I think it happened to everyone who has rented or bought a house or apartment in SL more than once. You're coming home from an extremely exhausting shopping trip (or whatever you do most of the time in SL), gleefully awaiting to unpack all your new, shiny shoes, clothes and ...uhhh.... cuffs, wanting nothing more than to hop onto the next posing stand to fit all these new prims to your AV. Yeah, yeah, I’m crazy, addicted and my overly inflated inventory is the cause of SLs huge database problems. Tell me something I don’t know! Anyway….. you come home and what do you see? Somebody completely unknown, some weird alien in crappy noob clothing is sitting on your couch, or clicking everywhere, hopping onto each and every poseball in your house. You look around, maybe you TPed to the wrong landmark, into a friend’s home or wherever, but nooo….. this weird alien is sitting right in your living room. Maybe you forgot to lock the door? Let’s have a quick check. Nope, of course not. The door is locked as always. And when you try to talk nicely to your intruder he/she/IT? just TPs out of the area, most likely to bug somebody else. And that’s unfortunately the best case scenario. A few weeks ago, I didn’t have my new castle in my 1640 prim parcel yet, and instead was the proud tenant of a smaller parcel for my castle and a nice apartment in a nifty tower. The apartment was actually only one room, but it came with 300 prims, exactly what I needed for my personal little dungeon with all these prim heavy toys and instruments of torture. I was with a friend of mine and had just finished giving her a good little spanking. In fact, I just released her from this very nice cross I bought a few days before, when suddenly this weirdo sat on my throne in the corner of the room. Can you believe that? MY throne. My THRONE!! I knew she couldn’t have entered through the door; it has an access list and is always locked. TPing wasn’t possible, because if you didn’t set your home to your apartment you could only TP to a central location at the base of the tower. You all know how she got into my apartment. By changing the angle of the camera and sitting on the next best poseball, which happend to be on my throne. Normally I can be quite bitchy if somebody sits on my throne, but you never know how these creepy intruders respond if you start screaming and ranting. So I asked quite nicely why she entered my apartment. I got no answer from her and instead she got up from my throne and tried the cross instead. You know, I was kind of tempted to get my whip out once again, but my hand was a bit tired at that moment, because the previous spanking was a long one and had tired me a bit. So I told her that it is not the best way to make friends in SL by intruding their privacy, bypassing locked doors and testing out the toys and furniture of the owner of the apartment. Don’t get me wrong now. I was really nice and talked to her in a friendly way, although I was a bit pissed that the session with my friend had been interrupted. And what did she answer me? She said: ”I’m not here to make friends, I’m just a bitch looking for fun.” Yeah, sure, unnecessary to say that she was a banned bitch a few seconds later, but can you believe that? And I’m not making that up! That has happened and with exactly these words. She was the very first person I banned from my property in SL. I always do bans now as last resort, but yuck, I didn’t want to be with her in a room any longer, she was obviously brain-injured and maybe her ignorance was infectious! Had to get rid of her, take a hot bath and get a vaccine against brain-cancer! Ok, ok, before the bath I had a long talk with my friend in my bed. That was one of my worst case scenarios I had to experience in SL. Uhh... just to make sure that everone gets that right, the part with the weirdo in my dungeon was the worst case scenario, not the part with me and my friend in bed, that was actually a best case scenario. :)
I’m used to newbies storming in and checking everything out. SL is new to them; they don’t know many people and want to look around. Ok, that’s no biggie. When I’ve got enough time I chat a bit with them, try to help them, answer their questions and all that stuff, I even give them a tour of my house and when they see the play room most of them flee in panic. :) Why don’t I erect ban lines around my house, let only people on my access list on my property, some of you may ask. Simple, I hate running around and banging every few seconds against an invisible wall with only a red warning lettering on it. Gives me a headache. I think these walls are really, really annoying and they wouldn’t be necessary if people would try to use common sense, act civilized and respect the privacy of other residents. I know, I know, that will never happen, but let a girl have her dreams and hopes.
But boys and girls out there, please use your brains from time to time. It shouldn’t be that hard to activate these poor little few cells you have in your head now and then. Yes, I'm talking about you weirdoes out there. Get a grip and start to respect other people’s privacy. For example, if you are in bed with your friend (assuming you weirdos have friends in SL), would you like having an audience around you, commenting every position you assume, analyzing every word you whisper in the ear of your love? Would you like it if they throw popcorn at you when it's not getting messy fast enough for them? Don't get me wrong, nothing against a bit of voyeurism, but I'm the one who decides when and where I want that. In real life you don’t break into other peoples homes every day, do you? I certainly hope not. Or soon you’ll have to abstain from SL for a long, long time, because I don’t think you get an internet connection in prison. If you don’t do it in RL, maybe you shouldn’t do it in SL. Think about it.
That was enough ranting for today. In fact, I'm a bit tired now from writing two ranting posts in only one day and I need my sleep. I wish you all much fun in SL. See you next week or whenever I have the time for another entry.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Dari's Haus is closing shop
Well...I still can't believe it. Yesterday Darien Caldwell, creator of SL's finest gags, armbinders and collars announced that she will close her shop soon. After more than one year of providing the community with her products and shortly after announcing that she'll take a break because she feels burned out and needs to refresh her batteries that came as a shock - not one of the good ones her collars emit when I'm being naughty again - but one of the really bad ones.
You may ask yourself why Dari, one of the very few extremely talented creators in SL decided to close her shop. It's quite simple. The answer is that Dari was forced to make that decision because there are just too many assholes in SL. Thanks a bunch, boys and girls, for forcing her to stop selling her products. Obviously there are certain people in SL who are either too stupid or too lazy to read notecards and start bothering, complaining and bitching to the creators of their products if something doesn’t work because of their own inability and/or stupidity. Seriously people, if you are so damned stupid that you can’t even understand these notecards you should consider leaving SL and going back to school and learn to read. The notes Dari provides with her products are among the best instruction manuals I’ve ever seen and that includes manuals for many RL-products.
And there’s Dari’s support group for her products, too. If you have a question there’s a really high possibility that it will be answered there. Of course, only if you ask a question and don’t just start bitching around there. The group is for asking questions and not for constant complaints and rants.
When I had questions with an update for one of my collars once (some probs with the AO) I sent Dari an IM and I must say that she was not only totally nice and helpful, she took much, much time to help me sort my problems. The support she gave me was among the best, promptest and most friendly I ever had in SL. There are not many creators who provide their customers with that much help and support.
To sum it up, if you have problems there are the notecards, her group and her kind self to help you out. What else do you need?
There simply is no need to bitch around. And I repeat, if you are too stupid and/or lazy to read IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT, not Daris. And even then I’m quite sure Dari would help you out if you’d just ask her nicely and don’t start threatening her with lawsuits or bitch around.
Daris products are among the best scripted and most sturdy I have. And my inventory is full of stuff. And even if there is something wrong with one of the products, think about all the time and work that went into scripting and building them. Products as complex as the collars with all their scripts, for example, can always have some minor bugs. Look at computer software. It’s totally normal to update new software more than once after release. And I know for a fact that Dari updates her products as soon as she’s found a bug and has it corrected. No biggie if you ask me. And, of course, there’s SL, too. How many products were broken because the Lindens have fucked something up with another SL-update?? You can’t blame Dari for the Lindens inability to provide us all with a stable and bug-free platform. How is she supposed to work and provide us with bug-free products when every few weeks there are new problems in SL? That’s not Daris problem. Bitching to her and threatening her won’t help you in the slightest.
GROW UP, GET MATURE or get another hobby!
But sadly all my ranting won’t help. Dari’s closing her shop and we will loose one the most talented creators for D/s equipment in SL. At least Dari will stay in SL and try to have actually some fun again. That’s why we’re all here. It’s a game and should be enjoyable and fun. For Dari it stopped being fun and I can understand why she closes her shop. It would be really sad, if we’d have forced her out of SL because some of us are stupid, self-centered assholes. I hope Dari will soon be able to have fun and enjoy her second life again. Even if we loose her as a creator, we will still have her as a valued member of SL’s D/s-community. I wish Dari all the very best in her future second life, may she enjoy it and get well again soon.
There are many good creators in SL, but there are only four I truly adore. Four people I know I can buy everything they create and I’m absolutely going to love it. These are Darien Caldwell, Marine Kelley, Ariel Erlanger and Julia Faulkland (Well...with Sable and her helmet there is hope for another shining star on SLs creative horizon). One of them is forced out of business now by the very people she did everything to have a better SL-experience by providing us with her superb products. I just hope some people grow up now and learn from their own mistakes, but somehow I doubt it.
Dari, I wish you all the best. May you soon be able to have fun here again and try to ignore all those ignorant assholes making your life so much harder.
Kathi
p.s. Inara Pey also wrote a nice article about this on her blog
/me stops ranting now and rushes back to SL to stock up on Dariens collar-scripts before they’re gone
You may ask yourself why Dari, one of the very few extremely talented creators in SL decided to close her shop. It's quite simple. The answer is that Dari was forced to make that decision because there are just too many assholes in SL. Thanks a bunch, boys and girls, for forcing her to stop selling her products. Obviously there are certain people in SL who are either too stupid or too lazy to read notecards and start bothering, complaining and bitching to the creators of their products if something doesn’t work because of their own inability and/or stupidity. Seriously people, if you are so damned stupid that you can’t even understand these notecards you should consider leaving SL and going back to school and learn to read. The notes Dari provides with her products are among the best instruction manuals I’ve ever seen and that includes manuals for many RL-products.
And there’s Dari’s support group for her products, too. If you have a question there’s a really high possibility that it will be answered there. Of course, only if you ask a question and don’t just start bitching around there. The group is for asking questions and not for constant complaints and rants.
When I had questions with an update for one of my collars once (some probs with the AO) I sent Dari an IM and I must say that she was not only totally nice and helpful, she took much, much time to help me sort my problems. The support she gave me was among the best, promptest and most friendly I ever had in SL. There are not many creators who provide their customers with that much help and support.
To sum it up, if you have problems there are the notecards, her group and her kind self to help you out. What else do you need?
There simply is no need to bitch around. And I repeat, if you are too stupid and/or lazy to read IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT, not Daris. And even then I’m quite sure Dari would help you out if you’d just ask her nicely and don’t start threatening her with lawsuits or bitch around.
Daris products are among the best scripted and most sturdy I have. And my inventory is full of stuff. And even if there is something wrong with one of the products, think about all the time and work that went into scripting and building them. Products as complex as the collars with all their scripts, for example, can always have some minor bugs. Look at computer software. It’s totally normal to update new software more than once after release. And I know for a fact that Dari updates her products as soon as she’s found a bug and has it corrected. No biggie if you ask me. And, of course, there’s SL, too. How many products were broken because the Lindens have fucked something up with another SL-update?? You can’t blame Dari for the Lindens inability to provide us all with a stable and bug-free platform. How is she supposed to work and provide us with bug-free products when every few weeks there are new problems in SL? That’s not Daris problem. Bitching to her and threatening her won’t help you in the slightest.
GROW UP, GET MATURE or get another hobby!
But sadly all my ranting won’t help. Dari’s closing her shop and we will loose one the most talented creators for D/s equipment in SL. At least Dari will stay in SL and try to have actually some fun again. That’s why we’re all here. It’s a game and should be enjoyable and fun. For Dari it stopped being fun and I can understand why she closes her shop. It would be really sad, if we’d have forced her out of SL because some of us are stupid, self-centered assholes. I hope Dari will soon be able to have fun and enjoy her second life again. Even if we loose her as a creator, we will still have her as a valued member of SL’s D/s-community. I wish Dari all the very best in her future second life, may she enjoy it and get well again soon.
There are many good creators in SL, but there are only four I truly adore. Four people I know I can buy everything they create and I’m absolutely going to love it. These are Darien Caldwell, Marine Kelley, Ariel Erlanger and Julia Faulkland (Well...with Sable and her helmet there is hope for another shining star on SLs creative horizon). One of them is forced out of business now by the very people she did everything to have a better SL-experience by providing us with her superb products. I just hope some people grow up now and learn from their own mistakes, but somehow I doubt it.
Dari, I wish you all the best. May you soon be able to have fun here again and try to ignore all those ignorant assholes making your life so much harder.
Kathi
p.s. Inara Pey also wrote a nice article about this on her blog
/me stops ranting now and rushes back to SL to stock up on Dariens collar-scripts before they’re gone
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Anna
Well, I know, I don't speak much about my SL-friends or family here on this blog, mostly because I think this is just too private to share. Well, I know it sounds totally stupid after writing so much about me, bisecting my feelings and talking about all the emotions and my turmoil during the Banishment, but sharing my friends and family with everybody feels just a bit wrong. It's no longer just about me, but how I feel to certain persons in SL.
But apart from my little sister Alizee there is just this one, special person for me who makes my life so great and wonderful and full of joy. I need to talk about her, because without her I am just no longer complete.
Her name is AnnaMarie, or just Anna. We've met only a few weeks ago. Two weeks before I started my Banishment. We've met at the Sub Conscious store where I just bought the Dental Gag to treat myself for being such a good girl. ;) And there was this cute girl kneeling at the feet of a Domme. She asked me about the gag and I just had to show her and the Mistress the gag and it's functions. We began to chat and I don't know how, but at one point the cutie at her feet and I totally forgot about the Domme and chatted in IM about this and that, editing collars, using different scripts for the collars and god knows what else. That's how I got to know Anna. The moment she approached me was the turning point for my SL.
Before we departed she offered me friendship and the next few days we've met more and more often. Our conversations became a part of my SL-experience I really enjoyed, but only during my time in Banishment I discovered how much I started to enjoy her company, how much I began to count on our daily chats, how much I missed her and how close we became in only a few days. When I suddenly couldn't talk to her and enjoy her company I realized how much an important part of my SL Anna became.
After my time in the Banesuit we enjoyed more and more time together, became nearly inseparable. Whatever we did - talking, shopping, exploring SL, or just being crazy and doing something stupid - we did it together and I had much more fun than in all my month in SL before. She introduced me to Miss Sarja, another great friend of mine, but that's another blog post.
Something happened to me that I never ever believed possible for me in SL. I fell in love. Totally, happily and completely in love. I always was somebody who believed falling in love in a virtual world would be stupid and just something that could never, would never happen to herself. But then there came this cutie, entered my live and took over my heart and soul. I still can't believe my luck. Meeting Anna is the best that happened to me in SL.
Now she is away for about ten days, her RL-work called her away from my side. She's only gone one day now and I feel this terrible void in my life. I already miss her, hell, I miss her the minute I log out of SL and start counting the seconds till we see each other again. Being without her for ten days will be pure hell for both of us. I miss talking with her; I miss her intelligent, incredibly cute, saucy and lovely personality; I miss cuddling with her on my settee, shopping with her or just having fun and exploring SL together.
I love you Anna, I miss you terribly, come back soon my love. But most of all have a save journey and come back healthy and happy.
Your Heart is my Home...
Warm, Cozy and Nice!
It's the only Place
I want to be in
Morning
Noon and Night!
I Love you Anna!
Sables helmet ... a dream come true for Banes
Yesterday I got a wonderful present. The amazing and wonderful Sable approached me and asked me to help her beta test a new helmet she invented for Banesuits. And let me tell you, this helmet is fantastic, it's great and wonderful and comes with everything a Bane can only hope/fear. When I first put it on, I already was in love with it. It looks great, just like I always imagined the helmet would look like after reading the short story. You can modify it by open the visor, close it, adjust the transparency of it or remove/reattach a filter. You can name the Bane (numbers from 1000 to 9999), set an owner of course, timelock it yourself, force the Bane into mouselook or blind her/him. The HUD the helmet attaches automatically to your screen makes you see the world in a yellowish color and gives you that out of the world, detached from the world feeling described in Evil Dollys story Eudeamon. On the lower left part of the HUD is a radar telling you how near the Bane is to other humans and/or Banes and punishes the poor Bane if it is too near to other people. The punishment consists of a static sound and a flashing HUD, something you really don't want to see too much and it can prolong the sentence of the Bane. The helmet supports all the RL-scripts from the newest version. There's so much more in it and I'm going to give this perfect helmet an in depth analysis when I had enough time to play with it. For now I can say, this is exactly what I wanted to have when I've tried my own Banishment a few weeks ago and I'm tempted now to do a bit more than just beta-test it. ;)
Sable, you are great, I just loooove you for giving me this great toy to play with. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
/me hops excitedly up and down and hurries back to SL to play with her newest toy
Here you can see me with the helmet at Pain Toys (if you haven't been there, visit it. It's a warehouse stuffed with vendors from most of my fav designers. Real Restraint, Ariel Erlanger, Fairlight, PoC & Omega, just to name a few of them). On the screenie I don't wear a catsuit, it's one of the new PoC-latex-skins. It looks wonderful with the helmet and it doesn't leave a gap between the helmet and your neck like an ordinary catsuit would. And it's from PoC, you're not going to find better latex for your Bane.
Here you can see the helmet a bit better.
And last but not least the HUD with it's yellow overlay and in the lower left corner you can see the green radar, telling you if you're okay or too near to other people and/or Banes.
ADDED:
Maybe you'll notice that I don't wear cuffs, mittens, an armbinder or similar restraints. It's just not necessary any more with the helmet, it has everything in it a Bane needs and this way the Bane looks much more like the Banes described in Eudeamon. You are totally controlled and restrained by your helmet, you're encapsulated in your own private prison and there just isn't any need for more restraints. And in my opinion the Bane looks much more beautiful in the sobriety of her latex-clad skin and helmet.
One feature I totally forgot to mention is the Vox device the owner can attach to her/himself. The vox serves as a communication device allowing communication with the Bane in times of need.
Here you can see the helmet with attached filter and the visor with 40% of transparency. You can see on the picture the white lenses I use as covers for my eyes during the time I am locked in my suit. Again I have to thank Sable, because she gave me the white contacts for my eyes.
Sable, you are great, I just loooove you for giving me this great toy to play with. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
/me hops excitedly up and down and hurries back to SL to play with her newest toy
Here you can see me with the helmet at Pain Toys (if you haven't been there, visit it. It's a warehouse stuffed with vendors from most of my fav designers. Real Restraint, Ariel Erlanger, Fairlight, PoC & Omega, just to name a few of them). On the screenie I don't wear a catsuit, it's one of the new PoC-latex-skins. It looks wonderful with the helmet and it doesn't leave a gap between the helmet and your neck like an ordinary catsuit would. And it's from PoC, you're not going to find better latex for your Bane.
Here you can see the helmet a bit better.
And last but not least the HUD with it's yellow overlay and in the lower left corner you can see the green radar, telling you if you're okay or too near to other people and/or Banes.
ADDED:
Maybe you'll notice that I don't wear cuffs, mittens, an armbinder or similar restraints. It's just not necessary any more with the helmet, it has everything in it a Bane needs and this way the Bane looks much more like the Banes described in Eudeamon. You are totally controlled and restrained by your helmet, you're encapsulated in your own private prison and there just isn't any need for more restraints. And in my opinion the Bane looks much more beautiful in the sobriety of her latex-clad skin and helmet.
One feature I totally forgot to mention is the Vox device the owner can attach to her/himself. The vox serves as a communication device allowing communication with the Bane in times of need.
Here you can see the helmet with attached filter and the visor with 40% of transparency. You can see on the picture the white lenses I use as covers for my eyes during the time I am locked in my suit. Again I have to thank Sable, because she gave me the white contacts for my eyes.
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