Prokofy Neva

It's because, as in the movie Chinatown -- remember? -- *Slap* "She's my daughter AND my sister." The residents become Lindens. The residents become Moles. The residents become Lindens and Moles and marry each other in RL.

I personally criticize the high prices of Arcade and think they helped ruin gatcha culture, despite originally starting off well with 25L gatchas. $100L gatchas destroys the point. In fairness, the HUD system they have devised is really the only way you can go with this sort of new restriction. It enables multiple people to play the same machine. And yes, it shows what the next one is, in compliance with the rules, and also shows a line-up of what is coming next, so you can decide whether to keep playing a few rounds to get the rare for certain -- or not. I don't see how else they could solve the problem of a crowded venue and the new rules without the HUDs.

I think everyone should ask themselves "Why do we have children in SL?" and also "Why do we need children in SL?" The answers will be different for different people. I personally don't have positive answers for these questions which can't be argued freely and in good faith on the forums in any event. The wrangles about short anime types or fears of vast multitudes of sims like a ride at the county fair ("You must be THIS tall!") are a distraction. It's not about the avatars. It's about the content and what they do with it, and where it is -- adult in G -- or, in a new twist, G in adult. Lindens police A in G assiduously, usually with the help of people with rivalries or revenge-seekers looking for an easy way to AR someone they don't like for some fairly innocuous crime like swearing or putting out a classical painting. But this story is about G in A, pretty much (read my blogs). Back in the day, certain famous child avatars fought a war upon the creation of Zindra to allow child avatars there. Many people thought this was counterproductive, asking for trouble, and special pleading. Yes, I recognize they were fighting more about the principle of allowing "G in A even if A not in G" rather than yearning to sit bored in a strip bar with a bunch of AFK avatars and pretend it was fun. I thought it was an easy call for the Lindens to say "no," but they didn't say "no" and left it up to individual venue owners and private properties to file ARs if they didn't like the child avatar or what she was doing on their lawn in Zindra. I think generally, child avatars haven't been much of an issue in Zindra -- it's more in G and M. But it is time to bring up the issue of "G in A" regarding content of this nature. Certain interest groups imagine that the effort to define the problem of "G in A" bogs down on the judgement call "but this is just a short anime avatar". But I'm sure the Linden lawyers will "know it when they see it."

When you have disorders and conflicts like this in an organization fraught with "Founders' Syndrome" (which has good or bad elements in my view), more than even finding facts and resolving conflicts this one time, you need to have a conflict management sytem in place in general. So like the states of Minnesota or Alaska, or Russia under Yeltsin, or the New York Times, Linden Lab should put in the office of an ombudsperson. This person hears complaints and then negotiates around them and sometimes makes public judgement calls, sometimes not. It could be less grand, and merely be a complaints procedure with some reliable trusted staff person or even outside figure or company. The situation appears to have arisen because some staff or contractors couldn't make known their concerns in a safe manner without jeopardizing their jobs. Even if their claims of retaliation or threats are exaggerated or untrue, they still to have a place to go with complaints. This is very basic in labour relations. The entire thing has the feel of an obscure furry vendetta precisely because there were not channels for safe and reliable resolution of conflict except 'taking it to Twitter". So I hope some process like this will happen and a person is put into place. For extra credit, customers could also come to this ombud, but that's a separate opera.

Actually, he said exactly that, and I quote, emphasis added: " While early preliminary internal investigations suggest that some of the accusations are unfounded, I want to make sure that we get additional investigative support externally to ensure that the process is fair and thorough."

It's a good statement, and checks all the boxes. It's good to say right off both that allegations are unfounded (they were very poorly sourced and sketchily linked) AND that the investigation still continues with outside firms, although we don't know their quality/track record. My one objection is the use of the common euphemism. It should be spelled out for the violation it is of standards in RL law, even if not in the US, but in EU/Asian/etc countries.

I recently went shopping for owl wings and was disappointed. They were either expensive ($1400 for a basic system, $700 for an owl add-on) or reasonable $700 or so -- but wouldn't stop flapping and weren't that controllable. Maybe the era a great wing contructions has passed? But I will probably buy the expensive system because of its versatility.

Go to more than four select weekend sales per week.

Then we need some shotgun shacks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house

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

$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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

But was that due to PBR or other reasons?

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.

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.