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Hmm... I'd say...
Intro quest walking you through the basics, with cinematics of some sort, then a hud with some kind of buddy to guide you (a floaty white cloud that gradually turns into something cute as you learn new milestones? ok I totally lifted that from Black Desert).
Intro quest completion rewards you with a free house on Linden land. It can be tiny, or time limited, but new players need rewards fast. Having a house to play with jumpstarts spending on furniture, which leads to need for bigger house.
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29 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
Do take note that Maddy isn't on the list either when everyone knows we're all HER alts.
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There was a man who entered a local newspaper's pun contest.
He sent in ten different puns--maybe one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
You know what sucks about being an agnostic dyslexic insomniac?
You end up staying awake all night wondering if there is a dog
What does a nosey pepper do?
Gets jalapeño business.
Two reddit moderators walk into a bar
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2 hours ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:
Torley Linden kept a record of the "closure" of the Noyo Ivory Tower on 17th June 2006: https://flic.kr/s/aHsiDbDaP4
thanks for sharing that!
Yes I remember Spy vs Spy. Forgot the dark spy often carried a bomb 😁
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12 hours ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:
Lumiere Noir and his colleague Avi Arrow then rebuilt a brand new Ivory Tower in Natoma, along with a very large sandbox area. They also ceremonially blew up the original Ivory Tower in Noyo in June 2006, which spectacularly fell down the valley side into the river below in hundreds of pieces, witnessed by many onlookers.
I was only born in 2008 so never saw the original but I remember visiting the new one when I was trying to figure out how to stick prims together. Never met the builders, but they sound like they were great fun. Wish I'd had a chance to meet them. I took a picture of their memorial statue, complete with bomb (now I understand the significance of that!).
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I remember SLB a year or so ago had time capsules from the various years of SL's history, but I didn't collect them. Not sure if the really early years were included or what was in them.
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12 hours ago, Seicher Rae said:
Then there is always adventure time! Pull open the map and randomly click.
I did that as a noob. I ended up in the backyard of a sweet Japanese couple. We sat together in a giant flower petal and chatted via their translator.
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I use different names for all my virtual existences and sometimes they stick longer than they should. Akane has sometimes slipped out, and I nearly introduced myself as Currypuff once which is my destiny2 character name. 21stC problems - having to think hard what is your actual name.
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have you checked the destinations lists? eg.
https://secondlife.com/destinations/cyber/1
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40 minutes ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:
Duplicates of the oldest prim can be found in the oldest original sixteen sims of SL, the "San Francisco" regions. I know for certain that at least three of these sixteen sims contain duplicates of this very first prim ever created, and that these special prims are actually older than the avatars that own them, are older than the sims they live in and are even older than Second Life itself!
These special prims all have the exact same time and date of creation, at 20:46:40 SLT on 25th January 2002. This original prim was created before Second Life even existed, as it originated in an earlier Alpha Test incarnation of SL that was called Linden World. Interestingly, the oldest prim has no creator name, as no such creator database existed at the time of the first prim's creation. It's highly likely that the very first prim was created by the man who invented primatives, an Avi Bar-Zeev.
And if you look around Sansara continent carefully enough, you might also find duplicates of the very first textured object ever created, a US five cent "Nickel" coin.
Cool! This sounds like a preamble to an epic quest tale - Search for the Elder Prims.
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1 hour ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:
This particular prim was only the first public prim rezzed in the Nova Albion sims, on 26 March 2004. I know of prims that are well over two years older than that elsewhere.
certainly. This is the only 'memorial prim' I've come across so far.
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On 8/9/2022 at 9:36 PM, Love Zhaoying said:
I remember seeing a "first prim" memorial in-world, years ago. I wonder if it's still there? (I reviewed the thread but did not see it mentioned.)
this one? yep it's still there
(this was next to my first homebase as a newborn noob)
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14 hours ago, blissfulbreeze said:
If someone IMs you in SL, do you:
Cam on them first to see if you want to reply
Cam and read their profile first
Totally ignore without further action
IM them back without camming or seeing profile
Also, do you enjoy random civil IMs?
At first I thought this was a poem!
If someone IMs you in SL
Do you reply, and cam as well?
Do you read their profile first
Do you answer them in verse?Anyway to answer the question - I message them back in similar tone to how they message me.
If they say Hi, I say Yo.
If they say Nice avatar, I say Thanks, I'd say the same but I dunno where you are! (unless they are right in front of me). I don't cam around.
I rarely look at profiles unless we strike up an actual conversation.
Yes, I enjoy random IMs for the most part.
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2 minutes ago, Aethelwine said:
About 20 years ago I ran a community website coded in html that worked, but was far from easy. I did everything in notepad copying templates and editing the code directly.
I really don't know the first thing about blogging and my experience of google docs is limited to viewing what others have done, so I really couldn't answer that. Except to say that a barrier for doing it either way you suggest would involve learning and getting to grips with both those formats.
Really simplest solution with the tools available that occurs to me would be to create a new thread to publish the list. If I collect significant additions outside the forum or in comments to start a new thread.
But I never planned the list I just like giving informational replies so Feorie's request got me motivated to spend the few hours making a list from memory with the occasional checking references to remind myself precisely where the thing I remembered was. So what I do now with regards to it is up in the air and undecided.
Fair enough. Perhaps, if it's a list that's going to be useful indefinitely and often updated, they could make it a sticky and give you editing rights just for that? (I'm guessing here as I'm unfamiliar with the permissions capabilities of this forum software).
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4 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
Hi, Dream!
Having nothing to say has never stopped me. It already being said has never stopped me either.
There, I've set the bar low enough you can get over it.
But, if you just like to read, I'm not the only one here that can't be shut up.
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5 hours ago, Dream Starchild said:
I just find that I don't often have a lot to say, or that what I would say has already been stated.
oh that never stops any of us.
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On 8/8/2022 at 3:06 AM, Aethelwine said:
I appreciate 24 hours is generous in most circumstances, but I have just found myself a bit limited by it and I am not really seeing a downside to extending the 24 hours to a week limit.
I wanted to add an additional location to this post, add some bolding to make it clearer which continent the post was about and remove the reference to still working on it.
It is not a big deal I can see the sort of informational post I am making is not usual, but I do think it worthy of consideration. The limit might perhaps put people off from using the forum for similar informational posts.
Thanks
for your example, wouldn't it be easier to just make this list off forum and link it on your own blog or google doc?
(I didn't even know we had 24 hrs to edit, I've only ever used it for fixing speling mstakes 😜)
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3 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I'm sure that I've seen chopsticks used as a deadly weapon in at least one martial arts movie!
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13 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
So, we know you're out there. Every once in a while, I'll run into one of you in-world, who'll say something like "I've seen you on the forums, and I just wanted to say hi!"
It's really lovely, actually, partly because it makes me realize that I'm in some sense connected to people I didn't know I was engaging with, and that the community here is really far larger than just the smallish group of people who post.
You're part of this forum too!
So, say hi! You don't need to write much, or even anything! Just wave if that's all you're comfortable with doing!
But we'd love to see you, and acknowledge you as part of our community! Because silent or not, you're one of us!
shhhh they are silent for a reason
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there is a darkness about these chopsticks
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On 8/7/2022 at 1:05 AM, diamond Marchant said:
The Second Life forum is a treasure for those trying to learn about virtual worlds.
This is true. I can't see how we can discuss SL as a platform (and community) without the context of what else is going on in other virtual worlds/games. This is the only forum I know of which discusses such things in depth, with participants who are deeply invested in VWs, but with a good mix of tech geeks and laypersons, and everything in between. SL has that rare mix of avid gamers and people who never touch games but love VWs, and of world creators and inhabitants that use them.
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10 hours ago, PheebyKatz said:
Like a message in a bottle, I cast this post adrift on the seas of history, and if nobody finds it, I wish you all luck in the coming days. I will be stockpiling sweet relish and bread-n-butter chips at an undisclosed location. If it all goes pear-shaped, my people will know where to find me.
/me finds bottle, reads message and sends bottle back with a rolled up papyrus scroll inside:
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The things I miss when I am playing shiny new games are:
Haven't found any game that has all 3 to the level I'm used to in SL, at least not without downloading a ton of mods that may break at any time or do other undesirable things to my computer.