Is Spam Hereditary?
I spend a fair amount of my free time hanging out at game show events at the Shelter, and I have met some really fantastic folks there. But I do have a pet peeve. It's up there with my old beef about folks who don't disable the typing noise during live music events (which is no longer a concern, since I can turn down the sound effects volume in Preferences to remove the typing noise). My beef is folks with chatty bellies.
I've been to a couple of meetings and such where someone has had accidentally had talkative genitalia, and the owners tended to be very embarrassed and normally would teleport off in a flurry. But quite a few times I've been at game shows where someone with a pregnant avatar thinks nothing of spamming the room with comments like "X's baby bonds with her mother" or "X's baby is hungry". Um. I really don't care about your unborn child. I'm sorry if that makes me a heartless bitch, but... at least now we can mute chattery objects.
At Jaycatt and Frogg's performance on Friday, Jaycatt's Mom (Momova Singer - that's such an awesome name), finally said something to a woman whose stomach had been complaining of the baby's hunger. Sumar kindly walked her through muting the belly. I had muted it early on in the evening. I've found that making comments on spam-filled babies/bellies tends to meet with offended anger from the parent. How dare I criticize their darling child. Um. That's not a darling child, that's an object made of prims. It's not like an avatar, with an actual human being behind it - it's a scripted object reciting grammatically-questionable phrases at set intervals in a crowded room. It's an annoyance - as much of annoyance as a particle-rezzer or a ton of bling jewelry.
And besides - RL or SL, I don't want to commune with your unborn child. If you do, use llOwnerSay() or llInstantMessage(). Jeez.
Comments
There are so many spammy objects to contend with lately. Most of them contain wonderfully amusing grammar or spelling mistakes. I've been muting objects left and right lately. I think the tummy thing is indefensible, I've heard folks who wear them say that no one would complain in RL. Well in RL tummies don't actually - you know - communicate with anything other than the tummy owner.
Posted by: dolmere | September 4, 2006 06:47 PM
I've been dealing with talking diapers lately.
...When can we just mute the source program? Argh. I don't want to have to re-mute every single instance of an annoying program...
Posted by: Crissa | September 6, 2006 12:24 AM