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The Fantasseria continent (part of Bellisseria) has been expanded this week with both southern and eastern coastlines. The 8 south coast regions were added on Tuesday 9th November 2021. The first stage (10 regions) of an east coast were added on Friday 12th November 2021. Only 18 more coastal regions are required to complete a full coast around the whole of Fantasseria. :)

I've edited a mosaic of screenshots of Fantasseria's new east coast into a clear map, which shows the terrain and coastline. The ten new regions now have their individual names on the world map too, meaning you can now directly teleport to them, instead of walking in from a neighbouring region. SSPE2756 is the most southern, while SSPE 2765 sits at the top in the north.

I've just been to Fantasseria's new east coast regions. Half of the east coast has now rezzed inworld, but it hasn't appeared on the world map yet, meaning you won't be able to directly teleport in to it yet, so walk in from a neighbouring region instead. I've mapped the new region positions that I've walked through, noting down the region names. There are 10 new coastal regions, SSPE2756 in the south east corner reaching up to SSPE2765 which is about halfway up the east of the continent. The new regions all have a coastal waterway each, although these shapes are basic at present and may change later when developed with homes. I estimate that eighteen more coastal regions from SSPE2765 would be needed to fully reach around up to Glimmer Bay in the north to complete a full circle of the Fantasseria coastline; perhaps to be added in two more rezzings of nine new coastal regions each. At the rapid rate these new regions have been added in recently, I would speculate (if this rate continues) that an attempt at a full circumnavigation of Fantasseria by boat could be achieved as early as Friday 19th November, although this is purely speculation. Also, I noticed the world map isn't flickering any more when focused in on Fantasseria from all zoom altitudes.

What would I do? I'd want them back, as my footwear collection would become completely redundant, for which I would demand recompense. Plus, LL removing feet and legs would put thousands of footwear makers out of business too. Tsk.

I'm going to complain about the name "AirBnB". It annoys me because AirBnB's are not actually the same as B&B's, from which they've "appropriated" (stolen) their name from. I dislike the name and term "AirBnB", as its actually just a commercial brand name for a specific California-based temporary home letting agency website that has only existed since 2008, but many people outside of Britain seem to think an "AirBnB" and a B&B are the same thing. They are most definately not. In Britain, where the name and concept of B&B (Bed & Breakfast) originates from, you basically arrive at your pre-booked B&B at around 4.00pm, you then pay the B&B owner to rent a bedroom within their house for one night, for which you get a bed to sleep in, the use of the bathroom (usually shared, but some have an en-suite bathroom) and in the following morning, you're given a breakfast which is prepared by the B&B owner who also lives in the B&B. You do not get a key to access their house either, which can be awkward and embarrassing should you go out for the evening and return "home" late to the B&B after it's owner has locked up and gone to bed for the night. After you've finished your morning breakfast, custom dictates that you then leave the B&B by a certain time, usually by 10:30am. You can't stay in the B&B during the daytime or live there for long durations (or permanantly) as B&B's are not hotels. They're private houses in which the owner also lives and they don't want you living in their living room, lazily stretched out on their sofa with your feet up and watching their television all day. Because that would be regarded as both inconvenient and rude behaviour. So "AirBnB" is a very poor name choice, it's cultural name hijacking and theft to me, as what AirBnB offers is not a B&B service at all, its more akin to temporary full home letting, renting or sharing.

Rich uncles aren't required when there's hundreds of spare regions in the earlier Linden Homes Nascera continents. Those Nascera regions are just sitting there, mostly unoccupied, abandoned and doing nothing. Just think of what could be done with them. Heres some suggestions, for a start.... 1. Sansara continent could have a protected east coastline which allows boats to travel from one end of the continent to the other. 2. Lonely and forgotten Gaeta I continent could be finally completed and linked to Corsica continent. 3. Jeogeot could have an entire outer protected coastline added to it, and have its road network brought up to date, which could being new Residents to settle and develop its weird and bumpy terrain. 4. Gaps in north Sansara continent's terrain could be filled in with new regions which could be bought and developed by residents. 5. Satori continent could have either a complete east or west protected coast (or both!) which would allow boats to travel up/down it's full length. 6. Complete Zindra continent. And perhaps even move it nearer to the main continents. 7. Fix Heterocera continent's single bad coastal region (Tiger) which prevents all boats from completing a full circumnavigation of the entire continent. Relocate and recycle these Nascera sim regions to places where they're needed. Or is that too much good common sense?

This area in red to the north of west Bellisseria urgently needs to be developed with coastlines and a protected waterway. This area, when developed properly, should bypass the need to have unnecessarily long coastal voyages around the south of the Bellisseria log continent. The log continent is of very little interest to 99% of sailing fans as there are no harbours, marinas or places of other interest there, as its all just houses surrounded by a ring of tall hilly grassy hills and cliffs. And you can't even sail into the log continent because the surface water level there is higher, making the interior of the continent unreachable by boat from the surrounding coastline. Sadly, in this respect, LL have still not learnt from their previous mistakes from almost two decades ago when they gave Sansara continent not one, but SEVEN different surface water levels, making that continent totally impossible to cross by boat even today in 2021. So I would highly recommend that the area north of the log continent should be given direct protected waterway links; with southern Sansara and South Islandia to the west and the Stilt Homes regions to the east. This would allow sailing distance and travel time between Sansara and Satori to be much lower than present.

Update! The south coast (SSPE2748 to SSPE2755) just appeared inworld now! And I'm the first (and only) person here! 😛 Interestingly, SSPE2754 has a very large lake in it with a big hill on an isthmus in the south-east corner. The lake water is 11m at it's deepest point. However, the lake isn't connected to the outer coastline and can't be sailed into, which is sad. It would have made a great harbour/marina location.

Here's the south coast's terrain! Oddly, the regions are showing on the map, but "loading...." appears when they're clicked. Maybe they'll appear inworld after the rolling restarts in an hour (or so) ....

BBC = Biased Brainwashing Corporation. Extremely left-wing, London-centric and anti-British. The BBC has fallen in standards since 2013 to become a mediocre public service broadcaster that churns out cheap woke rubbish to please it's target audience of easily offended, over-entitled crybabies, most of whom reside within the London region and subscribe to the Guardian "newspaper".

Second Life was never designed to be specifically a game, it was originally a 3D virtual environment named Linden World which had game-like interaction, but was specifically created by Linden Research Inc (Linden Labs) for testing prototype haptics technologies. After a while, the haptics development was dropped by LL in favour of exploiting their virtual environment for social and economic uses instead. This lead to the rebranding of Linden World to become Second Life. A video of Linden World that was created in August 2001:

There is a HUD which auto-attaches itself when you go there. There is literally a minimize button on the HUD, which toggles. And guess what, when you leave the place, the HUD auto-detaches. And if it doesn't, sometimes a simple right-click on it will make it vanish. Don't know why there's such a big fuss about it. *shrugs*

@Nika Talaj There is no need for new coastal regions to go as far north as Atanua, as there is a navigable west coast protected water channel in Satori that already extends all the way down (around all sides of Satori's 4-region island) to Stromberg. A total of 18 new regions between Stromberg and Carmine Sky are all that is required to make Satori's entire west coast fully navigable to boats. Similarly and hypothetically, 21 new regions placed between Furball and Ptesanwi would make the entire east coast of Satori navigable to boats too.

On Sunday 31st October 2021, I decided to attempt to sail from the Blake Sea regions to the Mole's Island at Meauxle Bureaux region. I had not attempted this route properly before, as I had assumed from looking at the map that the route was blocked by Montbard and Terric regions. However, they were relatively simple to navigate through, with Terric having a 15 minute "traverse through" time allowance which was refreshingly generous and considerate. After reaching Meauxle Bureaux , I paused momentarily and wondered how far south I could go in my boat before the journey became impassable. So sticking to protected waterways and not straying into private parcels, I sailed all the way south down Satori's east coast and to my surprise, got just over halfway down Satori's length but could get no further than Ptesanwi region. This was due to no protected water channel in the next region, Afanasyev. I plotted my route on this map: It would seem to me that with a few modifications to existing parcels or some additional regions placed between Ptesanwi and the southern tip of Satori, it would be possible to create a full-length north to south coastal route between the Blake Sea and the Linden Homes Bellisseria continent. I have also created a new map which shows theoretical coastal sim regions added to both of Satori's coasts, this illustrates that full navigation would require 18 regions on the west, with 21 on the east. With both of these coastlines added, it would then be possible to fully circumnavigate the entire Satori continent by boat. FAO: @Patch Linden@Derrick Linden@Abnor Mole

SL isn't a video game though. Why would you want to make SL look like a video game? A 3D digital virtual environment that runs on a computer should not automatically equate as "video game". Are flight simulators video games? No, of course not. SL is a simulated world, not a video game. Why else do you think the regions are nicknamed "sims"?

@agentronin Your GTX 1080 Ti GPU is fine, more than adequate for running most games. But you're still using an AMD FX CPU, an AM3+ socket CPU which was superceded by AMD Ryzen CPU's over four years ago. I would say your CPU is definately bottlenecking your GPU's performance. I would recommend; * A new AMD Ryzen CPU (three recommendations) AMD Ryzen 3 3300X, a quad core entry level AM4 socket CPU (3.8GHz base, boosting to 4.3GHz) draws only 65W power. AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, a six core mid range AM4 socket CPU (3.7GHz base, boosting to 4.6GHz) that is very power efficient and draws only 65W. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, an eight core enthusiast level AM4 socket CPU (3.8GHz base, boosting to 4.7GHz) which needs a bigger power supply (750W minimum) as it draws 105W. * A new and necessary AM4 socket motherboard for a Ryzen CPU (either a B550 chipset (cheaper) or X570 (more expensive, but has more features)) * A minimum of 8GB of DDR4 PC4-25600/3200 MHz RAM too, as Ryzen CPU's perform best with fast 3200MHz DDR4 RAM. I would also recommend using a website called PC Part Picker, which you can use to work out and design a new build, or select new parts you may need and which automatically detects and flags up any incompatibilty issues with parts.

It still amuses me to think every Apple (and others) mobile device in the world is totally dependant and running off patented ARM (Acorn RISC Machines) CPU tech that was initially designed for a series of British school computers (the Acorn Archimedes) that were commonplace in UK schools during the 1980s and 1990s...

High on visuals, low on content and content creativity.... where have we seen that before?! (coughs Sansar, PlayStation Home, etcetera )

@Evangeline Arcadia That's possibly the worst place to put in a new themed continent. In fact, I couldn't find anywhere less accessible or as remote, with the exception of Zindra or Gaeta I continents! Jeogeot continent (to the west in your map) has no existing navigable east coastline for a theoretical new Bellisseria extension continent to be built alongside there and to share a common coastline. And by linking up to Jeogeot and Jeogeot''s road routes, that would be stupid, as the routes are hideously sparse, don't go anywhere and don't link up to anything of any actual interest or use. Jeogeot's roads are a poorly designed series of concentric ring roads that have very, very few intersections where to switch between the ring roads. A second remote and isolated Fantasseria extension there might be perfect, although putting it there would probably and permanantly end all and any hopes and chances for Jeogeot continent getting it's own fully contiguous east coast protected water channel sometime in the future. This I would firmly object to, as I strongly believe that all SL continents should be (and should have been) created with a navigable protected water channel around the entirety of a continent's coastline.

Hallowe'en as it is known now has never been popular outside of the US. I'm from England, where most people actually hate, ignore and avoid it. Except those people with very young families with very small children who have been exposed to US television and media culture. A UK-wide Government survey in 2013 also confirmed the loathing of Hallowe'en. Hallowe'en is perceived in England as a tacky, vulgar, commercialised foreign import which entitles greedy and aggressive teenagers without costumes (maybe a few might wear a token cheap plastic "scary" mask) to go thumping and kicking on the front doors of ALL houses, to demand treats with threats of violence or vandalism for a refusal. Because Hallowe'en (All Hallows Evening) was also originally a Catholic celebration, it never really caught on in earlier Protestant/Anglican England. Other parts of the British Isles with Celtic/Gaelic/Pagan roots gave Hallowe'en (or Samhain) much more importance than it had in England. Scotland and Ireland invented much of the present-day traditions of modern day Hallowe'en, with Scottish/Irish migrants to North America taking their traditions with them, such as the Scottish tradition of "guising" (Trick Or Treat-ing). The Irish "Jack O'Lantern" was originally a carved-out turnip, but as no wild turnips existed in North America, they instead carved out pumpkins which they found there and it became a new tradition. A much more popular event in Anglo-Saxon England called Bonfire Night (or "Guy Fawkes Night") already existed in England around the time of the year, specifically on November 5th and was far more important to the English population as it originated as a national celebration of thanksgiving to defeating a Catholic terrorism plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 ("The Gunpowder Plot") and also a good excuse to let off fireworks, burn big bonfires with effigies of hate-figures, and to get drunk. It also coincided at the end of harvest time, a bit like Samhain which also has bonfires and may have influenced the November 5th bonfire tradition. Sadly, in more recent years, Bonfire Night has become very over- regulated with excessive strict "Health And Safety" laws because of the fear of injury caused by home fireworks and bonfires. Sales of fireworks to the public has been made deliberately difficult or impossible. Instead, "safe and organised" local "community" events are now sadly the normal thing to go and pay to watch. But thats if you can find a local event as many communities no longer have a Bonfire Night event because of injury paranoia. The traditional burning of a effigy of Guy Fawkes or the Pope on the bonfire has now also been deemed "politically incorrect" by overly-sensitive younger liberal generations who seem to be offended by everything to do with English cultural history and are generally ignorant of why Bonfire Night even exists. Younger British generations with families have begun to adopt the US version of Hallowe'en, but they do it in a very half-arsed and unenthusiastic way, its done just to please little kids who demand it after watching and being influenced by so many imported US tv shows which feature the US version of Hallowe'en in them and they perceive that this version of Hallowe'en is the default or normal one.

The owners of the Peter Pan brand are not Disney either, as Peter Pan belongs (in perpetuity) to a London children's hospital, the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The hospital was featured in the opening ceremony of London's 2012 olympic games.

There are sixteen specific legacy sim regions in SL, dating as far back as November 2002. These were collectively known as the "San Francisco Regions", as they were the very first sixteen regions of Linden World (later called Second Life) and are all named after streets and alleys of the real San Francisco, where Linden Labs was first established by its founder and first CEO, Philip Rosedale on Linden Street. The sixteen regions are to be found neighbouring each other in the northwest of Sansara continent, at; 1. Da Boom (regarded as SL's "oldest sim". It has world map grid co-ordinates of 1000,1000 too and is also regarded as the "centre" of SL. Go to the 0,0 southwest corner in Da Boom to stand on the exact centre and oldest place in Second Life!) 2. Ritch (SL's second oldest sim) 3. Zoe (SL's third oldest sim) 4. Stanford (first of the four original "Outlands" sim regions, where combat was once allowed and health meters were active. A huge perimeter wall encircled the four Outlands regions and remnants of the perimeter wall can still be found around the four Outlands sims today) 5. Federal (second of the four original "Outlands" sim regions. See Hawthorne and Shipley for the other two.) 6. Freelon 7. Minna 8. Natoma (SL's record continually longest rezzed object lives here; the Man Statue, a historic relic preserved from a test town that was temporarily rezzed in Natoma during the Alpha test phase of SL. Natoma was also formerly used as the first Resident Welcome Area region and had freebie item shops. Natoma is now home to the Ivory Tower prim museum and building sandbox. 9. Taber 10. Welsh (SL's first and oldest Resident (Steller Sunshine) lived here and decorated it with her famous giant Beanstalk. Steller also created a large mansion for the Linden's to use for their meetings inworld. The mansion, now known as the Governor's Mansion is preserved on a mountain top in nearby Clementina region) 11. Clyde 12. Hawthorne (third of the four original "Outlands" sim regions) 13. Shipley (fourth of the four original "Outlands" sim regions) 14. Clara 15. Varney (formerly home to the Varney Boardwalk, a strip of early Resident shops) 16. Stillman (former home of Yadni Monde's Junkyard, although Yadni's Bazaar has been preserved by LL. Stillman has the impressive Castle Blackmoor in it too, along with the Stillman Giant Bears) The sixteen regions were arranged in the shape of a key. These sixteen regions all still exist and have been surrounded by younger later sim regions.

Another peeve.... People who blindly say "I'm excited!", especially when the person is not actually excited, which undoes the word's actual meaning. Using "I'm pleased", I'm fine" or "I'm happy" etcetera would be a more honest and sincere way to convey a reaction or current mood. Saying "I'm excited!" while maintaining an unexcited manner comes across (to me at least) as being very fake, insincere and untrustworthy. I would theorise that "I'm excited!" has entered the lexicon through television commercials and advertising, as the concept of "excitement" has been marketed as a positive outcome through product or service advertising. I would never use "I'm excited!" as it greatly irritates me.

Pet peeves eh? Okay, here's one. People (specifically Americans) who think "plaid" means a checkered pattern. This pattern, correctly called tartan is found on traditional Scottish and English garments such as kilts, skirts, scarves, shirts, blouses, dresses and plaids. Plaids? Yes, a plaid is actually the name of a traditional Scottish tartan shawl worn loosely around the shoulders. Somehow the garment name of plaid has become the name of the tartan pattern in North America. Which it isn't. Please stop calling the tartan pattern "plaid". A plaid is a garment, not a pattern name.