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  1. Sid Nagy
    I went to the latest exhibition of @Scylla Rhiadra's work. There I saw this funny creature too (made by another artist). Now he is part of my Christmas decoration at my home.
  2. Sid Nagy
    There is fermented and fermented. It is not a religion that I don't eat strongly fermented stuff. BTW, I like beer but I don't drink it, because of my diabetes. Peeve: Alcohol can have a tricky outcome and cause a hypo. I don't find it worth the risk.
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    Hey, if you like fermented food: Kudos for you. I don't. That is all there is to it. Peeve: no need to get rude IMHO.
  4. Sid Nagy
    If the nose signals "No", that is for a reason. It means, be careful. If the nose signals "No, No, No", it means stop right there, move away from it. Those messages are good enough for me.
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    Well there are stores enough that have at least a photo of what is inside the present next or above the box. I don't need the 55th Christmas tree and I'm not planning to walk with Christmas lights on my head. In other news: Shop'n hop sims visited and still not one gift taken. But what is worse: merchandise is totally boring for guys (as expected). This is not only happening with gifts. There is so many stuff out there one can buy. It is not for nothing that clothing goes extremer and extremer. If one wants to stand out as a clothing shop, there is little hope if you come up with a fatpack of regular traditional jeans or a traditional skirt or blouse. Most oldbies have several truckloads full of that kind of stuff in their inventory already. We are spoiled in SL.
  6. Sid Nagy
    What, if all live a peeveless life today, that is no bueno?
  7. Sid Nagy
    Premium isn't really free is it? And as you already pointed out vastly overpriced.
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    I guess, to keep the prices up. Or one has overplayed their hand and went bancrupt. There are a lot of adult sims on mainland. Lots of plots available for L$0 or L$1 as plot price. You only have to pay rent. One can advertise it and market it just like a mainland plot, so it will be as successful or unsuccessful as it would be in Zindra. I don't understand why so many people want to pay up those prices for Mainland.
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    Anny Evergreen
  10. Sid Nagy
    I learned over the years, that most gifts ain't worth it for me. So I decided long time ago, that if there is no picture of the gift explaining what to expect, I simply don't take it and accept that I might miss out on a goody. That saves a lot of inventory space and a lot of time wading through all the free not so useful for me stuff. I went trough 4 shop 'n hop sims yesterday. I picked up zero gifts.
  11. Sid Nagy
    Than a big baron has pulled out or changed their business plan because they needed that 10% bonus to stay afloat, I guess. Let's say that baron had 50 sims without the group bonus, that would mean they would pull their 5 bonus sims out of Zindra. That would make a nice chunk of abandoned parcels.
  12. Sid Nagy
    Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff. That's all.
  13. Sid Nagy
    In simplest possible words: Run the land business as if you don't have the 10% group bonus and speculate with the 10% extra that you get through the group bonus.
  14. Sid Nagy
    It is a fascinating discussion already. But I don't think this is the right thread for it, maybe not even the right forum. Although SL and its users will have to deal with AI as well.
  15. Sid Nagy
    Artists have always inspired themselves and each other by looking and learning from each others work, haven't they? So that AI learns from other artists is kind of a natural process IMHO. AI will simply become a competitor for all arts, whether it is painting, music, poetry, fashion, film, photography, literature, architecture ..... A new era, we have to adapt to that. Photography did not ruin painting, but changed it. Photographers weren't pleased with digital photography and digital processing at first either. Now almost everyone embraces these techniques and uses them. AI will not ruin human arts, but it will change it too. Life evolves, we will have to learn to use the new situation. AI is one of them.
  16. Sid Nagy
    How one calculates as a baron isn't really important. Goal always is to make a profit in the end. Big spenders have more wiggling power than small potatoes, just like everywhere.
  17. Sid Nagy
    Oh Yes there is. The early adopters who have bought lifetime accounts don't pay tier for a certain amount of land. They can price land for whatever they want and leave it empty as long as they want, without losing a penny or a cent.
  18. Sid Nagy
    @BilliJo Aldrin Markets evolve. One has to adapt or die. That was my point. Who is behind the evolution doesn't matter much. There is always someone to blame.
  19. Sid Nagy
    As a private land lover, I never pay more than nothing for a parcel. Plenty of land available in all kind of sizes. The situation hasn't changed in years. At the moment I have a corner parcel (so protected view on two sided) with 1713 LI for 1330 L$ a week. I'm not complaining. And if ugly building lovers move in next door, I just move on, no selling hassle. Done deal within a jiffy, no L$ have to exchange hands for the land. I find the whole land pricing in (for large chunks desolate and ugly) Mainland only worth a chuckle when I think about this land buying and selling. Land is available for tier only folks.
  20. Sid Nagy
    It is the first time that I decorated my place in SL this heavily, with a winter landscape, snow and all. So a lot more and a lot earlier than usual.
  21. Sid Nagy
    There will be winners and losers in the land game, just like with everything. Bellisseria for instance will have its influence on the Mainland market business, no doubt about that and now that Belli starts to connect with the Mainland continents it will influence the prices of land directly connected to the seas. But mesh clothing crippled the flexi dress market too. The platform evolves. Things change.
  22. Sid Nagy
    My guess is, that as long as their investments show a plus, they don't give a peep about how people think about the Mainland market. They are not in it to beautify SL or to make other users happy campers. They are in it for the USD that can be made with SL.
  23. Sid Nagy
    It all depends on what you are wasting your time on IMHO. I waste a lot of time with all kinds of everything, but as long as I'm comfy with it, I don't consider it lost time. A good movie, an interesting book, Second Life, enjoying my morning coffee and newspaper, the forums here, drawing, painting, enjoy doing totally nothing because there is no time pressure anymore since I retired. Postponing things I don't really like. It maybe considered wasted time for people who chase around every second for their jobs, households and family, but for me it is exactly what I like most at the moment, so I take the time to waste it on all.
  24. Sid Nagy
    There can be other reasons for the high prices, but I think @Zalificent Corvinus explained exactly how it works for barons and land flippers on the mainland. If I had a parcel somewhere at mainland and I would not want to sell it, because I use it myself, I might put up a ridiculous high for sale price as well. It gives bragging rights and if a complete fool shows up to pay that kind of money, it would be me laughing all the way to the bank. And there are the old life time accounts, who have some tier free land rights. To them putting up their land for sale costs them nothing, even is it is for sale for the rest of SL's time span left. They even might have forgotten all about SL by now.
  25. Sid Nagy
    Toronto is a city like most cities. Rome is a tourist attraction park, just like Venice, Amsterdam, Vegas. I would not like to live in any of that category. City centers trampled by tourists day after day. I like to go to Amsterdam every now and then, great shopping and museums, but in the end the best thing about that city is the outbound train back home. It is too crowded with tourists. I've been to Venice a few times. Beautiful, but living there? No thanks. They have the same problem. Rome is still on my bucket list somewhere. But when I see the pictures of the crowds everywhere..... I don't know if I will ever go there, although it must be beautiful to see a few of the highlights there.
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