If you missed the meeting, this video is up now. Drax will have one up Monday, at least he says. Drax did stream it via the YouTube Game channel.
There is a sound issue early on. It gets fixed about 11 or 12 minutes in.
General News
News Bits 2018 w16a
Fantasy Faire has arrived, April 19 to 25. Landmark? (Map URL).
This is one of the highlights of the year and a major stress test for Second Life™. The day I visit Fantasy Faire is a day where my Premium Membership pays off. Being a member puts me in the small percentage of people that enter after a region is full and not so much a benny is the lag crowds induce and I get to see it at its max.
I look forward to the event. The tough decision is do I get up early or stay up late to avoid some of the crowd?
Bare Sun Beach – Women, ladyboys, and femboys only. I’ve decided this place may consistently have the most beautiful women or near women in Second Life. Bare Sun (Map URL).
50% Off Blueberry Stuff
Yay, Blueberry is having a sale starting this April 13th, a Friday the 13th. Which in some cultures is considered an unlucky day. While there is no empirical data to suggest these Fridays are any worse than other Fridays, the superstition lives on.
So, six years in Second Life™… 13th pretty neat time to have a sale. Happy Birthday Blueberry
Not everything is on sale there are some exceptions. You’ll see them listed in the promo image above.
Blueberry is popular. I love how the clothes fit my Slink body. The clothes look good. So, I expected the region to be full. The main region, Lenox & Blueberry, is limited to 20 basic account avatars plus 5± premium member avatars. The store is designed for as lag-free an experience as is possible given the nature of a store in SL. Adjacent is the region Palua. Its limit is about 30± basic members. Adjacent to Palua is Just Because. It has a limit of 25 or 30.
Other News in Second Life
Talent, some we have in abundance in Second Life. I was hitting that ‘Next Unread Topic’ link in the forum and found My bad drawings of my worse avatars. This is a thread started in June 2017 and still running.
People draw a cartoon sort of caricature of their avatar and post both a picture of the avatar and the drawing. Kind of fun.
Linden Home Insurance – This was a big sale on Sunday, 4/1. It’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Premium Member!
Belleza – A new update came out this month. Belleza bodies now have Bento hands, a better neck seam for Lelutka heads. Updates are being sent or get a redelivery. Read more here: Belleza’s Bento Update is here!
Slink – There is a version v8 of the Slink Dev Kit. There are only small fixes between the earlier March update, v6, and a day or two later v7 update. The v8 update has a newer male body. The changes are ease of use type changes. Have the Kit redelivered to get the new update.
The source file has not been renamed. So, you can use the link in the email you received in March. It still works. Or get a new a link from the Redelivery Terminal in the Slink main store. Only the files inside have changed.
SL Jobs – Hamlet at New World Notes in Virtual Job Hunting In Second Life About As Daunting As Job Hunting IRL points us to Lexy Neven’s video HOW TO FIND A JOB IN SECOND LIFE (2018 UPDATE). This is all the basics a newbie would need to learn.
Wild Orchard – This designer has a load of EXPENSIVE gowns. BUT… there is a sale on. Marketplace only. Try Wild Orchard Clearance. L$89 to L$149. Some nice stuff.
The Making of… – I found this an interesting video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6TX86uCOsw – Have no idea why this video only works as a link… :/
Natsumi Xenga is the artist. Her Flickr channel, PICSSR, and Google for all the other places her art pops up.
SL and Other News Bits
Star Citizen now has 2 million user sign ups as it nears Alpha version 3.1. At US$45 per sign up, that is $90 million…
Save Our Lives, sad… as other news sources dig into the recent march the mainstream media story is falling apart. Many, like myself, wondered how high school kids could organize such a march and handle the logistics of contacting participants, moving them, providing for them, and acquiring a meeting place in D.C. Much less pay for everything.
A deep look shows the actual numbers are more in the 200,000± range not 800,000 and 90% of the 200k were adults >=40-years old. So, not really a student movement as is being reported.
Detective Novels – You may not know but one of the Second Life™ residents writes novels using their SL name as a pseudonym. Caitlin Tobias has written a review of the PUBLISHED novels, Huckleberry Hax – AFK, all of it. The book is out in hardcover, paperback, and digital. Awesome.
Second Life Forum Cover Photos
I spend time helping people in the SL Forum, mostly in Answers. A question came in about making a Cover Photo… a what?
When logged into the forum open your profile. There are a couple of ways to do that. Up in the upper right click your name and select Profile. Or on any forum page where you have posted click your profile image.