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.)
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Dropping the fonts for IC/OOC posts…just presume OOC unless I say otherwise.
If this is not the appropriate place to ask these questions, I beg forgiveness of anyone I offend. I mean neither to pry into other’s lives, first or second, nor to go where I am not wanted. Doing so socially was a frequent error during my first life childhood.
After listening to the most recent posted episode of The Milk ‘N’ Kookies Show, (their first episode from the KIC,) with the parting interview from Arctic Noel…I am TOTALLY lost…
I got the first letter they read at the beginning of the month, figured, “OK, whatever,” and didn’t think much of it. Then in this most recent episode, they played Arctic reading a letter he wrote to a friend. (Not sure if it’s the same Paulo {sp?} who DJs at the Vortex or not, but that’s the only kid avatar by that name that I know of. If it is one and the same person, does anything that has recently transpired have to do with why I’ve seen so little of him at the Vortex as of late?) Arctic stated that if his first life parents heard the interview, they might not be happy with it, but I can’t fathom why. Arctic was generic enough I’d think his parents couldn’t object that much. Well, he was generic enough to leave me more baffled and confused than I was before the interview. What was Arctic looking for in Second Life, where does Paulo fit in, and…oi… Koffeekid said before running that interview that we’d understand afterwards why he chose not to edit it, but I don’t understand what the heck happened, though the only part I would have edited anyway was one particularly long stretch of silence.
Okay, do I have a few hunches? Yeah. Would I post them here? No; that would be rude. Do I feel comfortable just contacting Arctic on YIM and asking him myself? No; I’d never heard of the man until MnK read his departure letter, and I’ve never met him personally, despite the curiosity I now have. (I was tempted to combine this post with a post about me, socializing, friends in SL, and such, but I’ll make that a separate post.)
So…..yeah…I’m lost…and in some ways I felt that the other kid avs all got it…I hated feeling left out as a first life kid and I can’t say I’m much fonder of it as a first life adult or Second Life kid. =-\
If it would still be respectful towards Arctic (and Paulo and whoever else is involved) for someone to enlighten me, (or crud, better still, if Arctic himself somehow found this, though I doubt that,) but not respectful to just post it as a comment on a blog post, I set up an e-mail account for this avatar (keeps my e-mail organized,) at janet DOT rothmanay AT DON’T_EVEN_THINK_OF_SPAMMING_ME_YOU_WRETCHED_BOTS g m ail DOT c o m I think any real human being (or its avatar) can figure out how to translate that to a real address. ^_~
And yes, I did debate making this post, but I felt even more awkward and rude at the thought of messaging, in-game, someone like Koffekid who would know, but whom I barely know about it. =-\ Again, take all my apologies for any offense I cause and then double it.