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  1. 22 hours ago, Mouse Mysterious said:

    NOTICE:

    On behalf of my client... The Bellisseria Slenderman...

    Ahem...

    The Bellisseria Slenderman will be taking a break until further notice. 

    [remainder deleted]

    So does this mean that the Evil Cat's win in the battle of Bellisseria evilness is official?

    Many have tried to out-evil the Evil Cat. None have succeeded. The Evil Cat continues on.

    Sincerely,

    The Evil Cat

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  2. Here is thes chedule for the Christmas Day Show to be held today, Christmas Day, at the Season of Love & Friendship. Thank you to all performers participating. Please do come join us and bring your friends. You need not celebrate Christmas to attend. All are welcome. None will be turned away. 

    CHRISTMAS DAY SHOW 2020 SCHEDULE

    All performances located here http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Koss/72/157/162

    3:00 pm to 4:00 pm DJ Female 
    4:00 pm to 6:00 pm DJ Crim Mip
    6:00 pm to 8:00 pm DJ Epitome
    8:00 pm to 9:00 pm DJ Female

    For further details on the Season of Love & Friendship, please see announcement here: 

     

  3. Happy Holidays, Happy Kwanza, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Saturnalia, and Happy Solstice!

    This is a holiday celebration open to all Second Life residents who celebrate any winter holidays! Especially this year, when so many of us cannot celebrate with family and friends, I want you to come celebrate with me.

    Here is how to join in:
    (1) Go here:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Koss/87/89/123
    (2) Join the group "Season of Love & Friendship" by clicking on the potted Christmas tree with the message in red text. 􀀁 The landmark should drop you right in front of one. You can also join via search or by IMing me.
    (3) Rez or build holiday decoration(s) that you enjoy. It can be anything. There are no size limits or limits on number of copies. You are welcome to decorate and enjoy the cabin, the snow shelter, and anything else on the parcel.

    On January 8, 2020, I will return all items. Please do not rez anything that is no copy because such items sometimes get deleted.

    Please invite others to participate. Total strangers are welcome. This is for everyone and radical inclusion is the order of the day!

    If you are a DJ/performer, I'd like to hear from you! There will be a show on Christmas Day and I need volunteers! I want to show all those who are lonely on the holidays that they are not alone. 

    Please contact me with any questions.

    Female (female.winslet)
     

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  4. FOR SALE!

    The former headquarters of LiaEx, the Company to call when you absolutely, most definitely do not need it there tomorrow. Or next week. Or next month. 

    This 3072 sqm parcel is in Corsica at the end of a Protected Linden canal and has protected water access allowing you to sail all the way down to Nautilus and the Blake Sea. The parcel is situated on the edge of a sim and across that sim is SL's very own Disneyland! It's across the sim so it won't lag you, but close enough to be fun! 🙂

    Asking price: 30,000L

    I'd very much like to see it go to someone who will use it instead of a land baron who will double or triple the price and let it sit vacant for years. Location? Right here:

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paneer/105/14/24

  5. 1 hour ago, Foggypebble Muircastle said:

    DJs, what's the average tip you get?

    I'm not sure exactly what the question means. Individual tip amounts vary a lot. I would say anything up to 500L is a typical tip, but I have had them go much higher. 

    The total tips for a gig vary. I've been in semi-retirement where I have only been doing special events and such. One time gigs. I do have a client who hires me repeatedly. This is typically 30-60 people. The sets are usually 1 hour instead of the typical 2 hour sets in clubs. I usually have a total tip amount 1500L-3000L for the hour.

    I sorta kinda came out of my semiretirement (haven't decided if I want to go find a club gig or not) two weeks ago to start doing a regular set at a friend's place. The place is new. The set I'm doing has never existed before. It's only happened twice before. It's a typical 2 hour set, but we're only getting 5-7 people right now. And I forgot to put out a tip jar at all the first. And the first half of the second time. And then I got 750L in tips for the second half of the set on the one time I put out a tip jar. 🙂

    Like I said . . . I sometimes am forgetful. I usually forget to even tell people I have a DJ group and if you were to look at the group you might notice I didn't create it. A fan got mad at me for not having one, created it, and invited me to join. So I may be the only SL dj who did not make their own DJ group. I don't have a subscribo . . . I forget to send out notices in the group I do have . . . and, yeah, I hate doing the self promotion stuff and I'm really bad at it.

  6. May I share some thoughts from this from the DJ perspective? 

    I never ask for tips because I figure that if I’m doing a good job, I won’t have to. This approach has worked well for me and I often receive as much as about 3000L in tips for a half-set of one hour in length. I do use tipping as a way to entertain the audience though because, let’s face it, entertaining is my job. It’s not just about playing songs. So I will thank people for their “Linden like” on the mic and talk about how that is oh so different from the “Linden love” that most people say, for example. 

    I don’t like people to típ me less than my host, but I will never say anything to the audience about it. Never ever ever. What I will do if I see that the host has significantly less than me at the end of the set, I will tip them enough to even out the difference. So if they get 2000 in tips and I get 3000, then I will tip them 500 at the end. Now we each have 2500. My reasoning is that the show is a team effort and the host is just as important as I am. The host-DJ interaction is a way to entertain the audience and keep people talking and engaged and having fun kinda like a late night tv host and their sidekick. On top of that, I spend an awful lot of time buried in my DJ software to the point where I often only hear about 1/3 to 1/4 of my own shows. And the fact that I’m buried in DO software affects my ability to chat in local. I also have a real world disability that affects how much I can type in local—in fact, that’s why I started DJing; a lot less wear on my wrists than hosting because I get to talk on mic. Since my audiences are frequently 30-60 people or more, I just cannot keep up with everything in local. So I rely on my host for that. 
     

    I do encourage people to tip the venue. The reason for that is the costs involved in running a good venue. Land costs add up fast in SL and get really expensive, but i think that tends to get forgotten about. One of the things I try to make a hallmark of my shows is simply being kind. And that includes being kind to the venue owners.

    If someone comes and does not tip at all, I’m fine with that. I worry more about having people come than I do about having them tip me. If people come, then the green dot effect comes into play where people are drawn to the crowd of green dots on the map. Don’t worry. Some of the people who come will handle the tipping. 

    Aaaaaaand . . . I’ve been known to completely forget to even put out a tip jar, actually. Sometimes I have forgotten for entire sets. Because, let’s be honest. No one is making a great living as a Second Life dj. The only real reason to do it is to have some fun with you and the audience. As long as I can do that, I feel like I have been very well tipped indeed, thank you very much. Anything else is gravy.
     

    Not every dj is going to feel the way I do, or course. But I think that putting the audience ahead of my tips makes me a better, more successful dj and does a lot to explain why I tend to get invites for relatively big audiences and why I get tip totals that are rather higher than most. At the end of the day, if I take care of the audience they will take care of me. 

     

     

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  7. 14 minutes ago, SlashTE said:

    Do you have your Bellisseria Passport from the Bellisseria Bureau of Bureaucracy?

    Even the Bellisseria Slenderman has one...

    The Evil Cat is kind of like the Queen of England, except higher ranking. Like the Queen of England, the Evil Cat does not need a passport.

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  8. On 3/8/2020 at 1:53 PM, Ziggy Starsmith said:

    How is a cat evil?

    How is a cat not evil?

    ”Cat is not evil” just doesn’t make sense as a concept. All cats are evil. 

    And yes, the Bellisseria Citizens group has an evil cat. It’s a snow leopard. 

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  9. People seem to have forgotten that when Bellisseria first opened up, ban lines were allowed and there were no security orb restrictions. It was people going to Linden Lab and asking for something to be done about the ban line/security orb problem that led to those restrictions being put announced not long after the continent opened up for residents to move in.  But it was AFTER the continent opened up, not before. People panicked and raged. And then a huge success happened. Even some of the people who said it would be a disaster have ended up thanking the lab for putting those restrictions in place.

    I suggest that people who want to see this problem solved in the rest of mainland need to be telling the Lab that. I’m not the only one who says that, by the way. At SL16B, Ebbe Linden also said that he needed to hear from users if that is what they want. 

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  10. On 12/2/2019 at 11:51 PM, Mirah Vieria said:

    I wonder if you could book the Fairgrounds for a few days like maybe midweek when there's not a lot going on and figure out a way to do something like this there as well? Might be tough to get all the people added to the fairgrounds rez group though. Hmm. I really liked participating in the one on your land. Its such a lovely community building idea. 

    I thought about doing something like this as you can see from my post about it that you're responding to. 🙂 It looks like it won't happen, at least not this year. But I think it is a good thing to do to build community, so I'd love to invite the entire Bellisseria community to participate if only the rules of the various community groups did not prohibit my doing so given the reality that it will be located outside of Bellisseria. With that said, I don't see the Fairground for a few days as a viable solution because I just don't think this would work well as an event lasting only a few days. I'm trying to set a place where people can participate or just come walk around for the holiday season. And it would just disappear too soon if it were just a few days long. 

    But the more I think about it, the more I'm also kind of conflicted because I value, appreciate, and love Bellisseria for its sense of community, but I'm not about spreading a sense of community just in Bellisseria. I'm trying to do it for all of Second Life. I understand there are reasons for the rules and so on, but I also find myself wondering if I'd be consistent with my own goals and values if I setup a second event doing the same thing just because a particular segment of the population has set up obstacles to their own participation in something setup for the benefit of the whole grid. That's not intended as dissing anyone and, like I said, I do understand the rules are setup the way they are for reasons. But I hope it explains a bit of cognitive tension I feel about the idea of setting up this community event for the whole grid . . . then setting up something separate just for Bellisseria. 

    On 12/3/2019 at 3:47 PM, Saphyre Cyberstar said:

    where is the lm for this venture, i would like to take a look an perhaps participate 

    (1) Go here: 􀀀 ?
    (2) Join the group Season of Love & Friendship so you can rez things. Don't worry. You can leave the group as soon as you are done.

    Sorry about that. I've been out due to moving in real life, getting hurt in the process, and, frankly, just plain getting distracted by other things. Here is the SLurl for this year's edition.

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Koss/77/77/117

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  11. Happy Holidays, Happy Kwanza, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Saturnalia, and Happy Solstice!

    However you celebrate it, this is the season when we all come together for friendship and love. For the second year running, I'm dedicating a portion of my snow lands as a holiday display. I can think of no better way to celebrate this season of friendship and love than by inviting you and all my other friends, neighbors, and even total strangers to be a part of this display so that it will truly be a product of friendship and love.

    So I am inviting you to join in by adding your unique contribution to the display! And this is how:
    (1) Go here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Koss/77/77/117 -- it extends all the way up the top of the mountain and you are welcome to decorate the buildings as well. Just be sure you are on the Season of Love & Friendship Land. I recommend showing parcel boundaries so you can see the whole area.
    (2) Join the group Season of Love & Friendship so you can rez things. Don't worry. You can leave the group as soon as you are done. And the landmark should drop you right in front of a group joiner. 
    (3) Rez a holiday decoration that you enjoy. It can be anything. The holidays of all faiths and secular people from this time of year are welcome.
    (4) Come visit anytime. Feel free to enjoy the adjoining Snow Leopard Preserve and Paro's Spot as well. I built them for all to enjoy. There's even a sled rezzer on the mountain next to the cabin! 🙂

    On January 5, 2020, I will return all items to their owner, so your contribution will return to you. Please do not rez anything that is no copy because such items sometimes get deleted by SL's return function. Also, please do not give decorations to me because I won't be able to keep track of who I need to give things back to. 

    If you know someone who might like to participate, please invite them by giving them this notecard. If I do not know them, it doesn't matter. They are welcome too. This is for everyone. I own a lot of land, so if I need to add more to this project, I will. 

    If you are a DJ/performer, and you would be interested in volunteering to perform at a party on Christmas Day, I'd like to hear from you. I plan on doing a show myself this year, and I'd love it if others would join me. I hope this will cause an outpouring of friendship and love that shows all those who are lonely on the holidays that perhaps they are not so lonely after all. And a party like that might just be a way to show it even more.

    Please contact me with any questions.

    Female (female.winslet)
     

  12. Last year, I bought a piece of the Sansara Snowlands overlooking Lake Zermat. I took a big chunk of it and dedicated it as a holiday display. And I opened it up to anyone to rez or to build anything that was meaningful to them for any of the holiday seasons--Kwanza, the solstice, Christmas, Saturnalia, and Hannukah all welcomed and everyone invited to contribute whatever was meaningful to them in honor of those seasons. It was a pre-Bellisseria attempt to build community and to embrace people who feel lonely at this time of year feel a little less alone.

    Quite honestly, I thought people would think I was too cheap or unskilled to do my own land decorations. But what actually ended up happening was that people said they found it very meaningful. So I'm getting ready to do it again.

    So here's why this is in the Linden home forum. We have Bellisseria now and a lot of community has formed around it. I'm wondering whether it would be possible to do something like this in Bellisseria? This could be something organized through Linden Lab and the Moles (let me know how I can help and I will pitch in so it's not just a resident asking you all to do stuff!). Failing that, perhaps some residents would like to join me with me in offering up home space for the purpose?

    Anticipating the usual worries about griefers, I am posting the text of last year's invite below. It was also advertised in the SL press, it was right next to the conclusion of the winter swaginator hunt, and the number of griefers was . . . zero.

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    Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Saturnalia, and Happy Kwanza. !

    However you celebrate it, this is the season of friendship and love. 

    I have purchased a snowy land parcel to setup a holiday display. I can think of no better way to celebrate this season of friendship and love than by inviting my friends to be a part of this display so that it will truly be a product of friendship and love.

    So I am inviting you to join in by adding your unique contribution to the display! And this is how:
    (1) Go here: 􀀀
    (2) Join the group Season of Love & Friendship so you can rez things. Don't worry. You can leave the group as soon as you are done.
    (3) Rez a holiday decoration that you enjoy. It can be anything. The holidays of all faiths and secular people from this time of year are welcome.

    After New Year's Day, I will go and return all items to their owner, so your contribution will return to you. Please do not give decorations to me because I won't be able to keep track of who I need to give things back to. 

    If you know someone who might like to participate, please invite them by giving them this notecard. If I do not know them, they are welcome too.

    If you are a DJ/performer, and you would be interested in volunteering to perform at a party on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, I'd like to hear from you. I don't know if that will happen. But I hope this will cause an outpouring of friendship and love that shows all those who are lonely on the holidays that perhaps they are not so lonely after all. And a party like that might just be a way to show it even more.

    Please contact me with any questions.

    Lia (female.winslet)
     

     

     

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  13. The best security orb is “none.” Same as the best ban line is “none.”

    You can always right click and eject/ban the rare trouble maker that comes along.

    Your friends can rez because you can adjust autoreturn. 

    Second life is not exactly densely populated where you are likely to have lots of visitors. If you have problems, see above about ejecting and banning.

    Of course, for maximum privacy you need to be on an estate, not the mainland.

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