Dillon Levenque
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sloowdown wrote:Do you really believe you are responsible for what is done on LL servers to anyone other than LL. LL is responsible for it all.Yes they will lose revenue because they lost mine, just saying. and people being upset of my posts i dont really care as it seems it is only 2 or 3 where did i get that number from before...... ohj 2 or 3 approved operators lol. I am out of it so they can do what they want! Just spoke on the phone with LL and they have no clue what the hell is going on not at all!
I have no clue how you got the idea that I believe I'm responsible for anything that is done on LL servers, but trust me when I tell you I do not in fact believe that; I have zero personal influence on LL. I am a customer so my influence is included in that of the 'customer base' (that group of people that wants to give a company money: some companies woo them with passion, some seem to take them for granted*).
I think the only person 'upset' as regards your posts is you. You do seem pretty upset to me. I'm not upset at all about your posts; I just tried to point out some things I thought you did not understand. I can understand the fact you're upset; it's pretty apparent that something in the skill gaming policy is going to do one of two things: reduce a source of income you were already enjoying from SL, or reduce a source of income you were planning on enjoying from SL.
I get that you're upset. If I had looked at Second Life and how it works, decided I saw a path to gaining income from Second Life, then found out after I'd invested some very real personal time and possibly some very real money that some rules had changed and I was now screwed as regards making that nice income, I'd be upset too.
I'd just know with whom to be upset. From reading your posts, you don't seem to have acquired that knowledge yet.
ETA the footnote I'd intended to add when I dropped the asterisk up there
*and some seem to vacillate between those two attitudes. I'll name no names.
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sloowdown wrote:Well i assume you must be one of theemployees ... oops sorry game creators. Good luck as I dont have to defend my opinion just putting it out there.
Well, you don't have to defend your opinion but since it's a forum it is traditional to at least make an attempt. You appear to misunderstand a lot of things that are going on regarding skill gaming in SL, so it's not surprising that people have taken issue with your comments.
You say that LL is just doing 'this' to increase revenue. That's pretty unlikely. The screams from the gaming sim operators, which are still echoing through the ether, were that it would cut LL's revenue off at the knees! The hugely profitable revenue-producing players would leave SL forever in a mass exodus, and the collapse in tier revenue from the resulting sim closures would bankrupt LL in a week. Fortnight, tops. I'm not sure that's true, but I'm willing to believe a few sims closed and some income was thus lost to LL.
You don't seem to understand that the skill gaming policy isn't LL introducing the ability to have skill games in SL. They were already here. They've been here for years, Once, there were even full-on gambling casinos with blackjack and roulette and slots. That kind of gambling was made against the rules, and the result was the so-called skill game policy defining which games were allowed.
Now, almost certainly in an attempt be be compliant with LAWS passed in LL's jurisidiction (California, US), the skill gaming rules have been made even more restrictive. LL is leaving the burden of compliance entirely on the people who want to profit from the games: the creators and the sim operators. The Lab, as Sassy pointed out earlier, is merely covering its collective ass. If the IRS or the ATF or some Gambling Commission comes calling, LL can say, "We told them the rules. See, it says so right here. It's up to them to lawyer up if you say they aren't legal".
edited for their, there and some minor clarifications
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sloowdown wrote:[a wall of text that would make gothgirl green with envy]When you guys come up with a real gaming policy i will consider to apply again. please refund my money ASAP!Thank you.Please refund my fees and good luck to your company in your journey, i would go to your attorney for a second look!
I thought I'd remembered something about that, so I just checked and I was right.
The license application to become either a skill-gaming operator or creator required submission of a $100.00 fee. The application itself describes it as a "non-refundable fee of US$100.00".
It's here, for anyone who's interested: https://secure.echosign.com/public/hostedForm?formid=9EX6XU7I3J32XJ
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Theresa Tennyson wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:He starts the second or third paragraph with:"Robert Geraci:We are, at our core, religious. By this, I mean that I am comfortable naming our desire to claim the world as meaningful — to see the world as magical and as meaningful — religious. We are driven to find value and meaning in the world and we will persistently engage in that effort."I disagree. He may very well be religious at his core, and need to see the world as meaningful. I"m quite comfortable seeing the world as it makes itself known ot me. So are a whole lot of other people. That's what science is about.
If people weren't seeking some sort of "meaning" (i.e. the underlying cause or significance of something) why would there be science at all?I think of science more in terms of finding out how stuff works than why stuff works. I realize there's a lot of overlap there.
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He starts the second or third paragraph with:
"Robert Geraci: We are, at our core, religious. By this, I mean that I am comfortable naming our desire to claim the world as meaningful — to see the world as magical and as meaningful — religious. We are driven to find value and meaning in the world and we will persistently engage in that effort."
I disagree. He may very well be religious at his core, and need to see the world as meaningful. I"m quite comfortable seeing the world as it makes itself known ot me. So are a whole lot of other people. That's what science is about.
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Treasure Ballinger wrote:It doesn't 'matter'. But...... it's the topic of this thread..... right? One of the possibilities being, celebrities in RL paying LL for use of their RL names in SL?
You're riight, it would matter to a celebrity, or at least most of them. Famous names are a commodity, it seems. and that would explain the fees involved in 'owning' one in Second Life.
I only meant to say that names here (not just here on this Forum but in SL itself) are only names.
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Ceka Cianci wrote:I used to mess around with it a few years ago..not a real loti just never could really..i didn't like being told what to do heheheheSomeone ask me to put on a collar one timeand i had no idea what it was gonna do..then they start draggin me around like a dog and i turned into a b!tch trying to get that thing off..Get this Freakin thing off me now!!so not much of a modeling career type person really lol
Okay, that did crack me up. I mean, didn't the fool even LOOK at you? Would not have taken a whole lot of research to know that Ceka and Collar are not going to work out.
How many times did you run over him?
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Treasure Ballinger wrote:I think that's why for example, Yoko Ono is 'really' Yoko Ono'. If she's still in SL that is, but the RL Yoko Ono actually had the name.
Funny, in a way. I suppose if there's a Yoko Ono in SL she might be also Yoko Ono in RL, but how much would that matter?
You're Treasure Ballinger. I know who Treasure Ballinger is. And Pamela, and Amethyst, and Coby. I don't really know Malarwen yet, but I imagine I probably will, in time.
We are each of us ourselves. In here we all recognize each other by the names we have, but it's our selves that matters, not our names.
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irihapeti wrote:Madelaine McMasters wrote:If you can find something that ain't broke, I won't fix it.I dare ya.;-).
q; (:i fix a lot of unbroken things that seem broken but are notlike i fixed my router the other day by smashing my keyboard when i got a big lag on my router. The router has been behave itself ever sincepsi didnt actual smash it the keyboard. It just kinda jumped off the desk onto the floor all by itself seems like somehow. Is like they have a mind of their own sometimes. Which is pretty strange I think (:Somehow you all kept this topic sub rosa; I hadn't seen it since it was new. But your comment reminded me of a time many moons ago when I might have let my temper get the best of me while arguing with somthing not a digital twin, but still a digital entity.
You have to have a bit of a USA-bent cultural database to get it, but I know from reading the things you post here that your particular DB is quite extensive, so I'm sure it's in there somewhere.
After it happened I got called Jerry Lee a lot, as in, "Hasn't really worked right since you went all Jerry Lee on the keyboard".
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:irihapeti wrote about a skillion adjustments she'd like to make to her avatar and mesh clothing, to make it all fit well.
I'm beginning to see the wisdom of one of Void Singer's avatars. In one spikey stroke of genius, she obviated the need for any and all adjustments...
And yet, stroke of genius notwithstanding, you torched her off as if she was nothing but yesterday's newspapers.
By the way, Void (in spite of being a very nice person) tends not to come across as cuddly. That avatar doesn't do anything to change that.
And Dr. De Santis: I won't speak for Maddy but I will give my opinion: I doubt she meant to cast aspersions on those who enjoy twisting and tweaking the pieces that make up Second Life.
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:
And Sequoia National Forest is, and I'm using this word quite correctly...awesome.I hope you Californ-i-a folks get some rain as well.Yeah. We used to camp each summer in a state park along what's called "The Avenue of the Giants": a two-lane road that goes for miles through old-growth redwood groves. It used to be the main north-south highway (US 101) on the coastal side of Northern California. They built a four-lane freeway that by-passed it. Lots of people were against it, because it required cutting down a hell of lot of old growth trees, but the end result is that people in a hurry can stay on the freeway and admire the trees at speed, while those who turn off and take the Avenue can putter along to their heart's content.
We'd usually take the first Avenue turn-off. You don't really get into the trees until after you go through the little town of Miranda (we were coming from the south). Just north of Miranda the road goes straight into the center of a grove. You are suddenly right up against those awesome trees. I loved that. A dozen or more trips and it got me every time. There was a place just past the first turn with nice flat open space to park. There were ALWAYS cars parked there, facing north. ALWAYS. I just knew they'd come around that corner and had an OMG moment. Pull over, get out, and walk.
The pic is just one that's representative of the Avenue of the Giants; I did not learn where it was taken. Doesn't really matter; miles and miles of that road look like this.
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:Wow, you people have a lot of water.Minnesota license plates carry the slogan "Land of 10,000 Lakes". They actually have 11,842.Wisconsin has 15,074 lakes and our license plates say "America's Dairyland".California's diary production far exceeds Wisconsin's, so you're actually America's dairyland, althoughyour license plates say "The Golden State" when it's a mix of green and, increasingly, brown.I think there must be a law that license plate slogans be wrong.
We call that green and gold, actually. The original 'gold' in the description was driven by the incredible amount of gold the state produced from 1849 on, but we've seem to let it also mean the color of tall dry grass a month or two after the rains stop.
I'll come around a turn and see a vista of rolling hills in, say, late May or early June. By then the live oaks have all refreshed with leaves as green as can be, and the grass is dry as toast and pale to downriight glossy yellow, depending. Someone from a place that gets a normal amount of precipitation would probably think, "Man. Kinda dry around here.". I think, "Wow, that's beautiful.".
It's all about what you're used to.
We sure could use just a bit more rain this year, though. Another one like the last couple and we'll be hurtin' for certain.
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:Callum Meriman wrote:All to protect a small handfull of two bit, backwater provinces in the USA.
If any of you ever visit Rhinelander, WI...
I had to go look that up (if for no other reason than it looks like a neat place to visit, in a different season). It's of course called Backwaters because it's on what's apparently called 'the backwaters' of the Wisconsin River. Once I was there in Google Maps I just kept following the river downstream, on and on. I was in Wisconsin a couple of times and wondered if I'd ever met that river. I had the zoom in fairly close.
Wow, you people have a lot of water. For a Californian (especially right now, in the midst of one or our worse droughts ever), it was almost too much to take in. Water everywhere! As it turns out I never got to the Wisconsin; my southernmost visit had me turning west back toward Minnesota north of the junction with the Mississippi and my northernmost visit didn't get me far enough east.
In California, as in most of the west, we tend to call the collection of springs and creeks and lesser rivers and such that come together to form the first parts of our rivers the headwaters. Apparently in Wisconsin they call it the backwaters.
Probably a Wisconsin thing.
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It's nice to see a concerned citizen doing her part to help. I can just picture the viewing room. "Jeez. Don't they ever do anything but dance/shoot zombies/fly/drive/skate/that other? Where's the subterfuge, the hidden agenda?
Oh cool. Tari's on."
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Amethyst Jetaime wrote:Skill game regions may not be on the mainland. They must be on private sims that do no connect to a non skill game sim. However they may be connected to another private region that is a skill game sim.
I think that "...may not be on the mainland..." was the clue I needed, so thanks. I've been seeing it all from a mainlander's point of view, and from there that restriction doesn't make sense. Having just now read up a bit on how Private Regions work and what they are, I get it completely.
I've never paid any attention to the rules for and the workings of private regions, because owning one has never been in my plans. I just knew there was such a thing but had no idea of the way they worked.
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:Madelaine McMasters wrote:That would be like me sending teleport requests to my fireplace. The moment the victim arrived, they'd know I was the culprit in their attempted incineration. It would be so much better to torch them from behind. They'd never know it was me.Only a fool would announce her identity in the middle of a crime.;-).How would you describe someone who announces her identityin advanceof the crime?I have no words for that.You wanna take a stab at it?
Cute, in a nefarious kinda way.
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Snugs McMasters wrote:
Careful, Dillon. She's fishing for compliments, and unlike you, she'll keep a runt or even claim the bait was a catch.Maybe I was fishing for bait, Snugs ;-).
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:That would be like me sending teleport requests to my fireplace. The moment the victim arrived, they'd know I was the culprit in their attempted incineration. It would be so much better to torch them from behind. They'd never know it was me.Only a fool would announce her identity in the middle of a crime.;-).
How would you describe someone who announces her identity in advance of the crime?
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I have only skimmed through all the flap threads (FLAP, I said) about this whole topic because games I have to pay to play really don't interest me any more in SL than they do in RL. But I did click the 'meet certain qualifications' link in the Linden blog post you linked. One item puzzles me.
I own a region and would like it to be converted to a Skill Gaming Region. What do I need to do?
- Submit a support ticket and pay the applicable maintenance fee.
- Skill Gaming Regions will begin rolling out in late July, 2014.
- Once your region has been designated a Skill Gaming Region, you will need to become an approved operator if you would like to operate games of skill on that region. For more details, please review the Skill Gaming Policy and application.
- Note: Skill Gaming Regions cannot be located adjacent to non-Skill Gaming Regions.
The bolded line. What does that mean, exactly? Are all skill gaming regions on one continent?
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I saw something on the Feed that led me here originally. I could not forumulate nor find a really clever response, so I'll just settle for this. Sorry, Dres. Best I could do.
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I got so confused by the way this discussion moved. I mean, what if someone got turned into a rabbit and raped in sl? What would the pregnancy test be? Would it be, "Bad news, and bad news. The human died, and you ARE pregnant."?
The mind reels. It jigs occasionally too.
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ConnieG Sorbet wrote:I think the whole 'inventory' system is full of bugs..... and needs an overall. Sick of things disappearing.I also think it's very complicated for newbies .... veterans have all the info in their minds over time so forget the simple things they learnt over time and aware of the changes especially if they are creators.I also think the original poster is a troll having a laugh...
Not to get on a disagreement bandwagon but I really don't think that for the most part "veterans have all the info in their minds over time so forget the simple things they learnt over time...". A lot of what we learned we didn't learn 'over time' so much as all at once, by doing things like Perrie did: click on the question mark. Get on the internet and start looking. The Answers forum here is probably the biggest knowledge base at least in terms of individual posts, but it's by no means the only resource either official or unofficial. There is information galore.
For me, anyway, I'd make sure I at least learn enough to do what I needed right then. Yes, I acquired more knowledge over time by reading posts about Inventory or just by trying things, but that's still my individual research.
The forum is a great place to ask questions, but it works much, much better if the person asking has already spent some time trying to learn the anwer and simply been unable to find it. The questions from people who haven't bothered to look (and who continue to not bother looking, such as the OP here) get a bit tiresome.
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Ceka Cianci wrote:honestly,the world needs to stop overlaping definitions of things..addiction should fall under the physical where obsession should fall under something you are not addicted to physically..is a stalker addicted to someone or are they obsessed with someone?is someone addicted to sports or are they obsessed with sports?Pick a lane webster!hehehe
Interesting that you mentioned sports. I do believe there are people who may not be obsessed with/addicted to sports, but are definitely obsessed with/addicted to gambling on sports. I frequently listen to a sports-centric radio station and I remember a call from someone who wanted to 'stump the DJ' (or hosts in this case—it was a talk show).
The caller said, "There are only two days each year when you can walk into a sports book (a place in which you can make bets on sporting events) and there are no professional or high level college games to bet on. What are the two days?". I of course had no idea. The two hosts of the talk show both knew instantly: the day before and the day after the major league baseball All Star game, which takes place each year on a Tuesday in July. The league schedules no games on either the Monday before or the Wednesday after. There are no college games of any kind since it's July. The professional football, basketball, and hockey leagues are all in their offseason. Apparently those two days are very difficult for hardcore sports gamblers.
I presume, with the continuing increase in followers of the other form of football (the one everyone but the North Americans call football) that there will eventually be a wage-worthy event even during the All Star break. It won't be the English Premier League (the one that has the most traction in the US at the moment), though. I see their season starts in August and ends in May.
ETA: More to your excellent point, which I just went right by without even thinking: I do see a difference in what the two words mean, and in what they imply. I'd call someone who spends a great deal of time and money betting on sports an addict. Might not be physically addicted like someone on heroin, might not get physically ill if prevented from having his/her chance at the bet, but addicted just the same. A fan who has (or even worse, wears*) a collection of his/her team's jerseys, who knows who everyone on the team is dating or married to, who knows what they like to do in their time off, who knows exactly someone's rebounds per game/on base percentage/yards after catch: that fan is obsessed.
*That his/her thing is skewed for me when it comes to wearing team jerseys. I think any male over the age of about 13 who wears a team jersey (one with his athlete of choice's name on the back) looks like an idiot. Oddly enough, I think females of any age who wear team jerseys just look cute.
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You've Got Till November 1st...........................
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Wow. It's as if a curtain that I didn't even know was there had suddenly been lifted; I see clearly now. I can do this.
There's this huge gigantic loophole in that whole policy that I could drive one of AnneMarie's buses through. A way to make a game that pays L$ but avoids the "Skill Game" policies. Problem is, it's going to take a pretty healthy investment to put in place, because it will require helping with tier for every user, lots of support, and lots of ready cash.
You'll have to trust me on this, but I tell you it's a freakin' gold mine. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor. Just send your payments to: see below*.
ETA: The above post is total BS. It was written for fun.
BELOW*
This edit removed a bit of the original post. I'd actuallly left a fake avatar name for people to pay. After a bit of research I found that while the name I typed wasn't an acceptable SL naame, at least one variation was. I enrolled that name for myself so if someone was foolish enough to pay I could send it back.
Then I had my post, edited, pulled up. The more I looked at it the more I realized the name had to go. It's the Internet. How long would it take for some enterprising dooshbag to figure "What the hey?", create a similar name to the one I'd typed, get it registered and then forward/link/re f-ing tweet or whateverr my post?
So I deleted the name. Too bad, really. I thought it was really fuinny.