Here's what I don't get. You go out looking for inspiration or mood or just to waste some time surfing the internets vast supply of pictures and you come across - the faceless wo/man.
Why? Blurring, cropping, smuding; whatever, the face of the person out of an image has it's uses, like anonymity in a candid photo. But why, in an image that you are knowingly putting on the internet for all to see do you erase the face?
If you don't want people to see your face: what the hell are you doing posting images of yourself?
There's nothing worse then finding a rare gem of a artistic picture, with pose and rigging done marvelously (for ones tastes) only to have the image cut off at the chin because the model was, despite knowing the image was going to be online, unwilling to show their face. All it does it ruin the image, it doesn't let people see "the pretty work we did just without my face" it removes all value from the image, imo, because who's going to look at art form when there's such a glaring imperfection?
Showing posts with label Rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rants. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Gag Talk
You've heard it, quite a bit in many cases; that mess of letters that comes from gags thanks to the marvels of RLV and (LSL) scripting.
We, the subs at least, willingly submit ourselves to be gagged and forced to talk like a mouth full of.. well, rubber. But who wants to listen?
I'd made a post a while back in annoyance at the idea that people are making tools specifically to counter act restrictions in order to not be inconvenienced by them. HUDs that listen to channels to pick up the pre-garble chatter so that we don't have to actually try to understand gag talk.
But the worst thing I think is that; from what I've seen, people just tend to ignore gagged people. They'll walk on by as soon as they see a gag, they won't even attempt any kind of conversation because it's just to much hassle for them.
Why is that? What's so bad about having to decipher gag talk? Okay ya, because I wrote the method for my own gag I can read it just fine, and some gags out there are really hard to do. But isn't the reason we play in BDSM sims so that we can partake in BDSM? Why just avoid anyone taking part in it because they're hard to understand?
If all it gets people is ignored.. its no wonder people cheat all the time or avoid using gags. They still want to interact at least on some level but people just seem to lazy to want to put the effort in. They'd rather talk to someone who can speak clearly.
Oh well. Just another annoyed rant at the people.
We, the subs at least, willingly submit ourselves to be gagged and forced to talk like a mouth full of.. well, rubber. But who wants to listen?
I'd made a post a while back in annoyance at the idea that people are making tools specifically to counter act restrictions in order to not be inconvenienced by them. HUDs that listen to channels to pick up the pre-garble chatter so that we don't have to actually try to understand gag talk.
But the worst thing I think is that; from what I've seen, people just tend to ignore gagged people. They'll walk on by as soon as they see a gag, they won't even attempt any kind of conversation because it's just to much hassle for them.
Why is that? What's so bad about having to decipher gag talk? Okay ya, because I wrote the method for my own gag I can read it just fine, and some gags out there are really hard to do. But isn't the reason we play in BDSM sims so that we can partake in BDSM? Why just avoid anyone taking part in it because they're hard to understand?
If all it gets people is ignored.. its no wonder people cheat all the time or avoid using gags. They still want to interact at least on some level but people just seem to lazy to want to put the effort in. They'd rather talk to someone who can speak clearly.
Oh well. Just another annoyed rant at the people.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Name the Capitals
Raise your hand if you know what a capital letter is. The simple, effective, and proper way to start a sentence capital letter seems to have died out at some point. Why is it that the instant people leave school, if not sooner, and come online they suddenly can't find the shift key on any keyboard?
Personally I don't see what's so hard about using capitals, or other proper punctuation, while writing be it for a term paper or just something like this blog post. Yet there are those who, forgiving the lack of punctuation for such short blurbs of text, totally abandon the use of capital letters in lieu of some drab looking spiel.
Maybe I'm just overly picky or sensitive to such things being an author, programmer and OCD but I just can't fathom how it can be so hard to hit the shift key and be done with it. When I'm reading a notecard or an items menu why is it that so many people just do all lower case despite that, especially in the case of menus/dialogs, what they're writing is a label or prose. I can understand not wanting to use all the 'ticky' punctuation and stuff when you're trying to jot out a quick note or an IM to a friend. But this is business stuff, these are things you sell and yet you show yourself as such an amateur, or worse, a lazy developer, by having bad looking menus or notecards simply because you lack the ability to reach over a smidge and hit that shift key.
Oh well, guess it's not exactly something we can change. People who are lazy will be lazy and hardly see aesthetics or proper written language etiquette as a reason to make the extra effort to use the shift key.
Personally I don't see what's so hard about using capitals, or other proper punctuation, while writing be it for a term paper or just something like this blog post. Yet there are those who, forgiving the lack of punctuation for such short blurbs of text, totally abandon the use of capital letters in lieu of some drab looking spiel.
Maybe I'm just overly picky or sensitive to such things being an author, programmer and OCD but I just can't fathom how it can be so hard to hit the shift key and be done with it. When I'm reading a notecard or an items menu why is it that so many people just do all lower case despite that, especially in the case of menus/dialogs, what they're writing is a label or prose. I can understand not wanting to use all the 'ticky' punctuation and stuff when you're trying to jot out a quick note or an IM to a friend. But this is business stuff, these are things you sell and yet you show yourself as such an amateur, or worse, a lazy developer, by having bad looking menus or notecards simply because you lack the ability to reach over a smidge and hit that shift key.
Oh well, guess it's not exactly something we can change. People who are lazy will be lazy and hardly see aesthetics or proper written language etiquette as a reason to make the extra effort to use the shift key.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
The long winded names of little siginificance and much annoyance
Yes I'm talking to you people, those of you who for some inane reason decided you wanted to list your fetish's or the names of all your kids in your name..
Stop it!
Heh.
Seriously though, such long names cause issues; most specifically names that exceed the 24 character limit of dialog menus. Now yes: it can be argued that LL could just remove the limit but considering you can't even display 24 characters on the size of buttons shown without taking up half your screen I think their limit is justified. It's also a matter of memory, you know that stuff that causes lag ya, that stuff. The more memory a script has to handle just to read your super-duper-cool-name-of-useless-information-that-could-go-in-your-profile the more lag it causes and this is beyond the unnecessary hassle it causes us scriptwriters. I could get into some big techno-jargon rant about how each character in a name equates to bytes but chances are those that would understand me know what I would say anyway and those that wouldn't understand me wouldn't care to know beyond that it causes lag! (If you really care, just ask me in world or in comment; I'm [normally] willing to educate)
What if I want to make something that gives a list of people nearby? Common enough desire right? Well guess what, your name, your name alone, will crash a script: you cause it to fail. This is unless the coder expected this and took precautions to not allow the script to overload but hey.. look, there's that more memory thing again.. more lines of code, more memory used just to cut your name down in size so that it's possible to be used in scripts.
Neither I, or the consumer, should have to deal with your name simply because you had some arbitrary reason to use an unnecessarily long name. Frankly I don't care what excuse or reason you have for the length: there is no name that needs to be longer then 24 characters (combined length of first and last).
So please, for the sake of us all; despite that the memory usage is rather small, stop with the really long names.
(And yes this post does contain mockery of those with long names)
Stop it!
Heh.
Seriously though, such long names cause issues; most specifically names that exceed the 24 character limit of dialog menus. Now yes: it can be argued that LL could just remove the limit but considering you can't even display 24 characters on the size of buttons shown without taking up half your screen I think their limit is justified. It's also a matter of memory, you know that stuff that causes lag ya, that stuff. The more memory a script has to handle just to read your super-duper-cool-name-of-useless-information-that-could-go-in-your-profile the more lag it causes and this is beyond the unnecessary hassle it causes us scriptwriters. I could get into some big techno-jargon rant about how each character in a name equates to bytes but chances are those that would understand me know what I would say anyway and those that wouldn't understand me wouldn't care to know beyond that it causes lag! (If you really care, just ask me in world or in comment; I'm [normally] willing to educate)
What if I want to make something that gives a list of people nearby? Common enough desire right? Well guess what, your name, your name alone, will crash a script: you cause it to fail. This is unless the coder expected this and took precautions to not allow the script to overload but hey.. look, there's that more memory thing again.. more lines of code, more memory used just to cut your name down in size so that it's possible to be used in scripts.
Neither I, or the consumer, should have to deal with your name simply because you had some arbitrary reason to use an unnecessarily long name. Frankly I don't care what excuse or reason you have for the length: there is no name that needs to be longer then 24 characters (combined length of first and last).
So please, for the sake of us all; despite that the memory usage is rather small, stop with the really long names.
(And yes this post does contain mockery of those with long names)
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Pissed Off
Guess what I just found out?
Turns out that 'friend' I had my falling out with awhile back isn't done being an asshole. I just found one of his newer creations, powered by scripts bearing my name as creator and function suspiciously identical to scripts I wrote awhile ago. And he's using them without my permission. How did he get them? I wrote them when I was friends with him, used them in a device on his property and, seeing as he booted me (and afaik banned me) from his land when we had our falling out I could never go and reclaim it.
So now he has it, and is using it in his product that has his name on it. If a DMCA was easier to file it'd be done already, but as is it's to much of a hassle for an object I found sitting in a play sim. But rest assured if that product hits stores and it contains my scripts still, I may just go through the hassle of filing a DMCA if only to see him burn for his unfathomable arrogance.
What do you think, you think a script created and written by me and basically stolen from me, then used without my permission is a violation of copyright and IP (Intellectual Property) rights?
Turns out that 'friend' I had my falling out with awhile back isn't done being an asshole. I just found one of his newer creations, powered by scripts bearing my name as creator and function suspiciously identical to scripts I wrote awhile ago. And he's using them without my permission. How did he get them? I wrote them when I was friends with him, used them in a device on his property and, seeing as he booted me (and afaik banned me) from his land when we had our falling out I could never go and reclaim it.
So now he has it, and is using it in his product that has his name on it. If a DMCA was easier to file it'd be done already, but as is it's to much of a hassle for an object I found sitting in a play sim. But rest assured if that product hits stores and it contains my scripts still, I may just go through the hassle of filing a DMCA if only to see him burn for his unfathomable arrogance.
What do you think, you think a script created and written by me and basically stolen from me, then used without my permission is a violation of copyright and IP (Intellectual Property) rights?
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Programmer Assupmtions
As a programmer myself I can see the benefit of giving people these little features that pop up and try to help, however I'd like to think that I'm smart enough to take a hint. If someone closes my window, I'll assume they didn't want. It seems logical enough to me, as it is logical to many I'm sure. Why is it that programmers then assume that because you lacked a response or because you closed their window that you must want it open again and in your way?
It certainly irks me when programmers make such assumptions, more specifically in this case (the case that caused me to feel the urge to bitch) a word processor felt the need to "bullet" a single line of text I was writing every. single. time. no matter how many times I undid it simply because I wanted to start the line with an Astrix (*). Now tell me, is that such a horrible thing for me to want to do? Why aren't I allowed to do that? The instant I try and hit enter to start a whole new line not related to a list in anyway the program assumes I wanted bullets and converts my * into a bullet dot and ties to make my next line part of the bullets.
If I wanted bullets: I'd bloody turn them on myself. Why do you have to be so "helpful" and do it for me? Sure, shortcuts okay so I can turn it off right? Sure. You just have to turn off spellchecker along with it. Huh? Why?
Seems the programmers, along with assuming any appearance of * means "THEY WANT BULLETS NOOOOOWW!!" felt that the change of * to bullets fell into the category of spellchecker and in order to stop their auto correcting bullshit I have to turn off their non-auto red squiggly line (standard) spellchecker.
Gah! Programmers annoy me, and I'm one of them. (Though hopefully I don't annoy you)
It certainly irks me when programmers make such assumptions, more specifically in this case (the case that caused me to feel the urge to bitch) a word processor felt the need to "bullet" a single line of text I was writing every. single. time. no matter how many times I undid it simply because I wanted to start the line with an Astrix (*). Now tell me, is that such a horrible thing for me to want to do? Why aren't I allowed to do that? The instant I try and hit enter to start a whole new line not related to a list in anyway the program assumes I wanted bullets and converts my * into a bullet dot and ties to make my next line part of the bullets.
If I wanted bullets: I'd bloody turn them on myself. Why do you have to be so "helpful" and do it for me? Sure, shortcuts okay so I can turn it off right? Sure. You just have to turn off spellchecker along with it. Huh? Why?
Seems the programmers, along with assuming any appearance of * means "THEY WANT BULLETS NOOOOOWW!!" felt that the change of * to bullets fell into the category of spellchecker and in order to stop their auto correcting bullshit I have to turn off their non-auto red squiggly line (standard) spellchecker.
Gah! Programmers annoy me, and I'm one of them. (Though hopefully I don't annoy you)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Peevish
Here's what I don't get. As a content creator I make things and more specifically as a BDSM content creator I make things restrictive. With the help of RLV of course.
The thing is, for each new feature Marine adds to RLV or I add to my products (and others to their products of course) there seems to be someone else making a counter product.
Raise your hand if you have an item that listens to channel 1. It'd take me all day to count those that are honest and admitted to it. Why so many? What is the point in us making something like a gag and Marine making RLV if we're (I'm guilty of it to in the past I admit) just going to cheat around it? Why buy a product, wear it, let someone (or do it yourself) lock it to block us from chatting or whatever and then just bypass it with something?
Block local, people go to IMs, block IMs and they use notecards, block cards.. then I've seen one girl use group notices to talk. Come on! Don't wear a gag if you're that desperate to talk still, don't wear a gag if you have to use another item to allow IMs to all your friends, or allow teleporting or whatever just because you don't want to be restricted.
Why use RLV or play in BDSM sims to begin with then? It's obvious that you're interested more in cheating out and being free then you are being kidnapped and captured so don't start to begin with and stay free.
Now don't confuse this with something like I don't care for safety. Safety is a big concern of mine and I put Safewords in my products (or equivalent functions) for just such a case, including (if blocked) IMs always being open to the person who locked. But safety isn't IMing all your friends while gagged or teleporting out of a cage cause you're bored or removing a locked item because you're tired of it. Safety is getting free when someone has been irresponsible with your stuff and ran away etc.
Basically, if you don't want to be restricted, don't buy/wear/use items that can restrict you. Sit there and chat with all your friends instead of wasting my time and the time of all us creators by making it look like there's a market for people interested in something like a gag just so that you can cheat out of its restrictions.
I'm sure I'm not the only one a bit ticked off at others making light of our work. Many of us put a lot of effort into making SL enjoyable for the BDSM crowd and frankly it's a kick in the teeth that we try so hard just so that someone can cheat and act as if our stuff is just jewelry instead of bondage equipment.
The thing is, for each new feature Marine adds to RLV or I add to my products (and others to their products of course) there seems to be someone else making a counter product.
Raise your hand if you have an item that listens to channel 1. It'd take me all day to count those that are honest and admitted to it. Why so many? What is the point in us making something like a gag and Marine making RLV if we're (I'm guilty of it to in the past I admit) just going to cheat around it? Why buy a product, wear it, let someone (or do it yourself) lock it to block us from chatting or whatever and then just bypass it with something?
Block local, people go to IMs, block IMs and they use notecards, block cards.. then I've seen one girl use group notices to talk. Come on! Don't wear a gag if you're that desperate to talk still, don't wear a gag if you have to use another item to allow IMs to all your friends, or allow teleporting or whatever just because you don't want to be restricted.
Why use RLV or play in BDSM sims to begin with then? It's obvious that you're interested more in cheating out and being free then you are being kidnapped and captured so don't start to begin with and stay free.
Now don't confuse this with something like I don't care for safety. Safety is a big concern of mine and I put Safewords in my products (or equivalent functions) for just such a case, including (if blocked) IMs always being open to the person who locked. But safety isn't IMing all your friends while gagged or teleporting out of a cage cause you're bored or removing a locked item because you're tired of it. Safety is getting free when someone has been irresponsible with your stuff and ran away etc.
Basically, if you don't want to be restricted, don't buy/wear/use items that can restrict you. Sit there and chat with all your friends instead of wasting my time and the time of all us creators by making it look like there's a market for people interested in something like a gag just so that you can cheat out of its restrictions.
I'm sure I'm not the only one a bit ticked off at others making light of our work. Many of us put a lot of effort into making SL enjoyable for the BDSM crowd and frankly it's a kick in the teeth that we try so hard just so that someone can cheat and act as if our stuff is just jewelry instead of bondage equipment.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Blah
Scripting sure can piss me off at times, bewilder me too. Here I am trying to work on an inter prim communication that I know damn well should work and it wasn't!! Grr.
In trying to update my Simplicity Cuffs to match my Chastity Belt I changed the prim work of them, starting from scratch and then just plop the scripts in and go right? Wrong!
The two elbow cuffs just refused to talk, they'd listen and respond to commands but they wouldn't talk which meant that the main script couldn't get their keys in order to properly chain when doing poses. What was more confusing and annoying was that the wrists cuffs were talking fine and the scripts were a direct copy/paste to the elbows!! Why then weren't they working?!
So I sat here and tested and ranted and stumped every scritpter out there with this weird problem. The channel is within limit, the listen is open, nothing is being said before the channel is made, the channel is the same on all four cuffs, the commands are all right, the wording is perfect, I reset the scripts 50 times, copied and pasted again, I recompiled, I rerezzed, I logged in and out, danced on my head and nothing worked!
Time and time again they'd listen to commands, responding by trying to chain together but not having the proper keys the chain just hung there. The wrists worked they chained as they should on all the poses they should and the elbows sat there refusing to take part in the party. Even my listener that I set up wasn't hearing them talk.
Of course I realize now if I'd had my head on straight when I made the listener in frustration that I heard them talk before I added the name filter on it (to block chatter on the channel to just my cuffs) but 20/20 hindsight.
So anyway, I was stumped every scripter I could talk to was stumped. And then I saw it. The damn name was wrong! Gah, how can I be so stupid? There was an extra t in the "Simplicity" on both the elbow cuffs that I missed. I remove it, all works. I bang head against wall; stop scripting for the night.
The power and frustration of a little typo. *sighs*
In trying to update my Simplicity Cuffs to match my Chastity Belt I changed the prim work of them, starting from scratch and then just plop the scripts in and go right? Wrong!
The two elbow cuffs just refused to talk, they'd listen and respond to commands but they wouldn't talk which meant that the main script couldn't get their keys in order to properly chain when doing poses. What was more confusing and annoying was that the wrists cuffs were talking fine and the scripts were a direct copy/paste to the elbows!! Why then weren't they working?!
So I sat here and tested and ranted and stumped every scritpter out there with this weird problem. The channel is within limit, the listen is open, nothing is being said before the channel is made, the channel is the same on all four cuffs, the commands are all right, the wording is perfect, I reset the scripts 50 times, copied and pasted again, I recompiled, I rerezzed, I logged in and out, danced on my head and nothing worked!
Time and time again they'd listen to commands, responding by trying to chain together but not having the proper keys the chain just hung there. The wrists worked they chained as they should on all the poses they should and the elbows sat there refusing to take part in the party. Even my listener that I set up wasn't hearing them talk.
Of course I realize now if I'd had my head on straight when I made the listener in frustration that I heard them talk before I added the name filter on it (to block chatter on the channel to just my cuffs) but 20/20 hindsight.
So anyway, I was stumped every scripter I could talk to was stumped. And then I saw it. The damn name was wrong! Gah, how can I be so stupid? There was an extra t in the "Simplicity" on both the elbow cuffs that I missed. I remove it, all works. I bang head against wall; stop scripting for the night.
The power and frustration of a little typo. *sighs*
Sunday, September 27, 2009
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.
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.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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.
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.
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.
Monday, September 14, 2009
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?
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?
Friday, September 11, 2009
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.
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)
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.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
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:
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.
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.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The cake is a lie... and a cliche...
Okay so I've been playing Portal: Prelude recently whats it to you. The game is pissing me off though but that's a whole 'nother post. This one is for Second Life and a basic reminder that I'm still alive... and I'll post when the song ends...
Okay..
With my cuffs out and on the market I've turned my attention to my other project, one that I'll use a lot and really strikes closely within my interests seeing as it is geared for ponyplay.
So here I guess is where I officially announce the Anthemion Pony Bridle.
Now some may say, "But Lylani you thief you just copied someone elses design" (something I actually was accused of once in the past, and I'll repeat what I told them). Yes, I did copy someone elses design, but it wasn't yours or anyone elses in Second Life. What people seem to forget is that a lot of the fetish gear in game is copied from real life. My bridle, as is other bridles in game like MD, are copied off of real life creations. So before anyone shouts or sends me a nasty IM/notecard about how my bridles design and features have things in common with other bridles I'm preemptively telling you to bugger off until you can come up with a bridle design that doesn't have ears and a mane and a bit gag that you can still call a bridle.
So anyway, lets get into what all my bridle can do (or in some cases is planed to do as it ain't finished yet).
Okay..
With my cuffs out and on the market I've turned my attention to my other project, one that I'll use a lot and really strikes closely within my interests seeing as it is geared for ponyplay.
So here I guess is where I officially announce the Anthemion Pony Bridle.
Now some may say, "But Lylani you thief you just copied someone elses design" (something I actually was accused of once in the past, and I'll repeat what I told them). Yes, I did copy someone elses design, but it wasn't yours or anyone elses in Second Life. What people seem to forget is that a lot of the fetish gear in game is copied from real life. My bridle, as is other bridles in game like MD, are copied off of real life creations. So before anyone shouts or sends me a nasty IM/notecard about how my bridles design and features have things in common with other bridles I'm preemptively telling you to bugger off until you can come up with a bridle design that doesn't have ears and a mane and a bit gag that you can still call a bridle.
So anyway, lets get into what all my bridle can do (or in some cases is planed to do as it ain't finished yet).
- Four gag types - Bitgag, Bitgag w/ Ball, Ballgag and Ringgag
- Gag V 1.1 - The gag now has the option to block IM and Emote instead of forcing it
- Earmuffs V1.1 - Those that know my earmuffs may be please to hear that they now have the option of what they block including Local, IM and Emote (new to RLV 1.19) and the user can set up any combination of the three to block.
- Blindfold V1.1 - Black screen no fun? Well now the blindfold recolours and has five levels of opacity with the HUD and blindfold (on your face) changing to match. So others can see if you have a really thin blindfold on.
- Multiple visual aspects including Pony Ears, Mane, Blinders (that use the blindfold HUD for visible blinders), nosehooks (ouch, but they seem to be a growing interest so there they are) and Pony Muzzle.
- Hybrid Access - Same as found in my Simplicity Cuffs
- Feedback Notecard - Every feedback message (messages that are spoken upon an action, like locking or applying the gag etc) is customizable via the owner through a notecard. Even the garble message is. The "Lylani mumbles:" that precedes chat while gagged can be set here too.
- Timers - standard stuff
- Reins - I call them that, even though it's a leash, just because :p
- Various plugins I haven't decided on yet
Monday, June 29, 2009
Take One Down...
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm, well, hyperactive. This not to say that I'm jumping off the walls or gnawing through my leash but that my mind never sleeps (it causes insomnia which is why I'm writing this at 5:45 AM).
With the Earmuffs out of the way my project list has dropped down to:
Simplicity Cuffs (late beta, still struggling with the AU-HUD that would complete them though I may just release them without it and update later)
Muzzle Gag (some tedious repetitive stuff to be done here, the main thing that was holding it up was Recolour V3.00 which I finished in the cuffs)
Chastity Belt (thanks to LL corrupting my main version I've resorted to one of the many backups I kept, this has delayed me.. and right when I started taking interest in working on it again. Figures)
So anyway, with my list down to 3 my mind decided "Hey that's not enough work lets conceptualize something more" and so it went to work while I sat and did things you don't need details on and lo and behold it came up with something I've been wanting to do for a while.
People who know me will also know that I am a part time ponygirl, hence the tail built into my cb, and while I find bridals out there with this feature I like or this feature none of them seem to have both.
Of the best (I've seen) out there it's a toss between MD and MP, both have great function and features. But both also have large downfalls.
MP - Their great features are lost because they took after Amethyst and made it so that the wearer couldn't lock or control things. Now I know it's always more fun to be locked by someone else (in my case my Master) but sometimes self bondage on a timer is nice too... which brings us to..
MD - Self bondage friendly you can use all the options here however they decided on an odd route for their HUD (used with Blinders, Blindfold or enforced Mouselook) and decided to make it cover your whole screen and then use textures with transparance. So, being a pony, with my blinders on I can see the screen but I can't touch it cause there's technically a prim there with an invisible texture. Aggrevating to say the least.
So, the concept has arisen once more and I figure once I've gotten one or two more things marked off my list I'll lay down some prims for a new fangled bridal.
Of course I also had an epiphiny and also devised a way to generate a HUD in a more user friendly manner (really good if my AU-HUD fails in the end; this data storage issue is a crippler, but it will only make it better if the AU does work).
With the Earmuffs out of the way my project list has dropped down to:
Simplicity Cuffs (late beta, still struggling with the AU-HUD that would complete them though I may just release them without it and update later)
Muzzle Gag (some tedious repetitive stuff to be done here, the main thing that was holding it up was Recolour V3.00 which I finished in the cuffs)
Chastity Belt (thanks to LL corrupting my main version I've resorted to one of the many backups I kept, this has delayed me.. and right when I started taking interest in working on it again. Figures)
So anyway, with my list down to 3 my mind decided "Hey that's not enough work lets conceptualize something more" and so it went to work while I sat and did things you don't need details on and lo and behold it came up with something I've been wanting to do for a while.
People who know me will also know that I am a part time ponygirl, hence the tail built into my cb, and while I find bridals out there with this feature I like or this feature none of them seem to have both.
Of the best (I've seen) out there it's a toss between MD and MP, both have great function and features. But both also have large downfalls.
MP - Their great features are lost because they took after Amethyst and made it so that the wearer couldn't lock or control things. Now I know it's always more fun to be locked by someone else (in my case my Master) but sometimes self bondage on a timer is nice too... which brings us to..
MD - Self bondage friendly you can use all the options here however they decided on an odd route for their HUD (used with Blinders, Blindfold or enforced Mouselook) and decided to make it cover your whole screen and then use textures with transparance. So, being a pony, with my blinders on I can see the screen but I can't touch it cause there's technically a prim there with an invisible texture. Aggrevating to say the least.
So, the concept has arisen once more and I figure once I've gotten one or two more things marked off my list I'll lay down some prims for a new fangled bridal.
Of course I also had an epiphiny and also devised a way to generate a HUD in a more user friendly manner (really good if my AU-HUD fails in the end; this data storage issue is a crippler, but it will only make it better if the AU does work).
Sunday, June 21, 2009
My Apologies
With this new adult segregation crap going on it's become hard to get my alt (no PIOF, it's an alt..) to places to test my stuff and I haven't had much luck with 3rd party testers.
This means things like my Simplicity Cuffs and Earmuffs (small project that basically extracts the earmuff function from my Slave Harness as a separate product) haven't gone through enough testing yet for me to feel they are ready for release. I know I've talked with a few in game about how soon they'll be out but we'll have to see now, I wasn't expecting to have to be unlocked from everything and run to a mature sim that hasn't fallen to the adult "sweep under the rug" campaign yet just to test a few lines of code.
If I really wanted to I could pay the 25 $USD (equal to about 28$ CND for me) to get PIOF on my alt but I don't really want to.
This means things like my Simplicity Cuffs and Earmuffs (small project that basically extracts the earmuff function from my Slave Harness as a separate product) haven't gone through enough testing yet for me to feel they are ready for release. I know I've talked with a few in game about how soon they'll be out but we'll have to see now, I wasn't expecting to have to be unlocked from everything and run to a mature sim that hasn't fallen to the adult "sweep under the rug" campaign yet just to test a few lines of code.
If I really wanted to I could pay the 25 $USD (equal to about 28$ CND for me) to get PIOF on my alt but I don't really want to.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
I'm alive
Really I am. See *pinch* awake and alive :)
Work is, well work. I've discovered the secret to beating those evil Priority 4 AOs that some retard band produces in secrecy (as they should, I'd give those buggers a good slap if I found em)
Pet peeve of mine really. People, if you're making an AO that isn't something like a corset (KaS) or cuffs (RR, Marine Kelley) please use Priority 3 at most. I know you think you're all so special and your precious AO has to be seen over everything else so you want P4, please don't. It fucks with all of us who make things like cuffs or corsets who's very concept requires that they pose over top and despite other poses. Your AO will still look good as P3, and it won't make me lose my hair while I have to overly complicate my code just to make my P4 cuff poses win out over yours.
Now then, as you may have guessed: I'm making cuffs.
There current name at the moment is Simplicity named such because they are simple to use. Now, do not mistake simple for cheap or innefective. Simple just means that they aren't loaded with all those features you may see in other cuffs. Features that frankly are not part of what makes cuffs cuffs.
Cuffs are simple, they lock; many times in multiple positions. Mine do that.
A quick feature list run down I guess may be in order:
Modular Design - You won't have to buy all the cuffs as one set (wrists, elbows and belt; at this time I have no leg cuffs though they are planned the act of making poses for them is a bit more challenging then for arms), you can buy which cuffs you want although the wrist cuffs are kinda mandatory :p
Custom Pose - In two senses of the word, not only do you get to pick and choose which poses the cuffs can do but I'm working on a plugin that will allow you to make and add your own poses. Without the plugin only poses made by me will work in the cuffs.
Hybrid Key/Owner System - Mostly it's the key system but it acts like a hybrid because the keys do not auto-return when you unlock the cuffs, nor are they automatically taken when you lock. Taking and leaving the keys is an independent act of "ownership".
Top Six - Inspired of course by Marine Kelley the main menu displays (up to) 6 poses (the rest are found in the Poses menu, as these cuffs can hold more then just 6; they hold as many as you put in). The difference is that this menu is fluid, the six poses that you see are not all that you have, they are a list of the most used (thus, logically, the most liked) poses. The menu will rearrange its contents when one pose is used more then the others.
Timer/Autolock - A concept we're all familiar with.
Plugins - A concept I've always liked the plugins will include leash, keylock and possible OnDuty.
Other Notes -
/end post longer then expected
Work is, well work. I've discovered the secret to beating those evil Priority 4 AOs that some retard band produces in secrecy (as they should, I'd give those buggers a good slap if I found em)
Pet peeve of mine really. People, if you're making an AO that isn't something like a corset (KaS) or cuffs (RR, Marine Kelley) please use Priority 3 at most. I know you think you're all so special and your precious AO has to be seen over everything else so you want P4, please don't. It fucks with all of us who make things like cuffs or corsets who's very concept requires that they pose over top and despite other poses. Your AO will still look good as P3, and it won't make me lose my hair while I have to overly complicate my code just to make my P4 cuff poses win out over yours.
Now then, as you may have guessed: I'm making cuffs.
There current name at the moment is Simplicity named such because they are simple to use. Now, do not mistake simple for cheap or innefective. Simple just means that they aren't loaded with all those features you may see in other cuffs. Features that frankly are not part of what makes cuffs cuffs.
Cuffs are simple, they lock; many times in multiple positions. Mine do that.
A quick feature list run down I guess may be in order:
Modular Design - You won't have to buy all the cuffs as one set (wrists, elbows and belt; at this time I have no leg cuffs though they are planned the act of making poses for them is a bit more challenging then for arms), you can buy which cuffs you want although the wrist cuffs are kinda mandatory :p
Custom Pose - In two senses of the word, not only do you get to pick and choose which poses the cuffs can do but I'm working on a plugin that will allow you to make and add your own poses. Without the plugin only poses made by me will work in the cuffs.
Hybrid Key/Owner System - Mostly it's the key system but it acts like a hybrid because the keys do not auto-return when you unlock the cuffs, nor are they automatically taken when you lock. Taking and leaving the keys is an independent act of "ownership".
Top Six - Inspired of course by Marine Kelley the main menu displays (up to) 6 poses (the rest are found in the Poses menu, as these cuffs can hold more then just 6; they hold as many as you put in). The difference is that this menu is fluid, the six poses that you see are not all that you have, they are a list of the most used (thus, logically, the most liked) poses. The menu will rearrange its contents when one pose is used more then the others.
Timer/Autolock - A concept we're all familiar with.
Plugins - A concept I've always liked the plugins will include leash, keylock and possible OnDuty.
Other Notes -
- Certain poses will require certain cuffs, some need the elbows etc to work, the cuffs are designed to not allow them to work without. The cuffs also wont work if you are only wearing one wrist cuff.
- Left hand wins. Being a lefty myself it's my nature to make the left wrist cuff the dominant side; it is where you'll find the anims and scripts.
- NoMod anims. I have to keep it that way for a reason, due to the dynamic nature of the cuffs I don't know who, how many, when (etc) the poses will come around and I needed a way for the cuffs to know which cuffs are needed (just wrists, elbows, belt..) and for them to know where to attach particle chains to and from. So the names of the anims look a bit weird, they have their name and then the codes needed for the cuffs. They're no mod so that people cant rename them and trick the cuffs into thinking this elbow pose only needs wrists etc.
- Inexpensive. Because of how the cuffs will be sold; each pair by themselves and devoid of poses, they will be fairly cheap. Poses are bought separately. This allows for you to buy as many or as a few poses as you want or can afford as well as choose what style of poses you want.
/end post longer then expected
Friday, May 15, 2009
An Open Letter to Linden Labs [penned by Kira Welty]
A few years ago an idea and a dream of a virtual world where every adult could be free to be who they want and to create what they want was made: Your World, Your Imagination
Not everything was perfect, or stable, but it was Our World, Our Imagination apart from the childish games and epeen of other virtual worlds. It was a place where adults got to play dress up, RP and socialize with others of like minded interests. Somewhere we could try to be the next Calvin Klein, Sony, Mercedes, or any countless other famous or infamous business leaders, companies or artists. It was a virtual world where the adults of the world can dream and play free from the grind and daily hassles of everyday life.
Somewhere along the way Linden Lab, You Forgot This.
You forgot that your customers here on the main grid are Adults.
You seem to have forgotten that almost all of everything here was made by your customers.
You gave us a blank canvas, some paints and a few brushes...all of us together painted the world of Second Life.
Read in full, and sign your name here: http://www.slapt.me/wiki/index.php/An_Open_Letter_to_Linden_Lab
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Nosy Buggers to the Last
Congress [possibly] steps into action against Linden Labs and SecondLife, fulfilling the job of a child parent (you know that task that all parents should do, called watching over and taking care of their children) and taking actions against [to destroy?] "adult" content within the world.
Now I don't know about you people, but if I had kids I'd follow the example a friend of mine set. I introduced him and his son to SecondLife and while doing so I made sure they both understood the nature of the content that is available. Because of this he (the father) was the only one who knew the password to the account and his son could only play when supervised.
The instant something went wrong that was it, no more SL for his kid; not till he's 18 (legal age in Manitoba). What went wrong? His son got banned from a sandbox for being curious and walking through peoples builds.
The point is people, that father took responsibility as a parent and made sure that his son was not exposed. He didn't need Linden Labs or the Government to get involved and control his kids for him. As a good parent should be.
If your son or daughter is underage and playing with adult content in SecondLife or any other medium it is not the company or governments job or fault: it's yours. Buck up, act like a parent, take responsibility and then help combat something that is nothing less then opression!
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/05/11/congress-awaits-ftc-report-explicit-content-virtual-worlds
Now I don't know about you people, but if I had kids I'd follow the example a friend of mine set. I introduced him and his son to SecondLife and while doing so I made sure they both understood the nature of the content that is available. Because of this he (the father) was the only one who knew the password to the account and his son could only play when supervised.
The instant something went wrong that was it, no more SL for his kid; not till he's 18 (legal age in Manitoba). What went wrong? His son got banned from a sandbox for being curious and walking through peoples builds.
The point is people, that father took responsibility as a parent and made sure that his son was not exposed. He didn't need Linden Labs or the Government to get involved and control his kids for him. As a good parent should be.
If your son or daughter is underage and playing with adult content in SecondLife or any other medium it is not the company or governments job or fault: it's yours. Buck up, act like a parent, take responsibility and then help combat something that is nothing less then opression!
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/05/11/congress-awaits-ftc-report-explicit-content-virtual-worlds
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