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If it does go around there it might open up some more viable (and valuable) CPP positions. The area around Blake is very much cartel locked right now, and the prices match that. I'd likely pay the US$500/year plus 10 needed regions to do it then.

I think you are onto something Qie. I'd be surprised if the lab arn't tracking this. They would find some valuable metrics by how many people look and which houses they enter. At this point of SSP, to even rebalance in a few more houseboats before small town usa fills out everything.

Possibly yes, but then you get that empty blank stare. "So it's like Discord then?", "yeah, but you can get married too", "ahh, so more like a kid's tea party", "well no, the bear sipping tea is likely Soft Linden who is a furry supportive of BDSM", "what's a furry", "Oh gawd, don't ask!"

Likely start with 4096 or 8192M2 of land. If you can place it in an empty region without anyone else you will have an easier time, plus get lots of nice empty space around you. You also need a club stream, sometimes your DJs will have stream problems, so having something they can fall back on helps. If you plan on DJing you can likely share your own. At first, it's a learning experience as you try various things and find out what works and what doesn't. At the most basic work extremely hard to keep your FPS as high as possible, this means no blended alpha, and no particles. Having your club in the middle of an abandoned region helps with FPS as well. Consider asking your DJs to speak, a DJ who speaks will get more regulars then one who stays silent. Security is always an issue, so consider your rules, and how you will enforce them. Consider that "officers" are likely going to make up their own rules and destroy your club. It is a fact that less rules means more people. Guests hate being confined by a million rules. When/if you chose officers skip anyone who asks for the position. Those people are the ones least suitable to the job. The quality of your dances matters a lot. We've spent hundreds of thousand lindens on dances. (Make sure you get copy). An Intan is better then a TIS for heavy club use, but even so, install a TIS system as well with the same dances in case something breaks. Same with singles dances. Consider a lot of people love line-dancing (not as in Western, but where they all play the same animation in sync), so install pads, and also have a singles danceball that people can linedance on as well. Learn how to use your single's ball so you can kick off people who crash or (worse) jump from single to couples without stopping single. You need a schedule board and a DJ board. You also need a list of stations you can broadcast while there are no DJs. Then you need advertising. You've identified your audience a little, Goth - of which I also identify - so work out where you can get adboards, and also work on your parcel ad so people can find you in search. Spend time finessing the wording of the parcel ad so that your ad climbs the search list to number one. Your club name should be catchy and simple. Hmm, what else, ah yes... never, never, never, use the "show your DJ some linden lovin'" type lines. If people want to tip the DJ they will. If you guilt them into it, then they will run. Same with donations, let people who want to donate donate. You can ask your DJs to give a little of their tips to the house, honestly, they should. You will *never* make money from this, you will just bleed funds. So be sure you do it because you love it, not as a get rich scheme. And lastly. expect endless drama. Consider that an Alt might be wise to own the club, then you can hide from it sometimes. Oh boy, the drama. Edit: Expect your first 4 or 5 attempts to fail dismally. Took me 6 tries. I now run a rule that if my traffic is less then 1000 it's time to close up and try again.

We are drifting a little off topic here, so I will say just this one post of the tangental subject, I'm in the same camp as Ms Winslet. I seem to have no problems picking up abandoned land, but I do treat it as a favour, so my tickets to support strongly reflect that. However, The lab have a rule they won't allow indirect claim bordering protected and such land needs to go to auction. But there are cases they skip this, I have bought roadside/1x protected this way. Some hints that might help you Hintswen; Say if you have a direct claim, indirect claim, or no claim to the land, this seems to save them work and helps in their triage. If you don't have a direct claim, mention what you want it for and how it will benefit the greater community. As an example, I needed some extra LI attached onto one of my mainland parcels, there were a few 32m2 abandoned parcels in the region, my claim was indirect. I mentioned that I planned to use the extra LI to beautify the region with trees (which was true, and I did, although not to 100% capacity, I held back 10) In your case, you say you were planning to hold them to ensure waterways were kept clear, state that of course to help your claim! I know you are always charming, but still, phrase your ticket as if they are doing you a favour! certainly list it as "very low priority" in your first words to help their triage. Good luck on your next attempt.

I wonder if this might come down to a Realise vs Realize or Metric vs USA Measures type thing. North Americans using their own unique definition to the rest of the world? Oxford Dictionary definitions, top most entry 1. An activity that one engages in for amusement or fun. ‘the kids were playing a game with their balloons’ https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/game Collins doesn't have this top definition, being more of the Game = fixed goals. Maybe the whole argument of "Is SL a Game" comes down to one being of the USA or outside it? Edit: seems not, Mirriam Webster also list 1a(1) : activity engaged in for diversion or amusement : with the "having a goal and rules" being down at #3 on their list. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game

So, when you tell your kids to go "play a game or something with Barbie" to get them out of the kitchen, while you cook? Game has a far broader use then just "something with a defined goal"

Governance storm troopers land in an old housing region, the tannoys blare an authoritarian voice ordering people to assemble at their front doors. Residents are rounded up street by street and taken in shiny black trucks to <0,0,20> like some distopian 1984/Farenheit 451 scenario. Rendition sees them dropped in a new housing area, little kid avatars clutching their Soft Linden bears as "welcoming officials" induct them into their new life. Governance, it's work done for the day, head back to the dungeon under the Linden Lab headquarters and open another 44 gallon drum of vodka as they return to the "My best friend called me a poopy head, so I muted her, and she started rezzing p0rn in my home" tickets.

Barbie, tonka trucks, sand castles.

A notice, or chat in group? That group would be annoying as hell if it loads in 100 notices a day!

Hmm, great question! Is human speech through a controlled bot, a bot. well, I do it through a bot. Interestingly, I can use him to IM people as well, my command something like "/im blush bravin Hi Blush!". And this, I consider might be a violation of the sharing IM rules hehe. On your question earlier, I think that a scheduled group notice might be a bit rude. I see that as spammy, and the Lab do discipline people for group notice spam.

Main one for me is when I am offline, I can SSH to my server from my iphone, and issue a simple text command. One can't log into SL from everywhere, and sometimes being able to chat in group chat, or send a notice is ideal. But that's just me.

Yes To neither of you in particular... The two spanners that make this intense focus on the minutiae a little silly. The lab have never been ones for stating *anything* clearly. And even if it's written in black and white, governance are inconsistant and likely to ignore what's written and to discipline for something else all together. So, they do normally turn a blind eye to misuse of this flag, and honestly, in the grand sceme of things, it's not a huge sin to misrepresent yourself as a "bot". The worst that can likely happen is your false, human controlled, scripted agent will be auto-logged out of a shopping event. In general, intense focus on the smallest "legal details" of this only serve to cause headbutting betweens people's stubborness. And that brings in Kirsten with her old lady animated GIF, which Maddy always sets on fire. I myself have had my "scripted agent" status set as active on all my main and my alts since it appeared. Not only because I am bit contrary, but I do prefer not to count on people's dwell as I run about doing my job.

The joys of mainland, privacy screens, ban lines, and very narrow sailing channels. But it is a great place to sit and cam into people's creativity! Some of the worst outside build homes have lovely insides.

It's neat, and it's "typical small town USA" that is really popular in so many private rental regions that open and close as they fight each other for rentals. For a lot of people this will be a far cheaper option then renting from one of the "typical small town USA" private estates. Overall it's a great improvement on the original housing continents, and I am sure there were a tonne of design and technical needs that had to be filled - for example some people being 15 feet tall while others are 5 feet tall. Well done Patch and your moles for pulling that all together. I wonder if FPS could be raised a little if some of the alphas on the trees are masked off? It's the prime trick I use on my estates to ensure everyone enjoys a lag free environment to rent in. Honestly, it wasn't so bad though in this preview as I only dropped to 16-20fps from my normal 80-120fps, and of course, we have to take account of it not being a completely valid FPS test as there are other things in that show. My one niggling concern is what happens to the FPS from this 20fps point, if a neighbor adds 300 LI of twenty-one 1024x1024 textured, LOD-hacked, high vertex, gatcha-obtained, shabby-chic knick-nacks in their houseboat 5 meters away. Is the covenant strong enough to lodge a ticket for lag abuse, get the lab in as you can on private by grabbing a manager, and have them pull the person back to un-lagged reality?

A song we were taught in the Māori language in Primary School. Kia kaha, Aotearoa.

Not at the level of the 1950s, when you take off the rose coloured glasses it was a decade that stood pretty much alone for post-war shortages, conflict, and hatred. McCarthyism and Red Panic in the USA and of course the Korean War in the first half and then the horrors of the Vietnam war in the second half. All the time while the cold war was ramping up and Europe was divided even more as a result of the USA/USSR tensions.. Additionally it was the decade of the Suez Crisis which caused some substantial issues in that region. The Algerian war started. The Cuban Revolution. The Kenyan uprising. The start of the Rwandan genocides. The Hungarian revolution also occurred. China "reclaimed" Tibet. Cambodian Insurgency.

Ha! You should know the lab by now!

I wonder if Ebbe will recycle the 15 for 15 Display Names and BOM promises into 16 for 16? (from what I have seen of the 1950s on youtube, I am glad I wasn't born, the closedmindness, racism, sexism , and -phobias would have led me to slap people repeatedly.)

And, after making coffee, you can always have a bit of fun and play with tentacles (disclaims this vertex monstrosity as unoptimised 10 minute mesh made for this post)

Tested it now and yes, you are correct. If you try to manually use any character not in ASCII-7 on a script name the viewer makes it's error clunk/beep. Even simple EU characters like ü,ö,ë,ç,ñ are not allowed.

I have been in SL since mid-2006 on an alt. From January 2007 until 2010 I wore collars (that alt still has the original collar he wore then too). Inside the collar menu from the unupdated 2007 object there is nothing in the menus or commands to do with reading IMs. There is nothing in the notecard of instructions to do with reading IMs. Based on the actual collar from 2007 existing in my inventory, I am not sure your memory is correct. A decade is a long time and some of my memories are definately bad. It could be possible that someone was stretching the truth to make their control of someone else seem more god-like. This wouldn't be the first time that someone has claimed impossible things can be done with RLV to a submissive, or a friend, to improve their standing. One more thing to disprove it, the TOS restriction on sharing IMs has always existed. this is trivially checked on archive.org, which has copies. Any TPV developer who allowed RLV to expose IMs to the collar would have been disciplined by the lab faster then they could compile the source. A hacked viewer can do this if YOU run one, but then, if you are running a hacked viewer that's an opt in thing and it's well known by you that it's there. It's not something that is hidden and exposed by a script without you knowing. Edit: One further point in this... the source code largely exists in GIT and other such repositories. It *is* possible to examine the viewer and RLV patches from a decade ago. We could put the argument to bed with such an examination, but I don't think it's so necessary, as the collar I have in my hands doesn't mention this feature.

Oh, adorable!

LIkely for the best, Imagine Patch Linden with huge set of horns! (or tusks or whatever they are called on mammoths)