Prokofy Neva

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.

Unity? Unity?! The devs I know in Unity are without jobs now.

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.

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...

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.

The targets are more likely rear-end targets, Qie.

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.

If was most definitely not at the very beginning in 2004-2005. They began developing it later -- I believe by 2006 when they began to feel the pressure of all those businesses and people who hate to type -- and yes, like all things, it didn't work so well at the beginning. It was a third party which they may have bought out, not sure. There was a very bright highschool boy named Jesse who worked on the beta testing of it, who sadly was killed in a RL car accident. And Joe Linden, who I used to call the only adult in the room as he was an older man, supervised Voice but he died in RL of a natural causes.

"Bellicosia" is among her best gems. She really should go on tour! This is why I keep urging people who keep defending the system and those ostensibly serving it simply to go there -- and go there multiple times, on different days of the week, in different time zones and just see what you see. The good news is that they are accepting new applications but yeah, nobody has head of this if they don't read the forums (most people) so I have been going around telling various groups like Mieville. I had a report of a small black cat high up on what was described as a "stanchion," which is a word I had to look up, observing the scene.

The Honorary Consulate in Titania is based off Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream If you talk to the chatGPT character Bottom, he will answer in Shakespearean iambic pentameter. Inside is another character, Changeling, who speaks only in limericks. The sim is in Bellisseria in M. There is are two BBB stamps (including a special one for Valentine's Day that ends this week!) and various freebies (including special love potions that end this week).

I have a free, open-source rental script with configuration cards which you can get for $0L at my shop in Ross It was originally scripted by Hank Ramos who later released it on all perms but in the last 10 years it has gone through many other iterations to add the following features: o refund with small cancellation fee o if there is a refund error, owner gets a message "You failed to pay [avatar] [x] amount." o grace period of 2 days with texture for different state o fixed to ensure that if new owner picks it up it will force a re-set when rezzed out o sends regular notices to pay, then expiration notice It is not attached to the web but that reduces the elements of it that can be "down" or break. If it is returned from a sim, you can put it out again and it still shows the paid status and the avatar who paid it. The one problem I see with it occasionally is that if someone pays way ahead many months, and the Lindens reset a sim in time even slightly during a restart, it will not refund correctly, although you have "My Accounts" as a back up. You'll need to add your own texture for the outside with your brand which is the rentthisspace texture inside the box.

It's not just tough, although not impossible, to automate with only like a chatGPT. It also doesn't scale if hand-tooled like this. Hence the entire thing we're reading here.

I would suggest the following for you: o Go to this particular Exhibition hub and spend perhaps 15-20 minutes in the morning -- come back again in the evening. o Go to some of the other Bellisseria and Mainland welcome areas, but focus on the ones with mentors, which are the newer ones o Do this about 10 times or even 20 Then come back here and see if you will still spout the same opinion. That's all. Go and visit these places, put in the time, observe, take notes, come back. That's what some of us here have done. Have you? If not, go and do so. The mentors are IN the new welcome hub so of course it's related.

I literally had to try for days on end to fill up my Med with prims!!! And this is even a venue open to the public with various freebies etc. I had to start putting in somewhat primmy landscasping like this Hayabusa tree with crystals because my God, how can you not use up the prims on a Linden home!!! I was even going to try to sneak in a third KittyCats... There's also a nice pond nearby and my 7Seas barrel reaches it! Yay! This is the Honorary Consulate of Titania, and Bottom (Cica Ghost's Donkey Boy) is at the door ready to answer your questions in perfect iambic pentameter.

I personally won't be using this ban system or any ban system and my lands are all open to the public always, except to select rare griefers who get put in the land ban list manually for cause, by me or a tenant. Question: does your system used shared ban lists? That's really the operative question with all these systems.