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I am not one to take shit. As a RL Journalist, I work all day with freedom of the press and freedom of expression granted by law, where opinions do NOT equal to proof, therefore opinions do not constitute crime of slander or libel.

Having said that, since I was called a LIAR, directly or indirectly, I felt the need to present proof of my actions and words. 

Gala Phoenix accepted my friendship request on the January of 2009. I requested in order to keep her updated about my blog posts on her skins. The entries pertinent to such can be found in my blogs: http://hadriaen.blogspot.com/ and http://adriaen.wordpress.com/. If you're so very interested, these are four screen shots on my account too, proving this woman was on my list until I removed her. Go and look for it yourself if you REALLY want to know; it's there, it's on websites, it's everywhere, but I don't have to do anyone's homework.

Another point to observe: you (reader) may (or not) have noticed I no longer dedicate myself to the SL blogging career.

Besides being very tiresome to cope with total assholes in RL, I don't want to do the same when I FINALLY have time and nerve to log on SL.

I am not sick, crippled, lazy, and I am not parked at home, procrastinating and getting fat doing nothing but making other people’s lives hell online, with some slimy-running-nose children crying on my ear. Therefore, it's easy to deduce that I have a RL, things many of the SL users do NOT have. Well, I am not an avatar, I am a human being. My RL is important for me, and obviously my RL comes first.

I am a real life hard worker, with a pleasant but extremely dynamic and tiresome job.

So, unlike people that have nothing in life but a computer (that they use as an invincibility shield in order to hurt others and remain unpunished), I log on SL, perhaps once a week, to relax and have a bit of fun, when and if I am feeling like doing it, and to hang out with my true (and quite old) friends.

Having said that, I don't HAVE to cope with shit from any random idiot on a stupid computer game. For me, SL is JUST a GAME, where my RL people play, and my RL friends happen to gather. So, I log in SL to be happy and have some fun, unlike some mercenaries who only look at money or bastards who forget that behind each screen, there’s a human being with feelings.

SL should be leisure and pleasure, and I keep it this way; if something or someone comes on my way of such, I get quite mute/AR happy or just turn of SL and go play something else, where I don’t have to give my RL money, that I work hard for, in the hand of some stupid shop-owner who can’t even value that it’s MY money, it’s money from people like ME, it’s money from other human beings, that fucking feed them, in leisure and pleasure online, or in feeding their slimy kids. If nothing else, at least for my money, I deserved SOME respect, and the right to be left alone to at least freely hand out that money.

Sounds harsh? Shove it. I don’t care. I don’t hide feelings behind masks, or screens, like cowards do. The good side, is that those who bother knowing me a bit better, have a nice surprise. I have a good side; loads of people will attest that, although not many manage to reach me. I have TODAY, the same friends I had 10 years ago, what may come to show these ones are REALLY my friends.

I strongly protect what is precious to me. That means leisure and pleasure. I can see my friends in SL or Skype or AIM or at home, doesn't matter. However, I'm not seeking for more friends and I am not going to let some random unknown bastard to give me shit. If shit comes my way, I turn off the computer, and the shit is gone. I'm not like those who crawl and beg and need SL to live.

And honestly. My RL work is full of bastards. I could write a book about the types I had the displeasure to have met.

But I NEVER, in more than 30 years of LIFE, I NEVER met so many bastards as I have met in 2 years of SL.

And that's why I don't befriend SL people, except those I met before joining in here and a couple exceptions; this is why I only log maybe twice a week; this is why I stopped blogging for SL, and these blogs are mainly halted now. I do NOT receive comments, I do NOT receive offline IMs by e-mail, (so if they cap, good for ME), and if you HAPPEN see me online, the only thing I’ll ask, is to be polite, and for heaven's sake, DEFEND YOUR CUSTOMERS FROM GRIEVERS THAT DISTURB PEOPLE WHO COULD VERY WELL BE WILLING TO SPEND ENOUGH TO FEED YOUR GOOEY KIDS FOR A WHOLE WEEK. Also, don't bother sending me an IM to ruin my day, and I won't bother being mute/AR-happy on you. 

Thanks, bye bye.  

 

PS: Thanks to my friend who helped me translate this into readable english.

How To Loose Customers and Get Grievers Instead

So we went, my friend and I, to CURIO, to get Gala Skins. I have blogged the skins before and even had the maker on my friends list.

HAD.

I wanted to make a present for a baby friend who is starting to blog now, and my friend wanted a full pack of skins for her own use. So we went there together.

As we arrived there and stood in front of the vendors, two ladies approached my friend. One entered between my friend and the vendor, then started to push and dance over her head.

We both complained to the owner, who was online. Meanwhile they continued to harm us, one even pushing way between my friend and I, invading private space.

The owner came over, and instead of banning the grievers, she just said "mute". "Yes", I answered, "to mute is OK, but it doesn't prevent them from jumping on faces and dancing on heads". They did it in front of the owner, too. Just to push more.

The owner, instead of defending us, threated to ban us. To ban US, the grievers' victims. So I left. I was the OFFENDED part, not the offender one.

Well, she just lost two customers willing to waste nearly 20K each on her shop, to gain two grievers who will proably do the same to other customers who were trying to shop, just like us.

She will probably ban me for posting this. See if I care. At this rate, she won't have my patronage again, and I do think she lost some of my friends', too.

If you have a shop, then DO NOT do this to your customers, paying or not. Simply don't. Don't be a coward, defend your customers. We don't deserve to be grieved, and we don't deserve to be threatened of ban for being victim of grievers.

Taking a Break

You may be wondering why I have stopped blogging for a while in here, and specifically, for Second Life,R in circle, TM.

Basically, what makes me a little unhappy, is how bloggers are seen by merchants, and what bloggers do to deserve the "bad treatment".

I won't get into details here, but to summarize, I got fed up with the way the EXCHANGE between bloggers and merchants came out to be, and took a break from blogging anything related to SL. SL for me is leisure and pleausure and I am no one's punch bag. I don't HAVE to be mistreated because some other people were jerks. I'm not those people, but if it'll leak on me, I'm out.

I'll blog when I want and what I want, and only for nice people. So don't expect scheduled news from me anymore. I'm happier writting somewhere where my work is respected, and where there is a mutual respect and a consciousness of what the word "exchange" really means.