Phillip announced the end of Dwell.... and Dwellnor awoke.
Yeah, they call it Traffic now, same difference.
For those of you not familiar with Dwellnor, I shall enlighten you.
Dwellnor is a beast that lives in a plane of virtual existance called the Backend, which it what powers SL, the IMs, Teleportation, etc.
He is a massive deamon-beast that is kept fed (and complacent) by traffic generated by thousands of avatars bustling about the grid 24/7. He's usually content. Since the Dwell system was replaced by Traffic be's been a little contemptable.
When Phillip announced the end of dwell payments altogether, Dwellnor because angry, and all hell broke loose as he rose out of his pit and started thrashing about the backend realm, crushing gridmonkies and a poor Redshirt Linden.
Apparently he managed to hit the forums, which were the first to be noticed before LL wentactivated ALERT (Active Linden Emergency Response Team and started isolating the grid to keep Dwellnor from escaping.
While all of us were stuck offline, galavanting in preview, bitching in the threads, or playing the Open Beta of San Andreas: Multiplayer, the Lindens were inside the grid, fighting the beast. Alot of Lindens were teleported home that night. A few teleported but never arrived.
In the end, Dwellnor was struck down by Bub Linden using a hootchie-hair and bling-tipped spear. As prophesized, he left a big crater.
So... now you know.
Now to deal with Laggnor... I doubt Phillip will announced and end to that anytime soon, so we should be safe.
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Burke Prefect
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04-18-2006 14:46
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Burke Prefect
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04-18-2006 15:37
Sorry. I should have bitched and ranted about how we should all be paid L$10,000 for having to sit out a night. I know I was really hoping to get some work done. Oh well. I got to run bitches over in GTA, human-controlled bitches. With CARS.
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Travis Lambert
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04-18-2006 15:48
Dwellnor and Laggnor were always diametrically opposed. There was harmony in the universe (sort of) with those two great beasts duking it out.
Now we are left with only Laggnor. May he have mercy on our souls  Addendum: Essentially, Dwellnor says: Feed me avatars! More! More! More! Laggnor says: Avatars make me angry. Less! Less! Less! Therein lies the problem _____________________
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Burke Prefect
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04-18-2006 15:50
Dwellnor and Laggnor were always diametrically opposed. There was harmony in the universe (sort of) with those two great beasts duking it out. Now we are left with only Laggnor. May he have mercy on our souls He'll be fat an content after 1.9.1 comes out. Besides, he's not exactly a fast-moving deamon-beast. And occlussion culling will let us get inside his dilation feild if he ever tries anything. |
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Travis Lambert
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04-18-2006 15:51
hehe you posted before i could get my addendum out
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vivi Odets
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04-18-2006 15:51
But wait, don't forget the diabolical Rezzistance -- lurking in the grey fog, his aim is to blur your vision and leave your soul colorless.
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Burke Prefect
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04-18-2006 15:53
But wait, don't forget the diabolical Rezzistance -- lurking in the grey fog, his aim is to blur your vision and leave your soul colorless. I think you're taking about Ay'Ti'Aye. The one that causes you to see a distrorted, murky world, when you're not getting crashed because of shit drivers. |
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Lucifer Baphomet
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04-18-2006 15:56
So thats what all this was about....
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Jake Reitveld
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04-18-2006 15:56
The might I.B.G. kicked all thier butts.
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Burke Prefect
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04-18-2006 15:58
TRaffic... gremlins...
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vivi Odets
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04-18-2006 16:03
TRaffic... gremlins... I'd better get the bigger caliber stuff next trip to the gunshop. Watch out, they're on a road near you, ready to take you out as you try to cross a sim border. http://www.nashnut.com/archives/1972gremlinbbg.jpg |
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Burke Prefect
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04-18-2006 16:04
Watch out, they're on a road near you, ready to take you out as you try to cross a sim border. http://www.nashnut.com/archives/1972gremlinbbg.jpg Damn. That's a big sucker. Time to pass out the rocket launchers. |
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Phoenix Psaltery
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04-18-2006 19:32
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Dwell'nor Back'end wpah'nagh fhtagn."
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
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04-18-2006 19:36
^ The tentacles of such a Lovecraftian creature: now possible in Second Life Preview 1.9.1, featuring flexible objects!
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Phoenix Psaltery
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04-18-2006 20:06
While all of us were stuck offline, galavanting in preview, bitching in the threads, or playing the Open Beta of San Andreas: Multiplayer, the Lindens were inside the grid, fighting the beast. Alot of Lindens were teleported home that night. A few teleported but never arrived. In the end, Dwellnor was struck down by Bub Linden using a hootchie-hair and bling-tipped spear. As prophesized, he left a big crater. Fools. They should have called Hiro. He's the greatest sword fighter in the world, you know. (Maybe he was on a pizza delivery run.) P2 _____________________
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Khashai Steinbeck
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04-18-2006 22:26
San Andreas Multiplayer Beta, what?
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Siggy Romulus
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04-18-2006 22:37
^ The tentacles of such a Lovecraftian creature: now possible in Second Life Preview 1.9.1, featuring flexible objects! LOLEX... this thread has some great riffs on SL culture. You can make them, but to this date they are still unspeakable - as demonstrated by Torley's post. Making a house with no corners is a bitch in SL. _____________________
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Martin Magpie
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04-19-2006 02:52
Phillip announced the end of Dwell.... and Dwellnor awoke. Yeah, they call it Traffic now, same difference. For those of you not familiar with Dwellnor, I shall enlighten you. Dwellnor is a beast that lives in a plane of virtual existance called the Backend, which it what powers SL, the IMs, Teleportation, etc. He is a massive deamon-beast that is kept fed (and complacent) by traffic generated by thousands of avatars bustling about the grid 24/7. He's usually content. Since the Dwell system was replaced by Traffic be's been a little contemptable. When Phillip announced the end of dwell payments altogether, Dwellnor because angry, and all hell broke loose as he rose out of his pit and started thrashing about the backend realm, crushing gridmonkies and a poor Redshirt Linden. Apparently he managed to hit the forums, which were the first to be noticed before LL wentactivated ALERT (Active Linden Emergency Response Team and started isolating the grid to keep Dwellnor from escaping. While all of us were stuck offline, galavanting in preview, bitching in the threads, or playing the Open Beta of San Andreas: Multiplayer, the Lindens were inside the grid, fighting the beast. Alot of Lindens were teleported home that night. A few teleported but never arrived. In the end, Dwellnor was struck down by Bub Linden using a hootchie-hair and bling-tipped spear. As prophesized, he left a big crater. So... now you know. Now to deal with Laggnor... I doubt Phillip will announced and end to that anytime soon, so we should be safe. LOL cute _____________________
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Burke Prefect
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04-19-2006 08:02
San Andreas Multiplayer Beta, what? Sorry I know its a bit off topic, but I must know! The dev team working on making a multiplayer client for San Andreas has an open beta night for the lastest version. It kicked ass. A little lag in some spots, but otherwise pretty smooth since most of the legwork is done client-side. It was nice to ride to a vehicle that actually handled smoothly again. |
