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WAGON WHEELS! Discuss.....

Deltango Vale wrote: I believe SLM has probably helped the inworld economy. Did half the population of California leave the state when online shopping arrived? Does every resident of Bermuda spend every waking moment running a store? I repeat, SL is not a game. Residents live in SL, they socialize, they dance and chat and go to the beach and make love. They don't spend every waking moment planning their next business move. SLM has helped the economy, it has helped stop it from collapsing due to the faliure of in-world search. If LL hadn't of purchased SLX and SL Boutique, then things would be allot worse for them right now, It is my belief that if we had an effective search engine in world that allowed people a fair chance of exposure to their business then there would not be anywhere near as much business funneled through the MP and the amount of land retained for commercial purposes would be allot greater. We could return to the days when people actually made an effort to build creative stores and shopping experiences, putting thought into how to best present their products and engage their customers rather than just relying on a bog standard uninspiring 2d website that is prone to delivery failures and overly delayed delivery times. Call me crazy, but I think selling 3D content in a 3D world is a thing to be embraced. Relying on a 2d website to sell 3D content, when there is a big old virtual world out there, cheapens the whole potential of SL. There is a place in SL for the MP, but it should be there to support in-world businesses IMO. It used to be that way and the only reason it is not now is because of the problems with in-world search that have persisted for years now. That is 100% LL's fault.

I completely agree with this analysis. I can't believe that any employees at the company have not floated this opinion around the Lab, they must be aware of the impact this is having on the occupancy of commercial plots and regions in world. So what are they doing about it? They are ignoring the problem and bringing in Direct Delivery to make the marketplace more efficient Brilliant.

Are there any 100% mesh regions out there yet? I've seen individual builds and plots but nothing done on a grand scale.

Oh dear. Looks like I spent a little too long with Mary Jane last night resulting in a thread about biscuits. Sorry about that :matte-motes-nerdy:

Yes, the death of Whitney has definitely made me take a good hard look at my own consumption habits. Namely biscuits obviously. Too soon?

When I was a poor and humble student and couldn't afford to buy real chocolate Digestives, I used to buy Rich Tea biscuits then "borrow" some chocolate spread from the communal kitchen in the halls of residence. Just spread the chocolate spread on the Rich Tea and voila, you have yourself a home made chocolate biscuit. There is a free biscuit related tip for you all. I should definitely write a book about my vast biscuit knowledge. This time next year I could be a millionaire Rodders.

So is she dead then? I thought she wasn't until the last line, but now I am confused,.

Yes. the stupid illiterate spell checker tried to put a "Z" in it. I said to it "Not today Mr spell checker, not while i'm in charge" It didn't reply.

Yohan Roux wrote: Well I have had very bad experiences with biscuits and dunking, I seem to dunk to long and the dunked bit disappears, then I can't drink the tea cos its like drinking gravel, so I find biscuits very skittish things and should be left to those that don't mind drinking gravel. Some of us are just natural born dunkers. Others work for years without achieving the same level of skill. Maybe I should created a guide listing the biscuit type to dunk time ratio.. I think it would really help the amateur biscuit dunker improve their form. I'll get to work on that and will let you know when it is ready. I'll even let you have a copy for the special introductory price of only £19.99.

Perrie Juran wrote: Biscuits and Sausage Gravy. Topped with a fried egg (preferably chicken). With all that cold weather you Brits have been getting you should give it a try. Guaranteed to get you through a cold day. You and your kind have taken the sacred word "biscuit" and sodomised it with your evil bastardisation of the english language. You shall speak no more of gravy here you vile creature. :smileymad:

Marigold Devin wrote: Did your brother ever do anything nice for you like that? He once stole a BMX for me from outside the local youth club. He was considerate like that. Oh and he also pulled me out of a skip one time when I got beaten up by a tramp. Aaah happy days.

Yohan Roux wrote: As the post does not mention biscuit I assume it can mean anything, I love chilled milk, don't know why, but over any other drink even tea I would prefer chilled milk, biscuits are very bad for you, they are all fat and sugar. Milk is a biscuits friend, so milk based discussion will be allowed. Milk can be a good alternative dunking choice if you need to dunk a biscuit in a hurry and haven't got time for the kettle to boil. I had a pleaseant experience dunking some Maryland cookies in some milk in 2003. I won't forget that in a hurry I tell you. You are also wise to warn of the perils of biscuit eating. Everything in moderation. You only need to dunk a few., Don't go mental and eat the whole pack. You know what they say. Biscuits don't kill people. People kill people. Wise words.

Wow...bags of broken biscuits! I had completely forgotton about them. I would always rummage through the bag to find the best ones before my brother ate them, but sometimes he would pre-empt me, and would come along and lick all the best ones then put them back in the bag. HOW DARE HE DEFILE THE BUSCUITS !! I think I might buy a nice selection of biscuits, cut out pictures of his face, tape them to the biscuit packets, then get a baseball bat and smash them to bits. Then lick them all, then maybe wipe a few on my arse crack, then bag em up and send them to him as a mystery gift for valentines day. Hopefully getting my revenge will help me deal with some of my unresolved internal biscuit issues.

Venus Petrov wrote: Ginger is a guy? HI Venus. 1985 wants its joke back. Comparing Ginger Nuts to a red headed males testicles has made you look like a noob in the world of biscuit based discussion, I suggest you have a long hard think about your biscuit related comedy material before you dare show your face in this thread again. Thanks. :smileywink:

I saw this question a while ago on a website. It has plagued me ever since. It's a tricky question, I have spent many a sleepless night pondering it. The choices are endless and there are lots of factors to take in to account such as taste, structural integrity, crumbage thresholds and don't even get me started on the physics surrounding dunking.. So after much deliberation I am proud to announce to the world that my favourite biscuit is - Drumroll.........................Ginger nuts!! (although I am partial to a nice jammy dodger). What's is your favourite?

I feel your pain and share your grievances. I have been selling prefabs since 2005. I used to focus heavily on the noob prefab market back then and had 15 builds suitable for 512 sqm plots. When Linden Homes launched, LL went into direct competition with me and they won, sales on 512 sqm builds dropped by nearly half within 6 months of Linden Homes being launched. I had to switch my focus to bigger builds to fill the gap. They were/are offering 512 sqm plots with double the prim count! How can we compete with that? They awarded themselves an unfair advantage. New users who would normally have spent that premium 512 sqm land allocation on a mainland plot and bought a prefab were effectively hustled away by LL. In one move LL gave a big "F U" to the prefab sellers, furniture sellers and land renters. However, for people like us who have been around for a long time doing business in SL, we should have learned a fundamental lesson long ago, and that is LL will try and bone us at every opportunity. A key part of doing good business here is having the ability to be adaptable and to roll with the punches. Eventually we will all take a punch on the chin and LL will knock us out cold, but for now I'm gonna keep on dodging and adapting. Good luck with your future projects. Sounds exciting.

Those comments you quoted Phil were me being sarcastic. I still think her blog should be included, if not just for the entertainment value and the arguing in the comments section.

Yes, I take nothing away from her passion and commitment to SL and to her blog. And as much as I dislke her due to a bit of a forum fued we had many years ago, I still read her blog whenever there is an update. so she is doing something right. Sarcasm aside, she does deserve a place along side those other bloggers you mentioned.

Conifer Dada wrote: I was in one of the public sandboxes once doing some work. I had dark glasses and a baseball hat on and my hair tied back in a bun, and was wearing shorts and a crop top. A very short, very fat and very ugly woman came over, wandered around a bit and then said to me 'you look stupid!' and wandered off. Another memorable thing was when I was at a beach. A fat, bald man turned up, dressed in a tiny red thong. I looked at his profile and there was a picture of him in real life - a real fat, bald man in a tiny red thong! I sense a common theme in your stories Conifer, and that is you seem to attract wierd fat people. Are you sure you didn't accidently sit on your dinner one day and have been walking round with a pork chop stuck to your bum ever since? that would explain it. :smileywink:

Surely the only SL blogger worth mentioning is Prok. If you want unbiased and constructive opinions delivered with zero drama then that's the place to go. :smileywink:

I've found internet/text acronyms are evolving beyond my ability to keep up now. I was having an msn conversation with my 16 year old nephew recently and I didn't have a clue what he was going on about half the time. Thankfully I have unrbandictionary.com to fall back on in emergencies, however, I'm only in my mid 30's now, i'm worried that in 10 years time I will have completely lost the ability to communicate with anyone born in the 21st Century.

Yep, as ZIggy said it is against the rules. You should flag the item for takedown, choose the option "disallowed listing practices".

Tateru Nino wrote: No, he didn't actually - though it is widely said that he did. He said that SL would remain the primary focus of the Lab - and that they would be hiring some extra people to work on non-SL projects. Did he? Oh. LOL. Well I haven't got time to sit around reading blogs all day learning the "facts". I'd rather pick up tit bits of misinformation from unreliable sources, run it through my Porky filter and spew it out the other end straight onto a forum with the vague pretense I know what I am talking about. That's just the way I roll. :matte-motes-big-grin:

Rod told us in his blog that the Lab would be focusing on projects not related to SL. Maybe he neglected to mention that they would be spending all of Q1 focusing on new projects and would pop their heads back in to SL around Easter to catch up on a bit of paperwork. It would explain the eerie ongoing silence on the blog front, plus we know how LL corporate culture works, employees are generally free to choose the tasks and projects they work on, so maybe when Rod said "who wants to work on something new" everyone just stood up and charged for the door.