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    Pics of Nude Avatars as wall art inside a Bellisaria home - violation?

    in Linden Homes

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Pussycat Catnap said:

    This makes me wonder if there will ever be Linden home regions that are General rated.

    If not planned yet, and I didn't actually miss finding them, I recommend such a product - maybe on a smaller scale than Bellisaria though. Plenty of people, not me per se, who I imagine would that.

    I'm reminded of a Child Avatar friend I had many years back who came to me in a panic when her neighbors started blasting XXX-content and doing 'avatar on animal avatar action' when they found out she was a Child AV (this was in 2009 I think; before all the privacy settings existed - so they were deliberately trying to create a situation where they could AR her).

    Had to show her how to abandon land and then we went shopping and found a great G-rated sim surrounded by other G-rated sims... but the amount of land like that is limited and not always nicely themed...

     

    Phew I missed the 'good' stuff, I was busy in 2009 and was absent from SL a while. What horrible neighbors :(

    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted · Edited by Therese Tammas

    23 minutes ago, Mollymews said:

    the pic posted by Chic is from years ago. Newt Gingrich is some person's hero in that.  Not sure how helpful it is for  ancient pics like that to be posted.  Mainland today is nothing like that these days as you have discovered and shown here, so good on you :)

    the Linden approach to mainland governance and management changed considerably for the better when the Linden Department of Public Works was initiated, and has just got better and better from my own experience dealing with them. Pretty much my mainland support tickets have been resolved to my satisfaction within 24 hours. From region restarts to buying abandoned land 

    When was the LDPW created?

     

    And yes =D maybe reposting again but here's another mainland parcel of mine, in Bay City (pic is slightly older but still good...it's changed a little configuration-wise from the other day to today but house, grass and hedges, are  still there and waterfall is still there)-

     

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    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted · Edited by Therese Tammas

    And guys.... 😂 I guess I went all in...spent 8,800L approximately today--

    8,000L for a 1024 sq m of mainland, for an office for my new mainland appreciation endevour;

    and 800L outfitting new alt....

    have a friend who is making a HUD, potentially, so if it comes to fruition, I'm so excited! Meantime Prokofy gave me a thing that I can use 😮 that will work as awesome, Prokofy again thank you!!!

     

    Lololol here she is at the new office...she's not sure of the animesh grandpa in the background...

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    Coming soon with more details as I sort things out, so excited for this!!  And hopefully we can work with MAS and LRC on stuff too! 

     

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    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    I decided to make a group, Mainland Appreciation Society, if you want to join.

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    Unfortunately it's not showing up in search yet so IM me for an invitation and then you can invite others.

    It's going to be awhile before I can hold meetings but it's a start.

    Joined!!

     

    It was so nice to meet you @Prokofy Neva Was fun traveling today! Lol loved that punch!

     

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    The great Prokofy and I sitting punch and worshipping the Lindens.

     

     

    And thank you soo much for the sign!!! OMG can't wait to use it!!

     

     

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    The Linden Road Community Presents 2019 Mainland Halloween Tour

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    On 10/2/2019 at 10:49 AM, ChinRey said:

    I think you forgot one of the most important points, Asadora. If merchants were allowed to promote their store through the tour, there would be so many of them everything else would drown in the masses.

    Still there is value of having a focused tour on homes and living on Mainland. There are hunts and events already for stores for both Mainland and Private Sim.

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    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

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    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    Historical Hunts is a group of sims that have various RL historical themes from the Middle Ages and also various times in history like the Ottoman Empire. They put on various themed hunts and marketplaces every year, i.e. Renaissance or Silk Road (currently it's Halloween).

    Woodbury is a very long and complex story (and simply misreported, and deliberately, by publications like the Chronicle of Higher Education). Basically, it was a group of students and drop-outs at a suburban California commuter college who rented islands in SL supposedly for educational purposes, but who heavily griefed people in a variety of ways, used malicious scripts, crashed sims, and stole copyrighted material -- all with the connivance of their professor and dean who found such "transgressive" behaviour something interesting to study. They were related to 4chan and Anonymous, the forces that have caused so much havoc in RL, although a lot of fake stories are put out about their supposed altruism and working for good causes. The Lindens wound up confiscating their sims -- and multiple times as they returned on alts. There were a number of leftwing professors who backed them and gave them positive press and also Linden programmers who identified with them and covered for them, but in the end, a crashed sim is a crashed sim, and copybotted items are copybotted items, and Philip Linden pulled the plug on them -- and rightly so. I was one of the dedicated abuse-reporters of this group so they targeted me and my tenants for all kinds of bizarre harassment.

     

    You're a fierce old-timer sir. And good grief can't believe the amount of  things people would actually do to make fun or hurt Second Life fans. No wonder we're so private and not so keen on public media.

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    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

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    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    Jack Linden, God bless him, took four very long years to declare ad farms illegal, when it could have been done on day one, and saved the Lindens' bottom line to boot. I recently came across my photos of them at the time -- don't forget initially, they appeared because abandoned land chunked automatically into 16m squares (!) under the hugely hippie crazy collectivist belief that people would just take a few they needed for prims and leave them empty. Sigh. Then they stopped doing that crazy thing, but then land barons themselves chunked them up to force sales.

    I'm glad you pointed out the very salient fact that land barons were needed to hold the tier on all this craziness, and did.  And yes, it was indeed enlightened self-interest but I think some of them genuinely wanted to see a decent Mainland. The problem is the unenlightened selfish land barons who didn't even need the money -- Mr. Lee's Hong Kong told me in RL once at a conference that he was a highly-paid computer professional who just enjoyed watching what happened when he set 16m parcels to sale next to my waterfront rentals. Indeed. 
     

    GTFO is, on the one hand, a welcome thing because it "gives people something to do," it engages people in building and driving and exploring and such -- I had some tenants who created GTFO warehouses on my rentals. BUT the big problem with them is that they create huge, ugly warehouses on a sim, often by waterfront and roads, of course, and that brings down the whole sim. So it's a mixed bag. Not to mention their blighting of the map with their insignia. GTFO is everywhere, like Tiny Empires even though it doesn't offer any cash value, as I understand it, but is something to do. Maybe someone can beautify GTFO and get them to plan trees and put ponds on their big warehouse sites, but it's not really a solution for Mainland beautification.

    As we've said before, the main problem with the group claiming to "salvage" and "beautify" microparcels is that they put up these ridiculous, stupid, ugly plinths with these ridiculous, pointless "good neighbour" aphorisms that leave out even the basics, like not building over two storeys. They are absolutely impervious to common sense or entire sims of people pleading with them to remove these idiocies. They are as bad as the Bush Guy in their way.

    Haven't played GTFO yet, but I was thinking there should be a version, "Get the Milk Out," For roleplaying deliveries of regular things like eggs and milk, and cat food, to residents? And yes, the warehouse thing I noticed too. The same people who like to play aren't necessarily the ones with the aesthetic sense, which is okay,  but then someone has to try to offer to help them, maybe.

    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    This, although not so nuanced yet, is also what makes sense to me @Prokofy Neva. ALL Of your post. You are right!  Also with the advent of Strawberry being hired and similar people like her, and with Patch, I think the community aspect is coming back. The Blogger Network is an amazing idea that could not have happened without hiring Strawberry.  I think Bellisseria has a huge chance for success too, because of all the factors you describe. I'm really excited for everything, everywhere in Mainland!

    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Pussycat Catnap said:

    Oh yeah... yesterday I noted Arbor project, intended as an aside but I noted them too much so it became the topic... Arbor Project was big in cleaning out a lot of that image... :P

    That said... that sort of stuff is exactly what I am starting to see more of in mainland, albeit not like this at all. These days... I see ONE of those signs and it's freakout time because they had become so rare over the years after Arbor Project AR'd so many of them.

    As for houseboats with towers on them... that's what Blake Sea is good at. Then again you can get a linden houseboat for the cost of a premium account. A Blake Sea houseboat... 90,000L is considered a cheap 'fire sale' price for a plot there... O.o

     

    I remember mainland like this! For years I avoided it like the plague cause of this. But yes it is so much better now I don't ever see these horrible prims anymore when I was exploring and usually when it's a giant for sale sign it at least looks decent...they're more tasteful these days. I think people overall are mindful now, and also I think you get people, like me, who go over from being Private Sim all the time and are mindful of trying to keep things pretty

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    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted · Edited by Therese Tammas

    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    There's a group called "Mainland First" that is mainly moribund now, the founder, who was once very active with all kinds of public venues left SL in frustration. The Roads group is rather sectarian. I was expelled *I think* because I criticized those idiotic "good neighbour" pillars they put everywhere that in fact blight the landscape. So a new one should be made for a new generation.

    OMG the great and infamous, famous Prokofy Neva, hello sir! 😍 Nice to meet you!!

    Great! I was thinking of starting small, maybe a Flickr account getting the old Mainland Flickr groups active again, but eventually scale up to offer a teleporter HUD (need to find a scripter, and also save money for said scripter lol) that would be updated for free and distributed regularly, for free, as a community resource. Start light, start with a common interest, start with beauty, I say. If anyone's interested joining up this and:

    • Doesn't take themselves, OR Mainland, OR Second Life too seriously, but  also takes it seriously enough to treat it with love and respect;
    • Shares the vision that, no matter what continent you are in, whether you're from Zindra or Bellissaria, we're ALL Mainlanders
    • and we ALL love mainland and what's awesome about it!

    ....  I'd welcome the help, and friends come to think of it, too, lol.

    I'm on nearly every day, and work somewhat European-ish hours while residing in New York (you want to know what I do for a living don't you?)

    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

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    Posted · Edited by Therese Tammas

    9 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

    It may work if they enforce the covenant. That's what went wrong at Nautilus City. It started off as a lovely themed area but most of the inhabitants couldn't care less about the theme and LL didn't attempt to enocourage or enforce it. So it ended up as a slum. Yes, there are actually even uglier places on mainland but not many and the fact that you can still see remains of the beauty that once was there makes it so much sadder than seeing the Mainland wastelands that enver were any good anyway.

     

    Yes agreed!

     

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    Even if Bellisseria manages to keep its consistency and don't go out of fashion, it's still not for everybody. It's high lag, rememeber. Emtpy it's about the same as the old Meadowbrook sims, which is bad enough, but whereas the Meadowbrook houses tend to be sparsely furnished, the Belliseria ones tend to be loaded to capccity with the most render heavy furniture and garden items you can buy on MP. I'm sure Bellisseria is great for those who have high end game computers and for those who can tolerate 32 m draw distance and/or single digit fps. BUt that isn't everybody in SL and the rest have to find some other palce to go.

    Okay :).  Maybe it is. Let's not pick sides, let's not decide whether something is empty or not, we're all Mainlanders right? 

     

    Just became a Mooseheader hehe, this parcel is so cute!

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    Bay City

    in Mainland

    Posted · Edited by Therese Tammas

    *Waves shyly* Hi, I just moved to Moosehead!

    (Pardon the HUDs lol, didn't realize they made it into the shot until now)

     

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    Bay City

    in Mainland

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Vick Forcella said:

    Please visit this website. One of the contacts is no longer active (for now) on Second Life and that's Uccello. About once every 6 months everybody will get evicted and people can re-apply for a place.

    Thank you! I will contact one of the Harbor Masters!

    Bay City

    in Mainland

    Posted

    Question- how does one get a boat slip at the Marina at New Port? I understand you have to be a resident, but then what is the next step after, who do I contact etc?

    Is there, like a "Mainland Lovers" of sorts SL group in -world?

    in Mainland

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, Pussycat Catnap said:

    I was in Arbor before and after Justice had their moment... What I noticed over time was that Lindens stopped showing up to ARs. By the time I joined Arbor, in 2009, any other purpose of the group had died off. I saw that they owned a lot of land, and they were active about buying micro plots, but only slightly so... It was mostly a "hey can you all come here and AR this with me?" group...

    - Abuse Reports of mainland rules violations. Eventually the Lindens stopped showing up - but they were still showing up while the Justice thing was happening. Whether there is any connection there is just my theory - but it does seem like a series of 'toxic community' events occurred in those years, after which the only place I ever saw moles or lindens outside of a griefer attack was Bay City, and this one linden that used to attend live music events at a place I frequented when a certain singer was there, but who never said anything in local.


    My point here is that I saw them withdraw... and it feels like Bellisaria is an attempt to see if it's time to engage again, if only lightly. It looks different than the old Linden Homes, seems more managed. I could be wrong though - maybe they will vanish again as soon as the last sim is live.

    Right now Bellisaria has an unusually active set of groups (2 of them at least)... but if you search groups way down the list there are a few 'protest groups' - that's not exactly how the drama started on Zindra... but it's close. If it was an exact repeat of Zindra history the drama would already have overtaken things and sims like the Fairgrounds would be avoided by the Lindens and moles while regular users would already be rapidly leaving the groups...

     

    I think the best thing anyone wanting good community can do is talk to some Bay City people. That's a mainland community that has held a good vibe for longer than Zindra has even existed. There's also the 'East River' community but I have almost no experience with them so I don't know much there. I don't think the lindens or moles are active with them like they are in Bay City though.

     

     

    Yeah I just checked and maybe I spotted some groups that could be termed as such, however to talk about it is to give it room to breath and I Think maybe we should let them have their free speech and eventually those groups are for people who want to nurse their own wounds and nothing more.

     

    I think maybe the Lindens have a just right approach this time, what with Pickle Parties and building gorgeous homes and providing a covenant but that is it.

     

    I am exploring Bay City right now, and trying to see how I can be involved, thank you for the tip!!

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