Anyone Attending the Protest!!!!

Nice, so at the end of every game you just ask "what's 4+6" and then the winnings are for doing basic math. hehe.

Jack, Mon Chere, WHY do you think SO many contests in the Real World Contain a "Skill Testing Question" it is required you answer BEFORE you get your Prize?? It's been Done for Decades PRECISELY for that Reason. To bring the contest Into line with State and Federal gambling Laws. It Turns a game of Chance Into a Contest of Skill. You are being Flippant, but if you Understood the Laws as written you would Understand the point of such things, They are not just there to be Irritating or Needlessly Complicated.

Angel.

Blingtardia...

*slips into a dream*

*a dark night, blazingly hot... ...wide freeways full of cars packed with sparkly people... gigantic billboards everywhere advertising Casinos and Clubs...*

*McMansions, made as vast as possible dot the barren hills... the sky is littered with security orbs and skyboxes inbetween giant, rotating signs: Sex Toys, Chat Spies, Escorts, Easy $L!...*

*a densely packed blaze of digital humanity below, each locked into a station with rising neon multipliers counting up as pling-pling sounds blur into a sound like gentle rain...*

*And above it all, a shimmering gold flag. Emblazoned with a brilliant, brilliant blue-white star, center, with jet black text below: REZPUBLICA BLINGTARDIA...*

*a saxophone sleazily lets slip the melody of the national anthem upon the heavy night air...*


Don't, people... Don't make me do it!

grins

Yea I guess I don't understand them. I didn't mean to be flippant. It just sounded like a really easy way around the ban that hadn't been discussed in any of the many posts I read today.

Well, that Really IS the problem here, the solution is SO simple that most people Over look it. "It just CAN'T be THAT Easy!" (But it is).

Angel.

Rezpublica Blingtardia....

GREAT. Now I've spouted diet coke all over my keyboard...

Now that I think about it, I will sortof miss bingo/slingo and the sploders... those were fun. *sniffle*

Good riddance to gambling. I've only ever seen one casino that I liked, the rest sucked, and I am happy to see them go.

Why would I protest a LL decision I agree with? I have nothing against gambling per se but I suspect that many of the nitwits who ran casinos were either too stupid or too corrupt to realize that all profits must be reported to the IRS.

Along with strip malls casinos have made SL an ugly place and I am glad to see them go. Not everyone in SL is some sort of hiphop trash talking highroller no matter how hard that is to believe.

*tosses .02L$ onto the table*

I do feel for those that ran their own islands/sims for gambling and did so in a fair manor. There are those types out there, and they had a faithful following.

To the gamblers, I'm sorry, but I don't feel much pity. If gambling was your livelyhood (not your pastime and hobby) then try to get a Third Life.

Enjoying gambling, the fun, the socializing, the skill, is one thing. To be dependant on it is just sad.

And while I do feel for those that ran the nicer places, I won't miss the lag from the slot machines and blackjack tables that everyone seemed to had and were apparently scripted by a brain damaged monkey. Nor will I miss 40 avatars sitting at one spot to gamble making the rest of the sim unuseable.

I applaud LL for following the law (though I do think they need to clarify more on some tings like Slingo, bingo, sploders, etc). Protesting this to LL is like arguing with a fisherman about the tide. LL didn't make the law, they are only following it.

~Jessy

LMFAO

HtB

You mean they couldn't even fill a region? I count 17 people there? (one of whom is AFK)

I remember the days of 'real' protests like anti-copybot and stipends. I dunno, kids these days... now when I was a lad... erm girl....

Broccoli

how pretentious are _you_!
hey some guy doesnt lose, he actually wins so much that he can make a stipend off it, and you banish him to third life? the cheek. 'ur dependant upon some sort of a living, so piss off hey'. real classy of you.

Dun forget the ageplay one at Robin Linden's plot. Dat was huuuuge.

I found Pooley to hardly be lagged whjen I went yesterday.

(Maybe they were too busy camping?)

Mari

Second Life is an international service and it isn't against the law to gamble in many countries that didn't elect a retard for a president.

My representatives are in favour of legalized gambling. So are many non-American members of Second Life.

1: Doesn't have anything to do with the USA President; these laws have been around for a long time.

2: It may be an international service, but all SL territory is located in San Francisco (or Texas, I think), and has to abide by the laws there, as you have to abide by your local laws even if you're looking at a website in another country.

The writing was on the wall a long time ago, in bright flashing neon no less, that casinos were on their way out.

Remember that whole "casinos may no longer advertise" deal?

That wasn't a hint. That was a clue-by-four.

Anyone who continued to base the entirety of their SL on gambling after that, well, no. We're not obliged to have much pity.

Hell, lots of us kinksters diversified after that "broadly offensive" mess.

its not about pity. its about acting like a pretentious twit.

As I recall, you're in a good position to hold on to those stones, and not cast 'em.

Especially after sexual Age Play was advertizing banned - then outright banned a few months later.

Note to people in the future -

If something you are involved in becomes Advertizing banned - that means its on the way out.

They day casino owners and/or their patrons provide SL with a place like Svarga...maybe...just *maybe*...I'll give a dry popcorn f*rt about them losing their toys.
Until that day...they represent nothing more than the apex of shuffling, glitter-eyed greed in search of an easy buck.

People don't like casinos, I think, for some of the same reasons they don't like big, looming corporate presences in-world. They're a bit soul-less...and they revolve around the single-minded pursuit of money. How empty is that?

I was listening to a talk show and they were talking about the web and the gambiling issue here on SL. A few that called in said they were the casinos beign 86ed and one for keeping them. Another that called in that was against them was an Intel employee and he mentioned his company recently "bought" the "Intel" last name for use of their employees when they hold meetings in SL. He mentioned in addition to the government's rules on net gambling, SL may also be wanting to steer away from allowing casins to attact more business to put their $$ into SL like Intel did. Some companies might be hesitant about coming into SL if there's gambiling. That's what the fella on the talk show mentioned.

bite me.
i may be rude, but im not pretentious.

Either one would get you marked as *dinner* in a lifeboat adrift in the Pacific.