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    Are there second class "Residents"? re: classic avatars.

    in General Discussion Forum

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    It is difficult to test for something when obfuscating euphemisms have to be circumnavigated. There is actually no such thing as "race" - other than the human race - but political correctness demands that references to skin colour, religion, sex, shape or size of ass, nose or eyelids and other differentiating factors that have become stereotypically associated with cultural (or otherwise) groups are aggregated in a nonsensical taxonomical classification. I will stick to being stupidist, even if it means being called racist, sexist or discriminatory, the last of which used to be a good thing.

    "Territory of complete geekdom"

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    ChinRey wrote:

    ChadUnfroyd wrote:

    There is no problem. LL has already sorted it out. LL owns
    ALL
    intellectual property in their domains. Professional content creators have no choice but to accept LL's ToS.

    That's SL's ToS. Sansar's will be different. I think LL has already stated that but it goes without saying. They want design studios and architect bureaus to use Sansar as a virtual showroom for their products. Freelancers can choose whether they trust LL not to abuse those extensive rights or not, big companies can't.

    Bait and switch. (Like Trump)

    Linden Lab Introduces Sansar Monetization System, Reveals First Video Footage

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    Parhelion Palou wrote:

    A couple comments:

    LL wants companies for customers (who will want to get in on the VR goggle hype). Companies rent, hire creators to build the game or whatever, then the company advertises it on their own website and provides a link to the experience. As you said, they'll have full control over registration. I suspect they'll also be able to control the avatar appearance as well, since it would be problematic for a company with an experience for kids to have inappropriate avatars popping in.

    I haven't heard that experiences/worlds can be connected in a way that allows walking or vehicles to travel between them. It'll basically be a portal that loads the next experience for you. If you could travel to or even see into other experiences it could affect the all-important framerate -- adding complexity that the experience's pre-publish optimizer couldn't deal with.

    Subleasing isn't likely unless the experience owner is renting out pre-built areas. Ebbe's example: An experience owner creates a neighborhood with houses to rent. The renter gets their own experience to represent the inside of the house. They can then decorate the interior as they wish. The door to the house would be the portal to go back and forth between the renter's experience and the landlord's experience. The renter won't be able to do anything with the exterior since they'd have to have permissions to do the mods off-line.

    I plan to check out Sansar, but only as something to visit occasionally.

    Sounds massively dull to me, although obviously it is a perfect set up for creating a brothel palace.

    Is There a Way to Find a Group Start Date?

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    Posted

    Serenity30250 wrote:

    If so, how do I find that?

    Thanks!

    You might want to try asking this question in the obviously confusingly named (to you) "ANSWERS" part of these forums.

    I believe the regulars there find much apparently nicer and self-aggrandising ways to tell you "no", and if you are lucky they may even copy and paste something from an outdated and unmaintained official information source to substantiate their advice.

    "Territory of complete geekdom"

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    ChinRey wrote:

    But if your interpretation is correct, there are two probelsm LL needs to sort out.

    One is IP protection. That is one of the biggest letdowns for professional content creators who consider working in SL.

    There is no problem. LL has already sorted it out. LL owns ALL intellectual property in their domains. Professional content creators have no choice but to accept LL's ToS.

    Anybody else? Trouble getting refreshed Forums login to "stick" at first?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Does this suggest that LL is removing further resources from SL maintenance to try to catch up on the delayed Sansar development? We know that forum management has always been a very low priority to LL, and presumably Lithium have washed their hands of LL's pathetic implementation of their software. Whenever I see a problem with the forum signon (or the mysecondlife lashup) I presume that it's a result of LL's unavailing desperate and continuingly unsuccessful attempts to resolve the ongoing security problems with "single" sign-on and accurate verification and validation of users where user information databases have to be replicated outside the domain managed by the principal. Or maybe they are preparing to abandon these forums, in preparation for a new intra-communications paradigm associated with Sansar - what do you think THAT might be, given Ebbe's history of failed attempts at novel socialised interaction at previous employments?

    The Metaverse Courier - New Second Life News Publication

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    Wayne Bohemia wrote: We all have issues here right? Why else would we all be exploring and using a virtual world for several hours each day running businesses and the like unless we were mentally ill, retarded, disabled for whatever reason it may be.

    Speak for yourself. I don't bother going inworld, just descending on the forums every now and again when I am extremely bored with giving GCHQ a hand with their problems so I can feel superior to a different bunch of lamebrainers.

    The Metaverse Courier - New Second Life News Publication

    in Art, Music and Photography

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    Wayne Bohemia wrote:

    Hi Folks.

    I am a young twenty-something year old creative writing and journalism student from Cambridge, England. 

    I have been in Second
    life
    since 2006 and have mostly enjoyed having fun and well,
    persuing
    a much deserved and needed Second Life. I have
    experince
    working in Second life as a photographer and writer for the now vanished OMG! Magazine but most recently I have decided to start up a small newspaper myself which I have called "The Metaverse Courier" and
    it's
    first edition although very small is now finished and live at
     and is all
    proof checked
    and ready for you to read and enjoy.

    I am currently looking for enthusiastic and likeminded indivduals who may be interested in helping me take this project further. I see a real potential for such a publication in Second Life following the demise of the simllar publication known as The Metaverse messenger some years ago.

    If you feel you have soemthing to give to the Metaverse Messenger be it that your a writer, photographer or anything really then please do get in touch with me in world or reply to this thread.

    I hope it's proofed better than your post. Maybe you should consider getting a grammar/spellchecker if you want to retain a smidgeon of credibility?

    "Territory of complete geekdom"

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Theresa Tennyson wrote:

    ChadUnfroyd wrote:

    “We learned some positives but also a lot of ‘that’s not how you do it’ from Second Life,” said Altberg. “So we’re having a much more user-centric approach from the beginning, and try to make sure we stay away from the territory of complete geekdom.”

    My reading of it is that he is also insulting the Linden Lab originators and developers of Second Life, as well as the users who built and rebuilt the world, and would be dumbing down Sansar so that it was sufficiently disnified that preteeners and other idiots would be able to use it.

     

    Could you provide us a coherent argument to justify your reading? Or is this simply an emotional reaction?

    It ain't just me thinking this sweetheart.

    Vanishing discussions

    in General Discussion Forum

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    ChinRey wrote:

    Perrie Juran wrote:

    Then there is always the
    section.

    Thank you Perrie, I knew I had seen it before but couldn't find it again.

    Looking at the list of my rejected posts, here are four things that are not allowed on this forum:
    1. Links to unicode character tables
    2. Info how to report keyword spam on MP
    3. Info how to make a 1 LI detailed tree trunk with good LoD
    4. Links to articles about the old Frank Lloyd Wright museum

     Ummm... is it just me or is this beginning to look a teeny weeny bit ridiculous?

    Edit: Turns out I actually reposted the third one on that list and somehow it went undetected on second attempt. So while it lasts, here is an example of a disallowed forum post (second one on the page):

    You have to remember that someone (a good friend of mine who occasionally still visits) was once banned for posting the single word: "Yes".

    "Territory of complete geekdom"

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Theresa Tennyson wrote:
    ChadUnfroyd wrote:

    How do you feel about LL's soon-to-depart CEO opening his mouth and sticking his foot in it comment on his perception of Second Life? Are you thrilled that he has noticed your technical expertise? Disappointed because you are only an incomplete geek? Or maybe you consider it an egregious insult?

    I consider it more of an insult that a troll would expect me to fall for an "insult" without expecting me to look up the context of the original phrase. I get enough of that from Facebook clickbait.

    Since you could not be bothered to share the "context", here it is:

    “We learned some positives but also a lot of ‘that’s not how you do it’ from Second Life,” said Altberg. “So we’re having a much more user-centric approach from the beginning, and try to make sure we stay away from the territory of complete geekdom.”

    My reading of it is that he is also insulting the Linden Lab originators and developers of Second Life, as well as the users who built and rebuilt the world, and would be dumbing down Sansar so that it was sufficiently disnified that preteeners and other idiots would be able to use it.

    Vanishing discussions

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    Derek Torvalar wrote:

    ChinRey wrote:

    Pamela Galli wrote:

    That's what makes it all the more egregious that when an interesting one does arise, it disappears.

    Well, with no response from a moderator here we just have to assume there was nothing objectonable in the posts and the thread vanished either because of a technical glitch or because the OP asked to have it removed.

    That means we can all repeat our views next time an occasion arises and maybe even say it better. Except Qie - his post was so spot on it can't be said better.

    Already tried that once before.

    The second time mine was removed I did finally get an explanation but it was absurd.

    So I inserted the offending OP into a larger thread where it remains buried to this day.

    I know someone that made the same post three times, saying that he should stop repeating himself. The powers-that-be failed to see the joke and banned him permanently for spamming...

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