Antonioo Giano

You can be old also being a 20yrs old one

Yes, sure, you are right.

That's another problem, reading just a sentence or a a part of what is written, and go there rushing to write, looking for approval. As I said. I can adapt myself. I'm just adapting to you funny people You can keep going as much as you like. Edit: And the fact you edit the whole answer changing it completely just confirms what I just said.

I'm a flexible person and I'm able to adapt. If people are arrogant, not civil, provocating, not respectful I'm totally able to adapt and go to their level. This is what I'm doing with you all As I said read back the posts. I started the conversation normally. I answered to some that "disagreed" (in a bit more civil way at first) saying that I respect and understand their point of view, then a bunch of losers had to come over starting to be provocating and not respectful and I had to adapt the conversation, because people like this just can't understand how a civil conversation works.

How can I answer to someone writing random stuff she has no clue about, in a provocating way, putting a dumb laughing face etc.. that is writing here looking for the approval of the other? I don't have to show anything to you or to others and for sure I don't fall into stupid provocation. I invited those with real arguments and interested to IM me, but you all just skip it keeping writing here.. because "hey.. I'm looking for approval, please, look at me, react to my post, show me i'm smart please". So far none of you came to talk about via IMs What I see is just people with a boring life that feels stronger together attacking one person without having an argument but just writing random stuff they read online. Read the previous posts and you will see my "position" on the theme. You are free to think what you want, anything I can say will not lead anywhere because you aren't able to have a civil conversation. And I'm far way smarter than any of you answering and provocating here to fall into it. Just accept it and move on.

Yes sure, because for SL you would need to have a blockhain made just for SL, not using one of the hundrends of blockchain already existing. You tried, you read bit more of what others does, but still.. is not your thing. But I apprecciate the effort.

If you skip the 5 pages you can't talk about what was written. I said so many times that I don't have a specific position on the NFT theme but I just accept that if things goes in that direction, because I'm not one of those crying if things changes. So actually is not even about what I think, I tried to explain so many times but you are all so busy to assume what I'm saying just because is so easy to go everyone against one, just because taken one by one you wouldn't have any argument. Because nobody here gave arguments about what they think, and that it is not how I discuss things. I respect any point of view if they are given in a respectufl way. Here Instead it was just attacking me, stupid emoji and childish posts from old people and disrespectful and judging posts. So at the end the discussion went just like that, because of how people here aren't unable to discuss and exchange opinions.. and basically because nobody reads.. better write random stuff to take the approval of the others.

I love how you judge always in the same way and with the same pattern trying to put it down calling people that knows more about you in this topic "crypto-something". You are all so funny. And old.

Giving some attention also to you.. happy? As I said I can deal with you all. But you know.. I'm not an old one with nothing to do. I've also a life. My IMs are open, if some of you is able to give an argumentation to what they say they can try to write me IW. I can't spend all my time to give you some attention to make your day bit more interesting. I did already too much charity with this posts feeding too many trolls. At the end is always the same circle of people answering all the same posts in the forum. My mistake to open a post like this, was predictable that people aren't able to disagree in a civil way, they have to try to "bully" or try to be the smart-funny one to get some attention in a forum where 10 people write.

You are the top 1. You are writing this childish stuff without giving 0 argumentation to what you write. Do you think it to be funny? I wrote several times that I'm totally fine with people that disagree, just read back if you are able to do, it instead of writing this stuff in this way trying to be the smart and funny one to get some attention. It's pathetic.

There is no "side". I'm just an open-minded person that is aware that things can change and doesn't matter if I like it or not. But people answering this post, again, confirmed that they don't know what they are talking about. I just know the topic and myself I said that I'm 50-50 about it, so not saying that is going to be for sure like that or that is the future but that IT COULD BE and if it will be I'll not stay there crying because things are changing. But when you touch topics when people get their ideas about watching some random youtube video or reading random stuff online that's the thing.. Don't even need to answer to those all kinda "bully" style answers. The "bully" can IM me in Second Life if they are able to be that "smart" also in a conversation instead of thinking to be cool posting random stuff to try to make fun of me in a forum where you do "everyone against one" just because the one knows more about you on a topic and you can't accept it. The bully can keep going as they like giving "ironic" answers and putting laughing emojis on my posts, I just don't mind. I can handle many of you attacking me all the time and in the end we will see who will laugh because I know already that I will not receive any IM, because for all those bullies the strength comes just in "group" when they get other peoples approval. Via IM they would just be silent and don't know what to say.

8. Regarding NFT's, they can be stolen and blockchain servers are a terrible waste of resources. Sure. If you give your password and seed phrase to someone else, everything can be stolen from your wallet. As you can see from the post you linked https://thevrsoldier.com/top-5-most-popular-methods-hackers-steal-nfts/ where it mention pishing, discord scam link etc... which applies to anything. If you use your wallet to sign a transaction on a fake scam link of course it can be stolen. But that's when you talk about something being countrary in advance without not even considering things, but just talking bad about it not having a clue of what they are. A whole server can be hacked. The blockchain NO, is just impossible. That's the point. Second Life servers no matters how protected they are, if someone wants and putting the required efforts could be totally hacked, the blockchain no, there is no way you can do that even for the strongest team of hackers, they can do it just if someone makes a mistake, but the blockchain itself is impossible to hack. Oh yeah. NFTs are evil, oh yeah NFTs are so bad. Like this, just "because". Let's all laugh about the blockchain, the NFTs and let's stay in our little safe garden judging other people from some posts or laughing at them because they are more open minded and willing to consider the fact that the world can change and evolve. 7. Second Life is not going to survive for more than another decade or so no matter what fixes can be done to improve concurrency and revenue. It's a fantastic platform built on ground-breaking ideas, but it will require too much duct tape and super glue to keep it going. Eventually I hope there will be a new platform that is built on the ideals of Second Life, state of the art technology, and will deserve the name of Metaverse, but I don't believe Meta or any other platform currently deserves that title. Totally agree. With the mentality of the people in SL is just impossible to change. Even if they would try to go towards something new people would probably cry and leave, so yeah. It's impossible. Let's have SL how it is untill it lasts and until the current 50+ years old userbase still manages to stay in front of a pc and whatever. There will be something new in future in other companies. This post just confirmed what was already my initial idea and what is the idea of people "outside" SL about SL. "An old thing from the past".

This was a car in the 1900. Back in time there was someone saying that having a car was useless, they had horses already. The point is people always look short term and can't see in the "future". This is also what makes difference between those making money and those working their whole life (investing, also in stocks, is also about being able to "see" in the future while being able to analyze and evaluate companies). Meta "reputation" is very questionable. Facebook broke completely the internet and how we use it. Now is starting to go "bit down" (for the first time in their last quarterly report they reported a lower number of users compared to the previous quarterly report). They are then working on this, but is the very beginning. How it will develop is probably still not understandable from us like any other big thing that came into our life. I'm myself 50-50 in this. Like I'm not sure if will work or not and if will be Meta or not to make it work. But when Meta introduced it there was a huge spike of interest (so yes, Meta is very influencial) everywhere, in the stock market anything that was even remotely related with the "metaverse" spiked, lots of metaverse projects popped up (there are tons.. most will just fail). Now things moves pretty quick and I talk about stuff I know and I follow personally, is not personal feelings or reading some angry guys writing bad stuff about NFTs. For me is a no-brainer that using the blockchain technology to own stuff is way better than having everything into private servers. If I was a Fortnite user (I take it as example since is one if not the most succesful multiplayer game online) I would be happier to be able to sell in future my skin than have it forever stuck in their server, but people still didn't get that and if you mention nfts they think more about the guy that bought the first tweet for 2.8million or moneky jpgs. This said.. I'm not here to try to convince anyone. Especially if here there is a mix of older people in SL the average age is pretty high and gamers that for some reason hates NFTs, so I know would be useless to even try to explain things, plus as I said I'm myself "50-50" like I can't know if will work or not. But for sure I'm pretty open minded to consider that it could work and if will work I'll be ready to adapt instead of complain that the world is going in that direction.

I have to admit that I earned good money from NFTs, but I'm totally aware that is pure speculation and as I said I'm aware how they are "hated" by the gaming community. But people, in general, hate any new thing that they don't understand and that can change stuff they "love" or they are "used to". People hated and many still hate social networks but look at Meta numbers and now also at TikTok numbers As I said if Meta makes a thing (not the bubble that was last year) that is the direction we will go in a world that is moving towards being more "digital" than it was back in time.

Infact I'm not taking others as examples to follow. For me Decentreland and TheSandbox are just bubbles. I said that this model will work if Meta (ex Facebook) will make a thing, as they did with Social Networks. So is of course an IF. The fact that LL didn't take "advantage" of the "momentum" instead is a fact.

Maybe my mistake was pointing the focus to the high costs of lands. The problem for me is more the fees themselves. If people are used more to get "digital ownership" of stuff and not pay monthly fees, if SL keeps this model, the longer term, will fail. The "new model" (that could totally fail too) is that you put digital ownership on the blockchain and LL would earn from fees people pay buying/selling their lands. Then yes. When there was the metaverse FOMO I didn't see LL doing anything to get the attention. SL is the best metaverse around. There aren't other metaverse with these graphics (for this genre) but still.. try to check posts about SL online. Everyone thinks that SL is a dead thing of the past. This is because they didn't advertise it at all. All the points you touched are correct, my thing about the prices is because is just the quickest thing that can give some appeal to people to come(or comeback) here.

Totally understandable. Many players hate/dislike the NFT stuff for classic gaming and it applies also for SL. Is a point of view that I respect and I understand. The problem is if the web3 moves in that direction (it will depend if Meta will succeed or not) for SL not adapting could end badly. Is a bit like living in a small city where you know your local farmer, or in a big city where all the big corps. are in and you can buy food from Amazon grocery shops without cahsiers? Some people prefer the first some the second option. Both are right. The problem is if the small city and the small farmer can make it in the long run.

Let me quote myself to the new page. Because I'm not going to answer to those quoting me answering not getting the point of what I'm writing.

I try to resume my point of view because is a bit "annoying" to get answers that are not related to what I mean. My problem is not personal. Thankfully I'm in a good financial position (for my country) and I would be able to afford a Sim (or a region if you don't like to call Sim) a parcel or anything else I want in Second Life. So is not about me wanting to pay less to get my SL home. I'm talking about looking at the "bigger picture" Making lands more affordable > Making people create more interesting stuff in SL > Bringing more people that are willing to stay instead of logoff and leave forever because they get bored > Increase the userbase > Marketing more with your big numbers > Get Real Life big companies interested into SL again > Attention and money from big companies brings even more people in AKA adapt your business because SL is going down in numbers and interest. Then the fact I can sail, I can go to a club or date someone tomorrow in SL... is not the point. I talk looking longer term, SL is not adapting to the new things, is not giving anything new to make people stay, to bring the interest of the "youngsters". Do you disagree? Fine. But let's talk about the same thing at least

*for everyone that WANTS to have a parcel in SL. Is better now? If I can't afford 99 PER YEAR I don't even think to get a parcel in SL. But still your answer was so focused on the 99 per month because is what you read while I was mentioning the price of a premium with Linden Labs (99 per YEAR) Just admit the mistake and move on. We aren't here to talk about the different levels of income of people in the world. From a side people gets bothered if I say the prices are too high and now I get attacked because I say they are affordable? lol

"As for real life companies making an appearance, well, count me among those who aren't into that at all. I hated it when they all piled in simultaneously back in 2006 or 2008 or whenever it was. It seemed so...forced." I agree and I personally don't even care to have my Adidas shoes in SL. But nowadays we are going always more and more into a world that is moved by big companies. Adidas is going into theSandbox (just an example, is full of companies going into thesandbox and decentreland) which is an ugly "metaverse" not even ready with block graphics. For Adidas would be way better to make cool shoes in SL but since SL didn't update things to how the "web 3" is going to be (or how the big techs want to it to be) they go there and not in SL. Now if I personally like or not.. is not the point. I talk more in a business-oriented way. Maybe is because I'm a business owner also RL so my head goes more in that direction if we talk about something where money are involved (like in SL) and that needs money to work.

Short term talking. Everyone is right. Long term.. who knows. But if I speak about bring companies, money and interest into SL and the answer I get are about "in SL you can sail" we are speaking about two different things and is hard to keep a conversation.

Yeah. I'm sure you can teach me how real life economy works. In case I can teach you how to read 99usd PER YEAR and not 99usd PER MONTH. Deal?

I don't think. It personally was. Just as an example, back in time (and speaking just about my country) we were having a football (soccer) tournament, sponsored from a real life company with something like 10-15 teams made from 15-20 players each. Today it would be totally impossible: 1 the RL companies are gone. 2 People are way less than that. I'm not that old to have nostalgia.. My life is much better now and i'm in my 30s SL was better back then and there were more people and stuff to do. For me is a fact. But yeah. That's personal. The point is.. Real Life companies are going into stuff like Decentraland and the Sandbox that are like 1/100 of what SL is (SL is waaay better in any aspect). Why LL can't make this happen also for SL? Why not improve as a company and adapt to 2022 and web 3 era? But we will see in future how things will go if they decide to keep the "old style" way.

Yes but my "question" (which wasn't a question) was meant for a full SIM, not for a parcel, which of course.. is cheaper to rent As I said my focus is not about what I do in SL, or to get a sim cheaper to make my home. But to make people that are able to build amazing things that can improve the experience in SL for everyone. But hey if the majority of people are ok with how SL is now and they think it could last longer-term and LL thinks that everything is good, i'm not here to make anyone change their mind, is just a discussion topic and I was expecting the majority of people would disagree with it. But I want to clarify what the focus of my topic was. If I want a home for myself I just pay 99usd per year and get my 1024 sqm Linden Home which is totally affordable for everyone. But again. Is not that the problem I'm pointing at