Save the Hippo! (easter egg)
February 12, 2009 6:48 pm
Second Life has a long term history as it comes to the appreciation of friendly hippos. Hippo’s, you say? Those gigantic animals are the worst enemies of bug-evoking gnomes, a prestigious Second Life OpenSource award of appreciation that you can win, residents of “Hippotropolis” - Second Life’s OpenSource community island - and also what all your friends turn into when asset servers are not able to keep up with information demands. Last but not least, the presence of “Hippos!” was made clear through the following easter egg: pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H evokes a hippo statement. But now?
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H doesn’t say “hippos!” anymore!
The JIRA Issue VRW-11118 “Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H doesn’t say “hippos!” anymore” reported by Phli Foxchase has gathered a massive amount of votes already, 838 to be precise. Soft Linden stated: “If this gets 1,000 votes, I will submit a fix to main-viewer that very day.” So c’mon, show your love for the Second Life hippo, and be one of the 162 still needed votes!
Although Lindens have posted some mixed statements about why the Hippos! disappeared - Qarl Linden for instance states: “I believe the problem is that we’re running low on hippos, and so we try to use them very sparingly.” - the general consensus between the Second Life community seems to be: “Whatever it takes, get us our ‘Hippos!’ back!”. Although some object to putting a price on this noble creatures, we know what it takes: 1000 votes, and one of those votes should be yours!
As Adeon Writer puts it so well: “We need to be concerned for the future - the newbies who never knew a Virtual World with hippos. They will all need to grow up hippoless. Do not let this be their future!” Go vote to reinstate the Hippo! easter egg!
If you’re not sure how JIRA works, here’s the “how to vote on JIRA”:
Hat tip to the always lovely & ‘kawaii’ Nock Forager.
3 Responses to “Save the Hippo! (easter egg)”
I voted =)
Voted! I’m proud to be a Hippo (http://luckykittycrew.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-freebie-grendels-children.html) and am so glad you support saving Hippos Grid-Wide.
So, I went to check, and its over 1000, WHERES MAH HIPPOS?!
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