Fear and Loathing

In a rather bizarre Jack Linden office hour the Freedom for Robo front accused the G-team of corruption, accused Linden Lab of following a socialist doctrine, threw in the word "communist" a lot and to put the icing on the cake one of them is conducting a hunger strike in support of Robo in the lobby of the Linden estate services building, I'm not making this up! How long they remain there is another issue but we were invited to pop by during the week amid claims that they will still be there at the same bat time on the same bat channel next week.

From the sidelines someone asked "Who is Robo Marx?" which generated many answers, some suggesting he's the messiah... he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Attempts to raise Robo from the dead put him more in the Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine category. I can picture it now, ten years from now in SL Che Guevara T-Shirts will have been replaced with Robo Marx T-Shirts, the great freedom fighter struck down by the establishment.

I thought it was just in the UK that we were experiencing summer madness due to the heat, seriously, two days of being in serious Betty Swollocks territory does strange things to one.

Meanwhile Jack promised that more waterfront land will be available in Zindra. The mess that is the adult content policy just gets murkier, already people are getting rather irked that so and so got a waterfront parcel when previously they had an empty parcel/no adult content/ they're fic/ Linden alts. Really, is everyone going off their rocker?

I again moaned about the MOTD advertising for bigger estates, especially as Jack made claims that they had surveyed the top fifty estates and they were doing swimmingly well, there was even controversy about that as Intlibber asked why he didn't receive the survey. Seriously if they're doing so well why are LL giving them this free advertising perk?

Jack also got rather stern with Intlibber, he stopped short of offering him outside, but did offer to take him somewhere private.

Last night at Blondin's office hour the summer madness was again in evidence with cries of incompetence, foul play and unfairness all being bandied about with gay abandon. LL do deserve some sort of break over this but they have also brought this on themselves by not listening to umpteen suggestions on how to handle the massive disruption. This is a PR disaster for the lab and one I hope they learn from, although their previous form suggests they won't.

However the wheels are still turning, life goes on and people work around Linden Lab's obstacles, I do wish they'd work with us rather than against us.

Now altogether now:

But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
for power became known to more and more people,
the demands to do something about this outrageous
man became louder and louder.

"This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies
But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Robo Marx had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us" they kept demanding
And he really came

RA RA Robo Marx