Ha, ha. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

Oh, I can just hear Johnny Rotten’s voice saying that line now, and the tone of his voice seems apt.  So, following on from my previous two posts on the Geyl Fapp fiasco, (first post, second post) I got a payment of 799 Lindens from one of the organisers of the Endgame memorial.  I donated 500L to the running of the place and 500L to the box for Multiple Sclerosis Research, but who cares about the change?  Basically, the memorial site is now empty, as shown above, and it seems clear that the people who organised it feel as cheated as everyone else.

From the forum posts that I read, Geyl Fapp did behave like a very nice person in SL, but some people don’t feel happy. Blah, whatever, but going to the extent of making out that the real person behind the avatar is dead?  That is just not right, and it has taken advantage of the goodwill of many in SL.

I would get more pissed off about this, but I was just scrolling back to find the name of the person who returned my money, and saw that Hyasynth Tiramisu of Silent Sparrow fame had said hi to me, when I went to see a new sim that she’s involved in.  I was lagged and didn’t notice that, but then IM’d her to apologise.  She was very nice, and I also remember her greeting everyone when she held a party for having, I think it was 1000 members, in her group for her store.  That’s the spirit that really helps to make SL special for me, and which makes the Geyl Fapp thing just seem so pathetic.  There’s a store owner who clearly likes to design the clothes that she sells, and is very pleased at the way people love her creations.  She said hi to me, because she recognised my name, and that’s it in a nutshell: people matter.