Sammy Huntsman

Thank ye. But I am gonna guess, that has to do with money, and that you cost that person a lot of money.

From a good ole google search, it is Yorkshire Dialect.

Honestly. because they are adults behind the avatar. With certain restrictions, I think it's okay if they swear. That is if they are out of character, if they RP as a child, then yeah treat them like a kid, and punish them for swearing. Other then the RP reason, it's totally fine.

They were TMP and then they rebranded themselves.

Didn't they say that on their FB when they were rebranding?

Okay, but look at how many people walk around with their complexity in the 100s of thousands to Millions. Especially in events, they have every piece of bling and crap on. Clearly these people know, that is not very well optimized, when they wear pretty much their whole inventory. What I expect is them to ask questions, join the groups. Talk to the creators and people who understand this, see if this is the best product for optimal use, especially in crowded areas. Like Clubs, or even communities. I am not expecting to inspect the product, but to ask questions. It doesn't hurt to ask a question, if you are unsure. Yes I agree creators should optimize, but customers are also responsible for what they buy. If you buy into a crappily optimized product, the creator will assume that is what they want. Like Real Life, if you don't understand something. You ask questions.

It doesn't take that much to google it, or even talk to a Linden about how a virtual world works under the hood.

Here is the thing, we are responsible for our own avatars, and what we buy to decorate our houses, and decorate our avatars. If you want optimization, you need to do some research and figure out what is the best looking, but best optimized for you. You really can't blame the creators of the objects, as it's us the consumers that buy into this, and ultimately put it on our avatars or land. That all being said, if you want better optimization, and love what you have already. Talk to the your favourite brand creators, and see what they can do to make things better optimized.

Yeah what the person above me said. It won't change anything tax wise, LL just wants to make sure they are complying with current US laws. It doesn't mean that cause this is happening, that Taxes and stuff are changing. All that stuff will stay the same, unless you make within a certain amount one year, than you will get the appropriate form.

It only pertains to users who cash out, so content creators and random users who work at say clubs and stuff and use their Ls as a means of financing their RL. It isn't invading your privacy at all, if you don't want to give out your ID and make it legit to new Federal Laws, than you can just make L and keep it in SL. Simple as that, you still have a choice.

It won't make people leave.

After actually going through everything and figuring that this is not bad after all. I can come to the conclusion, that you all must calm down. This is to prevent certain things, like money laundering, and other illegal activities in SL to happen, especially with people who cash out on a regular basis. This will not affect us, the average Joe, and the fees are just for people who have had an inactive account for a year. Basically they are being compliant with new and stricter US laws. Which in all fairness, if they don't follow, people would not have the ability to cash out.

While they were building the body, they should have handed out developer kits to clothing, skin and accessory designers. Then when it released, instead of having deformers. They would have actually items rigged for it.

So since I live in Ontario Canada, an Ontario ID will work. Basically what it is, is they made it so Health Cards were not considered an official ID. So for people like myself, who do not have a drivers license, this was a cheaper alternative. Now I can't have both, but thankfully I can use this ID just fine.

I do have a cash balance, but I am not an SL content creator. I upload money, that goes towards my premium payments. So does that mean it will affect me too?

But we got a fair amount of warning, the complete overhaul will not be until August 1st. How is that not a fair warning? I do agree their explanation was a little cryptic, and maybe in the next few days, they will explain it to us. I do have one question though, I know here in Ontario Canada, that only employers can have access to your social insurance number(The equivalent to the Social Security number) How will LL comply with laws outside the US? Will they expect me to scan my ID? Will they expect me to send a photocopied version over to them, via snail mail. I am not gonna give out my personal info like that, until I know more info.

I think with all these events, that are open or are opening up. That is your reason why creativity in mesh is stifled. Back before there were 1000s of events, and more opening. You would see a few big stores, putting their creations in the limited amount of events that were open. But you would see the creators showing more love to their mainstore, and actually taking the time to put an item together. Now with events, they pretty much gotta become a mass production factory, pumping out an object every week, or even every day. So no Mesh has not stifled anything, events have stifled creativity, and quality.

I think the people who wrote, were more concerned about their livelihoods. Some people, not just creators have made a living on the profits they make in SL. It's just like people with YouTube or any other website or platform or game, that allows people to cashout their earnings. I feel bad for these people, so yeah 5% is not that much, but it's per every Linden Dollar exchanged. So that adds up.

Twitch really hasn't been the only outlet, a lot of people still stream on YouTube. But people who want to Stream Yandere Simulator or SL gameplay footage, than you can't use Twitch for it. That is why you see a lot of people streaming on YouTube, for games like that.

But I can even argue that further. Look at Steam, there are tonnes of Sandbox games, that lack an ending, due to being in early access. Or have a survival mode, that doesn't have an ending, or any of its storyline. Heck, for a few years there Minecraft didn't have an ending. SL is an open world sandbox game. The definition of game, like many other things is changing.

Yeah Twitch has more stricter guidelines than YouTube does. As such, both Second Life, and that Yandere Simulator are banned from Twitch, due to it not having a rating, and having adult content. But things like Conan, get a free pass.

Yeah cost of living is different all over the place. Take where I live, Ontario Canada. Cost of living is through the roof. At the end of the day, not everywhere is the same.

Um, 1 the deformer doesn't work all the time. Especially with people with smaller bodies. 2, I have tested it, and my experience was blah, to say the least. At least give us a chance to demo it at home. 3 the experience that is plastered on your screen, I know for myself I want to go in grab the body and get out, not have to worry about enabling an experience to allow me to get a body. and 3 5k maybe easy for you to drop, but for some people, that isn't the case. And no not everyone pays 5k for a new head if we want to use that there are tonnes of alternatives that won't break the bank. And of course, people have every right to be angry at TMP, especially with how they were the first time around. They got an update, 6 years later, when the company swore up and down to have it ready a few months after it's the initial release. That and they lowered the body to 500L and the people who invested 1000s of L before that felt like it was a big old slap in the face.

I wonder why too, but don't forget those deformers. Lol That is not really guaranteed to work. Lol

At least Genus isn't forcing us to stay at a sim and try out their product.