Sparkle Bunny

Well, there was never a chance of LL allowing anyone involved to make public appearances while the investigation was still going on. Nobody's fault, no presumption of guilt, just appropriate procedures being followed.

https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/15229-official-statement-from-executive-chairman-oberwolf-linden/ That happened.

That's because they were using alts to keep the ones they didn't want out of the available pool. When GoH was at its peak you'd get groups or couples with a few dozen accounts at their disposal snapping up the majority of any new release. Premium Plus has largely negated the need for that, as well as cutting down on the number of alts people need/can afford.

Sakura's one of the less popular themes, tbh. I could only find one Parade of Homes listing.

I'm pretty sure this is why we don't have any Q&A sessions at B5A. Bluntly, the Lindens have more important things to worry about than Bellisseria right now.

The obvious time to stop offering them was when they redid the Land pages; they could easily have omitted some or all of the L1 options without actually changing anything on the backend, but opted not to. So: not any time soon. I think they are hoping that if they wait a couple of years most of the remaining tenants will either default on their subscriptions or swap to an L2, and whatever diehards are left can be consolidated on to a single continent. It's not a fun job and I can see why they're dragging their feet.

Of special interest to Newbrookers: Yonge & Bloor 50% sale until the end of the weekend, in conjunction with shutterfield next door. Group is L$50 for Y&B and L$20 for sf, if you don't have the gifts already.

Coming up with cool or funny name combos was a minor artform in pre-Resident days, so some oldbies can't resist the lure even if they have to pay for it now. They might get away with it given that his name is actually 'Fozzie'...

Zennor is a much better mer name than their previous efforts, and if my mer alt didn't already have a vintage surname I'd be tempted. (I see Ozzy Osbourne has already been snaffled, but Sharon is still available for anyone who wants her.)

What I don't get is why would anyone wearing a child avatar be in a managerial role? Surely the whole point of roleplaying as a kid is so you can avoid those responsibilities? When it's time to go to work, you pop your adult avatar on and people listen to what you say. Problem solved.

I think they must have been going for a certain amount of homogeneity to offset any possible clashes from having multiple themes in the same region? Which, again, I get, though there are probably ways of doing that which wouldn't involve leaning so heavily on small groups of people with similar aesthetics.

If it were a Linden sponsored event then residents would have been allowed to contribute more than photos It does seem, for example, that the planning committee were given many more houses to furnish than they were actually capable of finding interior designers for, and that an SLB-style call for submissions could have lessened the burden on some severely overstretched volunteers. There are lots of people out there who would surely have been happy to do one house even if they couldn't quite manage three or four. (I do get that involving a wider range of creators could have been difficult in terms of avoiding the perception of advertising/commercial use, but surely most could be trusted not to use/abuse their own products if asked nicely?)

I'd be surprised if it still is given recent events, but would be happy to be proved wrong.

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Because if you can find people silly enough to do it purely for kudos and (temporary) free sims, it would be stupid to pay for it.