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    Perhaps shuffling around people due to Unity now being used, I suspect the viewer on the desktop will be moving to Unity as well. If it is, development on the desktop engine currently in use will probably slow down to a near halt as the resources will be shifted to Unity and the manpower required to maintain two different engines would no longer be necessary. Then there might be the ordeal with having to deal with Apple and Google, and trying to cater to a mobile audience. Who knows though? I do know, that I was looking forward to hearing the next Lab Gab, and that may have giving us a few more hints as to their plans for the future, unfortunately, did not happen on the 29th. I don't know though, I haven't a clue as to what the roles are in Linden, who the developers are, what their specialties involve, or even the direction SL is going to take.
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    Yay!
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    😢 I hope you come back. If not, thank you for everything you provided on the forums, the great artwork, the great discussions, the humor, and kindness.
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    I know, I have failed our younger generation, they need that sense of their grumpy elders putting them in their place! I got a kick out of that episode, poor Squidward
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    Imagination I just get soaked into my own imagination, then I come on the forums and share some of it. I don't get irritated very often, and find as time goes I grow less irritated at things, I think I am doing this aging thing all wrong or something.. I should have started to yell at people to get off my lawn, and complain about that new fangled technology, and how them zoomers ruin everything. For sure though, I never lost my touch of imagination. Second Life is the perfect place for me to go wandering around, and create all sorts of stories, and scenarios, plus it is always changing, and I am always finding things - and when I don't find things, I just build them and make new stories.
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    It really is not that bad. Edited environment - not to be taken seriously.
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    Don't forget the cheese 🤣
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    @Love Zhaoying The difference I usually have noticed on social media vs forums, are that the algorithms on social media tend to be more manipulative. At least that was my experience, the suggested posts I would see would be intrusive, while on the forum it usually is just sorted by date (for me). I don't like feeling as though I am being manipulated, it just gets to me - and the way a lot of sites keep you glued to the screen is usually through topics that will induce a feeling of fear or anger, which bothers me to no end because I feel, it is counter productive to society. Buuuuuuuut! I am sure not all social media platforms are the same, and I hardly am an expert when it comes to social media. I just noticed that when I did use facebook, I would be given all sorts of posts that frustrated me, worse yet, I saw former coworkers, friends, even family change slowly by what I would consider programming. Youtube is more or less the same. In short, social media makes me feel like I don't want to live on this planet anymore After seeing what it did to people, I really grew frustrated with it.
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    Yeah, it is kind of cool 😊 I like the cyberpunk look of my other hoverbike more, as well as the sitting animation, but this one looks really good too and it handles much better.
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    I was still enjoying my hoverbike, it handles better than my other hoverbike I have pictured before. It was an enjoyable ride, and I really like the entire design of it as well. I kind of wish there were side mounted machine guns that would allow us to fire at one another 😈 It goes pretty fast in higher gears as well, one thing I did notice was that downshifting did not work - I think it might have just been a bug with the rezzed bike. I'll have to try it again later when rezzing it again. It is meant I think for air travel, but it maneuvered well enough on the roads that I found it to be just as enjoyable as my usual cars, with the exception of sometimes having to lower myself back down to the road if there was a decline. Oh, and my ISP updated my internet speed. I used to get about 20-30 Mbps, and now I get 250-300, needless to say textures are loading a lot faster than when my household had all of their devices running at once. Region crossings were not so bad either, at the very beginning I was going over 100 mph and was flung off my bike at a corner crossing, but otherwise it handled really nicely.
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    My main objection is that I don't like to create threads, and I've been to other forums where they will snip out your post which removes the context it was created in, and then create a new thread from it. Thankfully, it only has happened to me once, it was regarding Will Smith's slap felt around the world, and it was not really meant to be a stand alone thread. It kind of puts me in a place I would rather not be in. Not that I would object to SL removing the newer rule where we can only discuss SL related stuff.
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    I think perhaps a lot of projection is usually the result of trying to interpret the intention of others. If we let go of trying to understand the intention of others I do believe there is less projection occurring. Being that we are prone to trying to gather the intention of others around us as a survival mechanism, it is difficult to do. It is doable though, I mean no matter what our own views will be biased, our own interpretation of others will be formed in our own head, so there will always be some level of projection involved. What I think is important, is just acknowledging that we are inherently flawed, not omniscient and despite what many of us think, often wrong (besides me, I am never wrong!). Here for evidence, we can see projection occurring. The mouse is clearly upset with the cat, because the mouse believes the cat is after his cheese... Meanwhile, the cat is just tripping balls from the catnip she had taken earlier, and is pondering the meaning of life. Okay, enough of my nonsensical pseudo thoughts, with absolutely no basis in reality but formed almost entirely out of boredom 🙃 I'll instead opt to put them on their own boats 🙃 (sorry, I had an extra picture I had to do something with)
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    I was playing around in the community exhibit, on my smallest avatar, there is a little miniature island with places to sit, and was having fun with that as well as snapping some photos, as well as enjoying some chocolate at another exhibit. Then I found a new exhibit, for BBB and they are giving away a free hoverbike! So now I am riding around on said hover bike.. it is a little big for me, but I like it! I also almost got scooped up by a tentacle, those things are a public menace!
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    I easily am entertained. What?!? Okay, I was a lonely kid and found things to do that any rational sane person would find boring 😜 Give me a a common household bowl, and a spoon and I could have hours of fun
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    I think that is one of the reasons I avoid most social media, and just skim the news now. I just don't have the time anymore, for most of my news I prefer tech and science articles now. Previously I could spend hours on the Internet, just reading opinion after opinion, some I would agree with, others I would disagree with.. it became so involving, and the way people treated one another was pretty horrible. Then trying to sort through opinions, and narrow down what is factual and what is not became almost impossible. That would take forever, and at times trying to find the so called truth would just lead to more biased information. Finding factual information on the Internet, has become a chore for a lot of topics. Not that it is any different with the news, I will read a news story, then read the comments, then do a search, and before I know it an hour or two has passed and outside of knowing a bunch of opinions I will not really know anything of significance. Peeve: I am lost in a sea of conflicting opinions, on a boat with torn sails, and a rudder that was chewed off by a pesky shark 🦈
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    Isn't it part of facebook? I thought of creating a Mastodon account, but then figured mostly everything significant that is on social media eventually ends up on the news, considering so many news stories just end up being based on social media now that it is almost pointless unless I wanted news on the fly. I did use Nitter for a while, but they seem to have lost their ability to browse twitter. Now I just wait till whatever big is happening on social media becomes newsworthy. Peeve: Read it once on the Internet, read it hundreds of times, and be prepared for thousands of videos regarding it 🤣
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    People do all sorts of weird things 😜 According to one comment in the video, what they are chanting loosely translates to "Jesus Christ, make it stop"
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    Yay! I used to go there to fish, it was nice to go back for a visit. I logged back into SL, and was still there so I decided to watch the ocean for a bit before trying to go back to bed.
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    Bwahhahahaha! Okay, to his credit it does seem pretty involving to install Windows 11 without being required to have a Microsoft account. Buuuuut, it took me all of five minutes to figure out how it is done. He was probably just trying to stir up some trouble, at least with the article that I read. Still, for most people it shouldn't be made that difficult, I don't know what Microsoft is thinking making it this complex, it is going to frustrate a lot of users. That dress, I swear, it keeps changing on me. I think it has an agenda! Now I see it as white and gold again. Peeve: milk in nose.. don't do that to me 😜 Oh, and Microsoft making things difficult for people, even Musk😉.
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    Lol, I haven't heard that one yet. Is this new? Peeve: I miss when social media was mostly people arguing over the color of a dress It was such an innocent time, and btw, I am seeing gold and white right now.. oh wait, now I am seeing blue and black.. dammit, please excuse me while I argue with myself over what color this dress is.
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    I think I know Hyper was there once
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    I am! Pasta be upon you, and may we all experience the beer volcano (and Long Island Iced Tea pools of bliss) A place where Anubis can never leave us wanting and our thirst is quenched.
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    It is that time again, where the volcano needs to be fed with noobles to appease the SL gods and ensure we have a good harvest.. So I decided to go to where the noobs are at, and try to entice them with some pizza. All of the clouds make for poor volcano sacrifices, they will just float away. None to be found at the exhibit yet, this crop season may not be favorable. /me looks around for Anubis! Don't fall for it, they are trying to trap us!
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    Duck and cover!
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    /me shifts eyes looking around for any moles 🙃 I think we may be tormenting the poor moles when we do it. Weaponized emojis, FTW! j/k (Don't tell them!)
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