Nobody Cares - Second Life Is Weird AF

[Caete]

What happened to the single stupid demo sign floating high over a creator's stuff (and so your avatar)? Did people find ways to hide these, thereby destroying the SL economy through permanent use of sample wear?

Oh they are around but sometimes floating off to the side. The best ones are from a certain shoe merchant (maybe more but I've only seen it from one so far) that hug the shoe so closely they cover up enough of it you can barely see there's a shoe ...

 

[bubblesort]

I got a premium account the other day, mostly to mess around with scripting experiences (you need premium to get a key to make an experience).

So I went to get my Linden home, just because I'm not in the mood to build a house right now. I found some nice suburban houses called Bellisseria houses. I dug around a bit and checked out a few in world. I decided I wanted the traditional model Bellisseria house. So I went back to the premium page to get one, because it was available when I first loaded the page, but now there were no available traditionals. I never noticed houses disappearing out of the web site that fast before, so I googled to see if there's an outage or something.

Turns out, this Bellisseria region is incredibly active! People love living here and there's lots of boating, so the real estate market is red hot. I posted on the official SL forums, asking how long it usually takes for more traditional homes to be released. I got an IM in world shortly after that... somebody wanted to flip me their house! The way it worked, they released the land, I counted to 5, then refreshed the land page and grabbed it before the bots could. They didn't charge me for it, they just wanted to help me get a nice house, since they were moving anyway.

Why did this happen? Turns out, the real estate market is so hot in Bellisseria, there are bots snapping up land as fast as it's released. You can't sublet linden homes, so nobody knows WTF their business model is. The bots piss off everybody. It's so bad, the moderators on the official SL forums have to clean up flame wars over it all the time. So this person gave me their nice traditional house, with a rez zone boat dock literally at my front door, right on the Bellisseria river, just to stop the bot operators from snapping it up, LOL.

Anyway... the Bellisseria group chat is always going, the people seem super friendly and nice. They are always giving me notecards of landmarks to places of interest and places I should boat to. There's a real community here. It's nice.

I never thought in a million years that there would be a serious, active SL community based around linden homes, let alone a hot market for any type of mainland parcels, but I guess that's what's happening.

 

[Sid]

I don't think that bots are active. You can only have one Bellisseria home per premium account.

Point is some homes and boats are totally awesome positioned compared to the other ones.
Somewhere around 90% of the house boats are crammed next to each other with some land behind it and some water in front of them.
And then there are that other 10% that are really placed more creative, They are the wanted ones.
Same goes for the other themes.

Now that is the reason why some (a lot) of premiuns keep hunting for a new Bellisseria home time after time.
They abandon when the position of the house doesn't suit them. Then go straight to the LL website again and try and get a better one.

When you subscribe to a home on the website, you know what kind of home you get, but not where it is located.
A camper along the coast line is more desirable as one in the middle of an endless number of campers, with the coastline or a creek 7 sims away.

LL even has a few rules enforced to cool this game down a bit.
You can only switch homes 5 times within 24 hours. And only an x amount of times hit the refresh button within 10 minutes on their webpage.

These endless swapping games are all about location, location, location.
Who knows, some might have automated their search a bit with a few scripts.

 

[Romana]

I don't think that bots are active. You can only have one Bellisseria home per premium account.

Point is some homes and boats are totally awesome positioned compared to the other ones.
Somewhere around 90% of the house boats are crammed next to each other with some land behind it and some water in front of them.
And then there are that other 10% that are really placed more creative, They are the wanted ones.
Same goes for the other themes.

Now that is the reason why some (a lot) of premiuns keep hunting for a new Bellisseria home time after time.
They abandon when the position of the house doesn't suit them. Then go straight to the LL website again and try and get a better one.

When you subscribe to a home on the website, you know what kind of home you get, but not where it is located.
A camper along the coast line is more desirable as one in the middle of an endless number of campers, with the coastline or a creek 7 sims away.

LL even has a few rules enforced to cool this game down a bit.
You can only switch homes 5 times within 24 hours. And only an x amount of times hit the refresh button within 10 minutes on their webpage.

These endless swapping games are all about location, location, location.
Who knows, some might have automated their search a bit with a few scripts.

I had a Bellisaria home for about a day in the middle of my last move, except I went for the Victorian, not the ones with boats, so I guess that's why I didn't have a hard time.
It was pretty nice, the only quibble I'd have had was the sim name, Filibuster ().
I didn't send up keeping it because the better parcels I found were larger than 2048, so that to have the parcel and the Linden home I'd have had to tier up.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It's a real-life facelight!

Zumy: Pro Studio Quality Light For Video Meetings

 

[Clara D.]

Candy corn monster mod . . .

Comes with an Adult version . . .

Second Life Marketplace - :: wickedpup :: MAIZE MONSTER // OMEGA + BOM

Not so much kink shaming as I am questioning people's taste in candy

 

[Noodles]

It seems like a lot of people play SL on mute like I do.

A few weeks ago, I was in a Builder's Brewery Class. We were building a treasure chest and the lid used a door script I had seen before. The class got side tracked by someone who couldn't figure things out. While waiting, I built a little tiny PacMan head, using the door script, only altered to run on a timer every half second or so. It just sat there with the flappy mouth. Someone even noticed it and asked about it and I have them a copy, I noticed they were later wearing it on their shoulder as a little pet.

Cut to more recently. I log in, for basically the first time in forever, I have the sound up. I hear this GOD AWFUL constant creaking noise in my sandbox skybox. After some investigating, I found it was the little Pacman. Every time the mouth opened and closed it played this loud as heck squeaky door noise.

No one noticed in the entire BB class, the person wearing one didn't notice, or even mention that someone had complained about the noise.

 

[Gear]

Weirdly, I'm the reverse. I feel uncomfortable in regions where there isn't music playing and I need to hear my UI or I get lost.

 

[Romana]

Weirdly, I'm the reverse. I feel uncomfortable in regions where there isn't music playing and I need to hear my UI or I get lost.

I usually leave the music off and the UI on, unless I'm dancing, that is. And at the Fantasy Faire, on suggeston.
Sounds from gestures always off (I got so tired of TUUUUNE!).
Voice also always off (why do people who use it to chat always have it on blast in stores and stuff?).
I'm still trying to work out what to mute to silence taking objects.

 

[Kalel]

It seems like a lot of people play SL on mute like I do.

younger people on sl tend to use voice all the time.. Older generations tend to type more as they are use to prevoice days of audio and gesture spam. if they do voice it's on discord or other alternative software in the background while sl is running. i mute sl all the time and have it on my second screen. any flashing generally gets my attention

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

So for RFL in 2007-8 I made this particle thrower freebie and in the intervening years a number of residents have tried to forge a business empire by changing the particle texture and slapping no mod and a price tag on it. To this day I'm getting their support IMs from their customers because I'm the creator of the object.

And man do some people get salty when they find out I still give em out free and full perms on the MP.

 

[Gear]

Voice also always off (why do people who use it to chat always have it on blast in stores and stuff?).

younger people on sl tend to use voice all the time.. Older generations tend to type more as they are use to prevoice days of audio and gesture spam. if they do voice it's on discord or other alternative software in the background while sl is running. i mute sl all the time and have it on my second screen. any flashing generally gets my attention

I find it interesting how much of this stereotype I fit into. I don't mind the gesture spam too much, but I definitely leave Voice shut down. Part of that, honestly, is habit from performance issues in OTHER games with built in audio.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Super science brain swap into robot bodies roleplay!

No furries.

 

[Clara D.]

I find it interesting how much of this stereotype I fit into. I don't mind the gesture spam too much, but I definitely leave Voice shut down. Part of that, honestly, is habit from performance issues in OTHER games with built in audio.

And voice is just a mixed bag of grating, horrible audio quality and mindbogglying inane crap.

 

[Clara D.]

Super science brain swap into robot bodies roleplay!

No furries.

Beep Boop OwO

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

So for RFL in 2007-8 I made this particle thrower freebie and in the intervening years a number of residents have tried to forge a business empire by changing the particle texture and slapping no mod and a price tag on it. To this day I'm getting their support IMs from their customers because I'm the creator of the object.

My experience with Flight Feather and Tinycam. To the point I just quit logging in as Argent for several years except to pay shop and parcel rent.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Maybe I should invite the rude ones to leave a shitty review on whatever MP place they got it from.

 

[EmpressOfCommunism]

"FOX TV CASTING CALL: Is Your Second Life ''''Alter Ego'''' The Next Music Superstar?"

OH NO

 

[Gear]

Man, LL really is digging in on the vtuber craze, isn't it?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

"We recommended to setting LOD level at 4 "

"I didn't make any levels of detail and to keep the LI down every other LOD aside from the top level is squashed to little triangles."