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    I miss the Second Life of old

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Nimue Galatea

    I'm not in SL much these days, because as goofy, clumsy, and silly as our prim-based Second Life once was, there was an innocence and lightheartedness to it that felt like the rays of the sun hitting your heart once in a while. I still can't forget Bingoland Park, and don't think I ever will. (I swear I made a post about it on my old blog, somewhere, but I can't find it atm.) Avatars came together to this lovely park by the railroad to play Bingo, and you were rewarded with some $Lindens if you won, but people came together for the joy of it. I really miss Bingo and don't care for the Bingo machines at all...

    ...Or people striking up a conversation with you regardless of what your avatar looked like. People were much more eager to engage in chat, I feel. Now, most show off their expensive avatars, and I feel that unless I impress someone with an up-to-date avatar, I'm ignored.

    I just miss something about the Second Life of old. Am I alone? Or am I being arrogant?

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    Question about BeYou

    in Games in Second Life

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    37 minutes ago, Sam1 Bellisserian said:

    Yes, in order to advance you will have to spend thousands of lindens. However, if you want to use it as a supplement to your own RP it is doable. You just won't advance as quickly.  It is expensive if you want to do everything. It can be affordable though if you use it as a tool for RP.  It's the same with a lot of things in SL. Breedables, KittyS, Zooby's, etc. They are all systems created to make money for the creator. It's a very intricate system and well worth it though if you enjoy this type of thing. 

    Take a look at their Wiki. That will give you a better idea of what the system is all about.  

    https://beyouworld.fandom.com/wiki/BeYou_World_Wiki 

    Sam1, I appreciate your answer. Thank you! 

    (Btw, I think some of these gaming systems are more expensive down the line than others. I like the KittyCatS one because the kitties are cheap to buy at yard sales and I only need to buy food every two weeks or so.) 😃

    Any SL podcasts?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Nearly every community on the internet has its own podcast, or two, or three. I'm surprised that Second Life doesn't have its own podcast or two. No SL gossip podcast? No exploration of SL's most amazing places podcast? No interviews with the creators of such places? 

    Is it because SL, as a medium, doesn't lend itself well to podcasting?

    Do garage sales still exist?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    9 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    Search for Yard Sales and Gacha Sales.  I think the Gacha resells mostly took over, but there are still are few true Yard/Garage sales around.

    It worked, thanks LittleMe! 

    P.S.: I've been away for a while and heard that gacha is no longer legal. Is that true?

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    Mahjong with reset, hint options and with a scoreboard?

    in Games in Second Life

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    My favorite place to play Mahjong doesn't have it anymore, for some reason. It's a version of Mahjong that had a few buttons on the sides, including Hint, Reset, Highlight, etc. There was also a counter with a score. Alongside this, we had a large scoreboard with the top 10 past winners.

    I've gone to place after place looking for this version of mahjong, but the only one I can find is the version that has the tiles only, and resets after a certain timeout. That's it. 

    Does anyone know where I can find my beloved version, with a scoreboard, even?

    Seeking to tend to someone's DFS or equivalent farm

    in Inworld Employment

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    This may be a long shot, but the only employment I'm seeking is to tend to a large farm of plants. Well, perhaps for a little coin. I don't use DFS or anything like it myself, though I used to. I just love tending farms, even if it's virtual, and I think that owners of large farms could use help tending. I passed an enormous farm yesterday, with most of the trees, bushes, plants, etc needing to be worked on.

    I've been in SL since 2004 and have never been banned from any place. I could get a reference from an organization in SL, if needed. (if anyone's not sure whether to trust me with their hard work.

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    Looking for more stories like this

    in General Discussion Forum

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    I've got a blog and am dying to discover more stories akin to what I read in this New World Notes blogpost:

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    I have seen current houses that were made by residents fifteen years ago out of a hollow block with a misaligned roof, with block prim furniture they managed to get a wrong texture on. And they have paid their SL Premium account for fifteen years for this mainland location they have never moved from and all the mainland regions around them are almost totally abandoned.

    When they log in, they have a classic body and old classic clothes. And they love SecondLife.

    I’ve visited a thousand tiny shops where no sales may ever be made, where the ladies who own that shop put every ounce of effort they had in their being into attempting to make 6-7 pieces of ladies classic clothing more than ten years ago. It's sold on an SL prim that sells a copy of the contents, and the vendor texture can be very humble. They pay their rent for a decade for their humble shop, they log into to SL and they get to look at their “business” they own.

    They own a business and I’ve watched them reduce their prices to pennies just to get one sale a year.

    If you don’t know that billions of us on this earth lead lives of quiet desperation, you don’t know what the hell is going on with Second Life.

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    met a Second Life Mole a year ago on a mainland region that seemed like no one ever went there anymore.

    She had finished a Mole project on this mostly abandoned empty region some months before, and I complimented her on it.

    I tried to chat with her. Her text went like this: “It’s my last day I’ve been laid off”.

    I asked if she was okay in RL and her text back broke me.

    “I’ve been a housewife and mother for almost 30 years and these mole projects are the only thing I’ve accomplished outside of motherhood in my life.”

    She was crying her eyes out at this loss. She was being laid off from a significant source of self-pride in her life.

    Things like this have stuck with me for a long time in SL.

    I know a tiny shop hovering on a small parcel on one of the first regions, and it’s owned by a severely disabled woman who has had the 512 parcel since 2003 with her shop. It has the year 2003-2004 block furniture, block bed, some particle things, one of those red pins used for landmarks. It’s her pride and joy that she could make this while almost blind, with parts of her body missing while she is in a wheelchair.

    When you question what you think is “crap” on the mainland, what you are doing is  -- redacted, it was way too harsh to say that].

    SL has been a salvation for many people. It’s their only thing that takes them away from looking around where they are and finally escaping.

    The restructuring or closing of Second Life would not be the most significant loss for just the big landowners and sellers.

    The real loss is to the thousands of really humble people who did their very best to make something and keep it up for sale or holding onto a humble place in-world for years and years.

    For many thousands, this is the only time they ever had a business or made something or had a house, not an apartment, even if it's virtual, and to them, it is far more important than either you or I will ever realize.

    One of my former partners in SL had a house on her own land in SL. It was the first time in her 68 years of life she “lived” in a house. From her birth she always lived in an apartment, and one time for almost a year living with her mom she lived in a car homeless. This virtual house of hers was the greatest thing she had ever had in life and she told me that many times. The humble lives of quiet desperation are all around us.

    Be kind to them, speak to them when you see them, it makes you a better person.

    If you have any such stories, please let me know or post here. Anything that cuts to the heart of what SL means to people that may be feeling trapped in their 1st lives. Thank you.

     

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    Are you scared? : (

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Nimue Galatea

    Yes, I am scared. Fear is a natural response to something like this. Thing is, I'm not scared for myself. My spidey senses are developed enough to let me know that I will be alright, both health-wise and in other ways. It's other people I'm frightened for.

    I am frightened that with humanity's destruction of nature, these pandemics will become more frequent.

    I'm frightened that these are the beginning stages of civilization collapse. Though I've mentally prepared myself for this, years ago, and my intuition told me to be on guard, the grief that comes with the disintegration of normalcy is hard. It's hard to process this grief alone. We need to have support groups for this grief.

    I'm frightened for the country I live in, which is the USA. Our postal service may permanently shut down in June. I'm scared and sad for all the insanities of this country that will be brought to the surface. I'm scared for all the people hanging by a thread, to begin with. My heart is breaking.

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