Rezzable doesn't deserve to be treated with the kid gloves you imagine just because somehow you benefited from them personally.
RightAsRain has been a nasty, bullying ass to critical reporters -- even to reporters simply doing the very basic job in the early days of probing him as to just exactly what his business model was. They were right to.
It seems his business model was to threaten reporters, suck or placate some people (like yourself evidently), spend a lot of money to feel like Big Man on Campus, constantly and cynically ridicule land owners and the entire model of land dealing in SL, snark at the Lindens constantly, treat some builders unbelievably badly, make a few wildly over-rated and kitschy sims that really had no interactivity in them and then -- fold up his tent.
It was an operation driven by the ideology of "Free" and the notion that you don't need to rent or merchandise to meet costs, even. That some other magic will come to save you just because you are fabulous. It's a collossal monument to ego, hubris -- and technocommunism, or whatever term you'd use to describe for spending money and not making money. You can call it "The High Road". I call it a patent folly.
You'd never apply these silly restrictions and demands to be "respectful" in real life if you saw such folly, why you think you should do it in SL is beyond me.
A Monument to Hubris
Wed, 07/15/2009 - 15:20 — Prokofy Neva (not verified)Oh, grow up.
Rezzable doesn't deserve to be treated with the kid gloves you imagine just because somehow you benefited from them personally.
RightAsRain has been a nasty, bullying ass to critical reporters -- even to reporters simply doing the very basic job in the early days of probing him as to just exactly what his business model was. They were right to.
It seems his business model was to threaten reporters, suck or placate some people (like yourself evidently), spend a lot of money to feel like Big Man on Campus, constantly and cynically ridicule land owners and the entire model of land dealing in SL, snark at the Lindens constantly, treat some builders unbelievably badly, make a few wildly over-rated and kitschy sims that really had no interactivity in them and then -- fold up his tent.
It was an operation driven by the ideology of "Free" and the notion that you don't need to rent or merchandise to meet costs, even. That some other magic will come to save you just because you are fabulous. It's a collossal monument to ego, hubris -- and technocommunism, or whatever term you'd use to describe for spending money and not making money. You can call it "The High Road". I call it a patent folly.
You'd never apply these silly restrictions and demands to be "respectful" in real life if you saw such folly, why you think you should do it in SL is beyond me.