Tizzers and The Wrong Hands Invade Second Life Again Via the Valve Theme Park Sim Sandvich

So I immediately assumed that the message from "Bobby Bob" in the comments below my past post about  our new Valve overlords -- "guess who's back" and a reference to a new sim called "Sandvich" -- would involve 4chan/Anonymous/Woodbury invading SL despite multiple past "permabans," and opening a new sim.

Reddit has been referenced on SL blogs as making a Valve/Steam theme sim in Second Life named Sandvich.

Looking it over now, I see that means the Woodbury types are mixed up in the Steam thing.

Surprise, surprise! Sandvich is what Russian Americans call a sandwich.

Here's the Reddit thread under an account called "Hissyfits" which is in fact Tizzers. If you go in SL and look at the build and the account, the display name says "Tiz" for "Hissyfits". Duh!

It's in the usual Soviet gigantist dictator-chic style.

I think it's likely the Woodburies used Steam to build up and invade the My Little Ponies' fan group Bronies network -- also Reddit.

Now, why do the Lindens allow things like this?

This would be -- what? -- the fourth sim that Tizzers is being allowed to lease, after prior permabannings on various accounts? How to explain?

The question is whether Tizzers and the gang are just doing this opportunistically, to see if they can "push the limits" with their "art" in making effigies of the new tubby SL Overlord, Valve CEO Gabe Newell, and get away with it under the new regime, and also confuse Steam members coming into SL who will think this is some of home base or "welcome area" possibly OR whether in fact Gabe is chuckling and Rod is chuckling and they are all colluding in this.

As Uri would always say, "In the hall of mirrors that are the Interwebs, we may never know."

Comments

[Prokofy Neva]

A note from somebody named Sarilla Tryce.

She's lying.

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[17:46] Sarilia Tryce: (Saved Thu Sep 13 19:54:01 2012)Prokofy! Hey thanks for writing about my Sim, Sandvich, I appreciate the visit and am a huge fan! Hilarious post btw!
[17:46] Sarilia Tryce: (Saved Thu Sep 13 20:02:06 2012)Gabe is an awesome guy and we all really think he's great in the Steam community, btw. I wish he was involved =)
[17:46] Sarilia Tryce: (Saved Thu Sep 13 20:31:22 2012)Oh, you're probably really busy and all but if you don't mind me asking, is there anything I should know about Tiz or any of the people who hang out on my Reddit/Valve themed sim?
[17:46] Sarilia Tryce: (Saved Thu Sep 13 20:33:06 2012)I read the article and it sounded like you were saying some mean things about him, Tizzers right? He's a great builder and always welcome here. Has never caused any problems for me yet. There's a history of banned accounts? Are you sure?
[17:46] Sarilia Tryce: (Saved Thu Sep 13 20:34:30 2012)Ttyl, and thanks! I really enjoy the fun random scripts and everything but so far I haven't seen anyone being mean or anything to each other here. If you see anything bad please report it to me and I'll have a chat with them. Have a good day - I'll try to visit Raven soon
[17:46] Sarilia Tryce: (Saved Thu Sep 13 20:36:24 2012)That makes sense about our fellow Redditors here being involved with 4chan though - a lot of the fun memes on the website come from there

[Prokofy Neva]

Why do these idiots think they can put up fake bubbly nonsense like this and have you buy this bullshit:

Would you be my friend?

(By default, you will be able to see each other's online status.)
[18:10] Prokofy Neva: You're lying.
[18:10] Sarilia (sarilia.tryce): User not online - message will be stored and delivered later.
[18:11] Sarilia (sarilia.tryce): Wait, what? About what?
[18:12] Sarilia (sarilia.tryce): o.O
[18:12] Friendship offer declined.
[18:12] Prokofy Neva: Everything.
[18:12] Prokofy Neva: Sorry, not playing.
[18:13] Sarilia (sarilia.tryce): I don't know what you mean? I made the Reddit sim and a few people on the server linked your article to me
[18:13] Prokofy Neva: mute
[18:13] Sarilia Tryce: So I thought I'd make an inquiry about what you mean in the article
[18:13] Sarilia Tryce: What else was I supposed to do?
[18:14] Sarilia Tryce: Okay this is really weird...
[18:14] Sarilia Tryce: geesh I thought people were nicer in SL
[18:19] Sarilia Tryce: If you look at our place profile it even says I'm the owner. What would I lie about? That isn't a very nice way to treat fellow sim owners - I pay a lot of money a month to keep a place for Redditors and fans of Steam to gather, and don't even sell anything

[Prokofy Neva]

BTW massivedamage.net which is referenced on Sarillia Tryce's profile in SL appears to be Chris Toumanian in RL, judging from the copyright and name on the comics (he says he's an illustrator).

http://www.massivedamage.net/

AND He's the business partner of Tizzers (Jordan Belino) in their start-up called "Intelligentsia" -- which they stole from a more famous coffee company.

More wordsalading from this faker:

[18:21] Sarilia Tryce: Like I said before - if you have a problem with people helping on the build please inform me and I'll look into it. Thank you, and I hope to have a more civil discussion with you soon. This was extremely rude of you.
[18:24] Sarilia Tryce: I'm just, trying to be nice about this. If you think my sim is in danger, or anybody in here has been harassing you during your visits to Sandvich, please tell me - I'd like to make sure everyone is happy as best I can. If there's any way I can be of service to you in the future, just IM me.

*SNORT*

Adopting just the sort of faux Eddie Haskell tone that Tizzers would adopt in claiming that he would supervise people griefing and prevent them from griefing. All bullshit.

[Hernán T. Souza]

Why are you stalking people you claim to despise in their sims? Or were you just there admiring the builds? Do you dream of having a relationship with Tizzers? Is that your motivation?

[Prokofy Neva]

Hernán T. Souza is not in the people list. Off you go.

I don't "stalk" people. I was given this tip about an obvious Woodbury comeback, so I went to verify the information, because it may not have had anything to do with Woodbury.

It's called "journalism", you know? You go and find facts. I checked out the sim ownership, the people on the sim, the builders, etc. And confirmed that it's the same-old, same-old.

I went and checked out the land group -- had forgotten to do that.

All the same old suspects -- in addition to Tizzers, like Jim Korpov, Vergil Hellershenks, etc. FATF -- is that that Fatty? Probably. Sigh.

[Sarilia Tryce]

I don't know what you're going on about. o.o I really haven't played Second Life that much until about half a year ago. I really don't know your supposed past with Tizzers or anyone else.

[Prokofy Neva]

Sarilia Tryce is not allowed to post here as the partner of a serial griefer who had repeatedly caused me damages and who is lying about it.

[James K. Korpov]

Oh hey! Long time no see.

[Cynical]

This was posted in Skype to me a while back..
"Hey Redditors,

As you may have noticed, the Reddit sim is no longer on the map.

Over the past 6 months, our sim has served as a home for fans of Reddit and a small handful of other SL communities. We've had some crazy fun times in the sandbox, and we can proudly say that we have been most active and vibrant Reddit group on the grid. In keeping with the flexible nature of our group, we will be taking advantage of a new opportunity to help our community grow.

On August 16th, Linden Lab announced that Second Life will be joining Valve's Steam community. In the spirit of gaming, we will be re-designing the sim to provide a home to the inevitable wave of new Steam gamers.

As of this morning, our sim "Reddit" is now known as "Sandvich." The Reddit group will remain active, and of course everybody is still welcome at the sim. We may even set up a Reddit embassy! Please excuse our dust as we scramble to finish the build, and by all means feel free to continue using the sim as a sandbox.

If you have any questions or would like to contribute Team Fortress / Portal / Half Life props please send me an IM!

~Tiz"

I think it was a group notice somewhere or something.
We all laughed at it and simply assumed that the "rename" was just them getting another sim after yet again being squished when the wrong employee noticed their existence and bothered to click his mouse.

I don't really understand what drives them to keep spending money on sims and then not even bothering with basic survival instinct; they'd probably be left alone forever if they didn't insist on playing charades. I guess they need to shake their fist at LL (and be seen doing so of course) more than they need for LL to not flick them off the table.

At this point it is almost good business strategy for LL to ban the sim, they are almost guaranteed to buy another, eh?

[Yanthis Highwater]

Prokofy, you arent a Team fortress 2 player, so I honestly don't expect you to get the imagery of the sim.  The sim is called "sandvich" because the class of warrior in the game (the heavy) is a decidedly very large russian man.  One of the most popular things about the man is that he calls his sandwich item IN THE GAME his "Sandvich."  You seem to make tie ins where there are absolutely zero.  It looks soviet?  Look up images of the map tufort (2fort) on google images and youll see where some of the layout comes from.

Reading this makes me sincerely wonder if you should be in a padded room.  Sarilia has owned the sim before it was called sandvich for at least 6 months.  Why you're bitching at them now is BEYOND my comprehension.

A word of advice, dont post about things you dont understand and you wont look like a total prat.

[Yanthis Highwater]

I'm gonna try to post this oneeeee more time since your site (or you) refuse to post it:

Prokofy, you arent a Team fortress 2 player, so I honestly don't expect you to get the imagery of the sim. The sim is called "sandvich" because the class of warrior in the game (the heavy) is a decidedly very large russian man. One of the most popular things about the man is that he calls his sandwich item IN THE GAME his "Sandvich." You seem to make tie ins where there are absolutely zero. It looks soviet? Look up images of the map tufort (2fort) on google images and youll see where some of the layout comes from.

Reading this makes me sincerely wonder if you should be in a padded room. Sarilia has owned the sim before it was called sandvich for at least 6 months. Why you're bitching at them now is BEYOND my comprehension.

A word of advice, dont post about things you dont understand and you wont look like a total prat.

[Prokofy Neva]

Who cares if I'm not a Team Fortress player?! In fact I've seen that fat man image and seen the accounts with names like "Soviet Sandvich" and "Sandvich Warrior" and such with Soviet symbols.

But what YOU aren't admitting is that Tizzers loves all things Soviets. Lum Lumley rightly called Woodbury University a "Soviet commuter college". They constantly used the Soviet theme in a mocking style just to show you how impervious they were to Cold War taboos -- gosh, brave and creative kids!

Who cares what this is? The point is, it's the same-old same-old with the same memes and methodologies -- lying about their infiltration by the PN and other groups. In fact, Toumanian goes further in his admissions than Tizzers (who used to claim he was innocent of the PN connection) by admitting that Redditors love those Anonymous memes and culture and we have to except these types in SL.

Well, why? I can't believe they make up even some significant percentage of the 40 million people on there.

I don't care about looking like a prat. That frees me up to report accurately on the lies and antics of this group. Aiding and abetting a griefer by shielding his identity and not reporting him is a crime.

[Hysterical]

Doesn't like a comment so she deletes it, some real good ''journalism'' there pal-o.