Happy New Ears!!

Caught THIS ARTICLE about A Tale In The Desert

Those of you who still dunno, aught to go chekkit out!

I can't remember if I ever even finished up Tale 3. Dang that Telling did drag on FOREVER - but tremendous fun was had nonetheless.

Cliquez on da ATITD tag to see all the madnezz

Tale 6 kickted in at the beginning of December: Grats Teppy for keepin on keepin on!

Be good to each other
-BC

Bahahahahaha!!

IMVU now puts a 14 day HOLD (called a "pend") on the credits (thats IMVU moneh) their developers (thats content creators) earn. 

Every sale.

You gotta wait half a month before you see your profits. 

This comes from a company that already:

Gives consumers play credits to buy stuff with. These credits don't show up as sales for the content creator, yet the consumer gets the item they bought using those type of credits. Basically giving them the power to pick and choose amongst hard-worked-on stuff from creators and turn em into freebies. Anytime. Any Item.

Treats its developers like crap and has already issued more "price control" giving them less per item after IMVU takes their cut(s).

BAHAHAHA!!

Why am I laughing? Don't I feel for the poor content creators over at IMFU?

I do. I really do. (but they should have gotten out of there YEARS ago. the writing on the wall was VERY CLEAR)

I'm laughing because I can just see LL trying something like this in Esselle ROFL can you imagine??

The reason IMVU gives for this latest move: "For the protection of its Developers".

0_0

I guess there have been a lot of thievery and stealing and whatsnot lately over there. Instead of tightening up security on their (back) end, they instead put it all on the developers. (Whom they have been using from the getgo as a means to have excellent content for its users at little to no cost or effort from themselves).

And by thievery I don't mean the company sanctioned thievery of tossing those play credits and new and current users like candy. Here! Use THIS play moneh to buy stuff! Don't worry about the Developer who won't see a penny - but you get their stuff anyway!

I must give props tho. To whoever came up with that scheme. No, lets not just give people free regular money to go spend, lets give them FAKE PLAY MONEY!! Evil Genius.

OK no, see. THAT would have been my first and only signpost I needed to ditch the hell outta Dodge.

Oh Well. You can lead a horse to poisoned water, but you can't stop it from drinking it. Or whatever.

Big Ups to my lil Info Birdies who send me this stuff - WAIT! - THIS JUST IN!

Turns out IMFU recently started a campaign to get users to buy credits from THEM instead of certain user (groups? sites? coalitions? I dunno) That have been around for years. Now when you have no moneh to pay the fees you have to in order to even GET  your content put out for sale - cuz you sittin around waitin for 14 day hold (on each and every sale) - you just might turn to their direction to buy credits.

Me, I barely passed econ 101, but I know deal breaker when I see it. Maybe finally the remaining Developers over at IMVU will see it too.

HEY YOU IMFU DEVELOPERS!! Come on over to Esselle! Its no picnic but at least YOU choose what freebies you want to offer and you WILL get paid: The second the sale is made - not two weeks later.

 I go to sleep for ANOTHER damn year and just LOOK at the mess yalls got yalls self into THIS time!

LL is tooting its own horn for providing  - lemme see how they put it - "awesome new avatars" in they default avatar offerings available via your inventory Library.

If you can remember that far back you might or might not know that I've been a huge fan of providing/creating starter or default avatars for both new and older avies - heck anyone who wants em. Far as I know they still avail over at the NCI - dunno mebbe someone kin check on dat yo?

Anyhoo

I had already had half a mind (don't say it!) to blog about the lack of ETHNIC AVATARS available in the revamped default avatars provided from LL. I think in the revamp before that one, there actually WERE Black avatars. Now the closest thing I see is some slightly tan-ish chica that MIGHT be a Halle Berry or a Salma Hayek - very hard to tell. Not a black dude in sight tho at ALL.  Oops oh well.

But HEY!!

Not to worry!! LL has ROBOTS and FURRIES and CARS and PLANES and whatsnot: just a PLETHORA of avatar diversity to get your Esselle started out just right!!

(And don't all yalls furries get ya pannies in a bunch - thin skinned lot you are for net residents - I'm not saying anythings WRONG wit throwin down wit da furrehs. And if you KNOW me, you know that already anyway)

Its just I would have liked LL to bust out with some HUMAN diversity before/along with the robots and stuff. 

Just SAYING.

Who da new CEO now? Well send him this post link for me will ya BBRCs - if there's any of yall left that is.

Come ON Linden Lab - stop dissing a very HUGE and growing population of ppl. I see this all over the place in gaming communities, online worlds etc. Its been going on for a very very very very very long time and its a dang SHAME to see LL falling for the misconception that Black Folk ain't on the web. (or at least not in any significant numbers to warrant an avatar choice)

We have a BLACK PRESIDENT for gooness sakes and he won in very good part with support from using the internet and other web technologies - and you can bet my sweet chocolate buns a HUGE part of that came from the Black community.

LL: Don't fall behind the times. Don't let yourself look like Active Worlds in the 90's. I had it out with them over their gawed awful stereotyping and lack of similar quality when it came to offering ethnic avatars.

But hey at least they TRIED.

buhbye Babbage et al....

sheesh!!!

Almost makes me wanna go back to sleepz agin

REED EET AND WEEP

There is NEVER a good time to get laid off, but this has got to be total suckage timing.

To Teh Tossed Out lindies:
Blessings of WUB from me and Best of Luck and Courage in getting another gig.
I caint even hate on the ones on The List that are getting the boot

Caint comment on the web-thingy neever cuz I been away so dang long dunno WTF anyhoo

*yawns... stretches*

WTF!

Go to sleep for a WHOLE YEAR (or so) and Esselle goes to hell inna handbasket!

Well

yalls made yalls bed so lie in it

Meantime since I'm AWAKE now

I'll find something to blog about soon.
And anyone have a pic hosting site that isn't as smacktardian as fotofucket has become?

Looks like I'll be ditching those muchachos soon too.

umph umph umph

(And NO don't look for me to log into Esselle anytime soon. I get enough info from my lil birdies to do JUST FINE Without having to go thru THAT drahma. I might have a HEART ATTACK or summat find out my SIMONE FOLDERS or SYLFIE SHOE COLLECTION done been disappeared. Ya dig?)

And for you curiousios: I woke up cuz I read that NWN turned 7 years old :D *beams at and SLURPS Hams* Good excuse as any to crank up Ye Olde POV on Teh Grid.

This is whahappen:

Dear LiveJournal user brace_coral,

Thank you for your inquiry, and I'm sorry for the long delay in our response to you. It appears that your account was mistakenly suspended as a bot. As we have determined that your account is indeed legitimate, we have unsuspended it at this time. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Regards,
Zoe
LiveJournal Abuse Prevention Team

Lawd.

And the LJ Abuse Prevention Team gets a big Fwownie Face for taking over TWO WEEKS to sort this out and for shutting me down in the first dang place:

I know my point of view won't be popular. I know the Truth hurts. But Really, think about it for a couple two three days and you'll know.

While I might be "on vacation" or "put on ice" or "where the HECK is BC" I ain't dead (yet!) and I keep my ear to the ground. Not to mention I have lil birdies all over the grid that keep me informed in case I miss somethin.

If by any chance you've been under a ROCK Get caught up:

HERE

Then

HERE

And Then Finally

HERE

And if yer miffed at M lindie's response here's a delicious bit of irony LOL He wrote that himself about two years ago LOL WTF happened between then and now???


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Now back to the lecture at hand.

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Well

America FINALLY grew up

Thank you all who voted regardless of party - THAT is always the most important thing.

We got out to the voting booths in record numbers all across the nation

We finally woke up.
We finally grew up.



Maybe in 2009 I'll be able to celebrate the 4th of July

Lets get to work.

Or....

NOT



M lindie our new learless feeder posted us a lil somethin somethin on the lindie blob. Now as yall know, I like to keep you up on all the latest crap. Sometimes I'm timely widdit, sometimes I'm not. But I always give myself a "A" for effort ;)~~~

Now lets Break It Down shall we? Here's some points taken from da post:

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