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Harper Held

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  1. virtualverse has the greenest grass of all! 🪴
  2. I went from Tonic Fine body to Legacy, but I'm not sure how long Legacy is going to be around for. I was browsing this part of the forum hoping to find some signs for what I should jump to next, actually.
  3. My personal roman empire? - Open source 3d content (yeah, that Rome has definitely fallen) - Posting on metaverse forums (that Rome was sacked by the barbarians of Xitter, tiktok etc)
  4. I'm no historian apart from spending too much time watching documentaries and reading wikipedia (that is NOT a substitute for actual peer-reviewed research and/or academic credentials) but the impression I have is that it's not the *Senate* (who were the Roman Empire's politicians) but it's the *Patricians* (the roman equivalent of "Citizens United" and other lobbying groups and think tanks). In case I'm not clear -it wasn't the politicians that mattered, it was the folks who held the purse strings that mattered. "a tale as old as time", and one we're reliving (just as we're reliving the collapse into another dark ages). "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"
  5. WHICH griefers? Do you mean the organized ones, or the ones that just trotted around and played with old KG scripts? Do you mean the ones who were attending college? I mean you're gonna need to be a touch more specific here, Love. Honestly, I think all the griefers probably left years and years ago (when's the last time anyone saw a lolcube? Been 3 or 4 years for me -if not 5) and now all you have a people locked in bad RP 'griefing' people they've been in equally bad rp with for 15 years or more...
  6. Not as bad as it was in the years leading up to Gamergate, though? I'm not willing to assert that too strongly, mind you; I'm aware of their role in the disinformation campaign of 2016 and after. But before gamergate they didn't even pretend to not allow doxxing etc. 4chan was brutal in the early years, yeah; and a lot of the techniques that stalkers use today were invented there. I think that activity has moved to facebook groups, obscure subreddits and lesser-known chans; but I could be wrong.
  7. It really is forums versus inworld, and to be honest no, SL is pretty tame compared to many other online problems. Of course, it is still the internet so you have doxxing, stalking, etc but thankfully that's died down since 2014, 2015 or so. I think as forums as social phenomenon have dwindled down, so has the toxicity. Most of the venom has gone over to Twitler and Feacesbook and tiktok etc etc.
  8. If more than 120 words presents a challenge for you, may I suggest Twitter as an alternative?
  9. Naw, there's too much emphasis on looking how you do irl in sl as well and I think it's *****ed up as well as being a waste of opportunity. Realism can be more immersive, obviously, but it's not something that I think is good to emphasize without also encouraging people to turn into whatever furry/non-human thing they want to turn into.
  10. I'm certainly not looking forward to wrap my head around using this, that's for sure! Hopefully it ends up being as easy to use as materials turned out to be ...and not unholy Satan Incarnate to create as mesh turned out to be!
  11. I hope so -time will tell, of course. A lot of the people I know in-game are older, retired and/or on fixed incomes and while I happily bought a new machine last year (my previous one is one of the 2017 models mentioned earlier) I was in a lucky spot financially...I hope that my 4gb-video-card using ass isn't chased out of the game by PBR [edit]: and I hope that the people who are going to events, tipping venues, and basically giving folks someone to talk to in-game (chatgpt isn't quite there...yet) aren't pushed out by PBR too.
  12. Did I mention that we're having an economic downturn and a large swath of LL's audience will be tightening their belts -not plopping ~$400 for a new computer? No? Sorry.
  13. So, I'm sure that I'm missing something important here? But it looks like LL is culling the number of users who will be spending time and money on SL by de-facto requiring new hardware ...when the trend for ages has been for people to replace their desktops with tablets and mobile devices...? Meme related:
  14. As far as I remember, he didn't compile an entire wikipedia-style database...
  15. That's about the time that began to be a very real concern, if I remember right; not just with them, and not just with SL but the beginning of the whole internet doxxing trend which Social Media has of course only made much, much worse.
  16. I tried finding superhero stuff (costumes, GL rings) for tooling around the mainland -everything I found was either broken, dated circa 2012 or both. Then I had to abandon my mainland so I no longer give a *****. 🤷‍♀️
  17. I take that back -I'm not finding anything worth posting over there; the archive is sporadic and there's a LOT missing. Most importantly almost all of 2010, which is when the JLU brew-ha-ha went down. Here's the most useful addresses if anyone else feels like digging their own rabbithole: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/ https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/
  18. The archive is sporadic, and lacks images. The original address was sluniverse.com; I don't remember if there was a /forums after that or not; but plugging that into the wayback machine ought to point you in the right direction at least. [EDIT] You know what, I"m just gonna do some digging and I'll post the results on Virtualverse one (I suspect we're getting closer to Mole intervention in this thread than I care to risk).
  19. vv1 is largely quiet, reddit is a sewer, opensimworld is a horrible combination of the two. So if I wanna talk virtual worlds, by and large my choices are here and here....
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