Stuff a land baron won't usually tell you.

:0 des, do you have a blog? (you should.

Not a public one

Yeah. I gather this is pretty common too. As Dez noted - those land barons can't help but know what's going on. My lesson I guess is that your neighbors will know all the juicy details too.

The sad thing is that the husband's profile indicated that their RL relationship extended into SL and they did everything together in SL . The wife's profile was that of your typical single woman club goer type. But both had enough RL detail (photos) in their profiles for it to be clear who was who.

By contrast I've met a number of people who have RL relationships, and both RL people might be in SL, but not coupled in SL as they see it as fantasy land / alone time. In fact I've noticed a curious phenomenon of 'SL lesbians' that are RL straight married women who at least claim to not even be bi in RL.

SL Sims are a bit like a trailer park. If you're the trash living there, the rest of us have trouble not being exposed to your gossip-worthy drama.

Not much in Desmond's post was a surprise to me, because a lot of it is stuff nearby residents will pick up on as well.

;0 lol darnd! oh well, maybe if there turns out there actually is a second life (lol) for the forums after all, then we will continue to enjoy your splendid shtuff here. (but having a nice condensed index of your musings would be superawesome and informative for all, newbish to 'experienced' alike

Number 12 is one of the most important I think.

Nowadays I am on mainland, but in the past I rented estate land. From 4096 parcels up to a homestead. When checking out homesteads for example, I asked for a few quotes, and did some calculations myself. And did not go for the cheapest, because if someone makes US$ 5 per month from my HS rental, I do not believe they have a sensible business model. Rather I pay a bit more to an estate owner, knowing they have their things together financially.

Incidentally, the only time I did not check out the estate owner, and rented a quarter HS sim cheap, I got screwed Which did prove my point.

Thanks Cristalle! I got totally lost about the man next door being her RL husband.

I bet this made for some *Ahem* "interesting discussion" in the RL home. We should copy this to the current "Is it cheating thread," although I think I've heard double posting is bad forum etiquette.

Many people need much more than several minutes to decide.
I took over a week deciding on the best mainland parcel (I have a very good parcel now and have had it for years)
But I wouldnt need the Baron to waste time showing me the parcels
A simple list of parcels locations available and let me teleport around myself would be easier.

Des missed one thing out...

Don't assume that the landlord is screwing your partner, just because he's incredibly good looking

That happened to me (the landlord) once. It turned out to be another tenant who was screwing his partner.

Wasn't intended to be a conspicuous omission... laughs

Though I could think of something quite related. It's going to sound HORRIBLY arrogant, but having talked with some others in the business, both male and female... it's dirt common.

Here's the scenario... a somewhat lonely person (in first life) discovers second life and its social scene, and there is generally a very short list of people they meet in the first weeks. First, people around the welcome area; people around new resident dances and classes, and... the local neighbourhood land baron when they get land. Guess which one looks, at first blush, most like Mr Darcy in an Austen novel.

So this might be the 'take away' for new residents: Even though he might look to be swimming in $L and land, DO NOT introduce yourself with a perfume~stained note to the local land baron, within a month of discovering Second Life.

We get these all the time, and some of the less circumspect land barons will literally pass them around. Female land barons get these too, sometimes from men who think they can help the little lady with their phenomenal business skills and big ideas. Odds are, that little waif of a land baroness can kick your business arse not only in second life, but first life... she doesn't need your 'help' and isn't likely to swoon into your arms. She'll write you off as a gold digger instead.

I've personally seen some real doozies. Imagine an introductory note outlining what acts will be performed, what acts won't be performed and some general land and $L requirements, all inside of three badly spelled paragraphs. It's rare to get a missive that stuns me to silence, but some of these have... hoo boy.

If you send such a note to a land baron and then enquire about it afterward, after no response, he's telling a white lie when he says he didn't get it, the grid asset system ate it, and he's got to log out in ten seconds so he can't deal with it now. The asset server didn't actually eat the note. He's being polite for your sake.

...you mean the ones with thirteen 16 sq m microplots - 7 are for sale at L$ 700 each and the other 6 are being retained as investments LMAO )

Where do you get a perfumed stained note in SL? Someone once gave me a bottle of SL perfume which I thought odd; I set it out for awhile cause was a pretty bottle, but useless..... I think my profile scares people off, no one ever hits on me 'like that'.

being a child av helps save me from being hit on romanticly, at least by the adult avs but 90 % just have to tell me how cute I look

If you got one, you would practically smell the Chanel No. 5 dripping from it without any other prompt... sometimes White Diamonds, depending.

A slight synesthaesia helps, but even without it, it's pretty noticeable.

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On an unrelated note, it's also possible to get a real good idea of what the writing probably looks like, were it written. Consider the following line of text.


"U got 2 respond 2 me rite now I need ur help only u can do it"

Now, would that be written like this:

http://www.dafont.com/jane-austen.font

Or this?

http://www.dafont.com/anything-you-wan.font

Just saying.

Comic Sans

Any girl can get her hands into my pockets if she's wearing Chanel No.5

*laughs*

NOT HELPING!

Phil should probably comment on the "how do I get $L without buying it" thread...

Oh god no. That font is just downright scary.

screams

Whew. I prefer Daisy, myself. Or Princess, or J'adore. I also have a soft spot for anything Incanto by Salvatore Ferragamo.

Hey, maybe you shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss that person. That person has STANDARDS.








[[[[oh, for italics. All-caps just don't give the same effect. ]]]]

This should be stickied.

/me gasps! But... You said....

in Caledon, I'd expect nothing less from a romantic entreaty.

@Des:
yes, Synesthesia DOES help... but it can also hurt =/

/me hastily folds a piece of paper into fourths and slides it under the blotter.

"That? Oh, nothing at all..."