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    There is this, true. It's easy to forget just how many people find their escape in SL and just can't, for one reason or another, spend real money on it. It saddens me to think of how many people are even treated differently because of it. LL might not be able to provide free land to every account (or even really want to, for various very obvious reasons), But it still kinda sucks that a person's options are limited to building in sandboxes and temp-rezzing skyboxes and stuff to feel like they have their own place for a little while. There's always cooperative living though, I mean, making friends with people who welcome you to live at their place is simple enough usually, and you know they can't possibly be home all the time, so one can even have a sense of privacy now and then, as far as that goes in SL. And then, there's ways to make enough to rent one's own little parcel, if you try. My best option has always been doing volunteer work, and being allowed to set my home spot wherever I was helping to build, and stuff. I'm allowed to have a little house and my own spot on my home sim I volunteer at, so sometimes I build myself one.
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    Stars are fading, I'll have to creep into my crypt soon, and embrace the mould. At least I still have this lovely moon...
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    Helping myself to the patients' cigarettes again... Glad the desk clerk is always busy goofing off somewhere else.
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    I lived at a RL version of that for a while, it was called the Busker's Bunkhouse. Landlady was bat-poop crazy, and spent half her time naked in the yard, or across the street at the crackhouse. She'd bust into my room at 4 AM to tell me the SJWs were trying to take over Facebook and get her house taken away, and stuff. At least the shower worked. Just had to plug up all the peepholes she'd drilled in the walls to check up on you in there and make sure you weren't using too much soap, or washing yourself inappropriately.
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    Me explaining what I'm doing outside the asylum grounds again...
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    Delight of the Day: Someone gave me a 24-ish-" monitor, and it's actually making a huge difference in how well my viewer works. I'm averaging 10-20 extra FPS, even on nice-looking gfx settings, and I haven't even come close to overheating once. The bottom of the laptop is barely warm. I also have my viewer window opened up larger than usual, and my draw distance set to 256 meters instead of 96. \o/
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    As a former virtual idol, I can tell you right now that in SL you'll be best off with a handful of real friends, some people you admire on speed dial, and being in a few semi-active groups. That whole social media thing is sort of an appendage that got grafted onto SL, after too many normal people found out about it and joined up to see what the rest of us weirdoes were doing.
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    I'm too little. Sigh. It's a darn shame, too, because I make some of the finest guns and interactive explodables in SL. *toots own horn, and pedals away on her armored tricycle*
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    There is that. There's also this whole thing though about even disturbing fantasies being a part of a healthy emotional life, and the other thing about all of this online stuff being of a "less real than real life" nature, and the thing of people being able to work through various aspects of their own personal development through the use of fantasy in virtual spaces and other online platforms in relative safety. Especially online, I think that reality comes down to a matter of consensus. If I am in a room with 12 other people, and they are all smoking pot, and I hate pot and am allergic to it, and it can kill me to even see pot, then if I go there and hang out with them and say how much I can't stand it, I am wrong. If I am in a room with 12 other people, and I light up a doobie, and try to pass it around, and am informed by all that they do not appreciate me smoking pot there, because they all think it's morally wrong, unhealthy, etc., then if I tell them where to stick it and keep doing what I'm doing, I am wrong. As much as I love being a little kid in SL, and as tempting as it is to go to some pretty playground full of other kids (who are mostly standing around silently doing whatever it is they do), past experience has taught me that if I go to those places, I will be not only disappointed, but often rather disgusted and offended by the time I leave. Every time I have ever complained, I have been told to fudge off. Everyone else liked the place that way, so I was wrong. And that's not even on Adult sims. The best thing a person can do when they see keywords in a search result that they do not like is to avoid visiting that sim or region, I think. It's what I do. Nobody could ever manage such a complex and huge beast as SL, and somehow prevent everyone everywhere from being offended. If someone's paying for a sim, and they want to play their "dirty" fantasies out there, they have the freedom to do so. And really, I'd rather they found consenting partners to play fantasy games with than sit out there in RL, playing the same games in their head, and having only the real world to play in, and the unconsenting to play with.
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    Totally missed it because RL has had me, but the thought counts for a lot. Thanks for putting that out there!
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    The teacher who was so dedicated to his job that even death couldn't keep him out of the classroom was sheer genius. "...because that's the kind of man I was!" They had so many unique and well-thought-out characters, it was epic. Anyway, hi hi, Shinigami-Sama! Just had to give that one a bump up. Carry on, all~! ^-^
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    Holy moly it's Shinigami-Sama~ Don't tell anyone I'm a Reaper, nobody here knows! >->; <-<; Soul Eater is one of my top 5 favorite manga/anime of all time. It has so much class you can't even see anything for miles if you get a glimpse up a skirt, that's how much class it's got. Also, Medusa. Just sayin'.
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    People like that are made of plastic, and want you to be, also. Keep it real, and keep on doing you. No real person can live up to some magazine fantasy Photoshop "ideal", anyway. There's a reason they call that art. It's artificial.
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    Whatever doesn't kill us, only scars us for life. And scars are cool points.
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    Leftover Delight From Last Night: Finding out why someone I have always considered cool and interesting was acting all weird to me the last time I saw them, and being glad that I didn't just impulsively block and erase them from my SL for it, because it jangled me that they were acting strangely. I used to experiment with a lot of psychedelics in my RL youth, and discovering that someone was coming down off of an all-day-all-nighter made it all click, and in light of this their behavior wasn't strange at all. I've been there myself before, and remember that the only people who tolerated me were those who understood what was happening inside me at the time. Anyway, I'm grateful to still have them on my friends list, and feel I know them better, and that is often very good. ^-^ I'm really glad I decided to just say "okay, that was weird" rather than deciding they weren't someone I'd want to hang out with anymore. That said, I'm going to practice this kind of unreactive patience more in the future, and try to avoid falling into the trap of freaking out and running from things that confuse me. Besides, it does take a certain amount of mental something-or-other to be around me for any amount of time, anyway, and hey, whatever works. I'm grateful for having the friends I have, and if I throw them away every time the wind blows funny, what does it say about me. I can't go back and unbreak things already broken, but I can stop myself in the future, by looking at what I do now. Anyway, I'm glad to still be their friend.
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    U.S. resident here, so YMMV with what follows. If you buy L$, LL has to pay taxes on what you spent with them. After that, recirculating the virtual currency doesn't incur any taxation by the Fed, because taxes have already been paid on the real currency. To use your L$ balance to pay for things shouldn't incur any Fed taxation, as it's all inworld currency that the real funds have been taxed on already. Also, what I've not seen anyone talk about (doesn't mean they haven't, I realize) is whether one might claim their SL business as an investment of some sort, and weigh their investment to profit ratio and use those numbers to advantage. Especially if everything you put into your SL can be shown to be in some way related to managing your online business. I'd be willing to go out on a limb and say that if you put a certain amount in, and get paid out less than you've put in that year, you could probably use that in some way to give yourself a tax break, even if it's a small one. Theoretically, one could thoroughly enjoy a fun SL with a small inworld business on the side, and simply state that all of their inworld spendings and purchases with real money are for the sake of growing the business. Especially if they weren't really making any substantial profit off of it. Doing it all for fun, but claiming it as business expenses could be just the loophole for those who aren't made of money and could use a break.
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    Necessity is the mother of style, what can I say? I got so much style. Yeah.
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    It wasn't for being on TV, it was for what got me on TV. Had to dye my hair and everything. Anyway, when I get my 15-minute event, I promise the freebies will be worth teleporting for, at least.
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    An astute observation. People do see the L$ and have no concept of the reality behind the numbers. When I was new and poor as dirt even, 100L$ looked and felt like a lot of money. When I had 80k, 3,000L$ didn't seem like a big deal at all. Now, I look at the L$ balance and see the actual value. "Woah, I tipped that guy 12 bucks, no wonder he was surprised. All he did was play some music." Anyone unfamiliar with all of this would see a 500L$ item and think woah, five HUNDRED! I see it and I'm like hmm, two bucks. Do I want this or not?
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    I will add to this and say: 21st century Luddites who have more money than I do, and so have piles of broken stuff that's nicer than anything I could ever afford, and they drop it and step on it and go oops, and buy another. While I use parts of an old bicycle to power a homemade fan so that my laptop doesn't melt while I play dress-up.
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    And boy, did they hate me at school for it.
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    Yeah, I was on TV, myself. I had to move across the country to get a job after that.
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    A sure sign of decadence in any economy, like the Rococo movement in art. I wouldn't see it as a downhill slide into nothingness though, it's just that lull that comes before the next "new wave", just like in music. Something becomes popular, everyone gets one, everyone has one, so people start making them in different shades of blue to try and ride the wave all the way to the beach. In the meantime, something "newer" or different is gestating, and waiting for everyone to be sick enough of what's out there to welcome something fresh. If you look carefully at what's on offer and driving the market currently, you could conceivably get ahead of the coming wave and influence it by doing something that contrasts with the status quo. Then when others jump on and make it popular, everyone will forget you, but you'll have at least made a dent, and maybe even get paid something along the way.
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    I'll let you in on a secret... Just make like, 1,500 alt accounts, named CekaCianci1, CekaCianci2, etc., and deploy them about the grid. Each one will garner you another 15 minutes of fame, and it adds up. Do the math, and be famous for life. You're welcome~!
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