What Vint Falken Erases

Vint Falken is still going through a rage spasm and temper tantrum over the fact that I didn't include her in my "Who's on Top?" piece a few weeks ago about the top blogs in SL -- ROFL. Vint is one of those 20-something, spoiled, pouting, entitlement-happy Europeans who hate Americans, are incredibly neuralgic about any criticism of their precious design work, and keep SL brimming with that feeling you had in high school that the prom queens were just getting too much air time ROFL. Aimee Weber has gotten old and long in the tooth -- here's the new Aimee!

Being a good little licentious "liberal," Vint first prides herself on including my posts of criticism of her continuing raging and pouting -- but now she's blanking out my posts imagining she is in some vaunted "struggle for freedom" against the "evil PN". I marvel at how children behave these days LOL. They are so saturated in entitlements and child-centric philosophies of upbringing, and so promoted in the me-media bathos-sphere, that they can't subject themselves or their friends to the slightest impartial look, or bear the slightest criticism, and fly into rages of impotent fury when somebody comes up and points out that maybe their art or their writings are kinda lame. But it's more than that -- they also imagine themselves, while slavishly conformist, tribalist, and oppressive in their outlooks, to be "crusading for freedom". It's a vast pixelated illusion. They'll go on long, extended tours of hatred of "PN," obsessing, creating art around the concept, even, anything to assuage that awful feeling of inadequacy from which they suffer.

What really startled the little darlings was my sharp and legitimate -- and much needed -- criticism of the pompous pin-striper Benjamin Duranske. He's tried the juvenile trick of google-bombing me by posting a link of criticism to my RL name, now the little girls at Vint's site are trying the same lame trick. Too bad when you Google, you get "Benjamin Duranske Must Be Stopped" and not their lame Google-bombs -- and that's without me attempting any Google-bombs, which I find ridiculous. Yes, life is what happens to you when you are making other plans.

I have to chuckle at the latest passle of anonymous fucktards on the Internet strutting around like church ladies "outing" my RL name as if this will somehow "shame" me.

Comments

[Prokofy Neva]

Oh, she's confessed to doing a funny thing -- putting the type in white so you can't see it, unless you highlight it and then look at it. Well, it's like the "blank spaces" of the Soviet press, same concept.

[Vint Falken]

I've erased nothing. Just changed the text color to white.

This has nothing to do with the 'list' blogpost, but all with your unreasonable attitude towards me and the other commenters on my blog. Telling me to 'go to hell' on my own blog, was where I draw the line.

If you are a visitor on my blog, please behave, and if you're not willing/capable to do that, please don't whine about the text color of your comments being set to match the background color.

[Lightscribe Infinity]

Well said.

Last night, whilst digging into SL's history, I read your posts on Raph's blog. (http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/) Well said, again.

[joe]

I don't even know who this Vint person is, so I could care less what she says lol. There are a lot of self-important people on the internet. He/she is just one more in the vast pool.

[Maxx Someting]

Agreed that SL is currently awash wish narcisistic people with a falsely perceived sense of self-importance and inflated egos.

Though the only ones I know have the last name "Linden"

[Prokofy Neva]

Um, changing the text to white so no one can see it easily unless they manipulate it in some Paint type program or whatever *is* erasing ROLF.

My, you're self-obsessed, Vintie.

There's nothing wrong with my "behaviour" on your blog; this is the usual fatuous and self-infatuated bias of the youthful and entitlment-happy blogger intoxicated with self-righteousness. I merely criticize you in normal tones. Did no adult in your life ever say "no"? Mommy *never* sent you to your room?

And indeed, you *should* go to hell for the nasty things you've written about me, all completely out of proportion to my simple, direct, cutting remark that threw you into such an uproad: "Who are you again, Vint? Remind me."

Laetizia is gotten herself into an uproar, too, calling me a "sociopath" because I refuse to agree with her ROFL.

[Prokofy Neva]

Yes, that was one of my best posts, ever, and boy, is it applicable now. The link was slightly messed up. It should be:

http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/

[Economic Mip]

Well mouse over allows the comment to be read with ease. This is far less vindictive than Mr. Bragg, I politely explained the meaning of the word "theft" to him, and he deleted the entire blog post in order to look less foolish. I actually think that this is an interesting way of dealing with dissent, in fact color coding commentators on ideology could help avoid people talking around each other, or color coding by topic they are responding to. Perhaps MacArthur will fund further research in this for me.

[Prokofy Neva]

Hmm, my mouseover didn't work with that, but whatever, this is all the brave new world advocated by Daniel Linden, where you just erase people you don't like literally from your view, so you never have to be troubled by any thought that differs from you, and can just reinforce your own tribe.

[Wyn Galbraith]

The trick isn't using the mouseover.

The trick of seeing text that is the same color as the background is to just use ctrl-a, select all. This will highlight the 'invisible' or 'erased' text.

Really is a silly thing to do, old school, but I've seen it done before to place hidden messages on web pages. I think that the game Majestic actually did that as one of their clues.

I placed a sample of this trick you can practice on at: http://www.celticfrog.com/worlds/SecondLife/Find_the_hidden_text.html

Have fun :)

[Prokofy Neva]

Yeah, believe it or not, Wyn honey, I work on a weekly publication, where we often have to colour, highlight, manipulate text like that, and yeah, I know that trick.

I just don't feel like *bothering* to do that, to see my own text I already wrote -- duh -- and I imagine many people won't either a) bother or b) know the trick. So, whatever. Mission accomlished: censorship, with a smug, smarmy, idiot tekkie fuck-you Eddie Haskell alibi claiming it's NOT censorship.

[Veronique Kaminski]

For those who think (as PN does) that Laetizia Coronet uses the "sociopath" definition gratuitous here, take a look at next definition of the disorder:

http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Bin/sb.html

just taking a quick objective look at the contents and the style of any (randomly choosen) PN comment; how many "qualities" that define the behaviour can you checkmark?

So, all you critisism loving Prokofy fanboyz and girlz.., show some real critical attitude, look through the veiling mist of fancy words an insults he is using, and find out who your idol really is..

..or continue thinking that OJ Simpson is relevant news and the Jerry Springer Show is Pulitzer Price material..

take good care of yourself, and each other.. :-p

[Ace Albion]

I'm half tempted to check out the blog, if only because I have my browser set to ignore text and background colours so I'd see it all, but, hmm, it's lunch time.

[Prokofy Neva]

As Urizenus Sklar has famously pointed out, those who dispense with "psychiatric diagnoses" over the Internet are not qualified; and those who are qualified, would never do that because it would be unprofessional, and of course malicious and nasty.

So it's a sickness all to its own, doing that.

Actually, O.J. Simpson *is* relevant news for all kinds of reasons that I expect go right over Veronique's head lol.

[Wyn Galbraith]

Prokofy says: "I imagine many people won't either a) bother or b) know the trick."

This is why I published an easy solution to your blog, Prokofy. Since it is so widely read even by us tekkie wikki fanboz/girlz as well as those that do not fall into that category. It's a geek's attempt to educate the masses in the most easiest way.

[larryr]

unwarrented self importance would seem to be more rampant in the easy to spew text based blogs medium, not the so much more difficult to create in, web3d medium....

"It wasnt the planes that got him, it was blogging that killed the beast."

c3

[Tenshi Vielle]

Prok, I read about five lines into this before I thought and commenced my rebuttle: Shut. Up. :) Thanks!

[Rhys Hutton]

"So it's a sickness all to its own, doing that."

So I guess you're sick too, because you regularly dispense diagnoses of your own.

[Prokofy Neva]

Oh, I'm happy to dispense diagnoses when someone is drumming them up on me over and over. I totally believe fighting fire with fire. And if you find the dispensing of diagnoses "sick," I expect you to show up next time anybody does this and call them up on it. My main purpose in fighting fire with fire is to get people like you to see their hypocrisy -- you hate me fighting fire with fire and find that "hyprokritical" but you can't bring yourself to condemn those who used the tactic in the first place. Shame, shame.

[Rhys Hutton]

No.

And that's a straw man argument coupled with the "But Mom! They did it too!" fallacy.

Those people don't cry about your diagnoses.

If you are against something, then you have no business complaining about others doing it. I've seen you do it preemptively, btw, so stow your bullshit about fighting back. Get a new line already. Get a bunch f new lines. You sound like a broken record for the last 3 years.

The difference is that you always make such a big fuckin' deal about it - they don't, and that's why you're a hypocrite.

I wouldn't say a word if you weren't forever shrieking about it, and you can bet your best shooter marble that I would call ANYONE else on it too.

I just snort when I see you call others hypocrites, bullies, and MOST OF ALL - busybodies.

That's all you baby. You couldn't nail irony more if you were trying.

Projection; it's not just for breakfast anymore!

Please oh please, save us from ourselves O Messiah.

[Prokofy Neva]

If you believe there is a "pre-emptive statement," by all means, produce the link.

Don't read my blog if you find it sounds like a broken record.

SL is broken; that's why I need to record that fact over and over again and that's why I sound that way.

[Dalien Talbot]

The difference in perceptions and the presumption of guilt produce the lack of communication which leads to unnecessary and frequently unfounded escalation of hatred.

[Prokofy Neva]

Dalien, guilt is already evident with this particular class of people; to presume it is merely to report what is evident. There's nothing unfounded. It's class warfare. See it, don't see it; fight it, don't fight it. It must be fought nonetheless.

[Dalien Talbot]

This is precisely that. And quite literally this is what gets fired from both sides, and produces all the kabooms.

There is no "absolute good" and "absolute evil" - everything is a mix of both.

But everyone sees it through their personal filter, depending on person and sometimes the situation.

An example: what does the abbreviation "PN" stand for ? :-)

[Prokofy Neva]

Actually, there are things that are absolute evils, and it's ok to say so. Or did you think the GULAG was a good thing for industrializing Russia?

Oh, sure, everybody has their own personal filters. It's just that a certain class of people, to which you belong to, imagine their filter is lighter and less filtrational than others, and they can actually see the truth better and impose it on others -- and of course, they imagine that mere articulation and defense is imposition lol.

That's fine, I feel the same way about it : )