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    Official or Firestorm?

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    As Rolig already said, it's preferences. And in my case it depends on what I am doing. My default preferred viewer is the official LL Viewer. I find the graphics best, clear and crisp for pictures.
    But when I make machinima, I switch to the FS viewer, so I can derender things and enable the 'show friends only' so I don't get to see other avatars.
    Just try them and decide for yourself!

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    Have the forums changed?

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    36 minutes ago, kali Wylder said:

    It's so tame that I rarely  post anything anymore. I drop in once a week or so, scan the topics on the first page of the GD, buzz through the pet peeves thread and leave, usually with nothing to say before I go.  Then I browse the "The all-in-one Home Furnishings Topic! " in the belli forum to see if there's any kind of deal I might want to check out and Whoosh! I'm gone again.

    I don't even drop in once a week , but perhaps once per month. Or quarter even. I used to be quite active on the forum and have had a lot of fun and hilarious times,  but I don't see that happening again anymore.

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    Suggestion for a new profession Part2

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    5 hours ago, Persephone Emerald said:

    It's a great movie, viewable on YouTube and currently at the Cinema at the Welcome Hub. Here's a link, so people can see the avatars in it.

     

    Ooh thank you !  So happy you liked it!

    Most of the main characters are in their own avatar. Except Belletristix, his avatar (with custom made shape just how Huck had in mind) was designed by Dizi Bee, she did an awesome job.
    And she made one for her own part too.

     

     

     

     

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    Suggestion for a new profession Part2

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    18 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

    All you need to do is make full perm shapes and pass them along with a style card with the items used in the avatar.  It actually is already a business.

    Indeed. For our last movie, we asked a friend, a shape-maker and stylist, to create complete avatars for us. She made the shapes and handed us the notecards with everything we needed to buy  - including landmarks. Brilliant and a huge timesaver for us.

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    Motown: LL's Partnership with Capital Music, and the New User Experience

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    3 minutes ago, Drayke Newall said:

    Well that's a little odd. You would think that considering Second Life is a world wide platform that they would at least ensure that the deal would be made so that all users can listen to it. Perhaps Linden Lab couldn't afford the licensing for multiple countries. lol

    Considering this isn't the case you would also think that such a thing would be mentioned in the blog or four news articles linked in the blog.

    Yes, it surprised me too. I have this issue occasionally with YouTube or other sites with media, never had it in Second Life though. I got the message in local chat, from the HUD and it is also explained in a sign at the venue.

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    Motown: LL's Partnership with Capital Music, and the New User Experience

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    11 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Wow, Ok. This seems to me to have real potential. At the very least it's a new approach.

    This seems rather cool, and a really neat idea.

    From Inara's blog piece on this (emphasis mine):

    "The Motown Experience sits within a nine-region estate built out as a comprehensive Welcome Hub that will in the new future be opened as a Community Gateway to receive incoming new users signing-up to Second Life. As such, it is designed to address what many people have felt has been missing from SL: a fairly engaging environment where incoming users can not only learn about the platform, the viewer and find out how to do the basics – they can actually get involved in activities and (allowing for the popularity of the Motown Experience as a music venue) actually get to meet other users and have some pleasant fun with them."

    https://modemworld.me/2023/06/20/linden-lab-and-motown-a-new-approach-to-user-on-boarding-in-second-life/

    Here's LL's own blog on the experience:

     

    Oh, it looks wonderful and I was really excited about it!
    The music is played via an automatically attached HUD (no problem there) and then after waiting and waiting and much silence I got the disheartening message that due to licencing this stream is not available in my country.

     

     

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    Casino in Second Life? is Gambling Back?

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    24 minutes ago, Cinos Field said:

    I went to the casino and uh... I don't get it. You pay real money to play slot machines or blackjack to win fake money that you can't even exchange for token prices.

    ...so it's purely a "make this number bigger" game, except nobody will even see your number. Absolutely no idea what the target audience for this is. I feel like even addicts want at least shiny prizes.

    I guess it's the same as why people pay for extras in Candy Crush or games like that. You don't win stuff in those games either.

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    Casino in Second Life? is Gambling Back?

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    53 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

    LL doesn't own Twitter. So unless or until they post it on their own website, I don't consider it an official announcement. 

    I don't think I can make it any clearer than that. Yes, it does make a difference to me. I'm not asking for anyone to agree with it.

     

    Edit: There has to be some reason LL hasn't announced on their own site. That's a red flag for me. Not necessarily a bad thing but red flag none the less.

    It was also announced via the inworld Shop and Hop group, a note with LM by Strawberry Linden.

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    What has SL taught you about the world?

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    On 8/9/2021 at 7:33 PM, Alma Palmira said:

    What have you discovered about the diverse RL world through the common SL virtual reality?

    * That generalization  when it comes to cultures and other countries is (still) a thing.
    The moment I mention, or when ppl care to check my profile and discover, I am from The Netherlands, it is assumed I do drugs daily (because apparently legal?!) and I  know my way around Amsterdam and the Red Light District,ergo I must be *in* for some adult action, because: Dutch.

    * That there are many kinks and fetishes I had never heard about before I got in SL and by now, 14 years later, I am not even surprised anymore. Live and let live!

     

     and this one, though I would  say  "a lot of Americans, very often expect...." 

     

    10 hours ago, Gwin LeShelle said:

    That Americans always expect everyone to speak their language but rarely speak any second language themselves.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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