Harper Held

Please wake me up when we get to the "fun" part of the proceedings... Honestly, and this might be inappropriate sentimentality (ie rose colored glasses) speaking, but it seems to me that things were a lot more fun pre-mesh. If nothing else because people could be shooting the ***** and then just whip together some wacky ephemeral build that had nothing to do with anything but what they'd been talking about. I mean injokes and things. As mesh upped the barrier-to-entry (skill needed, time needed, upload costs) it feels like SL (and Opensim) has lost the majority of that "wacky"/"because we can" fun energy that it used to have. SL is now srs bsns and srs bsns sux

Ooo! Ooo! Do Plurk next!

Or, as Todd Rundgren put it:

Oh dear god yes it does hahaha!

I had to look up "lumpen" to make sure I was using it correctly. The defination I found, which I think is "close enough" was: Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class." In modern usage, it is commonly defined to include the chronically unemployed, the homeless, and career criminals. From Wikipedia See also, "Blingtard" 😈

Like being a lady or a Dominant; if you have to tell people that you are...you probably aren't. Personally, I wouldn't look for smart folk in groups labeled smart folk. I'd figure out what smart folk do (readings? literature? historical persuits?) and see who consistently turns up at those events... Then again, maybe that's why I'm not one of them; well that and my lack of skill and education of course...

Intelligentsia divorced from the lumpenproletariat is both irrelevant and redundant. Personally? I'm less worried about virtual world intellectualism more worried about real life anti-intellectualism.

Just got the mention @Scylla Rhiadra and it made my week. Thank you! I have nothing going on LOL which means nothing to say most days though I came by today to ask for feedback on a new computer. I spend enough L$ on skins etc I should spend more time showing them off here. 💕 "The good old days" of 2010/2011 taught me the importance of OpSec and minimal attack surface. Lotta fun times, a few genuinely scary people and my favorite are the ones who fell somewhere in-between. As for 2030? I didn't expect to live to see 30; I just turned 55 irl. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Art is political; I assume this means we can't talk about the SLEA in the forums now either...?

Tolerance implies putting up with, Social Justice implies rights, which are inherent to human nature. Also

It's been 14 years and I'm still miffed that name was being squatted. Not surprised, of course, but yeah...

The beatings censorship will continue until morale the dialogue improves...

NOR CULTURED! HAHAHAHA VERY FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

u wot m8?

Less than they did just two months ago... 😥

I don't know -it's a huge world, isn't it? A big wide multiverse -an entire virtualverse.one might even say. I don't look to these forums for political debate. Those very rare times I wish to read the specifics of the collapse of western democracy I know where I can go. That's not what I'm in SL for, though, myself.

I just meant as far as controversies go, this is a bit of a nothingburger. DG is nice but I won't be shutting down my regular grid for it.

Meh. Whatever.

Myself, I'm a part of a couple of communities and have access to land on a temporary basis. I have to admit to some creative restlessness and a general fomo kinda itch that's in my head telling me i could get a homestead for a couple months or an 8192 that no one would ever visit or ... or... or... At the same time, other than building I'm spending 9/10ths of my time doing the same thing that I did when I had land and premium; shopping, visiting people, and going out dancing.

So...two weeks later.... Anyway. I had a bunch of mainland and had to get rid of it because of a combination of a budget miscalculation (I thought I was more broke than i was) and my RL best friend asking me uncomfortable questions like "you're spending $100USD a month and getting what, exactly? This is better than your opensim vps how, exactly? For this much cash couldn't you save for a better computer?" and I don't have a good answer...an answer I felt was solid and I felt I could defend. I'm going through a lot of angst about that now, a couple months later. Part of it for me, personally is FOMO and not wanting to regret missed chances when I'm living under a bridge in a few years. I'm sure that's leading to a lot of distorted thinking and perceptions on my part. So, idk; I guess I'm saying that I can relate and going through my own version of it. It's been some time since you posted, @Marianne Little, and I hope if nothing else the health issues are easing up for you.

I saw three camping chairs at 7 Deadly Skins and thought that was a blast from the past...

Haha don't get me started on opensim! rn I've got active "Han Held" accounts on like 3 or 4 grids, not counting my own grid ofc... so much for the hypergrid making logins obsolete!

It's true! I have my 2005 acct in most of my SL families and we end up bickering. What is it with alts that makes that so fun? 🤣