Jaylinbridges

How hard would it be to count the number of attached items on an avatar, and limit it to 100 or so? If LL was building a car and the brakes failed, they would hit the accelerator as a feature.

File a ticket. Maybe when you became a Lifetime, they reset your transaction history. Definitely a programming mistake. Or no programming for the Lifetime accounts at all - since these accounts were all processed manually, human error seems more likely.

Library avatars are (no transfer). Except Greg's 1960 transistor radio.- it is full perm.

Nobody can make predictions except Patch

There are not really things to do in the WelcomeHub other than quickly wander through the regions. Shopping is retail over-priced system clothing and 1500L AO/dance huds. Newbies have no lindens, unless of course they first enter the WelcomeHub and click on the BUY Lindens object and spend $10 USD (w/fees) before they have a clue what is going on. They also need a payment method to buy Lindens. How many newbies are going to go thru that process with a bank account or paypal on their first day? Everything in the WelcomeHub should be free. Same as the other private newbie places. Gambling, the Social Casino? You can't earn lindens there, and the games are not much fun. And of course, no music. Buy a Premium account so you can have a Linden Home? See above about spending your dollars before you know what's going on. Watch a bad machinima movie in the theatre? Sorry the movie had no plot and I was bored after the first 30 mins. I realize there were 100's involved in producing that SL inworld video, but I think that cartoon film making should be left to talented folks with modern tools working for a RL studio. (I think the movie theatre will not show any films that SL does not have the rights too, so this is more of an introduction to SL private builds and fantasy avatars than an entertainment video.) A free sandbox? Ok that's nice. Newbies can start designing castles as their first learning task. Do the mentors teach building inworld? Motown - everything's been said already. The music is canned and not shared with anyone in real time, assuming you can get the Styng HUD working. Might as well listen to your own playlist on Spotify. Not a social experience. Non official mentors helping out? Sure, but the newbies will have to download Firestorm once they learn to walk. It is not worth the hassle to load up the SL Viewer for most experienced SLers. I would need a brand new alt, that had no groups in it, to use the SL Viewer. And I would lose my patience after 10 mins. I have used the viewer to help my friends, and there is so much missing in the SL Viewer, that I gave up in frustration. I switched my friends to Firestorm, told them how to tune down the Preferences so it would work with their low level laptop, and suddenly they started to enjoy SL. Oldies standing around helping newbies at the Welcome Hub? What are the mentors with their LL mentor rule sheet going to say? I guess a throwaway alt getting banned is not the worst thing.

There were 12 newbie accounts and no mentors around at 9:30 pm SLT, at the Welcome Hub tonight. I did my part by inviting one of them to a music club with 30 avatars and a great DJ. The hostess helped him get on her dance HUD, and he's got a club tag now. His first 2 hrs in SL. He was dancing on the stage with the band. Just throw them in the water and hope they can swim.

A more complete list of Motown younger artists: https://www.motownrecords.com/releases/ I can safely say that as a DJ I have never heard of a single one of them, much less played them on request. But then we are a Blues club full of mostly 40 and over patrons. We are obsolete, as SL aims for the the "new" music, such as this MoTown artist: We do play some Motown, since the history of Black migration to the North saw Blues and gospel singers ending up in Detroit, so it is just another genre for us. But it is almost all Classic Motown we play. We do not play hip hop or disco - we would lose all our patrons. The MoTown HUD seems to start with Motown Love genre, which is all the old good groups before hip hop hit in the late 70's. So far every new account from 0 to 5 days I see visit in Motown stay for about 30 secs, since the place is deserted. It's likely they never get the music HUD working too. You need to set your Media preferences correctly (which you can not read on the HUD), and then tp to another region and TP back to get the HUD music, after about 15 secs of waiting. Not a newbie friendly experience.

I recall someone in this forum who was a mentor at one of the older SL mentor programs, saying this is why SL cancelled the mentor program back then. So it's not hypothetical if it has already happened as you suggest. More like history repeating itself.

I think this is mainly new users trying to log into SL with an inadequate system, or network, or both. If the basic inventory cannot log in because of packet loss, or a laptop from 2008 meant for email, SL will time them out. Usually their cloud from missing body parts with also go away. But if you still see them as a cloud and on radar, they could just be standing there as a cloud, not knowing what to do. They might go to bed or go to work, and just leave their account with the missing inventory logged in. Might be a Quit Moment, or I'll try when I have time moment. I see stuck avatars, some clouds, some running in place, and for hours at a time. Maybe their computer has locked up, and they have no idea how to reboot or shut it down. Or are afraid if they pull the power plug it could damage something. Most of these stuck avatars are new accounts.

I find this whole topic confusing. We can't tell newbies what to do first in SL, so I guess the question is should LL focus more on introducing new residents on the two lower levels of SL life needs, by advertising, mentors, and strategically placed rumors ? The lowest level include non-romantic sex and sleeping, which can be simulated in SL. Fortunately food, water and excretion are optional. I sometimes sleep in SL when I go sleep in RL, but if they removed all sleep poses, I could still survive. The second level seems more important, except of course morality. Finding a home (body security), employment and property or a family are early goals but they could be at the chart top. Nobody likes to be homeless for long. How many new residents can just jump up to the Love/belonging level and skip the lower needs? If you are a famous rock singer or movie star, maybe. Otherwise the lower levels come first. The more I think about this, the more I think this question at the LabGab was a waste of time. Get newbies started with the basics and hope they find a buddy to mentor. All these higher needs are academic psycho blab . I think Oberwolf had the best answer: Next Question.

I changed it to raw sex, since sexual intimacy is also in the third layer. Newbies looking for 1st day sex belong in the bottom layer. And as Morgan explained, sex is a basic need determined by your hormone levels, and age. His early research on animals, hormones, and sexual behavior was interesting.

I will chime in to remind you this is not always true. Maslow's theories on Feel Good psychology, or Humanistic psychology pretty much ignored sick people with clear physiological causes, and his therapy failed to help those with an actual bodily cause. I took my first psychology course, Psych 101 in 1961, and the lecturing professor was Dr. Clifford T. Morgan. Morgan was the leader in experimental and physiological causes of behavior and was a cofounder of the Psychonomic Society** in 1959. He was a scientist who believed in experimental data, as opposed to opinions and soft "research". Maslow's name was never mentioned or referenced in Dr. Morgan's 1961 textbook, Introduction to Psychology. I never heard of Maslow until Strawberry read that question, since my major was engineering, not psychology. (** The mission of the Psychonomic Society is to foster the science of cognition through the advancement and communication of basic research in experimental psychology and allied sciences.) On another subject, sex (raw) is in the bottom layer of the triangle. As a few keep reminding us, you can't skip sex as an attraction in SL, by skipping the lowest layer. I wonder why the triangle posted by the LabGab did not mention that. I also would argue that for a significant number of present SL residents, SL does provide some of the basic needs in the second layer, at least employment and family, part of the second Security layer. It does for me, and several people I work with every day.

Like most clubs, the patrons can use the dance balls for free, or anyone with a dance HUD, hostesses or DJ's can also add someone to the dance in the HUD. We don't actually give someone a gesture or a dance to take home. The dances in the HUDS and Intans are of course paid for by the owner of the HUD or Intan, and have full rights to attach other avatars while they are within range. So this is nothing like these individual song plus dance gesture STYNGS that STYNGR is trying sell in SL for 1250 $L per song. Hopefully a newbie will find a real SL music club before they think the STYNGs are how you listen to music in SL MoTown is just confusing because there is nothing else like it in SL and could convince a newbie that SL music systems really suck, as they log out forever. If someone is going to listen to their own STYNG on Media, and use their own dance gesture, they will have no need to go to a club. And the DJ or performer will have no reason to provide music to someone who is not listening to the club music stream, or joining the other patrons who are on the club dances. Paying royalties for online streaming is a whole different subject. The royalty system is not set up for small time virtual clubs that are losing money already by playing music to a few patrons, for essentially nothing after expenses. The only DJ's that might be paying the $1500 USD/yr just for streaming will also have an online 24/7 web radio music station that begs for dollar donations to help defray the costs of the music and streaming fees, and have RL web listeners. If the music industry ever figures out how to force SL performers to pay royalties for their music, I will be glad to pay them as a percent of my linden earnings after expenses. I will send them my check for $3 every quarter. As it is they assume you are a web broadcaster and have a mininum fee of $1500/yr, paid in advance every January. SL is off the radar because there is no money to be collected here. Clubs will simply close down and leave SL along with the performers, if there is any problem.

MoTown is a record label. Motown is a customer of Styngr, who is a company that makes money by offering owners of music (like a record label) a chance to monetize their music in online GAMES. The original artists or their family and relatives still get paid royalties when their music is played by one of the games where Styngr has entered, like the game, Second Life. But Motown and Styngr take much of the cut. Not sure how SL monetizes this other than hoping MoTown region will convince more newbies to stay. And here is the Styngr business plan to online games, from their own website: MoTown in SL is deserted right now, and I can't imagine anyone paying 1250 $L to STYNGR for a single song gesture from a MoTown artist. That is $5 USD/song! We provide free dancing gestures (100's of them) at our club, free request songs, and most patrons are hard pressed to tip 100 lindens for their entire stay there. I must be missing the money boat here. Going to start charging 1000 $L per song, per patron. The dances will still be free. Such A Deal !

That storefront is just a sham. I looked inside and its empty! I assume all the real action is in the basement. (Hillary?) I could not even order a pizza. What's their phone number?

At my age, there's a 50% chance I will be dead before i would break-even in 8 years. So no. And being online since 1978, but not a social media addict, I had never heard of the term FOMO before today. So I had to look it up on Google. (Apparently it started after 911 (2001) when the kids realized they were not going to live forever, so Fear Of Missing Out on the online good times became a concern.) I also found some other FOMO acronyms: Fear Of Missing Oreos and F**ked Over More Often My theory on the low number limit on the Lifetimes is that Tilia would need to hire more employees to process unlimited applications. All decisions are based on profits. There is no reason why the Lifetime subscription could not be automated, so I expect the offer will be extended once Tilia and LL can update their software.

Sounds like some MoTown companies sent in some spies to search for copyright and royalty violations. Someone should tell these people that SL residents are poor, and can't possibly cause the RL owners to lose money from copyrights and royalties. SL needs to keep these RL commercial profiteers out of SL. Next thing they will hit is music clubs, and that will end resident entertainment in SL. I realize some here would love that.

Gee, a topic about Lab Gab announcements, and no comment on Patch's 1:15 hr interview? Or am I missing that topic? Did anyone here go in world, or watch the YouTube channel?

Then how is the IRS going to tax you? Will SL also pay the tax by sending you lindens, which when you cash out will create another IRS earnings statement? If you win a national sweepstakes, I think you can just take the after tax amount. Maybe this chevy will be missing the battery?

I think you need to find the object to block it. The object owner won't work. Good luck searching Those are a pain

I asked the mentors why no one was wearing their mentor tag. I think they were off their shift, but were still helping newbies. Also the flow of zero day new arrivals is being routed to the new Welcome Hub region. There were about 8 avatars with 0 day ages when I was there. I tried to help one in the MoTown region, but I don't think English was his first language, so I got ok as his only comment back to me.

My limit is about $500 for the graphics card. I will need to build a new system. The only things I can still use are the case and fans, and the power supply. 32 GB memory is minimum, and 6 GB of VRAM min. Not sure I can get by for $1000 minus the NVIDIA graphics card. Will also need a high end sound chip or card, as I need digital sound output. There's not much else I would need a high end system for. I didn't have too much lag at Motown the first day and never crashed - just had to wait for the body parts to get attached.

I responded based on what she described, and tried to not baffle her with BS. Her frame rate did not decrease. She only saw 4 avatars. It was her first visit. She said nothing about others landing or leaving. And while you keep trying to insult me, I suspect I know a lot more than you do about causes of lag. That does not mean I should give a laundry list of 50 causes for lag to someone. I know nothing about her system or specs, or setup, and neither do you. What I do know is I have no apparent lag from any causes when I TP into the Welcome Center hub regions, and this is on an ancient system that you would laugh at. Of course the first time I visited, and if my cache rolls off old files then I get the landing lag. And of course there will be fps changes as you swing the cam around to load new objects within the draw distance. That is not what she said she did. Here are some region stats for the SL Welcome Hub. Nothing in the stats show a poor laggy build. My FPS is 80 fps here with no lag I can notice using Firestorm. 8 avatars within my draw distance now.

I seem to remember the new Linden Home regions being blocked and hidden before the official announcement before. I would guess that the 2048 homes will suddenly rezz on the SL20B Welcome Hub LH parcel just before or after this Lab Gab meeting with Patch and the Moles: The Moles (June 30 at 1:30pm PT) If earlier, than a first mention during Patch's Lab Gab on June 26 at 1:30pm PT. They are waiting because Patch and Abnor love surprises and drama. When PP members can actually move into the 2048's is anyone's guess. It does seem that an area near the Belli Stilt homes could be their first location just one region from Squeegee to Glory. This is no secret - there are topics in the Linden Homes section about the new regions, which are presently hidden from us mortals.

I agree with most other comments, that are more a state of mind thing. But I can get on a dance HUD and dance in SL for 8 hours, and my muscle tone does not improve. I might get a backache though. Of course I don't wiggle in my chair, or stand up and dance, but I do tap my foot with a good beat. My right foot doesn't look any different than my left foot after hours of foot tapping. I could ask my Dr to measure muscle density in my right leg I suppose, but she says, just get out and walk more. I don't tell her most of my walking is in SL.