Amanda Crisp
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The only criteria should be "when you're ready".
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So in RL I am not deeply skilled w animation creation, image manipulation or making awesome mesh things to import into SL. I’m a late-generation Boomer with pretty good computer literacy for someone of my age-cohort, but I started kinda late down that track. My core skills are “people” and “operations management” focused, so SL does not have a high market penetration for that (also, I DO that in RL 10-16 hours a day and SL is my vacation).
So I was never going to make my fortune selling stuff in SL 🙂
I *do* DJ and host events, that’s mostly a break-even process on a good day. I do it for enjoyment.
So for someone like me, its a better path to work an hour a week within my RL skill-set and then use that money to buy Lindens.
Yes, that makes me “not one of the cool, creative kids”; but SL is a wonderful outlet for me in terms of stress and also as an environment where my personal disability can go completely un-noticed by the people I meet.,
Now, for those of you who have the Personality, Golden Voice and great musical taste; DJing -can- pay off. That would be one option, especially if you already have an extensive musical collection.
The best advice I have is to find a friend who already figured out how to financially swing SL and learn from them. They probably have a “network” and can steer you towards specific ways to get where you want to be,
Its no accident that one of the best DJ’s I have ever met in SL is also the best source of where to find sales, bargains and other SL “deals”. She communicates constantly with people she meets and that creates Opportunity.
Good luck! SL is not easy to “bootstrap” yourself in SL, but if you ask people for 1-on-1 advice you may be amazed at how many are willing to help!
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Hard to answer this because “how things work” is SUCH a moving target.
For a long time I’ve had the notion that LL does not communicate very well internally, leading to Improvement activities that actually make one thing better while degrading something else.
When you toss in the changes being made to 3rd party Viewers…..well…..
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7 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
The thread title reminds me of attending parties at a RL friend's house. She owned two border collies and nobody but she and I seemed to notice that those two little devils routinely herded guests into fairly tight huddles. It was both adorable and hilarious.
I provided a home for a Blue Heeler named “Jake” who did the same thing when my children were small. I loved that little dog 🙂
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The topic is WAY more complicated than I would be comfortable generalizing about.
People from either urban or rural backgrounds are likely to have vastly different life experiences informing their opinion and that might be much more of a divide than political ideology.
Maybe better questions would be; “What IS masculine and feminine behavior and are we beginning to move we beyond mere gender as a determiner of behavioral norm?”
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It struck me that this might be Smuckerberg “flexing” in response to the Whistleblower testifying to congress.
This was a thing for him to use as an example of the hysteria that “a world without SpaceBook” would cause as well as the public dependency.
Personally, I don’t think that I *need* SpaceBook or even want it; especially in relation to our Children.
People need to have a very mature “thick skin” before being subjected to the social media snake-pit.
Putting people whose self-image is still formative out there for the Wolfpack to gnaw on just seems like a bad idea, no matter WHOSE pockets it lines.
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Aha! The great MicroSatan returns……
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14 hours ago, Echelon Alcott said:
Thanks for sharing, Jennifer. I've not thought from that perspective. I'd say that we should be thankful that SL is more openminded and enables us to live and express ourselves - of course, as long as we do not harm others - without the confines of what society unfairly imposes on certain individuals or groups.
I would not be so certain. If your personal information was gathered when someone you do RL business with was breached, then that information *could* be out in circulation and out of your control.
I had someone stalk me from SL to RL and dealing with that was NOT any fun. Not for me, not for the police and not for the disturbed individual who initiated the contact and refused to respect my privacy.
Internet Ghost is an aspirational description if you can manage it….
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You……left Mac……?????
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This and special fonts are why I can’t use “display name only” in the viewer when I DJ. It’s too handy to be able to see a legible, correct pronunciation of a guest’s name after the arrival HUD feeds me fancy punctuation and those added spaces cause a chunk of the name not to appear 🙂 I look around and read the system name before I try to pronounce “::-+$$$Fu” :—D
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The toilet handle………
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That’s right Fernando, I can listen to music from these Visitors daily and play it On And On and On until the Happy New Year!
Mama Mia! The audible serotonin of their voices can send any One of Us back to happy memories of Our Last Summer…
So Don’t Shut Me Down and Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimme more!
See you at Waterloo and Voulez-Vous!
The Winner Takes It All, after all……
((my Canadian Partner frequently suffers through it when I’m DJing and the Scandinavian Urge takes me. Their music makes me feel sixteen again - and that’s a dangerous condition if you’re me…..))
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“Where Nobody ARs your Username”
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Are you dealing with an issue with the Subscribo device many performers use to keep in touch w fans so they don’t have to waste a SL group slot (its opt-in), or is this some other Subscriber thingy?
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This……. I love this and have zero clue WHY………
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So far as “who is in charge” is concerned - that would largely be a self-selecting elite (they decided to run for office or work their way up a particular hierarchy) without regard to any particular politics. Either they persuade voters or demonstrate themselves to be the most successful sharks in their particular pool.
This produces a world governed by either Used Car Salespeople or High Functional Egotists/Successful Predators.
The nature of the world will only make *cosmetic* changes until we fundamentally change the nature of human beings.
Some suggestions to help that along;
(1) - *Voluntarily* reduce the human birth rate to more equitably align Resources, education and employment with our population while lowering consumption and pollution. This might follow if #2 is carried out.
(2) - Broadly invest in education to make it more Universally accessible. A well-educated population is harder to bamboozle, less prone to Intolerance and has a better chance of producing high-quality leaders.
(3) - Increase wide exposure of populations to people of other beliefs and ethnicities. It’s harder to be evil to people you identify with and whose existence is not an abstract concept. Not “pubic relations” but actual contact.
But…to accomplish #1-#3 you have to wrest operational control from the “Who is in charge” group I mentioned in the first blurb.
Good Times……
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Second Life taught me that I like *people* better in a world where their Identity is up to them.
I could explain a lot about that, but it has a mostly to do with the RL stresses I dealt with concerning speech deficits from a stroke. I’m much better now, but for a long time I had some major insecurities because people who *knew* me would still look at me like my IQ had dropped 100 points if I started speaking.
”Drunk or Mental” was the judgement written all over their faces and as someone who was always something of a brainy-type, it really killed my soul.
So I did a lot of speech therapy and learned something about Judging.
Second Life is a place where we all choose what we project to the world. *who* you are matters; not *what* nor what happened to you.
That’s probably as close to Heaven as I’ll ever get, so I’ll take it 🙂
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I like my Tipjar mounted to a solid object so that people know where it is 🙂
I’ve learned to check my tipjar frequently as “unscrupulous” people find ways to misdirect tips to a stationary jar - but that’s the cost of doing club work in SL.
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On 6/12/2021 at 7:58 PM, Lindal Kidd said:
I seem to recall that there was a thread for that...
EDIT: Yes! Here it is...
With my luck, I’d post a condolence to someone’s Obit thread and be immediately subjected to Public “Necroposting” Shame :-)
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1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Everything lost can be replaced and renewed. This is not a tomb.
I would parse this differently as I maintain a small memorial to a friend who went offline in RL back in 2005;
”This is not *ONLY* a tomb (memorial).” Second Life is many things to many people.
Technology moves on, so keep backups of those memorials that have emotional significance to you.
A virtual memorial is only pixels, its SIGNIFICANCE lies in what the act of creating and maintaining that remembrance.
If circumstances force you to re-create it somewhere else ( I have done this several times as I moved around the grid ), your commitment to whomever or whatever is being remembered is only affirmed by your determination to keep something special in living memory.
I don’t get religious about this stuff (my religion is not all that common and more of a philosophy than anything else), but I do subscribe to the sentiment that “to be remembered is not to die”.
Of course, my “religion” DOES cherish a challenge 🙂 Keeping something constant in an ever changing virtual world is exactly that kind of challenge ……
Final of-topic thought; not all memorials are there as a place to grieve. Some exist as a way of saying “thanks”.
I agree w Coffee (I usually do), I just wanted to present the upside of migrating Remembrances to whatever comes after SL, whenever it does.
https://images.app.goo.gl/rgzDd3QkYSgHow448
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/me posts the obligatory objection to minimizing the usefulness and impact of Second Life by referring to it as a “game”. 🙂
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