Arduenn Schwartzman

Individual life forms, yes. SL, like Sears, on the other hand, is a collective. A social colony, as it were. Like entire species, or taxonomical clusters, it has the potential to far outlive an individual lifespan. Similarly, life itself, as we know it been around for about 3.8 Gigayears. Interestingly, it seems to me that, after all these 3.8 Gy, we are, right now, at a unique moment in time, in which information transfer is about to switch from DNA replication in cellular and multi-cellular life to digital data exchange of information through radio waves and in silico. It may take a few more centuries or even millennia, but that's a blink of an eye on the geological timescale. However, this switch in mechanism of information transfer is profound, far beyond the significance of even the survival of the human species. Who knows what role Second Life and its potential offspring may play in that.

It still seems to me that these would not necessarily require growth at all. Just improvement.

Those two statements seems to contradict each other. Has SL been risking going under for the past decade? Were there any signs? Also, are 'stagnant' and non-growth really the same at all? You can still change and improve, but not grow, right?

Why should there be growth?

No, there aren't. Better not ask too many questions.

How many Nobel prizes did you win?

Ebbe, when he just started as CEO. He was visiting many people in SL and asked them: "How can I help?" Many of the requests people made during his tour have come to fruition in SL, Experiences, Animesh and many other things. (I needed to upgrade my viewer at the time because I couldn't see the new rigged mesh avatars very well.) Widely and Xiola at the super secret Illuminati meeting. Marianne (surely, if this is about Moles and Lindens, we can't forget the McCanns) and Strawberry, long ago, at an airfield with little airplanes, far, far away.

Listening to other people listening to Floor and her Finnish men:

A friend of mine showed me this new hair maker who just introduced their third hair for men. I really liked it and I wanted to buy it. But there were two major problems with it. 1. The Level of Detail was horrible. The average default LoD setting in the latest Firestorm is 2. Most hair looks fine with this default setting. This hair turns into a triangle mess at 6 m distance. It turns into a triangle mess at 9 m distance at LoD set to 3, This is unacceptable. No, I won't set my LoD to 4. That'll grind my computer to a halt even though the specs are far better than average. Also, I make stuff myself, so I keep it at 2 so I can see what my own creations look like for the average person and I don't want to keep switching between LoD settings. 2. The Fatpack version boasts 6 different styles. This literally means that I'm wearing 6 wigs, 5 of which are invisible. Imagine everyone in SL wearing 6 wigs, only one of which in visible. Hair, of all things, the 'primmiest' of all things in SL (Land Impact 120). And them people blame Linden Lab for being 'laggy' (low frame rate). I really wanted to buy this hair. I'm especially bummed about it 😤😡, because I don't see a lot of hair for men in SL that I like at all. But I won't buy it. That LoD thing being the most important reason. What also saddens me is that lots of people will buy it and thereby encourage this creator just to go on with this. And they're not the only one. Hair styles and bad LoDs are prevalent among many hair brands.

I remember some text fields in the SL viewer truncating the text after* hitting the submit/change/ok button and some fields preventing you from typing any further during writing in it. Maybe that changed in a recent viewer update? * You can still tell, in some people's profiles you'll see truncated text because they didn't proof-read after submitting it.

(For SL20B in 2023, obviously:) 1. A new exhibit/event focusing on scripting (in addition to the traditional ones) 2. 'Let the Games Begin' 3. A very simple one please

Yeah, it's a constant struggle. Like.. what car do I have to drive today? Why is life so hard?

What do I think of Event Regions and, more generally, expensive things? Not. 1. I don't have the money for them. 2. I have no time or interest in investing in them in order to make a bigger profit. 3. I have no knowledge of the marketing or financing rationales behind them, so who the bleep am I to opine over them? If I ever feel the need to satisfy my curiosity concerning expensive things, I'll watch YouTube videos about expensive things. And, although I doubt whether Business Insider will ever do an episode titled 'Why Second Life Event Regions Are So Expensive | So Expensive', this series of videos should give you a general impression as to why expensive things are.

This is only Phase 1. Phase 2 is to change our avatars in -world into muppets too.

Looking up some interesting articles on the origin of life now... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215006818

We're only a bunch of leather bags and our purpose is to shield our commensal gut bacterial overlords from the elements.

No wait. Let's zoom out to look at the big picture. We're here to entertain the aliens from another dimension.

@THEHERO Snowfall To pass on the butter.

I, like so many people on this planet, get the ultimate answer from a big book.

*investigates* Aw, what a bummer. Turns out it's not a conspiracy or a scam by LL after all, but the increasingly more complex mesh landscaping/buildings/furniture items, the increasing amount of 1024 x 1024 textures, layers upon layers of alpha blending textures and especially all the mesh attachments that creators can not be **rsed to make decent low LoD models for.

Someone please, PLEASE, tell Musk that according to the United Nations Space Law, HE CAN'T buy Mars (the planet). First, he'll throw a temper tantrum, because no one tells Elon what he can or can't do. Next, he'll risk going bankrupt by borrowing more money to finance the purchase, or he won't be able to sleep at night. All in all a fun little project to keep him from dying from utter boredom for at least another two weeks (because him buying Twitter is already yesterday's news). Save Elon!

Come on. Chop chop, folks! Where are those plans? Hurry up a bit with those answers, or we're gonna lose another one to the Zuck!11

My TV peeved so hard back in 2007, I cancelled my cable plan. In the same year, I joined Second Life. Coincidence? I think not. Also, a few months ago, I forgot my Netflix password. I could not be bothered to try to make a new one ever since. There's definitely some peevage going on there too, apparently.