Sid Nagy

Well I logged in this afternoon into Bellisseria again and wow......... instantly every last texture and object loaded from start. Never seen before. Wow just wow. If that is the new trend: 1000 kudos for the LL engineers.

Play lists make great life lines. In the period that I was active as a student with DJ jobs as a side order (in the time you had to go to a record shop every week to get the new printed issue of the Top 40 lists), I used high quality tape cassettes a lot. On each cassette all music would have the same style and comparable tempo. Pitch control had still to be invented then. That made work a lot easier. After a request, I just had to search the song on the right tape and then let it play for 2-3 numbers, because they all would match with each other. That gave time to consider what would come next. I guess that is even a lot easier doable with the modern digital options.

I imagine if you make a playlist in advance and stick to that no matter what, then it is easy to great everyone who comes in. Playlist in Winamp or whatever you use and done for the night. But then you are not reallyDJ-ing but greeter/host number 2. DJ-ing to me is having great knowledge of the music you are playing and constantly testing the waters how your audience is receiving it. So adjust on the spot if needed. Putting up "We're good" from Dua Lipa is easy when it is requested, but to find within minutes a good next song is a lot more work, considering the rule that in a dance venue at least two songs in a row should have the same dance rhythm to ensure continuity. These things absorb most of the time. Not being on the lookout if someone on the VIP list shows up. But of course that is only my 2 cents.

Talking over songs is an old radio gimmick to prevent teens from copying music directly from the radio on a tape deck. There is no need for that anymore on the radio (Spotify, YouTube and others are the sources these days) and certainly not in a club, there was never the need to do so. But many club DJ's listen a lot to their radio colleagues and many try to copy them. If you have to say more than a line or two, I would trough in a filler as background. Radio and club DJ-ing are two different branches on the DJ tree. Worst thing you can do is talk the show into the ground. Considering the payments, top notch dabblers don't do SL, but work at a RL local station or when really good on national radio. They make their extra dollars by appearing on road shows or with guest appearances at local venues in RL. A good SL jock should know his/her limitations and play out their real trump cards: Share the love for and knowledge about music. I would never ever start greeting VIPs. IMHO keeping a party going is flexible DJ'ng, searching the requests in your music dungeon, checking how they match with the next song you have in mind after the request etc. And keep an eye and ear on how the crowd reacts to what you play. So a lot of work, editing, concentrating and thinking is going on behind the screens of the actual show you are putting up. If you miss one VIP by doing so, there is more harm done than good, so I would stick by not mentioning them at all. If a SL venue owner finds it important, hire a greeter. The DJ only plays the "don't forget to pay the lady" jingle once or twice an evening. I would never spin in SL considering what the financial returns are for the amount of work involved. Or it would be purely for my own entertainment. And the venue owners...... well.... I would not care if they invite me back or not. It would be a take it or leave it job from my side. No tip jar needed.

IMHO a DJ should have a few opening lines at the beginning of the show to Introduce him/herself and the hosts and a few thank you words at the end to close the show. That is also the moment to mention upcoming events. For the rest maybe a jingle here and there to mask all to hard pitch or key switches. And for the rest: let the music play and do it's job. And whatever you do: No cheesy jokes or remarks. At least that is what I did when I had an occasional gig somewhere in the good old days in RL.

At log in this morning it was totally crappy for me to be honest. But logging in on a Bellisseria sim is never really fun but a long grey experience.

Yeah, right..... You would be the only one in the history of SL. A TOS is there to agree upon, not to read it. People search in it at best, when they are in doubt about something.

All the totally dressed up chicos and chicas partying there are likely one of the major lag causes. They should at least only throw nude parties.

Talking about spam, I have that store that .............. I'll show myself out.

Not more suns or moons! We have to protect the market for face lights and tanning beds.

What about all the scripted dogs, cats, tigers, horses, lions, elephants, unicorns and what not that walk, crawl and use resources with no owner in sight? A few heavily dressed up avatars can be resource slurping as well. It is all part of SL. Get used to it.

I'm on the LL viewer. And sometimes the viewer starts to reload the inventory according to a text message in the header of the inventory. During that time items can be missing. I always log out for half an hour or so then. When the message is gone, the complete inventory is back. And I always try to keep the most important parts of my inventory sorted, so I can find things manually (sometimes 😆)

Most DJ's have more than one club where they spin. Often they have their own group as well, that you can join. Just use in-world search to find them. Find out were they offer their service as well. Or simply IM the DJ. They most of the times don't bite.

Not responding to IM's isn't always rude, can even be the politest solution. And don't forget, staff members of SL clubs are no professionals. For the wages payed you simply can't expect that. Remember you are in a club with 25-50 USD a month running costs, not in a 150,000 USD one in RL. SL clubs are mom and pap joints at best. Thankfully there are almost as many clubs as sand on a beach in SL. Time to move on (with your friends who frequent that club too)?

There is no thing as a free lunch. Even if it only exist of a single bite in a plain cracker.

Looks close enough to me. Just wondering who Tifa is.

Put off your AO before sitting down might do the trick as well sometimes. Sometimes AO's have priority over the animations in furniture and other goods.

Isn't it possible you caught an April First joke in your net (a bit late?)

Make new friends But keep the old ones. One is silver And the other gold. I sang that many years with the children in school.

Come on, don't let us hanging...

We live in 2021 and there are still people who believe the earth is flat, man did not go to the moon, that the pope never fails, or that SL is a sphere.We have anti vaxxers and even people who think the whole virus is a hoax. That is how people have been in the past, are now and will be in the future. We sadly have to live with that. There is no medicine against stupidity.

Now if LL would PAY 10L$ for each teleport..... things would get really busy in SL. I second my own idea.

About land > Options > uncheck the box "Avatars on other parcels can see and chat with avatars on this parcel". About land> Sound > check the box "Restrict gestures and object sounds on this parcel" That are the only two options besides blocking objects, that I can think of that might work. No warranty on it though.

I think I just sleep a night over it.

Having the teleporting system in RL would be awesome too. But not behind any door (yet).