Derek Torvalar

I think Ebbe years are different from ours. Beta for Sansar was supposed to be in 2015 wasn't it? Or was it the first half of 2016? 1 Ebbe year = 2 Earth years. IOW Ebbe is from Mars. (Perrie?)

THEGOATOFMENDES wrote: Amethyst Jetaime wrote: The LL CEO himself has said many times in interviews and on this forum that SL will not close down unless it no longer is profitable. He actually has said no such thing, which is why you cannot provide a link June 23 2014 Ebbe said this: "If all users move rather quickly from SL to our next gen then I assume things went very well. If few are, then I think we'd have more work to do and SL will keep on tickin until only the new one makes sense to operate..." (emphasis added) https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/What-idiot-in-Linden-announced-SL-is-closing-down/m-p/2768110#M187482 The original post is here: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/Linden-Lab-is-building-a-NEW-virtual-world/td-p/2753476/page/20

'unappropriate'??? Bloody typical. Is it any wonder then that posts get pulled and sanctions levied when those empowered to make those determinations are obviously incapable of comprehending the language.

Theresa Tennyson wrote: Pamela Galli wrote: The first sentence in Scott Peck's book The Road Less Traveled is: life is difficult. And that it is. The super sensitive ones do not understand or accept this fact. They live in a state of perpetual shock that life is so very difficult -- or rather that it is difficult at all, in even the tiniest degree; they just do not expect this. They simply cannot bear the pain of hearing or seeing anything that displeases or disturbs them. They believe they are entirely within their rights to demand that anyone inflicting unpleasantness on them should be punished. I'd be more convinced by the idea that youth are hypersensitive compared to their stoic elders if most of the stoics who are posting in this thread didn't have a history of well-publicised hissy fits their ownselves, including some that were arguably libelous. FIFY and then QFT

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Lest we forget.

Read this. https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussions/HELP-I-WANNA-BE-A-MODAL-BUT-I-CANT-FIND-THE-CASTTING-COUCH/m-p/361974/highlight/true#M159645

Phil Deakins wrote: Just a quickie. Do you imagine that an MA student who has been asked by his tutor/teacher "to go into SL and get hands on experience" wouldn't actually do that but stay outside and ask in the forum? An MA student? You don't know one way or the other what he'd been asked to do, so your comment was totally worthless. Another quickie. The way a student conducts his/her research is none of our business. Everyone is perfectly free to help or not, and it would be nice if those who prefer not to help stay right out of these threads if all they can do criticise the students. 'Mute and move on'. Your first paragraph is merely a restatement of what I said to Trin. Do YOU actually believe that I am so self-unaware as to not realize that I do not know myself what was said, not being present at any of their meetings? That was the whole point to my post to Trin. I do however have a real good idea of what might be "conceivable" having been in that role before. For the record, having been acquainted with a number of undergrad and grad students over the years I can attest that they are all not exemplary students, or necessarily do they all follow the suggestions of their advisors, me included. When I was getting my MA in History my advisor expected me to hand in versions of my paper every month and wanted to see that the revisions she had suggested were being done. I explained that I did not write that way and she suggested I should start to. I did not and still don't. Maybe that is why I only received an "A" on the paper. So my experience in the area, I believe, makes my comments a damn sight more than worthless Phil. The methodolgy the student chooses to employ certainly is our business. If it is slipshod, why should I waste my time contributing to its completion?

Trinity Yazimoto wrote: Drake1 Nightfire wrote: Wel, you see... I remember a time, not so long ago, when we would see a flood of these types of posts every spring. Invariably they were all from students who had ZERO info about SL and assumed that it was a MMoRPG like WoW or EverQuest.. This kid, one day in SL and already asking for peoples input in a forum rather than just walking around and asking people inworld. I am all for helping people.. I give things away constantly. I have freebies in my store and have no probem helping people in SL. The difference is, he has no interest in SL nor does he care one bit about any part of it. He is only here because SL is the biggest name in virtual worlds. And putting that in his dissertation will draw attention to him. A simple search of the forums would have given him a novels worth of good and bad tales of SL. You obviously have no idea what a student can be asked during their studies. In no way, the teacher has asked to join sl and have fun with that. Yes, SL is seen here as a subject of study and not as place to hang out for the fun. Where is the offense in that ? I never understood why people take so much offense everytime someone is asking for this kind of help. And i remind you your first post here was about geting reward for answering. Now it turns about being offensed by the request. There is a lack of coherence here.  Your turn to be hilarious. Neither do you. You do not know what his teacher may or may not have asked him to do. On the contrary, it is quite conceivable, given that a MA thesis requires the student to typically submit versions to the advisor for editing, the teacher may have indeed asked him to go into SL and get hands on experience and to interview residents to flesh out the paper, prior to final submission. I am with the Drake on this one. The student has left this to the last minute which would mitigate the quality of the paper. He has had a long time to investigate SL on his own and to contact people inworld, 'man in the street interviews' for their opinions, to add relevance to his paper. Coming here now at this late date asking for help smacks of desperation and incompetence.

peterdarley wrote: If you or another player you know has free or unused land that they can give to someone im the person you can give it to, and i will rent it to other people plus i will give you a share of the rent as a reward for giving me the land. Here is my Gmail so you can contact me: linne1937@gmail.com HAHAHAHA! Good one.

EmilyWaugh wrote: Blanche Sapphire wrote: Second life destroys real life, ruins relationships and puts children in danger. There *may* be people who can enjoy SL as an occasional harmless pastime, but there are a lot of others in deep denial about the extent to which it is destroying their real lives and the people who care about them. For those who have dissociative disorders, like my husband, it can trigger other parts of a fragmented personality and give them an outlet to wreak havoc. Almost two years after he left the 25-year-old Australian who tried to break up our marriage, quit SL cold turkey and went into intensive therapy, we are still dealing with the fallout. The only good thing I can say about SL is that it helped him hit rock bottom and it exposed the dissociative identity disorder that had managed to run in stealth-mode for 50 years. Wow. Really? DID? Stealth mode? For 50 years? And you bought that? What charlatan made that diagnosis? He must be quite convincing. Unless you are dealing with the chronically naive. I guess some people just refuse to believe the facts, especially if they are mundane. I would be willing to bet the 25 year old Australian woman was in actuality a 57 year old Welshman. If you hear hoofbeats then it is most likely horses, not zebras.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: None of us are famous in SL. I am, but I'm never gonna reveal the name of that particular alt. Many years ago a friend claimed there were only 13 people on the Internet. He was surprised when I revealed I was four of them. Here is what I actually said. https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussions/How-can-you-detect-an-alt/m-p/267167#M99691 But it certainly would apply to the internet as a whole. Are you surprised I am your friend?

Celestiall Nightfire wrote: Deltango Vale wrote: Unless I've confused her with someone else or she's lying, she now has a chain of RL stores in the US. Perhaps we're talking about different people. But, I was referring to an avatar with initials: SF. She made tacky crap inworld, and if she's a RL designer, I'm the Queen of Sheba. As for singing, I'd have to hear it to believe it. (There's singing,... and then there's singing in tune! ; ) Maybe she plays a musical instrument, but considering her fabricated BS that was spread on the old forum, I have doubts as to what level of profiency there may be. QFT 

Tay Mefusula wrote: Firestorm viewer for Secondlife will not start?.. AMD A10 7870K and MSI R7 250 running in dual graphics locks up at VFS initialization. both graphic options running alone work fine with firestorm viewer. Problem only exists in duel graphics mode and hoping to get a bit more performance is why I added dual graphics in the first place. Other games I have played work fine in dual graphics. Driver Packaging Version 15.201.1151.1010-151118a-296614E You will not get the benefits of dual graphics no matter which viewer you are using as it is not supported. SL currently will only support single graphics card configuration. PS I have dual HD7950 but do not get 'locked up' at login and everything is fine using FS. Just no added benefit for the extra card.

HERE is the engine that will drive VR headset sales. Ebbe better get on this bandwagon. http://www.cnet.com/news/vr-porn-lends-a-hand-masturbation-will-never-be-the-same/

Bree Giffen wrote: I was surprised at the high pc requirements. The nvidia gtx 970 needed is $340 right now. That's not mid range, that's high end pricing. Even the i5 needed is a high end i5 that runs for $200 right now. Just counting those pieces and the rift gets you $1,140 down the hole. Also, no laptops can run this. No Macs. No Linux. The audience of Oculus users is going to be rather small and homogenous. Yes, Sansar and HiFi users I would expect.

Those anxiously awaiting the general release of Oculus may have to save an extra few months before purchasing. It seems that Luckey was premature in his estimates on the final retail price of the unit, and now states it will retail around US$599.00. The article also posits that most who desire the new toy will not be able to use it until they upgrade their computers to be able to handle it though and so they are tacking on an extra $1000 to the estimate to be up and running. And oh, that is without the the Occulus control pad, which the CEO would not quote a price on. http://www.cnet.com/news/why-oculus-rift-pricing-isnt-what-you-thought-itd-be/ 

LaskyaClaren wrote: So, I guess this question is largely targeting people who've been around for a while, but I'd be interested in anyone's views, really. In ancient Greek myth, the Goddess of the Dawn, Eos, fell in love with the handsome youth Tithonus. Wishing to preserve that love forever, she asked Zeus to grant him eternal life. This he did . . . but she had forgotten to ask that he also retain eternal youth. And so Tithonus did indeed live forever . . . in a body that slowly decayed and shriveled until at long last he dwindled into a cicada. Sometimes I have thought that Tithonus in reverse would be an apt emblem for the typical SL user. Slowly, inexorably, we grow older, even as our avatars do not. We dwindle inside: it is only the surface that retains the promise of eternal youth. Many of us -- surely the vast majority, in fact -- represent here as younger than we really are. The index of time that marks its passage upon our physical bodies in the physical world here is meaningless: not only are our virtual bodies free of the scars that measure the passage of years and decades, but we can actually move back and forth through body-time. At least, we can in theory. Most of us remain static, trapped in an endlessly ephemeral "now" that knows no before (we were, most of us, never children or teens here) or hereafter. When I first began in SL, I was in my mid-30s in RL, but dressed (and probably acted) more-or-less like my RL self had between 5 and 10 years earlier. It wasn't an "accurate" representation of who I was then, but neither was it so far off the mark that it felt inauthentic. When I came back to SL, however, some 5 or so years later, and created a new avatar, I consciously aged her a bit. I made her shape a bit thicker, and the clothes she wears are more "mature" and, I suppose, conventional. Gone are the ripped jeans and the Clash tees. I still listen to 90s alt; I just can't imagine dressing as I did when I was listening to it in my 20s anymore. (Interestingly, I also can't imagine re-designing or "aging" my first avatar. She belongs in ripped jeans, tees, and leather jackets. It would be oddly "inauthentic" to change HER look.) So, what of the rest of you? Have your avatars "aged"? Do the shapes and skins you wear, the clothes you buy, reflect the march of time in RL? Or do you remain trapped in amber? Age cannot wither us . . . but surely without age, custom will indeed stale our infinite variety. How can we grow without change? I am surprised you got Tithonus by Hades' minions here in Montag's underworld. The breast, or the mere reference to it in any colloquial form, is not allowed here . That being said, in answer to your question, my representaions are fluid, shifting between what is by whim or neccessity appropriate. On another note, I love the sound of cicada in August. (Sort of like this place now, shriveled, decayed emitting a long, lonely drawn out buzz as opposed to the popular cliche chirping of crickets) Enjoy your turkey. I should send you mine inworld but, again, we can't speak about that here.

irihapeti wrote: one work of fiction deserves another "Fatboy and the Dancing Ladies" by Michael Holman Fiction? Maybe you should read it first.

You shouldn't have deleted your post Phoebe. http://www.amazon.ca/Pink-Ribbons-Inc-Politics-Philanthropy/dp/0816648999

Yes it is.

A park near my home that I frequent when I need some time to think.      

Cinnamon Mistwood wrote: Derek Torvalar wrote: Hey Cinn, this is your guardian Angel. Stay away from this MidnightDawn person. They are nutz! Just go on being yourself and you will be fine. Over and out. Derek Derek, I always pictured you more as a Fairy Godmother - wand, wings, wish-granting abilities.... (a green ballgown would really bring out your eyes) A'sOG, Best of luck with your self-appointed duties. I really hope no one is harmed by thinking they are actually receiving help from qualified subordinates. I still think you are playing a dangerous game with others lives and mental well-being. That can be arranged. I am nothing if not accommodating. I will have to get the dress back from Dres though. It may take a while getting it back from the cleaners. You know what he is like.

Hey Cinn, this is your guardian Angel. Stay away from this MidnightDawn person. They are nutz! Just go on being yourself and you will be fine. Over and out. Derek