[Did you (re)discover any music because of Second Life?]

Oh gosh.  So much.  Paloma Faith, Iggy Azalea, Ghostland Observatory, Die Antwoord, Boomtown Rats, some funny one offs that are dirty but you can google if you want like “I Rock Onesies”.  & I never knew I liked KISS until hearing them in SL.  

[Favorite Food / Food Items in Second Life]

On 4/16/2024 at 4:00 PM, Love Zhaoying said:

What are your favorite Food items in Second Life?

I don't have many, so am looking to expand my inventory.  Most of my Second Life "builds" that I have purchased only come with "drink dispensers" (whether alcohol, or coffee, etc.)

Plus, people can post and discuss foods they "use" in Second Life, because in some cases, they cannot eat those foods in RL!

 

Oi, I have lots.  But I have a few out at my mini golf course- my ring pops are probably my oldest favorite giver.  I finally picked a snow cone I love but it doesn't give out anything, it's attach only.  I got my hot dog vendor a few weeks back during a weekend sale and it's the cutest thing ever.  The little person in the weenie suit calls out every so often "HOT DOG!" & my hearing isn't the best, and at first I couldn't figure out how someone was yelling on my parcel without being there.   

[BONUS item goes against TOS?]

If your prize - any part of it is random like a different color of gumball out of a candy machine & you won't know what color you receive until you pay money?  Then you can not do it.  

If you want a blue gum ball and there are 37 red ones in the way to get to the one single blue one you can see- and know you can have said blue gumball if you first buy the other 37, then yes, you can do that.  & even if it's just a mystery prize and not the point of the purchase to begin with- you can not do that.  

The entirety of the purchase must be known.  

[Let's write a Letter to Linden Lab]

Dear Linden Lab,

We the residents of Second Life like bacon. Vegetarian options not allowed except waffles and tacos. Please, a pony would really neigh flamboyantly. Indeed, I bathe frequently in California. Glycerine soap isn't available.

Regards, A.I.
PS: TSOP
P.P.S. Oh!
FYI: This!

Without that blog, nobody will care. Tomorrow things might improve slightly. Life is ... well, beautiful.
Timing makes a pudding delicious, so furries hear spoons jingling hypnotically 

[Items gone after Moving Home]

If possible go to a sandbox and drag out the most recent list & found item.  Sometimes (I think) I’ve had similar experiences & the items ARE in lost & found but don’t show as linked- bundled by the return.  When I drag it out I wind up with my stuffs.  Happened recently with some gachas you can no longer buy direct from creator since they closed shop in SL. 

[Let's write a Letter to Linden Lab]

15 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

Dear Linden Lab,

We the residents of Second Life like bacon. Vegetarian options not allowed except waffles and tacos. Please, a pony would really neigh

Dear Linden Lab,

We the residents of Second Life like bacon. Vegetarian options not allowed except waffles and tacos. Please, a pony would really neigh flamboyantly 

[Should we limit Second Life to one IP address per household and prohibit the use of VPNs and alternate accounts?]

4 hours ago, Mr2Chill said:

"Should we limit Second Life to one IP address per household and prohibit the use of VPNs and alternate accounts? I think we should, because there are a lot of bad people using it. Alternate accounts are annoying as they can be used for harassing others and hiding one's true identity. Additionally, there are fake accounts on here like London City using alts to boost traffic numbers, which are not accurate anyway. Lastly, there are bad people using VPNs to invade the platform. Therefore, we should implement a one IP per household, one account policy to improve the safety and authenticity of the platform. What do you all think?"

No?   
For so many reasons. Just a few:

Families play SL together.

Business accounts no doubt want privacy away from work.

Some folk do have creepy stalkers they need to avoid.

[Someone is faking me on pictures in SL. AI/avi copying program]

4 hours ago, ChanteyBabe said:

QUESTION to my SL friends!

I have a SL stalker who took pics of me and my partner and fabricated them with AI replacing my ex with other guy lol. Eventually she copied my avi using well known "magic" program. I saw her on radar walking closer (at some point was 8m away) on our sim but thought she got ejected at some point. I was afk for couple of hours, then saw on local chat she was there.

I already sent harassment reports but I wonder is there something else I can do? this person is using multiple accounts all with AI pics and was using them to get money from my ex partner (posing as a model as he was providing paid model opportunities). She sent him pics from another account (male one) but forgot that creator of those pics was... her lol One thing that wonders me that she post those pics on her feed and I don't think you can upload pics from your inv (unless I'm wrong?) so I would tend to think she copied my avatar which is also illegal.

I assume it's a revange on my ex partner as he posted in his picks a picture and link to flickr of one guy who were *****ing his ex wife (she was "posing" for him) so as a revange ""AI queen" chosen me as a target now. Guy was similar to the one on pic with "me".

Summarize, what else can I do? We assume this person has many more accounts, more than 2 that contacted with my ex lately. He was paying for model opportunity so we assume those "aggresive" girls with AI pics who were his models are same person

 

 

 

That's a loooooooooot of drama in one post.  I'm not even going to address if I believe what you think is going on is actually what's happened.

All I can say is that in SL it's like the Old West & you're on your own UP TO certain points & right now it seems that whatever is going on is going to fall on you to ignore & avoid.

Stop posting things on your profile & exterior websites you don't want anyone with ulterior motives having access to.

& lastly- Sometimes you have to walk away from whatever investment  you have in an avi and start over on new Avis & create new habits & friends.

 

[Creeped out as f. Profile copying bot? What's going on?]

1 hour ago, Isskald said:

Why would a random account be messing with me and have an almost word-for-word profile ready just 30 seconds after my arrival to said sim?

To quote the immortal Jim Morrison (& later Echo and the Bunnymen) - 

"People are strange."   There's no reasoning why- just an unknowable pleasure that individual received from being creepy.  Or just a really weird coincidence.  Or some weird bot that copies profiles to their own?  Who knows. They can't hurt you past weirding you out.   

[Grabbing]

10 hours ago, animats said:

Physical objects can be grabbed with the cursor in SL. You can rez "Beach ball (dragged to ground)" from library in Inventory and throw it around a bit. Does anyone use this feature for sports, or combat, or much of anything?

If I understand what you’re talking about, there is an inspired version of a game on The Price Is Right- Plinko that someone made where you pick up a ball a move it & drop it into the peg board.  But the physics or whatever it would be called is pretty terrible & the ball runs away- doesn’t stay confined to the board.  
 

 

[group chats being weird]

Thank you Amelia- yea it was really freaky like after 15 years have I been hacked or something?

[group chats being weird]

Thank you both for your replies.  At least I know now it's not just my machine. 

[group chats being weird]

It has happened several times now, in the past 4ish weeks.   1st instance manifested as an actual conference (at top of chat box) for a shop I had joined long enough to collect gifts & dropped it.  Then Saturday- yesterday, a group I left in January- aa group chat w the group name listed popped up.  
 

The first time I wasn’t sure what was going on & I messaged the message starter- asking if I had joined a contest or something & had they created a group chat based on entries?  They were surprised by my message & maybe suspicious which is never a good feeling, knowing someone thinks you’re up to something hinky.  Tonight I said nothing just closed the window.  
 

Finally I’m getting group chat toasts (is that the name?- where chat floats up in the viewer outside the communication box?) when I have them shut off in preferences.  But it will do this for only one group while six or so other chats are actively scrolling & confined to their boxes.

just me?  Any ideas?

tyia

[What are you listening to?]

Has been my ear worm for a couple of weeks 🎶🎶🎶🎶.  

 

[Gacha's at The Arcade Event?]

5 hours ago, So Whimsy said:

Anyone remember when the items offered at the arcade were actually awesome? I has a sad.

I found out this past winter that the now defunct [Commoner] shop that participated in The Arcade for years- one set of  items that has been one of my favorites exists in the real world!  While not all in SL are the same as RL & Vice versa- many are & I  get to buy the glitter caniste  at the end of this month & I’m so excited!  I agree that I am not drawn to current Arcade prizes as those in the past.  

[Gacha's at The Arcade Event?]

1 hour ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:

Thought those Gachas were a thing of SL's past.

Blind random prize variation is no longer allowed.  Now it’s basically a vending machine with just one slot of candy available to you.  That chocolate bar you crave might happen to be in front and first for sale.  But usually it’s 3,5,7 or more deep behind breath mints & gum.  Or maybe not even visible.  So you might feed the machine hoping the flavor you want eventually comes up.  With the hud you won’t get sniped by a fellow shopper watching the same machine for X prize.  So mechanically the same but method of operation is different.  & as mentioned- many creators just put the entire set out as a fat pack at one price.

[If you could "Resurrect" any famous person as an Avatar in Second Life: 1) Who would it be/why, and 2) What "Second Life" feature would you ask them to use/leverage?]

Dwight Shelford aka Dwight Schrute from The Office.  I had Dwight Shelford on my friends list years ago.  https://mashable.com/article/the-office-dwight-second-life-local-ad-episode

[Just in Case - Inventory Hoarding]

I was mostly gone from SL save a random log in once a year or so from 2017- till January 2024.  Decided to update w a new to me brand of head & body (so I would *have* to go shopping).

i just finally in the past week or so deleted my slink hands, slink feet, body & Lola tangos & all that went with them.   Probably deleted everything freya related, too.  
For some reason tho, I can’t seem to delete my older catwa heads.  I know I will never use them now that I bought a new brand, but there’s something I’m overly attached to identity wise with the faces.  If that makes any sense.

[What's the buzz, tell me what's a-happening?]

6 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

We've been told not to discuss it on the forums so this seems like a way around that?  

Uh-oh.  Well, add that to my talents!  Taboo topics!  Thanks for the heads up.  

[What's the buzz, tell me what's a-happening?]

What is the other big issue?  I don’t know if that comes across snarking in asking (I’m talented that way when I don’t mean to be) - I honestly do not know & am curious?

[How to make it SL work for this platform and the Future one.]

🔒 

 

[The marketplace has been rigged!!!]

On 2/5/2024 at 4:57 PM, jrenslow Bach said:

Sellers have rigged the search results in the marketplace by flooding it with useless stuff and having their games show up at the top of search for instance search billiards and you will see what I mean

I searched “billiards” & sorted by best selling & your $1L table was the 2nd listing, however it had the lowest rating on the first page of 96 results.  
I sorted by oldest, and your 73 prim $L899 table with the oldest review from 2010 is the 7th result w/ not great ratings. 

So for me, if I was in the market for a table I would search this way & not be inclined to purchase either due to age of product, ratings & high prim count.  Prims-land impact is a precious finite commodity there’s been a loooot of improvements & strides made for creators to produce desirable merchandise & primmy items that are going on 15 years old aren’t in demand.

Maybe you might take the previous reviews as constructive criticism & address issues previously raised in rating comments ie the inability to rotate a table because the racked balls can only face one direction. Work on an improved product & offer it to one or two previous reviewers upon releas3 & see what they think.

[Features no one uses or knows about]

I don’t know that NO one knows, but I did not know for many, many years that typing rezplat in local births a big flat prim for you, where ever you happen to be. Which made finding out about the aforementioned gth2000 or 3000 etc very exciting, as now I didn’t have to rez on the ground & then edit on the ground.  Because prior to gth I held my flight feather tight & flew up up up, and up and up, took a breather, then flew some more hoping to find the prim I shot into the sky.  This was also of course before I realized I could just use the world map to TP to 2,000m up.   Never assume everybody knows any one thing.   I’m sure there’s things in SL I’m still taking the long road on, even after 15 years.=)

 

[If You Divided the SL population into two groups]

I’ve always said there are two types of people in the world (& it’s been on my SL profile forever): 

Those who prefer Roth Van Halen.  & Those who are wrong.  ^^ 

[Hearing problem?]

You likely have checked- but double check in preferences under sound & media that not only is voice enabled, but you haven’t accidentally turned that sound slider off all the way?