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I'm premium on both my accounts, still couldn't get into an event I wanted something from for 48 hours. <.<

I did write a Jira for a queue system to enter full regions, a while back ...

Neph has a sister? 😮 Photo by: @Catrie

It depends. If you have any creative skills, such as meshing, animating, texturing or scripting, you can build a store in which you offer various products. If you have a good eye for it, decorating, photography or landscaping might be more approachable. You can also make money through consulting in various matters, such as avatar design (styling/fashion) or event planning (various ceremonies or parties). It would however require you to make yourself familiar with a lot of different aspects of SL, and that you keep up to date with how various features progress. A seemingly common go-to for those who like marketing but don't have any "real" skills is to sell shapes. Make a shape, find some pretty hair, makeup and accessories, take a picture, edit the heck out of it and sell it on the MP or in an in-world store; of course, most people will want to know what skin/hair/makeup/accessories you used rather than buy your shapes, which is when you use the nifty "styling card included" tag and blatantly refuse to credit those creators unless you get a cut along the way. This works, too. You can either have them open and set up a tip jar and anyone who so wishes may show up - or you make a private business model where people pay for sessions. It does require you to have a shareable skill though (language, history, mathematics, etc.). Finally - keep an eye on the Inworld Employment board (commerce section of these forums). Occasionally, among the spam for various venues wanting prostitutes they can pimp or clubs that want you to spin money for them, you can find some interesting and worthwhile positions. ... Though before you apply for any serious job, maybe-- Re-work your profile.

Consumerism isn't just an environmental issue though, but a social and economic one. People who oppose capitalism will often say that it "is" capitalism, personally I think it's just one form of dishonest capitalistic practice where neither party cares about the long term effects but rather one party wants to make quick money and lulls their customers into false beliefs about the quality of their products through deceptive advertising. As an example, buying 16 pairs of shoes in a day for £2 a pop (i.e. my sisters discovering Primark) where they do not consider how it's possible to get so many shoes for so cheap - not questioning who made those shoes, where do the materials come from, how long will they last (within 18 months, all of the shoes which had seen any significant use were discarded). That means that, roughly, their footwear needs were covered for £2 per month throughout the average lifetime of the footwear. If you instead go to a cobbler and buy a pair of proper shoes for £75 (good shoes can cost less or more than that) that will last for 10 years with minimal maintenance (I know people who've had shoes last 25+ years), your footwear needs are covered for £0.6 per month. The higher quality product, whilst a larger initial investment, is the economically smart thing to go with (personally I've got a pair of shoes that have lasted 15 years so far and are in excellent condition, having only required new shoelaces - they cost 700 crowns when purchased, which is roughly £59 in today's currency value). Consumerism is for the sellers to push down price and quality (often by abusing the global economy, assigning production to where it's cheap and using their economic power to push down prices for the material producers), so that people think that something is "affordable" - when in fact it isn't. It's when you see athletes drinking Coca Cola, and the health hazards of sugary drinks is wafted away (which has been a massive lobby project, especially in the US - people are instead taught to fear fat, which frankly isn't bad for you if you eat a decent diet, whereas sugar is nothing but detrimental and even addictive). I'm no anti-capitalist, I think that every person who wants to make their own fortune should be free to do so - and frankly don't trust the government with too much money or power - but I'm very picky about the things I buy, regardless of whether it's clothes or food; I want the producer to be paid properly for their work and I want the product to be of an acceptable quality. I'm not interested in combating consumerism through voting and hoping that the lawmakers will deal with it for me through bureaucratic processes and bickering - I vote with my wallet (which also has lasted roughly 20 years so far!). ... ... </rant> ... Gachas. 👿

I did look into that group, a while back. I decided against joining it myself, though. I saw a lot of "we offer this and that", but no credentials. There have been other attempts of starting mental health clinics in SL, and they've not been well received (especially by myself) as preying on those depressed or mentally ill is absolutely obnoxious. Leave the treatment and support to the professionals whom you meet face to face, don't take advise from people wielding fancy words on the Internet - especially not mine!

No, I mean, the other way around. A product marketed as "professional" doesn't tend to mean that it is "made by professionals" but rather "made for professionals".

I would generally suggest that you avoid trying to find someone to "lean on" in SL; whilst there are good and reliable people around, you must first learn to find such people or you may well end up worse. According to your profile, you're 4 days old - and that's the only information about you available. A good way to make friends is to fill out your profile, mention some interests, a little something about yourself - not that you're a depressed person, mind, that's not "who you are" and may well pose a target for people who figure you'll be easily manipulated, or indeed have someone 'well-meaning' thinking that they can 'fix' you. Especially if your goal is to get your mind off things, just make some friends and enjoy yourself.

I'm not sure whether it's me or the topic that lost the plot. All I know is that right now, I need to listen to London After Midnight.

Top dog.

I may be a bad influence, but I do not take responsibility for unchecked consumerism. Just ask her of my views on gachas ...

I welcome anyone who dares send me an IM - or notecard - though I can't guarantee your sanity or safety.

See, the dark side always wins. We have the cookies, after all.

And I don't understand why you must oppose it. I trash that genre, and several others, because they offend mine ears - and why on earth should I have a "live and let live" perspective on it? Since when should forum content be "necessary or constructive"? These parts of the forums would pretty much die if it weren't for people voicing their opinions and perspectives; what makes you think that your perspective is the only correct one? I'm passionate in my disdain for that disgraceful cacophony, so why should you get to write long posts about how it's "passionate and sensual", if I'm not allowed to oppose that perspective? If you don't like-- Death metal-- (giggles) Then feel free to say so. To each their own, with their likes as well as their dislikes. But don't for a moment think that you can dictate what feelings I may or may not express. Do I get sad or offended if somebody doesn't like my taste in music? No, a small part of me thinks that it's great that not everyone agrees because then the world would turn boring - a slightly bigger part of me may want to rip them a new one, but I think you'll find I'm actually quite well tempered. Anything that anyone writes here is just their personal opinion. And I couldn't just say "well, it's not my thing" because that would be disingenuous; I think it's contemptible and reprehensible, it's a stain of shame and wretchedness on the world's musical capacity. Now don't get me started on Country or Hip-hop, or you'll see something truly "dark and violently sensual".

... ... Yes, it's whiny. It's less thrilling and enticing than 300 year old semi-operas. But that's my opinion, if you think it's passionate and sensual, knock yourself out.

That'd be the guy.

Blond guy, not sure his balls ever dropped, don't think he ever was introduced to a shower. That guy?

Scrounges nose. I don't care what it represents or where it comes from, as much as I don't care about how sad people were when what's-his-face blew his brains out (that grungy emo-guy I can't be bothered to Google for a name) - the 'music' doesn't stroke my fancy.

I'd say my comment was roughly 20% negative, 10% constructive and 70% satirical. Let's have a look: Whilst I don't have any illusion that the forum is a functional democratic platform, this statement feels like a rather firm directive rather than an invitation. Who decided there was a meetup? Who decided the time? Who decided the venue? I was never asked if I were interested, nor was any consideration for my time zone (which is a fairly populous one both in SL in general but certainly on the forums - we've got plenty of Europeans around here). This is a club with a rather high traffic. Lag, and putting ourselves at the mercy of the hospitality of the club's staff (does the venue allow furries, for example?) as well as competing for space with the regular patrons - a forumite event may well pull a lot of people, we may well cap the region's capacity before everyone who wants to attend can get in if we invade a club that already has a bunch of people in it. 9 PM SLT is 11 PM for people on the East Coast; that's late for a lot of people who are close to the time zone to begin with. As previously mentioned, for us Europeans, 9 PM SLT is 5 AM GMT, 6 AM CET and 7 AM for Eastern Europe. Whilst it's true that there never is a one time that works for everyone - heck, there are Aussies who are SLT+18, so for them it'd be 3 PM - but usually the forumite events are placed to at least accommodate both Europeans and Americans. "Music is the universal language of mankind". This may have had truth in it, in the mid 1800's - but today, music segregates us even within our own families. My family hated it when I played Metal, NDH, Darkwave and Punk, but to me it was passionate. I, and my parents, were less than happy to listen to my sister's Pop music when she played that. Whenever my father played some whiny old 'Murrican Blues, my sister and I went to our rooms and put on headphones to drown it out with our own music (or just turned up the volume until even he couldn't hear his Bob Dylan for the wall-shaking riffs of Rammstein - and we lived in a flipping stone house). Again, there's probably no one form of music that everyone could agree upon in such a diverse forum as this. But come on. At least pick something where it doesn't feel as if both the singer and the listeners would rather just drop dead on the spot in a fit of pessimistic self-pitying and despair, without at any one point sounding even remotely musical.

And any landing where you can take off again is a great landing.

Or potential customers. Especially if your SLurl in the listing is out of date. Or if you go to the in-world store and find that nope, there's no demo there either.

Cyberpunk isn't apocalyptic - it's dystopian. Most Cyberpunk settings are very much dependent on capitalism representing an authoritarian oligarchy, and the most common theme in that setting is exploring the value of humanitarian ideals and individual expression, or even at what point artificial intelligence is near human enough that it deserves empathy. Apocalyptic science fiction explores the downfall of civilization, whether through internal (politics, religion, war, economy) or external (aliens, natural disasters, pandemics, zombies) forces and how humanity reacts and struggles for survival. Post-apocalyptic science fiction takes place after an apocalyptic event (think Mad Max, Waterworld, Terminator, Fallout), these are often divided into either Steelpunk or Atompunk.

The heart is a muscle that pumps blood through our bodies, that has nothing to do with feelings or emotions. Personally I don't see why anyone would need such a sign, but were I to phrase it, it would probable be; "Remember: behind each avatar is a person." - if people are stupid enough not to realise this themselves, or indeed with such a sign to assist them, I'd boot them on the spot.