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moff piett // User Search3d homepages web pageNov 21, 2001, 11:43pm
Disable pop ups? Heck I'd just be happy to find a way to delete porn spam
before it launches 5 full screen hard core pop ups demanding my credit card and sanity. I get tons of emails all the time that if I'm lucky I can quick select and delete before they load, but many times I'm not fast enough and the email spawns a zillion porn or pyramid scam pop ups! Any ideas? >PC inspector : > > You may not encroach into other peoples windows > arrangement. Unfair ejection...Dec 2, 2001, 8:10pm
Maybe because you were yelling and screaming like some 13 year old with
idiotic ideas to boot? Xelnaga even tried to tell you that they were no longer talking about builds and services but you kept screaming about strippers and fetish buildings. If someone came into my world and started screaming about how it would be so cool to build a strip club and after telling them no kept screaming I'd cetainly say goodbye to them. Seems so many people don't understand that there is a time and place for things and call people unfair and even nazi's violating their right to free speech if they are ejected or muted or banned from the NG's. There are some pretty simple basic rules about being civilized, and for people socialy mal-adjusted that don't know these rules, they are usualy posted so there is no excuse. From the chat log it seems to me to be a sort of meeting about the creation of a town or town related contructions, and in a public meeting yelling and screeming about strip clubs after the topic has moved on is terribly anoying and perfectly ejectable. Stop screaming about strippers and lesbians like some hormone ravaged 13 year old crazy person and maybe, perhaps, people will stop treating you how they do. Just a wacky idea... don't have to pay any attention to me. Unfair ejection...Dec 5, 2001, 3:55am
This whole issue brings me back to my most stressed point when aruing about
"fairness" in aw. If you don't like the way someone is running a world, go some where else. Don't like the chat rules or way PK's enforce them in aw? Don't go there. Don't like the the content in a world? Don't go there. And of course, if you think awteen people arn't being fair in their ejections.... you got it, DON'T GO THERE. Unfair ejection...Dec 5, 2001, 6:02pm
You're paying to use aw. If you arn't happy with it, don't pay for it.
Pretty easy. Yes a customer has some basic rights, but being warned before being ejected and other little things like that are not promised anywhere when paying. Unfair ejection...Dec 6, 2001, 1:12am
awteen is an awcom sponsored world, not owned. So it doesn't have to
follow awcom's rules. If they wanted to eject every 5th tourist on that landed at their gz they have every right. Unfair Voting Procedure for Avatars 2001Dec 3, 2001, 2:32am
Avatars 2001? I have a vauge memory of entering a mediocre world and
crashing then not coming back. Oh well. Christmas TimeDec 15, 2001, 7:56pm
I love how debates about wasting space in the NGs and what should be here or
not usualy end up taking up more space than the initial argument. Future of 3d designDec 18, 2001, 10:10pm
A picture that would be able to tell your magic program depth and such.
Unless of course your program is magical and doesn't need anything like that. Future of 3d designDec 18, 2001, 10:52pm
I think he means you'd say scan a picture of a house, and the program would
somehow make a 3d model of that house, using amazing magical powers to somehow know what the back and sides of the house look like. Basicly stupid imposible-tech. AWTA is taking new members againDec 17, 2001, 5:47pm
Still maintaining that to join a world has to be an aw object based world?
I know a couple worlds that would probably like to join (including my own) but unfortunaly we don't have any aw objects to build your little office (but could easy provide something similar). I can see wanting a standardised office, but having an aw travel angency that will only link to worlds with alpha world objects is like a real life travel angency that will only arrange trips to countries that use wood timber and drywall countruction on their buildings. What about exciting locals that people live in mud huts, or bamboo, or some space aged super material far in advanced of primitive earth-man materials. That travel angency would go out of business. A travel agency in aw really needs to be able to service a world with any kind of objects (with in obvious limits). All the most interesting worlds in aw are free of alpha world objects (avatar, jade, Varna ect) , yet you can't link to them simply because of your refusal to build an office that isn't totaly standardised. Heck maybe you could do a much better job with some of the other objects out there. For example if linking to a world like jade, make a similar office with all the exact same function and layout, but using japanes themed objects. Would do the exact same job but also match the theme of the world. So what do you say, you going to let those of us who have cast aside the chains of alpha world objects to join the AWTA ? AWTA is taking new members againDec 17, 2001, 6:26pm
Cool! Then sign me up! Oh wait.. I can do that part my self... *runs off
to awta website* *sigh* The good ol' days....Dec 17, 2001, 11:43pm
Me too, every year seems better for. Better versions of AW, more practise
modeling and making textures. I think a lot of people get bored of building, but are too lazy to go on to the next stage, modeling. Sitting in the middle of a public building world might be fun for some, but for most people they have to move "up" to something else, be that becomming active in the community, going onto modeling and texture creation, bot programming and so on. Heck, even awcom gets better every year. Rick replies to tele's in a friendly way, Tom whips the NG's and other worlds into shape and has been supporting citizen projects more than ever, and Garry and Stacy and the modeling team have been churning out some of their best work yet. *sigh* The good ol' days....Dec 18, 2001, 1:16am
I've actualy sort of talked to tom a little bit about that. Actualy when
wildaw was first in it's planning stages me and Tom talked about making it have a bit of 'democratic object path". ie every month or so there would be a vote or something, and new objects would be created and uploaded. People could submit objects and the like, so long as they meet basic quality guidelines. Unfortunatly some people attached to the project thought that having someone "incharge" of making such the objects met basic quality requirements would go against the spirit of wildaw and be terrible and facist... so wildaw was stuck with ugly alpha world objects and one of the worst GZ's I've seen. (mmm.. wood.. and.. uh.. more wood.. and... hey.. more of the same wood). What I was talking to Tom about the last couple days was creating a world along the lines of me and Tom's origional vision for Wildaw, with some elements of the new build world that got canceled and turned into the objects for some of the 3d homepages. Basicly picture a pretty medium sized building world, out to about 10km. It would have a very basic premade transport system. eg just roads every 250 map points or something. As towns and communities show up the management would actualy be hands on enough to connect them up to the transport system. There would be some basic building rules like not taking a million square meters of land on both sides of the road and not building on it. It would be a very healthy environment for the creation of towns and such. Although the main thing would be it's objects. EVery month on the world's webpage there would be a survey asking what kind of new objects people want. And every month or so the previous month's winning request would try to be added. Another little idea would be a bit of democracy injected into the world. If there is a town that really wants a connecting road, but some idiot with an alternating caps name has taken all the land around the town just to be an ass the town could petition to get a road put through. Perhaps every town mayor could meet once a month to discuss the running of the world. My main thing with building worlds is they are all more or less the same. Sure they sometimes have dif themes or dif objects. But they more or less all follow the same basic formula. So ok, we have our totaly anarchy world (wild aw) a bunch of standard worlds (mars, aw, awteen). But how about one with a little more structure and planning? *sigh* The good ol' days....Dec 18, 2001, 1:27am
Basicly the world would be more about towns than individual builders.
That's the basic premise. And they would be very well supported. So if a town wants to be an rpg town and needs bot rights and some special obejcts, they'd get them. Or if two towns want to build a railway between eachother but there are a few other builds in the way, the world, the towns, and the indivudual builders could work something out. heck, maybe make the whole thing a big town building "game". Have prizes every couple months for best town gz or most active community or highest population in the form of new objects or special rights or what not. *sigh* The good ol' days....Dec 18, 2001, 5:39pm
Well tell you guys what, if anyone is interested in helping with AWtowns
let me know. I could use someone with some basic rwx abilities (ie able to change texture callouts and lighting, just basic stuff like that) and someone who's had some experiance making registries. Maybe a builder or two and SOMEONE with some connection to existing town-based communities *coughgoobercoughking*. *sigh* The good ol' days....Dec 18, 2001, 5:56pm
Ah, lovely. I've never seen a registry or even built in a world that used
one so I'm a total registry virgin. I even had the idea to make awtowns a world with no registry because you know, people are good natured and wouldn't vandalise other people's property. Then I went to awgz to remind my self what kind of people populate aw lol. *sigh* The good ol' days....Dec 18, 2001, 7:37pm
Ah yes, can't pollute the NG's with talk on upcoming community projects,
we have to save room for the bickering and in fighting :) [View Quote] awtownsDec 18, 2001, 8:14pm
Hello, I made a similar post in worldbuilders (much longer) but since this
project overlaps in the areas of world building and community I thought I'd also post a short bit here. I want to hear from town mayors to what their biggest stinks with running a town is. I want to hear from community network people on what their biggest hurdles for getting the word out is, I want to hear from citizens as to what types of objects they'd love to build with. Community planning and support isn't going to be an afterthought in the form of a webpage or couple teleports tacked on near GZ like in most worlds, but rather the central aspect that all others revolve around. Be careful with Nate007Dec 20, 2001, 2:06am
In my travels in cyberland, I've met many nates. All of them have been
trouble makers. Strange that. What happened to eep?Dec 21, 2001, 5:42pm
That matches my opinions fairly closely. A lot of people bitch about if the
rules are fair or not, that totaly doesn't matter. It is someone else's rules, and if they say, "you must end your post with a 10x10 jpeg of a bannana or you will be banned from the NG" then it's their right to ban you if you don't post said bannana. Sadly it isn't about training. People like Eep and "generic GZ tourist flooding at gz" don't do anything out of ignorance, they do it for fun. To use your example, they are like the child that is fully potty trained, but has a social disorder that makes him like to smear his shit all over the walls. And even if you're like Eep and sometimes have something interesting to say, there's no excuse writing it by hand painting with your own fecies on clean walls of our NG's. That seems to be another big excuse by people. They'll say "well I was just saying XXXXX about XXXX nothing wrong about that, what you can't handle an opinion?" Well yes we can handle an opinion, just don't use poo to write it. Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 26, 2001, 9:56pm
It really depends who you ask. All my european and Canadian friends would
say no, even most of my american friends. But I notice people over 40 years old who comes from the bible belt/midwest area of the united states can get very huffy over such a word. Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 26, 2001, 10:45pm
It's really context context context, and a little in the setting
department. Although I think a G rated world is fine in the setting department. Hardly chatting with the queen. Although words that tend to offend me are "thanx" "asl" "wurld" "luv" , "cuz" "u r" and replacing a perfectly good "s" with a "z". Liable to get ejected, or atleast have my bot roll his eyes at you in disgust. I'm fine with spelling mistakes and shortening of words in chat, but misspelling on purpose? I'd give you a punch to face but you'd be gone like the sun, when it's not sunny. Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 26, 2001, 11:08pm
It's not really hacker talk. hacker talk is replacing as many letters as
posible with stupid other characters in a showy way. This is more teen-internet-slang talk. Hmm that doesn't flow. Well folks, looks like we have some work to do. We need to come up for a good name for the words, or the people that use them. how about "chatturz" hmm. Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 27, 2001, 5:26pm
Ha, then better not visit Avatar anytime soon. Because "cuz, thanx, and
ur" are probably the most offensive words one can you in our culture. It's the verbal equivalent of breaking off someone's legs and putting them in a suitcase, taking their mother on a date and ordering 5 steaks then telling her she's paying, or steeling all of someone's ladies and making them pay late fees as super stacies and still they don't hate you. And it's liable to get you a punch to the face. Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 27, 2001, 6:33pm
Shortening is ok. Like dif in place of diffent, it's the adding of z's
that boils my blood. Although I seriously don't hate it, it's just my hobby for it to boil my blood. Sometimes it's pretty silly, like thanks and thanx, ONE less letter. And cuz isn't so much shortening of a world, but slang. People IRL use cuz, and it makes me punch just as much. And I notice people who use "words" like ur and cuz, always give me other reasons to dislike them due to their personality. So they go hand in hand now. Or hand in face! PUNCH! Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 28, 2001, 5:24pm
I always thought your name was "Builder Z" as in said "Builder Zee" and not
"builders". [View Quote] Is "damn" a cuss word ?Dec 28, 2001, 6:57pm
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