Lord Derryth
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I recently discovered a new TV brand and, intrigued, I decided to purchase one. However, my curiosity turned to confusion when I visited the sim associated with it and discovered it functions like a virtual blockbuster, charging around 350L for each movie. This situation raises concerns for me. Isn't distributing movies in this manner without proper licensing illegal? It puzzles me how individuals can showcase and sell movies in Second Life (SL) without facing any legal consequences. This business model appears questionable and likely infringes upon copyright laws. I'm curious about how Linden Lab (LL), the company behind SL, permits such activities, given they seem to involve pirated content. This is especially perplexing considering the strict policies against trademark use within SL due to copyright infringement. There's a sim openly engaging in what seems to be the sale of pirated movies, which contradicts these policies.
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Hi,
I've been working on a full series for the past 10 years that evolved into a zombie series.
Obsidian was formerly a tranquil urban center until the arrival of criminal elements such as thugs and drug dealers, which precipitated the city's decline into disarray. The advent of a drug, whose impact on the city was tumultuous, led to scientific experimentation. The current state of Obsidian is dire, with a pervasive plague that has transformed the majority of its populace into zombies. Despite this, Mayor Lord Derryth valiantly champions the cause of the city's residents and fights to restore order. The question that looms large is whether Lord Derryth's efforts will be sufficient to save Obsidian.
Real Avatars
AI Voiced Hollywood Actors
Professional Hollywood style effects and sounds
Fully filmed on Second Life Location, Obsidian City Lolas Sim
Would you be interested in an 8-part series of the greatest Urban Zombie story told?
Obsidian City Infected Zone Season 1 Episode Prologue (rumble.com)
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Full Region 15,000 Prims, $96 USD Upgrade 10,000 Prims $36 USD/8250L = $132/week
Homestead, 5,000 Prims $23 USD No Prim Upgrade (would love to pay the Extra $36 for 10,000 prims)In Second Life, there are two types of virtual spaces you can own - homesteads and full regions. Homesteads are smaller and less expensive, but you get fewer building blocks (called "prims") to work with and limited options for upgrades. Full regions are bigger and more expensive, but you get more building blocks and better performance. Homesteads are stored on a shared server with other homesteads, while full regions get their own separate server. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Why can't homesteads be upgraded to 5,000 more prims? I find myself falling short of 2,000 prims to achieve my goal.
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I know about Second Life website and seeing who is on. I use it all the time to see who is on. She literally logs in 5 minutes after I do. She can't possibly be logged in as another avatar tracking me and getting notifications that I'm in. I feel like I can't breath the moment I log in because she's on and there and always there. Who does that to a friend?
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I've noticed a friend on my list that is always logging in 5 minutes after I do. I thought it was coincidence at first. Someone told me, "Dude, she keeps logging in every time you log in." I tested this theory. I logged in during times she would not be on. 5 minutes later, she's online. There are times where I wanted to log in and decided, "Let me wait an hour and see what happens." I waited an hour, logged in and 5 minutes later, she logs in. Is there a website besides secondlife.com which you can log in and hit the refresh button like a serial killer on the stalk that actually notifies you a certain friend has come online? This is starting to get a bit freaky. I've been told you can be tracked while they are offline. Crazy thing is her friend used to do that to me all the time. She passed away. I'm guessing she showed her how to do it.
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6 hours ago, Sid Nagy said:
If I want to talk to a machine, I simply yell at my computer or talk to Google Assistant on my smartphone.
I really don't need Second Life for that.Or have Alexa listen in on your conversations where I constantly hear beep beep from my echo. Talk about invasion of privacy. So, i cuss her out and yell at her all the time.
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2 minutes ago, Finite said:
This already exists in form of bots. However I believe they are managed using software outside of the game.
Humans can be quite cruel even in a virtual space. It would be nice to have AI's running around your sim interacting. I love building an urban city that is alive. Something like this would be nice.
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3 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
OMG this cracked me up. Can you imagine that. AI, please lock the sim. "I'm sorry Lord, I can't allow you to do that."
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Why isn't this a thing? I came across a video on youtube talking about an AI system called Replica. I thought to myself, "How cool would it be to build an avatar implementing a Replica AI brain to chat and function with. Is this a possibility in the future? This would be a total game changer.
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4 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:
This bothers me every time it comes up.
I'm still not sold LL would opt to spend more money on something for no reason. I'm convinced this move is absolutely saving them money somewhere, or they wouldn't have done it.
That's why I said there needs to be an investigation. I think they're scamming everyone. A memo went out notifying the real estates that prices would drop by 50%. They figured if they keep it in the dark, they make more money. Something is not right with Second Life.
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1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:
You know your ISP prioritizes traffic to speed test websites, right?
That didn't make sense. AWS servers are in Oregon. My connection to Oregon is strong. You are saying because it's a speed test my connection will be strong. When in SL, it's weak? This is turning out to be a joke. My connection to Oregon is strong and it has nothing to do with prioritizing.
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12 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:
But from the sim statistics, this is not suffering any kind of server-side lag. After the recent-ish improvements, these AWS-hosted regions can handle way, way more scripts than we used to expect.
A deep draw distance isn't sim lag either. It's all down to viewer hardware, network bandwidth, and CDN. How to distinguish among those three requires more patience and expertise than I'm prepared for this morning.
One thing occurred to me overnight that probably isn't relevant, but nonetheless: There's a very specific kind of "lag"—a bug, actually—that occurs on some regions, some of the time, that's nothing to do with sim performance, and that's a nasty 2-3 second delay in rezzing objects. I mean, that could be something folks would notice on a role-play region, for example if there are projectiles involved, but no clue if that's a thing here. (I seem to recall this bug is not merely "accepted" but actually in the work queue to be resolved at some point.)
I know what you mean about that delay. It's almost like a 3 second rollback. Maybe my second life days is over. The constant lag is causing stress on my fingers typing and moving around. Too much to handle. That's my speed to Portland. I should have no issues with servers.
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Remember, dropping draw distance in enclosure helps with FPS. When in an open world like an Urban City, the experience is ruined. I run at 168m in order to see from a distance. I've been plagued with issues for years now and SL seems to be the only place I get lag and struggle.
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13 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:
I guess there is no point in giving you actual information as you have already decided.
I have not made a decision in anything. It's not easy to work hard on something and toss it to the side. This is a huge decision to make and hopefully trying to find a solution.
12 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:Did anyone offer to go to their sim and see if it also lags for us?
Anyone is welcome to come see. I've removed all my character alts and it's still laggy.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Embraced/41/103/1993
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35 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Some viewer projects really like to talk up the magic their project accomplishes ... don't buy the hype. Alchemy stomps on your CPU in all the same ways as every other viewer, maybe more! Always have the linden viewer in your arsenal of test viewers.
Misinformation, as I have run numerous tests on all viewers. Alchemy was the preferred viewer for less lag. Upon gathering information, it's been said; Alchemy utilizes the GPU more over CPU. This is why the viewer offers more FPS and eliminates some of the lag. Firestorm was by far the worst viewer when it came to lag despite the average FPS. The Second Life viewer is literally nonexistent since textures take forever to load and lacks features that are QoL like Animation Overrider which is essential in eliminating extra huds that kill FPS and causes more lag.
We were told that moving up to the cloud would make things easier, faster and more reliable. Unfortunately, that has become false, and we are seeing far worse lag than we did before. There needs to be an explanation as to why there will be days of perfection as if my sim server is in my home running on my network and then most of the time the server feels it's on planet Pluto. One of my friends that worked as real estate agent said, "We received a memo stating prices may drop once we go to the cloud." What happened, why didn't the prices drop? Is it because of inflation and they are abusing the customer/user by keeping the prices high while paying less for servers?Again, I appreciate the trolls not chiming in with comments about not getting a sim or leaving it for business. I use a sim for pleasure, and I enjoy building urban city. It's come to a point where $300 is not worth spending on a sim that is in constant lag and can barely hold more than 10 people with low script count. In the end, it always comes down to "wow, you have a lot of scripts running, that's your problem." Why can't it ever be, "Well, SL is old, the coding is old and nothing will ever work."?
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3 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:
What else is accounting for the rest of the 22.2 ms frame duration? If as I suspect there's substantial Spare Time in the frame, stop looking at scripts nor anything else server-side; it would have nothing to do with whatever lag you're experiencing. (If, on the other hand, there's a whole lot of Physics Time, It's probably pretty obvious what's causing that, and that will take priority over scripts getting much chance to run, and overall will feel laggy.)
It may help to know what region this is about. It certainly doesn't seem to be Embraced, which has many times that number of scripts, burning a total of about 11 ms Script Time per frame, yet nonetheless running 100% of the scripts and leaving almost 10 ms of Spare Time. (I was the only avatar in the region at the time, but it must be a different region at issue anyway.)
One other observation: that 590,651 KB number, if that's the sum of script memory, it would take a minimum of 9,228 scripts to use that much. But if it's actually not script memory, but rather Physics "Memory Allocated" (publicly visible in the statistics bar) then indeed the sim would be in big trouble, usually following a lot of terraforming between restarts. (That's apparently a very hard to find memory leak, considering how old the bug is.) Again, though, that's not the current state of Embraced, if that happens to be the region in question.
I'm on Embraced. There have been times where the sim runs perfectly fine. The next minute, I can barely move around. I was told my script count is too high and causing the lag. I have 7 days left to renew my sim. I'm a bit skeptical spending another $300 to keep this city running. Do I mind spending money on something I enjoy? No. If it doesn't work, is it worth it? Either Firestorm is a crappy viewer or something is up with SL servers. My Internet speed and rig should not be wrestling with lag. Especially using Alchemy which is heavily run on GPU vs FS and LL's heavy CPU usage.
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I'm trying to wrap this around my head. A sim costs $300. A homestead is $150. That's what it will cost you to buy or rent or whatever the case. Sims come with 20k Prims with the exception of upgrading to 30k. Homesteads are locked in at 5k prims. Yet, both sims and homestead hold the same value in size. Help me understand the whole concept here. Why are homesteads half the price, nearly 85% less in prims? Why is it that there is a cap in scripts and objects that causes the sim to seriously lag out to the point, it's not worth having a sim. what is the point of having a 30k prim sim if you can't use 20k prims or else it lags. Example, building a massive urban city with apartments and stores. Obviously, furniture has script in them.
1537 scripts taking a total of 2.546 ms and using 590,651 KB <---------Why is this a death killer on a sim you pay for $300 that comes with 30k prims? How small actually are the servers in SL that is worth spending $300 when they are probably worth less than $100. There needs to be a full investigation what goes on behind closed doors. I feel there's a scam going on here. Why get a full sim if you can't utilize it's full potential? I know some of you will bicker and say "Don't get a sim, nobody is forcing you." I get that. I enjoy the urban role play and driving around in a city. I'm in constant lag with over 600mbps speed to Portland, Oregon. I should have no issues with lag. It seems the technology and servers are old or lacking in power. Is $300 for a sim really a scam?-
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1 hour ago, Mollymews said:
are you the listed in About Land as the owner of the parcel ?
ps. I can come and have a look if you like
Yes, I own the sim. I parceled off two spots for privacy. The problem is, I can't have privacy without deed. when you deed, you need a certain amount of prims before you end up with lost and found items. Feel free to check it out. It's a public sim. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Isle of Abundance/190/192/1933
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9 minutes ago, Mollymews said:
this should work as you understand it, as each parcel even if you own them all in your own name, is for access and all other parcel options, individual to each parcel. The only thing shared between parcels with same owner is prims. Try to test the access with your own alt account
a thing. The only people other than those you specifically allow yourself, who are not affected by parcel access restrictions are the estate owner/officers. A estate owner cannot be banned/denied access to any parcel in their estate
You can't do anything with access unless the land is deed. I have a full city built. I'm being told to wipe it and start over just to give parcel access and prims. This is not worth it. Hell, $300 is not even worth going through this hassle a month. Too much bad coding. It shouldn't be hard to allocate Prims AKA now called objects to parcels. It's a simple click of buttons that should do the trick. But no, we have to use rocket science in order to make this happen. I wonder why SL is continuing to lose people. Nothing will ever change with this old age world. It's been nearly 19 years for me. Where are the changes?
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It shouldn't be that complicated. Allocating prims was once an easy thing to do. Now it's become rocket science. SL continues to show its poor coding.
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SL has always been a crap storm. I don't know who's idea it was for this type of system. It could have been so easy to allocate prims to a parcel via typing in 2.....4.....0.....0 and hit accept. Problem solved! I don't understand the rocket science behind it all. What is object bonus based on? What is an Object Bonus of 1.000 to 30k prims? What is the exact number to input in order to get 2400 prims. Where is the solution to understand the ratio of the object bonus.
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The problem with security orbs is that you can't have a specific set of value. Also, I would want to literally keep people out. Security Orbs allows them to pop in by using the sit feature. I'm not sure why this continues to be a complication. It's simple as typing in 2,400 prims while sub-dividing. Problem solved. The question is, how do I allocate prims without using the region ratio. I want to give that land exactly 2,400 prims.
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Hi,
Sadly, the estate I rent a sim from is not helpful nor do they know what to do. I hope someone can help me here. Here is what I want to do. I have a full sim city. There is a loft in the city that is mine. I wish to make that loft private to a different group so that public users don't have access. I subdivided that area and set it to my own group. Then I removed access to that land to keep it private. Unfortunately, they seem to keep coming in regardless of not being in the group of that land. I contacted the estate and they told me in order to do that, I must deed the land. I did and it returned half of the items in that building because it didn't have enough prims. I want to allocate 2,400 prims to that specific parcel so that I can have privacy and not lose items.
Question is, can I allocate a certain amount like 2,400? Also, Why do I need to deed the land to group in order to keep people out? I like the idea of subdividing and still sharing the prims from the sim because I own it all and will never rent out to anyone. In order to be private, I have to deed. This doesn't make sense. -
It's not the question if they need it. It's a question of do they have morals stealing from customers? Linden Labs is allowing them to get away with this. As I stated before. This is not a physical product that needs to be restocked. This is not an item that was shipped physically. It's as simple as clicking my name and paying me back my 5,000L that a lot of creators do for good business ethics. I have 8 avatars with the MeshBody I purchased. That's 40,000L spent on that creator. The least they can do is show some respect and return the money that does not belong to them. That's considered stealing. Linden Labs should be held accountable for it. Shady business!
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No, don't want to file a tos on them. Just curious why LL would allow this to happen. It's literally piracy on their platform. Charging people lindens to rent a movie. It's basically LL promoting piracy on their platform.