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Second Life: Got Talent? Win Money

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Another photo contest! 1st prize L$1,000.00. Not bad.

MH❤CONTEST_052017❤

MH❤CONTEST 05-2017

The theme for the contest is: H2O with at least 1 item from the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop worn.

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  1. Wear at least 1 item from the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop: marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/180802
  2. Post in the group: www.flickr.com/groups/3619996@N25/
  3. Name the picture: MH❤CONTEST_052017❤[your name]
  4. You can enter as many pictures as you want, but if you do, only the one with the most faves will be taken into consideration to win a prize; so share as much as possible!
  5. Post-editing is allowed, and even encouraged.

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1st Prize : 1000 L$ (lindens, to spend anywhere in SL)

2nd Prize: 500 L$ worth refund on your next purchase in the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop

3rd Prize : 20% refund on your next purchase in the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop

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[su_spoiler title=”When”] The contest run from Saturday 13th May until Sunday 04th June. [/su_spoiler]
[su_spoiler title=”Judges”]

  • Moustique Heartsdale (Model/Designer/Photographer)
  • Gem Sabra (Perfectionist)
  • Gillian Easterwood (Model/Photographer)
  • Jo Dewoitine (Model)

The judges will each pick their 3 favorites. In case of ex-aequo the number of faves will determine who wins. [/su_spoiler]
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The group’s pictures are here. Not necessarily safe for work… NSFW.

Second Life Bits 2017 w18: Shopping

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30 Linden Saturdays

Obviously this is for the shoppers, L$30 Saturdays is a Discount Sales Event. Seraphim puts the event on. The event is a set of merchants that place a product on sale for L$30 every Saturday. Prices are dropped for 24 hours then return to normal. You can visit Seraphim’s web site each week to get a SLURL to the first shop in the day’s participants. Plus, Seraphim has a load of hunts and sales listed.

GTS Weapons

This week the sale starts at GTS Weapons… they are offering 3 melee and 3 ranged weapons you can pick up for free. GTS features bows: cross, compound, and medieval, when you walk in the door.  They offer some spears and swords. As you wonder the store you find most weapons types, chainsaw, lasers, old west guns, present day military, steampunk, black powder, explosive, futuristic, a tank, cannons, poison plants… pretty much everything a combat RP’er could want. Generally, in the L$600+ range. These are mesh objects. The scripts use Raycast tech in appropriate weapons, the newer tech for SL weapons.

The region is GTS Weapons. GTS has other stores there and offers other products from clothes to tools needed to run an RP game.

The L$30 Sale Item is over at WHATZ (Fashion and Props), across from the landing point. There are 4 sale items, one of which I couldn’t resist. A cute camisole but, it fit so poorly I tossed it. 🙁  Continue reading →

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Second Life: New Things

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I missed the Content Creators UG meeting this week, lunch and drinks with friends. So, of course this is the week we got word from the Lindens that we are getting new shiny stuff, a new project: Animation Extensions.

Zizi

Zizi

The new extensions will extend how and what we can animate in s couple directions. First is what is being called Supplementary Animations. These are for the new Bento skeleton.

If you don’t animate in SL or haven’t been around forever, you probably don’t know there used to be just the avatar default animations (think duck walk) and the animations we played via script. Our Animation Overriders (AO’s) worked by the viewer continuously asking the server what out avatar was doing (walking, sitting, flying, etc.) and then telling the server which animation to play.  Continue reading →

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Second Life News 2017 w19

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Servers

The Deploys information placed in the forum is less and less. As of now they are simply a link to the release notes.

The main channel did get a roll out this morning. Package: #17.04.26.325840 – This package changes server logging.

SpringContest~MoustiqueHeartsdale~Persephone

SpringContest~MoustiqueHeartsdale~Persephone

Blue Steel and Magnum get the new package: #17.05.05.326151 – The package consists of “internal” changes… probably meaning bugs that only affect backend operation, nothing we would notice.

Le Tigre gets the package: #17.05.05.326155 – This isn’t a simulator software change. The servers running this channel are being upgraded to a new Operating System version. Sort like you updating Windows and not your viewer. We aren’t likely to see any noticeable changes, provided all goes well.

The OS upgrade will spread through the entire set of simulators.  Continue reading →

Second Life: News Bits 2017 w18

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I do bits when either there isn’t much to report or for whatever reasons I’ve missed UG meetings. This week RL work had me busy. So… its bits today.

vessione 2

vessione 2

Inventory Loss

Empirically, we seem to be seeing more inventory loss. Apparently Grumpity Linden was at the Thursday Beta Server UG meeting talking about the Lab responding to complaints. Inara made the meeting and covers the discussion (here).

I’ve seen more posts in the SL Forum about people losing inventory. The cause is generally thought to be a poor connection or a flat inventory – having everything in the root or first set of subdirectory folders.

The Lab is apparently thinking either users are accidentally self-deleting things or there is bug eating inventory. While they look for a bug they are changing the viewer’s user interface (UI) to reduce the possibility of accidental deletion.

So, at some point we will see the Empty Trash process changes and another ‘Are you sure…’ prompt when deleting things.

See: BUG-100541

Profile Pictures

People seem to be having problems getting images into their profiles. See: BUG-100516.

Second Life News 2017 w18-2

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The Third-Party Developer’s meeting ran 36 minutes. There is some interesting news. So…

Shadow 1

Shadow 1

A new RC HTTPAsset viewer is out, 5.0.5.325940. This version is significantly better than the previous, crash-wise. There are still too few people using it to have good stats on the viewer’s performance.

There has been an update to the voice viewer. Problems were fixed. At the first of the meeting Oz Linden thought the viewer would be out any minute. The new release actually posted during the meeting. Continue reading →