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01/31/2006

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Squeedoo Shirakawa

And as I sit here, stroking my cat like a tired Dr. Evil, I read this stuff.

That is the strangest transcript I've ever read. So, they were trying to get you censor yourself, eh? That's a shame.
It is our right to tell the Lindens when they're doing wrong. Same way we write to other companies when we have a complaint about their products or services.

Maybe I'm just tired.

Prokofy Neva

It was more complicated than that, and it's why ultimately why I felt it should be published. First, LL claims they aren't going to censor the TV. They let Fox TV at it. Then they have SLTV filming Fox TV on Fox TV's set. There's something wierd about THAT of course to begin with...what, they were um "challenged" in coming up with their OWN programming? They could have their OWN set and guests, without stuff like the "Hand of Satan" and people taking out their Play Sexy's etc (that wasn't MY idea!) They could be "framing" the news/views as they see fit. Instead, like lazy journalists the world over, trying to fill in copy and air time, they kibbutz on somebody else's show.

THEN, after doing that, mindful that the Lindens have given us this "enabling permission to be free blah blah" they then get into the "more correct than thou" mode and whip me for "hurting us all" and "banging on the Lindens" instead of praising them for letting us be free. That is, I was supposed to understand the following: the Lindens are letting us be free, therefore I need to shut up and make sure that I don't bash the Lindens.

Well, first of all, as Lindens themselves will tell you, they don't mind if you bash LL or Lindens or their policies. They actually seem to have more tolerance for that on the forums than their own fanboyz, and they have more tolerance for your critiquing this or that policy of theirs (except for contesting banning itself) than they have for you criticizing their best fanboyz and mascots and stuff.

But what this woman from SLTV expected me to do "for all of us, for the community" was to STFU and be *sure* if I'm given freedom, not to "abuse" it and bash Lindens.

Well, first of all, I don't believe that when people confer freedom on you, or give it as a gift they control, it's really freedom -- you're just beholden to them.

Second, I don't believe I bashed them. Where's the bashing of the Lindens? Referring to that hilarious and wildly significant moment when the girl landed on Philip's head with the "Play Sexy" thing going full blast and he said "watch it with that thing". That was one of those SL moments that we shall always cherish ROFL.

Talking about my banning and saying it's unjust? Well, so? That's not "bashing the Lindens" really, it's just expressing my opinion that the handling of my case was unjust.

The idea that an estate in society, a class, will set itself up to control expression in their peers, to "make it possible for all of us to keep our freedom" is absolutely repugnant and none of us should ever be taking part in such a charade.

Kyrah Abattoir

why did you got banned PN?

Lucca Kitty

Many points to make here. Too many to actually enumerate. Obviously most of the people commenting here have as poor reading comprehension, or as high a state of paranoia as Prokofy does.

I never agreed to have this chat log posted. I am not a Linden and never was. SLTV was not Linden run. We had one linden in the entire SLTV group and only because he was the mouthpiece. The fact is that we mostly just bitched at Jesse Linden for being an incompetant idiot and a liar.

We were not supposed to come up with our own programming. We were supposed to exposition what everyone else came up with.

We were a bunch of residents who got hand picked by the lindens due to our various talents. They promised us so much money to compensate us for the waste of time that SLTV was. They never paid us. More specifically, they never paid me because I was the only one doing anything tangible for SLTV. I was skipping meals and spending $1800 a month for those assholes just so they could have some free advertising and renig on their promises.

Lastly, I would like to point out that Profoky is one of the Something Awful goons. And infact, I've seen Profoky actually claim that you can't judge him/her/it/whatever because they're from Something Awful, the philosophy seems to be "Don't judge an individual based on their associations." And here we have a clear cut example of just such an occurance, coming from the other direction.

And before anyone says anything about me being a furry, I am not a furry, at least not anymore. I got so sick of all the bullshit and drama coming from the furry community after being in it for over 10 years that I now have no desire to be a part of it.

Last thing: Don't bother repsonding to my post, I'm not going to be checking up again. This entire page, as far as I'm concerned, is too corrupt to pay attention to. Posting private chat logs... tsk tsk, I could press legal charges. Not going to because it's not worth it, but the thought is there.

Prokofy Neva

>I never agreed to have this chat log posted.

No, and I don't care, frankly. I feel that when there are certain matters of national importance -- matters in the public interest, that are affecting all our lives, not personal disputes, or private matters, that journalists and chroniclers of Second Life can and must publish chat logs. This chat took place as the result of a public event which was: YOU deciding to film ME without my consent (LOL!) -- something that didn't bother me, but was some wacky idea that you cooked up with that fake fox, who was just TrannyPet Barmy's alt. That happened because you didn't have the erm...capacity...to make your own show or interview me on your own, for whatever wierd reason.

YOU attacked me for somehow "jeopardizing" some "limited" or "managed" freedoms that you thought the Lindens were magnanimously bestowing upon us, and that I should have been more grateful for.

Hell, no!

And I sure as HELL publish, criticize, and protest when somebody gets up to shit like that. Hell, yeah.

>I am not a Linden and never was.
Nobody says you were?

>SLTV was not Linden run.
Nobody said you were, but the contract to run SLTV was advertised by LL.

>We had one linden in the entire SLTV group and only because he was the mouthpiece. The fact is that we mostly just bitched at Jesse Linden for being an incompetant idiot and a liar.

Yep, I realize that. He didn't really have any business being in an independent TV group. But I've never found him to be an incompetent idiot or a liar. He always seemed fairly smart, thoughtful, and reasonable to me. That is, he's a fairly young guy who is probably in his first or second big job in life and trying to keep it. He doesn't seem to me to be like a guy who will depart from the company line. So he may have been wedged between the company's whims and whatever previous promise they laid out -- I don't know the details. Jesse is immaterial to this story, really, and your sucking up to your imagination of what you think LL wanted is worse than trying to pin the role of censor on him LOL.

>We were not supposed to come up with our own programming. We were supposed to exposition what everyone else came up with.

Now THAT is lame!

>We were a bunch of residents who got hand picked by the lindens due to our various talents.

Yeah, that's how they do stuff, it's stupid, and...they get what they get *cough*.

>They promised us so much money to compensate us for the waste of time that SLTV was. They never paid us. More specifically, they never paid me because I was the only one doing anything tangible for SLTV. I was skipping meals and spending $1800 a month for those assholes just so they could have some free advertising and renig on their promises.

Hmm. Well, this is quite the story! quite the revelation! What on earth in SL could cost $1800 a month tho? I mean, besides like 12 sims worth of tier lol. ? Does making machinima stuff really cost that much? I'm not following this. But...I wasn't there, don't know their deal, and can only say: this is stupid. They should have had a genuine bid out to do TV. They shouldn't have let assholes in the peanut gallery who think they are big deals in RL with knowledge of TV like Siggy Romulus scarify them in the forums with pessimism.

Even state TV, even somewhat lame and dull and politically correct tv, would be a great civilizing and communicating force in SL, they need it, given the wildness and the badlands. Even four hours a day of bland but useful spot news, weather on the ones, Oprah talk show stuff, and maybe comedy and some old World War II movies and somebody lip syncing badly in a disco, like Russian TV, would be great.

>Lastly, I would like to point out that Profoky is one of the Something Awful goons. And infact, I've seen Profoky actually claim that you can't judge him/her/it/whatever because they're from Something Awful, the philosophy seems to be "Don't judge an individual based on their associations."

This part I don't get. I have nothing to do with Something Awful. I've never even been on their forums. You're mixing me up with someone else.

>And here we have a clear cut example of just such an occurance, coming from the other direction.

?

>And before anyone says anything about me being a furry, I am not a furry, at least not anymore. I got so sick of all the bullshit and drama coming from the furry community after being in it for over 10 years that I now have no desire to be a part of it.

Wow. Just...wow! I mean...wow! I have no comment.

>Last thing: Don't bother repsonding to my post, I'm not going to be checking up again. This entire page, as far as I'm concerned, is too corrupt to pay attention to. Posting private chat logs... tsk tsk, I could press legal charges. Not going to because it's not worth it, but the thought is there.

Go ahead and press legal charges, it will be rather hard to make something like that stick, out of a game, involving anonymous avatars. In any event, I stand by my decision to post what I felt was a vital matter in the public interest.

Prokofy Neva

>They promised us so much money to compensate us for the waste of time that SLTV was. They never paid us.

You know, as I think about this, it occurred to me that maybe there's all kinds of other stuff just like this that the Lindens have done. That they might have a dozen things like this, all of them paid, or promised to be paid, and signing NDAs.

Cocoanut

Old thread. But anyway . . .

The group I was in (when we were putting in for the bid to do this) came up with programming.

The guy running it (his name escapes me now - Whitmore or something) had one of those boards with the time slots up.

I came up (totally on the spur of the moment, when asked to) with a show of my own I was looking forward SO much to doing.

I wrote it up and did a logo for it and everything, all in about 15 minutes (I was pressed for time at the time).

It was to be called "Welcome Home!" In it, I would go to various people's houses, one per show, and they would show me around their houses. We'd chat, talk about where they got their things, a bit about themselves, they'd give their building and decorating tips, and so forth.

This would have been terrific, because (a) I'm a terrific interviewer and (b) just think of all the homes and people you could get to know this way!

God, it would have been good. Makes me sad now to think it never happened.

I do believe, though, that the Lindens weren't interested in the talent (a word for on-air people, such as interviewers, someone with an aerobics program, actors, etc.) or the content.

The things that came from them were mostly about the techology of it. They were looking for technology more than talent or content, I think. Though we were expected to come up with the programming, I don't think they really paid much attention to that, but paid more attention to who could talk the tech talk best.

I could not have done any of the techy stuff. But others in the group could, so I suppose our group just didn't impress as much with that. And I got the distinct impression that the talent and content were pretty much irrelevant to the Lindens. Anyway, the other group was chosen, then the whole thing just sort of petered out.

At the same time, yes, we were battling Siggy and others on the forums who kept insisting it couldn't be done. We were perfectly ready and capable and willing and ENTHUSIASTIC to do it.

But, I guess Siggy et. al were right; it couldn't be done. But not because it couldn't be done (and would have been great!), but because people thought it couldn't, and I guess the Lindens at last agreed.

Bummer.

I still wish I could do that show. I was going to have it at like 10 a.m. on certain mornings, and I would have enjoyed it SOOOOO much.

Dang, aren't the Lindens good at just throwing away talent and desire, right and left?

So they didn't get any TV; well, they didn't deserve it, I guess.

coco

Prokofy Neva

They were looking for technology more than talent or content, I think

Yeah, that about sums it up.

There is no technical reason on earth this couldn't be done.

They set too ambitious an agenda trying to slickly produce 4 hours of TV-like TV.

They should have made it more like raw feed reality TV even if they had to, or very short 30-second spots of PSA's, tips, short interviews, entertainment, etc.

It is very, very doable. Even typing/talking heads would be fine. People will watch it, at least for awhile.

I think it probably was a mismatch of expectations or something.

What needs to happen is for the people who have servers and are good at machinima to get a TV working on a third-party site, and then wrestle the Lindens to get more audience access, I guess, or even skip over the Lindens and just put a "cable TV in every home" by figuring out how to sell TVS with the URL in them so people can just get that URL pasted in their parcels. This is just waiting to be done. It really should be done. Hopefully, there will be people competing.

Cocoanut

Boy that would be cute, to have a Linden TV in every home!

I'd love to do my show on it.

coco

dofus kamas

done. It really should be done. Hopefully, there will be people competing.

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