Purple Cube of Death in the New World

I was wondering the same thing. Google turned up: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

But then he could be referring to Anwr Saddat.

I think it's a reference to the recent proposal in the US Congress to allow oil drilling in Alaska. Don't know if it passed or not.

I was not the first. If you research, Prok had posted about the Gorilla way before I even moved to Midge. That was the irony. He complains and it's okay, I complain and I'm wrong.

Tang thanks for your kind words. I really needed to hear that. I am always a little hesitant though when someone posts support. I don't want anyone else to become a target.

I keep trying to use logic here and it doesn't seem to work. What have I done to you Unsung that you keep posting long diatribes. You say my apology is not sincere, what is your basis for this? If it wasn't sincere, if I hadn't seen the "errors of my ways" would I have bought land next to what you and Prok have deemed a not good building? Which I have no qualms about because I have learned the errors of my ways. What should I do? Start complaining about this person's build? What would be the purpose? If I did complain, would I then be not sincere? If I did complain, would I not have learned the errors of my ways?

Is the only satisfaction I can give is to leave the game? If so, I don't know if I can comply because I actually do play and create and build and design and have fun. I am sincerely sorry about my faults and that they have upset you so much. I am happy and not "Poor April". What more can I say? I did not seek this out. I have not critisized anything else you have done or anyone else. I just didn't wish to have my new neighbors think I was complaining or would complain or would be "ballistic".

I want to assure everyone who has read this thread. I am happy and content and sorry I have upset Unsung, Prok, Hutch and anyone else. I don't know what else I can do.

I figured this was one of those arch comments that Ingrid was describing as that fun Linden humour which is part un-PC but part arch PC inverted...or something.

On the one hand it names an oil rig something from "nature" -- but what is there really "from nature" in a virtual world? And...there isn't any oil there, remember? It's a prim rig, pumping out prims...which don't really harm the environment as such, because you can always press "autoreturn" on them if they are yours LOL.

Then I figured they were happy to let the Anwar Sadat reference just lurk in the background with its references to oil and Middle East politics.

People will have a chance to ask Xenon Linden and hopefully a few other building Lindens this and other questions about the builds in the New Continent on:

Monday, April 11, 4:30 p.m. game time
Sacred Moth Temple

An announcement with the precise sim coordinates will go up on the events list Saturday.

It did. I think they "stealthed" it in to an unrelated spending bill, the bastards. I just hope the forthcoming wave of lawsuits sends the idea to a well-deserved black and sticky grave.

Maybe I'm interpreting as a slam what was meant as a mere observation or even a sympathetic statement. But it struck me as being about as appropriate as a death camp in a zone called Zion.

Ok so when is it going to end? Is there any end? An olive branch? Shake hands?

Or 6 months from now do we all have to keep hearing the he said she said?

No I dont know any of you by Alts or any other means. Excuse me for drawing my conclusions by what I read in the threads. You write it - I just read it. Its very possible that Im not grasping the correct meaning or maybe I dont know the real "inside" info on anyones case here. Im sure both sides feel some sort of injustice or you would not both be so passionate in your posting.

All I want to know is there any compromise? Shaking of hand? Forgiveness?
Or will this be another Hatfield and McCoy land battle that goes on thru the portals of time in our Second Life? Come on, we are suppose to be adults here. Life goes on.
Drop the grudge match already.

My, my, how selectively and falsely history gets rewritten!

The gorilla "King Kong in the Water" post is miles deep into a thread originated not by Prok, but by Pahoa Jade, and in the same manner as you did -- inciting the community against a person who had merely politely inquired in-game -- not in a public forum slam -- as to whether some water was for sale, and not even for himself, but for an owner on a sim he was managing. This is SO typical of the tendentiousness and selective memory of this gang on the forums! SO typical! Let the record expose it!

Please go back to Pahoa Jade (google it in the thread search functions) and see how a similar technique was used -- first, an injured-but-not-innocent party gets on their stump on the forums, agitates in a very skewed and tendentious manner against another player, gets all the forum harpies on her side with hugz and cries of outrage, and then plays both the innocent and the victim as to what is really going on -- their own unilateral slam based on their own unilateral sense of eminent-domain as older and more privileged.

Go back and read it, it is so instructive. In the same fake way, every clue about the location of the sim and the person involved was "so hidden" as to be obvious (starting with the fact you could just look up that poster and see where they lived and who was next to them). So cries about how "I didn't name you in the forums" really don't fly when you post a fake "generic" thing like that which is transparently about what it is, a direct slam on another player, using the forums as a bully pulpit. Anyone with intelligence can see this.




Oh, puleeze, spare us the histrionics and insinuations that there are ebil people lurking everywhere ready to make targets!. Claiming to be a "target," when you have efficiently FIRST attacked another player (and now speciously and selectively referred to their alleged first attack of another -- as fake as all get-out ) is really malicious.

Sure, it's easy to incite and drum up support from the outraged and the indignant when you selectively and tendentiously portray something. Go back and look at I NEED HELP WITH AN UGLY BUILD and Pahoa Jade's I DON'T GET IT (AND THEY SURE DON'T).

In fact, many people who erroneously think Prok is "vicious" and "filled with venom and maligning right-thinking decent people who even build great stuff" would do well to go back to the origin of all these flames, and see what is going on: Prok is merely engaging in self-defense against people who themselves are malicious and have been able to get away with that for far too long.



If you use the expression "error of my ways" it is already a given that you are being arch and fake. And fake appeals to "logic" when you've tendtentiously misportrayed the threads, just won't fly now.



See how fake and manipulative it is? Who is "forcing you to leave the game"? Why strut dramatically across the stage and say "Oh, I must leave the game, I am hounded!" when in fact you started a round of attacks and persisted in them, both on the forums and in the game, and you went on to misrepresent another thread in defense of your untenable position.

It's just hilarious, that's all, that your new neighbours are beloved by you...but your old neighbours weren't....merely because they were Prok's tenants...and you had some hysterical baggage from Midge...based on some overwrought misconception that someone was trying to harm your Victorian paradise merely because they put down Lordfly'd or Juro Kothari's houses in your vicinity. Geez.



Maybe just give up apologizing and portraying yourself as some kind of victim? All the points have been taken, and we can move on.

Maxx, sometimes you are just plain not too bright. If you miss the irony and sarcasm of my jumping from nuke plant good to prim rig bad to wanting to see that part of the continent turn into a mini Detroit....

Look at the original post as you climb your high-horse. This thread is littered with sarcasm.

Sheesh *shakes head*

So is the grudge match over? Has anyone shaken hands yet? You all still bitter, calling names, and kicking sand?

I'm moving on, have a nice day. I wish you the best. Good luck in your future endeavors.

btw, I Fly Tang to the NATO Conference this weekend. Seems some in that game cant
Settle a few land and human rights issues ether. While she is in the conference I will teach the wives of the delegates proper mounting and dismounting of sexballs with a mini sexball safety course also.

*amazed at how far SL reaches into RL

I know babes, I really should be working on that draft policy rather than trying to break up a feud . . . . I find it all so intriguing though. Just this one more little blurb, then Ill board Air Force One, err I mean get back too work. LOL

""The most famous of these clan wars, the Hatfield-McCoy feud, has become an enduring part of our national folklore. At its peak it increased tensions between two neighboring states, and it ended only after the United States Supreme Court intervened. That was exactly 100 years ago; this month Kentucky and West Virginia will commemorate the conclusion of the feud."""

What a nice house!!!

Available at Out of Time in Sage

Hatfield vs McCoy: Original dispute over the ownership of two razor-backed hogs.

Johnse is said to have been the most likable of the Hatfields; he was also a stylish dresser, popular with the girls. That day he encountered Rose Anna McCoy, Ran'l's daughter. Photographs show her to have been a tall, slender woman with long, wavy black hair. Johnse, immediately captivated, offered Rose Anna a handful of gingerbread and began to chat with her as if there was no animosity between their families. In the relaxed carnival atmosphere of that election day Johnse and Rose Anna fell in love. That night she went to live with him in his cabin.

Please do not personally attack those that you on't agree with in the forums - this is the official warning for this thread. Further attacks may result in the closing of this thread.

Yikes!...

Talk about kneejerk reactions...

Just what makes you think it is demonstrating being IN FAVOR of drilling in ANWR?

See there's nothing there as far as I can tell to indicate which way it was intended to be taken. A notable feature in many artistic expressions wether politicaly motivated or not.

It could just as easily be a comentary along the lines of 'look at the mess this big rig makes out of the nice waterway to the new continent'.

The reaction of the viewer can often tell you as much or more about them then about the artist.

Personaly, I had a good laugh when I first found out about it...

So I must be a right-wing conservative, fruitcake, nut-job bent on despoiling the earth at every conceivable oppurtunity so anything I have to say should be instantly dismissed out of hand, right?

And with that, I'm off to ride in a polution spewing airplane so I can go enjoy the beauty of 'undespoiled' nature 250+ feet down and snorkle with wild dolphins in the ocean around Bimini for the next 7 days...

Racer P.

"I'll be here all week, try the veal!" -- Shrek

You must be the reincarnated spirit of Mitch Hedberg, because that was pretty funny.

didn't look like a cube to me, i know it's been a while since geometry class, but isn't a cube a regular solid having six congruent square faces?

that 'free movie screen' is not so bad, compared to the giant skyscrapers I have to avoid from the typical telehub...

Prokofy's dismay at the big white cube can in no way be compared to his pink neon sign. That sign is like a postage stampe compared to the big white cube!

This thread was started because you were harrassing her. You call it "hounding". NO means NO. What's the difference?

I wasn't harassing her.

I wasn't hounding her. I believe it was you or someone else who called it "hounding".

If anything, taking a dispute of that nature and putting it in a forum in a thinly disguised thread is the hounding, sheesh.

Nobody was harassing her from our group or among our owners.

We asked if water was for sale. Full stop.

She pitched a fit.

IF it seemed like "Hounding" it was merely calm repetition to allay her touchiness and agitation. She blasted the development as too crowded and not aesthetic, etc. etc. She was on full blast harassment mode.

She responded like many people do when asked if their land is for sale -- with hostile suspicion.

That doesn't make her right.

Your nice build in Tharu doesn't make you right about this, either (that's the argument people keep making in this dispute, that Weedy's building in Tharu is nice, totally irrelevant.)

Use your connections with the Lindens to get the chat logs, I dunno. There was honestly no hounding no harassment and no nothing. She pitched a fit, then took it to the forums because she was outraged at the very idea that she would be questioned about anything she would do, after leaving another sim where she felt "pressured".

You were extraordinarily nasty in that thread. SO don't rehearse it again. There's no harassment going on whatsoever. And invoking the old slogan to use in fighting rape of "no means no" is just emotional blackmail. There was no problem with a "no meaning no". There was a problem with someone furious they were even asked to sell their water, they couldn't get over it.

I make reference to your post:



So, let me get this right. You can repeatedly pester someone to do something that is none of your business and thats not harrassment? You are banned from these forums, yet you continue to post here. Obsessive grieving of the forums.

You are right about one thing. My Tharu build has nothing to do with any of this. Unlike most of us, your inability to separate rights from asthetics has reared it's ugly head again. My example of this would be ANWR. To me, I find it offensive, not as a build (which is great) nor as a use for a water sim. IRL, I am deeply concerned about oil exploration and transportation of crude oil through Canadian waters and ANWR does nothing to allay my fears. But you know what?. It's none of my business what gets built off of my land and I refuse to jump up and down and cry like a little baby because the Linden's are "grieving" me.

Um, could you ask your Linden friends for the chat logs?

I didn't repeatedly pester somebody. I sent them one PM, offline IM.

I talked to them in the game for all of 20 minutes tops. It was one conversation, not some repeated, long houding thing. Repeating, yes, several times, to reassure, that it was just about an owner, just about water, not a request for her to do or change anything, merely a request for her to tell us what her plans were so that person *could move*. You just refuse to get it because you don't share my perceptions or ideologies or visions, and that's fine, but you're distorting the facts. No one hounded, no one did anything to her but ask her plans, given King Kong, so they *could move* and request me to *buy back*. Obviously, if I'm asked to be doing a buy-back, I want to see if there is another solution!

I am not banned from the forums, you're misinformed.

And could I point out once again that if anything you said was true about that water incident -- that there was some "harassment" or "hounding" that in fact way back then, you could have seen her do an AR, and would see a police blotter related to Prok for this alleged harassment? And yet..you didn't. So, your judgement was incorrect, as was hers. End of story.

I said the same thing myself a few posts down, before I realized that this was just another thread for and about the drama queens.

It still sticks in my craw.

Sorry, my Linden friends are far too busy today, servicing other FIC whims.



1- The answer was no.
2- You have no right to impose your version and vision of anything upon anyone.

It's harrassment.