Istelathis

/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!)

*Everyone that was causing drama, likes and thanks mod* Regulars get back on topic, and then *Security Orb enters conversation* Old rivalries begin to surface, arguments arise and then *Mole enters conversation asking everyone to stay on topic* *People like and thank the mod* Thread remains quiet for a few hours, then someone bored tries to skate the line, a little innocent jab here, and there, someone responds. *Thread is now about sock puppet security orb bot transgendered furries using AI alts selling Bud Lite* *Mole repeatedly bashes head into keyboard, yelling to the gods that never listen to them, locks thread* The noob was last spotted in SL, being lead to a volcano.. never to be heard from again Okay, now I have derailed the thread.. /me likes mole's last comment

Oh, we forumites would have them running for the hills in no time Noob: "Why does SL not have the ability to build in mesh?" Regular 1: If you hate SL so much, then just leave! Noob: I don't hate SL, I just wish we could build in mesh Regular 2: Just do it in blender Noob: I don't want to learn blender, I just want to build in SL Regular 3: I agree with R 1, how dare you come in here demanding us to answer then get angry at us when Noob: I just was asking a question!?!? Regular 1: It is how you asked the question! Regular 2 and 3 thumb up Regular one, post mocking laughs as noob * Bunch of regulars enter the scene, chaos erupts, and the conversation shifts to gender.

I don't mind the idea of AI NPC mentors, but would rather just open a browser and search for the answers myself. It is just a much better way of acquiring information than through SL's chat interface. I don't think anyone has ever taught me anything while actually in SL, or I have ever sought many answers in SL. It is mostly just for socializing which I do little of regardless. I am curious how many nooblets actually take advantage of the mentors for learning information, I would probably make for a horrible mentor because I would just compile a list of links for people to visit outside of SL and then inform them if they needed additional help to ask me, if they did then I would just go to a search engine, look up their question, and provide them a link to the answer 🤣 When I used to work in a call center, I would do the same thing. We would get all sorts of questions, from a range of different software, by a bunch of different companies, with people from accounting, retailers, even doctors. Just narrow down what they were trying to do, search on the Internet, and take them through it step by step. While I think AI is more than capable of providing information in the same manner I acquire it, I do think there is more to it and as you say the extroverts or people just looking for social connection will go to real people. Now I am curious what the typical conversation with mentors are, if it is mostly just socializing with a bit of instructing going on, or if it is mostly just instructions, perhaps just socializing, who knows? As a side note, I absolutely love AI for learning at this point, it makes plenty of mistakes, but it points me in the right direction and provides me information I was unaware of that I can further probe into. For me it is much more convenient than sorting through search results, going to the page, looking for a bit of information while reading a bunch of fluff.. or playing videos on youtube at 2x speed waiting for that one bit of information I was looking for to come up.

I think I would probably spend less time in SL, although I might purchase a region for when I was in SL. There would just be so much to fill my time with in RL as well as tinker around with on the computer I would build.

The next step, render an AI generated video into mesh. We are close to it, by rendering AI generated pictures into mesh I really wanted to try this one, but unfortunately the huggingface link did not work, and my computer is probably too slow to run it.. not to mention it is on the way out in general, the poor thing is on its last leg now. My hinge has completely broken free from the laptop, plastic pieces are in the fan, it is just done and trying to repair this old thing will just result in more brittle plastic pieces shattering. 😢 As far as identity in the virtual world is concerned, yeah it is going to become more difficult. Voice verified will not matter, nor will video verified, pffft.. go far enough in the future, and I doubt even in person verified will matter.. who knows? Perhaps at some point people will be able to grow fur, tails, ears, whiskers, and so on - and at that point well getting to know the person behind virtual representation, will not be so much a matter of their inherited genes but the meat computer inside of their head.

That sounds just like Anubis, always taking things away from us! It is no wonder why he is in charge of the Casino, it is a rigged game Bagnu, don't trust him, he is eval! He even once tried to sacrifice me, I escaped though. Plus he refuses to even make a long island iced tea, he just stands there staring blankly at me whenever I ask.

It needs a volcano, with blue glowing guiding arrows leading them to it. I will be happy to mentor, or we can have a chatbot leading them the way, either is fine. I need a couple of marshal wands to help the noobs move along into the Volcano..

CoolVL, I was surprised when I first used it a few months ago and started seeing dots popping up all over the place. It is pretty cool, in the minimap it also shows animesh as purple dots, and vehicles I believe as red dots.

Nah, but if we are going to base bot to human ratio by dots on a map with bots predominately in the ocean, I thought I would include a couple map screenshots zoomed really far out.

I think the humans outnumber us bots! Don't trust the humans, they are crazy!

I think I was in both, somehow. It got pretty weird going through those portals.

Probably not in SL itself, but I might use something like this to create short videos of my avatar's adventures in SL. This is assuming that we will eventually be able to use our avatars as characters in these videos, I think it would be pretty fun and not involve a ton of work to do so. One thing I do think would be entertaining, is to watch the machinima videos other people create with it. It would be pretty cool if there were enough users out there to create a second life channel, with a lot of contributors building their own shows, centered around SL. I've always been a fan of machinima, especially with MMORPGs, I also like to see them with SL or any game I play. This sort of technology might really push a ton of fun videos out there for us, so I look forward to it.

This might take a bit longer, I stopped by Helios and scored pretty big win My big win, seems to have attracted the wrong kind of attention /me runs off with a glass of LIIT I'll be there, don't worry.. I just became distracted with the exhibits while running away from Anubis, and passed through a portal I just need to avoid a few mobs

/me smirks We got this! I had to go to another bar, to keep out of Anubis' radar but I'm on my way!

/me assembles group to free Scylla

Bugs in the nose would peeve me, reading about bugs in the nose is just unsettling. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/doctors-remove-bugs-from-inside-of-mans-nose-and-face/77-cc1136f8-ed6b-44a5-9848-60d422042bac If you have a weak stomach, don't click on the link above.. and don't... I mean this, don't play the video.

There are probably even more, the numbers are gathered by bots which are prohibited in Bellisseria. There are also security settings that prohibit them in some regions, I believe the numbers came from bonniebots, and I think they gather at a regions they are allowed in every hour or so, but they likely miss quite a few premium and premium plus members. With that said, that is a healthy number of premium and Pplus members listed,

I can't help myself, I easily excite plus I really enjoy trying to piece this stuff together. We already have the foundations down, kind of, for avatar creation at least. And it is a lot of money being used to hire on a new developer, it is fun stuff to think about. Imma do my happy dance, I can't help myself, if it doesn't go that way, well at least I burned some calories, which is good considering I just had a slice of pizza 🙃

Beats me, for myself, it would be like trying to translate some cryptic alien language to English using a speak 'n spell 🤣 Check this out though, there was a new listing for employment at LL https://lindenlab.com/careers?gh_jid=5831422003 It relates to the web, but.... this was the really interesting part! This is for the web, but.... I am speculating, perhaps... more integration of web services into the viewer, such as .. *cough* perhaps a wardrobe, perhaps.. a 3d doll menu to preview items in.. perhaps.. one can always dream, can't we?

It is an entirely different engine, which I am sure works completely different than what they are using now. Even the language is probably different, I think Second Life's viewers are written in C++, while I believe Unity uses C#. From my understanding, unity uses mostly script like portions of code to handle a lot of the work, it is a strange beast I barely am familiar with but more than likely, most of the code they were working with could not simply be ported and likely had to be written entirely from scratch. This is one of the reasons, I think it is likely that our desktop viewer will probably at some point in the future, be migrated to the unity viewer as well. It only makes sense, because it is probably a ton of work to have two entirely different viewers maintained at the same time. With that said, I am not very familiar with the viewer we have now, I am mostly speculating. I barely am familiar with unity for that matter, mostly just barely tipping my toes in it. I would love to hear from actual developers working with the viewer, they would have a much better understanding than me.

And the big reveal is, Second Life is to be renamed s𝕏. 😜 My concept art of how the new business building should look. I want the logo to glow incredibly bright so that people can see it for miles.. make it so LL!

I don't imagine most people really care that much, I mean besides the obvious scenarios such as if the person using them is doing so to harass or cause hardship to others, but I think you as well as almost everyone participating on this thread know that already and it doesn't really need very much consideration for the topic. I mean, I've responded to this thread so far with nearly half a dozen alts, and you don't see any of them being upset with me 😜 A little more seriously though, if people really do get upset that you log in with alt accounts, for whatever reason outside of trying to cause problems for others, then that is entirely on them. I personally don't use them often, because there is no need outside of sitting them on a vehicle to prevent it from being returned. Most people leave this persona alone, I don't get bothered, so it is all good, plus I don't want to spend a ton of linden on setting up other alts.