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I think the U.S. and Canadian dollars were at par for one brief, shining moment in the 1970s. It was a blip. *cries some more in Canadian* And people wonder why I prefer to hang out in the metaverse? 🤣

Blog Post 19/March. Though to be fair, I caught the news of it at the Server Users Group meeting. And I was mistaken in thinking it was something that was being developed in house. The meeting was over a month ago and my memory is fuzzy on granular details. So, it's apparently something different/better than vivox, and maybe better privacy security, but not an in house dev project. I point back up to my ramble about Ultima Online. So long as SL is able to pay it's own bills and still generate some profit for whomever is running, I don't see it going away for a long while yet. for a given value of long. It may shrink and loose what relevance it still has, but it'll still have a heartbeat and active, though admittedly diminished, development. that's my own personal take so we'll see in 5 years who's right.

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Not even close to what we get buying Lindens using CAN$. We need to cry harder maybe.

True story: I signed up for a Mastodon account the instant Elon started publicly musing about buying Twitter. The day he walked into Twitter HQ in San Francisco, I pulled the plug. I watched the mass firings and the ongoing dumpster-fire safe in my Mastodon cocoon, chortling to myself. Eventually, I realized that even though Mastodon was not founded on evil surveillance-capitalism like Facebook (which I had quit years earlier) and Twitter, it was still a waste of my time, and bad for my overall mental health. So I have pretty much stopped using all social media, except for a half-dozen snark subreddits (because I am apparently, at heart, a mean girl who sits at the mean girls table 😉 ...and I only use Reddit anonymously, I deleted my previous account there and just use the website on desktop or mobile) So, in a way, I have Elon to thank for breaking my social media addiction. Thanks, Elon! Oh, and f**k you, Elon.

hello i am mspunkful, my avatar is 4 years old and i used to be a dj in the old times and i just got back on second life. so, i am looking for a job to make some linens. i am willing to try to be a host for any club. i got some gesture and i know send notices and group invites, vip tags etc. i am available to try new things to have some experience. im living in the eastern canada us time zone. i speak french and english.

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the exchange rate is 1.3869. I looked it up on the Bank of Canada website. So for every USD, it costs 1.3869 in CAD

Interestingly, I just updated my most recent blogpost, with a very insightful comment posted in one of the Discords I follow, who foresees trouble ahead with Meta's Horizon Store plans on the VRChat in-world creator economy, which is still in beta. Quote: ----start quote--- UPDATE April 26th, 2024: I sometimes post my blogposts to the various virtual world and virtual reality Discord servers I belong to, in order to drive a bit more traffic to my blog (I don’t do it nearly as often as I used to, though). And PK, on the MetaMovie Discord server, made the following insightful and thought-provoking comment on this announcement from Meta/Facebook: "I want someone to dig into what sort of access Meta would have to data on these third-party headsets, potentially, through various software that would be required. I think it’s existential that we need to keep metaverse data out of their hands. Even now, having failed with five or six different social VR attempts so far, they still manage to collect 1/3 of every virtual transaction in VRChat, at least those using Quest headsets, which is the majority of users now. Their [i.e., VRChat’s]creator economy is only in beta so far, but thanks to Facebook and Steam, and Apple for pushing this model, we don’t have the thriving virtual economy we would have had by now, because even taking 1% of every transaction just for monopolizing app downloads, that would be too much. A third is robbery, but because [Meta CEO Mark] Zuckerberg could afford to make mobile headsets affordable without worrying about profits so far, they’re now cornering commerce in this space. I don’t think it’s safe to trust them with our future, and so I’m very skeptical about these sorts of initiatives." PK is correct; it is troubling that the walled-garden gatekeepers like app store owners (Meta, Google/Android, and Apple) are each taking a cut of any in-world transactions. It has a chilling effect on anybody trying to make money within VRChat (of course, the social VR platform has long had a booming economy going on outside of VRChat, with places such as the Virtual Market series of avatar shopping events and the VRCMods Discord server, where avatar buyers and sellers can connect). Linden Lab was luckily able to avoid this entire mess by creating its own in-world economy within Second Life well before the advent of Google Play and Apple’s App Stoe—but now that they are actively working on a new mobile Second Life app for Android and iOS, it will be interesting to see whether Second Life, too, will be impacted by other players like Meta wanting to take their cut. (Probably not, since you can do things like buy Linden dollars directly from the Second Life website.) ---end quote--- (if you want to read the whole blogpost, the link to my blog is in my forum signature line; you all know where to find it!)

/me wonders what the exchange rate is for Canadian tears

Cheapest in Horizons . 85,000 L$ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Horizons Eos/80/16/23

Most add-ons anymore are rigged for specific mesh heads either Catwa or Lelutka being the primary ones for several years. As you'd need the teeth/tongue add-on to move with the Actanon head, you might just have to demo some and see if they work.

*cries in Canadian*

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Oh, innnteresting! I see J. Randall Waterfield listed as co-director with Brad Oberwager. Fun fact: Waterfield Holdings includes, among dozens of properties in its so-called "Waterfield network" (https://www.waterfield.com/, scroll to the very bottom for the full list)...blue-chip investment firm Goldman Sachs. 💰

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All is well and good, but having just finished watching Fallout, and playing Fallout 4, never trust 'da man! You'll find yourself being tossed in a vat of FEV, or experimented with in a vault.

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I wouldn't up and just abandon SL, I would at least give it a chance. Even if Elon bought it out.

I can think of very few situations that would get me to quit Second Life for good, but Elon buying it would be one.

I'll go back and "close listen" more again and even transcribe if I get curious enough. I just liked his attitude. I am mostly soothed and reassured. Those who are still negative Nellies just weren't listening!!!!1!111!

What I remember hearing is that he tries to do like a trade off with things.. where they may have to charge more for one thing, he tries to decrease somewhere else.. I think it was something like when they gave an increase in memberships, but a decrease in land or something like that.. It's the part where he was talking about charging a dollar for five dollars of value.. Around that area.. hehehe I'm still processing a lot of it so it's a bit scattered still in my head.. I'll probably have to watch it again.. But I will say, I wish they would have did this with the other lab gab or instead of the other, because I feel much more relaxed about things now.. They should let us in on something like this, before we hear it from the streets first.. hehehe I gave up some sweet Beliss spots!! \o/ lol

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