F.U.S.L.

Ohello.  Welcome to my whallop of a feckin’ rant.  Why are you ranting sweet pixel lurverly?  Because I am not is happy.  I have many things to scream and caw about, but, I’m going to relegate myself to only two.

I’m is givin’ dems phun1 nams s0 1s do not cryies egan, lolz!!!11

Da azzet survur 8s mah b3bi3z!!!11 and Fucked (over) and Loathing in Las Inventory.

u c? 1ms is n07 d’hapies. (((

Enough of that pretty pony shit, I want my lost inventory back. Feckin’ pronto. And that’s all I have to say about the asset server issue. I know.  Short, sweet, and to the feckin’ point.

 

Now … about being buggered backwards.  Normally, I would not post the name of a SL business in my rants, but you know what? They don’t give a damn, so I don’t either.

For years, and yes .. I mean years, I have been an addicted patron on Easy Babcock’s ‘Sine Wave’ business.  Back in 2006 when I first fell into this quagmire of goodliness we call ‘Second Life’, I saw the ugliest, most ferocious-looking female avatar … dance like a being of utter beautimouness (a word had to be made up for the lurveliness I sawed, ya’ll).  When I hounded the ‘thing’, it replied only two blissful words through our i/m – Sine. Wave.  Gloriousness.

 

And that is how it all began …

 

I visited.  It was a stark looking place. Empty of all save for six pedestals with loaded animations and a couch … or some shit.  It was empty, ya’ll.  Still, I fought on, pushing aside fellow newbs who still seemed confused as how to ‘focus’ on objects (feckin’ lightweights, I MASTERED everything in da tutorial, yahtzee!).  And there it was, the dance of wondermouness … CARAMEL.  My first purchase from Sine Wave. Caramel.  Like its real-life namesake it filled me with ooey-gooey deliciousness.  I, in my spiked hair, system skirt, and newb shoes … I felt sexy ya’ll.  Like, fer real, real.

 

I visited once a week for nearly five months.  Only, I grew more and more impatient ’cause da stripperz at teh clubs had more dances than me!!!11 oh no3s, ya’ll!!!!111 So, I visited one day, and to my utter surprizes dey had updated ya’ll!  There were like … a lot of pedestal, and clouds and shits!!!!! OMG I R CUMz!!!11

 

In the far corner, I spotted salvation.  The entire ‘first’ collection of Easy’s dances. That’s right ya’ll.  Caramel, Spun Sugar, Sherbert, Orange Squash, A Glimpse of Stocking, Swoon, Purple Whirlwind, Gimme, Red Chilli Sheen, Dizzy Orchid, Precious Morning, Rubber Ball, Wasabi, Weaving Dreams, etc. .. all dat shitz, ya’ll wuz mine0rz!!!111

 

But that was only the beginning.  They started sending notecards, ya’ll.  Every time dey updates, ya’ll.  I wuz dere all dey timz wootz!!!  I sank thousands in dere all dey timz, ya’ll.  And I’m was teh happi3z!!!11

 

So, for two years, that was my routine.  Check sim, buy new dances.  Get notecard, check sim, buy new dances.  Shit, I bought so much, I feckin’ forgot what I did and didn’t have, so I ended up with triple copies of dances, ya’ll!!! (My fwends can attests teh dis, becuz i giffs th3m allz my shit0rz!!).

 

Then, Easy hit me with stripperz danse, omgwtfstfuguuulrz!  Bought ‘em.  Men’s dances bloomed.  Hell, I made myself into a man just so I could p33p dat shitz, ya’ll.  It wuz teh h070rz, s3r1usly.

 

Basically, if Easy made it.  I bought it.  A plethora of animations on a sim, all for meh 2 injoy, oshitz!!  OMG, POLES!, COUPLE DANCES!, ‘ETHNIC’ DANCES! AOs?! I still hadn’t even used all the animations I’d purchased when …. feckin’ asset server shitz.

 

And now I’m pissed.  Like, fer realz, ya’ll.  Why?  Because when it hit, all meh shitz was in my Chimera(s) (dance animations that is).  All dat shitz iz gun.  I had just bought the new releases of ‘Soap Suds’ and ‘Snake Hips’ for 1001 Nights, and dat shitz is not in meh ‘tory.  I am left only with my pole animations, my ao animations, and my couple dances.  I know for a fact that I have spent more than $10,000 lindens over the course of these years in accruing Easy’s dances, and honestly I don’t regret it.  Excellent animation and quality.  Quality as far as the animations.  When I heard that what happened with my Chimeras during the asset server issue was becoming common, I tried to reach out to Easy and her ‘assistants’.  No, I didn’t want them to replace $10,000L and up in animations.   Just to at least help me replace what I bought this month (considering that’s as far as my transactions would go).  Oh, did I mention I would even give the url to my Sine Wave AO page so they could see I wasn’t a liar .. that yeah, this crazy chic spends A LOT on animations?  In the last month, meh page is teh sad.  I have at least 50+ for April/May.  Dats almost like feckin’ buying an animation everyies day.  And I won’t mention teh couple dances (all but three).  So I made a notecard and explained wtf was happenin’ in SL (omg i am no luv u LL right nows).  I included all meh transactions I could ya’ll, cause it wasn’t not lettin’ me go BACK (fix det shit0rz, pwease?), and asked if they could help me replace just a few at least, if assisted that much I’d happily buy back what I couldn’t have replaced.  Because ya’ll … we’re talking two years of shit.  I am an animation FIEND.

 

Care to know what I got as a response?  Nadda. Not. A. DAMNED. Thing. No ‘lol sowwy fa ya’. Nothing. Zilch.

 

Let me digress for a moment and explain Sine Wave’s policy.  ‘Cause its fucktarded, ya’lls.

 

If you LOSE an animations: i.e., By some very feckin’ awesome coincidence you … wtf … leave an animations somewheres in teh metaverses??!! and provide a transaction numbah … lolz dey will replaced it.

 

If you LOSE an animation due to unavoidable shits, like .. I dun no .. lolz asset server shits and teh udder SL shits … even ifs u haz deh transackshuns dey not give you shit!!!! lolz … wtfs?

 

So, if you fuck up yo shits, dey gives you more.  If SL buttsecks u, us is not gettn nuffins.

 

…. What the fuck?

 

Oh n a nudder tings:  4 us geyes dat laffs at me ‘cus i no haz prem-mum stuffs, lolz fuk us!!! ‘Cause teh klyent still no werkz 4 us 2!!! On a more serious note, those of you with premium accounts who like to mock and patronize those of use without: A) I had a premium account for a year, which proved to be useless to me.  My issues were still handled in a rank fashion, and the implement soon came about where you could ‘buy’ land (my only reason for paying to begin with) without having a premium account.  I don’t care that you feel as though you’re on a pedestal because you dish out $9.00 a month.  LL receives more than that amount from me within ten minutes of me logging.  It all goes to the same place, though I suppose you need to feel special.  Which I don’t mind, just keep your inane bullshit to yourself when you come my way, because I will dish it out as I get it.  When those of you who do take up this idiotic attitude that somehow ‘basic’ accounts are less than you; our issues are belittled because we did not give $9.00; or that as a whole we’re poor, stupid people who should leave the game entirely … you make yourself out to be an arrogant and ignorant person in general.  LL is a business.  The moment I log and buy goods in-world, or buy lindens from the website I AM A CUSTOMER.  AS A CUSTOMER I am allotted a fair and reasonable about of service REGARDLESS OF WHAT I DONATE IN MONTHLY INTERVALS.  Why?  Because regardless they get my money.  When I pay my tier via my estate owner, the money goes to LL.  When I upload massive amounts of snapshots, the money goes to LL.  When Misty makes me go shopping, that money also finds its way to LL.

 

So I ask, Easy Babock, assholes on the forum, and perhaps even LL – Why does that not entitle me to your respect, compassion, and FUCKING CUSTOMER SERVICE?

 

**You can comment that this attitude will get nothing done.  You’re probably right.  But me being courteous, helpful, and patient also got nothing done.  Your point is moot MOTHERFUCKER.**

Furthermost, why do so many of you creators refuse to replace an item bought from you?  If this were the REAL WORLD, perhaps yes you could contend with manufacturing costs, shipping, warranties/indemnities, yadda .. yadda.  But, this is a virtual world, where you have COPIES IN YOUR INVENTORY OF ITEMS YOU’VE BUILT.  So, how exactly are you losing business, by replacing an item lost under circumstances a customer could not avoid or prepare for?  Are you building that animation/table/couch/house from scratch all over again?  If you are, you’re a dumbass , no, really.  How could aiding a patron of your goods negatively effect your sales?  It doesn’t.  If anything, the exact opposite contributes to your sales.  I sang Sine Wave praises to any and all friends, acquaintances, and admirers of my avatar’s bum.  I was a self-proclaimed poster child for Sine Wave.  Do you know how many of my friends stood no chance to my harping of Sine Wave gloriousness?  And then this.

 

In the delicious coincidence that Easy Babcock or her affiliates happen across this unhappy rant, I have this to say to you:  While it might not effect (at all) your business, the way in which my plea for help was ignored (yes, I know you probably received quite a few, funny that so many flooded group chat with ‘I got mine replaced!’ … very funny considering it has been a week that I contacted YOU AND ALORA and this individual claimed to have just contacted you .. Hilarious.), I would like to convey to you that every ounce of energy I’d put into glorifying your business will go into the exact opposite.  I will now inform everyone that I’d ever directed to you of how you handle these issues, how you ignore dedicated patrons in need.  I am not happy, because when I add it up, I spent as much on your goods as I do on my beloved shoes real-life.  And that is feckin’ sad, because the chicks at Macy’s never ignore me.  If I come in with a busted heel on some BCBG I bought AND HAVE THE RECEIPT, damn right they replace them.  Because they know I’ll be back.  And they know I’ll tell all my friends how feckin’ wonderful the store is.  Mull it over.

 

Peace out, ya’ll! And .. I’m having a decently-sized yardsale.  Yep, you guessed it. All my Sine Wave shits (that remains -.-) is up for sale, ya’ll.  But you know the price that carries.  Buyer Beware.