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Interesting analogy! (As a professional programmer, if I'm a "coder", I suppose that makes you a "scribe", to use words which carry similar levels of respect!) As a professional, sometimes I am handed someone's undocumented, poorly organized code to "fix", or "support". For this to be possible, over the years I've developed a skill to figure out the other programmer's "intent". Sure, I can recognize patterns, but often when something is poorly written, the challenge becomes understanding at both a macro- and micro-level, what the "point" was; what they were trying to accomplish. The worse the writing (or "coding" as a non-programmer may say), the greater a challenge - and the more important it can be - to determine that intent. The article is a great example of this! Sure, you can read all the words. Yes, you can follow the narrative. But why, oh why, would someone do this? Sometimes with a "questionably written program", the answer is, "because nobody told them not to, they don't care what anyone else thinks, and so are empowered to do it however they please." I literally deal with this scenario, which is why I can explain it with very little effort. I hope by analogy, my earlier points are more clear, not less. Thanks!

No, 99% certain it is not. Just throwing it out there! 👍🏾

Did it occur to you that the article may actually be trolling?

Maybe that's the proof they are "great actors", they pretend so well as if it's not obvious who they are! Is that an example of "childish behavior", or "adult activity"? Hard to say!

It has off topic super powers. That's weird, I didn't say anything like that, and neither did I quote anyone who said that! Unlike the other threads, this is intended to stay "on topic"; see the title and OP. Give it a try, I bet you could say something positive about Second Life! You're still here! I appreciate the diverse representation in Second Life, which leads to such a thoughtful discussion.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much!

Interesting idea!!

Omg, the author is a Forum user!!

Just realized even the title is both insulting, and sums up the article! "Decaying software." "No fun."

I do this with Tang!

Peeve: When you read a post, it seems insightful, scroll up..and see that YOU wrote the post. Today.

you are implying this is an always outfit and not one that i am just required to wear for the time being. Sorry, don't understand.

Business idea: 18+ club, emphasis on "18".

Child or adult, with those boobs hanging out, you won't be allowed around children in most cases..

Yes, a lot of oldbies like me tried SL with very little infiornation, maybe a couple ads.

Not at all!

Just keep your jammies on, and you should be fine!!

Good boy. You don't have to stay after class to clean the whiteboard. I am reminded of "Dr. Mrs. The Monarch", from "The Venture Brothers".

Thank you!

Did the author really even touch on "SL Culture"? Mentioning Luskwood doesn't count. ETA: The article would have been perceived differently, had the author focused on the "hyper-consumerist" SL Culture, or the "hyper-sexual" SL Culture, or the "Bellisseria Barbie-Home" SL Culture. 🙂

Unfortunately, the "reclaimed" meaning of "queer" is lost on younger folks. Those who would be insulted at being called "normies", would also be insulted at being called "queer". It's a paradox.

I almost always read it as, "Ineffable MOLE"!

Like I said much earlier (I think nobody caught it).. It is perhaps more of a "taint" than a "stink". But a "taint" is neither "here nor there" (IYK).

I liken it to a "Furry Roleplay" of post-apocalyptic partying.

She mentioned the wolf, and I keep thinking that by some measures we are the "Diamond Dogs" in SL's version of Bowie's apocalyptic landscape, lyrics (ETA: I think some of these are flat-out not the right lyrics): "As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent You asked for the latest party With your silicone hump, and your ten inch stump Dressed like a priest you was Todd Browning's freak you was Crawling down the alley on your hands and knees I know you're not protected, for it's plain to see The diamond dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal .. The Halloween Jack is a real cool cat And he lives on top of Manhattan Chase The elevator's broke, so he slides down a rope Onto the street below, oh, Tarzie, go, man, go Meet his little hussy with his ghost town approach Her face is sans feature, but she wears a Dali brooch Sweetly reminiscent, something mother used to bake Wrecked up and paralyzed, diamond dogs are stabilized .. In the year of the scavenger, the season of the ***** Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch Just another future song, lonely little kitsch (There's gonna be sorrow) Try and wake up tomorrow .. Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs"