Not many people are impressed with Linden Lab right now, after the announcement that they’re to drastically increase tier on Openspace sims, at the price of huge disruption across the whole SL economy, because people appear to be overusing the regions.

No, I still don’t understand it. But then there’s a lot of things that Linden Lab do that makes no sense.. I may as well make satire out of it.. heaven knows we need a laugh right now, right? I’m not certain where this is going, so don’t read into it too much.. it’s a 2AM random write up..

1. Flawed Logic Without Regard: Some people are using way too many resources, therefore everyone must pay extra fees.

2. We Are The World: We don’t read resident blogs, therefore resident blogs must be irrelevant.

3. Generalising From Self: We have a lot of money, therefore you can afford to pay more tier.

4. Circular Reasoning: We are right because we are smarter than you. And we must be smarter than you because we are right.

5. Irrelevant Comparisons: USD325 is a good price for an openspace sim, compared to buying a Porsche.

6. Ignoring The Advice of Experts Without Good Cause: Sure, the experts think you shouldn’t raise prices on a non-essential life product, but we have our own ideas.

7. Following The Advice of Known Idiots: Aunt Fanny said island sims make you smarter, and that’s good enough for me!

8. Failure to recognise what’s important: OMG That server is on fire! Quick - call the cafeteria and find out what the specials are!

9. Unclear on the Concept of Sunk Costs: We’ve spent millions developing a viewer which can change colour depending on your mood. We can’t stop now or all that money will be wasted.

10. Faulty Pattern Recognition: The last 6 Lindens who turned up to help me all crashed mysteriously. I hope number 7 will be able to fix this.

11. Reaching Bizarre Conclusions Without Any Information: This server rack won’t boot up. I’m certain the fuses have been stolen by rogue monkeys.

12. Ignoring All Anecdotal Evidence: This sim crashes everytime I rez this physical 1024×1024 megaprim. But without a detailed study of the sim resources, it’s not reliable data. So I’ll keep rezzing this megaprim as I can’t tell if it’s causing the sim to crash.

13. Total Logical Disconnect: I love my new prefab house because I just finished a dish of pasta.

14. Hallucinations of Reality: A talking fork told me how to code the latest features into the viewer.

15. Blinding Flashes of the Obvious: If we lowered tier prices, everyone would have more money!

16. Judging The Whole By One of its Characteristics: This shirt has a bad seam in it, therefore Second Life would be better off without clothes.

17. Anything You Don’t Understand Is Easy To Do: If you have the right tools, how hard could it be to create a virtual metaverse at home?

18. Ignorance of Downside Risk: I know flicking this switch will take the grid offline, but I’m bored.

19. Argument by Bizarre Definition: He’s not a thief. He just copybots other people’s work and then sells it.

20. Ignorance of Economical Statistics: If we sell lots of Opensims now, we’ll be able to revive the SL economy.

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