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    Frank's place closing Nov 23th

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    On 11/11/2019 at 5:13 PM, Pamela Galli said:

    Franks is so well known a buyer might be one of the few who could make money charging a fee for joining and or entering.

    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.

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    Making SL more welcoming to males

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    On 11/15/2019 at 5:37 AM, Lureo said:

    Playing SL as a male is hard.

    - If you need a nice avatar you have 10% of items than female

    - If you want to talk with a female. You are disadvantaged. Female hate males and prefer females. (hate is maybe exagerate but at least you are not welcome) As a male I am always feeling that I disturbe.  if you approach a female she already think that the male want to ***** and try to make the conversation hard telling you that you didn''t start correctly because stating a conversation with hi is not good you need to start with more words. As male you need to be the best and do all the leading. You have not the right to be starter and to be learner. Rarely female start a conversation with male. As a male if you don't start you never talk with a female. If you go in some place people are really strange. I was for example in Franks and pleople are afk most of the time. When they are alive they are really strange and talking a strange language. then they block you.

    Yes Second Life is a game for female and male are not welcome.

     

    - 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 Laptop to use SL properly?

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    38 minutes ago, moongal721 said:

    Hey SL!

    I am currently using a used HP with Windows 10 but it only has 4GB of RAM. 

    I am going to be buying a better laptop soon. I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for what sort of laptop and what sort of specs I should get to have a better SL experience?

    I am going to be buying my own SIM once I get a better laptop. 

    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.

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    Name changes and "Super Duper" Premium postponed again

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    23 hours ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:

    I just noticed in that blog that the Lindens will start charging to post events when they redo the event thing.

    As for the name change thing, they probably need to still work out things, maybe to keep it from being abused when it's finally launched.

    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?

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    I really apologize for posting this, but...I hate life.

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    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.

     

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    I really apologize for posting this, but...I hate life.

    in General Discussion Forum

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    On 11/6/2019 at 2:45 AM, Gopi Passiflora said:

    Not Second Life. Just...life in general. Right now, I'm just trying to vent out my anger....

    I'm so different from other people. I feel like my beliefs and ideas don't fit in with the rest of society.

    I know some of you will say kind words, and I really appreciate it and thank you for that, but nobody really knows how I feel....

    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.

    What are the hardest things about Second Life for new players?

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    Posted · Edited by Adam Spark

    On 10/26/2019 at 7:44 PM, FairreLilette said:

    It's not just the difficulty when I landed here into a world of huds I didn't get...it's the expense too of making a mesh avatar versus a Classic avatar.

    And, to the OP:    

    More PG and wear any kind of avatar you like events are needed.  There just aren't enough.  And, some events are a little pricey too.  

    I want to be with people who just want to have fun and not break the bank.

    I have two little clubs and cannot afford several thousand linden per hour acts.  The Dj's may be less...but I still cannot afford even 1,000 linden an hour for a DJ...do you think my club would make one thousand linden an hour to cover the expense?  I don't.   Most people are tipping the DJ and the host and the club makes about 20% of that usually.  Although I'm not sure what the average percentage split is for most clubs.  

    I emailed directly if I can play my YouTube playlists in my virtual world home for friends without having to pay licensing fees and such...I have yet to hear an answer from YouTube.  There is a phone number to call YouTube which I am considering...the only thing is I wanted it in writing from YouTube to my email so there would be no problem playing music from YouTube.  As it stands now my question has 0 (zero) answers and it's been about a week.  

    But, it's an expense too.  If you are a newbie, play as cheap as possible for awhile until you decide you really like it unless you have money to burn and can take the loss if you decide you don't even like it.  

    It's was a year and half before I got my first mesh head.  I built for a year and half in SL.  Then, went into mesh avatar.  I danced at clubs with friends as a Classic for a long time.  I wasn't looking for a bf on here.  I love the music and art aspects of SL...but it can be an expense.   And, with some clubs...the music is too much the same thing.  But, the art is a constant evolution of amazing things.  

    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.

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    Public Chat or IM? Has a Culture Shift in SL Made It Harder to Meet People?

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    16 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    I take your point, and feel it myself to some degree. I do feel the weakening of community a great deal, but my own experience is still possibly more social than this suggests?

    So much obviously depends on the kinds of communities and friends one has made, and one the focus of one's own activities.

    One bright spot, really, is Bellisseria: it really does seem to have generated a new and very sociable community. And one thing I like about it is that it is not restricted to Premium members or house owners there: I'm neither, but I whip around there on my scooter all the time, and do occasionally bump into people I know.

    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). 

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    Public Chat or IM? Has a Culture Shift in SL Made It Harder to Meet People?

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    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.

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    Event posting and land teleporting

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    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.

    New Selling Gimmick

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    On 10/7/2019 at 5:13 PM, Bree Giffen said:

    I was thinking that this collectible bonus outfit would turn shopping into a kind of gaming experience. A merchant could use this method to sell their less desirable goods. What if you received a dress but the color changing hud was with another outfit? I guess that'd still be annoying.

    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.

    Do you use voice chat?

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    13 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

     

    This works under the assumption that the only damage that might potentially accrue to me is through knowing my RL identity. That ignores the fact that there may be excellent reasons why I don't want my main associated with one or more alts. To use the example I gave above, of someone exploring their sexuality through an alt, there might be all sorts of reasons, good ones, why that person might not want their main associated with that. And the only person who is a competent and legitimate judge of that is the person whose avatars they are.

    It also neglects to take into account that there may be information about my RL identity that I'm quite happy to share through my main, but don't want to be shared through my alt. Those details, that I've shared because I was comfortable sharing them with friends of one account, could now be associated with other accounts that I'm not so happy to associate with my RL identity.

    And finally, this:

    Who are you to judge what constitutes a "bad reason"? Why do you get to make that determination?

    RedZone was built upon generating fear. It made no pretense that it could reveal someone's RL location, but the very fact that it pretended to be able to associate different avatars through IP addresses was enough to generate real panic.

    Even if there is no systematic association of avatar name with IP (as RedZone produced), making IPs easily available through SL would introduce a chilling effect.

    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.

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    Do you use voice chat?

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    1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    To begin with, there are probably endlessly good reasons why someone might not want to be associated with an alt. A simple example is someone who is experimenting with their sexuality, and may not want you to know, for whatever reasons, that they have an alt who is also a regular at a gay sex club. And they have every right to maintain that as a private information.

    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?

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