JayR Cela :_)

As to Carbon Footprint, accounting for carbon footprint is a ploy by the elites to tax the middle class yet again, and to generate a permanent sense of crisis and distraction from the real issues of incompetance or corrupt governance. Don’t buy into the Green B.S!

Am I arguing for the poetry of a desolate, SL town on an early morning? Maybe. Can this space be monetized or is it a quirk, an ineffable SL experience or failure? Not sure. Maybe someone else can decide. I’m just going to keep exploring.

Oh, and now, after a couple of years of exploring I’m thinking of starting a business in SL. So, it’s not just the poetry of the place.

But the more I read about the business of SL and the Lindens the more worried I get. The poetry starts to fade. The question I’m asking myself and you is this – “Is SL stable enough now to start a business?”

Well, that’s a lot of vaguely connected questions and comments. Hope it makes sense.

https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=95592

VIOLENCE needs to be reintegrated!

The sims there are banal, they make SL’s sims look sophisticated with the ability to view from any angle. You know you’ve done something THE WRONG WAY if you wind up making SL look sophisticated by comparison.

Tizzers has a Fort Longcat set up there already, cause its free…. in b4 metaplace grief.

What are your feelings regards the price of land from Second Life estate landlords if OpenSim-based grids (Metaplace, HiPiHi, OpenLife, etc) become inter-operable? Will their parcels price decrease even further? Will Linden Lab restrict the release of new land to increase the price of land?

How the offer of these new virtual worlds will affect Second Life land barons?

Are they prepared for more competition not only within Second Life but from other grids?

It would seem that with all these VR worlds that are out there 4 very import facts seem to be missed that keeps SL on top even though they are in a down slide currently.

1. The avatars are the most realistic avatars in any public VR world today with just about endless freedoms.

2. SL is the only VR world that has a stable, strong economy in place where people can really make some money depending on how much work they put into it. Yes there are a few others out there where you can make money however SL still is way above the rest in this area so for a person who enjoys the VR worlds but needs to make money from it only really has SL at this point and time.

3. The grid is wide open space. What I mean by this is the fact that when you’re in world you really feel as if you’re in a world not a small boxed area. The one thing that I do not like about Metaplace is that it still seems very restrictive when you’re on land. You do not get that world feeling. My daughter love to play Webkins and I find even their world when watching them play is more of a world feeling then most others. SL more than exceeds in this area.

4. Freedom combined with tools. SL is a just about anything goes type of world expect for what is not legal RL. This combined with the about perfect tool selections that SL offers makes it rather endless in what can be created in world. Most other VR’s are very restrictive yet with their tools limiting creative juices.

I would say the top 2 out of the list would be economy and realist avatars.

Love SL or not the fact remains that even with all the other VR worlds that have been out there and the ones popping up cannot seem to come even close yet to the VR world of SL and I say that with a tear in my eye because I too feel that the Lindens have also done more to hurt the world and the community that makes SL what it is rather then help or improve it.

I feel that Linden Labs is going the way that Travel! Once did. (http://www.digitalspace.com/traveler/)

I have been in the VR worlds for many many years and I remember when Traveler! Was the hottest thing since slice bread? Even MTV had a huge tiki island on there that was full all the time. However the company got the bright idea to abandon its people and direct it more towards the business world… Now it’s a ghost town.
Let this be a lesson Linden Labs… History repeats itself.

SL has the technology in place and the power to make SL the very best once again with high logins that are not bots but not until the focus is returned to the community that has made SL great and a bit of a media campaign would not hurt either before its all too late.

The next time you log into the grid the only thing you might hear is the ambient sound of wind in your avatars ear and a dust bunny prim blowing by.

~VooDoo Bamboo
http://www.voodoodesignsllc.com