Carl's Corner :)

lol 3 years? I make that almost 2 years.. hehe which year are you in Ron?
And yes it's the longest game I have been in. I did play another for about 4 years but was on and off. Kept leaving that one. Have had a few breaks with SL but nothing big, just the odd month.

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ronviers wrote: I did play pool (rl pool (I don't know what you guys call it (if it's even popular there

Yep they have pool here too and pool rooms, plus snooker but thats different.

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ronviers wrote: another name for it is 8 ball

Yep, cant remember which if its snooker or pools but one is known as billiards too.

Been busy still sorting that store out. Here is a snapshot of what it used to look like the other day, did some external balconies to make use of the garden views.

and a shot of the garden shop she has cause you said what do some of the plants look like

i dont quite understand the purpose of SL. some folks call it a game; some call it a simulation. and yet, here's all this talk about stores and textures. and that makes it sound more like an online store. what exactly do you do in SL? what's the draw?

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Kraellin wrote: what's the draw?

Craig, I think that is the draw. That unlike other games/simulations etc SL is something different to everyone that uses it. People get different things out of their SL experience. Some use SL as a platform for finding a partner or dating, some love the building side, creating, making money, using it as a business. Others love the fantasy aspect that they can be who they want to be. There's bound to be an area in Second Life that caters to everyones tastes from the cute to the totally bazaar. Although somethings are not allowed, and can get you banned if your caught.

I mean theres building with prims, creating clothing in paint packages, script writing, texture creating to sell/give away those textures in SL, sculpty creating (which is prims that have a map applied to them that was created in a 3d application so you have shaped prims that are only 1 prim count instead of high prim). Some people dance in clubs for money, some DJ, some are Model's for photo studio's in there and stores that require models. Some are full time vampires, some are in to Gorean, although its debatable if the area your in really is a Gor area, because a lot are more based on what the owner of that area believes Gor to be. Some people are Furries, which could be anything from someone that loves cute avi's to um.. people that are role playing (I'll leave it as that). But that is just a small list of possibles.

To me SL is what you make it.

yep like RL really exists... tut! I mean yep kinda like that Craig. To me people that lack imagination or think about possibilities find SL harder to deal with.

There is so much you can do in there. If you want to train as a Jedi Knight you can do so. Or if you want to be a store owner selling textures, or objects created from 3d shapes (prims) you can, etc.

I think a lot of the programmers/Lindens from Linden Labs, have ALT's which are additional characters/avatar's. So they do get to do hands on as well and they do tutorials, well mainly Torely Linden does anyway.

You can make money in SL. But depending on how much stock you have, what your selling, how you advertise it etc etc depends if you make a little or a lot. You can sell the Linden dollars you make for US dollars is roughly about 1000 Linden dollars to $3.50 US Dollars. I say roughly cause it varies a bit, but not much.

do you read your emails?

LOL my bad, answering a question with a question. Um.. Ron and Carl seem to be missing now...

So Craig thinking of giving SL a go? Well if you do give me a shout and I'll try and help you in world .

SL... isn't that this poor FL-clone? Which reminds me, I'm totally addicted to FL!

Um What's FL? Florida or something else? and Wow Ron!! Heya! You think Carl is hiding from Dilla?

aaah! Not sure, cause SL has some cool things that would be really nice in FL. Like teleporting, mind even if we had the technology for that in FL I doubt the Bus companies and Car manufacturers would be happy.

Mind if we didn't have FL there would be no SL .

Oh my.. that sounds horrid... wonder if theres something he can take for it?

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ronviers wrote: I tried taking the red pill

Ahh.. I think your meant to take the red pill quickly followed by the blue pill, then spin around 5 times then touch your toes, then do 30 seconds of the chicken dance and then sit down.. (and if your lucky you wont get locked away for a long time )

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ronviers wrote: But I can tell you right now this is not going to work for Carl.

Um.. why? Doesn't he have any red pills or know the Russian leg kick dance?

aah.. Okay.. well my cat's would think its any normal day lol.. they may raise an eyebrow and stare at me with the 'OH no here she goes again' expression though.

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Kraellin wrote: you've just gotta know where to look

Uh huh that you do but I don't have any red or blue pills.. I do have a two tone green pill though.. ooo

Ick! FL noooo! Um.. Heya WB Carl

Highly likely. SL is a bit like FF for eating time. You think I'll only log in for 20 minutes then realise its 4 hours later .

Yeah, welcome back, Carl!!! .....

Nice work, Ron.....and Beliria, I like your SL shop.....would be neat if FF set up a virtual world like that for authors to sell textures.....or maybe FF can work something out with SL.....

Where's Manon??? I'm in the mood for a good slap.....

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ronviers wrote: I thought it would be a good idea for them to open a virtual store in SL. I guess they could sell textures but mostly they could sell FF. I wonder if there are places in SL that have heavy traffic - like a mall.

Exactly.....maybe FF could set up some kind of arrangement with SL......then use it as a further reward level.....the same as my previous "storefront" reward level suggestions.....but the FF team seemed to drop off of the face of the earth every time I suggested it......so I guess that means "no"..... .....

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ronviers wrote: limited by human bandwidth.

That's exactly it.....FF is a small team and thus limited to what and how fast they can do things.....but I wish that they had the resources to expand into areas like this.....and keep further incentives going to keep authors creating and contributing here after they have achieved all the program rewards.....because it's like FF is letting their main resource (authors) go after they have become well-versed with the program......

Anywho, it is what it is.....and I hope it keeps going and growing.....