LAG fights Lag!
Posted by myg
Fight the fucking lag, that’s what I say.
You want to know how? Well get your ass over to CodeBastard’s post on the topic. Codie gives clear explanations for client-side lag, network lag and sim lag and offers suggestions for what to do about those things.
Unfortunately, we know far too fucking well in Topgol that if sim lag is your problem, there’s not all that much you can do unless somehow you get Linden Lab to actually give a shit. Seems they’ve got their hands full these days looking to widen avenues for restricting their customers’ freedoms, but that’s another post entirely.
Otherwise, like us you’re left with putting public pressure on your neighbors who are resource hogging. Thanks to concerned bloggers, Topgol Citizens and friends, the Lag Annihilation Group (LAG) was formed. (IM Alex in-world to get in the group). We started with the logos and the T-shirts made by Codie. Then Wrath made us some signs. And Vint went and spoke with the owner of the 12 Monkey casino chain, and sweetly clued him in to what can happen when a bunch of bloggers get passionate about an issue.
And my god, we’ve hardly started.
Oh why am I always absent when events like this take place? Oh yes - I’m sleeping. Stupid time zones!
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Seems that things got more serious. Last time, when I was in Topgol, I saw some floating, pink vibrators (the MOVED when I touched them xD). Was it your work
Those were NOT our work; they were the work of a lag-producing griefer. LAG wants to stop lag. But we’re often on earlier in the day–during Europe’s evening–so stop by and say hello.
Noooooo! We would never do something like that, seriously. We may have harangued a few campers and I’ve certainly shot my mouth off in the casino but we’d never pull a stupid stunt like littering a sim with garbage. In fact that really pissed us off because our friend Romana hasn’t been on much and that shit stays there for days and days (as you might have noticed.)
And while going apeshit in the casino has made for some fun times, I’ve turned a corner people. I am going to try the route of peaceful protest and diplomacy. Because I can imagine that if enough of us care about this issue and speak out about it, people like this casino owner will eventually hear it and do something. Like move to a private fucking server!
Some people are just blind to others reasoning.
(should have thought that you don’t fight lag with lag, but hey, those scary, pink things distracted me).
Those pink vibrators scared the shit out of me (when I touched it I was certain it was going to reapear in my ass xD) - it’s good it was not your work, because pink is not my color
Myg,
Make sure I know about any LAG related posts. We’ll make sure the casino gets all the publicity it deserves.
blogging. by far the most effective way to get things done on this here internet.
and by most effective, i mean most hilariously pathetic.
you could scare these casino fags out of your sim, but you’re certinally not doing it via bloggings on the blogosphere and shirt creation.
also those giant pink dongs were my attempt to help beat this casino you bitch so much about and do nothing to stop.
unfortunately, i only had rudimentary tools and the casino remained up. once i get tired of harassing furries and anshe chung, i might give it another go with some better tools.
Um, thanks Torvalpac, but we’re really not interested in that kind of help.
See, we don’t actually have a problem with casinos in SL. We just don’t want them on a mainland sim (aka Topgol) where they use a disproportionate amount of resources. It causes the sim to lag and those of us who own property there can’t enjoy being there. We just think if you want to have a heavily scripted business and you’re making money, you should buy your own sim and run it there so you don’t piss off the neighbors.
The griefing methods you employ would run counter to our purposes in that a) it’s just uncool behavior and we don’t like it–whether done for our supposed benefit or not, b) it inconveniences the entire sim, and there are plenty of other owners there besides the casino owner and us and b) it would, eventually, get us IP banned (as you have been) by Linden Lab, and we actually *like* Second Life. We enjoy hanging out there, doing creative stuff, and meeting cool folks. So we’re not really into the whole terroristic sim crashing method of diplomacy.
In short, your methods really aren’t working for us. But thanks for trying to help out.
*laughs*
Lag isn’t so bad if you stand in one place and do nothing. Oops, nevermind, that’s my first life!