Scylla Rhiadra

Not far off, Lindal. Maddy usually does her windowsill gifting in-world, but I'll sometimes get offerings on Discord as well. Below is a sample. Sometimes she leaves good stuff . . . and sometimes she leaves derelict vehicles.

There are at least three different common forms of teleportation 1) a "SLURL," which looks like a web address (a "URL"). SLURL will look like this: "http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon Oxbridge/98/178/27/". Click on it in an IM or group notice will teleport you to that place 2) A "Landmark," which is a descriptive pop-up or box that will tell you a bit about the place (usually), and has a "teleport" button 3) a teleport pad or object in-world that you either touch (click) or sit on -- it will TP you to the announced destination. Sometimes it will give you a menu of destinations to choose from You can make your own Landmarks (in the "World" menu) if you are at the place you want to remember and return to, or you can be given them by people in-world. Double-clicking on the world map will also TP you to that place (be a little careful about where it is taking you!). And, as I mentioned, people can send you TP requests, or SLURLs in their IMs to you More information here:

Great pic, Taya! Very stylish! I love the pose!

Style! Fascinate-Her. (Man Style)

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I have a good friend who DJs regularly on Friday nights. He has no host to help him, and so he takes on those duties himself . . . and then some. He participates in open chat, telling stories and prompting people to tell theirs. And, because there are generally more women then men, he undertakes to dance for 20 or 30 mins each with the women who don't have dance partners, sort of rotating through the single women in the crowd. All this while managing the stream. He doesn't get especially large crowds: 15 people would be a pretty "good" night, and that undoubtedly helps. I go pretty much every Friday night. I am not, to be honest, into the music he plays at all, which tends to be "mellow" folk / soft jazz with, occasionally, a bizarrely Scandinavian inflection. (Finnish tango bands, and Swedish covers of the Beatles, and an abomination called "The Minnesota Tango," which he plays every show.) And I suspect that most of his regulars are not especially into the music either. HE is the appeal: he works tirelessly to make the evening a fun communal experience. His efforts to ensure that all the single women get a dance, and his funny, kind, gentle chatter are what make the evening, because they transform the place from a dance floor full of individuals into a friendly community. And the result is that his regulars are very regular, know and like each other, and socialize outside of Friday nights. It's not just about the music, and it's certainly not about the tips. It's about the community he's built.

Maybe! But I'd rather waste a few minutes feeding a fairly harmless troll (if that's what they are) than not helping someone who is genuinely looking for it.

I should also have mentioned Media Studies. Duh. Digital Humanities is fascinating, and far reaching -- it differs from Media Studies in that its focus is not upon analyzing digital media from a humanistic perspective, but rather in how digital technologies can be enabled as tools for the humanist. A lot (although not all of it) is about building digital tools, so most digital humanists have a fairly extensive background in code as well. Some of the earliest academic / educational innovators in SL were digital humanists, actually. Even more of them were library and information studies people.

I think it's an important part of the puzzle generally. Someone needs to be thinking about this sort of thing, not merely from a "Can it be done?" perspective, but also from a "SHOULD it be done? And what will the impacts be if it is?" point-of-view. There's an entire interdisciplinary field called the Digital Humanities that looks at this sort of thing, and other related issues. Also, as I mentioned, Posthumanist studies. And library and information studies, which is quasi-humanities, has focused a lot on it as well.

There's clearly a bit of a language issue here. And, yes, a great many people spend their first little while in SL speeding through stuff, and running around like a chicken with their head cut off. I did a bit of that myself, at first, although I was fortunate enough to have people in-world I already knew to help me.

I actually provided you this information yesterday, on the previous page, but . . . The Maturity Ratings system: Adult, Moderate, and General -- it determines what you can or cannot do in a particular place. You can filter the content visible to you using this system. How to mute and block people

I don't think they can get back there once they leave, can they? But they will find tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge @Jankanke, teleport here, using this link: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon Oxbridge/92/198/28

Drivable cars aren't generally animesh -- at least, I don't know of any that are (perhaps someone here can correct me). You can find these on the Marketplace, to which I gave the link above. The descriptions should indicate if they are just static props, or can be driven. Some cars may be "wearable": that is, you don't need to "rez" it to drive it, but can wear it. Filter the results to "vehicle," on the left hand side of the page. You'll find a really wide range of prices, from the surprisingly cheap to the very expensive. I'd make sure you get one that specifies that it is made of mesh. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?search[category_id]=20&search[keywords]=car+AND+mesh&search[maturity][]=General&search[maturity][]=Moderate&search[maturity][]=Adult&search[page]=1&search[per_page]=96&search[sort]=_score_desc

What kind of animesh are you interested in? Animals? Attachments? NPCs? If you can be more specific, we might be able to help. Also, you might search the online Marketplace. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/

Aw, thanks Krystina! I am emphatically not an expert, just an interested amateur. And I come at this mostly from a particularly humanist perspective -- what I know about internet architecture would fit inside a fortune cookie! But it's a fascinating subject!

I don't want to speak for the OP -- I have no idea what their level of familiarity or understanding may be. But I think a great many companies are intrigued by the possibilities of the metaverse, for a variety of different reasons. And a great many others are just responding to the current hype. No one wants to be "left behind" -- the corporate world is strewn with the corpses of companies who didn't get online quickly enough, understand the importance of streaming, etc., etc. High Fidelity was mostly focused, so far as I have ever been able to figure out, upon the idea of virtual spaces for meetings, conferences, education, and so forth. So, yes, that's one particular use for it, and one that has been underlined by the shift towards working from home effected by the pandemic. Meta's marketing has touched upon this use, but I think its main view is towards the metaverse as a kind of 3D social media platform, with games and so forth. The largely unspoken assumption (in public, anyway) is also that it will generate oodles of income from data harvesting and marketing. I think that most companies and organizations looking at the metaverse now are, to be honest, pretty unclear on the whole concept, and don't actually yet have a very good idea of how it might be useful to them. These are all first tentative toes-in-the-water, to get a sense of what might be possible. They are grappling with the fact that no one yet knows what this will actually look like.

Actually, there are experts in this field. The metaverse isn't a new concept by any means. But you're definitely right too about related fields: there's long been a fairly active academic community involved in the evolution of the web, as well as virtual worlds (there's an entire academic journal devoted to the latter). Academics also approach this through the subject of posthumanism (and some through transhumanism, which is a bit different). And the subject of 3D visual technology (going back to early stereoscopes and even Viewmasters) is also well-established: one of the academics who introduced me to SL in 2008 specialized in that area.

I suspect the OP received a group invitation and clicked "yes" or "join" or whatever it is. And yes, they shouldn't have done that, but a new UI can be confusing. Or maybe they've simply had second thoughts.

Unfollow THEM, or get out of the groups? For leaving a group: For unfriending someone, as I recall you find their name on your friends list, right click it and choose "Remove Friend" or something like that.

The attitude towards the subject is very different here. In the first instance, it was motivated and fueled by a kind of paranoia about "privacy rights" and unspecified (and ridiculous) "security risks." The OP here, on the other hand, finds (like many others who've commented on this) the drama that this sometimes causes absurd and stupid, and thinks that this bit of social friction could be avoided. Both arrive at the same conclusion, but by very different routes, and the tone is very different in each case.

Oh sure. They're both absurdities. What I was getting at is that both are maybe sometimes a kind of pantomime -- acting out, consciously or unconsciously, a social convention that asserts that being "jealous" is somehow proof that you care for your partner. It's stupid, whoever does it.

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We've had over 70 cms of snow in the past week and a half -- about 2 1/2 feet. With the piles from shoveling the sidewalks, and the piles left by the snow plough, there are essentially walls of snow up to about 4 feet in places separating the sidewalk from the street. Makes crossing the road a lot of fun. My dog is a northern dog -- a rescue animal who is more or less half German shepherd and half collie (which means she's big and scary smart), and she LOVES the snow. Her latest frolic has been to scale the snow mountains in an attempt to drag me over them onto the road. And one of these days she's going to succeed . . . she's stronger than I am!

Great shot! Can we talk about the fact that you're hiding behind your fiance?

Thanks Sandor! That is indeed the desired effect! Yay! Thanks Marigold. And you're kind of brilliant! This WOULD look pretty good on tee!! I'll have to try it!