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Prokofy Neva

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  1. Have your own room in a quaint Bed & Breakfast home with breakfast and refreshments in the living room, your own private room and a locked private skybox with security above. Ideal way to live! Self-join group, refund any time. If you rent again elsewhere in our system, you will get a manual refund of the early cancellation fee. We spoil you! Teleport to Grote Art work by Caly Applewhyte and Milly Sharple
  2. $155/200 Great deal Lovely waterfront on sailable Linden sea on a Hidden Lakes peninsula in Sansara. Enjoy the nearby Land Preserve Self-join group, refund any time. Management prims don't count. Teleport to Hite Waterfront
  3. I hadn't heard of Gooseberry. Is this some kind of RP community where you RP families, town life etc? Or are you just looking for a house in a nice area whether or not you know the neigthbours? Those prices do seem insane unless that covers a lot of activities and RP stuff.
  4. I already have a store like this in Atis with a SORRY WE"RE OPEN sign out front where I sell postcards, envelopes, stamps -- no one ever seems to buy them! You would think they had some other electronic means of communication or something! That they are too young to remember the thrill of a letter in the mail! Nowadays, people would never trot around the grid collecting stamps, right? In fact, no one ever gets anything in this store because they click on things and get transported to strange places! What am I doing wrong?
  5. This is a parcel by our Land Preserve sites in Atis and adjacent Tofalar. Lovely peninsula, sailing, nice neighbours Teleport to Atis 3,424 m2 $25,000 $7.3/m
  6. In order to jump into the ponds at the Woods Between the Worlds which take you to worlds like Narnia or Charn, you need to put on the yellow pond ring, which has the script inside to take you to the place (a teleport experience). So people readily get these rings (or the Dinkie necklace) and go on the experience. I think people would do this. I don't see how "Experiences" could be structured other than enabling on land. And people won't want to discover the hard way that they have to block all kinds of Experiences especially of the BDSM or war game variety on their land simply because now they can openly run wild throughout the grid.
  7. I'm trying to brutally remove all those just-in-case uglies that I haven't used in literally 15 if not 20 years unless they have some antique value or personal meaning. Elsewhere in the news, some people think this is a good time to download copies of all your textures on full perms you have purchased, and scripts well, not to mention mesh daes. I personally don't have time for this but I may do a bit of it.
  8. T.S. Eliot Burnt Nortion I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. But to what purpose Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves I do not know. Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, Round the corner. Through the first gate, Into our first world, shall we follow The deception of the thrush? Into our first world. There they were, dignified, invisible, Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves, In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air, And the bird called, in response to The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery, And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses Had the look of flowers that are looked at. There they were as our guests, accepted and accepting. So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern, Along the empty alley, into the box circle, To look down into the drained pool. Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged, And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight, And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly, The surface glittered out of heart of light, And they were behind us, reflected in the pool. Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty. Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children, Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.
  9. I use the official SL viewer and that's all I wish to use, I don't wish to use Firestorm for many reasons. If I have to do some serious search work, e.g. looking at my own land parcels I've put in search/places, which I can't usefully see on the official SL viewer (!), I go to Alchemy which has the best, neatest, cleanest search results I've seen and I'm content with that. The only down side to Alchemy is that I can't get it to search groups for names, even just partial names (the SL viewer won't let you search on a pasted-in name, it shows "0" -- you have to coax it with just a few letters of the name). It works fine, and doesn't have the down times and glitches that Firestorm and others do. No doubt the view of the world is better or richer or whatever on other viewers but I turn all that stuff off anyway as my graphics card isn't the greatest.
  10. I have a Narnia quest that starts in Winnipeg in the Garden House and travels over other sims. It is mainly based on C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew (you must find your way to the attic and to Uncle Andrew's study, get the magic rings, then get to the Woods Between the Worlds, where you will jump into different ponds to reach various worlds. The main quest involves getting to the orchard with the Tree of Life and an apple that will heal Digory's Mother as in the Magician's Nephew story, but you can also just wander freely through the areas and not do the quest and find little gifts as well -- there's the dead world of Charn and other scenes from the book. Along the way, there are parts illustrated from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (you can go to Mr. Tumnus' hut) and also from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Felimath). There are also worlds to visit that aren't in the story but I just put in from other stories or made up (Dragon's Lair, Raven's Rest).
  11. I can't think of a single other product, platform, metaverse, thing, whatever where the chief entree into the world is developed by third parties, and the platform provider is happy to let 90% of the user base go on that other viewer/gateway to the experience. They do more than just save on dev costs. They shift the blame for failures. And they let copybotters hide behind a TPV.
  12. In the Soros foundations, this concept is called Other People's Money. Program officers loved OPM -- they could get other people to pay for things and merely add their luster to it. It seems to me OPM only works if you have at least luster or *some* start-up cash to bring to the table, however.
  13. You know that mantra about "a fish without a bicycle". That's me, without a mobile viewer: ) I literally cannot see much of my phone in RL, let alone use my thumbs to text like the more advanced primates can.
  14. OK, go and look at those teacups I discussed on Twitter and tell me if you see the same thing I do because they're in PBR.
  15. Unity? Unity?! The devs I know in Unity are without jobs now.
  16. Isn't it a serious matter not to have a VP of Engineering? Or is that a ceremonial post? I didn't get that impression at all from Oz Linden who was very hands-on, in-world, with visible office hours, etc. Yet they left his position open for months on end, and somehow the underlings soldiered on. I realize there is this view that SL is held together with a wing, a prayer, and 72 miles of duck tape and bent staples. But...really? They moved to AWS servers where there are plenty of grown-ups, no? The old Lindens used to say that trying to fix SL's mess and technical debt was like "trying to swap a plane engine out while it is flying". I just don't know. In some ways it does run better than it does in the early days when they would even send reimbursements to customers, the outages lasted so long -- for days. It more or less works, no? I mean I'm easy to please, I don't need any of this stuff they've added like PBR.
  17. Dave Grohl's play was one of the things that got me through the first bad years of COVID. It's not quite as long as a Dead "drums 'n space" but it's better -- and he's playing all the instruments. Dave Grohl is my hero! Of course, now that I've met Alazarin Mobius in SL who plays original material live, Dave's luster is somewhat dimmed but still...
  18. I'm really sad about Mojo because he had this vision -- there it is! -- in the gleaming distance -- on the yawning heights! -- of a Mainland where a preview would roll out in front of you as you drove along seamless roads. Of course, some people pointed out that you actually don't WANT to see that much Mainland up close or in a preview or at all lol. Still, it was a vision of a contiguous world which was really great to see after 20 years of it dying in stages.
  19. So Raj Date was originally described as joining the Linden Lab board by Daniel Voyager, citing an old Linden Lab "about" page and also by Crunchbase. He's listed on Tilia's "about" page as a board member. On his Linked In, he mentions he is a board member "to present" at Tilia, but doesn't mention Linden Lab. Make of it what you will.
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