ArgontheDevil Ormega

That is the reason a lot of us want nothing to do with Bellessaria.

It's still a--logo. I seriously worry about people who get excited over a logo. I worry even more about people who think anyone else will be excited over a logo.

Depends on the parcel. If I have a place that is intended to be open to the public I don't set security at all. I just lock it down to prevent griefing. If a bot appears I set the land to damage for a bit, shoot the intruder and then turn damage off again. If it is a parcel I don't want the public on, I have a security orb set to send home instantly. Of course if the land next door is for sale and I feel like a bit of fun I put a fence up about a meter in from the parcel line and set the orb to instant home. Then when people look at the place for sale and don't bother to sensibly check for the real boundries of the land, they will sort of wander into the security system. (Insane giggling as appropriate.) After all, if they are looking to buy a parcel you would expect them to look at its boundaries first.

The real benefit of premium has nothing to do with the pittance they call a stipend, though if you become a tightwad like I am it can add up over a few months and actually be worth something, like buying a tier free 1024 on the mainland and not having to deal with the hassles and lag of Bellissaria as well as crazy neighbors measuring the height of the trees. The real benefit comes from tech support. It's one of those things you hope that you never need but if you need it being premium means you get it.

It sounds like something more annoying than entertaining.

In general it is annoying. I'm not sure what I dislike more, the inability to go to a restaurant or the damned preaching of the folks talking about their damned flat curve. On the other hand, being a misanthropic agoraphobic means that I don't have to do things I hate to do, like go out and be with people. So on the whole, it does not bother me very much.

A few years ago I encountered a nut like this and after not responding to her ravings I said something like, "Just filling out the AR form. Is there anything else you would like me to add?" Silence.

I'm not concerned until it hits firestorm and then I will probably ignore it as much as possible.

But I am last century.

I could never figure it out either. Of course I've always had a last name and no reason to change it.

I believe this. If the Universe we inhabit is a simulation, I hope whomever put it together has very good backup servers.

Definitely get a premium account and buy mainland. You can find good parcels that are not too expensive and not only can you put in any security you desire, you will not have slightly insane neighbors running around with meter sticks measuring the height of your trees.

I play on SL so I don't have to dress like I do in RL. We all needed a good laugh.

I have lived too long to be afraid of either dying or dying of a virus.

I don't think they need an excuse.

I'm fortunate in that my income is not dependant on leaving the house. I worry about my RL friends, and SL friends who do not have that luxury. Restaurants and bars run on very thin margins and while restaurants can keep some income with delivery I don't know of many bars that have that service. It might become a new thing, who knows. I imagine skype will be overloaded.

It sounds like a new scam going around. A person gets an invoice for something they never ordered and when they make the mistake of inquiring about it the scammer asks for your information.

No doubt the Lab can figure out a way to do this but it will have to be on Premium Double Plooooos and have a fee of $50 USD.

Or find totally repulsive. "I do this in real life. Why the hell would I want to do it on my computer?"

Obviously premium and buy the land is the preferred option. Other than that, if you avoid G rated regions there should be no problem, especially if you have privacy turned on the land. As far as desirable location, if the patrons are going to teleport in, it really does not matter as long as you don't have a big club in the same region that uses all the sim resources.

Anyone who has experience in corporate meetings, which is probably four people, knows there is a lot of joking and laughing otherwise they would be unbearable. The problem is that the culture does not translate well to a public forum. Ebbe is a CEO. He speaks CEO. He is used to dealing with corporate people and employees. Outside of that milieu he is not going to sound as smart as he is. His comment about creators having to adjust to EEP was a bad approach. It merely makes EEP sound undesirable, which it may be. Is it really a feature that justifies the expense? My guess is that it will be mesh builds that will be most affected. Prims are harder to screw with, or adjust. Speaking of expense, the plug should have been pulled on the Edsel, er, Sansar long ago. Strawberry did not do a bad job. The problem with using an employee to conduct the interview is that the employee will almost always ask seriously softball questions. They tend to like their jobs. To have been done right a resident with some journalism experience who is not a lab employee should have been moderator and I don't meen a blogger. Someone who actually knows how to ask a question. Seriously, a smaller landowner who does not deal in trading regions is not going to care less about that pricing and thinks the enthusiam about it somewhat crazy. The whole "ploose" thing was just annoying. If you can't say what it will include for the price just don't talk about it at all and if, when the time comes, try not to sound like your enthusiasm for the extra 1000 groups is going cause your head to fly off. Other than that, I have to mention Ebbe's AO. If I were to sit like that at meeting everyone would be wondering who was going to be fired. It made him look like he was in a state of perpetual disgust. But the kitties were cute.

I'm waiting for the rollout and the massive grid failure which will cause the rollback. You know, just like every major change that comes from the lab. It's one of those things that makes SL fun and keeps us from getting bored.

AR and then derender.

I am fortunate in that growing up in Chicago, Valentine's Day meant standing people up against a wall and shooting them with machine guns.

If all they intend to offer is the opportunity for two Linden homes, they can keep it. I'm not interested in Linden homes. Extra tier free on mainland may be an incentive but it depends on the price. If they are going to do something foolish like triple the price of a normal premium--no thanks, not even for 10,000 groups or one more 1024. Seriously, I cannot imagine what they could offer that would justify that kind of outlay unless it was something like unlimited land ownership with no tier. I could take up being a land baron for that but I cannot imagine the Lindens doing such a thing. Even a tier free region would easily justify the higher premium but again, I doubt the Lindens would do it. It works like this. My membership, plus land tier comes out to approximately $520 a year. I can easily afford that. but if I increase my tier to buy more land it would come out approximately $880 per annum. I can afford it but I do not want to pay it. (I don't even want to think about what a region and membership costs. No wonder there are so many shopping malls. SL can be an expensive hobby.) So if the Lindens in their infinite mercy were to offer a super premium of $300 but increase the tier free land to say a half region (I'm pulling that out of a hat, it could be less but it is to be more than one 1024.), that is a damned good deal and one would be foolish to resist it.