Harper Held

I plan on applying. I wiped out my flickr so I'll have to upload photos of my past SLB builds onto a new flickr account...that might mean I won't get approved. Still, I'm going to roll the dice.🎲🎲

I'm at a loss for safe words but I will say that I'm happy they have the adult category (even if I won't build for it), and that I'm a mix of pleased and amused by the choice of themes. IMO the choice theme is a clever mix of safe (vital given [redacted]) and interesting (meaning with plenty potential to make builds that fit without being totally incoherent mishmash like some past themes. I approve -and hopefully I'll be approved!

SL21B Applications Now Open For Exhibitors This years' theme: "Elements" though, as always, following the theme is optional. Details in the link above, obvs. I'm making this thread for the sake of discussion since no one else has yet. 😻

Rules for us and not for them. Par for the course, in all honesty; not just in LL.

FYP:

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I'm doing much the same, myself but less because of anything having to do with LL and more simply needing to tighten my pursestrings and manage my budget. Retrocomputing/emulation's a cheaper hobby and I'm spending more and more of my time on that instead.

If you remember when gorrillas closed the grid to bang on things -you might be an oldbie. ...or versed in obscure SL memes, I'm not sure which. [edit]Oh! What year? Jeez, I originally joined in 2005 and this account is from 2008 ...but I still find myself fumbling about like I just got off of orientation island. There are 5 year old accounts that are much more oldbie than I am...

That may not be an option for everyone, especially those with financial or visa pressures. That said, I'm more worried about any favoritism (to the detriment of residents and resident creators) and/or harrasment (blackmail of residents was mentioned) of the kind that was mentioned in the blog post than I am internal LL workplace problems. But you're right; none of this is new.

Yep; people's inclination to believe whatever is flattering and fits their world view is the 2nd biggest threat to civilisation -right behind AI

Pessimistic, but is it unwarranted?

"We got rid of the material that brought about the bad PR and enacted policies to ensure we would not be embarassed that way again"

It never came up?

Yeah, Scylla! Get your gear together..

Not really, it was the institutional dysfunction which enabled the excesses. Even if heads were to roll (they won't), all that would mean is that it would be someone else taking advantage of their privileges to enact their whims and viewpoints. Getting rid of [redacted] in SL by itself would do nothing to curb the abuse of power -that requires deeper institutional change. The hystrionics give The Lab the opportunity to avoid addressing the deeper issues by giving them something else to talk about.