Selene Gregoire
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14 minutes ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
We're in Saskatchewan. One night a week we do play into a club in SL.
Damn.... so close yet too far.
Day, time, place? I may drop in for a few.
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26 minutes ago, KanryDrago said:
Labelling it a game hurts sl for the simple reason people see game, they come they find none of what they expect such as quests, item drops, levelling up etc and then they quit and bad mouth SL. It leads to people joining SL with malformed expectations
I've seen it happen time and time again since 2004.
Wasn't hard to find this article from 2007: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17538999/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/if-second-life-isnt-game-what-it/#.XTyma-hKiUk
Second Life is not a game, it is a community. A global community utilizing a creative platform as both social and creative outlets. You can create games within SL but SL itself isn't a game. Never has been and never will be.
Those that don't understand or know of the distinction between a video game and an open environment virtual world created by the people who populate that world are always going to be disappointed and leave. Because they had the wrong expectations given to them by people who insist SL is a video game.
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17 minutes ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
Don't know how many cast iron pans I wrecked on my man's noggin'!
At our RL bar we have a powerful sound system and it's funny when someone try to "outblast" it with their dinky phone cause our music "sucks." Classic Rock, blues and some other stuff is usually played there, not much of the new stuff.
As for social media, one used by our amateur radio group is called "MeWe" which is supposed to respect privacy and stuff.
Your place would actually get me going to a bar again. Good thing you aren't in Oregon.... are you?
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I still struggle with the idea of creating a work of art only to see it destroyed later. It does not sit well with me. Not when it always reminds me of the precious works that have been forever lost because of war and other human actions.
I have always had the same problem with LEA.
And the knowledge that SL will come to an end at some point in time.
I think it is a terrible thing there is no place for such things to be preserved.
Which, for me, makes it all seem rather pointless. So maybe, instead of approaching it from the same angle as LEA, do something completely different. Something unexpected. Maybe a whole new (small) continent devoted to nothing but the Arts donated or sponsored by LL. Something that will be at least as "permanent" as SL itself is.
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8 minutes ago, Damian Mills said:
Sapiosexual:
Googles...
*sighs*
Why must people be so arrogant as to label every damn thing. Humans, individually or in groups, are not special snowflakes.
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1 hour ago, Catrie said:
I have an idea!!! Why don't we meet on Sundays for breakfast? Maybe between 8-10am SLT? Every week we could meet up somewhere else. Oh... wait...that already happens. 😛
Yep and it happens without me because who the frak gets up that damn early on a Sunday.
Oh yeah...
Christians.
That's not my fault.
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7 hours ago, Orwar said:
"Music is the universal language of mankind". This may have had truth in it, in the mid 1800's - but today, music segregates us even within our own families. My family hated it when I played Metal, NDH, Darkwave and Punk, but to me it was passionate. I, and my parents, were less than happy to listen to my sister's Pop music when she played that. Whenever my father played some whiny old 'Murrican Blues, my sister and I went to our rooms and put on headphones to drown it out with our own music (or just turned up the volume until even he couldn't hear his Bob Dylan for the wall-shaking riffs of Rammstein - and we lived in a flipping stone house).
Again, there's probably no one form of music that everyone could agree upon in such a diverse forum as this. But come on. At least pick something where it doesn't feel as if both the singer and the listeners would rather just drop dead on the spot in a fit of pessimistic self-pitying and despair, without at any one point sounding even remotely musical.
Now I know what bothers me about you. You don't like BB or Lucille.
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35 minutes ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
One of my relatives who has a phone permanently attached to her head keeps telling me I don't need my CDs and stuff and can get it on the phone. Funny thing a few weeks ago the network went down and she was visiting and said "I can't listen to music now." I fired up a CD and thought she was going to whack me with a frying pan!
I keep a cast iron skillet handy.
I would have fired up the old surround sound stereo turntable and put an album on... or tuned into FM radio. Then whacked her with the skillet to get the point through her thick skull.
Or I could play one of my guitars or my keyboard... the non electric ones. Or take her to a powwow and let her dance to the beat of a different drum.
Oh yes I so went there. LOL
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49 minutes ago, Penny Patton said:
I think a part of the problem is that when people see the words "social media" they think "Facebook" and they just immediately assume the worst. You can see that mindset in action through some of the other responses in this thread.
I do have a FB to keep in sporadic touch with my daughter. That is the only reason I have it. I do know the difference between social medias.
None of which changes my opinion about social media cesspools. The use of FB to manipulate the US 2016 Presidential election is a prime example of the cesspool. That's on top of all the people stalking, harassing and generally trolling others just because they can while Suckface Zuckface just sits back and laughs while rolling in the money piles.
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19 minutes ago, KanryDrago said:
If it wasnt successful then it doesnt make the point that chin was trying to make which is that many mmorpgs struggle for years then become sucessful. It just isnt true
Are you not familiar with how EA Games operates?
Do you have any idea how many games struggled to become successful and EA axed them before they could?
EA has a far worse reputation than LL does.
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13 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:
Hate to spring this on you but it appears that EVERYONE (including me and a brand new made alt of someone else -- neither of which has entered any personal info ever) have green check marks. So while that does "look" good, it seems likely that it is an error.
I haven't looked because if I do and I see that green checkmark, I'm going to come unglued all over LL. All they have on any of my accounts is PIOF, nothing more. They have NEVER had my SSN and if they somehow do have it... someone is going to prison. Someone already stole my SSN and filed federal income tax claiming me as their wife once so now I have to wait every year for the IRS to send me a special PIN before I can file. This will go on for the rest of my life. Which means I can no longer file early and get my drastically reduced (THANKS TRUMP) return when I need it.
This kind of ....incompetence is what makes it so easy for ID thieves. I'm pretty sure LL doesn't want to be held libel either criminally or civilly. But if they keep bungling things the way they have been, it wouldn't surprise me to see them lose a huge lawsuit.
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7 hours ago, Haselden said:
Linden Labs didn't wanna support any combat systems or categorize anything really for their players, all combat systems = roleplay, Gambling = Gaming regions, and Bots = high traffic regions. A great majority of people be wearing rose tinted glasses to think SL is booming. Anyway, this makes you wonder why you can't find anything to do in SecondLife. Anyways, with Sansar done, hopefully Linden Labs will now update SL's engine to compete with other video games. Before anyone says "SL is not a videogame" here is google.
Not seeing anything in that image that says SL is a video game. It talks about playing games in SL and says SL is an online virtual world. Only Google tries to label it a video game. If you're going to just take Google's word for it... that is foolish.
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2 hours ago, Reba Tedeschi said:
Which is really the crux of the question, because one person at least has been running around saying Linden Labs fined him $500 and made him shut down his venue because a DJ was playing *live music* when they said the music venue wasn't registered to play live music.
Sorry to be the one to tell you this but, as a former live music venue owner/operator, that is a flat out lie.
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6 hours ago, KanryDrago said:
Care to name one of these most successful MMORPGS that struggled at first? I came to SL from MMPORGS and the experience was always the same A good start followed by a rapidly declining player base. The one exception to that being world of warcraft which grew its player base for several years before going into decline. However world of warcraft was never struggling
*coughs*
In September 2002, Earth & Beyond was released. Having been in development since 1997, this was the second 3D sci-fi space-ship based MMORPG. Earth and Beyond only lasted two years before being shut down by developer Westwood Studios' owners, Electronic Arts.
*coughs*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_%26_Beyond
ETA: While no, it wasn't successful it does kind of make the point.
QuoteEarth & Beyond was a nominee for PC Gamer US's "2002 Best Massively Multiplayer Game" award, which ultimately went to Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings.[20]
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6 hours ago, ChinRey said:
Au contraire! If they ever find a suitable market to target, they will want to tell everybody.
They wanted to tell everyone about SL. That lasted what, a month? Over 10 years ago. One million new accounts... and out of that one million how many are left that log in regularly? Roughly 50k. A drop in the bucket.
Bottom line is, they are repeating the same mistakes with Sansar that they made with SL and it will have the same results, if not worse. The biggist mistake made with both? Opening them to the public before ever leaving beta.
Very few even realize that SL was still in beta when it opened to the public and that status has never changed in the past 15 years. If someone can find an announcement that SL made it out of beta, please, PLEASE post it. I've been look for years and never found one.
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3 hours ago, FairreLilette said:
It's a vertical scrolling world now.
Not in my part of the world. 30 miles out from Portland in a college town and you see very few running around with a cellphone growing from their ear.
People might believe that technology will drag people kicking and screaming into the future. That's not what is going to happen. People are way too dependent on tech now as it is. I just hope I'm not alive to see it all come crashing down. It will destroy humanity's faith in itself.
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On 5/30/2019 at 10:05 AM, Rhonda Huntress said:
No ball. More like a bunch of not so fragile men getting into fist fights because a rubber biscuit goes into a net.
Hockey -- where "no blood; no foul" is taken literally.Toofless bastages.
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27 minutes ago, Randall Ahren said:
Due to 100% negative replies, the forum meetup is cancelled.
Had it been anywhere* but a club, I'd have gone. I don't do clubs.
*Almost anywhere.
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6 hours ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
Called "Rappelz."
I'm sorry. I should have said please. I apologize for my momentary lapse of good manners.
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11 minutes ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
French word for "recall."
Don't make me rely on Google translate... the suspense is killing me!
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1 minute ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:
rules listed only on their FB, along with a banned song list
RL other half DJs in SL and has DJed on the airways (AM/FM radio) in RL. We've owned/operated a few clubs in SL. Those two things are complete bullcrap and are precisely what killed that club (and any club fool enough to do ignorant things like that).
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6 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
And maybe he didn't even watch. I love this way of doing things. It's like parking meter cozies that mysteriously appear overnight, the Gnomist or the UK Book Sculptor. The mystery is part of the art.
In my own, low brow way, I do my part. In my teens, I made a crop circle. I add red reflective noses to deer crossing signs on my trips across America, and I put googly eyes on whatever pleases me. I build snowmen on other people's lawns during the wee hours and write the names of the neighborhood children on stones I find on the beach. The trails through my woods are filled with oddities for the finding, all suggestive of creatures who live there but can't be seen.
Or the guy who stole the lady's garden gnome and 'sent it globetrotting' way back when and now we have the famous Travelocity gnome.
QuoteThe earliest record of a prank involving a traveling gnome is from Australia in 1986 when the Sydney Morning Herald reported an "Eastern Suburbs gnome-owner was distressed when she discovered her gnome had been stolen at the weekend. A note was found in its place: 'Dear mum, couldn't stand the solitude any longer. Gone off to see the world. Don't be worried, I'll be back soon. Love Bilbo xxx.'"[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome
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Public criticism, even if it is a very well thought out constructive criticism, can be a hard pill to swallow. That's why I tend to drop notecards rather than contribute to the embarrassment of the creator. For some, embarrassing can be putting it mildly. Should they be embarrassed? Probably not. They're human. It's going to be embarrassing to have your mistakes that you may not have seen pointed out to you in front of the whole world. People who are 'artistically inclined' tend to be more sensitive than most. Not saying anyone should be walking on eggs with them, just treat them a little more kindly.
Expecting imperfect humans to be perfect seems a bit of a conundrum to me.
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6 minutes ago, Dillon Levenque said:
It was only a near miss for an instant of time, I believe. Your aircraft is upside down, and even a pilot of your unquestioned skill and agility would be hard pressed to fly out of that situation.
All pilots know that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
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