[So what do you all think to the Premium Plus package?]

I see no benefit for me.  I could not care less about more groups and increasing the weekly stipend is nice but as I don't spend much in SL it would just add up to a nice large number which someday I could cash out but it would be nowhere near the extra cost of the membership.

I'll pass.

[Do Religious Cults and "Secret Societies" Exist in SL?]

Be cool if there were.  I would start one worshipping me.

[If people want privacy so bad they put up ban lines...]

19 hours ago, Aethelwine said:

What I see in the discussion is the opposite to be honest, Continued assertions of the rights of individual land owners to disregard the context they are living in, and what their neighbours are trying to do regardless of the consequences. And that that person should be immune from judgment or criticism. Something I find profoundly offensive and hypocritical.

Do as you wish, as I have said umpteen times and you have ignored. For me people can have ban lines and security without being anti-social. But there are cases where they set up traps for travellers where they in my mind and in those snared in them's view clearly are.

 

You may judge all that you wish.  But you must not be so foolish as to think that that judgement matters.  As an anti-social bastard myself I rather like security globes set to instant home over ban lines.  You can set up the security orb with no warning and then have your fence a meter inside your land.  A person goes on the land next door, walks up to the fence and BANG!  Great fun.

[Suggestions for Encouraging Migration from Bellisseria to the Mainland]

It is very simple.  "This the Mainland.  Here we are Free!"  The people who like Bellisseria's rules can stay in Bellisaria and leave us alone.

[Premium Plus - What are your 'Must Have' features and what are you willing to pay for it?]

I'm willing to wait and see what they offer, but I don't think it will be worth the price.  My guess is that it will benefit large landowners, merchants and maybe Bellisarians, none of which appeal to me. 

[Themed, Covenanted, Mainland - another idea.]

If you love the Bellisarian covenant so much, stay there.

[BBC reporter visits Second Life]

It was only the BBC.  We must not expect much in the way of truth.

[Facebook Metaverse]

Well, unless they give people lower halves to their bodies...

[Rather disappointed in this round of last names.]

"Banana?"

[MULTI FACTOR AUTHENTICATION !!]

I'm going to give it a few months just to let the bugs get worked out.  In SL early adopters get burned.

[Location location location]

Mainland only for me.  I love my freedom and no way in Hell would I put up with the Bellesarian Covenant.  I like dealing directly with the Lab and not having to worry about the estate being sold out from under me.

[Why is it that the Bellissaria rules cant apply to other mainland?]

9 hours ago, jakewanderer said:

Simple question. What keeps LL from applying the same rules Bellissaria got on on the rest of mainland? Means no banlines and security orbs giving you time to react and just push you out instead of sending you home? Those rules make totally sense and still offer privacy. 

Because the rules make no sense at all to people who want nothing to do with Bellissaria and it's damned covenant.  Seriously, we don't donate our tier to the Lab.  We entered into an fiduciary agreement with them and part of that agreement is that we can have banlines and orbs.  Now the Lab may choose to change that agreement, but it would do so at the cost of landowners and they don't want to do that.

Bellissarians need to stop trying to make rules for the rest of us to live by. 

[USE OF SECURITY ORBS IN RESIDENTIAL RENTALS]

17 hours ago, Chance Acoustic said:

Does anyone know if Linden can give any help if a neighbour's security orb interferes with your parcel? One of the rental companies has the place nextdoor. I'm not a customer so they don't answer IMs. They have the orb right against the boundary and I'm getting thrown home when I'm trying to edit stuff on my own land.

An orb cannot tp you from land you own, unless it is not working properly.  First check the boundaries of your land.  If you are within the boundary and the orb is still teleporting you, don't bother to contact the owner, AR it.

[Mainland & Social Norms - Did I miss any?]

Yawn.  Not going to happen.

[Olympics]

What are the Olympics?  Are they still having them?

Oh that's right.  During the Cold War we watched to see the East German men disguised as women and laughed at them a lot.  Once that ended, who cared?

[Toys, Games, Books, Movies and TV shows You Remember Fondly]

Good heavens.  How to make me feel old.

Television?  I can't remember a time without it, because my parents bought their first b&w set, that' all the had then, before I was born.  So I grew up with Tom Corbett, Space Patrol, Rocky Jones...the usual.  When I was 8 the Outer Space Community Theater was running the old Flash Gordon serials and as they conflicted with church, church just had to go.

Movies?  Well, I saw Forbidden Planet for the first time when I was 13 and I WANTED THAT KRELL MACHINE! 

Toys?  So many I could not tell you my favorite but I had more toy guns that every other kid in the neighborhood combined.

 

[Climate Change]

All this makes me enjoy driving my internal combustion engine car and eating meat more.

[Arrow Keys Lock-Up]

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only person this is happening to.  I was thinking it was a problem with my keyboard.

[RIP Mr Altberg]

Ebbe had the odd, for a CEO, habit of appearing unexpectedly inworld and one time I was in my building in Bay City and there he was looking around.  We went up to Executive Suite and sat in the boardroom to have a nice chat.  I fear I must have bored him terribly but he was gently tolerant of this old codger in the funny helmet.

He understood that SL was unlike any other business in that the relationship between the Lab and the Residents was not purely business.  That is why we mourn his passing.  He was not just the CEO of the company.  He was, in a very real sense, one of us.

[Never leave MP open]

There are few things more fun than shocking the in-laws.

[For a empty home howmany minimum prims]

I made a 5 LI two story skybox, 30x15x10 which on a 512 left 170 LI for stuff.  As I am not particularly interested in realism there was no kitchen or bathroom but it held a huge living room on one floor and a large bedroom on the the other.

You can do a lot with a little experience.

[[IDEA] No fly, No Tp continent]

I would have about as much use for it as I have for Bellesaria, which is to say none whatsoever.

[How to claim a mainland parcel in place of a premium linden home]

Always check out the parcel before you buy it.  Some can very oddly shaped after years of different owners carving them.  Clicking about land on your menu will show the boundry lines.  The other thing to check is the "covenant"section.  This is not usually an issue on the mainland but on estate land it can be as long as the damnable Bellisarian one.  You will find a lot of land advertised as being "for sale" at a ridiculously low price but what that really is glorified renting and you are dealing with a landlord.  (Actually, all land is technically just space rented on a server from the Lab but when you "own" outright you are dealing directly with the lab and not through a third party.  Think of tier as property tax) The advantage of rented land, however, is that it does not count against your tier.  The main disadvantage is that you have to keep paying the landlord and that can be more expensive than paying tier in the long run.  There is also the quite real danger of the landlord leaving SL and you arriving home to find the home gone.

It is also good to bring up the map when you are on the parcel so you can see what the rest of area is like.  You may not want to buy land in the same region as a busy club.  Those are a nightmare to have for neighbors and if you see place with lines of green dots, buy elsewhere.  You will be happy you did.  Speaking of neighbors, one of the joys of the mainland is that within the limits of the land impact and shape of the parcel you can build just about anything you want to live in.  But that means the folks next door can do the same thing.  Normally not a problem but it is something consider when you look at a parcel.

[Bay City]

A couple of pieces of advice for folks coming.  First, any vehicle in the parade has to be wearbable.  Scripted vehicles will not survive the all devouring lag monster.  Second, try to keep your complexity as low as possible.  Everyone will turn down their complexity thing because of all the avis and you don't want to be just another jelly bean.  Third, try to stay out of the path of the conga line unless you are in it.  It is embarrassing to be run over.

[Vaccination]

I had Moderna for both with no major side effects.  Just a little fever, nothing that chicken soup and vitamin C couldn't handle.