August 20, 2002

We couldn't take it anymore in acro.

We were playing a match against a team whom Seven and I never liked. Someone I'd known for over three years had moved to that team a few months back. She wasn't thrilled that I despised them, but knew I held no personal grudges over spare time. Besides, she could have joined ours instead. There'd be one more player capable of forming phrases beyond topics of codependency and unnatural acts with family and pets. (and these aren't even the snerty players) I messaged her a remark - note messaging is a private statement between two people, private being the operative word - when, after playing 6 vs 6, the rival team - after having already won the first game - brought in a 7th, knowing full well that we could not get a 7th for our own team that night. Somehow, that private message reached my team captain from the rival team captain.

Being called on the carpet by Email after the match was irrelevant. Seven and I had, before the end of that farce of a match, decided to leave the team as well as team play in general. If we have friends around, we can always create a room and set a password to it. And even that won't be an option for long on the current game module; the owner plans to start charging for the use. Since I leave during the middle of a game half the time because a room often degenerates into an insipid biology lesson, they wouldn't be worth a dime.

I figured staying in touch with about four members of the team. Only the captain and co-captain have communicated with me. Fair weather friends come a dime a gross, don't they?

DD 2:44pm EST on Tuesday, Aug 20, 2002

Has it been this fast?

Lots of interesting tales to tell. First is about location:

I had moved out of the Star Trek neighborhood to a Voyager block in UFOs. Within a day or two I was a Block deputy. Now, each colony, neighborhood, block, and resident each have a little message board to maintain. In my second week, I decided to go into our block's configuration just to view the info and see what is made available to users to customize a board - maybe get some ideas for mine? I was surprised to discover that of all the websites on Voyager on the Internet, they were hotlinking to one of MY images!

Now I know the odds of this happening are extremely remote, but there it was. The Block Leader had been leeching off a future resident's website. I promptly left a msg in his inbox - a very restrained message I'm proud to say - and exchanged the link from my image to the one in his inbox (of the crew. It looked better anyway and it was hotlinked to a large, commercial site). He was confused and didn't reply for three days. The neighborhood deputy I took this up with - because the two were friends and I didn't want this blown out into anything public - was entirely clueless and had to be explained like a child the implications of bandwidth theft. Apparently the Block Leader knew even less. [more]

DD 12:47pm EST on Tuesday, Aug 20, 2002