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I haven't found the rock yet, Minnesota Nice is sometimes Minnesota passive aggressive, the video was made in the virtual world Second Life which is built by its users.

Yeah, that's exactly what happened. I had to crash my computer to get out of it. An alarm goes off shrieking that you have to call some number to save your computer.  I don't call such numbers because I can recognize a scam but you do have to know how to crash and get away because it completely locks the computer and sends the alarms screaming... many, many people have apparently responded to this by thinking the call is actually coming from Microsoft so they call the number and get scammed of their credit card info.  It's very convincing. Not everyone is married to a computer programmer, nor does everyone have my experience with recognizing scammers.  And even professionals are being scammed, bricked, or extorted. This is not a rare problem. It's a growing one.


No, I don't just randomly click on Google links any more. Those days are done. You can search in some safe place, like Amazon, etc. I'm not searching all over the internet any more, there's no reason to. There are lots of places a legit person can introduce themselves, a forum like this one, Twitter, etc. and I can get a sense of them before I click.  If a person isn't willing to introduce themselves, then I have the right to wonder why. Maybe they just don't want to socialize, maybe it's legit, but since I don't read minds, I have to use common sense and avoid people who seem to be unwilling to do the minimum. Not being willing to invest time/money in a project is something I associate with people who want to be free to pick up and go elsewhere once the scam is burned.  It may be unfair to the nonscammer but I think protecting my safety is more important than protecting an unknown person's sensitive feelings.

I took the link down because that video was causing me too much grief.

I enjoyed the link and know that jimmy Fallon does some things that are very similar to the method that you used to show your art work. This was a novel way to show your art.

I am probably the newest kid on the block here, but I'd like to weigh in with my 2 cents worth.
I've been "lurking" for about a month and a half and finally joined. I hope to do some selling, buying and trading. I have a lot to learn, about the people here, the hobby itself, even how to post pics. I'm not ready to sell yet.

I have joined this site NOW. I want people to get to know me before I "set up shop", and I want to get to know them. A sale is a two way street, and it goes better when there is trust and mutual respect on both sides.

I hope to contribute when my equipment is set up, and I know how to post pictures (I've scanned the tutorial, and plan to play around with it this week).

Anyhoo. the Peanut Gallery has spoken.

Geezer