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Who is Hechicero Blanco? He is asking himself this question, and whether he should choose for what he wants and likes or if he chooses for something that might not work at all…

A choice he feels is hard to make, an I can imagine completely. I had to make the same choice, and quite frankly, looking back on the decision, it was an obvious one. However the process took months for me. Doubting whether to stay or to go used to come once a week, in my last week it was every hour. At that point i needed to finally make a decision. Not just for my own sake, but for the sake of others as well. Others were suffering because I was suffering. Not physical, but emotional, and that’s neither good for me nor for anyone else. Any person who’s ever met me in a grumpy mood can confirm (if they lived to tell the tale, lol).

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Some people really are doing my head in lately. When you tell them NOT to call you, they ring the phone off your hook, and when you ask them to call you, they never do

And even in Second Life, when you ask them to contact you, they don’t respond to you until AFTER you log off, but when you set yourself to busy, it seems like veryone in SL is trying to get a hold of you…

I think this is a good example-case of reverse psychology in action. Just tell people to contact you asap, and they will never call you back. Ow, I wish that was true for some people.

I think By now, my SL Brother, Hechicero Blanco, Must think the same. When people SHOULD contact him, they don’t, and when he is busy or not in the mood, it seems like everyone is trying to get a hold of him. I imagine he’s getting upset, and since he is (was?) a PDSL Commander, he’s getting bugged even more. I know his past experience in similar -real life- situation, he handled well. But even though Linden Labs tries to tell you otherwise, Second Life is NOTHING like the real thing.

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Furries in Second Life™, what makes them so attractive? And I don’t mean like falling in love, but people tend to talk to them easier? What is it with furries that makes people smile, yet they would not want to dress up like them themselves? This month in my casebook; Furries, the SL phenomenon.

Furries

Furries are people, either in real life or Second Life™ that dress up like animals; i.e.: I’m a fox in Second Life™. In real life I have no real fetishes other then Second Life itself, and you would never see me in an animal-outfit. However in Second Life™ there is some kind of comfort in looking at my fox(y) avatar.

Attractive

In second life there are actually 3 animal-camps:

• The Neko’s, a growing “breed”. Neko is the Japanese word for “cat” or “feline” (cross between -usually- feline creature and a human; i.e. a boy/girl with cat like ears and a tail).
• Furries, well, “us” (full animal Avatar; either dressed and/or walking upright or not).
• The Humans, the vast majority in SL (including the robots and machine-like AV’s, since they are neither human nor animal).

Same goes for the general opinion;

• (±29%) The ones that love the Neko’s and furries (the ones that usually ARE either Neko of Furry).
• (±61%) The neutrals (respecting Neko and Furry as equal, not having a problem that they exist).
• (±10%) The opposition (fighting furries and strongly, reject the idea, seeing being Neko or Furry as practicing bestiality or similar opinions).

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Ok, I’ve had it, completely… Just back from a week vacation, and shit has hit the fan. Sometimes I feel I’m in control of a kindergarten-class instead of a group of (supposedly) mature PDSL officers. I feel along with Hechicero, who thinks and acts on the same issues I do, it’s just that I feel respect for each other in PDSL is gone.

I took it upon myself to vacate my position for the better of PDSL, I’m caught in the crossfire I’ve dreaded for over 6 months, and now it’s time to pack my stuff and leave the boat before someone decides to drop a torpedo and hits the wrong boat. I’m not willing to sacrifice friendship(s) over something stupid as a difference in opinion. I cannot hold my position without jeopardizing at least one (1) friendship in the upcoming weeks. And I’m not willing to do that.

No I’m not leaving PDSL, cuz Hechicero and Nickie (and maybe Eddie as well) probably won’t let me go, so I offered an alternative to the commanders. I’ve volunteered to become an advisor, as we used to have for a long time in PDSL; independent yet not completely. I offered more or less to be “Internal affairs” on my own, looking at PDSL from a distance and reporting and advising on things that should or should not change.

I’m not going into full details yet, but I’m gonna be assisting the commanders in streamlining PDSL as a whole, not just clarifying the job-descriptions but also from the roots of PDSL up, after all PDSL is not just a top-down-organization, but also a bottom-up-organization. It’s not the commanders on the street that make the difference, and that is the point that seems lost in PDSL as well as communication.

Communication - now that’s an interesting point. We’ve been working with a closed structure for a long time, maybe too long. Lines of communication need to be open yet structured. Ofcourse it’s not ok to IM a commander directly as officer, but being able to contact a DC if you can’t get a hold of a Lt. or Capt. should be one of the possibilities. And if you feel the need of communicating skipping a certain chain, at least be so decent to notify the ones you’ve skipped that you contacted someone above. I don’t feel that this will disrupt the teams nor will it fail communication as a whole, as long as the above guideline of OPEN communication is followed…

Well I think I’ve typed enough for a post this time, but this will be continued….

I really like this game, and playing it with 2 good friends; Wazza and Hechicero.
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