The thing that confuses me is the selective enforcement of core principles.

I invite you, Anshe, to explain how it is that we, your other customers, should respect these in light of what now sits next to our parcels? Perhaps it might be easier to see which of these are *not* blatantly violated by the cities in the ocean next to which we’re now living?
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BUILDING CODE

o No malls, no store rentals, no listing of parcels under category “stores”
o No major clubs, no listing of parcels as “gathering place”
o No sandboxes
o No flying structures below 250m altitute. As graphics become better we will most likely have to increase this altitute [sic] in the future.
o No obstructive signs, billboards or rotating prims
o No highrise structures. Max building height is 2 times distance of prim from parcel border
o Buildings must have adequate distance from parcel border
o No major eyesores
o To preserve a consistent landscape, terraforming is subject to approval by sim management. PLEASE DO NOT MESS UP COASTLINES, DESTROY HILLSIDES OR TURN THE WHOLE LAND INTO FLAT PIZZA.
o No skirting of the terraforming limits by creating fake landscapes with prims

We also very much appreciate if you plant trees around your house so that land is not barren. Especially on hills and snowy slopes this is encouraged.
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Gorean, gothic and many other cultures are one integral part of Second Life. One of the social progress in our Second Life world is the tolerance, openess and freedom of voluntarily pursue different lifestyles – not hidden but openly, with pride. Voluntary power exchange is part of the Gorean roleplay culture, this is true. As much as killing people is part of the World of Warcraft roleplay culture. The problem is that real life people often don’t understand if not explicitly explained to them. If feed this to RL media, people get confuse and may think what happens in SL is something not consensual like RL slavery or such, which it has nothing to do with.

I think NBC and their consultants have done the right thing by respect existing cultures in the Metaverse and not discriminating against some. They did not hide from the community but joined it, in one bold and progressive move. Second Life is one highly emotional space, with feelings and immersive experiences really touching the hearts of people. The huge emotional and social capital generated in this world is what really drives its growth, culture and economy

But seiously now, Aimee. What *I* want to know is this: Did the peacock get collared?

Aimee, what sort of horseshit is this? The sound didn't work on all of the sims except one. This after enormous hyping ahead of time that it would. When I kept checking, I found the URL wasn't even pasted in at all. On two of the sims, I found Sheep employees goofing off. I asked them why there was no sound. They said it only worked on one. They seemed completely unconcerned, and had no explanation as to why the URL wasn't pasted in, with any sort of sound coming out, even canned Christmas carols.

This project procured sims from Linden Lab and Anshe Chung in bulk. As such, you might say we got what we got.

It certainly wasn’t our intention to offend the folks in neighboring sims (quite the contrary, we were hoping to provide you guys with something fun to do!)

Some sims will be permanent fixtures, but many will be removed within the week (the ones that may be causing aesthetic anxiety with some neighbors in particular.)

If you want to beat the snot out of me directly, i’m ready for it. You can reach me at aimee@aimeeweber.com. I really appreciate your input as community is my first priority so don’t hold back the punches.

As the Project Manager, is it the case that no one put an item in the Gannt chart to talk to the neighbors, or even discover who they were?

I’m a little surprised, in that I would think NBC would be concerned about …undesirable messaging in the channel.

As a comparative (2006) new resident, it saddens me that one with your experience didn’t seem to see fit to consider the impact that the placement of these monstrosities would have on innocent neighbors.