Lewis Nerd

You know, it's always strange how things are dismissed like this as if my point of view has no value, and by extension how people who don't follow the crowd but stand up for what they believe also have no value. You never realise how much power your words can have, and how much damage you can do to someone you don't know. I hope you never find out just how much.

I can assure you that you wouldn't find much there of interest, mostly because I rarely see friends online to talk to now; most of my chat logs are either vendor spam, or configuration text responses from interactive items on my build. That's one of the downsides of being a mature experienced player, most of the people you knew 'back in the day' are either dead now, or have been scared off of the game by griefers, idiots and those engaging in unsavoury activities. There isn't much about socially any more for people like me.

I'm not sure what you think "my goals" are - simply a reminder of basic truths really. Personally, I think the adult side of SL has done far more damage over the years than good; who knows how much better and busier it might be here if people hadn't been driven away by it. I've managed 18 years in SL without needing to resort to 'adult content' to enjoy it. Maybe it's just a cultural thing.

No. If you're specifically looking inside a home to spy on someone then that could be considered wrong, although I don't think it's against any particular rules otherwise the facility wouldn't exist. It's very easy to check the mini map and make sure nobody is home. Most people don't bother with learning to be creative and just buy stuff off the marketplace for their 'digital home', so why wouldn't you want to buy the same from the marketplace for your home? It's no different from going to Walmart or some other supermarket and buying exactly the same thing hundreds of thousands of others around the country have bought for their home. I like creating stuff, but if I need something I'll always check marketplace first with keywords to see what's out there, and if I can buy it for L$50 instead of spending 2 hours making it, I'll gladly support others by purchasing it. Too many people seem to be utterly paranoid about 'online privacy' when no such thing exists.

Nice offensive generalisation that probably breaks the rules somewhere. If you don't want to run into other people... don't play an online game.

Nothing is real, therefore nothing is 'private'. If you wouldn't do or say it in front of your grandmother... don't do it in SL.

Nothing wrong with 'glow', if used in a small amount, as it can represent neon signs or other lighting that would have a glow of sorts. Full on, yes, it can look bad. But as for PBR ... can't see why everyone is getting so hyped up over it. Haven't seen any sensible use of it yet.

Ban lines and "security orbs", especially those that eject you to home with no warning, with absolutely no indication that someone is paranoid enough to set their land to 'private' in the first place. It's just a game. There's nothing you can do in game that has any bearing on real life. Therefore there's no need to aggressively ban anyone from flying around and looking for interesting builds. If you've just got what looks like a Linden or marketplace home, it has zero interest to me, but given that you can use camera controls to "look inside" areas you are excluded from, the whole concept of 'security' is a joke anyway.

That doesn't seem to work any more, it was removed for no real reason many updates ago.

Anyone else old enough to remember?

I guess I'll chalk it down to 'potentially user error' somehow, I can understand something disappearing but as many of the pieces were not linked and scattered over potentially 100 metres across my parcel it'll be a mystery. Guess I'll be replacing those bits now.

I've relogged several times. I've tp'd to various regions, and used several alts - same problem. The "about land" tab shows about 200 prims "missing"; I had about 400 to go and now there's about 600 free. Large chunks of my railway are missing, and normally the train follows the track but the track parts have simply disappeared so the trains wander off aimlessly until they pick up another piece and go the wrong way, so I've had to disable them in case they disappear never to be seen again. I have submitted a support ticket for this as it is clearly something very wierd going on. The random nature of the disappeared parts I think I'm fairly sure weren't anything I might have done accidently.

In the last 24 hours random chunks of my build have just vanished. I don't believe my account has been compromised (nobody else has access rights to build/delete stuff) but surely things can't just ... disappear? Has anyone else experienced this?

The moth from Borneo rather than the plant from Australia. Thanks. I can finish my sign now.

Does anyone know for sure whether the region is named after the plant, or the moth, bearing the name?

... and when you get the same people just "laughing" react to every post I make regardless of where it is... it really makes you feel welcome doesn't it.

That's not what I'm saying - nothing "up to no good" about wanting to stop someone harrassing you. You could use your same argument about' secrecy and power' over ban lines and security orbs. There's every chance I'm just flying past your land and have no interest in what you are doing or what is inside your land, but when you get zero warning and teleported home without consent then surely that's an example of 'extreme control' far in excess of simply not wanting to have a specific individual(s) interacting with you? Yet most seem to take that as a 'basic right' in-game. It seems like the only real choice I have is to stop using the forums - and I'm sure lots of people would be delighted to take that win.

Yes, sorry I probably wasn't as clear as I should have been that it's about how tiers work - land prices are, generally, down to market forces, location and desirability which in general I don't have an issue with (unless it's someone pricing neighbouring land extortionally, having built a 'griefer built' and hoping that you buy it at an inflated price to get rid of something that's within the rules but unsightly and annoying). Land barons serve a purpose, I guess - although mostly to new users who don't want to commit yet to paying a monthly fee) but what may or may not affect them doesn't bother me, only people like me whose creativity is stifled by what seems a bit of a nonsensical 'tier system'. Yes, paying to upgrade a free alt may work out a cheaper option... but should it?

"Adult" or "not", of course. Body formats - "default" and "a long list of others". I see little point in spending lots of real money on buying things on my digital persona; the way I play wouldn't change if I was a plywood box. Then of course the age old argument as to whether SL is a 'platform' or a 'game'.

Yesterday, I installed a visitor counter on my land. Today, I was surprised that I had 9 visitors that had been to my land ... one an alt that I was using to test something, and 8 called Bonnie something which apparently we aren't supposed to talk about.

That's a very nice transformation - but have a look round the Warmouth region and see if some of that land is so easily beautifiable!

Tbh this "Bellisseria" place sounds more like a HoC which is probably one of the worst things in America, which thankfully seems to have stayed there and not gone round the rest of the world. I guess 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and Bellisseria is not something that appeals to me. I have no issues with some basic restrictions particularly when parts of builds affect the neighbours but I do like the freedom of mainland. But I've always been a considerate builder and whilst some may think using prims to build an attractive 'parcel outline' could be considered a bit of a waste, it's something I've always factored in and it seems to have been appreciated - and if a neighbour thinks it's too high, if they tell me, we work out a compromise.

Popular and well known residents are great to start trends and challenges. I am neither any more, and am not sure I ever was one of those two.

The problem is some of those are "built in" to the hill, and you can't excavate very much in SL. I know you can terraform to a degree but I wonder how many of those would be possible? Love to have a try... maybe Dr Evil's secret underground lair?

Yes, I know some strange people like to swim in icy water... I'm not a fan of swimming in any form. Never been any good at it.