There has been a recent, rampant abuse of the Avatar System here in the forums of late and I'm sure that I am not the only one who has noticed this either.
It has clearly been out in the open and for a lack of a better phrase, actually thrown in our faces here!
Now some of you may say, what's the big deal? Well, I'm glad you asked. It is purely a reality viewpoint in a virtual world as one example I can give you here for simplicity sake:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially a virtual woman with the power of a password at her fingertips. She logged into her husband’s Maple Story account and killed his avatar. He went to the police and she ended up in the big house.
Now that was just merely one example of many that you can read about nowadays on many virtual boards and news headlines going around.
The one's I want to discuss here, I will list below as Exhibit A and Exhibit B as follows:
Max's' Avatar
Exhibit A
277px × 175px
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Exhibit B
Webzcas' Avatar
300px × 243px
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Those two examples above are the blatant "Avatar Abuse" that I am referring to here. TWICE the size of the normal avatar allowed for the lowly pheasants of this community. (That's the rest of us)
Squires and Dukes they both are for sure, I am not arguing that point, we all can agree on that one I am sure.
But still, it boggles the mind how seriously people take this avatar business. When major companies like Spacely Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs encourage their partners to take part in Second Life (SL) by creating a partners only "island", all I see is a transparent attempt to gain points for being "hip" and "with it". Now don't get me wrong, online video games are great. MMORPGs are insanely popular as most of us know very well. But trying to legitimize it by saying that it's for business purposes? Give me a break.....
Actually, I'm not really sure if that is Maxs' and Webzcas' intention at all but whether it is, or is not, is of no concern at this juncture. No one in their right mind uses avatars for business purposes anyway, at least not in this virtual reality world we all find ourselves in here. But I'll also be the first to admit that it's a great chance for partners to meet other partners in scheduled events.
The problem with that though is the fact that neither Max nor Webzcas ever schedules any events for us all to attend here. Some of you are probably thinking, yes...you are correct, I remember no events here either!
But when you really get down to the nuts and bolts of it all, who's going to take anyone seriously that spend their off time negotiating contracts for Spacely Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs or even having (no pun intended) animated business discussions when it's through a cartoon doppelganger? I mean really!
If this is the future of business, then you can count me out. And if arresting people for killing other peeps avatars is the future of police work, then ION's Criminal Minds is going to get really boring fast!
Now to get to the main point...why are we lowly forum pheasants limited to a 150 x 150 avatar when the Dukes and Earls are allowed much, much larger ones?
I would like to take this opportunity to lodge a formal complaint here...
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It has clearly been out in the open and for a lack of a better phrase, actually thrown in our faces here!
Now some of you may say, what's the big deal? Well, I'm glad you asked. It is purely a reality viewpoint in a virtual world as one example I can give you here for simplicity sake:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially a virtual woman with the power of a password at her fingertips. She logged into her husband’s Maple Story account and killed his avatar. He went to the police and she ended up in the big house.
Now that was just merely one example of many that you can read about nowadays on many virtual boards and news headlines going around.
The one's I want to discuss here, I will list below as Exhibit A and Exhibit B as follows:
Max's' Avatar
Exhibit A
277px × 175px
Old Attachment (Invalid)
Exhibit B
Webzcas' Avatar
300px × 243px
Old Attachment (Invalid)
Those two examples above are the blatant "Avatar Abuse" that I am referring to here. TWICE the size of the normal avatar allowed for the lowly pheasants of this community. (That's the rest of us)
Squires and Dukes they both are for sure, I am not arguing that point, we all can agree on that one I am sure.
But still, it boggles the mind how seriously people take this avatar business. When major companies like Spacely Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs encourage their partners to take part in Second Life (SL) by creating a partners only "island", all I see is a transparent attempt to gain points for being "hip" and "with it". Now don't get me wrong, online video games are great. MMORPGs are insanely popular as most of us know very well. But trying to legitimize it by saying that it's for business purposes? Give me a break.....
Actually, I'm not really sure if that is Maxs' and Webzcas' intention at all but whether it is, or is not, is of no concern at this juncture. No one in their right mind uses avatars for business purposes anyway, at least not in this virtual reality world we all find ourselves in here. But I'll also be the first to admit that it's a great chance for partners to meet other partners in scheduled events.
The problem with that though is the fact that neither Max nor Webzcas ever schedules any events for us all to attend here. Some of you are probably thinking, yes...you are correct, I remember no events here either!
But when you really get down to the nuts and bolts of it all, who's going to take anyone seriously that spend their off time negotiating contracts for Spacely Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs or even having (no pun intended) animated business discussions when it's through a cartoon doppelganger? I mean really!
If this is the future of business, then you can count me out. And if arresting people for killing other peeps avatars is the future of police work, then ION's Criminal Minds is going to get really boring fast!
Now to get to the main point...why are we lowly forum pheasants limited to a 150 x 150 avatar when the Dukes and Earls are allowed much, much larger ones?
I would like to take this opportunity to lodge a formal complaint here...
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