Amanda Crisp

I’m on my lunch-break and don’t have time to detail-read the thread as yet; but did anyone take the step of contacting the home-owner directly and asking them to lock-down their security settings? If they took the simple step of hiding their personal activity from people not involved in it, this would go a long way towards ending the “broadly offensive” portion of the situation. The land-encroachment is a different issue, but a lot of new residents have had issues with land and build rules in the past. Now, if this isn’t a New Resident; that excuse goes right out the window ?

You want them to marry you AND your husband? You are my new polyamorous heroes!

“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.” -The Comedian, Watchmen

Aretha Franklin’s Music will be moving hearts as long as civilization exists, so she will always be with us ?

The fun thing about this for me personally is how much if this I MISSED due to being in a Roleplay sim as an Admin. That essentially ate the rest of my SL and if it wasn’t directly affecting the sim - I had a good chance of missing the drama completely.. Because.....we had enough drama IN the sim .....

It’s SO hard to get a hawt stalker :-(

That would depend on how many alts the Stalker was using, how much time they had to devote to Stalking activities, how much trouble they caused for SL friends of yours and their persistence in creating new stalker alts to keep their activity up despite the old ones being blocked. SL seems to be hamstrung by its desire to be an Open Community, to the point that enforcement is generally ineffective where a determined psycho is involved.

It pays to consider that not all of us who post and experience SL on an avatar that is not our original are not Hiding Behind an Alt for nefarious reasons. :-) My original picked up and out-of-the-blue Stalker and made my SL absolute hell. LL was appealed to in multiple occasions for help, but was unable to provide any useful remediation. So, my 2005 Avatar is essentially mothballed and my options were “make an alt” or leave SL. Maybe a better objective would be for LL to develop -effective- anti-griefer/stalker tools, which could also serve to deal with weaponized alts.

Of itself SL requires communications to function; -Data communications with the Mothership to perform any and all activity affecting the world. -Communications with LL staff to resolve issues All SL uses are reliant upon electronic and other communication, even just sitting in a sandbox building. SL remains a communications platform :-)

How about this; ”SL is a *communications platform* with supplemental graphic rendering that can also be used as a gaming, education or artistic tool?”

I’m very much into the Tacos

Second Life is not a game; Real Life is an unmoderated game designed by a madman.

Well - the post that follows should be a forum-sensitivity-safe response; /me logs off the forum and goes back to reading a book for a while.

I’m starting to feel like posting to the forums is a dangerous thing for us older folks.

Maybe we should send an SL spacecraft to go measure the distance to the SL sun. We could build a nice Mesh spaceship, I could select three avatars (who I don’t care for) as the crew and launch them to glory as “first to land on the sun”

Phil, the post I quoted “die hard trumpettes” and my full question would have been “are there any such (die-hard trumpettes) in SL?” That would include anyone enthusiastically speaking up for the current US President without considering national affiliation. I’m really not interested in discussing the politics of the temporary occupant of the White House, but I am always very interested in the freedom of dissenters (regardless of stance) to be able to speak up.

I’m curious - ARE there any such in SL? 99.9% of what I hear in SL leans in support of the American Left.

I avoid political discussion in SL mainly because; (a) people have short memories and things that happened more than 5 years ago often are unlearned-from or ignored if they don’t fit someone’s narrative. (b) many people operate based on how they feel rather than on reason - so reason is irrelevant with that lot. (c) Generally, many people have never learned how to debate - so even with good intentions online “debate” quickly devolves into a shouting match. RL -discussion- is very important and should qualify as a Civic Duty - but I try to keep my online friendships free if that stuff. We all get along better that way in a Digital Mccarthyist age where having the wrong Opinion can see you socially blackballed.

Tari, I always enjoy reading your take on things! I suppose my stance on this is that it’s almost impossible to be objective in how we view and define Oppression. Someone whose life experiences include seeing friends hauled off and shot because they prayed to the wrong graven image will have a whole different sensitivity then someone who attaches that same level of moral outrage to not having “their” candidate win an election. Both people’s sense of indignation is real to -them- even if the events that caused it are magnitudes apart in severity. But it’s hard to get them to talk about it civilly at times due to the perceived “difference in severity”.

I kinda like what my Partner and I already have in SL; a Spanish-style home in a largish skybox with lots of grass, water features, wandering goats and a gigantic rabbit wandering the grounds. Most important is a large seating area around the house so we can have people over to do that really dull and old-school “talk and socialise” thing. Since we’re on the MadLands, there really is no specific “community” as we’ve had to build up high in order to escape the bordering tacky-strip-club builds and wandering griefers. We didn’t start off as Altitude Isolationists, but hard experience drove us up there. I like to socialize and except for a “no RL politics” ground rule I like having a diverse range of guests who appreciate music and all things Geek :-)

The goat skeerz me!

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