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A!!CT World will drop Heartfall Sept.16 // CommunitymrbruceOct 5, 2002, 6:57am
Lastly you all seem to forget for some reason, that I allowed public
building in A!!CT since its start in September 2001. I made my decision public only because it was only right to inform any or all builders of my world what was about to happen. If AW went off line permantly with out a word would you not be upset? I only attacked you Carolann because you posted against me saying I have the right to advertise my world and use alot of bandwidth doing so...I only posted my decision to drop heartfall because as I said 100 times here so far, my world had builds owned by at least 400 builders, they had a public right to know what was going on and why. Your name got brought into this because you attacked me by saying what you said in favor of King Bluemax's post to boast about Heartfall's good charicter and to be little me. Had you really been a humane person, you would have said it's a shame a real-life friendship ended, so a service that personally ripped me off can flourish. If I asked you to go to King Bluemax's world and ask him to type the name of a sky box I bought and paid for into his sky box. I bet it would load, why should my sky box load in any ones world? ferther more InSaNiTy never sent me the file for it. So again, you buy something from him that only works as long as you keep his path services. This in my opinion is being dishonest, I once heard bad rumors about the service in the past, at one point I actually disagreed with the bad air against Heartfall, then suddenly I become a victum and now I am a believer based on my own personal experiences, not on the opinion of others. But I stress here again I WAS A USER OF HEARTFALL.COM therefore I can post about it's charicter and I realize the more this thread grows, and the more I get attacked fro dropping his services, the more I AM GLAD I AM NOT A HEARTFALL USER ANYMORE! Carolann one last thing..I do not know you..you do not know me...you do not know Lars, you do not know King Bluemax, although you are part of the AW community, my posts were intended for the builders of my now renewed world. That messae was meant for them..many of them are builders of other worlds, they needed toknow what was about to happen..this is a news group....the deletion of over 726,753 objects used by 500+ builders was news and the public had a right to know, thats what this news group is all about..public announcements when it concerns a vast number of people. Although A!!CT is not AW world, it was ran like one, exception was I allowed special commands, and speacial objects rights, allowing the use of create move and rotate commands. Yes I know community, AWTeen allows the same, I am aware of this! So Carolann my point is our attacks on each other are pointless. But again if you never used Heartfall then your opinion about their services is invalid. And King Bluemax's slander against me and my personal home life was also uncalled for. MrBruce [View Quote] carolannOct 5, 2002, 7:09am
Thank you MrBruce :-)
Final words on it here from me. Comment if you wish but you have done the gentlemanly thing just now. > As for you Carolann you just posted that you are NOT a user of Heartfall, > never have been a user and admit you do not know Lars Wyka, so my post > against you was who are you to voice an opinion in this mater especially in > favor of Heartfall? Well not exactly what you said of course...but I think this is a reasonable retraction...thank you finally MrBruce :-) And I certainly agree with that :-) then you would see I barely mentioned Heartfall as a business, especially that I never defended that business but instead, supported their right and their supporters rights to defend themselves. I didn't say anything until you claimed the right to say he and one of those he hosted couldn't do just that. You may recall my first post started out with and kept the theme of.....and I quote myself: "Isn't fair play promoted here?" >No, why bother so you can say I edited the truth to make my > so-called lies look good?. I won't bother! You said it..not me :-) Oh yes that's right, I did say something like that. want > to avoid being in my shoes, take my adivce do not make the same mistake I > did.>> If I pay the $1,300.00 renewal fee to renew A!!CT in December and I provide > 90% of the world space to the public, should I not ask for some type of > compsation in return? I have never asked for any compensation and have distributed many cits and have had many builders..but then, not on a scale I couldn't afford. It's a hobby, not a right. > But also remember as you push me out of AW, I support the program your using > right now, when I leave, thanks to your generous support of Heartfall's > ripping me off, $1,300.00 for A!!CT plus all my worlds will expire, along > with the 10 cits I support monthly at 6.95 a month each. > Thats a total of $3,475.00 that AW can count on not receiving and when AW > folds you can all go back to using ICQ! Do I understand it might fold because of you? That would trouble my conscience. But how long have you had your world? AW has only (or already) started going downhill (cit number-wise) in the last 10 months maybe hasn't it? I wouldn't worry too much though MrBruce, Aw still has over 1000 other worlds to support them, it won't be just your fault. johnny b jbitt2atjuno.comOct 5, 2002, 8:46am
I second that.......... no more please. I for one don't give a rat's at $$
about your home lives . I'm sure most people here don't either. This whole thread stinks of immaturity from all angles and from people who smash eash other ABOUT being mature.... sheesh *rolls eyes* plus we're getting a BIT off topic now.... Bruce and many others think Insanity & Heartfall sucks, Shane doesn't ...... was no need to have this become a stupid "insult-o-post" free for all........ THIS is why so many people won't join in and post to these newsgroups......... JB [View Quote] sweOct 5, 2002, 9:14am
lol, dont know about the rest, but these "insult-o-post"s are the main
reason im here :) there funnnny. and i get why MrBruce is so angry, its like when you get into a fight in real life, you expect your friends to always have your back. [View Quote] mrbruceOct 5, 2002, 12:04pm
:) I think so too, but I believe a roast deserves a PIG and that PIG roasted
themselves' for sure! [View Quote] alphabit phalphaOct 5, 2002, 12:06pm
bowenOct 5, 2002, 1:16pm
*smacks MrBruce* snip your posts! And reply to the person you're actually replying
too... I find it hard to follow a thread when you keep replying to yourself when you're actually talking to carolann. --Bowen-- king bluemaxOct 5, 2002, 3:37pm
Where in that post did i personally attack you? Please point it out, I hope
this is giving you a headache, cause im still laughing. This is the post from community, " blah, blah, blah, maybe insanity isn't a saint but he doesnt deserve to be insulted, personally I've had the best of experience with him, And judging from some of the replies you guys in Mr. Happys Peter Pan Land need to get spellchecker and a decent understanding of how to construct an argument, the only thing you guys know is what Bruce tells you, if there is an argument to be had it is better constructed from a neutral perspective with factual information and not blind admiration. If you aren't children you sure are acting like it by blindly posting nonsense. another thing I can tell you is that there is more than one person at heartfall for sure, as i have delt with some of them. Just one of the many inconsistancies in your information. If Bruce jumped off a bridge would you follow? I hope not, even kids are smart enough to know better." Im not seeing these aformentioned personal attacks, mabee your referring to the peter pan comment. If that is it then stop acting like peter pan." And im sorry to upset those who are disgruntled with my post. It to me wasnt ever about being rude or flaming or spamming. but everything ive said is either from being there at the time or something that was said to me by mr bruce, no lies no half posts. just your own words. Also if you noticed the issues you addressed werent even in my original post like pricing? i never commented on that and several others you refuted. just the ones i had been around for and had factual information on. You better print these posts out and get a highlighter. king bluemaxOct 5, 2002, 3:52pm
just another note, in a previous post you had 200 builders, now 500+? which
is it.? I cant even follow this any more. All I ever set out to do was to say i liked the services you hammered. You turned it into a personal argument. Im done with "flaming" and mabee the response to your last post was as bad as your post itself, and for all those who didnt want to hear it im sorry. You are right i shuouldnt have done the same thing. for that i apoligize. To the others not you bruce. Ive been on AW longer than you and i now realize why ive never been into worldbuilding or getting credit for my activities in AW. Its too much work to be a hobby. For me its a hobby not a life, and to be honest id rather talk to people who arent so impassioned with irelevance, I will end this and go back to what i like to do, Building. I must admit that Ive gained one thing from this experience, Mabee people you dont know online are better friends than you can get in real life. Too bad youve come to these conclusions, but its not insanitys fault. Im not mad at you at all. Youre the one who decided to sever our friendship because you dont like it when others dont agree with you. Sorry to all those who hate my mega posts, this will be the last big one. Shane (KBM) king bluemaxOct 5, 2002, 4:09pm
One last note, for something to be slander it has to be a lie. I didnt
lie at all, everything ive said about you is factual and in no way is priviledged because you personally told it to me. Still laughing. Get a grip! johnny b jbitt2atjuno.comOct 5, 2002, 4:13pm
the joker ssOct 5, 2002, 5:12pm
we all get the point , go join eachother and argue about it in private
sw chrisOct 5, 2002, 7:02pm
I thought you said yesterday you were done with this topic. The worst
comes out in everyone I guess... at one time or another. :) SW Chris [View Quote] kahOct 5, 2002, 7:43pm
"ncc 72897" <NCC-71854 at USS-Venture.Starfleet.UFP> wrote in news:3d9f40b3
at server1.Activeworlds.com: > hypocrite. Says the Überhypocrite... KAH mrbruceOct 6, 2002, 2:32am
here it is s*ithead and by the way yes i typoed on the number it was meant
to be 300 check your spealling while your reading this. Here's your whole flam against me and my personal life Shane, it makes intresting reading! Hi all, I've never been big on going to the trouble of posting in the newsgroups but after reviewing the opinions of so many especially Bruce, I felt the need to express a few of my own opinions on some of the aforementioned topics. Bruce, I could have saved this for a telephone conversation but I fell since you seem to be so public about so many of the experiences you've had in AW that I would address you directly in this forum as you seem to feel it should be used as a tool for hammering on the heads of those who have tirelessly adapted to your ever changing view of what you were trying to accomplish in this world of yours. I et me start by telling the group that I've known Mr. Bruce for over a decade now personally, as we live in the same town and in the past shared a common interest in CB Radio. I remember when I first showed him the AW Plugin, and only a few months later he purchased A1CT and his world was born. He surprised me with a telegram and an invitation to this new world of his and I built an "embassy" in there almost instantly. I must admit Bruce your world grew fast and had amassed quite a following. Shortly thereafter I decided that I would like to be a part of this world and contributed $60.00 to an upgrade. I liked A!!CT because of the wonderful objects in the WCOL Path. I must have spent 300 hours building and strolling through the path looking around at all of the great objects in the path. Over time Bruce and I had several discussions about the future of this world and was willing at one point to pay the reasonable hosting bill in its entirety. Later on I contributed again to the world, around $200.00, to bring its size up too P100. Unlike the majority of the users in there I was more than willing to help out financially as I know you personally and we had discussed the limitations on your ability to finance the entire thing alone and some of the kids weren't able to help because of their own financial limitations. Now that I've got that out of the way on to the real issues at hand. I once asked what are you trying to accomplish here? Your answers never made any sense. Are you concerned with the kids, wanting to give them a place to hang out that is a safe environment? Do you want to become a respected world owner? What is it you were trying to accomplish? No Good answer still. For anything to go the way you want it too you need to have a plan. I offered up several, but lets review what you do in here most of the time and also where some of the money trouble that has arisen has come from. First, and I'm only repeating your own words here, the majority of your time according to you was spent rebuilding tourist builds, a noble task and a big job and it was almost impossible to ever complete. You also told me one of you biggest concerns was the position in the world list and how many people were in your world at any time and how to get more.You also said that you liked to upgrade the size of the world because it allowed for making smaller payments at a single time and extended the expiation of the world, which does make sense but only with the approach that you can pay the big bill next year when it comes in all at once. On the subject of money, you once told me that you paid for at least ten citizens, which in my opinion indicates that even when there are 14 people in your world at any time you are paying for most of them to be there. If you cannot afford the commitments that you make then spend the money more wisely and don't blame others for your funding mismanagement. Some of the younger people in your world are very responsible and greatly impartial, or better put, mature enough to maintain the responsibility and generous consideration you have giving them. Others are not so nice, some have been downright rotten. I also want to include in this post, prior to your rebuttal, that I deleted all of my builds in your world and receded into my own because after contributing financially and offering to assist in several other ventures to better your world, you remove my ed rights, for straightening a road with minimal of impact to older unfinished builds, allowed children to accuse me of things like turning a build around (which I see as impossible), and participate in their ranting like a child, and finally make several decisions on running the world without asking my opinion or even including me at all. It was right then that I decided to upsize my world because as I had told you prior I wasn't about to contribute if I wasn't going to be a part of the whole thing. Bruce, I like you, You are a decent guy but I think that you need to look at the facts and see them for what they are. You are running on a budget, your plan changes every other day, and If your goal is to have 20 users in your world all the time don't pay ten to be there or else you've only accomplished half of your goal. To conclude my ridiculous post I want to say a few things in defense of my Excellent World Host, Heartfall, I was included in some of the arguments that Insanity has had with you , and you had told me about a few of the others. In most cases he was right. You may disagree as some of the kids will as well, as they are young and easily influenced by others opinions. I'm not 100% sure what Insanity will think of my opinions and was in no way influenced by him in them. And once again they all come from what you have told me. One was that you constantly handed out passes to the path without referring the users to the sign up page. Including one of my builders who I told to go to the signup page and they told me not to worry as you had given them the pass. If your builders don't want to identify themselves with an email address? my question is why? Second, I recall several uncalled for comments made by you to others about insanity that probably caused him grief at some point or another. And being that kids are easily influenced, sometimes do things that are inappropriate to try to gain your admiration. Third, You often when upgrading your user limit or world size didn't bother to tell Insanity until after the fact, which also was told to me by you. If you increase the user limit you also increase the bot limit and this is extra bandwidth. which is money. If you had been more cooperative with him you may have had a better experience. I am probably one of the people you mentioned in your post that learned about Heartfall from A!!CT and I'm glad that I did. My world has never had any problems, and Insanity has done everything I asked him too in a timely and respective manner, when I upgraded my user limit I told him in advance and he was prepared, happy and helpful. He told you time and time again what he expected from you and you repeatedly distorted it and changed it. You babble on about how you were told that all of the objects that were the same I the path would load which I really think any intelligent individual who understands an OP would know better and I've never been told by him that the path will load if it changed and I have a tough time believing that he said that to you in the exact context that you repeat it constantly, or that if you did misunderstand him that he didn't clearly explain it again when asked. I know you, and how you operate, on and off of AW so maybe I'm at an advantage as to what is really going on, you speak before you think Its too bad that you would hammer someone because of your own shortcomings, and financial difficulty, but maybe all of us that tried to help you financially would have been more willing to work with you if you were willing to compromise a bit on some of your absurd positions. The only thing that Insanity said too me about your changing paths was that he was very upset for the kids who enjoyed the path and that they feel so discontented, He, being an adult of reasonable intellect is not littered with selfish undertones of playing god. And for you to insinuate that insanity is not willing to give a little to others, look at some of the charitable things he has done with his life at the Heartfall website, like his earthquake aid, he has given a lot more to better others than you ever have, Heartfall is not some big corporation that is bathing in money, he does this because he has a genuine interest in making AW better and preserving it. These kids treat you like a role model and you teach them to hold grudges and distort truth. Maybe If they knew you in the real world they would see why you put so much into AW, I'm sure you will bark at the moon now that once again the truth is on the table, too bad, but someone needs to point it out, I also will note that Insanity was courteous and wished everyone well even after you got into attacking him which is a clear indicator of who is the responsible adult. It truly is too bad for all of those who enjoyed the path and the many objects in it. Also I'm sure if a trusted source approached Insanity with a copyright free object he would be happy to add it to the path. He is a great guy as well as an excellent world host, who is more than willing to work with those who are willing to work with him. You on the other hand are miserable from the tiring trouble you repeatedly put yourself through to do all this and the part that gets me is you have no reason, purpose, or cause. It seems more like an addiction than entertainment. Maybe you need to sit back and slow down, get back to having a good time instead of being so worried about such trivial things, Its all fun, its VIRTUAL reality, not reality.So stop playing Peter Pan and Get A Grip LOL. To all those who loved the objects in the path I invite you to build in AKingdom, It has a 15 User Limit and is a P50, and it will be for a long time because I've budgeted it that way and that's what I can afford, its not a free for all for all of the troublemakers, and I'm not into working at managing it till my head explodes, but if you like to build and are tired of worrying about whether or not your stuff will be around in a year I've got some space for you to use the wonderful objects that you like, come and see it. One last note, if you do create you own OP please keep some statistics on how it measures up to WCOL. Id be interested if it will have the reliability and bandwidth I've come to expect, 99.9% ,which I see as conservative considering I've had 100% reliability with Heartfall, My connection never drops off in my world, ever, I've not even enjoyed that reliability with AW Hosted worlds. Good Luck. With both your OP and the world license renewal fees. Its too bad Bruce, you should have thought this all out more objectively. In the end AW Teen will still be there so I suppose the kids wont be totally lost. I'm sure some of the kids will respond aggressively to this post but I hope all those who read it understand that the unedited truth is a reality unlike AW. I wish you the best, and Id still back you up in a jam but I cannot agree with you on your AW related opinions when they are so single sided and jaded by your illusions. Take care all, and have a great day. King Bluemax (321028) There it is stupid you post and you forget what you said LOL Are you sure your note InSaNiTy #2? MrBruce [View Quote] goober kingOct 6, 2002, 3:51am
The only interesting thing I see here is that he makes *no* mention of
your personal life whatsoever. The closest he ever gets is saying that you might have some financial difficulty, but beyond that, nothing. Let's face facts here, folks: Everyone involved with this thread is NOT helping the situation any. MrBruce's credibility is getting shot more to hell every time he posts. And as I'm sure Bluemax and Carolann are figuring out, you can't convince those people who feel they've been wronged by InSaNiTy otherwise. And, of course, Mr Heartfall himself isn't helping by posting under ever-changing aliases and trying to convince the world that there's more to his "company" than just him. So, my suggestion to *everyone*, and that includes you Bruce, is to quit while you're ahead, go outside, and take a nice deep breath. Hopefully, by the time you all come back, you'll be a bit more sane and reasonable and we'll all have forgotten about this pointless argument. [View Quote] -- Goober King Quitting while he's ahead... robrod at prism.net ananasOct 6, 2002, 7:56am
Just for the record :
CarolAnn's point was the way this "discussion" was held, not pro or contra Heartfall. [View Quote] bowenOct 6, 2002, 1:59pm
[View Quote]
We had a talk about this in AWTeen the other day. You wanted to use ignorant there,
and arrogant on the other post. Arrogant doesn't sound right in that sentence. --Bowen-- king bluemaxOct 6, 2002, 3:05pm
Huh, I still didnt see anything about your personal life. and Ive printed
out the whole thing and highlighted areas I feel may have been offensive to you but none seen to pop up unless AW is all you have for a life? I dont know. How about a nice game of chess instead? LOL You can hate me but I still am not upset with you. LOL. Still lauging. Last word, last word. Shane (KBM) johnny b jbitt2atjuno.comOct 6, 2002, 7:00pm
goober kingOct 6, 2002, 9:18pm
Because we're not moderators ;P
[View Quote] -- Goober King Just who *is* the moderator, anyway? :P robrod at prism.net mrbruceOct 7, 2002, 3:33pm
This is my last post on this issue as I am sick of defending my self over
this. No.1 I had a right to post to the public that I was dropping Heartfall as hosting and path. No.2 I had a right to say why I made this decision. No.3 Heartfall is in a sense a company that provides services. That company is owned and operated by InSaNiTy. No.4 It is InSaNiTy himself who decided to charge me $175.00 over what his website quotes as $400.00 No.5 It was InSaNiTy who spoke to me about a sky box and it was InSaNiTy who sold me this sky box for $30.00 No.6 It was InSaNiTy who tried to sell me 4 Cobra attack helicopters for $50.00 (Those 4 helicopters were already available on the public av list!) I posted what I had to post and in return King BlueMax posts his good points about Heartfall, but in the process under several posts talks about me and my credibility, such as how I give out passwords blindly. He also spoke about how I did Heartfall and the people who tried to help me 'wrong'. That is the attack I am talking about. King Bluemax could have said I like Heartfall because......Instead, he attacked me and in a sense stated that because I am such a careless person I deserve to be over charged, he also spammed his world by saying "COME TO AKINGDOM AND YOU WILL SEE THE HEARTFALL YOU LOVE AND ENJOY..blah blah blah..... He not only spammed his world as being better than mine, he also advertised Heartfall produtions in the process! The snip of King Bluemax's that I copied and pasted was just the beginning of the attack, as I said in an earlier post, read the whole thread. Because of his post I get attacked by others saying they are tired of me spamming my world A!!CT, I did not spam, I merely posted an announcement to all those who have built in my world, that I would be dropping Heartfall. Those who understand paths like Heartfall's, also understand no two paths have 100% of all the same objects. Therefore the likely hood of builds owned by people other than myself will obviously be greatly affected. Which was the case here, I tried several paths using the last prop-dump InSaNiTy sent me. During a 2 day test we loaded the prop-dump, all we seen was over 100 black triangles (non-rendering objects) to every square meter! It came to the point, that I had no choice but to remove the prop-dump and start fresh. The point that upsets me is a hosting service inflates it's prices and I get attacked, does this make sense? I am the victum here.... not InSaNiTy. He played the ole price and demand crap with me, he figured if he inflatted my renewal price for my world, I would gladly pay it, so as not to lose the respect of my builders! Ok, let's say I paid it, what would it be next year...$700.00? So yes, I feel I was being taken advantage of! Legally I could report him for running a scam. He posts prices on his website and then charges what he wants, when he feels in the need of some extra cash. Like I said in an earlier post, it's like when a store advertises cucumbers 3 for a $1.00 but at the register they charge you $10.00 saying if you want it bad enough you pay the price, that to me is false advertising and is illegal! Some here may say...thats the American way, but I am here to say I am not the idiot who needs it that much! I do not know what will be said in response to this post and truthfully I am tired of explaining my self...InSaNiTy you took advantage of me and tried to do it again, you lost a customer in your attemps to make some extra cash. I know you were desperate for money because you told me you had medical bills to pay and needed to sell sky boxs, avatars and such to meet those bill payments...but you also intended to charge me more to help pay those bills, had you charged me what you post on your website, I would have gladly paid it. Instead you lost a customer and a very unhappy one at that! It was not just the lose of my hard work, it was also the lose of hundreds of citizens hard work and King Bluemax you yourself know A!!CT had builds owned by at least 200 citizens. You scanned the world many times and commented on that to me, well tahnks to InSaNiTy's price scam, those builds are lost forever and yes I lost many people's respect, because this decision has wipped out what many have worked very hard on. As a business with HEART in it's name (hence Heartfall) does InSaNiTy really show that he has a heart? Tell that to the real losers here...the aw community builders! Right now I host my own world, have my own path and I only have to answer to myself. Therefore I will NOT respond to any more posts in this thread, believe what you want..but I have a right to NOT get ripped off by a scammer! My final post on this issue MrBruce [View Quote] sw chrisOct 7, 2002, 4:46pm
I think i speak for most free-thinking individuals when I say... you don't
need to defend yourself. Chris [View Quote] king bluemaxOct 9, 2002, 3:35pm
That's much better. More points less attacks. That post I respect.Good to
see that. I never said my world was better than A!!CT, just said I liked the path and was still using it in my world if others wanted to use it as well. I think that no matter how you add it up A!!CT is bigger, has more community, and so on, I never was trying to compete with you. I don't have that kind of time or support in my world. I think A!!CT has definitely achieved its place up there in the successful public building world category. My point was if you run a big world there are problems and some are easily avoided instead of exploited. I read a lot of your posts and said nothing. A Lot. I just wanted to input into the community my opinion on issues I was around for. Nothing more nothing less. Shane (KBM) |