diamond Marchant

A few thoughts.... 1. Love, what if they invited you to a FMAT (furry menage a trois)? 2. There is always karma. Once upon a time, there was an (advertising) sex club in the Moderate region where I had a parcel. When they were into it, the region got very laggy... so I ARed them, as did my neighbor. Governance eventually busted them (just made them stop doing the sex club) but also made me take scripts out of seasonal trees and stuff. 3. Governance is a black box... as far as I can tell, they never explain why they do what they do. 4. For land encroachment issues (e.g. into protected water or land), sometimes they take no action even though there is an obvious violation. @Abnor Mole often says just because you can do something, that doesn't mean you should do it. (btw in Belli, if you encroach, make it look like what Moles build) 5. Personally, I would not AR a single transient incident, like humping on MY lawn. But I would AR an advertised or commercial sex business in a Moderate region.

If you have a Belli skybox, turn off visibility, and turn on a 15 sec orb, I would be shocked if Governance would act on any AR from somebody camming in. I know for a fact they will not act on obvious porn "art", publicly visible at ground level.

I believe the following is true... 1. Adult regions in Zindra exist and many parcels are currently for sale. Because land flippers exist, should LL add more adult regions, they would likely be purchased, subdivided, and resold. Not clear that the casual land buyer would be paying significantly less per sqm that what is currently available. 2. LL expects that residents will do adult activities on Moderate rated regions. This is why they TELL YOU how to do it in their official policies. 3. The process for shutting down non-conforming adult activities on Moderate regions is the Abuse Report. This requires a resident to file a report AND for Governance to accept it as probable, investigate, and provide a remedy or NOT. This is a subjective process. The current adult policies give Governance some leeway in making decisions. 4. The primary difference between Adult and Moderate regions with respect to adult activity concerns what can be done IN PUBLIC (and also the commercial thing). LL is fully supportive of adult activity and, over the decades, has attempted to have policies that strike a compromise between the needs of different communities. This is the reason for Adult, Moderate, and General ratings. 5. diamond is NOT a LL shill. An opinion... I think it's OK that a resident purchasing a Moderate parcel pays less than a similar sized (and located) Adult parcel. For example, L$1024 vs L$6144. For the extra L$5,120 (or 20$US), you can get jiggy with it in broad daylight. Tier is the same so it's just a ONE TIME payment. Might you not pay that amount on a monthly basis to an OnlyFans creator? Don't be cheap!

Reference this https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Adult_Content_FAQ I have always read this to mean that if you can satisfy the "behind closed doors" requirement, you can do otherwise legal adult activity on a moderate region. So put walls around it (e.g. skybox) and don't advertise. My experience in bringing suspected violations to the attention of Governance is that the alleged violation has to be obvious (to Governance). For example, "Nude art that is not sexual" is rather ambiguous.

Had to look that up. We are NOT getting into that. Nobody suggested that. An avatar that is a table can simply be a table.

Yes! We have been lobbying to get this connection for a long time as it completes what many sailors consider to be connecting the continents. The East River is navigable but one must be careful to avoid banlines and orbs, some of which have no visible demarcations. Recommend using the mini map with parcel lines turned on.

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To collect money from a new owner. The landscaper in question appears to be in the business of renting the creations of others.

Great question. The seller could simply sell the land with objects. Abnor Mole has previously mentioned that auto return is turned off when land changes owners, so no problem there. The issue is that the owner of the landscaping can pick up or delete the objects at any time, and likely will do so. I assume that the landscaper periodically checks up on their clients.

I could not find a sailboat at the Welcome Hub, but Abnor Mole gives out an ancient motorboat that looks sort of like a sailboat bath toy at the BelliHub (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BelliHub/158/160/23). Fortunately, there is an actual sailboat, the N~17, in a nearby giver.

I have a bicycle rezzer in Kiva ☺️

There is perhaps a market for landscaped land but I suspect it is small. I always start from bare terrain and have fun landscaping, buying new plants, relandscaping, rinsing, and repeating. Second Life is, fundamentally, a sandbox game/not-a-game.

I can only invite people. If residents had the ability to just add people to their groups, I suspect it would be highly abused. Even Lindens invite you to their groups, such as the exhibitor group for the SLB. I think the hacker described above was bluffing.

Of course computer generated random numbers are pseudo-random because they are algorithmic. Only physical processes yield what is believed to be true randomness and the bar is high, such as the decay of radioactive nuclei over a timeframe.

So long SL20B… We will miss you! Once we get to 21st birthday, SL can serve alcohol… looking forward to it!

I agree... looks like a build was done, portions were picked up as composites, and then it was rerezzed for the video. Very little building here, just rezzing stuff.

I think it was just a segue into announcing the Ranch theme

(attempt at actual serious answer) Short answer: NO achievement system. I believe that residents should find joy here, whatever that means to them. An achievement system suggests external validation, which in my experience, is hard to come by and consequently, might lead to disappointment. For example, if you like to build, then build and enjoy what you did. Any strokes you get for building (or whatever) would just be icing on the cake.

Looks in 8-ball… Very Doubtful

I definitely have fave moles and Lindens who I appreciate 👍and am ok being a shameless shrill shill

How about generating traffic to a build you did or an event you hosted? Assumes the traffic metric actually works.

I am frequently amazed at how quickly RL renders

Back on topic… both The New Yorker and that the New York Times have insightful writing on the Twitter mess and Threads. In addition to being app only, if you decide to leave Threads you also have to leave Your Insta. Also you cannot get a chronological feed from those you follow as it is all algorithmic… they mix in a lot of rando stuff and ads.

Pull that plug is the way it usually happens. It likely will be a surprise to the Lindens.

This is weird… my point of reference for RL fashion has flipped due Covid isolation and living in a predominately cold climate. Recently I was in midtown Manhattan (eg MOMA) during a warm spell and the Gen Z girls walking around looked like AVATARS to me… different silhouettes but always tight and revealing. There was a time when I considered avatars to be the mirrors.