No sex please, we’re Californian!

There was an interesting community tools user group meeting tonight, where the adult forum concept was put to bed, for reasons that still make absolutely no sense. Linden Lab seem to be absolutely scared to death of teens seeing anything remotely adult, to such an extent that they come across as being scared of their own shadow. There’s nowhere on the forum to discuss adult products in a mature fashion for general users, and by this I don’t mean xxx porn pictures and lurid discussions of graphic sexual exploits, I mean sensible discussion of adult themes.

This is perfectly feasible, Linden Lab have private forums to keep prying eyes away but there appears to be absolutely no will from Linden Lab to allow these discussions. There are private forums for merchants, bizarrely adult land owners and merchants, the Atlas landowners group, soon to be LGBT but not for adult consumers.

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Back To The Grindstone

Fantasy Faire 2011 is over, and it ended with a bang because I went to an event on Sunday only to find they’d locked my chief Elf in a magical prison and were demaning bail money for her to be released! I toyed with the idea of leaving her in there. However this was bad timing, because at the same time I received a note to inform me that the Pirates wouldn’t recognise the new Queen and had occupied the lighthouse, then a dragon upset a unicorn and I found myself looking at a pool of blood, which looked like it needed CSI to investigate, a mermaid swam past too ….

Yes I was back on my RP sim to catch up on all the happenings, and really, I go away and they let lots of things happen, which is great. However I’m also finding myself enthused about doing things in Second Life again, I’m just not sure what!

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Fantasy Faire 2011 Update

Auctions end today for Fantasy Faire 2011, you can go and bid on items by following this SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fantasy%20Faire%20Central/206/41/22

Today I’ve been visiting the sims that I haven’t been to, which were the following (Links are SLURLS)

Dark Mirage

Sea of Mer

Forest of Light

Exotic Worlds

Enchanted Mysts

Today was also the day on which monies raised by Fantasy Faire 2011 for Relay went over the four million Linden Dollars mark. Below the cut I have some pictures …. yes this could get like showing someone your holiday snaps!

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Blogs, Forums and Land

One has to wonder whether Linden Lab have something up their sleeve regarding income streams, because land no longer seems to be flavour of the month. I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what exactly it is that they feel can supplement the tier system for income, I’m not seeing any strong hints anywhere.

The issue of land came up at last night’s community tools user group where people asked whether there would be a land user group, no plans was the answer, no plans to replace Jack’s office hour, which remained the land office hour long after Jack ceased being responsible for land! There is however a land discussion forum, a private one, for the top secret Atlas members but it seems some of them aren’t happy with the forums and they want an estate land for sale section, but Linden Lab seem reluctant to push land lately, which brings me back to wondering what’s going on.

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Fantasy Faire 2011 Update and Pics

I blame Torley for this …I’m getting into taking photos in Second Life and enjoying it too much, even if the results aren’t great, it’s fun and a great way to record happenings in Second Life. Fantasy Faire 2011 is into day seven now, but day six saw L$510,804 raised bringing the total amount raised to more than USD$14,700.

Milestones from this year’s Fantasy Faire include:

  • More money raised by day three this year than for the whole of Fantasy Faire 2010.
  • By day six the total for all of last year’s relay season had been broken in terms of the Fantasy Faire team!

The aim this year is to raise USD$20,000 overall and it’s looking like a wonderful effort by all so far.

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