Persephone Emerald

Illegal *where* in RL? Prostitution is legal in some places, even in the US. Phone sex and porn is legal in the US, which is essentially what SL sex is. On the other hand, wearing a bikini or kissing someone of the same sex in public are also illegal in some RL counties.

Oh my gosh, are there helicopters in SL that can play an annoying warning about a man in a hoodie who police are searching for? p.s. I hope they don't scare the cows. 🏠 🐄 🐄 🚁

It's a good thing I don't know where you live, Zali. Else I might be tempted to buy adjacent land and put a bunch of cows on the edge, looking moournfully at your lovely green grass. 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄

If that happens, we'll have bigger problems to worry about than whether we can play in SL or not.

I'm starting to think LL should have left airspace between 1000 m and 2000 m open to public movement, but they aren't going to change this now. I agree that people should be able to keep others out of their property, even if it's rented virtual space. However, I see no reasonable reason to teleport them home, unless that property is on a private estate. Bouncing them to the closest public land would serve the same purpose for protecting one's privacy. Oh, but some people want to inflict pain and suffering because someone dared to step a virtual toe onto their virtual property! 🙃 In RL there are laws against this. If a teenager drives onto your driveway, comes up to your front door and knocks on it in the middle of the night, it is illegal to open your door and shoot them. It doesn't matter if you thought they were there to harass you or not. You also don't have the ability to send them home or even to punt them into the public road that runs in front of your property. 🙄 I purpose that LL should disable the ability to send others home on Linden owned land. They are the owners and landlords of this land, so they would be within their rights to remove this ability. People could still use banlines or zero second orbs to bounce potential intruders to the nearest public land. Estate owners would also still be able to send people home for any reason and to allow their tenants to do the same. p.s. My primary reason for suggesting this change is so new users won't feel like SL is a hostile and unusable environment. I don't care if you don't like newbies. Linden Lab needs them to keep SL profitable.

No.Match has a problem with how it uses dots and underscores in naming. If you search for the store inworld and search for "No Match", you won't find it. You have to search for No.Match. If you search for specific hair on Marketplace, you have to use the underscore, such as "No_Explosion".

Maybe there needs to be a way for you to get a concealed carry license?

My stuff is secured, so I'm not worried. I used to get tremors on mainland from time to time, especially when I'd been moving land around. Since I lived near the center of the dormant Heterocera Atol volcano, I figured it was from that. Thank goodness it never erupted. I think Belli is built on a chain of pretty recently surfaced volcanic islands though. Mt. Soji is the largest of the volcanos, but I saw one in Fantasseria and I've heard there are volcanos in the Log Home and Chalet regions too. Honestly, I'd be more worried if I lived in a Stilt Home, because that sand doesn't seem like a great base for houses and people keep talking about islands sinking into the sea.

Kids selling candy bars to pay for camp, JW & Mormon missionaries going door to door in Bellisseria.

Treehouses are the recent addition to the Fantasy homes.

Sailing or boating in general Floating in an inner tube Using the natural water level for ponds or swimming pools Linden-interactive items such as clothing that changes textures to look wet

No. Cat-speak for bird is "ek ek ek ek".

I did that at work once, and my lead reprimanded me for it. 😄

Before Bellisseria, and especially before the original Linden Homes, most people went Premium so they could own land. I've had mainland on 3 different continents and rented out parcels on 2 of those land holdings. I had over a quarter region the first 2 times, shared with others. My last land was on Heterocera a few years ago, which I sold to a neighbor. Owning mainland can be very rewarding if you enjoy landscaping it. Finances and boredom just gave me reasons to try Bellisseria. p.s. Obviously, there is mainland owned by people who went Premium. There are also obviously many people who rent from mainland land holders and estate owners. Those of us who shop or do roleplay might need more groups, but not everyone does. How many groups did Basic accounts get before? I can only remember having 42 as a Premium member.

While one could find and buy a 50 Li house, the houses in Bellisseria probably average around 300 Li. I think my Shelly Victorian is over 340 Li.

Aren't Bellisseria parcels essentially double prim too, since the houses and controllers don't count against one's alloted land impact? Then we have fencing, hedges, and other landscaping that is also free.

As of a few minutes ago, there was 1 Ranch parcel & 2 Mediterranean parcels available. I hope the Moles release more of both this week.

For every person who enthusiastically reports someone not following the rules, a Governace Linden will cry 😢 about all this stupid work they have to do.

If hair is rigged but still texture modifiable, you may be able to make parts of it temporarily invisible by selecting pieces of it and setting them to 100% Transparent. When you want to show the rest of the hair again, set it to 0% transparent. I often do this with strands of hair that cover the eyes, not to mention tenting hair to exactly the shade I want.

At this time, alpha testing of the mobile app is only available to Premium Plus accounts. However, the alpha mobile client is bound to be very buggy. Hopefully, when they have a beta version ready, they might open up testing to regular Premium account holders. @Love Zhaoying, has access to the alpha mobile client. Maybe he or others who are testing it can give us some feedback? Or they might be held to a NDA on discussing it?

My alt Alycia has been wearing one of the numerous No.Match group gift hairs, called No_Explosion. They have very many styles for African hair. This one that I love on her comes in 2 parts. The part close to the head is mesh braids. The optional add-on is long mesh curls at the back (almost like flexi) that can be a single color or with wilder colors on the ends. I add one of the Lelutka BOM hairbases for gorgeous black baby curls around her face. Since No_Explosion comes in 2 parts, I think one could wear the mesh scalp braids and add a bun or fall, if one wanted a classy updo. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/174575 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/nomatch-NOEXPLOSION/23259049 No_But looks cute too https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/nomatch-NOBUT-all-COLORS-DEMO/24947973

The Firestorm viewer is not a Linden Lab owned viewer. The best place to give input on it would be on the Firestorm website. Each time a new version comes out, there are plenty of comments in the comment section for that release.

Well, yeah, of course. If someone can afford to buy clothes for Jamie or Blake, then they can afford to get a LucyBody Atenea, a DNA male mesh body, or one of the $L1 Legacy TMP bodies, and then get free or sale clothing for those. Why spend money on a sub-par free mesh body when there are better-looking mesh bodies with better-looking mesh clothes made for them? I don't mean to disparage Jamie and Blake. I think they're very good starter avatars. But they are *starter avatars* for newbies who haven't decided they want to spend real money on playing in SL yet.

I never said land flippers were a problem. They're just part of the SL economy. People who want to get rid of land have choices in how to do so. People who want to aquire land have choices in how to do so. Both include selling to or buying from land flippers. If people don't want to pay a high price from a land flipper, they can request abandoned land, talk to their neighbors about buying their land, or buy land when it's priced lower. LL is already involved in Adult regions with Zindra & Horizons. Since they apply a lazze faire attitude with these, they could apply the same attitude with another Adult residential continent. Horizons has some problems, but occupancy isn't one of them. As long as there are people who prefer to live in Adult regions rather than General or Moderate ones, LL won't lack for users who will pay Premium to have a home in such a region. LL doesn't need to worry about losing Mainland tenants to Bellisseria, because either way they make money. The people who might worry are estate landlords. When the old Linden Homes were created, many Mainland landlords suddenly lost their market. Those who were able to offer a better experience survived. The net result was better housing choices for users. Capitalism at work. Meanwhile, LL can sink the old Linden Home regions when they become empty enough, but they can't sink empty regions in the middle of Mainland. They need to do something to keep those regions paying for themselves, but I don't think it makes sense for them to have different rules than the regions surrounding them. When LL created the old Linden Home regions, that had never been done before. When they created Horizons, that had never been done before. When they created Bellisseria, that had never been done before. When they created Linden Home demo regions, that had never been done before. When the created the new Welcome Hub, with different kinds of SL experience demo regions, this had never been done before either. After 20 years in the virtual world business, they've learned a bit about what works and what doesn't, and one thing that they know doesn't work is refusing innovation. They also know not to invest time and money on every wild scheme that someone suggests.

When SSP on the names & colored region markers are gone, check to see if they look done, then request the parcel you want through Premium Plus customer support. ( I don't know the specifics of how to do that.)