Congratlations on the Death of Second Life!

SL is a bloated, fetid corpse and we are merely the maggots that feed from it's decaying flesh.

Eww...kinda grossed myself out on that one.

SL is fun if you want it to be, and not fun if you don't want it to be. You don't HAVE to do anything in-world and you can do just about anything you choose to.

Has anyone else noticed the decrease in griefer activities since the change??

Maybe hard case is right, perhaps the griefers have left SL....

The police blotter is quite slow these days, and that's really nice.

***Pours a cold 40 onto SL's grave***

That was like....goth netnex. *swoon*

Maybe I'm just jaded by RL, but this offer sounds super-shady...

WOAH... First of all... Don't take that tone of voice with me! I just went to GOM and did the math and yes there's a million up there, but a few weeks prior, there was only a total of about 100k... it fluctuates from day to day.

I'm not saying that the economic changes weren't painful for everyone, I'm saying there were NECESSARY. I'll present an exacting description of WHY they're necessary after I finish cleaning myself off from your taking one little sentence and turning it into a two page long insult towards me, someone you don't even know. Which mind you is an act of ignorance.

Second, I don't go to the damned sandbox, I have enough land to build what I want to build without having to worry about a laggy sandbox, "little darlin". You sure do know how to make and keep friends don't you?

I HAVE checked the news. And I'm fully aware of how Tringo was licensed to the former CEO of REAL Media. Infact that's rather old news as far as I'm concerned. If it weren't for the fact that big news doesn't happen much on SL, it wouldn't even be worthy of first page anymore.

If you saw the stuff I make in SL, (and i'd be happy to show you) you'd stop insulting me as if i were an incompetant child right here and right now. I do not deserve to be treated like a toddler by you! When I post my rebuttals, I do my best to remain resepctful to all involved (unlike SOME people).

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Now, for another perspective.

Lets look at this with a bit of elementary physics.

There is one little aspect that makes Linden Dollars not quite a real world economy... You cannot take your Linden Dollars out of SL. You can cash out, but the linden dollars stay IN the system. In the SL system, there are sinks and sources for cash.

Any time you have a self-contained environment in which you both source and sink energy, you have to ask the question. Is it endothermic or exothermic?

If it's endothermic, the energy comes from within the system. Exothermic means it comes from without the system. Can you introduce linden dollars into the system through money? You can buy lindens from GOM, but GOM doesn't create the lindens, they just transfer pre-existing lindens to you. The money comes from Linden Labs within the game and you cannot pull extra linden dollars out of them. Therefore, SL is Endothermic.

Now that we know it's endothermic, we get a little perspective on our little economy:

1. If the linden dollars are introduced into the system faster than they are sinked, then the amount of money in the system builds up.
   1. Everybody has a lot of money and for that reason, prices in SL steadily increase.
      
   2. The worth of the Linden Dollar steadily drops on places like GOM and IGE.
      
   
   
2. If the linden dollars are sinked into the system faster than they are introduced, the amount of money in the system declines
   1. Everybody has very little money, prices steadily drop for stuff in SL.
      
   2. The worth of the Linden Dollar steadily raises on places like GOM and IGE.
      
   
   

An endothermic system is a very delicate balance and must be maintained. The economy can crash in two directions due to LL's negligence, depending on which extreme it goes to:

1. If the economy crashes from too much money in the system.
   1. The Linden Dollar becomes absolutely worthless and we have a scene not much unlike Russia in the post-communist fall. Don't be late for bread-line.
      
   
   
2. If the economy crashes from too little money in the system.
   1. The Linden Dollar becomes worth too much for anybody to be able to afford even a single linden. We have a scene similar to the Great Depression of the early 20th Century in the United States. L$1 is enough to buy a whole lot of land, but noone can afford even that many lindens on GOM. The stipend bonus would theoretically help keep this scenario in check but you'd never be able to cash out because it's worth WAY too much, noone's going to pay thousands of US dollars for just a few lindens.
      
   
   

So you see: The economy in SL must be kept in check. I'm not saying the economic changes weren't painful. They were VERY painful. But at the point in time they were enacted, they were necessary to prevent an impending Soviet-Union type of economic collapse.

Eventually the current economy will start leaning towards the Great Depression type of economic collapse at which point they'll invert the policy to try to maintain a mean average.

Nah. I think he would say; "Its over" and "You need to move" and "I am now calling a Linden to have you banned" and my all time favorite, "Lindens, please remove this thread"

Dear Prokofy, my experience which is equally legitimate is that you owe me several tens of thousands of lindens. Due to your own philosophy, you really DO. Would you like installment payments set up or just a lump sum for you?

Yes, ridiculous, but hey, they are your rules.

I rarely have fetes anymore as a midbie. Can i be felted instead?

Hejustkepttalkinginoneincrediblyunbrokenparagraphmovingfromtopictotopicsothatnoonehadthechancetointerrupthimitwasreallyquitehypnotic

My understanding is that they are a Lindens seller (undisclosed as of yet which one). Our spa tried to actually take them up on this, but so far, we have gotten (in answer to our 4 IMs) one general, vague response. We agreed to their terms, and asked what content of theirs we could put into our next two weeks of events, operating on good faith that we would advertise for them and be paid after the event.

So far, nothing concrete has come of this, which is too bad.

Would anyone care to join my SL doomsday death cult? We can predict the end of SL as we know it with every minor change.

We missed the whole Welcome Area thing, but if we hurry we can get in just in time for the public release of 1.6!

I'll bring the Kool Aid.

Only if we can call you Reverend.

Btw, does this mean we get to travel to Central America?

SL dies a little bit every time a newbie logs in ;0

This is a personal attack and has been recorded as such.

I thought you were my friend.

Someone call animal control. This thread needs to be put down.

Now see, this is a troll.

And you're feeding it.

That's not a good thing...

So stop...

Please see section 5 of your Hitchhiker's Guide:

The Universe - some information to help you live in it.

1 AREA: Infinite.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word "Infinite."

Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much
bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally
stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big
that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic
multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort
of concept we're trying to get across here.

2 IMPORTS: None.

It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there
being no outside to import things in from.

3 EXPORTS: None.

See Imports.

4 POPULATION: None.

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply
because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.
However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must
be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by
infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average
population of all the planets in the Universe is also zero, and that
any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of
a deranged imagination.

5 Monetary Units: None.

In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the
Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently
collapsed, the Flainian pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other
Flanian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special
problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple
enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand
eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected
enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because
the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this
basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are
also the product of a deranged imagination.

6 ART: None.

The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and
there simply isn't a mirror big enough-see point one.

7 SEX: None.

Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of
the total lack of money, trade, banks, art or anything else that
might keep all the nonexistent people of the Universe occupied.
However, it is not worth embarking on a long discussion of it
now because it really is terribly complicated. For further
information see Guide Chapters seven, nine, ten, eleven, fourteen,
sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one to eighty-four inclusive,
and in fact most of the rest of the Guide.