Bannings and Lindens and Storefronts, Oh My!

*Shifty eyes* I know someone is reading this, because this blog was quoted at the Milk ‘N’ Kookies exhibit at SL6B. (I’d provide a SLurl, but I’m not in-world right now.) Whee!

Quotes regarding the Milk 'N' Kookies show from its exhibit at SL6B

Quotes regarding the Milk 'N' Kookies show from its exhibit at SL6B


Anyway, on to my point.

As I presume is wide public knowledge by now, (for starters, it was talked about on The Milk ‘N’ Kookies Show,) Plinker Blinker {sp?} was permabaned from SL. I knew yesterday that her stores in Undercity had been banlined, but since they’d been just that, I thought it’d all work out. I didn’t realize at that point that she’d been banned for good. Rai, the Underground (aka Undercity,) sim’s owner and bill-payer, was naturally not thrilled that Linden Labs just put up ban lines and didn’t even tell him. Plinker’s now on K-Grid and supposedly is planning on moving her operations over there.

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What a week, and some random thoughts and a question

In the space of one week, I’ve gone from being pretty much universally ignored in Undercity to my character being hazed into rAg. (The av’s 12, before anyone gets any twisty ideas. Freaks. =-p )
One character I’ve met this week I’ve also talked to some in IM, OOC, and he seems pretty cool. Yay making friends!

I’ve learned I should never, EVER, listen to The Milk ‘N’ Kookies Show when everyone else in this house is asleep. I always wind up laughing too hard! XD (In case I’ve not mentioned it before, due to this lovely economy IRL and my subsequent unemployment (Job fair coming up, targeted towards the specific industry I’m looking for work in! Prayers appreciated for those so inclined!) I still live with my parents. All SL activities, especially those as Janet, have to be “under the hood” to my parents. That’s why very few have ever heard me speak on voice. (Sok, Wlfric, and whoever else we were playing SL-Monopoly one day have, but I had a cold, so I probably sounded like a dude,) and why I’m on at odd hours. Total side note, I’d thought about asking them if I could introduce my youngest sister, 16, to Teen SL, but now that there’s rumors of the teen and adult grids being combined, there ain’t no way in Hades I’m doing that. Note that, Lindens. If there’s a chance in Hades of my sister being exposed to a Gorean, it ain’t worth it. (Yeah, she can’t get onto the adult continent, but there ain’t a single Linden rule saying that those folks have to stay on that continent.)) OK, breaking out of the parenthetical comment before I drive myself crazy, but staying on that thought, part of me hopes that, since the adult continent will require age verification, (see this post on the Linden blog for details,) maybe that’ll be enough to keep some folks off of that continent. It’s easier to, ahem, indulge (I prefer the word “sin,” but…oh screw it, if I’m going to get flamed, I’ll get flamed either way,) in those sorts of things when you feel it’s 100% anonymous—after all, you even created a “secret” G-mail address just for this, right? (Insert comments about secrets and Google here.) However, since requiring age verification will require some real life personally identifying information, the person just might think the better of it. Well, that’s my hope, anyway. In a perfect world, no one would be twisted enough to create that content to begin with. (And dude, you can’t call it censorship of thought when I’m talking about the thought never existing to begin with. That’s like murdering someone who’s never been conceived.)

Sometimes I wonder if I’m too “conservative” to make it in most of the “kids community”…(Politics, for what it’s worth, are (in the USA) either the Republican party or the Constitution party, whichever candidate I like better of the two. I’ve also done write-ins, not of the Micky-Mouse variety.)

Controversial material to follow:
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