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April 19, 2019

Another vote for open-plan houses. While I'm not planning on moving to Bellisseria, if I was an open-plan houseboat or house would suit my needs best. (Need a place to put the pose-stand and studio background)

Oh and another thing. I'd like to see LL put some kind of device at the "Social areas" like the pools, where one could "rent" the ability to set the local stream for an hour Pay your L$, and the device asks you to send the stream URL via a channel and then sets the parcel stream to that URL. When your time is up the parcel URL is set to the default again. Note that I'm no script expert who knows if this is actually possible. I even wished they had done something like that at the old social areas in the old linden home areas.

April 18, 2019

1 hour ago, Blush Bravin said:

not necessarily want their homes open to the public or prying eyes.

I have two of the new Linden Homes. I would love one to be open without any boundaries but I would like one to be private. I'd like to be able to retreat to my private dwelling without having to be on the lookout for interlopers.

You can't really stop the prying eyes. But I'm going to say something that might assuage your concern a bit. Think about the demographics of who is moving into these homes. What Belliseria has is a bunch of people who wanted the Blake or Bay City lifestyle, but were turned off by the buy-in. You've got a bunch of girly-girl fashionistas (and couples) filling up their cozy little homes with gacha'd tchotkes and putting in little gardens and whatnot. And you've got some similar folks moved into the boathouses with their quality sailboats and motor vessels. These are long term residents who have premium accounts and who spend money in SL. These are not the sorts of people who interlope, they know the customs of SL.

And outsiders to the continent? Well some of them are similar to the people who live there and will visit and socialize. I don't think most griefers are going to waste their time messing around with private residences when they can head to a social venue or Caledon Oxbridge when there's no local "bouncer" around

21 minutes ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:

I suppose it's too much to ask that people at least wait until the orbs are available, see how they work, and THEN complain?

Just had to do a bit of a joke: Oh my sweet summer child....this...is...SL. If the Residents pulled out the pitchforks for introduction of direct teleporting, the introduction of free accounts and the changes in stipends, the removal of ratings, the removal of dwell,...well, there's going to be friction about the issues we're discussing. (I only read about the first two, but I experienced the rest)

April 18, 2019

Hartnell - Community Pool http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hartnell/87/158/21

Calm Waves - Lighthouse and one of those mini-boathouses on an island, suspect it will be a future rez point: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Calm%20Waves/220/171/22

Residentia - Public deck area with picnic table and a few chairs, South across the channel from the above lighthouse: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Residentia/203/7/22

Yuge - Small beach with deck chairs and towels to sit on, suspect this might turn into a rez point for Yuge http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yuge/47/37/22

Glibson - Small beach with chairs and one of those road "roundabouts" nearby, suspect it will be a rez zone: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Glibson/148/16/23

Myopia Falls - good sized Beach with just 2 towels to sit on: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Myopia%20Falls/21/24/22

Kuga - Another lighthouse island with beach, towels, picnic table, chairs, etc: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kuga/53/78/21

Bellaire - A cozy little spot with a gazebo and two benches near one of those road roundabouts: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bellaire/78/97/34

Deckard - A garden shed, workbench, and sitting bench near the bridge: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deckard/186/57/29

Deckard - Small pier with a few chairs near the bridge, there's another similar one across the waterway: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deckard/194/128/22

Deckard - Another small sitting place near the "river" near the small bridge with a good view of the larger bridge. Note that this small bridge prevents further water travel up the small "river inlet" to the northwest. It might be a good idea to replace it with one of those bridges that can be raised and lowered like in Bay City. This one is also near one of the road roundabouts: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deckard/47/109/22

Moretti - And if you travel up that waterway you will reach an area with two small docks/piers with seating: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Moretti /102/72/25

Libria - Beach at the south end of the Inlet, this one has one of those trellis things, benches, and towels: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Libria/175/163/22

Montag - Beach at the end of the above inlet with towels, bench, and float rings. The rings are actually a rezzer! There's a road roundabout nearby, suspect this will become a rez zone for boats and cars: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Montag/52/184/22

Ness - Rest area with picnic tables behind some rocks near a road roundabout: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ness/52/61/22

Ness - up further north east through the protected land there's a gazebo trellis with a bench: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ness/111/134/25

Ness - and further north east there's a small beach behind some boathouses with loungers and towels, it is near another roundabout, a pathway from that roundabout leads to ANOTHER roundabout: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ness/160/191/22

Wheelhouse - Beach on a peninsula, Loungers, towels and a tube rezzer: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheelhouse/233/27/21

I've turned into a AAA guide. Oh for those who don't know the AAA is the American Automobile Association, a motor club that started publishing road maps in 1905 (back then not all roads were automobile suitable), and hotel guides in 1917

April 18, 2019

I am finding this thread....interesting. Now perhaps I've lived a sheltered Second Life, but I've never used security orbs, or ban lines. In fact, some of the places I've had parcels in, ban lines are forbidden as are security orbs below 512m. I even leave rezzing on for non group objects.

The lack of them hasn't bothered me because I haven't felt the need for them. In all my landed years in SL, the number of times I've had interlopers on my personal property is less than 10. It was often a curious newbie who didn't know the ropes, and I gently explained to them the concept of private parcels. They usually TP'd out heading to someplace like the Caledon Oxbridge, The Shelter or NCI, that I directed them to. When it wasn't a curious newbie, usually a direct "this is my private house, please leave, would do the trick followed by an eject if necessary. I've only had to add one person to a ban list on one of my own personal parcels.

I've been an Estate manager as well, and I rarely ever had to use such powers to get rid of interlopers, more often troublemakers were disgruntled estate residents causing "drama".

So I must admit I'm finding it hard to believe that the lack of ban lines or limits to security orbs will lead to a plague of trespassing. I don't know what kind of SL some of you live in, but that sort of thing is rare in my experience. SL is full of oldbies who know the customs. Sure there's people who grief, but they tend to do it to social venues where they have an audience, not personal homes. (And I HAVE had to remove people from social venues) Heck, I haven't been griefed in a Sandbox in years, and in the old days that wasn't uncommon.

April 18, 2019

24 minutes ago, anna2358 said:

20 meters sea level to 80 meters lake level, sounds like a Canal with locks to me. Great opportunity for a nice bit of Mole-engineering, and maybe a toll-gate.

They can't do that because water level is set and determined on the Region level, not parcel. I wish the latter was the case, then they COULD do locks. This is one of those cases where the infrastructure decisions they made come back to bite them a little, though I understand why they did it. So there'd be "some" regularity instead of every parcel owner setting it different.

April 18, 2019

I said this 6 months ago on Reddit when the SSP regions were first spotted:

That's a lot of docks, and what looks to be like seawall protected marinas on the coasts. But the problem is, it's not connected to anything. The Lindens made a HUGE mistake in not defining/sequestering parts of the grid for THEIR EXPANSION, so now there's private regions half-hazardly scattered everywhere instead of say confined to the West, or East or whatever. Which now leads to Sansara-Heterocera not being connected to Nautilus/Blake/Corsica/Gaeta/Satori, or anything being connected Jeogeot. Heck Gaeta 1 is still unfinished and unconnected to Corsica.

What I think LL should do is move all their continents in proximity and connect them up with waterways and whatnot, shifting all the private lands elsewhere. Imagine being able to sail or fly from Bay City to Nautilus and the Blake. Or take a jaunt from the Blake and sail into the big lakes of Sansara.

Also wrote this on VVO last month:

What's sad is, even though you'll be able to sail from the south coast of Sansara to Jeogeot, you won't be able to go from Jeogeot to Bay City or even Heterocera because there is no inlet into the interior waters of Sansara on the South coast. They could do it if they added some more water regions from Omoo, up to Bleaberry Tarn in the Northeast. Or a similar waterway up the southwest side past the snow regions to Nonantoia (if that one river in the snow regions is navigable) or further up to about Keltham. And they would have to add regions, the existing navigable coast line is either too narrow or nonexistent.

As I discovered, they'd have to go up to Keltham because the southern lakes and waterways in the snow regions aren't navigable from the sea or the other waters of Sansara because of the altitude difference in water level (high 80's vs sea level) and the dams.

Also some of the interior passages in the west of Sansara NW of the Snowlands are VERY narrow and have right angle turns and there are overzealous orbs and nasty ban lines near region crossings.

April 18, 2019

5 hours ago, Kyrah Abattoir said:

A few zoned plots residents can rent provided they provide some sort of community services? (Might require some serious zoning rules ...)

Gas station

Thematic landmark

Cafes

...Stores?

Rez zones

This is starting to sound a lot like sim city hehe.

On more practical issues, i noticed some of the mesh trees and bushes actually encroach on the roads and are very much colliding with tall vehicles.

Your proposal sounds like "Bay City". As I've been saying, anyone who's kept their ears and eyes open knew there was an untapped demand for Bay City and Blake Sea living...without the huge buy in those areas have.

I also noticed some problematic trees and bushes.

April 17, 2019

45 minutes ago, Leora Jacobus said:

Just now I wanred a home and ONLY the old ones were offered!

Seems they have run out by now!

I was wandering through Belisseria and ran into a couple who'd just got one. The fellow teleported a friend in and was explaining how Linden homes worked and he couldn't get one of the new ones. So apparently yes, they have run out (AFAIK, check with the Lindens to be sure) unless someone abandons one. As I said, a LOT of people were wanting a Bay City/Blake experience but couldn't justify the buy-in.

April 17, 2019

1 hour ago, Marianne Little said:

Land with water for sailing, not just water to look at, is expensive.

VERY expensive, it's why I'm not in the Blake! (Or Bay City)

April 17, 2019

I'm loving all the imaginative uses of the spaces and taking advantage of what prims you have effectively. Well done people, much better than I have done up on my 2128 up North in the Hidden Lakes area. If those houseboats had been announced (and the fact that they'd be placed in a continent like Belliseria) alongside the tier changes back last year, I might have held off and not picked up my mainland parcel and got one of those instead. Belliseria is just that nice.

April 17, 2019

On 4/16/2019 at 9:05 AM, Coby Foden said:

My house is located near the sea and I can launch my boat from there. When I want to go sailing I just rez the boat on the parcel with the boat stand. Then I just hop on the boat wheel and the boat starts launching itself towards the sea. However the distance to the sea is a bit too much for automatic launching and thus I need to give the boat a helping push with edit.

I passed by your house wandering around. When I saw it I said "Well look at THAT one, that's nicely done, very attractive."

As for my opinion of the continent as a whole. Rez zones are needed at those little boathouse shacks they have set up, and at the lighthouses and some corners. They also need some land based rez zones. While the community areas are nice, they have the same lack of community control that the community areas at the old Linden home continents did. However there are more of them and they're logically placed.

And while you can sail from Jeogeot to Belliseria and then on to Sansara, there is no access to Sansara's many interior waterways from the South! (and those southern lakes are separated from the northern and western waterways by those dams because the water level is higher than the rest) It could be done with added water regions up the northeast side of Sansara from Omoo up to Bleaberry Tarn, and up the northwest side of Sansara up to Keltham. If that was done, one could sail from Jeogeot all the way to Heterocera.

Overall Belliseria has a sense of cohesion the old Linden Home continents didn't, in fact in some ways it rivals Bay City in that regard, but doesn't have Bay City's non-residential infrastructure. I would suggest creating a "city island" off to the side of one of the coasts in concert with a Bay City-like resident group. That could be the place with an airport and city style infrastructure a la Bay City, while keeping the Linden homes..."Linden Homes"

And also Belliseria gives residents a Blake/Bay City style experience....without having to deal with the HUGE buy ins in those areas. Really, the reason's I got my parcel in the Hidden Lakes when the Premium Tier bonus went up (and they dropped the price of an additional 1024) instead of the Blake or setting in Bay City and hanging out with Marianne and company, was because of how expensive the Bay City and Blake parcels were.

I would also suggest that LL look into linking Heterocera-Sansara-Belliseria-Jeogeot with Gaeta-Nautilus-Satori. LL should have sequestered private islands FAR away from their own continents in the first place, reserving the area near their contients for their own expansion. If they had done that we could have had interlinked continents ages ago. Imagine being able to sail from say Bay City, or my parcel in the Hidden Lakes to the Half Hitch in the Blake!

September 8, 2018

I'm hoping they connect it up with some other land somewhere.

Of course I also hope they eventually connect a finished Gaeta1 to Corsica and Gaeta5 and eventually connect Corsica/Gaeta/Nautilus/Blake/etc, with Sansara/Heterocera.

I also want a BEELION L$ and a Pony.

September 8, 2018

On 8/15/2018 at 3:38 PM, Phorumities said:

If you sign up for premium today, regardless of the age of your account, your stipend will be $300 L per week

Umm no, what stipend you get depends on your registration date. I joined on July 19th of 2006. I didn't go Premium until December 22nd of 2011. I get the blessed 500L$ stipend of the Oldbie Elite. ?

On 8/15/2018 at 3:43 PM, LittleMe Jewell said:

We've actually had people state here in the forums that they experienced it differently if their account is old enough for the higher stipend. However, what seems to be unclear - or maybe not consistent - is whether they only get the higher amount if they were premium before and left it for a while or if first time to premium gets the higher amounts. For first-time premiums, we've heard it both ways, so not sure.

I can't say for sure either since I have no plans whatsoever to EVER stop being Premium now to see if I get the blessed 500L$ stipend if I leave Premium and then later return to Premium status. I can't really, I need the group slots and my primary Home/studio is on my mainland parcel.

On 8/15/2018 at 3:52 PM, Phorumities said:

Note, Those are the dates you became premium, not the date you signed up for second life

Again, I only went Premium in 2011 and I get the blessed 500L$ stipend.

On 8/16/2018 at 12:24 AM, AnyaJurelle said:

Anyway - someone's got to keep SL's economy afloat, right?

Indeed

On 8/19/2018 at 12:01 AM, Garnet Psaltery said:

I've had Premium membership since my arrival in 2005. I ran through the scary Welcome Area and went immediately to buy First Land (formerly provided special empty mainland 512s for newbies). I've enjoyed the stipend and most other perks ever since. Downgrading is unthinkable.

/me high-fives Garnet.

On 8/23/2018 at 5:28 AM, BelindaN said:

This talk of "the mainland"??? Is this somewhere I can't go as a basic member?

Mainland generally refers to the big Linden-owned continents of SL: Sansara, Heterocera, Satori, Nautilus, Gaeta1, Gaeta5, Corsica, Jeogeot and so forth.

And yes, there are places that you can't go as a basic member. For one, the Premium sandboxes. And for another there's some Premium Experiences. those are the game type things like Linden Realms. Magellan's Grid Hunt and Racer's Gulch are Premium Only

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What's the big attraction???? I appreciate that as a newbie I don't know much, but the worth of Premium just passes right over my head.

Premium gets you:

1024 of tier free land. Meaning you can own up to 1024m2 of Mainland without paying extra fees. It used to be 512m2. The free tier can be applied to getting one of those Linden Homes, which are currently only 512's, but will eventually go up to 1024. One note about Linden Homes, the LI of the actual home supplied by LL does NOT count against the parcel LI, only what you personally rez does.

A stipend. Every Tuesday, LL will give you 300L$ to use as you wish, and it's worth about 62 US$ which somewhat offsets the $72 yearly fee

For those of us with the older higher stipend who pay yearly, the value of the L$ is higher than what we pay for the Premium account, currently the L$ is worth around 104 US$. So yes, if I didn't buy L$, (and hadn't upgraded my tier level to 2048) LL would basically pay ME to use SL.

Premium users get 60 group slots, Basic's get the standard 42. Those extra group slots are worth it alone. I would do almost anything to get even more.

Premium users get Voice Morphing as part of the benefits, which is normally 8US$ a month.

Premium users get Premium support, which means the same live chat options Concierge users get. I have used it, now and then, it's been helpful.

Premium gifts, a few aren't half bad.

September 8, 2018

On 9/2/2018 at 7:31 PM, LordHappycat said:

This is not a good way to make money though. This is a good way to make people think twice before buying more lindens.

Oh it might, but it's not going to stop the superconsumers of SL who swarm C88, Uber and whatnot from buying a metric bleep*ton of L$ Those that even pay attention to the change are probably just going to buy L$ in larger amounts rather than buying smaller amounts more often.

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Linden Labs is not thinking very smart and this is a prime example.

LL IS thinking smart. They've been extremely reliant on Land income, too reliant. This is one way to spread out their income stream a tiny bit. And as you know they've been trying to increase the number of premium accounts by increasing the Premium Tier allocation and adding more premium perks.

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I've sank probably $150 ~ $200 at Linden Labs where I was happily giving $5 here and there from different periods of time when I wanted to do something like mod and shop.

Oh, My Sweet Summer Child... I probably spent that much in my first WEEK in SL back in 2006....just thinking about the times I've hit that Cute little buy L$ button and how much L$ I've bought. I easily spend that, a year, just on L$. Not even counting the Premium account and the extra money to take my total tier allocation up to 2048.

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There were no stupid fees preventing me from this.

There have always been fees for purchasing L$, well at least as long as I can remember.

September 5, 2018

1 hour ago, Phil Deakins said:

But the word 'many' hasn't changed, the word 'perhaps' hasn't changed, and the word 'most' hasn't changed.

You're being autistically pedantic with me, which is being argumentative, don't you think? We both know that words modify meanings when used together, which is why a "cat house" and a "house cat" are two VERY different things.

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If you want argumentative, you need to do better than that. But, better still, it's best not to be argumentative just for the sake of it at all.

I wasn't being argumentative, I was calling you out on more on your overreacting and ignorance.

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Nope. It looks like an advertisement, and that's a fact, not an opinion.

It looks like an advertisement...to YOU. Don't you understand that it might not look like one to others? After all your experience isn't others experience. Which definitely makes it a difference of opinion, right?

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I didn't bother reading the rest of your post, because it became clear that you are just being argumentative for sake of it, instead of discussing the issue reasonably.

You should read it because otherwise, you're basically going "I don't want to hear what you have to say or admit that I might not be particularly knowledgeable about the modern SL fashion economy and culture so I'm just going to cover my ears and go LA LA LA LA"

49 minutes ago, Phil Deakins said:

we only get things like someone throwing in the fact that language evolves, as a way of being confrontational, but, ridiculously, picking the wrong words for it. It's kind of like handbags at 10 paces these days lol. What they've never seemed to grasp is that, when they resort to getting personal, they've lost.

Don't you think that might be just a little bit "Getting personal" on your part there?

I'm going to say this again: You overreacted and are making a mountain out of a molehill. You go on about favoritism, not understanding how the modern SL economy makes such things practically impossible. Xiola's picture and post is not the end of the world, the sky is not falling.

September 5, 2018

2 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

You see, Tari, votes don't change facts, no matter how much you'd like them to. They didn't change facts when the vote was overwhelmingly in favour of 'many, perhaps most' actually meaning 'the majority', and votes don't change facts in this case. There are votes on both sides. The votes are opinions, and the votes in this case aren't far off being even.

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that language is static. It isn't. The usage and meaning changes. You don't seem to understand that in regards to the term "man,y perhaps most", usage has changed. For example, there's a word used in the UK that is often used casually as a synonym for "cigarette". It is NEVER used as such in the states because it is often used as a slur. Now if you were to say "facts don't change" and try use the word in the US in the manner used in the UK, don't be surprised when some Americans would get rather angry and be very insistent that you don't.

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The thing about that is it looks for all the world like an advertisement. There is no denying that. I questioned it because of what it appears to be. There is no denying that either.

You seem to be under the impression that your "opinions" are "facts". It looks like/appears an advertisement to "you". You seem to have a broader view of what is or isn't an advertisement than most. After all Xiola bought those things HERSELF at Uber, she wasn't given them, she bought them. She's not like one of those sponsored bloggers, she paid her own L$ for those items. If anything the picture was more like a review than an advertisement. More "I like these things" than "someone paid me to wear these things." That's what makes the post not an advertisement.

And as I said, should Xiola stop buying resident made items at all? I mean after wall, what if someone seens her, they might interpret her wearing ANYTHING as endorsement. I know, she should be forced to wear a Primitar or Ruth!

1 hour ago, Phil Deakins said:

Some people in the thread (inc. me) have said that, in their opinions, it's perfectly fine for an LL employee to plug whatever they like in other online places, such as their own, or other people's, blogs, but not in an official LL property such as the LL blog. I'm still concerned.

Why are you concerned. SL of 2018 isn't the SL of 2006. Pictures of Xiola wearing items from Uber aren't even going to be on the radar for hordes of residents. There's plenty that if you said the name "Xiola" to...they wouldn't even know who she is. And even for those of us who call ourselves "fashionistas", we already KNOW about Truth, Neve, Gos, and Blueberry and have a very high probability of already owning items from those stores. And I DO own items from ALL those stores and was at Uber earlier today picking up some demos. You...are not a fashionista, you simply don't have the frame of reference to know that those brands are already well known. By wearing those brands...well she can't really be promoting them very much since they're already Big Brands, and uber is a "Big Event"

LL engages in promotion all the time in the marketplace banners. Right now I see pants from Addams (which you've probably never heard of) and shorts from Blueberry in the Featured items at the top among other items. Considering how detached you seem from the current SL economy I wonder if your views on this have been set in the past when things were different.

Well things HAVE changed now. This isn't the SL of 2006 and certain people should just stop bringing up "FIC style conspiracies" and reaching for the torches and pitchforks every time LL tries to do a good thing. Every time this happens LL pulls back and STOPS doing the thing that would HELP promote SL. SL isn't a democracy, it's a private company. IMHO LL should have NEVER started calling us "residents" in the first place, it's given too many of us feelings of entitlement and ownership that make us sometimes overreact badly to decisions LL makes. This is what you have done. You have overreacted and are having a "LL shouldn't be playing favorites/creating a new FIC" moment. But this is the SL of 2018. With the shopping economy of SL being what it is, it's pretty much impossible for what you are worrying about to be an actual problem. Which means that we and LL don't need that overreaction in the SL of 2018. The sky isn't falling because Xiola posted a pic with a style card of items she bought at Uber.

LL SHOULD be showcasing interesting and good content, and that's what Xiola did. And as I said, she basically does that any time she's seen in public, since some of us "fashionistas" would immediately use the What Is She Wearing HUD on her the moment we see her.

September 4, 2018

On 9/1/2018 at 5:36 AM, Phil Deakins said:

@Xiola Linden

Xiola Linden just posted a blog which is nothing other than an advertisement for what I assume to be a couple of private SL businesses. One is Uber, and the other is Blueberry main store. Are they private businesses? I hope not because I hope that Linden Lab is not going start using their blog for blatant advertising like that.

Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, Don't you know what a OOTD/LOTD (Outfit of the Day/Look of the Day) picture is? Not only that, but it is Xiola, well known for shopping. I've personally referred to her as the "Fashionista of Lindens" since it sometimes it seems she's the only one that doesn't look like she time traveled from a 2006 era sandbox.

On 9/1/2018 at 7:08 AM, Akasha Sternberg said:

Maybe she gave the outfit to Xiola - maybe Xiola bought it...

I do actually like the increasing activity of Lindens - Dakota posts on the forums, I ran into River in a photo groupchat inworld, Xiola blogs - it makes them more real and not some abstract bot employee... We all do have private lifes and professional lifes (even if your profession is being a home-manager).... Yeah of course they could create alts for that but they shouldn´t have to...

Most likely Xiola bought it, she's mentioned that she shops like we do.

On 9/1/2018 at 7:26 AM, Phil Deakins said:

The thing about Xiola's blog entry is why. Why post it at all? Is she starting another thing like Pic Of The Day? She hasn't said that that's what it's about. To all intents and purposes, it's just Xiola using the official LL blog to say 'look at me', and 'here is where you can buy the clothes if you like what I'm wearing'.

Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, you don't KNOW? Xiola is a Fashionista. Pixel Vanity is a thing. She IS saying look at ME and here's where you can buy the stuff. But it's Xiola, she shops, a lot at many places. Practically the first thing I have done upon seeing her is to check out what she's wearing and use the WISHW Hud on her. Should she only wear things she makes? Because to fashionistas like me, she's a walking showcase of stuff to take a look at.

On 9/1/2018 at 7:35 AM, Phil Deakins said:

I'm not a shopper, so there's a lot I don't know. But Uber and Blueberry are the ONLY places mentioned where she got the stuff.

Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, this is why you're seeing "FIC" in something that is rather innocent, you don't enough of Girl Fashion World in SL to read the style card.

On 9/1/2018 at 8:02 AM, Skell Dagger said:

The fact that one of the very few Lindens who actually has an interest in current fashion does the same thing... why the hell does it matter? What matters is that one of the biggest 'industries' in Second Life is being used to draw in new users.

Adam & Eve and Nylon Pinkney made early default starter avatars. People fussed about favouritism back then. Strawberry Singh and Winter Jefferson (both well-known bloggers) also feature heavily in Linden advertising, especially so on the Marketplace banners - and again there's fuss about favouritism.

Do we really want to go back to the days when less fashion-savvy Lindens did all the advertising, and we had monstrosities like the one below 'showcasing' what was possible in Second Life?

CC approves +10. Totally agree, we do NOT want to go back to those days. Xiola doing this is...in general, a good thing. It's not favoritism because it's Xiola, who is known as a shopper in general. She wears all kinds of things.

On 9/1/2018 at 8:18 AM, Phil Deakins said:

It's that what is promoted on private blogs does not give the appearance of being official Linden Lab endorsements. Imo, Xiola's offical blog post does give that appearance. If I were in the clothing market, I'd feel like being up in arfms about the favouritism.

It's not favoritism because it's Xiola, who is known as a shopper in general. She wears all kinds of things. If it's favoritism then her wearing ANYTHING that wasn't made by LL itself is showing favoritism. Should she become a primitar or be Ruth so as to not show "favouritism"?

On 9/1/2018 at 9:09 AM, Garnet Psaltery said:

I didn't even notice it was from Xiola as it had that same 'model-with-photoshop-skills-and-a-need-for-selfies' look.

Ha!

On 9/1/2018 at 9:47 AM, Magnek Fang said:

"Gee, I wish the Lindens would pay more attention to us."

*LL does so*

"OMG Favoritism!"

I know, right? Anytime LL does something to showcase good stuff in SL, some oldbie crank time travels from 2006 and essentially goes "FIC"! This is one reason why we can't have nice things.

On 9/2/2018 at 3:25 AM, Phil Deakins said:

1, 2 and 3: I'm not aware of any of those things ever happening. I'm not saying they didn't but I don't believe I ever saw any of them.

Oh, my Sweet Summer Child.....

On 9/2/2018 at 4:48 AM, Love Zhaoying said:

Xiola’s too busy shopping. ?

Probably, it's what she does.

On 9/2/2018 at 8:48 AM, Phil Deakins said:

I never saw the marketplace promotions because I've shunned the marketplace from its start. The other 2 aren't solid

That's land. Merchants are different. I don't see any way in which LL favouring certain, presumably the bigger, merchants can make more money for LL,

Okay, you don't know about fashion, you don't shop and you don't use marketplace? Did you just time travel from a sandbox in 2006? LL gets a cut from Marketplace transactions, didn't you know? LL gets a cut from the L$ purchases on the Lindex of all those girly girl shoppers that they spend at in-world merchants...and the marketplace. Having MASSIVE amounts of content encourages all those girly girls to shop like madwomen. There's a reason why SL is still the Queen and Champion of virtual worlds.

On 9/2/2018 at 11:42 AM, Marianne Little said:

This crap is craptastic. I always said Lindens should be more inworld, shop and live like one of us.

This part I agree with, and yes the fuss some oldbies are making over this picture might discourage them from doing more of it.

On 9/3/2018 at 7:50 AM, Phil Deakins said:

The "best customers" are those from whom you earn the most money. LL's best customers are the very large land-owners, and not those who remove the most money from SL. LL could be earning very little from those who take a lot out, making them very small customers by comparison.

Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, you have some very big blinders on there. Where do you think the Land Barons get their money to pay LL from? SL is an almost pure trickle-up economy. The Land Barons are essentially middle-men. The important people are the ones PAYING the Land Barons. THOSE are the people LL needs to keep happy. How could you not know this?

On 9/3/2018 at 8:31 AM, Blush Bravin said:

Let's just see how many residents we would have if there were no merchants in SL! Linden Labs best customers are those who keep people logging into SL not who pays them the most money individually!

I've said for years that the Land Barons are middle-men, that the really important users are the ones who pay the Land Barons and shop like madwomen. Because it's their L$ that trickles up, that fills LL's coffers.

12 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

I'm reminded of a ditch I was in from waaaay back - back in the days of RA. It seemed like the entire forum population was against me - and they were all wrong. It was all about what the phrase "many, perhaps most" actually means. What it doesn't mean is 'the majority', but they all insisted that it does. It does mean 'perhaps the majority', but they all insisted that it actually meas 'the majority' - no maybe about it. They were all wrong, of course.

Hello, Sheldon. And by the way, to most people "many, perhaps most" does mean a majority, because a majority is 51% or more. and "many, perhaps most" does imply more than 50%.

8 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

hehehehe

He he he.

41 minutes ago, Phil Deakins said:

No Tarani. The Blueberry part was a red herring but Xiola's blog is still an ad - until she, or someone, explains what it is. That's what the thread was about.

It is a simple OOTD/LOTD post. Outfit of the Day/Look of the Day post. No ulterior motives need to be involved. You're reading too much into it.

3 minutes ago, Sandy Schnook said:

I know I probably shouldn't chime in. But seriously, if clothes in a blog from any creator on any site, makes Second Life look like something interesting that someone completely new wants to try, I'm good with it. More people in SL can only benefit the entire SL economy.

Darn right!

February 9, 2012

Plenty of "haute", though it tends to be priced a little higher than the quality level would dictate some of the time. I too recommend a trip to Vita's Boudoir, though those twins LOOOOVE their alpha perhaps a little too much. I have an outfit with a 1.5 million ARC that uses a Boudoir Gown. And don't forget Paper Couture in Tableau.

February 9, 2012

There are LOTS of quality skins out there, many have been mentioned. I am picky so I continue to wear my 2010 vintage 5th & Oxfords (sometimes layered with MOCk makeups) Curio's are nice, but they make me look too young as do many other of the more popular skin lines. Some have been listed that are new to me, always good to hear of new skins.

February 9, 2012

I almost always change on the fly where I'm at, a piece or two at a time, or using "outfits". I would be wasting a LOT of time if I had to keep going home to change and then returning to my previous location. Though if I'm working on a special outfit for a special event, I'll often be back in Caledon trying various hair/shoes/skin till I decide on the exact lok an daccessories.

February 9, 2012

Simply put SL is GPU intensive, integrated graphics aren't really enough, though that depens on your hardware. Some integrated solutions are probably better than my GT220.

For my sake, On Linux most viewers seem about the same on my hardware. LL's own viewers tend to look a touch nicer, and Firestorm has a slightly higher frame rate but it's not a big difference: I personally either recommend LL's own viewers (I use Snowstorm development releases myself) or Firestorm.

CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor (2800 MHz)
Memory: 3011 MB
OS Version: Linux 3.2.3-2.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 3 20:08:08 UTC 2012 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2

OpenGL Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10

February 9, 2012

There's some in-world tutorials and schools as well, but Nexeus Fatale has some very good info:

http://nexeusfatale.com/?cat=4

That link WILL work. Most of t he pro DJ's I know in SL use SAM because winamp+shoutcast DSP is rather limited, the Linux using folks like me use IDJC.

September 19, 2011

I would love to see more modern tailored stuffs.

I agree on wanting more events to wear little cocktail dresses to.

September 19, 2011

That's a very nice skin in that photo.

I don't represent a race different than I am...for one I wouldn't feel comfortable doing so and back before I found my one true skin maker there weren't that many good non-caucasian skins anyway.

September 19, 2011

RL fashion, usually. Though since I'm one of those who changes clothing....a lot....it can change depending on what I am doing or where I'm at.

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