Jack Skallagrimson

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I don't mean to stir the pot here again, I know that the whole world is preoccupied by something else right at this very moment, just posting that OP did indeed have a moment, & just so it is clarified, there is absolutely nothing wrong, in my estimation, about Linden Labs products, practices or staff, this is coming from a place of love and attachment to an online game that I thought would be a part of my life forever. Now I feel as though I have to boycott SL, not that I even want to, my little parcel of land has a view of an endless horizon, I could sit in SL building my dream home for a whole other lifetime. I am boycotting Amazon simply because I find it unethical to hand my money over to a trillionare, for the sake of 'convenience', during this time, by where it's going, when I know how they treat their workers and what their 'cloud services' means for privacy and security. I can't be a part of that direction that internet corporations take for personal, ethical reasons, I am sorry I presented it like a gatekeeping statement, I don't mean to alienate people from discussion, I think this is a community issue. I think it's pretty serious to consider, I know that 'one person leaving SL' isn't going to be the stopping force against a giant corporation, the issue is really, "No, you can't have my stuff", Because I don't even own my stuff!. The world Amazon wants to usher in is one where no one owns anything.[1] I liked knowing where those servers were, that the 'sims' were somewhere, and that gave all the value to this product for me. I have left every other social media, I thought I was safe in my little island over here at least. I am going to go by saying that I realized that it really sucks for me because SL is a really integral in my life, I will always have some project to work on in SL, maybe I just finally need to fully commit to OpenSim at some point, I know there are amazing people that play, I respect the people who made it possible, it seems trivial but one thing I was always counting on was that those servers would be those servers... Not that this game is bad. [1] Search for information using sources which respect your privacy before coming to your own conclusions about what the ''right' or 'wrong' stance is when considering taking actions or non-actions against entrenched corporate empires.

Beta Lifer here, I joined SL ~17 years ago Migrating to Amazon's servers is an injustice. It is a moral imperitive that you do not collaborate with them. You can read about Amazon's corrupt business practice here https://stallman.org/amazon.html I will be boycotting Second Life until this is undone, I do not trust my information being safe on Amazon's servers. You ought to reflect very seriously about collaborating with corporate fascists during this time, history will remember the decisions you made. "Our goal has been to move SL incrementally to give ourselves the best chance of minimizing awareness among the residents that these changes were happening." Oz Linden You can't sneak it by this resident. It's wrong. Stop collaboration, boycot their services. Do Not Uplift.

Hi, the service is today @ 7 in Kissling. All are welcome, and I will be putting up a temple. Also to the TOS whiners in this thread:

This isn't an argument or a general discussion. It's about honoring the memory of my dead father. Stop trying to call me out on trivial things and bringing negativity to this space. Don't tell me what's appropriate or not, it's not your place at all. It's about me in a way because I'm the pride and joy of my father and he loved me, what more do you want?

What's done is done. Kids my age & at that time were playing all kinds of more violent and graphic video game content while I was running around exploring and being creative. This isn't a topic about me, so please don't make it an issue here. It's pretty insensitive of you to say like this.

Please accept my humble obeisances. My father left his body about 6 months ago. We joined Second Life together over 12 years ago, and I'm 24 now, so that is half of my life. I remember riding in the very first car, some of the first airships, meeting the first of the great thinkers and explorers. Where have they all gone now? It's funny when you read a novel from an older generation, like 'Snow Crash' where virtual reality isn't something you have direct contact with and actually is a part of your life and your family's life. My dad spent a lot of time in SL, it was his main hobby. He would invite friends over to see what he made, what he found, and the friends in world he made. He liked going around collecting free items, he had a huge inventory! He had a lot of faith in Second Life, for him sometimes it could be an escape, but often it was just a place where he could find contentiment with the world. Sometimes we would pay the bills with the money we got from Second Life, and I remember he bought my first computer with the money he made in there. We grabbed a few plots of land early on, in some of the first sims. My home was mostly in Jessie, and he had "Buck Mountain" in Kissling. Then I moved, and gave my land allowcation to him to use. We were always very poor, but having this medium was great, because we could have anything we wanted realized right before us. "Some people work so hard for a motorcycle.. I have 50 of them. And they fly!". He said, "I worked all my life, now it's time for vacation". I think we will see more and more people 'retire into' virtual reality as the years go by. I feel a bit strange, because Second Life is such a wonderful medium for expression & communication, but we are so limited with land use. It was hard for me to hear, he was taken from this world by a very sudden cancer. One of the last things he told me was, "I need to get out of [the hospital], I need to pay my Second Life bill!". It's sad, but in a way it gave me hope and a lesson.. when I go, I want to leave my [eventual] kids infinite worlds to explore. I want to make that a reality one day. Buck was a dreamer, a thinker, a care-free guy. We're both Aries, and we keep to ourselves, but when we find a special person, we hold on to them dearly. My mother left us when I was first born, so Buck raised me all on his own. I am so grateful for the many years of self-sacrifice and unconditional love he showed me. Over the past few years I have gone deeply and seriously into Sanatana Dharma or Hindu religion. When my dad first found out, he flipped his lid, "You joined a cult?!". He was a product of the 60's, his brother had Timothy Leary come stay at their house, and he was familiar with the Hare Krishnas from that. But I really took to it, and eventually he saw that I was happy practicing, so he was happy too. By The Lord's mercy, I was able to visit him as he was passing, I put tilak on his forehead and read to him the Bhagavad Gita. It's a little weird to admit, but because my dad had to act in the role of both of my parents, it gave me a strong connection to Goddess Kali, who is said to be both God and His energy in one. Anyway, I will be holding a memorial service for my dear father on his birthday March 23rd, at 7PM SLT at his place in Kissling. I have an activity planned where we can knock down his building, it's a nice relic from an old time in second life, but admittedly even by him, a bit obtuse. I would like to build a small temple in its place, and maybe hold weekly discussions on Vedanta philosophy there. Donations are welcome, they will go towards my college. He would have been 64. Yours in faith, Bhakta Jack