (instead of the WA) and have a default avatar wearing gorean silks and collars? This will help increase the number of goreans and help control the newbies movement/actions.
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Crissaegrim Clutterbuck
Dancing Martian Warlord
Join date: 9 Apr 2006
Posts: 277
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07-05-2006 15:13
I hope that you are having the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice Come on now, who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you think you are, Ha ha ha bless your soul You really think you're in control Well, I think you're crazy I think you're crazy I think you're crazy Just like me nashribution: gnarly mice |
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Angelique LaFollette
Registered User
Join date: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,595
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07-05-2006 18:55
Why not make new non-verified newbies spawn into gorean sims (instead of the WA) and have a default avatar wearing gorean silks and collars? This will help increase the number of goreans and help control the newbies movement/actions. Laughing so hard i have tears in my eyes!! Angel. |
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Phoenix Psaltery
Ninja Wizard
Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 2,599
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07-05-2006 19:02
/looking for <sarcasm> and </sarcasm> tags in OP -- finds none
Uhm... can you say XENOPHOBIA?  P2 _____________________
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Lucifer Baphomet
Postmodern Demon
Join date: 8 Sep 2005
Posts: 1,771
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07-05-2006 20:24
Make them read the forums for 30 mins before logging in untill they are verified.
That'll teach them. _____________________
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Sapat Engawa
Registered User
Join date: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 25
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I know!
07-05-2006 20:50
Let's limit the skin colors available to unverified AVs!
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Devlin Gallant
Thought Police
Join date: 18 Jun 2003
Posts: 5,948
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07-06-2006 07:23
Why do we need more ways to kick newbies? I find that a foot with a solid connection to their sitting implement to be quite satisfying.
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Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 3,751
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07-06-2006 07:43
Make them read the forums for 30 mins before logging in untill they are verified. That'll teach them. Which part of the forums? and teach them what exactly? _____________________
Reality continues to ruin my life. - Calvin
You have delighted us long enough. - Jane Austen Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. - Ashleigh Brilliant |
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Jopsy Pendragon
Perpetual Outsider
Join date: 15 Jan 2004
Posts: 1,906
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07-06-2006 08:07
/looking for <sarcasm> and </sarcasm> tags in OP -- finds none Uhm... can you say XENOPHOBIA? P2 Ordinal Malaprop used the <sarcasm> tag manymany posts ago. I'm still waiting to see the matching </sarcasm> tag. -- (It's value-added and economical all at once! ) |
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Troy Vogel
Marginal Prof. of ZOMG!
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 478
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07-06-2006 08:26
Are we seriously having a discussion on how to discriminate against free account users?
That's like AOL users discriminating against university students who get free internet access. How is any of this helping anything than entertaining unnecessary fears, feeding some egos, and creating more annoying ban lines, bouncers, orbitters, push thingies, weapons, and above all hate.  It makes me unhappy to see us take this direction. Troy _____________________
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Phedre Aquitaine
I am the zombie queen
Join date: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,157
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07-06-2006 08:34
Troy, I don't think you quite 'got it'.
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Jennifer Christensen
Registered User
Join date: 28 Dec 2005
Posts: 112
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07-06-2006 09:03
How about Noob Skeet?
1. enable damage on your land 2. gather all your friends with shotguns and other weapons 3. put a "special" money tree out - this tree would launch the newbie up about 40 meters when the bait money was Touched 4. blast away! This could become the FICs' newest gaming craze, overtaking Slingo! |
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Alyssa Jessop
Registered User
Join date: 26 Dec 2005
Posts: 4
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Noob Skeet
07-06-2006 09:40
Jennifer you are ebil
Imagine the grassy knoll above the tree. Packed with onlookers while the leading Noob Skeeters checked their weaponry. The stuffy britich commentator whispering like in some chees two bit nature video (not to be mistaken for the not so cheesy ones that get Leonard Nemoy to narrate). "Oh Look! Here comes one now. The milling of the crowd quiets and the shooters take their places. Note the halting swagger of the Noob as it approaches the Monetary Foliage... not a prim in sight. No bling for this poor souless minion...." |
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Phedre Aquitaine
I am the zombie queen
Join date: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,157
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07-06-2006 09:54
At risk of being, ah, uncouth, I might point out that "grassy knoll" isn't the best term to describe a shooting arena, at least to 'Merkans, Aly.
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