New Digs

So I got myself my own little plot of land, technically to share with my friends who are gona help with the rent. Now before people get confused this is not a new location for my store that's still in the works, this is a private home for my friends and I as well as a place to host my store servers.

This means that there should be no interruptions in store service and that the updater server is back online (though still no updates ready yet, I had one done but then a few bugs moved in so it's not as done as done may be :p).

Still settling in, though work still continues on my own projects again. Maybe I'll have a house warming party sometime, who knows.

Polished Shit

Polish a turd it's still a turd!

Through the grace of true friends I have procured a temporary home for my servers while I adapt to the lose of my main store. Talks are already in the works of getting my own land so watch out we may just be back doing evil near you all to soon.

Unfortunately, while the vendors can remain online the secondary system I was using to avoid cluttering the main vendors with the (currently) 9 poses for the Simplicity Cuffs has no room. The shops I have just don't allot enough prims so it will sadly remain offline and in the in term I will (once I have time, gimme some at least :p) replace the cuffs in the main vendor with ones that come full of animations until such time as I can let the customer pick and choose again.

Furthermore the update server will be offline for the duration but whoopy, there's no updates anyway so no lose.

It's still shit, I hate imposing on people, but it's a least a bit more shiny.

Now that's what you call a shit storm...

Well in a suspected but still shocking turn of events today I've lost not only my main showroom and my house but also a friend.

He has seen fit to evict me over the grounds that I was no longer willing to complete the project I started not even two weeks ago (See the post on Sept 12) though he claims 3+ weeks. Go figure. Anyway. I decided not to finish the project based on the merit that there were unstated conditions to the project that he sprung on me a couple days ago.

In a truly ironic twist he claims that I broke his trust by turning him down after seeing a document he wanted me to sign (somehow under the impression that typing my name over the internet was legally binding...). The ironic part is that this document was to make sure that I didn't "run wild" (as he put it) with the scripts after I sold them to him. Can anyone see the problem here? The trust was lost the instant he felt there was a need for such a document, if he has to have some "legal" document to make sure I don't run wild it means he doesn't trust me to not run wild otherwise.

So no, I didn't break your trust by turning you down, there was no trust by that point because you didn't trust me to not run wild. If you don't trust me, without a legal document to keep me in line, why should I trust that you won't just turn around and screw me using the scripts I gave you?

Anyway, it's truly sad that he felt the need to take this so far. A simple "Okay we'll find someone else to script" would have been sufficiant but he wanted to make his point and felt it pertinent to start the conversation with "you're being evicted" (paraphrase).

So anyway, drama aside this means that the stores may be offline for a little bit as I find a new home for my server. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and I'd give you the name of the person you could go thank but that seems more like stooping to his level of pettiness.

Hang with me people, life changed it's not over.

New Product: Pony Bridle

Pony Bridle
In Stores NOW!!
Available on SLX
Attachment | Modify / Copy / No Transfer

650 L$





Treat your precious Pony to a new, fancy bridle that will make them the envy of their stable.

Or just treat your sub to a highly customizable harness that takes many features from the popular Anthemion Slave Harness.

Profanity

I've wondered for a long time just what profanity is. We all know those lovely four letter words that will get you some sour looks if you utter them in public but really, why is that? Why does a word (some that has no negative meaning) suddenly become so negative?

Is it because its intent was that of a negative remark?

Or because its reception is that of a negative remark?

What happens when the intent was harmless but the reception is negative is it still considered profanity? Still rude to use a word that, while you mean no offense, offense is taken anyway? If so what stops us from taking offense at anything and using it to get people in trouble?

Turn of Events..

So following my rant on automatic spammers.. er updaters.. I went to check out what hippoTech had as a friend was using it and well, I've always liked hippo for their good products.

Lo and behold though they advertise the two methods of updating as OnRez and Timed, just what I don't want. I didn't want to spend 750L$ on a product that would go and spam my users when I hated it myself. I'd have to buckle down and just deal with the small updater I'd set up and be done with it. But fortuitously enough my friend answered my questions and voila, hippo's scripts are full perm so that advanced users can integerate them better into their products. Two minutes after looking at them I have modified them to work only when called.

So, what does this mean? It means that upcoming and recent items will have the use of hippoTechs web-enabled updater but won't spam you, only checking for updates when you ask it too.

Simplicity Cuffs, Pony Bridle and Chastity Belt (last two not out yet see next bit of post for time frame) will be the first to receive this new update service which will take a load off my back when it comes to updating my stuff.

Onto the next bit. My own projects have been delayed. For how long is hard to say; a month at the most. I've accepted my first commission job from a friend and thus my time this next while will be spent scripting for him. Now this is not to say my own projects won't see progress, I'll hardly be working on my new project all the time, but things won't be released or updated just yet.

More organized so I can rant better...

On a serious note (best to start here so that when I slip we can just say I'm into my rant) I've added categories to my blog via the Labels function so that people can find posts related to products or general business.

Posts can of course be found in multiple categories like Business, Rants (like this one) because they contain either a rant about business or both a rant and some talk about business. I know it's nothing special or complex but it may help you sift out what kind of thing you want to see.

Now onto my less serious note. Someone hide the knives before I hunt down someone and stab them! Rawr! Kidding, mostly...

I'm getting kind of annoyed at people in game yet again. This time on the topic of updaters. Those things that give us new versions of our favorite products... or spam us to living hell because they're mechanically dumb and literal machines put to the task by an equality inept creator.

Updaters come in a few flavours... mm lemon... no not that kind of flavour but things like web-enabled and script PIN. Some give you a whole new product, some give you an item to update your product, some do it on their own some want you to take part.

The type that ticks me off, is the ones that figure.. because you don't have the latest version.. that you mustn't have gotten the message yet and proceed to spam you again and again and again and again and did I mention again.. with the news and method of updating.

Yo, morons. WHAT IF I DON'T WANT TO UPDATE YOUR FUCKING PRODUCT? Did the thought ever cross your mind that if I wanted an update I'd go out and get it? With your web-enabled product can't you just tell me in a single line "Oh we have an update click (here in menu) or come to (here in world) to update!"? Why do you have to cram a new copy of the same updater I've been rejecting every time you ping your server? Bugger off and let me update when I can/want to.

Even Windows, the bane of all human existence, can turn off auto-updates. That should tell you just how fucking annoying it is to be spammed every single time I dare log into SL with your product updater simply because you're to addle brained to realize that updating my product should be my choice and if I decline I'd like to not have people insist anyway.

Linden Labs at it again...

Linden Labs strikes again with their most recent blunder into community relations. Their proposed change to the Xstreet SL forums, slated to occur only days away on the 9th (hows that for a nice SHORT.. erm.. period of time in which to gather your customers opinions...), will see the death of any conversation not directly related to SecondLife. They support this change by outright admitting that the forum community doesn't fucking matter one danm bit:

Pink Linden -

I wouldn't call the number of merchants who post in this forum the majority by any stretch of the imagination. For example, not a single one of the top 10 merchants who account for a significant percentage of XStreet Revenue are here, ever. With all due respect, we manage the marketplace and the forums for the majority...that is the fairest way. We do try to respect the minority, but it's rarely possible to accomplish this for 100% of a dynamic, active, passionately engaged customer base.

Way to stick it to the community LL. You just went and showed us all in one fell swoop that, to your eyes, we don't matter unless we make you a shit load of money. Guess we know now that to LL: unless it's bundled with packing peanuts made up of crumbled 20$s it just doesn't matter what the contents is.

If you truly managed the forums for the majority you wouldn't fucking care about the top 10 people but I guess when you say majority you mean the majority of money makers... that's the fairest way.

Next I guess we'll get an announcement saying that rezzing will be taken out of the game because the top 10 "biggest money bags" who play the game only buy and sell land...

Guess it's a good thing I've never relied on your forums at all. Though I'll miss reading them now and then.