Raspberry Crystal

@Persephone Emerald or maybe the full castle? They are a very popular trend in SL as a whole, and could be adapted for gothic, vampire, historical, all sorts of things.

Carries on feverishly derendering most of the neighbourhood whilst cackling, and then stepping into something...euck....

I wonder if there will be an adjacent theme to Fantasseria, rather than a new home style within that set-up? eg hobbit homes, or something like that? Also I apologise to @Dyna Mole for previously steering the topic towards incontinent dogs and feverishly patriotic letterboxes.

I wish to complain because I have now run out of complaints!

That is a genius suggestion @Matthieu Quander! Maybe this is the way to discourage those orbs, subject the perpetrator to the double tp twang of doom, and the oscillating neon gnome avatar sat in his aquarium.

The tiny concession of the one second warning allowed me to commando roll over the boundary and escape, on the eleventh attempt. I suspect the device was hidden in a welcome mat, but I could be feverish at this point after the trauma. Afterwards I wondered if I could have tp'd out using the mini map. Herbert Thepervert has many manifestations. The most memorable lately has been the 'art' loving neighbour, who completely filled the walls of his home with photographs of lady bottoms, posed in uncomfortable positions and set to *full bright*, and then obviously ran out of prim allowance when it came to curtains.

...it was the endless twanging noises that were so disorientating!

Careless Raspberry, who has been on a purposeful but meandering hopping quest to find a home which ticks the right boxes, and isn't next door to Herbert Thepervert (not a real name). She sometimes forgets to update her home position. In most cases this isn't an issue, until.... One day, the hippy hoppy Raspberry is sent home, and the home has been taken over, by a person who has either not read, understood, or cared about the Bellisseria covenant (also known as 'do not delete on pain of death'). The new resident has set his security orb to 'send home in one second'. ...but according to the home position, Raspberry already IS home. What happens next?

I read your post and checked out your lovely pictures of that house, you had it looking lovely. Your remark about the styles feeling too big did resonate with me though. I wonder if what @Matthieu Quander said about the workload of Q&A might be relevant here, I could live with smaller footprints easily!

I am sure this has been debated before many times, but after the tree houses were created for the fantasy regions I started to wonder if the Moles might have plans to insert more models into the log homes region. I do enjoy the landscaping in this region, especially the hilly parts and the winding lanes and 'mountain' passes. The lakes are lovely too, and as I have said before, many remind me of the post-glacial landscape of the English Lake District. The planting is really well done as well, and it is hardly necessary to use prims in the garden adding to the scheme. I can't move on without mentioning the railways, which are some of the nicest rides in Belli. So why the wondering about new models? This is probably already something the Moles have thought about, but my main tack here regards orientation of the individual homes, and this has been brought into focus by my recent experience of snagging a waterside plot. Apart from the 90 degree swivel of the Grand View, the main focus and view points from within the buildings point towards the mail box / road. This works well for many lots, but there are also quite a few where the main view would naturally be from the back of the house, say where the house backs onto water, or has an open aspect to the rear. What I noticed was a pattern of occupation which corresponded to each plot's ability to take in the view. Even if a house was besides water, if the water was behind the home, it was less likely to have a resident, or to be furnished. If we could have some new homes that had their main rooms at the back of the house, I wonder if there would be more take up of those plots which have the best outlook from the rear? It could give more flexibility to the choices available.

Sometimes that does happen, when there are a lot of competing requirements we sometimes get given something that nobody (or very few people) actually want, BUT that isn't usually the case. I don't believe for a moment that Abnor or the Moles ignore feedback, I think that the response was supposed to be interpreted humorously! (bearing in mind that they are all busy with the meds and ranch houses right now).

Ooh I just spotted a poster for this at a log homes rail station, looks like fun.

Thank you! This really opens up the choices

I found a few nice trads lately which were tucked away and only had footpath access, or had an interesting set of steps leading down (or up) to the road. My lusch car is fairly forgiving, but does make some alarming clanking noises if I try throwing it off a cliff, or bumping down a stairway, so I had a search around for any nearby traffic rez spots without success. My memory doesn't reach back to the very earliest Mole new continent building, but I was inworld for the completion of old Belli, and I just can't remember if car rez spots were brought in later, or were more spaced out? Have I just been unlucky in my searching and they are hiding right there in plain sight? I saw some 'obvious' spots for boat rezzers as well that hadn't been utilised, was it just the lighthouse island facilities available back then? Maybe my memory has lapsed, or been overwritten by Newbrooke and Bellivaria where seemingly every single sim has a rez spot for cars.

I can't help thinking that sushi chef looks more benign than advertised. What you really need is a time machine to capture the look cultivated by a Northern English fish and chip shop owner for use when a group of teenagers come in asking for free 'scraps' without wishing to pay for a main meal (scraps = bits of batter that fall off the fish). Or the look produced by his assistant, used to terrify uncertain adolescents into buying mushy peas as an extra, thus causing them to walk home because they spent their bus money on unwanted processed vegetables.

I had no idea how Patch pronounced it, so I just went with the Bell - iss - seyr -reeya type thing. I'd really like to switch the Chalet district to Shalleys, it is more phonetical and less likely to cause confusion with the different style of homes which are called chalets in real life; https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chalet

Why not make another @Persephone Emerald? Use the names that have been thrown up and whittled down by use on the forums. I usually think of the desert terrain continent as 'the meds'.

Oooh, I am quite fond of 1930s semi-detached houses, but the density of Hounslow wouldn't appeal to me. SL has its limitations, and of course Belli has its own subset of those. I quite like it on the whole though. It has taken me too long to realise that cultural filters are invisible from the inside, in the same way that within a family you see how you differ from your siblings, but an outsider will notice the similarities. I'm not sure if it might not be worse to have Cotswold Cottages as a theme, because to someone from that area of the UK they would end up looking too changed to be totally familiar and that could cause more dissonance in the end, especially as the americanisation would be somewhat invisible to the majority and could cause conflict. What I have come around to liking about Belli, are the accidental joys, finding an area of the log homes which reminded me of the English Lake District, with its deep, long and narrow waterways, or a windmill free waterfront in the chalet area, which had a familiar riverside vibe. They are better doing what they know, and if there is enough SL randomness in the process, we may end up with something we want almost unintentionally.

I really do not like the look of banlines, but how they appear, and usually behave is much preferred to being sent home by a zero second orb. I would say that most reasonable people do not want to stray onto private property without the blessing of the owner / renter, but the limitations of second life make this difficult to achieve at times, especially with the added confusion of lag and sim crossings and it is a confusing and upsetting experience to be targetted when acting with the best of intentions. Unreasonable people will be that way whichever extreme of the access debate they adhere to, but even in the case of extremely annoying and inconvenient behaviour, I do not believe any kind of griefing or bullying is acceptable. I also realise that the perception of home invasion can be traumatic for some people, in ways that they have little control over, and while this can get covered up with masking aggression there is always a person under the attitude.

@SarahKB7 Koskinen that looks like an amazing journey, and you made a great graphic as well!

It totally sucks the fun out of leisure time if the costs are stressful. We take home made cake in plastic boxes and find free stuff to do, though to be fair our museums tend not to charge for entry so it makes things easier.

I must be tremendously unpopular. I haven't ever had had anyone invade my parcel. In all the time I have been in SL.

Those who look at the map. Those who never do.

Amazon seem to have a very unfixed idea of where they are actually located, depending on local tax laws and other inconveniences, so they might very well buy up one of those soon to be underwater island nations, and build a stilt office. In any case, large parts of sl have already decamped and gone down the decentralised self-hosting route, it just isn't officially acknowledged. I imagine the situation would become even more fluid still, should SL need to ban pixel jiggling in earnest.

I think it is a luxury, and a nice one to have. Netflix, starbucks, restaurant meals, theatre trips and all those other comparisons don't really work for me as I wouldn't consider purchasing them in any case. I know how much we spend on groceries per week, and that is my usual yard-stick.