EliseAnne85

Those prices are ridiculous and, oh now I'm guessing, you win more tokens but these tokens can't be cashed out back into lindens 'or something like that'. Oh, gag. I hate gambling, btw. I never had an addiction to Gacha. I played for a few spins a year but mostly bought second-hand Gachas. I don't even buy lottery tickets. I don't have this particular addiction, the one to gambling, but it's just role play money yet really expensive and one cannot cash their chips back into money. Geesh, perhaps some of us should dress up as beggars and role play there. It might put their lindens to better use to give out some charity instead. Oh, this is nearly making me gag is about all I can say because I hate gambling and this is a waste of money.

I thought it said you couldn't win. So, what did you win? @Kimmi Zehetbauer I also think something is fishy here. This is just all too bizarre. Maybe there is more than meets the eye here?

That could help free up some usernames BUT some people like to reactive old accounts. But, I had forgotten to say I think SL stands a very good chance of going way over the 5 million mark when mobile arrives. There are an estimated 6.5 billion people on cell phones. That is a huge untapped market for SL.

Interestingly enough, an Elon Musk tweet comes into my feed last night, from Elon Musk: "We are deactivating accounts that haven't been used in over two years". I have no idea if it's related or not. I'd think still Twitter has great sums of active users even if deactivating unused accounts.

Yeah, the release of the Dopamine is present in all addictions and not just chemical or alcohol addictions. Dopamine is released when we go shopping as well. Constant shopping is an addiction. Gacha was considered an addiction. Sex can be an addiction. An addiction to alcohol is the same with the Dopamine. However, I am the only one who can not let that drink go into my body. There is no one else who can hold back the glass of alcohol. It gets easier over the years, way easier to be alcohol-free as the years and decades pass. I hardly ever think of alcohol at all. This and it's potential for addiction is what reminded me. I still am in the 'wat' camp here with all this though. LL is out on a limb with this one.

We tried that POV with Gacha; it failed. But, it still holds true with all addictions. I haven't drank alcohol in over 30 years. Who did I do that for? I did it for me. However, I don't know if this Casino thing is really what it appears. Who the heck is really going to pay money knowing they will lose it all and end up with nothing. Only crazy bazillionaires with nothing better to do and more money than they could ever spend in real life? Geesh, give some to me. lolz This is a bit crazy, btw, imho.

I think people would still have to buy Lindens and then exchange them for tokens. Why else the HUD and the Casino to buy tokens? Thus, the Linden would or could become something like a "stablecoin". LL can't just do away with lindens or can they? I don't think so. They'd have to give us something in exchange for lindens. Thanks though. It does sound like a test of 'something' and Love and yourself may be right. Perhaps someone has more knowledge of all this. I'm in the 'wat' stage too.

So, the linden is or would be used as a sort of intermediary "token" to buy tokens that are for mobile? Can you explain further to some of us dummies or naïve people who don't know about Avakin Life or how other mobile games with tokens work. Why use lindens to buy tokens in a Casino? I don't understand. Unless, the linden becomes an intermediary token.

Forget "market conditions", sell 'em for whatever you want, Sista! We have entered the age of Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Or else we have entered the Age of Aquarius and this is the Fifth Dimension.

It is beyond nutty. Now if they could only get our fingerprint, too, we'll be all good to go (and cry).

I feel this way, too. I have had accounts with personal data on them but never was 100% comfortable with it. I feel all of this could be more to protect the businesses rather than to protect us. Not that I disagree with parents having parental control. I wish there were a way for parents to have better parental controls without infringing on our personal data. TV's, movies, the radio all had some control for parents. Why not the internet too without infringing upon all adults? But, I wanted to add, I guess with TV, movies, the radio there is no way for someone to contact your child or interact with your child like there is on the internet. This is the big difference.

I said I think it might but it's too early to tell yet as this is all so new. Really, it's the business owners who need to tell us.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-labor-laws-violations You know, the idea the government needs to stop interfering with so much stuff. Except the nude stuff, then they'll interfere. Dizzy, yet? Dizzy yet, certainly, yes. That was going on and it was not covered under news feeds I read.

It's not just lifestyles but addictions in SL other than Gacha. Gacha was the one punished while the other addictions were let slide. And, I disagree that gambling is just a game of chance. Gambling to me is a game where one can win or one can lose it all. Gambling doesn't have anything to do with prize games, imo. Gambling is like the lottery, most likely one will end up with nothing, zero. But, I don't want to discuss an off topic thing. It's just that there are other addictions in SL that also exist in rl - shopping and sex are two of those addictions. Being involved in things where one feels unsafe - get out of it is about all I can say.

Also, from my understanding, knowing a child's age (child as defined as under 18) is what they are trying to do away with. This is all very new, so bare with me here. So, they want the adults to verify as 18 or over; and, if they can't, they revert to a restricted minor's account which is not age specific and thus data is not collected on the minors.

How does this work for free accounts? I can go anywhere, I think? However, with this account, it's a building account and I don't go much of anywhere so I have not tested what this free account, no info on file, can access. With my previous account to this one from about five years ago, I had a waiting time to be verified for Adult to open in search. It still works this way with a wait period to be verified for Adult? But, if one is not verified as an adult, some of the other articles I've read are saying one will defer to a minor's account if not age verified as 18 and up. It's too early to say if this will bring forth any changes to SL, I think.

I don't think the above is all this new Act is about: And, children will now be defined as under 18 unless it's for specific ages such as 0 to 5, 6 to 9, etc. This bill would enact the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which, commencing July 1, 2024, would, among other things, require a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that a different setting is in the best interests of children, and to provide privacy information, terms of service, policies, and community standards concisely, prominently, and using clear language suited to the age of children likely to access that online service, product, or feature.

Wow, 10. Good grief. Some laws are just all over the place. However, it's the business' that want to protect themselves, more than it's protecting us. That's how I'm beginning to feel. But, when I was a parent, I understand how parents feel, especially with that IM thing. We survived okay thankfully, even back then when there was nothing. My Space hadn't even been created yet. IM systems existed on the open web before My Space.

I don't quite understand what you are saying? I kept saying to read the link. People need to read the whole thing. The new products, from my understanding, are that they want them more age specific, such as 0 to 5, 6 to 9, 10 to 13 or whatever. There is a lot of stuff involved here but people should read it.

Drinking, driving, smoking, etc. is a bit different - those are risky behaviors that potentially put other people at risk as well. What can one do. That's going to be the law. It's been enacted to take effect July 1, 2024 with other things needing to come into compliance before that date. Now "tech" companies and internet companies have to 'splain what they are going to do.

This is the part I don't like about it but I'm for better safeguards for kids. But, how do we keep our ID's safe from being stolen if it comes to that AND THEY want our driver's license everywhere? They will have to give us a good answer about that. (They meaning the government, not LL). I don't use cash out through Tilia. I only cashed out once my entire SL. I spend my lindens here in SL.

Well, only the court and the parents emancipated those particular children. It's like the drinking age in California is age 21. You still can't purchase liquor legally even if you are 18. You have to wait until you are 21 or over to drink and/or purchase alcohol legally. Which is a bit excessive on the drinking age here, I know.

Don't know. I know kids are way more computer savvy than their parents. I lived with a child-prodigy computer whiz kid who took to the computer like a duck to water. It's her life. She met her husband online even. My niece and nephew live out much of their day on FB. It's difficult to say other than we shall see, I guess. But, this may reach farther than just California as is stated in the link I posted. Epstein comes to my mind, and that this is not religious at all. Bills/Acts pass in America with bipartisan agreement. Some more copy and paste from the link I posted. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that children need special safeguards and care in all aspects of their lives. (2) As children spend more of their time interacting with the online world, the impact of the design of online products and services on children’s well-being has become a focus of significant concern. (3) There is bipartisan agreement at the international level, in both the United States and in the State of California, that more needs to be done to create a safer online space for children to learn, explore, and play. (4) Lawmakers around the globe have taken steps to enhance privacy protections for children on the understanding that, in relation to data protection, greater privacy necessarily means greater security and well-being. (5) Children should be afforded protections not only by online products and services specifically directed at them, but by all online products and services they are likely to access. In order to help support the design of online products, services, and features, businesses should take into account the unique needs of different age ranges, including the following developmental stages: 0 to 5 years of age or “preliterate and early literacy”; 6 to 9 years of age or “core primary school years”; 10 to 12 years of age or “transition years”; 13 to 15 years of age or “early teens”; and 16 to 17 years of age or “approaching adulthood.” (6) In 2019, 81 percent of voters said they wanted to prohibit companies from collecting personal information about children without parental consent, and a 2018 poll of Californian parents and teens found that only 36 percent of teenagers and 32 percent of parents say that social networking internet websites do a good job explaining what they do with users’ data. (7) While it is clear that the same data protection regime may not be appropriate for children of all ages, children of all ages should nonetheless be afforded privacy and protection, and online products and services should adopt data protection regimes appropriate for children of the ages likely to access those products and services.

How they hope it will work is that adults will have to age verify; and, if they don't, they will revert to a restricted minor's account, probably one without instant messaging. It also has the support the United Nations. People can get VPN's but those are not free nor do those work how people always think they will work, especially if you have to pay money.

In the new California Act which has been signed into law, it's not just social media under the microscope, it's everything on the internet, and this was a bipartisan decision. It has nothing to do with pearl-clutching nor religion. It is a child safety Act.