[The Monthly Time Travelers Tea Dance: 1-3PM SLT at The Piermont Landing, New Babbage]

The Monthly Time Travelers Tea Dance is Saturday December 2, 1-3PM SLT at The Piermont Landing

Ready for a respite from the Holiday Music for just ONE more week? We've got you covered with a steampunk symphony, a bit of Vivaldi's winter music gone electric and then ending with some quiet and contemplative pieces that travel us back to the 1880's at the end. Please do join us.

[🎉 Exciting Announcement: Unveiling the Next Premium Plus Linden Homes Theme at Christmas Expo! 🎄]

6 hours ago, Raspberry Crystal said:

  

This remark made me smile! I have found so many of these house reveals confusing because of american terminology using the same vocabulary words that I know to mean something else (although the non-american meaning of Mediterranean architecture would be a very wide brief!).

Like "Queen Anne"? That's always a confusing discussion to have in international company! But lively!

[How Does Your SL Look Today?]

Fauve, studying a music score under the gently swaying palms of Bellisseria while her typists builds a couple of playlists and listens in for new arrivals.

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

24 hour days in First Life...can I have just, like 1 more maybe? Every OTHER day even? Is there a setting? I need better time management skills but if I had the time to learn that, I wouldn't need them now would I?
...and yes I am mostly just poking fun at myself at this point. Another Peeve. Self - get it together, The Holidays are nigh!!

[Delete, Delete, Delete. Sorry]

1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Will it be deleted?

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps..

 

I just like the phrase "Fashion Nugget" I feel seen!

[Night Rhythms presents 80s and More Thursday 16th November]

It was fun Edward, we had a nice time. Glad you are publishing your set lists too, you played a couple of songs I didn't know.

[New Babbage Halloween Steampunk Storytime + The Great Pumpkin Vigil 8pm slt]

Halloween Night Story Time at 8pm SLT, with an extra half hour -after- to listen to themed music and chat as we wait for The Great Pumpkin or trick-or-treat a bit more. We will hold this on-site in local chat as usual for the stories, then extend the conversation into the Steampunks of New Babbage Group chat secondlife:///app/group/8eed0287-8502-6eb6-4307-abf9bbacc2c1/about for the second hour as some of us run around everywhere like the hooligans we are + drive the Hayride. What does ‘Halloween in New Babbage’ sound like? Tune in to Find Out. (stream: https://tinyurl.com/FauveRadio ). Location: The Pumpkin Patch, at the Tinker Camp, north of the City Wall

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage Palisade/40/208/94

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

Peeved at myself when I’m tired and don’t express my thoughts very clearly. Peeved I need so much sleep - I thought we needed less as time passes? Peeved there’s no pie. 

[Make Us Laugh!]

[A Suggestion on Improving Mainland]

3 minutes ago, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

Mainland plot owners are also Premium members. 

Yes, I’m sorry, my mistake.  I should have instead said ‘part of the Linden Homes Premium areas’, because I’m assuming the Bellisseria landscaping is a good part of the incentive to own a Linden Home - but that’s just my guess. If LL is going to ‘upgrade the plants on Mainland’, I’m thinking this would mean replacing the textures on the existing system plants available in the build menu? I don’t know. I’ll be interested to learn more.

[A Suggestion on Improving Mainland]

On 7/5/2023 at 8:56 AM, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

Oh interesting. I like the Belli trees, if they could swap out the old ones on the mainland for those, big improvement right there. 

Belli trees (and builds) are in Premium areas for a reason so to my mind, they are part of the Premium content that is included as a benefit for the paid subscriptions. Sure, I don’t see why the Lab shouldn’t do some upgraded plant & tree texture content for Mainland along with the updates to ground textures - but I also think that Premium content should remain so. 

[5 letters game]

Falsely rate everyone a Karen.
AZURE

[Addons for hair bases]

Aii has an interesting ‘Mesh Hair Add-ons’ set of mod-able, tintable hair pieces to play with but they are more loopy and up-do things…but they may work well with some of your existing items? Love your look above! 

[5 letters game]

But I’m never going overboard. 

Or…Great - never in balance.

no one said the letters had to be used in order or only read one way, did they?
🙃

MADAM

[SecondLifeTime]

Still waffling a little over taking an alt to lifetime Premium and keep Fauve P+. Since the first 2048 P+ regions have landed, I will likely want to keep one of those (current or future theme) and still be able to play GOH with an additional 1024 or 512 Linden home. Many do. Lifetime Premium pays for itself in 7.5 years vs yearly membership fee if I counted correctly. I’ve been here over 15 years and I’ll likely be in SL until they wheel me out, or SL itself turns out the lights whichever comes first, haha. I’m betting on both of those scenarios being well more than enough to make it financially viable. I do like the idea of staying another 22+ years and paying 1/3 of the cost overall. Maybe I’ll do it.

[A Suggestion on Improving Mainland]

53 minutes ago, Rufferta said:

Who is going to decide what looks good and what doesn't look good? 

The people paying tier on it. 😉

says the gal who pays tier on 2 ‘legacy builds’ (though in a private region, it’s true - but I’ve considered relocating one to a Mainland parcel - and still may). 
 

edit: if it’s Mole-built, then LL, as they paid the Moles to build all of it. 

[New book about SL: "Making a Metaverse That Matters"]

SL is over a half a billion dollars ‘successful’ with what it has. Costs go up and existing user bases decline over time though. In a potential growth stage I think there’s room for both kinds of developments, attraction & retention - including hopefully some ‘come back’ initiatives to existing but inactive users. The new Senra starter avatars seem promising as a much better start than previous beginner avatars, especially with dev kits available. Not everyone is into avatar styling and the idea that you need to immediately buy and learn to use a bunch of replacement body parts for your avatar to even ‘look decent and not be considered noob or outdated’ is for the birds if you aren’t ‘into it’.
The new Welcomehub is nice and there’s both new development (laser tag, Motown, movies & more) and much-needed basics (a sandbox & dressing rooms) and we’ve seen continued development of the currently successful things like Bellisseria expansions. Why not both - some continued development and offering some new & more game-like activities?

With the mobile apps, I think there’s going to be somewhat of a shift in the way SL is approached, I did read that when IMVU went mobile in 2014 and it had a growth jump. As of 2020, its user base was 80% mobile. That’s something to consider.
Quotes from an article at gamedeveloper.com: Product operations VP "Patch" said it would be possible to do "pretty much anything you can do with the desktop Second Life viewer without being tethered to your computer." 
So to me that says - by nature of app vs viewer - although some things may be approached differently from a UI standpoint by necessity,  I don’t think the mobile apps will change the fundamentals. I don’t think mobile SL is going to turn into mostly a ‘social chat, avatar fashion doll, world of games’ scenario. I was on the fence about reading the book, and my SL-using partner has no interest in reading it - but I’ll probably order it tonight. 

[SSP?]

Does Itsa Fluke have a rez zone for watercraft? Here’s hoping!

[Second Life on Threads]

Nope. I got tired of socials that wouldn’t show me what I signed up to see, it burns my time. Since I do a lot of research on widely variable topics, my social media ads are often all over the map. 

[SecondLifeTime]

4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

If the 20 PP accounts went super fast, hopefully those at least get re-offered..

 

I’m hoping so - they went very fast. We were offered a spot in the Premium queue but nah - plus or bust.

[Compre lindens y no me llego nada pero en mi extracto de tarjeta me muestra que me debito]

¿Intentó cerrar sesión en el visor y en el navegador del sitio web y luego volver a iniciar sesión?

Sé que es frustrante tener dificultades. Los tickets de soporte se pueden hacer aquí https://lindenlab.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/new
 

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

Either/Or thinking. I guess peeved is a strong word but it’s more than ‘puzzled’. Why shouldn’t LL try some opt-in short mini games for new people if it helps them learn and engage - to help them stick around long enough to start to find and make their place & learn the enormous potential for so much self-directed activity (or find/make additional games to play within the world if that’s their thing)?
Why can’t we have volunteer peer-to-peer mentors to assist when or if asked and just being present & ready to be that first friendly contact without them being seen as ‘tasked with new Resident retention’ - that’s just not something I see as an accurate assessment.
Why does a new initiative to attract a new set of Residents have to be seen as ‘not paying adequate attention to needs of established Residents’  when new features and world-level improvements lately have been (IMO) pretty good for everyone from newbie to long-time oldbie?  🤷🏼‍♀️

[5 letters game]

! find redundancies are BANAL.

[New Mystery Theme!]

Just now, Love Zhaoying said:

All I remember is a group of avatars standing in front of stucco walls..

 

When they teased photos of Ranch previously, they didn’t call any kind of attention to it like they did with the hint with the stucco walls shot - but you could see the silo and gravel road. 

[New Mystery Theme!]

@Orchid Arado I don’t think the teased theme was the “Thousand Islands” one either but I did spy something interesting and tropical in the newest mobile viewer video captioned ‘development build’…I’m away from the device where I took the screenshot but I had set it as my profile header photo. I hope it’s true!