http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osua6lilUY8
That video on the Second Life channel contains vile language and insulting to creators and residents alike.
I don't want to hear "Mother-bleeper" in a Second Life channel video. Nor do I (as a content creator, sculpty maker & someone who knows how to make meshes) wish to be told to "deal with it," as is flashed at the end of the video.
I read film-maker Draxtor's comments about why he made these insults on Dusan Writer's blog. He claims he hurls them at people he calls whiners who refuse to learn new technology. Sorry Draxtor, you hurled insults at the world regardless of where you claimed to have aimed them. I have lost respect for him personally and am amazed anyone at the lab would permit this video on their channel including the thinly bleeped vile words and the textural insult at the end.
And before he or another says "you know nothing - you have no right to say anything," let me list some of what I do: I make sculpties, textures, animations, sounds and I script. I know how to make meshes, and I work as a creative in SL. I am not afraid meshes will change the world. In fact, if that ugly green thing in the insulting video, or that pseudo Japanese cottage in the other video, are the best they can do after a year of having the software all to themselves, it's obvious most sculpty makers and avatar creators have nothing to fear from meshes or their creators.
However, we have much to fear from a company who thinks F-bombs and "MotherBleepers" are a good way to represent its the world on its official video channel. A company that dizzes its primary building tool, which is the only thing that distinguishes it from other games or "worlds"... A company that disregards the time and effort put forth by residents to comment on upcoming proposals that the community realizes are counterproductive... for example: huge rate hikes on the void sims, forced migration to Zindra continent, forced adult verification, sudden elimination of SL Mentors, favoring one group of "in crowd" creators over all other residents, elimination of camping, forced TOS changes simultaneous with the introduction of the failed 2.0 viewer (so called beta), the protests against proposed display-names chaos... the list is endless.
The pattern however is clear. The Lab doesn't care about individual residents, only our money. And the Lab continues to send the same message that last year they denied sending, "Deal with it." Considering the continuing loss of residents and the lack of new signups, I'd suggest it's the Lab which needs to deal with reality, not the residents.
Insulting those of us who are left, isn't going to build community.