Dragon Mommy
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Re: Battery.
It drains about as fast as any other 3D game, I'd say it's on par with pokemon go when you keep it active. My phone does warm up some but not much, unless I charge and run the app at the same time.
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Just got the alpha installed and time to begin testing. It's an Alpha for sure, limited capabilities and some bugs, but the foundation feels solid so far. I'll save my deeper feedback for official channels though.
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Any Co-branded debt card (a debit card connected to a current account that shows a Visa or MasterCard logo) should work just fine, but you can always check with your bank if there are any issues.
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I think the answers to your questions are more likely to come from a tax specialist in your area than LL themselves.
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I'm wary of any rating or number system even without incentive.
I understand the need to gameify some of the social experience because it helps push people out of their comfort zones and into new things. Upvote / favorites/ karma/ headpats whatever aren't really a good example of what I want to see in SL. I've been in communities with similar systems and overall I think it was a social net negative. In the past in a different SL it may have lead to a lot of social events and such, but this is SL of 2023. Online behaviour shifts and changes over time, and I don't see this having a net positive effect.
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27 minutes ago, animats said:
no sounds, please.
I'd vote for optional (default off) sounds. I wouldn't mind my small groups alerting me when messages come in but I wouldn't want that for larger groups.
But in general groups could really do with an overhaul. This past year I moved from a roleplay group that used SL for everything to one that uses Discord to manage itself.
The second group is far more social and it's far easier to get answers and communicate with my fellow players. Information isn't lost after 2 weeks when notices disappear.
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This doesn't really seem like it's within LL's capabilities or concern to moderate.
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6 hours ago, Katherine Heartsong said:
7200/week for a homestead? Wow. There are reputable, established, and highly recommended rental companies that charge 6100
Can you point me to them? Last time I shopped around most were over 7500. I've had my current one for awhile. I'm not above moving to save money long term, much as I like my current company.
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This is something I've wanted for a long time, as I much prefer a homestead for the privacy. I share one right now with a friend.
Doing the math based on my current rental (7200/week) it comes out to a little more when taking into account the L stipend. It might be worth it just to have full control and avoid issues like my rental company going under. I'll consider it in the new year.
This is doing the math for 365 days of rental and not just short-handing 4 weeks = one month.
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Any appear offline feature would be for use as a means to not signal to your friends you are online. It would fail as a privacy tool. Scripted objects can track your online status. That said, I still think that an online status option would be a net benifit.
Arguments about what development time should be spent on miss the point that not every developer or employee of LL is going to be working on the same part of a product or be qualified to. Whoever handles the backend of the forums might not be qualified to code a new option into the viewer. The person who codes a new option into the viewer might not be the one working on the engine or netcode for improvements.
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14 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I live only about 1.5 hours from Walt Disney World in FL, so have ridden that more than most people! Always a favorite. (First rode in 1974.)
It's my very favorite ride of all time! Im about as far from FL as you can get and still be near an international airport in North America so my trips are every few years now. I'll have to locate the surl of the one in SL as it was very lovingly created.
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I know somewhere on the grid someone has recreated the Haunted Mansion from Disneyland... I always enjoyed that.
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If I want something I don't wait to buy it, but I buy the occasional sale as an impulse buy. My friend I share a homestead with has their store there and weekend sales drive tons of traffic and buyers, which always makes them happy.
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I always feel like it's either frequented by a social group I don't know who all post about each other or it's just screaming into the void and nobody knows anyone posted.
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I'd say 95% of my Blocklist is spam or a persistent creepy guy who used to post ads looking for 'girls who were submissive when younger' from endless throwaway accounts. But even that amounts to only around 60 accounts. And honestly I think I could safely clear the spam ones as they've all likely been banned.
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15 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
This is what most bothers me about child avatars. I don't want to be a part of your RP. If you're talking like a 2 year old in local chat, I'll ignore you. I'm also not going to engage with someone in an animal avatar (not furry) who only talks in emotes as if they were an actual dog. I don't RP. It's fine if you do but don't expect everyone to want to participate in YOUR RP. It's not how I use MY SL. That said, I have no problem with people using whatever type of avatar they choose. Engage with me? Do so as an adult human.
I find it difficult as well to interact with a lot of child roleplayers for a similar reason. Though I find there is a big difference between someone who is acting like a child and only speaking like a two year old would, and someone using emotes to convey the character they play is young but cleary written by an adult, and can respond normally out if character. The second one doesn't bug me, but it needs to be at the right place or time.
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5 hours ago, Sid Nagy said:
Wouldn't Tillia need an official bank status first?
Paypal is a bank (at least in Europe it is) so they have access to all these transfer systems.Maybe.
Paypal is a payment gateway that also stores money. You can carry a balance on PayPal or even do your banking from it (which I cannot strongly enough urge people NOT to use it for that.). The storage of funds is what makes them have to act as lender and bank.
From what I can tell Tilia is just a payment processor. They make money go from point a to b. Any stored value someone has is in their second life account. That distinction might matter to the EU but I'm sure that's something for a lawyer to worry about.
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5 hours ago, Jennifer Boyle said:
Didn't LL say at some point that they expected Tilia to process payments for other online services?
They already could be and we wouldn't know right away as it's rarely obvious. Hard market to break into though.
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I sometimes do KYC reviews for the company I work for when our verification team falls behind.
I once had Visa accept a picture of someone holding today's newspaper at their address with the house numbers visible holding their ID, because they lived mostly off-grid and produced their own power via solar.
If you don't have the requested information, get creative. Have your parents sign a date a rental agreement, for instance.
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There's a reason analysts were calling this a grift from the beginning.
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1 hour ago, Rat Luv said:
Does anyone remember the UK documentary about the SL Gorean who starts his own RL sex cult? 😵 TOTALLY nuts...there's a bit where the interviewer asks "So when are you going to introduce me to the top secret Gor UK Council? Do they really exist?" and the man goes mental and throws him out!
Wonder if he's still on SL...😬
This guy isn't at all the first to do this. In the IRL BDSM community Goreans have been active since the 90s or earlier. There's a sizable subculture of it, which I became aware of when a friend of mine entered into a Gorean household as a submissive.
After her experience there (she is out and ok now), I have nothing good to say about that group.
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Like others have said, where there are vulnerable people, there will be those who try to take advantage of them.
That doesn't necessarily mean an organized cult though. I can think of terribly abusive roleplay or social groups I've seen in SL that use tactics that cults do to keep members. (Isolation, financial abuse, gaslighting, etc) I think it's very possible groups that fit more of the cult definition than that could exsist.
but who knows maybe cults like Love Has Won and Westboro have secret SL meeting locations. 🤔 I would genuinely hope not though.
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Recurring transactions are handled a bit differently than single transactions due to the need for long term storage of an authorization to charge. Not all banks or cards like to work nicely with them, even when using PayPal. Even if your account is on file with PayPal, bank systems see you initiating a one-time purchase differently than starting recurring billing.
Echoing others, checking with your bank is a good idea. However, I do this kind of troubleshooting for my day job and sometimes banks are less than helpful. You are going to want to talk to your bank's fraud department if their frontline customer service has no answers for you. It's very common for the customer service not to have the deeper access required to look into issues like this.
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I've rented from three companies that have treated me well; Excalibur Estates, Dreamseeker, and Fantasyland.
The best way to protect yourself from unscrupulous landlords is to find ones that have good reviews, and ones with long established business.
Of the three, Excalibur was my favorite. They were just always on the ball with any issues. The only reason I left was they didn't have any homesteads for rent when I needed one.
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Tilia asks for SSNs over email
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I am surprised they do not have a secure web form or other means of providing this information. I deal with SSNs at work all the time and we end nearly every email with a reminder not to send that or other sensitive info over email.