Viajero

"Entertaining, and there are some points worth debating, but ruined as almost always by an aggessive, unrelenting, and oblivious dickishness. She may have no pelotas, but she swings a massive strap-on. In arguing with Prokofy, be warned: she's nasty and sticky." - Viajero

"Extropia, you can't get a clue about a person from the last name they choose, that is a lame reach. Prok's "quite" the nastiest person in Second Life but every now and then, despite her howls, she gets a mirror placed in front of her face." - Viajero

"Prok is ultimately a crazy, destructive, boor with pretensions. A legend in her own hate-filled mind; the Ann Coulter of Second Life. She loudly demand that other people think exactly as she does. She's very often wrong. But she's almost always uncivil, shrill, and egotistically ass-holey." - Viajero

"No matter what the issues are here, I fear for your sanity. "It doesn't matter if "every website I visit has my IP address" you fucking geek LOON. Good God you are fucking STUPID. This website grabs IPs, but it doesn't DISPLAY THEM for fuck's sake." It's one thing to have a passionate opinion. It's another to be a frothing, arrogant, and interminable asshole." - Viajero

"I agree with Jovin that 3 months is a good time period for a free 512 for all new users, as long as it's perfectly clear that they need to log on every, say, 2 weeks within that 3 months or risk eviction. It's not a free lunch, it is a way of anchoring a new user in a community, however temporary, and with a base that gives them some psychological "home" in the game. Three months goes by fast, but that amount of time would be enough so that older newbies on the sim who have gotten the hang of the world would likely be able to pass on their new knowledge to newer newbies. 30 days is far too short a stay in a newbie sim. I think such a scheme would go some distance towards creating the conditions for a more stable and clued-in resident population, and would be a good role for LL. I otherwise hate that LL is taking over so much else in SL, however. Isn't this supposed to be a user-created world, not a company town?" - Viajero

"I agree with the “smile and cringe” comment. And I’m enjoying the little asides and details, too. Keep up the great work." - Viajero

""People who don't like what I say and aren't intelligent enough to argue with me often reach for a meme like "crazy, insane, in need of meds" or they imagine that I am "vitriolic and mean" etc." Sometimes memes apply. And there's no imagining involved here. You grief SL. Why argue with a relentlessly insulting and deluded ranter who has two standards of civility--one for others and one for herself? Trying to discuss with you is like arguing with a hairdryer, as someone once said. You can dance all you want around that fact, but it doesn't change it." - Viajero

"Kind of crazy *and* a consistent liar is my observation: a highly intelligent, often insightful but pathologically mean and self-serving ranter. A legend in her own mind. A person in love with her story, however sad and ugly it gets, who does harm." - Viajero

"Classic unconvincing Prok. Her chatlogs show, over and over, a snide, self-obsessed jerk--an oblivious, endlessly self-justifying prick terminally addicted to conflict and assholery, making SL uglier as she goes. But she herself believes that she poohs rainbows." - Viajero

""As for somebody who adopted the last name "Pugilist" telling *me* I'm hateful and aggressive, I have to roll-on-the-floor laugh." Then you're an easily-amused, childish dork. And still an often-intelligent but a self-justifying hater, and over-the-top aggressive ranter who does more harm than good." - Viajero

"Prok has shown again in this post her humor and somewhat convincing, if absolutist, reasoning capacity. As long-time readers of this blog know, sans the ever-present over-the-top aggressive assholery of most of her writing, she could be an agent of good in the world -- instead of sadly being a pathologically vindictive attention ho, a C.S. Lewis of hate, a nexus of ugliness and conflict." - Viajero

"Questions of hypocrisy aside, thank you. This was a very fun read which made me laugh. You're another person when you slice and dice in a cool, calm and collected way rather than the horribly ugly ranting you usually level at your enemies, whether sometimes deserved or not. Congrats on your temporary sanity--whatever you're taking today, keep taking. This guy is a complete loon in every possible way, and you certainly cut him a new one--using facts alone. I hope his employer gets a look at what he's written. Is he a professor of something, or is that one of your other antagonists? It's awfully hard to believe any institution would employ such a sloppy liar." - Viajero

"I heard this one the other day from another time -- He's five feet two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of 31 and he's only 17 He's been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain, a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew and he knows he shouldn't kill" - Viajero

"It will be good to see some competition. SL is more and more becoming a "company town", and a monopoly leads to stagnation. I hope everyone will begin considering looking to this alternatives first before a purchase at XStreet." - Viajero

"I'd still like to see one. Would be loverly if someone with the time & inclination would keep a mashup updated, with help from readers, of course." - Viajero

"Is there no other similar map? This one is very empty/incomplete. A zoom would be a good thing for crowded areas. I appreciate the effort, but I'm surprised that in 2009 no one has done a Google Map mashup of the hundreds of sims and builds which mirror, more or less, RL locations. A Google Earth layer, with Slurl capability and links to the SL Wiki and Flickr groups would be amazing! Someday, for sure. Here's how the GTAIV map is integrated with GMaps: http://tr.im/uPpV" - Viajero

What a great use of Second Life! Stanford U. is also making available some of its Special Collections and archives in SL: http://www.archivesnext.com/.. - Viajero

"A JIRA issue for that very feature, Jovin: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse... with advantages and problematic issues discussed. Anyone can vote for it. I hope it happens, but only in the best way possible, with no additional LAG. Thanks to all the people creating these translators." - Viajero

"You're right, Ann. What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some peeps you just can't reach." - Viajero

"I doubt they simply filed a DMCA request first. LL would have dealt with it if they had. A 102 page complaint. Those Taser lawyers must have a lot of time and money on their hands. It's something a simple phone call to Mark K. or Phillp R. would have fixed, no doubt. But Taser chose the silly but profitable road of litigation. They already have a ton of bad karma, and this only adds to it. Not that they understand or subscribe to any notion of karma, but it is just so unnecessary, and so sad. "A failure to communicate", kind of like the Taser itself. And what a stretch: there's pornographic content in Second Life. Fake Tasers are sold in Second Life. Ergo sensitive, confused people will associate Tasers with adultery, extra-marital virtual copulation, and furry-robot dirty dancing. What a crock of shit. They should be ashamed. But shame is another very foreign concept to these dishonest purveyors of death sticks." - Viajero