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    Second Life on Steam?

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    Posted · Edited by stlshayne

    8 hours ago, Adam Spark said:

    They tried it. It was on there.

    Biggest problem, if I were to guess, is that Steam is a gaming community and SL is a virtual world. Gamers don't often understand Second Life. They look for a game and eventually figure out they didn't find one here.

    Well, you can find games IN SL (like Greedy, for instance). But SL is not a game in and of itself.

    I don't think this is a problem in and of itself. I would imagine SL has some overlap with the people who enjoy the virtual dollhouse/decorating stuff that a game like The Sims offers, as well as the virtual hangout+ social spaces that something like VR Chat offers. There's plenty on Steam that aren't your typical 'games' with goals/winners and losers and whatnot. 

    The currency thing that others have brought up seems like it would make sense as to why SL isn't on there, though. 

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    Second Life on Steam?

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    Posted · Edited by stlshayne

    If doable, I really don't see a downside to this. As you said, through friends lists and Discord statuses, this would help SL be more findable and recognizable to the broader general gaming community. Could also court a lot of people as SL would fall into the "Free to Play" category. 

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    New LL Apartment Homes

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    I would unironically really like high-rise apartments (or not-so-high-rise) if they found a way to divide up the parcels in a way that prevented people from putting things on lower levels that didn't belong to them. Hopefully we get some sort of urban theme in the future, even if it's more row-house-styled and less of what this was. 

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    NEW THEME!! Beachy/Summery?

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    Kind of agree with everything feeling a bit same-y. If someone who didn't already have a pretty decent knowledge of the themes and homes saw screenshots of any of the insides of any of the styles and homes, they'd be basically just guessing what theme/style it was. All the releases so far (apart from campers, I guess) have felt a bit like just different 'takes' on the Traditional. That said, I've still been pretty happen with all the styles and whatnot. 

     Still, I'd kill for some brick/urban themes in the future, and I have to imagine at the very least we are probably getting some sort of modern theme eventually (a sort-of update to the Meadowbrook). 

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    SSP?

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    Posted

    13 minutes ago, Daniel Voyager said:

    SSPMBC has arrived. I wonder what MBC stands for ?

     

    Assuming the B stands for Belisseria? 
    C could be.. Community? Center? 

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    Are You Showing Support for Black Lives Matter in Second Life?

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    2 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Overall, I'm not a fan. He's much better at producing good sound bites and photo ops than he is at actually doing anything about these things. (Although, I will give him credit for handling the pandemic pretty well.)

    On the other hand, this kind of public support does matter, and does make a difference. So, points for that.

    What most warms me about it is that he has accurately gauged where the sympathies of most Canadians lie: with BLM and the protestors.

    I don't know, I've seen some pretty bad photos of him. 😂

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    Are You Showing Support for Black Lives Matter in Second Life?

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    8 minutes ago, Blake1111Coverdale said:

    ALL LIVES MATTER is a non racist statement to those of us who use it and it simply means no lives of one race are more important than the lives of another race.  It means All of our lives matter. They do... don't they?

    Regardless of intention, you actually have it backwards. Black Lives Matter is actually the one that means, "no lives of one race are more important than the lives of another race." All Lives Matter, on the other hand, is something that came about as a response to the BLM movement, and it essentially is saying "no, BLM is a pointless saying, let's go back to how things were before." Do all lives matter? Sure, they should at least, and that's the goal of the BLM movement, to make sure that black lives are not overlooked in all of this, because they often are. 

    There was actually a really good Reddit comment I found before that explains before the problems with saying "all lives matter" as a response to "Black Lives Matter." 

     

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    Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now, that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that you still haven't gotten any! The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out. That's the situation of the "black lives matter" movement. Culture, laws, the arts, religion, and everyone else repeatedly suggest that all lives should matter. Clearly, that message already abounds in our society. The problem is that, in practice, the world doesn't work the way. You see the film Nightcrawler? You know the part where Renee Russo tells Jake Gyllenhal that she doesn't want footage of a black or latino person dying, she wants news stories about affluent white people being killed? That's not made up out of whole cloth -- there is a news bias toward stories that the majority of the audience (who are white) can identify with. So when a young black man gets killed (prior to the recent police shootings), it's generally not considered "news", while a middle-aged white woman being killed is treated as news. And to a large degree, that is accurate -- young black men are killed in significantly disproportionate numbers, which is why we don't treat it as anything new. But the result is that, societally, we don't pay as much attention to certain people's deaths as we do to others. So, currently, we don't treat all lives as though they matter equally. Just like asking dad for your fair share, the phrase "black lives matter" also has an implicit "too" at the end: it's saying that black lives should also matter. But responding to this by saying "all lives matter" is willfully going back to ignoring the problem. It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. And so saying "all lives matter" as a direct response to "black lives matter" is essentially saying that we should just go back to ignoring the problem. TL;DR: The phrase "Black lives matter" carries an implicit "too" at the end; it's saying that black lives should also matter. Saying "all lives matter" is dismissing the very problems that the phrase is trying to draw attention to.

     

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    SSP?

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    Posted

    Wondering if the double-thickness part of the train tracks here might indicate that I'm getting a little station put in behind my cabin. 

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    SSP?

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    If the next theme announcement is at at the Dec 5-15 Christmas expo, this might mean we can expect them to release between Feb-April? 

    Fingers crossed it's a city/urban theme.

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    Renewed focus on premium experience

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    Posted · Edited by stlshayne

    2 hours ago, Bengta said:

    I disagree.  The new house boats for example.  Why is there not a wait list?  Why is there not a focus on premium members that have been paying month after month for years???  Is it just another LL ploy to create revenue by drawing new premium membership and the long time members get stiffed.  we are told to watch a forum post?  for how long, ten more years?  This whole this has been incredibly NOT focused on current members that again, pay month after for month for years...

     

    Yes, it is to bring in new premium members. No, long-time premium members are not getting stiffed. Tbf, existing premium members are already guaranteed income to a certain degree. This presumably is to get more premium members. But it's not as if new members have a monopoly, no one does. Is LL suppossed to give accounts that have had premium longest priority, in which case its pointless signing up for premium to members that have not done so already? The only ones with a real advantage, is anyone paying attention. They're doing a stifled rollout so that people can actually get houses, and they can get feedback and suggestions as the continent is made. It was a long time between when the project started (see the SSP thread to see the process and speculation from members. It was the better part of a year from when it started until when the first bit dropped) and when the first round of houses dropped. It would have been such a disaster if they made an entire continent with no gauge for how it would play out, and then have it fall flat. 

    (Also, "ten more years?" really?)

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