[Why is it so hard to find themed homes for rent?]

$30 USD/mo = 7,500L/mo.  With that you should be able to rent, on a private estate, 4096 square meters with 937 prims.  Easy to find rentals.  Look for one on a Japanese themed area, or, one that is close enough and go buy your own house and landscaping.  Decent prefab house will cost around $40 USD (10K) for a spot that size, and I know you can find them Japanese themed.  Landscaping probably a lot cheaper, maybe $20.  Can't find the house?  Visit Japanese themed sims, and click "edit" on the houses, check out the creator - chances are, they sell them.  Same with landscaping.

The shopping is 1/2 the fun.  Enjoy.

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[Group Role Titles]

They need to open up the group info box and use the drop down box in the LR corner to choose a different tag within the group.

[Landing point not working?]

Inviting someone to teleport to your location bypasses everything except the access list and will bring them right to you, regardless of telehubs, landing points, etc.

[What is there to do thats fun on SL ???]

Classy?  Noble?  How DARE you, Bob?  I have a reputation to maintain!

I'll have you know that, if this were video, you'd see that we're actually were, umm, you see how we,  ahhh, well, what she is wearing,  uhhh....

Oh dang it, my secret is out.  I'm a big ol' softie romantic at heart.

[What is there to do thats fun on SL ???]

This is all the fun I need.

But dancing with her is even better   Romantic dancing with nice music and beautiful settings sold me on SL in the first place.

[I have been playing Sl on my laptop until today..with no problems..today i cannot stay on sl or get voice to work..also inventory and ao's are not working..any reason this would happen?]

I'm having the same exact problems with my laptop today.

It's called crappy wireless service in this hotel.

If you're connected using wireless internet, I bet heavy odds something is causing problems with your signal.

[I lied about my age and now I can't access my accounts.]

Not to be a smug adult, but I hope if nothing else you learned a lesson.  LL cannot afford to be very sympathetic in a situation like this, and sometimes, apologies do not make things all better.

[How do I automatically add people to a group?]

There are promixity-based group inviters commercially available, and I think Free Script Library has such a script.  You cannot automatically add people to a group - you can automate the invitation process, but they have to choose to join.

[Trying to get more prims]

A sim (aka region) is 256x256 meters, not 254 or 255.  A sim consists of a grid of 4,096 bits of land, each a 4x4 meter square block, 64 blocks to a side of the sim.  In general, you want more prims, you get more land.

However, if you rent (as opposed to owning) you can speak to your landlord, and either he or another tenant may have lots of extra prims they do not want or need.  Within a sim, those prims can be reallocated to other parcels of land.  So, if your neighbor has a 4,096 m2 plot, normally 937 prims, and only uses 500 of them, you may be able to work out a deal with your landlord where 300 of his extra prims are allocated to your land.  Obviously, your neighbor would pay less rent and you more.  How to do this is in the wiki.

[Where can I get a laptop that can run Second Life on medium graphics settings without serious FPS lag for under $650?]

I got my girl a "gaming" computer at Best Buy for Xmas.  It was $600 online, a Gateway and their cheapest "gaming" laptop.  The did NOT have it on display in the store.  Instead, they had the virtually identical competitor's model for $1,000 as the cheapest gaming laptop on display.  I had to ask if they had the one from the internet site, and sure enough, they did.  They even admitted they don't keep it on display, hoping people will come in looking for it and spend $400 more for the other one.  Nice.

Anyway, it does a very good job for SL.

[LAND RIGHTS ! HELP!]

I had a landlord once.  Paid 20K to "buy" 1/4 sim, plus the tier of roughly $100USD/mo.  The deal was supposedly I could turn around and resell the land myself.  Well, after about 5 months there I decided to move in with my girl, who owns a full sim and a homestead.   I was a week into the tier.  I put the land up for sale.  He came and reposessed the land, and when I complained, banned me from it despite my having paid the tier.  He resold it in less than a week, and despite the fact that I was supposed to be able to "sell" the land and keep the proceeds, I didn't get a penny of that either.  I'm just glad I had moved my stuff off before he banned me, because I know he would not have returned it.

Live and learn.  Most important thing in renting is know your landlord, or get references BEFORE you pay a penny.  Because, at the end of the day, your land rights are what the owner says they are, and they can change them whenever they want.

[Inventory and Lag - Myths or not?]

I notice sometimes it takes forever for SL to count what I have and display my inventory, but that happens when lag is bad, not the other way around.

Someone once told me that HUDs caused lag and failed teleports.  I scoffed at them but turns out they were right.  If I wear my megaprim organizer HUD, I cannot tp off the sim I am on.  Thanks to the nameless genius who told me to try this.

[LAND RIGHTS ! HELP!]

6K a week is ridiculous for half a homestead, let alone paid 3 months in advance.

My standard rate is 16K/month for the same space.  I sent you a notecard in-world. Give me a shout and I can cut you a deal.

[LAND RIGHTS ! HELP!]

You know, it would be as easy as setting up a group on SL, with some poor sap who has to update a running notecard listing businesses with complaints, and sending out a notice every 2 weeks to members, along with notices as they come in of business to avoid.  But, whoever is the keeper of the list better be an alt with no business connections.

[LAND RIGHTS ! HELP!]

Downright tropical/residential, Bob, and 3/4 vacant

[LAND RIGHTS ! HELP!]

Just out of curiosity, what did this person charge for 3 months for 1/2 a homestead?

Your best bet - find a new landlord, preferably one who puts the environment on their sim as high in importance as the rental income.

Can't imagine who I may be referring to in a shameless plug.

[Backwards logic, ARs, and you!]

From whence does this bacon salt come, and can you ship some to Wisconsin?

[Backwards logic, ARs, and you!]

OOOHHH a block of cheddar with bacon bits mixed in is aweome on Ritz crackers!

[Backwards logic, ARs, and you!]

1. I love bacon too.  How great does a food have to be before it is good enough to wrap other foods in and make them great, too?  As great as bacon, of course!  I mean, water chestnuts or filet, both are better in bacon.  A cheeseburger is awesome, but a bacon cheeseburger is like, orgasmic or something.  Bacon wrapped skunk shank is probably yummy, too.

2. What is "jumping the shark"? - someone used it in a reply.  I'm an old fart, ignorant of your young punk techno slang.

3. As much as I think you're hilarious and great and all, I have to say you DO bring some of this on yourself.  But, I'm sure you're smart enough to know that already, and don't care, and often enjoy it anyway.  That's the Daria charm.  Some butt munchers don't get it, but nobody is loved by everybody.

4. Everyone has the right to be an asshat.  It's in the US and EU constitutions, and any other country that does NOT give you said right, chances are we're already bombing the LS out of you already, or getting ready to. 

5. Everyone has the right to be ignorant.
6. But nobody has the right to be blissfully ignorant about being an scat head.  When people are a-holes, they should be told, so they can refine their approach and be called sardonic, witty, clever, or some other polite word, preferably one nobody else really knows the definition for.  That seems to be what you did.  Of course, from their perspective, you may well have been the anal dwelling butt monkey in the scenario.  Their attempts to correct you were,however, assinine.

7. How did I get on the ass reference wagon? Must be because I skipped breakfast, and hence have no bacon in me.
8. This AR system is deeply flawed.  It allows the biggest/first ass pirate to bully others. 
9. I have SL bacon.  If they ever bring on the 5 Sense SL online (see prior silly thread), it will be the first thing I eat, after my gf of course.
10. Off to McDonalds for a bacon egg and cheese biscuit, hash browns, coffee, and a coronary.

[What Type of Games can you create that are not considered Illegal i.e. Gambling/Camping]

Here's are some ideas

Chess.

Darts.

Pool.

Air Hockey.

All of these are games which can keep folks occupied for hours on end and are commercially available for relatively little.  So, if you are looking to skirt camping rules, get a couple of campers to play chess all day.  Of course, campers really want to get paid for being logged in while they surf for porn, so it will be hard to find campers who really play much chess.

There is quite a bit of poker out there.  I know some of them get around the gambling by having some form of currency that is only good in their league (like chips that do not cash out).  I host a poker game weekly, where nobody is required to pay to play, and the house provides a small prize (a thousand Lindens typically, although we have played a strip poker version for fun, too) for the winner.  Since there is no downside risk for the players, it is not gambling.  The purest form of gambling is slots or the lottery.  You put in money, and there is some chance that you will win more than you put in.  IMHO, without risk, chance, and reward, all three, it is not gambling.  If you want to get around the gambling rules, the only way I can think of is to have nobody put in any real stakes, or just play for fun.

[How do I abandon my sim? I no longer can pay.]

You can just go to "About Land" on your sim and click the "Abandon Land" button.  However, you may want to look at trying to sell it.  Linden will give you nothing if you abandon it, whereas someone may pay you a nominal amount to buy it, even work something out where they "rent" you a small part for free for a set time.  You can also just stop paying tiers, and Linden will just close it down (if it's a private sim - not sure what they do mainland)

If you do abandon it, make sure you give any tenants advanced notice, and get your stuff off first - never know when all your stuff might disappear with the sim!

I'm not sure what transfer costs are if you sell a private sim, but there is a ton of information on the SL wiki that is easy to find.

[Why is it absurdly difficult to search the Second Life Answers section?]

Simple.  Because it's so full of questions about pregnant avatars and vampire bites.  Next question, please.

[How do I know when a building is private?]

I disagree with the whole "do as in RL" philosophy on this.  In RL, you cannot stand a block away and cam in to look at someone's bathroom, or cam inside a locked room and click "sit here" to get in.  In RL, you can steal what is in the house, or burn it down, or mess it up.  In SL, you cannot do those things. In RL, you don't have people routinely buying castles for homes, and their are no skyboxes, while in SL what looks like a public building may be private, and what looks like a house may be a club.  The idea that RL conventions of privacy and personal space should apply in SL is quaint, but unrealistic.

My opinion is, if someone wants something to be truly private, there are a myriad of ways to make it so, and they range from completely free to merely very inexpensive. Don't want people to use your poseballs or bed?  Set them to group, or put in security scripts to limit who uses them if that is not an option.  Don't want people on your land at all?  Use the land access control to keep everyone, or all but a select few, out completely.  Or buy a security orb for $L300.  Want to eliminate even the potential for camming into your bedroom?  Well, I know a way, but it's not easy (maybe someone knows an easy way).  Or, how about simply putting up a sign, or even more effective a notecard giver/greeter, telling people "hey, private, keep out!"  There ARE lockable doors that are fairly cheap to buy, too.  And if you come home and find someone boinking in your bed?  Well, you don't have to wash the sheets anyway, and you should feel free to ask them to leave if you want (or have fun - get some popcorn and make commentary on their performance in open chat while you watch).

Respect signs or notes or greeters or any other types of messages, and follow any obvious rules or preferences on someone else's land (ie. if flying is disabled, don't override it, or at least don't fly much above the ground).  But if someone is too lazy to secure their land or home when there are so many cheap and easy ways to do it, and they don't even bother to post a "no trespassing" sign of sorts, then don't feel too bad if they get pissed off about you wandering around.  What are they going to do, ban you from their land that they don't want you on anyway?