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You talk to the seller yet? They might have some insight.
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It's unpleasant is what it is! Ah hates it when that happens.
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They're being fair, too.
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Is somebody cutting onions in here?
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I do wish there were some way you could teach his kid to say "Fuck off, dad!" loudly in front of everyone without 1. also teaching Ivor how to say it 2. any concern of reprisal, either against the kid or against you. Sounds like the old man could sure stand to hear it from somebody.
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Sorry, it's late (for me) and this is apparently the time of day when I start talking like I'm in a '30s gangster film.
Also, I shouldn't talk in a way that suggests that I'm encouraging violence, because I WOULD NEVER.
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Would anyone at the pool drop the dime on you?
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I think they did that time period justice, right up to the end. Without saying too much about a film that people reading this may actually want to watch, I will be thinking about the footage of the last performance for the rest of my life, because it contained MULTITUDES.
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I also don't want to ruin any sort of good time you may be having there, for the record. Have that good time. LL should be paying you and other folks in the program handsomely to do outreach, though.
I've just...seen a lot, not only there, but with other tech companies, as I'm sure you have.
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Oh, and completely aside from all of that, Tangent Comics Green Lantern is dope, too.
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(Fathering two superhuman children with one of your arch-enemies, and marrying one of your others, who's also your long-time secretary, is probably pretty far from the most complicated someone's ever made their own personal life while in the closet, in fiction or otherwise.)
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I haven't really loved any Alan Scott-focused stories since Crisis, but I did like the decision to have him come out, even if it's pretty awkward after Infinity, Inc. Annual #1.
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Also: with Alan Scott, I should've said "pre-Crisis, but while still believing he's gay and unfortunately closeted, poor Molly Mayne, Rose Forrest and, for that matter, Alan Scott".
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John Stewart's cool, but I need to read more than v2 182-200, which I enjoyed, but didn't LOVE like I did some of the other books. I've also never read a Kilowog solo story, or he'd be higher.
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Abin Sur, Jessica Cruz (I've read very little of her stuff, but what I have read made me want to read more) and Kyle Rayner (with DEEP reservations about story directions since the beginning) are my honorable mentions.
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For the record, my current favorites, based on my opinions of books I've actually read:
1. Jo Mullein (Far Sector)
2. Jennie-Lynn Hayden/Jade (everything I've read)
3. Alan Scott (pre-Crisis)
4. Hal Jordan (Grant Morrison's The Green Lantern)
5. Guy Gardner (Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Justice League)
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Apparently, console games, computer games and virtual worlds are just a bridge too far for anyone I haven't vetted, though.
(I was actually nervous about the Green Lantern stuff because the books have had some creators over the years that are not good people, but y'all did great with that.)
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Oh, I am THE WORST about sitting still long enough to let it settle. I get good results from Palmer's Cocoa Butter and O'Keeffe's stuff when I allow it, though.
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Glad to hear that, at least. I'm a hypocrite for asking this because I'm terrible about it myself and it doesn't lend itself well to time-sensitive activities, but do you have a decent moisturizer in the house right now?
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Again, I wish you the best of luck with whatever you're hoping to accomplish, but you're probably trying to accomplish it with the wrong person, and if we're still being honest, it sounds like you're being misled by the Lindens, as well (and hey, it's happened to the best of us, for a long time).
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You asked me a question, and my answer was honest and generous. Responding with "Yeah, but (corporate talking point that sounds like the ones that were tired in 2007)" is probably going to test the limits of my generosity at 8 AM New York time, when I've been awake since 1 PM New York time.
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And look, you can keep carrying water for them if you want, but as someone who was around for a lot of the bad decisions they've made and has heard almost two decades of Newspeak from whoever was in charge about it all, I can tell you that it's not really going to be productive.
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Which was their choice, but not really their userbase's at the time the choice was made.
Seems like the same is true of them selling the payment processor (which, from what I'm remembering, was basically the reason the current owner bought SL).
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Who are you again?
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Yeah, you've been packing, too, and that turns that shit up to 11, but I'm totally seeing more of it in day-to-day life, and twice in the past few days was a pretty big ramp-up in packaging hostilities.
Also: cuticles are teh debbil.
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I'll email you because, as tight-assed as I'm going to sound for saying this, it's a spoiler.
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Yes, I remember hearing that directly from them a great many years ago, back when processing power wasn't what it is now.
I wish you luck in your mission.
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But there I go again, winning friends and influencing people by speaking plainly.
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At least one person I know, who was inspired to join by my misadventures and invested heavily in land for a number of years, died waiting for that apology, for what it's worth.
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No, but it gets recommended to me about every 3 minutes, so if you ever want me to, don't. :D
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16-18 years of genuine apologies, MUCH better land pricing and management, a functioning mobile app and a tremendous amount of outreach to creative (and sometimes uncomfortably unorthodox) people outside of the existing active community, whether they're current or lapsed users or not.
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If you're relatively new, as you said, and you know they don't have user outreach in their marketing budget (and have also been sorta conscripted into spreading the word, as it were), then without saying that they're doomed, because I don't want them to be, I can still draw a conclusion or two.
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I've been around since 2006, but while we're being honest in public, I'm pretty sure I've never been important enough for their outreach. I'd assume that's because they're usually looking for relatively conventional users with lots of disposable income, no matter who's running things there.
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It's a shame. It was the single best place to be on the entire Internet, for a time. Warts and all, I adored Second Life. Still do have friends there, but we don't see each other as often.
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So they're also finally running out of money? This has been informative, certainly.
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So wait, they're not even doing meetings like that in-world these days?
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Also, first experience with the mobile app (iOS) wasn't a great one at all, after waiting roughly 14 years from when I got my first iOS device.
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I don't know that telling you this (your username looks familiar, and I forget if you're also a Linden or just Linden-adjacent) will accomplish, but you did ask.
Short answer: a Herculean amount of outreach would need to be done to bring back lapsed users, in my view. I hope it's done!
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Finally, a lot of what we'll call
the Big Avatars on Campus for the purposes of this discussion can be really gatekeeper-y, and the closer they are to current Lindens and/or big event coordinators, the worse it gets. I know this from times I've tried volunteering time toward said big events.
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Every few years, I try again not even to get together whatever that year's version of a successful nightclub looks loke, but just to get a core group of friends together to hang out and do fun stuff, and it's harder every time.
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And, yes, a pretty substantial number of other folks have either straight-up died (which can't be helped, at least not yet) or aged out of their desire to put that kind of time and energy into a shrinking platform, no matter how much some of us love it.
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In my experience, a lot of the folks who were left after that were looking for literal San Junipero, just looking to live an idealized, fairly conformist version of whatever they thought the best time of their lives was. New people showed up too, but almost by accident through word-of-mouth.
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The platform lost the trust of a great deal of the smart, funny, creative people ages ago (we're talking between '07-'09) when the morality police pre-emptively, unevenly and heavy-handedly struck.
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I am fully aware that it's still around (again, longtime club owner here, and I'm there, but less), but I was not aware until I checked just now that the mobile app was finally out. So, there's a starting point.