Pointless Floaty Text Name Tags
It’s long been accepted that people wear floaty text above their heads for all sorts of things. There’s the mushy “Such-and-such-a-body’s Snuggle Muffin Loviddy Doviddy,” ones that make you want to firstly vomit and secondly hit the offender over the head with a large object. Then there’s the combat style ones… more recently the Bloodlines ones which are growing in popularity, you know the ones that tell you how many souls someone has gathered. Side note - never once did I see Dracula wear a frikkin sign over his head with a number declaring how many souls he’d taken! But lately I am seeing more and more people wandering around wearing nothing more than their name above their head in floaty text. Now, some of them do add little symbols at the end. But how is ‘Bob Smith’ any different to ‘~~~**^Bob Smith^**~~~’ apart from the fact that I find ~~~**^Bob Smith^**~~~ instantly far more annoying? There’s no need! And there’s plenty of people who just don’t even bother their arses to add the symbols and just wear their names! Someone really ought to inform them that we all get name tags free of charge and effort just for signing up to Second Life™. And you know what…even if people decide to switch name tags off for a while (as I do when I’m videoing) then the world won’t end just because they can’t see your name tag. The fact is if someone chooses to either not display or to not read your name tag, they don’t give a shit what your name is. Having it floating above your head with symbols or without is a complete waste of the tiny amount of resources my graphics card spends on showing me the damn thing!
In response, however, I made two irritating tags of my own:-
Don’t throw things at me…. it’s for display purposes only!
And honestly, if I saw someone in real life with a big sign above their head with their name written on it even once, let alone twice, I would hand them another one to wear saying, ‘Me, me, me, me, me…everyone pay attention to me.’