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Fauve Aeon

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  1. I’m sure it will happen, if there’s a way to do it, someone will absolutely do it…but I don’t think that image would be something I’d want in my marketing pitch deck 🫣😝 I’m thinking of the almost infinite complaints currently about animation timing and alignment too from a purely technical standpoint. And then there’s the frame rate and animation synch, etc. etc… #nope
  2. Not quite. Not today. Have another pyramid. People are often thinking in a niche. Your niche is one that so far, LL has not chosen to leverage or center in either user functionality features (RLV/RLVa functionality) or in their advertising. There’s a reason for it, one which may or may not change at some future point. I think it was a good time to add adult-rated regions to the Birthday and accompanying Shop & Hop and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a Linden Homes adult-rated themed area introduced at some point. I’m just guessing. “If you do what you’ve always done then you’ll get what you’ve always got.” Sometimes that’s really good (provide dependable user experience, familiarity, don’t break the legacy content) but it’s a retention strategy, definitely not a growth initiative. SL as-is seems like a stable and lucrative business, but investors will usually want to grow if they can take advantage of a window of opportunity. So one of the the major points (as I see it) is replacing users who are passing away and/or aging out. I don’t see marketing the adult community activities to new users as a good proposal during this phase of community connection focus. Partnerships and festivals that bring groups of people together for proposed community building feels more in step with things right now. Again, just me guessing based on how I feel about things and what I’m seeing. The mobile apps are a new window, quite literally, the users will behave somewhat differently and a mobile user attraction strategy may look very different from a desktop user one. The viable and time-tested competition for a stable ‘metaverse-type’ platform or entity is at a low right now but the buzz has not subsided so there’s an opening for a growth initiative and it’s going to need to play differently for a different and new audience that may have different wants and needs. It’s not going to be aimed at us, we’re here already, invested - enough to spend part of our weekend sitting about thinking and posting about it, lol.
  3. Oh come on now, we have shown remarkable restraint here in a thread that quickly became a theater of the ridiculous - in 25 pages, there has not even been ONE Taylor Swift gif.
  4. Does it smell like feet? Ew. According to a study carried out by Cambridge University scientists, having legs a bit longer than average may be linked to strength and good health. https://api.repository.cam.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/83aaf8fb-81ce-40c3-9bae-b5163c2e06c7/content
  5. On the contrary, it’s a solid working demonstration of the development of level 3 in the pyramid. Ta-dah. Thank you all for coming to Sunday Improv Theater, Forums Edition - please tip your servers and remember the cigarette and rose girls as you make your way towards the exits.
  6. There’s also Death in the Afternoon and Cocktail Suissesse. Yumyum.
  7. Ok, I’ll double dip - many moments, many messages - but often really hard to convey with words so I take a snap…
  8. Flat, kitten heel, mid, high, ouch and pointe. Talk about a marketing opportunity…
  9. I’ll help with the branding…what do you think, Neo-Victorian or Sputnik-Retro? Slab-Moderne? Bleeding Cowboys?
  10. I’ve always had the saying of ‘Anything can become a hat in SL if you are properly motivated’ so combine that thinking with ‘If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’ and it can produce a certain particularly specific focus. But I do find it quite a singular point of view. If my argument consists of ‘well it’s popular, everyone’s doing it, that’s the largest demographic’ and it still needs to be hammered hard, I might consider rethinking the approach. It should persuade. If it doesn’t, then it’s not really successful, is it?
  11. *edit for context - regarding ‘add a 10th restaurant, market to adult’, etc… If everything was restricted by geography and travel time, as it is in First Life that may be true but in a virtual world where everything is literally at our fingertips and travel time is 3 seconds, there’s no need for this style of like + like marketing. I don’t need a 10th restaurant, I crave something novel, that I haven’t experienced before. People who buy shoes also buy other things, people who play games also enjoy other interactive things, people who sail also may enjoy other immersive or competitive experiences. You can draw similar parallels across the gamut of human experiences. Flip it and people who enjoy all these things may also enjoy having virtual sex but we mostly all know that it is here and available, to the point of scarcely even needing to talk about it much. But it’s not often our defining characteristic of our inworld personas and activities maybe, so forgive me if I say that I find your focus a bit one dimensional and myopic.
  12. I guess my question would be ‘Why’? What further goal or purpose would it serve? Rather it’s better to market the under-used features to new demographics to help grow those user bases, IMO. I also think the adult community and the sex work community may be separately considered as a general rule - with some crossover but not as much as many may think. The first set of people actually inhabits the world, the second uses SL minimally and as just another advertising platform. I believe this is an important distinction. You post about the search results in another thread last month… Yet you serve search up as ‘proof’ in this thread. Which is it? I think this is true, also the Senra avatars as new starter avatars. The clothing took a while to rez on them at the birthday event in my viewer and I think they look pretty ok naked. 😉
  13. Peeve du jour: threads not really being about what they appear to be about, not just in this forum but in general, over time. If you want your thing to be important/matter to people then maybe it should serve them better. It’s not always that simple, but often it actually is. Peeve in this forum that reluctantly made me laugh: someone calling the Ranch theme ‘Moo-ville’. I can’t say it’s inaccurate buuuuut..ugh, I do hate it!
  14. Great question. For me it’s simple - because walks look cuter with tippy-toe feet and I don’t think the flat version of most feet are the most attractive - low arches. I don’t mind the Barbie references, I still collect and enjoy Barbie (and other) dolls. Some of my SL avatars are styled as dolls but others are far from it. I’ve been a dancing velociraptor, a Starbucks cup and a small robot cat. I’m thinking of doing a challenge to just wear an avatar styled as a small bright animated mote of colored light for a week and seeing how it feels. I’ve enjoyed inhabiting a lot of different avatars in general.
  15. This is where it breaks. Those are a simulation and so outside the formal biological hierarchy. Sex in SL is missing the vital element that sets biological sex at the base of the pyramid. So for our purposes SL sex is at level 3. My point is that since the world already well supports the sex aspect, then let the other things be featured more too in the interest of showing the potential for the platform to be as well rounded as any First Life, because it can be. Another observation, fully half of the traffic numbers in the adult areas averages out to be bots of some kind imo - afk, hosts, bot dancers, number traffic etc - so while I don’t doubt the plentiful occurrence of live typists actively seeking sex based content inworld, I don’t believe those numbers are an accurate indication either.
  16. I’m not shocked that someone would think that - for them it very well may be - and if that’s what they want, then it is a good fit to their needs. There’s nothing wrong with that. What shocks me is the amount of cognitive bias necessary to have a complete inability or unwillingness to parse and accept the fact that it is NOT the same for many other people.
  17. So yep, the sex spots have higher traffic numbers, (never said they didn’t) but your quick and easy search proves the point that sex ads and availability in SL is already well covered and readily available - so why bang the drum for it more when it’s a plentiful and ubiquitous thing? Anyone searching will find what you found, yes? So as many other people in this thread have stated from their actual experience and time on the grid, we and our friends DO participate in the other things going on inworld as well and it’s not a case of ‘more enlightened’ - back to the needs hierarchies after all to bring it full circle - sex as the biological need isn’t fulfilled in the same way on SL - the biological impetus to procreate is missing, and most interpretations put ‘intimacy’ on level 3 with other social things that connect us. So the other social things we mentioned are of a similar value in this paradigm.
  18. It’s hot, bright and loud where I am just now in First Life so in SL I’m enjoying all things cool, dark and quiet.
  19. Patch said that everyone will be able to sign up and get the dev kit.
  20. Snip this is a mistaken assumption, IMO. People I know toggle ‘all ratings’ to filter for a fuller search, especially on MP, and we’ve remarked on how much content unexpectedly gets a moderate or adult rating. I don’t think anyone really doubts or debates that sex inworld is an active and ongoing part of SL for many people, but I also think those who seek it as a primary focus probably don’t need it marketed very vigorously to them since they are already looking for it, it’s definitely here, and so they will find it. Teach them to filter out general and moderate and the adult content jumps right out. And that’s a good thing. I’m in favor of a large laundry list of things to do inworld, the more creative the better, but also the everyday things that can connect us globally. Book clubs and poetry slams may not be as titillating as the adult content but I think it’s important for varied emphasis to be put on the many, many types of activities that forge connections between people here and generally provide lots of different types fulfillment in SL. Creative hobbies, purely social gatherings, charity work, appreciation of all the arts, in addition to sex, clubbing, decorating & shopping…you know - so many of the OTHER things that make up ‘a life’.
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