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    Is no one else as lonely in SL as me? Looking for those that don't fit in anywhere

    in Make Friends

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    On ‎3‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 12:59 PM, Nimue Galatea said:

    Where do all the really lonely ones congregate? Those affected by racism in SL, the disabled, the depressed, the ultra shy? Where are you guys? I'm dying to be your friend.

    The social climate in SL (and most other places I've played in) is standoffish, as well. I'm particularly sensitive to it and it makes it harder to make friends. I believe it has to do with the social climate of the world at large.

    Thanks for reading.

    Nimue, I can only assume your SL account has been mostly dormant—you joined eight years ago. Your post sounds like it's from someone who has just barely bumped the edges of SL, so my response is geared to that.

    First things first: your RL gender, appearance, health, wealth, etc. mean nothing in SL. Obviously they mean plenty to you, but you needn't share any of that unless you want to. This is our virtual world here; we can be virtually whoever and whatever we want.

    As for friends....I think actively seeking friends is a hopeless and self-defeating thing. I didn't seek friends, and the handful of people I consider my closest friends didn't either. Instead, we just spent our time exploring and learning how things work. One of my friends (not around much these days—RL keeps her busy) told me she spent almost a year wandering the world before she started really talking to people. After a while you find places you like and you visit them often. You might notice that you'll see some of the same people there frequently. It is quite likely one or more will say "Hello" to you, or you could even throw caution to the winds and speak to them first. If you're not careful the next thing you know you'll be having a conversation.

    I 'met' some of my friends on the Forum, including the wanderer I mentioned earlier. We just got to liking each other from reading each other's words. I've made other friendships on the Forum, too. The woman I was just talking about and I are both close friends with another well-known Forumite (this one's really a hottie, if you get my drift ;-). The three of us spent a great deal of time together in SL.

    You can take from that what you will. I hope it helps. Either way, I hope your Second Life improves.

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    Where are all my friends? Come on in and lets get comfy by the fire!

    in Make Friends

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    On ‎5‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 8:00 PM, LittleMe Jewell said:

    I'm taking off on vacation tomorrow.  We are heading to Monterey, CA this time, which is an area that I've never been too.  I'll be out of SL until sometime next Tue evening - I'm planning on managing the withdrawal with lots of wine and art shopping. 

    When I read this earlier I didn't notice that Lil was heading for Monterey. I can actually see the western portion of the Monterey Peninsula from here, off in the distance. Unfortunately the weather is the absolute pits right now. We have fog, as is so often the case this time of year. Comes in off the ocean. Today it's in the form of overcast with a solid layer starting a few hundred feet above the water. Gray and gloomy and probably some drizzle close to the shore. High temp for the day expected to be around sixty degrees.

    It's still an interesting and beautiful area with lots to see, but I hope she brought a few sweaters with her. Today would be a good day to drive over to San Juan Bautista, an easy thirty mile drive. It'll be about seventy there, and there are lots of little shops and eateries plus of course the Mission (bonus points if she's a Hitchcock fan—it's the one featured in "Vertigo".

     

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    cute girl

    in Make Friends

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    It's good to be home.

    Not to recycle the theme but I've been away from my headphones for a bit, and I have to hear 'em tp play 'em.

    As it happens...

     

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    Where are all my friends? Come on in and lets get comfy by the fire!

    in Make Friends

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    20 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Okay, if we're gonna talk about wisdom, there's this...

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

    Explore. Dream. Discover.

    - Mark Twain

    Never one to discount the words of white haired old men, I have purchased a sailboat like this (I haven't actually seen her yet), for the heady sum of $60 (including trailer!)...

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    I intend to learn to sail her across the big pond so that I might someday discover for myself whether the strange people of Michigan really do eat popcorn with forks. As is my style ( unnecessarily frugal - the boat needs work / unnecessarily handy - I'll be the shipwright ), I won't sailing her until I can keep her from sinking.

    Happy Monday, Kids!!!

    For a craft like that priced at $60, I'd suspect the phrase "Needs Work" might qualify as the Mother of all Understatements. I think pictures are in order, so we can share your progress. You're probably gonna need a new outfit, too. Something like the old "Seamstress of Gor" only with power tools and caulking and such instead of needles and thread.

     

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    Is there any place where silly behavior is at least tolerated?

    in Abuse and Griefing

    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque

    2 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Lindal and Rolig have explained it pretty well. There's a time and a place for silly behavior. With some effort, you can relax both of those constraints.  But that's the catch. If you put no effort into endearing yourself and your behavior to those around you, it's not silliness is it? It's self indulgence at the expense of others. It's no wonder people become upset.

    It's not necessary to cultivate a circle of friends with a particular penchant for silliness, everyone has the capacity to enjoy it. It's your job to make the things you enjoy (not only silliness) pleasurable for those you want to do them with. It's really is both that simple, and that hard.

    As for the rogue's gallery of friends I've incinerated over the years, I'm gratified to hear Rolig describe membership as a "badge of honor". That gallery is my proudest achievement in SL because there isn't a single person in it who hasn't had a grin on their face while being consumed by the flames. I can't make myself happy by being silly. I make myself happy by making other people happy with my silliness.BTW, both Lindal and Rolig are in my Warm Welcomes gallery... and I'm smiling just thinking about it.

    I wasn't grinning.

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    Gezocht! Nederlandse Secondlifers

    in General Discussion Forum

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    19 minutes ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

    In de zandbak van de Amsterdam-sim hangt altijd een groepje Nederlanders rond--stamgasten die dagelijks komen bijkletsen in het Nederlands via Voice. Het zijn er maar een handjevol. Verder herinner ik me een vast groepje bezoekers op de dansvloer van de locatie Mambo Beach. Die plek ziet er nu behoorlijk verlaten uit. Ik vermoed dat deze (kleine) gemeenschappen vooral bestaan uit mensen die niet of nauwelijks Engels spreken. De Nederlanders die ik hier ken spreken allemaal prima Engels en zoeken deze groepen niet op.

    If you pardon my Dutch.

    I think only a truly Dutch/English bilingual person* could have composed that paragraph.  An unadorned copy/paste to Google translate yields:

    "In the sandbox of the Amsterdam sim there is always a group of Dutch people around - regulars who come to chat daily in Dutch via Voice. There are only a handful. Furthermore, I remember a fixed group of visitors on the dance floor of the location Mambo Beach. That place now looks pretty deserted. I suspect that these (small) communities mainly consist of people who speak little or no English. The Dutch I know here all speak fine English and do not look for these groups."

    Perfectly phrased in English; not even an oddly missing or incorrect definite/indefinite article. I, and I suspect a lot of SL users (particularly the frequent contributors to this forum) enjoy meeting people across a language barrier. There used to be translators you could wear, but all the reports I got from people who spoke English as well as whatever language my translator was set for told me it did a horrible job. I've had better luck with Google Translate. Thanks for posting that. :-)

    *I would not be in the least surprised to learn you are fluent in other languages as well; I only said 'bilingual' in reference to Dutch/English.

     

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    Just Ignore and let this one die

    in Make Friends

    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque

    3 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    Wow, pretty bold for a first conversation.  I'd bet everything that they are in their very early 20s.  Those are pretty much the only folks I know that think it is okay to ask those sort of questions right off the bat on the internet.

    Or it might be the person was an unevolved relic from the old "A/S/L" days; either way the answer is pretty much "nunya".

    I think this was the first computer I actually had my hands on (although only to play text games). The awesome Commodore 64.

    It belonged to a friend; he didn't have the joysticks or that extra floppy drive, just the single-sided one on the top: 180K scintillating bytes of information. It's where I first saw the words, "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

     

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    Is it okay if small bits of my house / patio encroach into protected roadside land?

    in General Discussion

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    It definitely would NOT work on the ground. I live on a Linden road and a tiny sliver of something of mine was intruding onto the reserved shoulder (not the 'paved' road, just the border). The thing was returned.

    I agree with Phil that you could probably get away with it in the sky. But it would be a real bummer if it got noticed and returned after you'd gotten comfortable in it.

     

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    Today I learned ...

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    I think some people (Jeny and Aislin) are talking about what in the Netherlands is called "drop". Licorice that comes in a variety of types but almost all, I believe, are both black and salty. Somewhere I read in some novel about a character with a passion for drop, and I thought it sounded interesting. I remembered seeing a place that advertised Dutch foods up in the Bay Area (as in San Francisco Bay), so I drove up there one Saturday. Sure enough,  there was a big long aisle of drop, all different. I told the clerk (a very beautiful woman somewhere between 35 and 45, I'd guess) that I wanted to try salted licorice and she picked out a bag for me.

    I actually sort of liked it, although not enough to go buy more. I took the bag to work, where cookies and candy left on the coffee counter tends to vaporize quickly. I finally had to throw the bag in the trash after a week or so. One or two people were able to choke it down frowning, a few took one bite and spit it into the nearest wastebasket, gagging and yelling at me, and the rest were too chicken to try it. :-)

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    A Derail Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Please use caution  here, folks. It is against the rules to be officially admonished about one thread's comments and then bring it all up again in a different thread.

    Lots of us are having some fun with this thread; I'd hate to see it get locked.

     

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    Today I learned ...

    in General Discussion Forum

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    One year LL actually did give us a present about this time of year. I can't recall if it was a Premium Gift or for everyone but it was definitely an LL deal. We got...an Easter Egg! A well formed moddable egg-shaped prim. Code monkeys having fun. :-)

    I got one, sized it the way I wanted, and set it to wear on head. I then spent a goodly time one night making colored eggs with Paintshop. I even wrote friend's names on a bunch with that horrible invisible wax pencil, just like RL. Next night there was a get-together and I gave out the eggs. I only have one picture left (chunks of my Photostream went south a couple of years ago) but my friend Quinn Morani who in addition to being an absolute sweetheart always took a zillion pictures, has several. Here's one. Someone else brought the wearable cows.

     

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    A Derail Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

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    I couldn't find the picture with Rhonda posed so fetchingly on the front tire (Google seems to have lost it somewhere) but this is what she means about the bonnet: the whole front sheet-metal of the car just unclips and pivots forward.

     

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