Rabid Cheetah

Curio Obscura has a lot of cool stuff, like a canon you can rez for people to get into and shoot themselves into the air at an angle if they wish, landing two or three regions away when they finally start to fall. My favorite silly item is a paper bag with a face on it that you wear over your head. Then, if you click on it, it starts burning while playing a sound loop of someone frantically screaming. I like to do that info hubs and such, while running around and pleading with folks to give me a glass of water. lol I don't recall who makes that item. My teen alt has a rubber chicken she carries around that when clicked, well, sounds like one of those rubber chickens you can get in novelty stores in real life. Also a paddle ball that makes a loud "ppppwwwwsssshhhhhkkkkkk!" sound every time the ball hits the paddle. I don't recall where I got those either.

So some folks have asked me why I'm so opposed to pixel snobbery, the practice of not talking to, banning, or ridiculing people for their avi appearance, whether for having a classic avi instead of mesh, looking more realistic than the supermodel standards of current Second Life culture, or *gasp!* dressing up as a fury or fantasy/sci-fi character. My reasoning has been that it's bad enough when this sort of attitude happens in the real world, but to do so in a game? How shallow do you have to be to do that? Over little cartoon pixels? I also feel it works in the opposite direction. That is, not just real world body-shaming influencing one's views on "ew yucky non-mesh" avi's, but being exposed to such attitudes in Second Life will lead one to behave in a similar fashion in real life. When you engage in pixel snobbery, you help reinforce a culture that thinks this kind of crap is funny: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/08/9987054/new-teacher-challenge

Nah. You look fine. You look like how classic avi's looked for years. You're just letting modern-day mesh-based pixel-snobbery sneak in and spoil your fun. Resit the dark side, padawan! 🙂

And here's a new-style cabin I helped a friend design:

lol found a censored version. Still can't find my pics of the actual house.

I had Tahoe prior to switching to Belli. I didn't like the way the houses looked on the outside, and made the best of it with putting in extra floors in one of the triangle ones like what you had, but I loved the way the surrounding Linden land looked. I have some pictures somewhere, I'm just not sure where -- wherever the viewer used to keep stuff before I set it to the current directory I use. All I have of those days is unsuitable for the forums: It's a pic I took of myself sitting next to a new neighbor who invited me over to watch TV on his new gignormous wall-mount monitor, only to have him suddenly be naked, with a, well, gignormous erect phallus, and an IM that said "I see you look interested." I call that picture Trying Too Hard.

Make it a GTFO hub 🤣

Make it a region-wide parcel that every premium account has a random chance of owning for a week, tier free. You can build whatever you want, within covenant guidelines, and can not put up security systems or orbs, so that everyone can come over and see what you've built. At the end of the week, it gets wiped. This would be a great incentive for folks to purchase even more alt accounts, and an additional premium perk to entice new members.

They should make it with varying degrees of graphical complexity, from the original capabilities of the SL beta test, to mega prims, sculpted prims, and flexiprims, to regular mesh and baked on mesh, to show where we came from and how far we've come. A Celebration of Second Life.

Yeah, even if they never intended to sell, someone might come along and buy it anyhow, even at an inflated $L/m2 price, return all objects, and poof -- there goes your home. I've bought a few parcels intended for rental when the price was still reasonable, but never with someone living there.

Man, I can't stand when people do that. It screws up the search engine, and the World Map, for folks looking to buy a parcel.

Only read half the novel; It's just not worth reading the whole thing or trying to have a clear-headed discussion if someone's gonna misinterpret what people have said repeatedly, put words in peoples' mouths, accuse GTFO of doing things it hasn't done, and developing a whole manifesto worthy of being posted to NaNoWriMo in November, all from a simple issue that they wouldn't even be aware of had I not created this thread. I'm not wasting my time with reading anymore off-topic posts about signs or whatever. That said, @Prokofy Neva, your views on sky signage would be most appreciated in this thread: It's a lively discussion going on over there, with many viewpoints to ponder, yours included (if you post there). Thanks again for, well, roleplaying here, sort of, what a neighbor's response might be like should I or my friends go forward with opening a GTFO hub in Belli. Thanks also to other folks who have, via their discussion here, changed my opinion in the above thread, at least about the benefit of the presence of GTFO skysigns being indicative of rez zones. And, oh: Wait until you've calmed down a bit before you stumble across another thread I created. I speak from personal experience that high blood pressure is nothing to take lightly.

It's such a sweet spot. It's my alt's. 150 meters due east from my main's houseboat (which happens to have my next door neighbor being a very dear friend who happened to snag a houseboat right next to me), with nothing but Linden-owned parkland in between. Plus, if you follow the road north and east a bit, maybe 500 meters or so, there's a beachfront with a camper owned by another dear friend of mine. This spot wouldn't be so sweet for anyone else, unless they knew all three of us. Even so,it's sweet even without being near friends. It's in the very northwest corner of the region, at a crossroads, across the road from a hilly park, and the road segment that leads south is very short and turns into one of those small square courtyard road ends as the region to the south is Trads. @Chloe Dolores Thanks again for your heads up about a camper available in this region! 🙂

Post your favorite Bellisseria signs! I'll start with a few. Here's the first set:

omg cute bunny fountain! and those sweet baby horses, adorable! I think fountains are getting trendy, too, in the camper area:

If you don't snag a home next to a frog fountain, just buy your own and rez it! 🙂

🤣 This is a clear copyright violation of Linden Lab's business model 🤣 https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/liaoning-island-sale-intl-hnk-scli/index.html China puts hundreds of uninhabited islands up for rent

What a wonderful view of the sun and moon.

And this week's Winner of the Internet Award goes to...

I think North mentioned that the rez zones aren't required; GTFO hub parcel owners choose to offer rez zones so that folks can rez the appropriate vehicle for making a delivery.

Once again, THIS ^^^^^. This is what SL is all about.

No. I started this thread. This thread was NOT started by some secret spy agency cabal of Illuminati in league with GTFO, Linden Labs, and the KGB, no matter how much fun it is to imagine yet another conspiracy theory. I am not a member of a forums cartel, whatever the heck that is. I am not someone claiming not to have a GTFO hub, and then putting a big sign advertising GTFO on my parcels. That said, I MIGHT put several "GTFO Fans Clubhouse" signs on every single on every single parcel I own, encourage all my friends to do the same, and encourage everyone in my secret conspiracy lizard people tin foil hat forum cartel to do the same, if pushed far enough. Such a sign would be no more of a covenant violation than a sign proclaiming one's love of Supergirl, inviting other fans to come in and socialize. I respect your opinion, and am glad to see what the reaction of neighbors might be should at some point be able to afford a GTFO hub and decide to place one on my Belli parcel. That's valuable information, thank you. But this thread really isn't about "Signs in Belli: Yes or No?" I encourage you to start a new thread under that topic, and continue the sign debate THERE, not here. Thanks.

The covenant applies ONLY to parcel owners. Anyone can use any Linden rez zone anywhere, Mainland or Belli, to rez whatever they want, with the only stipulation being the maturity rating of the rez zone. Though bad form, you could even leave junk there and wait for the auto-return to clear it. Given the thread about prims and materials bopping older things off a parcel if the new prim suddenly jumps from 1 prim to 1300+ prims, you bet I went to the nearest Belli rez zone to test that out, not on my own parcel. As to going through the neighborhoods and talking about your biz in chat, again, the covenant applies to parcel owners vis-a-vis what they can build. One can discuss any topic, even commercial activity, anywhere on Linden land, anywhere on the grid, including Belli, as long as it's not a violation of TOS or land maturity level. You could even go door to door, engaging Belli parcel owners in conversations about lag, and then mention you own a low-lag server and are looking for renters.