Orwar

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.

I loved Forgotten City.

There are, in fact, multiple philosophies of aesthetics, many of which directly contradict each other.

So let them perish. What's your point?

Anyone who claims to have a 'true' definition of art is burping dogmatic axioms. Study away if you like, and come back when you've got some meat to that argument other than opinionated jargon. That's not even close to what I said, unless you are truly unable to separate "art" from "life".

Memento mori.

A little bit like when a group of friends, who all have similar world views and probably under the influence of alcohol, find that one truth which would end all wars and bring peace and prosperity eternal to everyone across the globe. Asking the question "what is art" is about as complex as asking "what is the meaning of life"; there has been no conclusive answer to that question throughout millenniums of human creativity. I have my answer, you may or may not have yours, countless philosophers and artists have had theirs - we're all different, we all have our perspectives and opinions, and we could well argue throughout our lifetimes without coming to an agreement. Some people think that art is as important as water and air, some think that it's entirely superfluous, inefficient and pointless. I believe in entropy. That which can not sustain itself should perish. I suggested that they find ways to finance the project several pages ago, and now they have done so - whether it works out or not is up to the community that supports it. If it succeeds, excellent. If it fails, too bad. I'm not sure what, beyond that, is left to be argued for.