Adam Spark

No. There is already way too much in the way of privacy controls for this COMMUNITY.

Its my experience that venues only suffer by not being operated by those who had the initial vision and emotional investment. Great ideas die with a change in ownership. Best way to make money in Second Life is not to concern yourself with the money and come up with something you're passionate about and that stands apart from something already done.

- Your first point is correct, however if males shopped more it would shift. I am guilty of seeming not interested in looking for outfits sometimes and then complaining when I can't find many. We need to show there is a market by buying. - While I have come across the silly "I won't talk to guys/sorry for IM'ing you I will talk to your girl instead" kind of thing, many girls won't think twice about it and just talk to you if they know you are decent about it. How are you going about it? Are you IM'ing a female you see in the parcel? IM'ing anyone out of the blue, just saying hi, will often seem weird, even guys want you to get to the point. Would it hurt to just say hi back? No. But at the same time, would it hurt to just say hi everyone in local and see what happens? Your biggest problem relates to your last sentence. Its a common issue and you are not alone. Second Life is a virtual world, and not a game. I think the biggest issue a lot of folks have when finding their way in Second Life is they approach it as a game. Approach people the way you would in the real world. In a real world setting, if you meet a girl, you wouldn't grab her wrist, pull her off to a corner where nobody can hear and whisper hi would you? No. So why IM if all you have to say is hi?

Best? Hard to say. But you will probably want a gaming laptop. I love my Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro. Look for a minimum of 8GB of ram. You should go 16, more if you can spring for it. Minimum i5 processor, spring for an i7 if you can. Your best bet is to look for a gaming laptop.

Mars bar rice krispie squares (simple eggnog for the beverage, non-alcohol)

Charging for event postings? WOW. Can't get half the venue owners to post to events and now we expect them to pay for doing so?

Call it whatever you want, we all have mental health issues, just the same as we have physical health issues. EVERY ONE of us has a responsibility to keep an eye on our mental health. Seasonal issues are, in my opinion, 24/7 mental health issues that simply manifest themselves with triggers of a certain time of year. I am willing to bet that most people who enter a dark place during Christmas would do so if Christmas in July (a real thing) was celebrated around them Everybody struggles mentally. You cannot convince me otherwise. Only a few of us are willing and able to admit it. We need to change the stigma. We need to recognize mental health awareness as a sign of strength, not weakness. Strength does not lie in being OK. Strength lies in living with and dealing with not being OK.

Nobody knows how anyone feels, and nobody isn't different from other people. Don't fall for the idea that you're supposed to fit into the rest of society. Society is nothing but a group of individuals. Your differences make you you, and there is nothing wrong with that. Embrace your differences yourself instead of trying to make others do so and you'll be fine.

Season/holiday dates are not exactly objective either. Are we supposed to stay within 30 days of Christmas Day? 15 days after the 25th? Or 15 days after Jan. 1??

I would contact Linden Lab about your licensing concerns, as the music will be streamed through their platform, so they are responsible. Most DJ's spin for tips. Tips only is pretty much the standard when it comes to hiring DJs. If DJs are charging a fee, especially a 4 digit fee, I would avoid them whether you can afford it or not. I own a club with my girl. None of our DJs charge. Very, very few clubs will ever hire a DJ for an upfront fee. Some singers will perform for tips too. Others have reasonable fees and come with crowds that tip decent. Do your research. Go to clubs, see who draws a crowd. The bigger the crowd the more likely a tipper or two is in the room.

The concept that this is a virtual world and not a World of Warcraft/The Sims style game is hardest for most to grasp.

I think SL has a vastly different population than it once did. When I started, SL was an exciting look into the future of the internet, and a changing world. Real world companies did business in here, such as CNN, Reuters News Agency, and others I am failing right now to recall. Somehow, someway, it became just another "game" (which it never was and never will be, but it gets treated as such by more and more residents all the time).

I think the shift to IMs is part of a larger shift in Second Life - The decay of the community. Everyone is either at home by themselves, off shopping with a tiny number of friends, or going to their habitual hangouts where they are either communicating with said friends in IM or they are not even really at their computers. Most people are no longer "in SL", but instead in their own little world that SL allows them to carve out for themselves.

My question is does the slurl posted in events override a parcel's teleport routing? Seems no matter what we do we can't move an event to a special skybox in the air instead of our club on the ground without having issues getting people to TP to the skybox instead of the club.

Gaming experiences and true virtual worlds are like oil and water. Sure there will always be those wanting to turn SL into WoW. But most of us get that Second Life is not a game. I hope anyway.

My real name is Adam. I couldn't type a last name in 2006, had to pick from a list. Spark was the closest to my real last name and Adam Spark sounded good.

Asking your customers to chase and run through hoops to spend their money is akin to asking them to keep it. Create clothing that stands out and you'll never have to come up with a gimmick.

Status page says resolved but once again, nope. Avatar clouds, inventory faults, ect.

Most companies are pretty gun shy about expanding upon features their customers almost never use. Business 101. Not really.

No its not, thank God. Why would you want groups to become less stable and functional? This is a virtual world, not a social media platform (and there is too much GIF/photo nonsense on there as it is).

All it took was your IP address?

I would love this. I would even settle for a separate but Linden offered mesh creator. At least it could theoretically make it easier to create mesh designed with SL in mind.

Not everyone without payment on file are alts/noobs, and by the way, you were a noob once. Keep that in mind.

Scylla, I am fairly confident we can both agree than anything that involves griefing, deceit, or any intentional harm to others would constitute a bad reason. You are right. The person wishing to hide their sexuality experiment has the right to do so. We all have the right to keep secrets from those around us. Some of us do, some of us don't. Like I said before, to each their own.

Knowing an avatar name and tying it to another doesn't reveal this. SLAddict Allen and Adam Spark are one in the same. You can't infer anything about me from that information and I'm still quite able to maintain my privacy. Of course I would never allow my friends on either to not be aware of who I am; if I was using one avatar to experiment, I'd be using both to, but to each their own. The good reasons to have alts is my entire point. Unless you have a bad reason, so what if it gets out?