[Opensim-users] A word to jokers (WAS: poll:favorite virtual world platform)

Mon May 25 20:07:33 UTC 2009

Thom, you're really only doing yourself a disservice here. Such strong words won't help you persuade anybody with any internet experience, to be frank, and besides, anger and bitterness are bad for the heart.

On the other hand it was good to read the beginning of that imohax article. It shows how risky unsolicited avatar manipulation is, and reminded me of all the people who genuinely can't get out and who rely on virtual worlds for a huge slice of life they would otherwise have no access to.

Let me take only my own position. I can get out a little, but attempting any kind of worthwhile "life" in the real world has me feeling like I've been dragged through thornbushes for hours, and that pleasant feeling can last for more than a week after I quit trying. This is not lightweight stuff, and a practical joke is very different from the vast majority of bugs, as I'll explain at the end.

As a result of years of good friendship and company over 3 years in Second Life and the seemingly minor experience of owning and building my own homes I have learned life lessons and gained real skills that 30 years of "Real Life" failed to teach me. My real-world experience has even benefitted greatly from my second life: when I joined I couldn't step out of the house without panic making me want to scream, but now there's no panic at all, it's completely gone. It's the security of having my SL home to come back to that did it. No matter how temporary, no matter that I never finished any of my homes, it was a little anchor that enabled me to settle down just enough to begin to heal.

That healing process isn't finished, but Linden Labs modus operandi and pricing alike threaten to ruin me. I quite desperately need an alternative, and a world full of people who only want to talk about building & code is not enough. Sun Wonderland and Open Cobalt are aimed at business meetings and collaboration, Open Croquet is just a toolkit (but aimed at business collab anyway), and all I've heard about RealExtend places emphasis on building the shinies. As much as I'm attracted to alternative technologies it's not the technology that I really need. The only options for myself that I can see right now are friendly grids such as Reaction Grid and Legend City Online, and the only such grids I know exist are based on OpenSim. Granted I'm not very good at searching.

So, to get down to the metal, can I take a joke? Yeah, on a good day. On an average day it'll leave me shaking for, ooh, only a few hours. Good days are rare. If I wake up feeling a little weak and in need of companionship, I turn to the only place I can get it. I'm not going to notice if it's April the 1st before I log in. What's going to happen if I log in to find something important to me damaged? In the very best case it will take me days to recover. Now of course bugs can and will 'break' my nerves from time to time, but bugs aren't so likely to crop up out of the blue...

I had 3 sims on OSGrid of all places, nightlies I upgraded when I felt like it at that, but in 2 or 3 months no bug affected me this way at all. As far as my nerves go that's a better track record than SL, and that's OSGrid and nightly builds we're talking about! That avatar stretching would hit my nerves. Any joke would because it's *designed* to get at people.

On Mon, 25 May 2009 17:49:09 +0100
"Thom King" <thomking at operamail.com> wrote:

> 
> The malicious code was in the recommended release code, not just "Trunk".
> The lie that the malicious code was only in trunk is one of the despicable lies that the criminals are using to try to cover up their criminal hacking activity.
> Some of the criminals acts of suppression and censorship are mentioned in the discussion here:
> 
> http://imohax.com/2009/04/01/opensim-youre-losin-me-punking-is-for-punks/
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dr Scofield" <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net>
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] poll:favorite virtual world platform
> > Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 17:41:53 +0200
> > 
> > 
> > Impalah wrote:
> > > I have two doubts:
> > >
> > > http://www.polladium.com/voxbox/ThomKing
> > >
> > > Who were the hackers (crackers)? Where was the hackings?
> > 
> > the only thing i can think of is this year's april 1 joke, which surprised a
> > number of our users (i.e., those that both had not been on the OpenSim train
> > long enough to remember the previous april 1 jokes and also were 
> > expecting trunk
> > to be production quality --- WHICH IT'S NOT, i hasten to say).
> > 
> > other than that? no clue.
> > 
> > 	DrS
> > 
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2009/5/20 Jani Pirkola <jpirkola at gmail.com <mailto:jpirkola at gmail.com>>
> > >
> > >     Hi,
> > >
> > >     I hope not to start a flame war, but to find out how many people are
> > >     using a given platform.
> > >     http://www.polladium.com/poll.php?poll_id=1&location_id=25227
> > >     <http://www.polladium.com/poll.php?poll_id=1&location_id=25227>
> > >
> > >     If you know other relevant places to forward this poll, please do so
> > >     because it helps to improve the quality of the results. I'll write
> > >     about the results and your comments to http://maxping.org after a while.
> > >
> > >     Best regards,
> > >     Jani
> > >
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