Ambrosia Dance Club

If you read profiles of people you may run across this line a lot: “I hate Drama, Keep it away from me”. What is this Drama they are talking about that is so abhorrent that they have to issue statements to ward off its evil forces?

Going to the dictionary turns up this definition – “an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional”. Well that certainly sums up a lot of the interaction that is going on in and around the club. Let’s face it, after a person has been in Second Life for a bit and seen and done pretty much everything that can be done what is left for amusement? Some people become content creators and spend their hours buried in Photoshop turning out cartoon underwear. Others find some form of employment to generate funds to satisfy their blood lust for the latest SL fashion. Some join a Roleplay Community like the bisexual kamikaze vampire wombats and become lost in a world which most of the human race cannot relate to. And then there are those who specialize in entertainment through Drama creation.

These shrieking harpies – don’t get me wrong there are plenty of men involved in this as well – can turn even the most trivial encounter into high drama in seconds. They have state of the art drama creation devices like Emerald “Who has a cross hair on my Boyfriend Radar” or an evil titler which they use with deft skill to create an atmosphere of charged tension that they feed off of.

“Hey, stop looking at my boyfriend’s ass you whore”

“Excuse me? I was AFK pulling laundry out of the dryer”

“I will hunt you down across the grid and cut off your bewbies with a rusty butter knife if you keep looking at my boyfriend you slut!”

“Please I just came here to dance and listen to music!”

“And to steal my boyfriend you skanky streetwalker!”

This exchange of course erupts into a full blown dance floor brouhaha that usually results in one or more of the parties beginning their long descent into the Ambrosia Ocean below the club. The drama queen has been entertained. Mission Accomplished.

There was this episode of Star Trek where the crew of the Enterprise and some Klingons were fighting each other for control of the ship. People would be stabbed and then miraculously heal to continue fighting. It turned out that a malevolent entity was aboard the ship that fed off the emotions of evil fighting and had created a situation that could satisfy this need in perpetuity.
Of course, Captain Kirk figured this out and made a truce with the Klingon Commander and they all laughed at the evil alien until it fled into the void of space. Without the drama it had no purpose. See, you can learn a lot about life by watching old episodes of Star Trek!

So, ignore the drama! Hit that mute button. Laugh at it. Just whatever you do, don’t feed it. It has an appetite with no end.

Second Life is a wonderful platform for social interaction. We learn so much about others from all over the world. Sometimes way too much. What is it that compels people to share graphic details of their real lives with others who they know little about? I am talking about that dread affliction known by its acronym TMI – Too Much Information.

How do you know if you suffer from the effects of this dread disease? If you say lines like the following its quite possible you suffer from TMI Syndrome. Potential cure lines follow.

TMI – OMFG My master bedroom is infested with lice and I have to leave to stay town and stay at the Motel 6 in Fernville while the fumigators put a tent over my house and gas it so pass it along that I wont be online a lot.

Cure -I will be out of town for a few days. Catch you on my laptop!

TMI – I have 5 kids the oldest Bobby just got out of prison and has to wear a darn bracelet around his leg and he just walked within 1000 yards of a school zone and now the police are over at my house and they are going to take him in so i have to run for a bit.

Cure – Brb

TMI – In my country we take the snakes and hang them on a silken rope outside the village and then ritualistically beat them with sticks. After they dry for 3 days we take them down and they are placed in earthenware vessels and cooked at the Aa’Rean which is the center of the village as the women wail and utter lamentations while throwing dust over their heads. then we gather to eat them. It is much delicious i must tell you.

Cure – I like to party and eat delicacies.

TMI – I think my cat is dead. Let me check, yep he’s dead. I have to find a plastic bag. Well you knew it was coming. Lord Percival was always anemic and my other cats would always avoid him and you know when you have 40 cats you will always have the social outcast. Oh well so how is your day going.

Cure – Hey whats up.

TMI – Do you have a minute? I have to show you something. I ate about 5 pounds of lasagna last night and I just took a dump and I swear to you that it looks just like an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. I have to upload a picture for you. Brb.

Cure – Would you like to see some nature photography?

So what is TMI. It is the dissemination of information about your life that is totally useless to others and puts a mental image of you in their minds that is unpleasant at best and totally horrific at worst. Avoid TMI and have a better public image!

by Phil F. Kearny

A while back Linden Lab introduced Viewer 2. It was pretty much universally hated at its introduction and is still so by a solid majority of people. I decided to give it a try and after several weeks of use I became used to it and abandoned my previous viewer which was Emerald. I was always nervous about using a third party viewer just because of the possiblility of someone being able to insert their own code in for malicious and/or commercial reasons. The Developers of Emerald always insisted that all of their code was transparent and easily viewable and verifiable. But this apparently is not the case.

Recently, one of the developers has quit Emerald and published some interesting things in his blog.

“Unfortunately, I do not feel confident enough to support it any more, for a number of reasons. I did not realize at the time that emkdu was added, that it could be used to add in code I was not able to see. These things were done behind my back, it was found out by others that code was placed in that braodcasted your viewers title bar and executable path in a obfuscated manner. This was addressed, promised to be fixed, and (luckily) people broke through the now encrypted layer to find out that it was not. Of-course, it has been promised to be fixed a third time, but now with an encryption level too high to be broken. Although replacing or deleting emkdu would resolve this issue, I also have to consider that this was hidden in the code for months without anyone knowing..

Regardless of the intentions of those who placed this code there, It has made one thing inescapably clear. I am not able to double check everything any more. I tried to find a solution to resolve this matter, but it appears that most people do not care about this to the level that I do. I made sure the other emerald devs were aware of what is going on via this. As mentioned there, closed source, hidden designs and single developer licenses have no place in emerald. People can make mistakes, but it is important that others can double check without having to break through encryption.”

Whaaaa? Encrypted stuff in Emerald? Who are these people anyhow and do you trust them? At least we know the address of Linden Lab. But what sort of encrypted stuff could it be?

http://nalates.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/emerald-viewer-scandal-erupts%E2%80%A6-again/

“For users of Emerald there are several things that have happened that are alarming. At one point the viewer was sending some user information to the Emerald servers. The dev’s said, ok its fixed and does not do that anymore. LLG found that the data was still being transmitted but then it was obfuscated using an XOR algorithm. This means that simply watching the data stream to see what is being sent out of the viewer becomes more difficult but not that hard to figure out. After another round of complaints the data is now apparently encrypted making it extremely difficult to see what is being sent. I have to ask why, when caught, they went to XOR and, when caught again, then went to encryption? I find this behavior very indicative of a problem. Not only is the code closed so is the data being sent.

Also directory paths and login ID and possibly full real life names were being baked into the AV texture. Thus allowing others to learn an avatars real identity.

The consensus on SLUniverse seems to be to stop using Emerald. I can understand that choice. I am changing passwords and will be using Emerald only with an AV without payment options. The data being transmitted is said to be information about the user’s computer and name but not passwords, but how can I know that?”

I am glad to be on Viewer2 and will gladly sacrifice some bells and whistles like jiggly bewbies.

Ambrosia Dance Club is a great place to interact with other people and meet someone new. Friendships have developed on the dance floor at Ambrosia that have gone on to full blown RL relationships and even marriage.

First impressions are important. Many guys will come in to meet women and intiate a conversation with the all purpose, “Hello”, in IM. Others are far more inventive in their opening lines, showing that there is no limit to the ingenuity of the horny male. I asked various female patrons about different lines they have heard from guys and here are a few of the results:

[9:56] Skip334 Galana: Hello there, I would like to talk to you and give you my full attention… I don’t know if that sounds selfish or horrible but fact is fact :) I have been hard for you all day now. Out of my control. You are perfect.

This line did not work whatsoever.

[17:17] screwu Foxdale: babi ur hot women
[17:18] Summerr Hillburton: I find your pale pasty noob skin very attractive as well
[17:20] screwu Foxdale: i like mak sex with u how can do
[17:20] Summerr Hillburton: mak sex with me
[17:20] screwu Foxdale: yea
[17:21] Summerr Hillburton: How about i feed your testicles into a wheat thresher instead?
[17:21] screwu Foxdale: owwwwww
[17:21] screwu Foxdale: ur lesbian

Shot down in flames so she must be a lesbian.

[11:36] Farley Ryerson: I cannot help but notice you dancing alone in the corner. I see sadness in your eyes. You need a man in your life. I am that man. Open the door.

Poetic but no result

[19:57] V1nce Arabello: hi
[19:58] V1nce Arabello: yr hot
[19:58] cinnamonsin Edenflower: thank you
[20:00] V1nc eArabello: can i f..k u?
[20:00] cinnamonsin Edenflower: no

Total Fail