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Petronilla Whitfield

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  1. I think that the success of the new mentor program will depend, in large part, on the ability of mentors to communicate effectively with new users. It seems likely to me that many new users will come in with expectations based on playing other online games such as RDR2 and GTA. Effective mentors will need to be sufficiently familiar with gameplay in popular MMOGs in order to understand what aspects of SL are confusing to newbies who grew up playing such games. I know that I’m not. I do not expect to volunteer this time around. I was a mentor in the last iteration of the program. The part that I found difficult was that new users seemed to expect me to know everything about Second Life and got easily frustrated when asking about areas unfamiliar to me. For example, I have no experience whatsoever with the sexual aspects of SL—and have no interest in it. My suggestions are these. First, that the Moles supervising mentors find channels through which mentors with lots of gaming experience outside SL can tutor/serve as a resource for mentors who don’t. Second, that Lindens help new users manage their expectations of mentors—lead them to expect that no mentor will know everything, and that a question may need to be addressed to more than one mentor before finding an answer. Will the program be successful? I hope so.
  2. Yes, cheesecake is easy. Tip: leave the eggs and cream cheese out of the fridge [if you keep eggs there] overnight so that they come up to room temperature. Cold eggs in cheesecake can make cracks in the top when the cake cools.
  3. A thread in the General Discussion Forum about prims reminded me of how much I use regular prims in decorating. I imagine a lot of people do the same. My little Alderley is a good example. Naturally, a prim connects my porch to the public path in front of the house, textured from the Trad texture pack. The back yard is built around a prim textured with tiles, attached to a mesh path made by Compulsion. I used two hollowed-out boxes around the side window to make a dining alcove in the main room. The second "bedroom" is divided into a small kitchen and bathroom by a few prim walls and a door (from the stilts pack). No such prim use in the bedroom, but I've included a picture just to be complete.
  4. I'm 59, and started SL in 2009. I remember being in an SL 80's dance club several years ago when an avatar came to the door and said "I'm nineteen. Is there anyone my age or are you all old?" By the conversations, I suspect we were (mostly) all "old" from the viewpoint of a teenager.
  5. Unbounded stars eternally radiate sunshine. LIGHT (No pop-up box for me!)
  6. I also prefer vehicles that attach rather than ones that need to be rezzed. I like riding a horse (if I can include that as a vehicle) through Belli, especially over the mountains and along the coasts. In the fantasy area I prefer a unicorn. If not on horseback, I often use a bicycle when exploring neighborhoods. A canoe, floating log, or a duck pool floatie are my favorites on the water.
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