It's Uncle Wolf Shaman Now :)

Normally, things are pretty quiet around Therianation and the WereHouse. I answer the IMS that are delegated to me or that people send me, and usually everyone is happy.

Well, earlier this week, I stopped by the sim to do my checks for the random avatar box that usually gets left behind. Typically it's just a quick rclick return.

Well, I happened to run across a chair near the hub. No big deal. Then I looked up. Megaprim in the sky. fun. got rid of that. Checked the mall area. This guy decided to put his own rental boxes over all the rental boxes in the Therination mall area to try and scam people for money. So I abuse report him, and return the boxes and the 30 other boxes that he has scattered in that one little chunk of land that I could not see.

After checking the sim, he had about 300 prims scatered about in the sim. All in all, I returned them all and banned him from the sim. Hopefully Linden Labs suspended his account at least for Land sale/rental fraud.

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Ok, SO that's all over. Couple days later, I do a sim prim check, and find 2 random people having left a bunch of prims on sim. I tell it to highlight them so I can see what it is, and An outline of one of our Vendors appears in the middle of the sim. Great.

I go to investigate and see that it's a copybotted version of Jakkals vendor.

For those who dont know what copybotting is, its a program in Secondlife that basically clones whatever it is that the person wants to steal. The only thing it does not steal is what is inside the object or it's scripts. People use it to steal avatars, clothes, armor, objects, etc. It also makes it look like you're the owner, so you can go and sell whatever you botted to make some quick money.

You see this happen alot with Guns in SL.

But anyways, it looks like they were trying to copy the vendor so they could get free avatars. Failed. And they tried to hide it by making the vendor invisible, and not picking it up and putting it back in their inventory. Retarded.

I called up Jakkal and had her Log in, while I started an abuse report. She checked it out, and filed an abuse report herself. about 5-10 min later when I was letting other shop owners know bout this person and to ban them from their sims, The guy's profile ended up not searchable. Typically evident of a ban from Linden labs. Owned.

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Then we have tonight. Ya can see what happened over on Jakkal's Live Journal.

http://jakkal.livejournal.com/296996.html

It's a good read.

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But all in all, we had an interesting week in Therianation. We dont typically have this much excitement.

So yeah, I decided to quit smoking, right. Cool and all. I'll just camp out in my room for the week and chill on the computer so I dont get stressed out/irritated and start ripping people's throats out.

now guess what my computer decided to so. Whenever I start to play a game, about 2 min into it, the screen goes all technicolor and my system locks up. Reboots on this thing are horible. Takes like 5-10 min for this old thing to get to the point where It'll let me do anything.

At the very least it needs a reformatting, but it really needs a overhaul/new system.

Hopefully this is just a driver issue (wich I'm updating right now) and this will all be better soon.

More Coffee.

Well, i got a letter back from the VA stating that my claim was denied, and two of the reasons are that they do not have evidence of me being in combat or deployed over seas.

Now I get to try and find all my military related stuff to prove that I was deployed. Fun.

 Wolf Chen stole my carrots from my tray!

Well, Figure Its time for a little update on what's goin on w/ me.

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And in other news, I recently put up a picture that shows (Second)Life sized representation of our wolf line: Anthro, Dire, and Critter (quad). Reason for this, People are always asking what the size difference is on the Dire compared to the regular quad version, and also in relation to an avg avatar.

So, I get Jakkal, Forefox, and Myself to all stand in a line for a photo, Put tags next to the avatars in Photoshop, then upload and size to actual size. Hey! This should keep people from being confused about how big the avatar is! So I place it down in the shop for people to see. Yay! No more CSR IMs about how big they are!

[2009/09/25 9:02]  WH Customer: is there any way i can see them before i buy them to get an idea about their actual size? i really like them but they're pretty expenside and i dont want to buy it till i know what to expect lol

WH Customer: i was basicly just curious to see the actual size of the dire and critter avs if possible

The Morning after I place the photo in the shop. They said that they saw the sign, but the 2m block I used as a 'ruler' threw him off, cause he uses the Imperial measurement system.

Well, Avatar Size in SL is not accurate in RL size terms. Most people are well over 7 feet tall *shrugs*

oh well.

YUS!

Is it bad when a Vietnam Vet looks you in the eye and tells you that you need help?

Well, The other night I had a dream.

I found myself standing outside of a Train station of sorts. Large mag-lev style rail behind me, with a ticket kiosk in front of me. I get in line and wait my turn. When I approach the kiosk, I realize that everything on it is written in Japanese, and The machine's voice prompt was in Japanese as well. The guy who was behind me must of figured out that I was confused, and took my forearm and swiped my wrist over a reader. The bracelet that I was wearing flashed a couple times and then a green light lit up, and the guy smiled and gestured towards the track.

So I approach the track and I look down the long platform, then the 'train' rush past me from behind and rapidly came to a hault. This train was /huge/. was tall as a 2 story house, and each segment was about as long as one. Friggin huge. Massive doors the size of Shop doors poped out then slid to the side. Everyone boarded, and I kinda wandered in, mouth hanging open and looking at the place inside. It was like I stepped into a ballroom of sorts.

High celings, Huge windows showing the outside, and the doors closed to blend in with the wall seamlessly. The train took off like a shot, but there was no sense of motion from inside. The station was there, then it was gone, with the city shooting by at incredible speeds. If ya ever saw starship troopers and saw the subway/tram type thing. Basically kinda like that. BOOM! and it's gone.

It only seemed to take a short while, and Then I arrived at another station. The wall poped outwards and seperated, letting people off. I step out into a city street, and wander about looking around. Seemed like a typical street and I just walked for a bit. I heard the scream of an engine, and I turn around to see a sub compact suv type car thing pull up. and stop next to me. Then sowelu  is hanging out the drivers door telling me to get in. Excited to see him, I run to the car and hop in the passenger seat.  He then turns to look at me and says. "I know where to get the BEST noodles here, But we have to be quick, the place will be closing soon."

So we take off down some rural road cruising at a pretty good speed. The sun is starting to sink in the sky and it starts to take on an orange color, tinting the landscape. We pull up to place, A HUGE pagoda style building with a big staircase. We hop out of the car and clamber up the steps, with the doors opening as we reached the top.

"Sorry, Our tables are Full."

"What?!"

"i'm sorry, We cannot seat you. We're full."

"Dude, I came all this way for the Best Yakisoba ever, and you're not gonna let us in?"

"I'm sorry, but there are no more seats four you."

Then the doors slowly close. We turn around and look over the grass in front of the building where the car was parked. It had reached twilight. Stars starting to slowly show, and the sun well past the horizon. We looked at eachother and shrugged.

"Well, I guess we'll have to go kill that deer ourselves." and started walking down the stairs.

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Now I wanna know what Deer Yakisoba tastes like.

Of bad Werewolf movies.

Watched SciFi's "War Wolves" and it sucked.

2 hrs of no clear plot, as well as confusion.

The 'werewolves' when they were supposed to look like Werewolves had a black nose, pointy ears, Dentures and a set of Press on nails.

Bout the only good part of the movie was when they showed 2 real wolves for 15 seconds at the very end.

Guess it was some werewolf movie marathon or something on SciFi tonight. When I first saw the TV it was playing Ginger Snaps 2. Decent movie. Then War Wolves, and now Never Cry Werewolf. Another horible werewolf movie.

I think they'll eventually make a good one. I may not live to see it, but I'm sure they'll make a good one one of these days.

Been a while since I last updated.

The past month, I've been Beta testing a game called Darkfall Online which has just recently begone it's inital staged release.

Been having alot of fun playing that game. Full loot pvp in a Sandbox Enviroment. Classless system where you pick up a weapon and start using it to gain skill in it. Want to learn magic? PIck up a staff and start casting. Awesome setup.

Right now I'm waiting for them to release a new wave of game copies so I can get into the live servers.

Anyone who likes MMOs and craves PVP, Be sure to check it out.

I went ahead and followed what Strill did and created a group for Local Therians.  pdx_therians is a group for Portland Area therians to post, talk, whatever. Might even be able to get some local meets and stuff going on.

Well, Just got word that my grandpa passed at about 6:50am this morning.  Got a call last night that He pretty much rounded the courner and was heading down the final stretch. Guy has been hit real bad with Alltimers (wrong spelling) and was wasting away for the past couple years.

It sucks.

I'm off to my grandma's place. Parents are driving in from Central, and I guess the rest of the Family is already over there.  Too bad my Brother's in California right now pretty much on his own while going to school. I know he was alot closer with him than I was.

My Buddy linked this video to me.



Wow.

Well, For around 2 years, I've had a pair of scisors that I half ass made that I keep in the WereHouse shop by the Helpdesk with floating text over it that said "Therianation / WereHouse bits Policy."

The Reason for this? People ignoring the rules of the sim and dealing with people constantly asking us where they can get a cock for their avatar, or asking us how to fix some aftermarket ones they bought someplace else and a list of other things.

It's worked alright. But I'm tweaking the helpdesk design a bit, Cutting down on some prims, and I decided to take the scisors away.

Ironically, I get this:

[7:38]  Julie Trudeau: Hi
[7:38]  WolfShaman Warrior: Greetings
[7:38]  Julie Trudeau: My friend just purchased your lab furrie
[7:38]  Julie Trudeau: and was wondering where he can get a cock for it

I think I'll have to put them back up.

EMO POETRY!!!


Well, I was flipping through my little notebook that I usually carry arround with me and noticed some things that I wrote in there at some point. Probably out having a smoke at 3am.

Writing stuff happens about as often as drawing does. And that's not often, but it usually has a meaning behind it. So Unabridge and unedited, I present to you some of my writing stuffs. Emo included!

( Yay LJ! )

Yeah, so I was bored and decided to see if there's any new Therian related stuff on youtube. Did a search for Therianthropy and started looking through the most recent postings. I found a few new videos that I havent seen, 2 that at first glance appeared to have no Therian content, 2 that after watching appeared to  be primarally Otherkin related. Finally something that had an omnius feeling to them: "Therian Temple Video Intro" and "The Theta-Delta vs. The Theriogram."

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Buddy of mine made this video.