Amanda Crisp

GB, as a suggestion - you might post this in Roleplay. SL has an expansive roleplay community composed of people who routinely play every imaginable “part” from petty thieves to political overlords and hit all points in between. The caliber of literary/emotive character development in the more well-developed sims can be quite high, so they would fit well into any Immersive environment. Immersive, para-post, FreeForm role-play meets my definition of “art” when practiced well, so I think you might attract interest where those players gather.

1000 since 2012 while working 50-70 hours a week and getting two children ready to unleash on an unsuspecting world. I’m impressed that I was awake enough to type legibly 🙂

Surprising no one....

No pants has my neighbor Teleconferenced and careless My door is closed forever

The ability to either summon Ninja Guardians or Protective Pirates whenever one feels their avatar has been griefed. OK, I know this would never be used for its stated purpose...... .....I just want to see that neverending “Pirates vs Ninjas” battle at Waterhead....

“Previous experience herding cats will be considered an asset....”

I have that little itch again, the one at the base of my scalp I discovered back in the 90’s. I thought I’d left it decades and an ocean away - but the scratchy little imp is back. The last time it popped up I was helping provide “humanitarian assistance” some ostensibly-civilized place where - if they didn’t like your gender, gender-identity, nationality or religion - your lights could be turned off suddenly and permanently. I’m sure they had reasons that made sense to them; I had my own for wanting to survive the trip. I’m pretty sure the Itch was my subconscious reminding me that even in places that were both beautiful and historic; Bad Things could reach out and touch me. It did its job and I lived to go through therapy about it. Today, I’m an considered an Essential Worker who has the additional worry that the people I’m responsible for will catch a Dose as the cost of doing their jobs. All of them are much younger than me, most have small children that their jobs force them to self-isolate from. I care for my elderly mother who thinks that I’m loopy for having my sister take that over out of concern that I might bring home something Extra from work. She thinks her spirituality will protect her, which worries me quite a bit. So all of us are working our way through this. People DO need food, medicine and manufactured items - so staying home would only be selfish. We take precautions, distance and “try to act normal” Meanwhile, I’m doing my best not to scratch that itch. The last thing I need is people worrying that I have cooties 🙂

I get annoyed when I go to a club and the DJ is non-stop bringing the whole CV-19 thing into Second Life. I’m considered an Essential Worker, meaning I have to go out in public daily and take my chances. SL is my little Reality Break and his constant Coronavirus dialogue and doomsaying were SERIOUSLY harshing my SL Buzz 🙂 So I turned off the SL music stream, turned on my favorite iTunes mix and took my SL back. Funny, I like this DJ better when I’m picking the tunes...... Can Mimes make it as DJs in SL ?

Personally, I think the “saving” of Sl will be; (a) better business decisions by LL and (b) flattening the learning curve required for New Residents to get to the point where they can “mingle” confidently and make better use of the variety of content available. But if we MUST change SL to a musical-era format, my vote is for ABBA-Life.....

This......

The following is based on my experience in large, purpose-made roleplay sims with specific themes, I generally did not RP outside the formal setting: My past experience with role playing and moderating roleplay has been this; we *all* knew we were there to act out out the parts of characters in a free form play - so we maintained a hard line between In Character and Out Of Character. There was no expectation that anyone’s character IN ANY WAY resembled the RL person or their personality. So, if the relationship was all IC (In character) then there was no pressure to disclose any of your RL self. It was considered normal not to even ask and awkward if you did. If the relationship had one party who was interested in the other OUTSIDE the IC one, then a bracketed (Out of Character) conversation takes place about it in which the players discuss this. Considering that OOC relationships tended to spoil the IC one (jealousy), it was not infrequent for the player making the OOC romantic moves to get a response that looked like this; Player2: (( I’m sorry, but I don’t OOC with anyone from the Sim/RP. Let’s have fun IC. )) Thats usually when you discover whether or not the person who asked you to OOC Romance is really committed to the RP or not. ”or Not” usually entailed drama, accusations and sometimes Moderator Involvement. So....anyone crossing the OOC line within their RP sim tended to keep it on the down-low back in the Day (in the sims I hung out in).

Keep the positive energy flowing to me and my cohorts in Essential Manufacturing 🙂 If you can eat it, drink it or medical with it; we’re going to work 7 days a week to make it.

Maybe in the Roleplay forum you’ll hit more people who are “into” the subject? Personally I use the old reliable /me and “ “ to denote In Character action. If I am in RP and need to say something Out Of Character I post it in (( )) That pretty much seems to keep the dialogue straight, so long as everyone involved takes turns and knows we were IN Roleplay. SL has this odd thing where people will just walk up outside the RP setting and start emoting at people who have no idea what’s up. I kinda scratch my head at that one as it’s more about confusion than a Live Action Role Play. Personally, I don’t consider people chat-sexting just as a stand alone hookup to be “Roleplay” . I classify that as old-fashioned cybering (nothing wrong with that), unless it is a small component of a larger non-sex-centric RP. Sexplayers are free to do their thing of course, and all is in the eye of the beholder. Greetings from someone who also loves good, immersive, literate Roleplay. I hope you can find all that satisfies !

Actually I did spend a *looong* time working for a company that does make toilet paper (among other things), but I moved on before the poo-poo hit the fan 🙂

I absolutely do, in fact I’m probably more of a “people person” here than in RL. Meaning I’m more likely to just randomly talk to people. Also, I’ve been seriously into my SL Partner for about 15 years now......which kinda seems to indicate that “real feelings” are involved where I’m concerned 🙂 SL friendships have their ups and downs, just like RL. This is made more complicated in SL because in SL you sometimes encounter people who consider you “just an NPC in their personal Game”......but frankly, RL has no shortage of those..... I value and love my SL friends for many reasons and I can’t really ever see giving them up until I experience that “final fatal error” and go offline for good. Of course...in my little circle of friends I am also probably the “weirdness magnet” of the bunch; which is fun....

Ardy, the control room I run looks like a refugee from the Expanse already.......so it might not be a stretch ...altho some days Its the “Out-of-Control Room”

Thank you Beth 🙂. I’m pretty sure the Big Auto Makers and such are curtailed, but our sector is headed straight to mars. We’re feeling the pinch as odd things run out, but maybe this is what brings about the Paperless Office for real. We’re so automated that everyone is an Isolated Worker on a normal day, so probably the only hazardous part is the commute here 🙂 Many, many thanks to you and your Sister-in-Law as well. I think you have it a bit harder than me 🙂

So I work in a “Critical Industry”, meaning that as the government advises people to stay home - *we* are ramping up to 7-day weeks 🙂 This is not a commentary on our schedule 🙂 What entertained me tonight was how much joy an act of minor insubordination brought the workforce.... So as soon as I got here, I found out that we had a new shortage. We already got through “Medical Masks”, “Exam gloves” and Printer Toner....but this one had people stressing; we were out of the free coffee for the lunchroom. Evidently, the coffee service stopped along with everything else and as we’re running at 130% - we sucked it down quickly. So I’ve got people looking at me -plainly distressed- and I’m on the spot to say or do something. So, I gathered up a couple of strong looking people and we went upstairs..... The Office Staff is Working From Home and for some reason - their 10% of our workforce has 4x the coffee stored in their kitchenette as Operations is allotted. There was a big sign on the cabinet that was left by a long-gone and un-beloved Administrator; “These Coffee Supplies for Admin Staff Only. I’m Serious” The protective force field failed to strike us dead as we redistributed the Company Property down to the main lunchroom..... My offgoing counterpart was in the lunchroom when our little parade came through and he plainly was concerned about what was up.....one of my helpers told him we were “stealing”..... So the coffee crisis was averted, the Resident Manager thought the whole thing was completely understandable when I called him after the fact..... (I’ve never heard him giggle before) But the part I keep hearing about is the look of satisfaction on my face when I gave that sign a vigorous yank.........I *may* have said a bad-word too....... I have issues.

I tossed a giant potato in the Insta Pot, “baked” it and then it made an exit under a yummy blanket of Salsa, taco meat & shredded cheese! This is much prettier than mine; This is about two meals for my way-of-eating, three if I just let myself SMELL it and gain weight when it first comes up.

I’m not especially scared. I take precautions because we live an an era of “elevated risk”, but I’ve had practice doing that. Mainly I’m hopeful that this event - unfortunate as it is - might nudge us a bit closer to getting our mutual act together. The illusion that “things like that don’t happen here” has been pierced, so maybe that can lead toward a change in how we deal with Big Problems and also each other. Because if we can’t, our odds in the evolutionary lottery only get worse.

LOVE this pic Scylla!

My SL needs a lil’ more beautifying than Scylla’s does........ I’m “beautify-challlenged.....” .....and who is that creepy dude back there in the shadows?

Nothing would stop Ebbe from using a female avatar......