PheebyKatz

I live and work on a horror sim, and you know, it's almost become twistedly gratifying how my normal, everyday avatar is often the scariest thing on the entire sim. Visitors see me and poof instantly. XD If I sense someone will be afraid of me, I usually put on a monster avatar, just so they don't get frightened when I approach them. The irony might stagger me if I ever really stopped to think about it. I already keep my dolly avatar put away most of the time, just because so many people are phobic of dolls. Sorry, but I'm not canning my kid self, ever, cos it's who I am in SL.

It only took me 30-something years to think of searching for this again (I lost my vinyl copy long ago), so I've been jamming out to it lately.

It's a great mental challenge not to simply throw my hands up in the air and give up sometimes. Fortunately, I like being mentally challenged.

Just what I expected, semantic juggling in the face of obvious facts! You can't dodge me that easily! Okay, that felt good, thanks! I really needed it. ^-^ *Hugs*

Marshmallows go with all of the above. Also jam. Prove me wrong~!

See, I don't know if I could pull that one off. EDIT: Stag, I feel like that all the time, that the only thing saving most of humanity is their inability to see it. I've quoted it before, and I'll quote it again, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

I would try to make people laugh in this thread, but I can't cos it won't let me create a thread inside this thread, and titled "Pheeby's Big Political Discussion Thread", and then having it be nothing but me trying to get people to argue about marshmallows vs. jam, while I secretly eat marshmallows with jam on them and giggle.

Yeah, take all that stuff back to Animal Crossing and IMVU, where it belongs~!

Totally LL-approved, on-topic, cat picture. Behold, Flash, the demon kitty from Hell. XD

Thank you for reminding me of this... PEEVE: That one darn person who had to break my SL bubble by finally mentioning the whole Amber Heard thing to me inworld. WE WERE DOING SO WELL~! T_T XD

Chillin' like a villain. EDIT: and this is what happens when I accidentally hit "Quote" instead of "Edit" and don't realize it until it's posting...

It looks more and more to me that what people need to do is stop overthinking it and just make it happen. Communication is not the easiest thing for most people, and organizing is even worse usually, but I see so many people here who are of the same opinion on it and want the same things, I mean, look, it's all right in front of everyone, you've got everything you need, and that's [i]people who want the same things[/i]. And ah, that's what the Forum Cartel thingy is, neato! I might have to look into that sometime, i mean, I love the people on the forums, and it'd be neat to hang out with them.

Guys, remember not everyone speaks with schoolhouse english here, he's not saying he only appears to be male, he says he's looking for guy friends so he can experience more of the real SL we keep telling him to try and explore without looking like he's trawling for ladies. I, for one, think this is wonderful, and any intelligent-enough person who puts as much into a friendship as they expect from one might even find a real, honest friend person here. If I was a guy, I'd say hey, friend me, and I wouldn't even care if we agree on everything, because friends can have different opinions and still be friends. We all had to start somewhere! Give the guy a chance.

*ducks*

I'm not afraid to be in the crossfire, I got my Wonder Woman Underoos on~! XD

Advertising doesn't serve the same purpose as discounting prices does. Advertising is to get your name, brand, etc., in front of as many people as possible, and discounts are used as a way to keep the customers who already know about you. No point in having a sale if you don't advertise. Don't get me wrong, I hate commercials with a passion, and always have. I used to pick them apart so badly when watching TV that my family would kick me out of the room for obsessing over how much I hated the ads, but advertising works, so people do it. Every platform that has access for advertisers will have advertisers. Word of mouth isn't enough, and just because I think their commercials are lame doesn't mean they're all fools for making commercials. if there's one thing I know about people it's that nobody does nothing for nothing. Short answer: it pays. If I wasn't so lazy and if I didn't hate commercials myself, I'd probably be doing it too, look at Ron Popeil, that guy made a fortune selling stuff that was no better than some of the crazy junk I've made, and all because his ads for ridiculous products were plastered everywhere.

I feel exactly this same way. And inworld, it's just as bad~!

I could make a joke, but I just went off about that kinda thing, so... I can't.

Mods never really get the appreciation they deserve. It's like herding cats just to keep up with threads and whether or not someone is crapflooding the place, let alone users telling on each other because they don't like what someone said. Believe it or not, I've been mod staff on "adult" forums before, and if you think it gets bad here, LOL. No idea just how awful a job it can be, plus you NEVER really get to enjoy the forums the way anyone else does. As for Abuse Reporting, I can remember a time when forum software didn't have that function yet, and people had to PM whatever mod was online, or the admin (and wait a week for a response), or if nobody on staff was there, the forum would simply be trashed until staff woke up and started deleting things, and sometimes banning people. This is (mock me if you will, but I mean it) the BEST-kept pile of forums I have ever participated in. For this many users to be this active, and for the forums to only be THIS bad, is a gargantuan triumph of moderation (and occasional actual userbase self-discipline, lol). I've never filed an AR on the forums. Would I? If I felt it was genuinely necessary. I've been here for years and so far haven't had to do it once, so hey. Says a lot right there, if you know me at all. Inworld, I've filed maybe... two? And both situations were immediately resolved. I know, I know, not everyone has had this experience, but I have. These guys actually do try to keep this pile of crazy habitable, as ubelievable as it might sound. I'm normally a bit cynical about such things too, it's why it stands out so glaringly to me that I had to mention it. I could probably type more, but lack of coffee is dangerous and my text might get all over everywhere and I can't wipe it all up right now, because I haven't had coffee yet.

Thank you all for making this thread exist so I can actually kvetch about things and not feel bad for doing so. And yeah, the forums get a lot of drama, but who cares? I can lose it and log off and fume and kick dirt and stomp, and a week later I come back and everybody's the same, because we're all used to it. Hooray for this. PEEVE EXPLOSION: People who walk up into the middle of a party and criticize everything, like they're out shopping for a place that's cool enough for them to be there, but, alas, this place is probably too tacky, oh dear, some of it made of primitives, and who ever heard of riding a dolphin, and oh no, this place doesn't mirror the Los Angeles I had envisioned in my mind when I read the description of the sim and it told me about this little beach where people dance because they're all online at the same time and have loved the place for years together. Guess what? Stick it. Someone built all of this wonderful world, not for YOU, but for ALL of us to enjoy, and if any of it's not as perfect as you would have it, either shut up and get busy making it the so much better that you think you can make it, or shut the EFF up about it and go back to shopping for sex organs and botox lips, because if I'M having a good time somewhere, guess what, it's an AWESOME place, and the PEOPLE are awesome, and even the stale old 80's music playing on the stream is AWESOME, because WE say so. Walk into a party I'm enjoying and start slamming the place? How about go find somewhere else? You... you expletive~! We build a world and have fun in it, what do YOU do? Critics exist because there will always be people who think they could do it better but can't or won't, and would rather just let sewage pour out of their faces than turn that critical eye on themselves. So XP. BONUS PEEVE of DOOM, and YES I'M GOING THERE: My profile states very plainly that I'm not in SL for sex. I realize people are human, and everyone's different, and shouldn't be judged for how they can't help feeling, but I have feelings too, and when I say I don't want to hear it if you're perving over my avatar, I MEAN IT. I play a CHILD. People treat "adult" subjects like it's all some sort of dirty joke they're playing, and when people treat SL like it's nothing but a place to perv on people without consideration for their feelings, it makes me rage. Guess what? There's a whole other SL out there full of everything your heart desires, so you don't NEED to hang out where I'm building and make comments about my body. If you're on my friends list, you have even less of an excuse. I don't need to hear every few minutes that you have a thingy and it does things. I don't want to hear that I have a nice butt, I made it as normal-looking as I could because I don't want to walk around with a misshapen butt. If anyone thinks I'm gorgeous, well, thanks, but I always look this way. I didn't put it on for you. This is the art section, the pornography section is over there, see all those places labeled "A"? SL is awesome, because I get to be a kid again. Only drawback is that now the creepy people population is higher, and everyone acts like it's normal. Realizing someone I wanted to have as a dear friend only sees me as pornography breaks my heart. I could even overlook it, MAYBE, if there was more to our friendship than me being some weird fetish object and not even a person. I've put a lot into my Second Life, and none of it was for the sake of people who would engage in behaviors that could get me banned just for being in the same groups and being on each other's friends lists. TL;DR: I don't care what's in your pants. I don't want to know what you're doing at your keyboard. If you can't even fake being a friend without everything revolving around your junk, find someone else to act like that around. I'm usually the shortest person present anywhere I go, and all day long I see grown adults acting like immature little dirtbags out to get in trouble. Grow up. If you wanna play an adult, how about acting like one? How about behaving like a mature person? Why do I have to be the grownup?

THIS. Yes. I sure hope so, anyway. Of course, some people should probably still just lurk and not say anything, but yeah~!

I dance to it. XD

Chicken Mole. XD

Workin on my scooter a little bit today, felt the urge to selfy...