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Re-posted on behalf of DJ Azraella.
Why Never Neverworld.
There is something particularly bleak about a community calling itself “The Friendly Grid” while apparently treating abusive behaviour as a problem best solved by telling the person on the receiving end: “You have a mute button.” Welcome to Neverworld Grid, where, judging by my experience, “friendly” may be less a standard of conduct than a decorative slogan attached to the front door.
I was a DJ in a virtual worlds for years lately as a visiting performer at Neverworld. By the point this incident occurred, however, my personal circumstances had changed. I am dying. That is not written for melodrama or sympathy. It matters because it explains what it cost me physically to be there at all. Despite being seriously ill and largely confined to bed, I got out of bed and DJed one final event to say thank you to my audience for supporting me and to draw people in one last time, which also helped to promote Neverworld Grid.
The reward was memorable, although perhaps not in quite the way their promotional department might prefer. During the event, I was verbally attacked and abused by a member of Neverworld Grid.
Behind every avatar is a human being. The fact that an interaction takes place in a virtual world does not make the behaviour, or its effect on another person, imaginary. The following day, despite the physical toll, I got out of bed again and raised a formal complaint with the owner of Neverworld Grid. I expected, at minimum, the complaint to be taken seriously. What I encountered instead was dismissal. No action was taken against the resident. My complaint was pretty much ignored and seen as nothing other than an interpersonal issue despite the fact I was a victim of one of their residents.
And then came this: “You have a mute button.”
And there, in five small words, lies the much larger problem. Of course I have a mute button. A mute button is a useful tool for an individual. It is not a substitute for moderation. Those are two entirely different things. A mute button allows the recipient to stop hearing somebody's behaviour. Moderation determines whether that behaviour is acceptable within the community in the first place. Confusing the two produces a wonderfully convenient system for administrators: the offender remains, the complainant makes them disappear from view, and management is spared the disagreeable business of actually managing anything. Problem solved. Well, invisible, which is apparently close enough. Imagine applying this philosophy anywhere else. Someone behaves disgracefully in a cinema and the management responds: 'you can use ear-plugs.' One can only admire the efficiency. No difficult confrontation. No standards requiring enforcement. No possibility of upsetting a patron who may have a life-time ticket. Just mute and carry on.
Neverworld Grid presents itself with the tagline: “The friendly grid.” That is precisely why this incident matters. If you advertise friendliness as part of your identity, then friendliness ceases to be merely a pleasant aspiration. It becomes a claim about the community you operate. And claims should survive contact with reality. A genuinely friendly community is not one in which nobody ever behaves badly. Such a place does not exist outside advertising copy and unusually optimistic children's television. A friendly community is one in which antisocial behaviour is taken seriously when it occurs. It is demonstrated by what administrators do when unfriendliness becomes inconvenient. That is the test. Not the logo. Not the website. Not the slogan. Not smiling avatars standing beneath carefully selected promotional photographs. The test comes when somebody crosses the line and management has to decide whether its proclaimed standards actually mean anything.
In my case, I believe Neverworld Grid failed that test spectacularly. I cannot state why the owner chose not to take action. Only the owner can answer that. But users are entitled to ask uncomfortable questions when enforcement appears absent.
What behaviour actually results in consequences?
Does a resident's financial contribution affect how complaints concerning them are handled?
Are paying residents subject to precisely the same behavioural standards as visitors are?
What happens after a formal complaint?
And perhaps most importantly: What behaviour would actually be serious enough for Neverworld Grid management to intervene rather than telling the recipient, “You have a mute button”? These are questions created by the apparent absence of action. If Neverworld Grid wants people to believe that payment of tier guarantees renters a friendly safe place, there is a very simple way of showing it: Have standards and apply them.
There is another unpleasant implication to the “you have a mute button” response. It transfers responsibility. The person accused of behaving abusively does not apparently need to change their behaviour. Instead, the person experiencing it must change theirs. You must mute. You must avoid. You must adapt. Management remains comfortably above the unpleasantness while the individual affected quietly rearranges their virtual existence around somebody else's deplorable conduct. That isn't moderation. It is outsourcing moderation to the victim. And it creates an obvious incentive for the worst personalities in any community: behave however you please as long as you keep paying. Eventually you can achieve the remarkable distinction of being peacefully surrounded by people who either tolerate you or cannot see or hear you. Community harmony, achieved through selective deafness as decreed by management.
There is another aspect of this which a mute button cannot undo: the physical effect of the encounter has already happened. Verbal abuse is not experienced solely as words arriving through speakers or appearing on a screen. Human beings respond physically to confrontation and distress. The body does not first consult the graphics card to determine whether an attack is sufficiently real to react to it. For a healthy person, that reaction can be deeply unpleasant. For somebody who is dying, already seriously ill and functioning with greatly diminished reserves, the consequences of that stress can carry considerably greater weight and could even be the last stress that body can take. And once that distress has occurred, telling the person “you have a mute button” is not a remedy.
The button cannot take you backwards in time. It cannot prevent the encounter that already happened. It cannot erase the stress already inflicted. And it certainly cannot answer the question of why the behaviour that caused the complaint apparently attracted no consequence. There is a peculiar cruelty in dismissing that distinction which no amount of virtual-world branding can disguise.
I did not expect sainthood. I did not expect somebody to erect a statue of my avatar outside the welcome centre. I expected basic human decency and a complaint to be treated seriously.
Apparently that must be the 'Super Ultimate Friend of the Owner' premium feature. Neverworld Grid calls itself friendly. People considering investing their time, creativity, communities and money there should understand what “friendly” meant when my complaint was placed in front of its owner. Because communities reveal themselves not through their slogans but through the behaviour they are prepared to tolerate. Anybody can write: “We are the friendly grid.” The interesting question is what happens when somebody isn't friendly. In my experience, the answer was depressingly simple: Nothing. The complaint was effectively binned. Apparently making bad actors into clouds is your only option meanwhile Management avoided doing anything meaningful other than preserve a monthly tier payment. And the slogan will survive. Perhaps that is the most impressive achievement of all. In virtual worlds, apparently even irony can be rendered in 3D.
Neverworld Grid also seems very keen on telling people that it isn't Second Life.
Second Life gets plenty of criticism, some of it deserved. One complaint you hear is that region owners can make their own rules and, if you don't follow them, eject or ban you. That can certainly be irritating. People can make ridiculous rules. People can throw you out for reasons you think are unfair. Give somebody control over a virtual patch of land and occasionally they begin behaving as though Buckingham Palace has asked for the keys back. But there is another side to it. If you enter somebody's region, you know they have rules and that breaking them can have consequences. If you behave badly enough, somebody can actually do something about it. After my experience with Neverworld Grid, I find myself wondering why removing that is supposed to be an improvement. If the alternative to somebody saying “These are the rules here” is somebody behaving abusively and the person being abused getting told “You have a mute button,” which system is actually friendlier?
There has to be some middle ground between petty little dictators throwing people off regions because they don't like the colour of their shoes and a free-for-all where nobody wants to intervene.
Rules can be abused. So can the absence of rules. The difference is that when there are sensible community standards, ordinary people know where they stand. Don't abuse people. Don't deliberately disrupt things. Don't make somebody else's experience miserable. Hardly tyranny. And if somebody does cross those lines, there should be consequences. Neverworld seems to dislike the way people in Second Life exercise control over their own regions. Fine. But what is being offered instead? If the answer is greater freedom, then whose freedom are we talking about? The freedom of somebody to enjoy an event without being abused? Or the freedom of somebody to behave however they like without anybody in authority becoming involved? Because those freedoms collide eventually. Mine did. And apparently I had a mute button.
Then there is the question of tier. People pay to be on grids like this. That makes it reasonable to ask whether somebody who keeps paying can expect considerably more tolerance than somebody who just visits but still contributes to the success of the grid. I cannot prove that this is what happened in my case. But the response I received certainly gives me reason to ask. If somebody pays tier and behaves disgracefully, what happens? Are they warned? Are there consequences? Or does everybody they upset simply get reminded where the mute button is? Because if the practical message becomes: Pay your tier and management will look the other way, then who exactly does that attract? Most decent people don't need immunity from basic standards of behaviour. Creators don't need it. DJs don't need it. People running events don't need it. People who simply want somewhere pleasant to spend a few hours don't need it. The people who benefit most from a place where bad behaviour carries few consequences are, rather obviously, the people most likely to behave badly. That seems an extraordinary foundation for something calling itself “The Friendly Grid.”
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be different from Second Life. But different does not automatically mean better. If Second Life says, in effect, “behave yourself here or somebody may throw you out,” while Neverworld's answer to abuse is “you have a mute button,” I know which approach now looks more like a community and which looks more like an incompetent Management avoidance strategy. Being different is easy. Being better requires rather more than a tagline. If Neverworld Grid believes this account misrepresents its standards, it can explain them.
What happens when someone reports serious verbal abuse? What behaviour actually results in action?
Are paying residents treated exactly the same as everyone else? And why was “You have a mute button” considered an adequate response to my complaint?
Those answers would tell people considerably more about Neverworld Grid than any slogan ever could.
Until then, perhaps the tagline deserves a small amendment:
“Neverworld Grid — The Friendly Grid. You have a mute button.”
or
" Welcome to Neverworld the Friendly Grid where you may have to mute your fellow residents"
or perhaps as almost happened in my case:
" Neverworld the Friendly Grid (we let you away with murder just keep paying you'll see)"
The bottom line has to be this:
If you claim friendliness you automatically accept a duty of care to all users. and paying doesn't excuse unfriendliness. Community standards you claim must be enforced swiftly and across all tiers of membership and extend to visitors. I was told my abuser hadn't broken any TOS. I guess there is no actual TOS beyond the owner's mood. Yes you guessed it my abuser is a friend of the owner.
My final advice to anyone looking for a new home...lift the carpets before you decide.
I won't see a resolution to this issue or see Virtual again but that doesn't mean you can't learn from my experience.
Azraella.
Why Never Neverworld.
There is something particularly bleak about a community calling itself “The Friendly Grid” while apparently treating abusive behaviour as a problem best solved by telling the person on the receiving end: “You have a mute button.” Welcome to Neverworld Grid, where, judging by my experience, “friendly” may be less a standard of conduct than a decorative slogan attached to the front door.
I was a DJ in a virtual worlds for years lately as a visiting performer at Neverworld. By the point this incident occurred, however, my personal circumstances had changed. I am dying. That is not written for melodrama or sympathy. It matters because it explains what it cost me physically to be there at all. Despite being seriously ill and largely confined to bed, I got out of bed and DJed one final event to say thank you to my audience for supporting me and to draw people in one last time, which also helped to promote Neverworld Grid.
The reward was memorable, although perhaps not in quite the way their promotional department might prefer. During the event, I was verbally attacked and abused by a member of Neverworld Grid.
Behind every avatar is a human being. The fact that an interaction takes place in a virtual world does not make the behaviour, or its effect on another person, imaginary. The following day, despite the physical toll, I got out of bed again and raised a formal complaint with the owner of Neverworld Grid. I expected, at minimum, the complaint to be taken seriously. What I encountered instead was dismissal. No action was taken against the resident. My complaint was pretty much ignored and seen as nothing other than an interpersonal issue despite the fact I was a victim of one of their residents.
And then came this: “You have a mute button.”
And there, in five small words, lies the much larger problem. Of course I have a mute button. A mute button is a useful tool for an individual. It is not a substitute for moderation. Those are two entirely different things. A mute button allows the recipient to stop hearing somebody's behaviour. Moderation determines whether that behaviour is acceptable within the community in the first place. Confusing the two produces a wonderfully convenient system for administrators: the offender remains, the complainant makes them disappear from view, and management is spared the disagreeable business of actually managing anything. Problem solved. Well, invisible, which is apparently close enough. Imagine applying this philosophy anywhere else. Someone behaves disgracefully in a cinema and the management responds: 'you can use ear-plugs.' One can only admire the efficiency. No difficult confrontation. No standards requiring enforcement. No possibility of upsetting a patron who may have a life-time ticket. Just mute and carry on.
Neverworld Grid presents itself with the tagline: “The friendly grid.” That is precisely why this incident matters. If you advertise friendliness as part of your identity, then friendliness ceases to be merely a pleasant aspiration. It becomes a claim about the community you operate. And claims should survive contact with reality. A genuinely friendly community is not one in which nobody ever behaves badly. Such a place does not exist outside advertising copy and unusually optimistic children's television. A friendly community is one in which antisocial behaviour is taken seriously when it occurs. It is demonstrated by what administrators do when unfriendliness becomes inconvenient. That is the test. Not the logo. Not the website. Not the slogan. Not smiling avatars standing beneath carefully selected promotional photographs. The test comes when somebody crosses the line and management has to decide whether its proclaimed standards actually mean anything.
In my case, I believe Neverworld Grid failed that test spectacularly. I cannot state why the owner chose not to take action. Only the owner can answer that. But users are entitled to ask uncomfortable questions when enforcement appears absent.
What behaviour actually results in consequences?
Does a resident's financial contribution affect how complaints concerning them are handled?
Are paying residents subject to precisely the same behavioural standards as visitors are?
What happens after a formal complaint?
And perhaps most importantly: What behaviour would actually be serious enough for Neverworld Grid management to intervene rather than telling the recipient, “You have a mute button”? These are questions created by the apparent absence of action. If Neverworld Grid wants people to believe that payment of tier guarantees renters a friendly safe place, there is a very simple way of showing it: Have standards and apply them.
There is another unpleasant implication to the “you have a mute button” response. It transfers responsibility. The person accused of behaving abusively does not apparently need to change their behaviour. Instead, the person experiencing it must change theirs. You must mute. You must avoid. You must adapt. Management remains comfortably above the unpleasantness while the individual affected quietly rearranges their virtual existence around somebody else's deplorable conduct. That isn't moderation. It is outsourcing moderation to the victim. And it creates an obvious incentive for the worst personalities in any community: behave however you please as long as you keep paying. Eventually you can achieve the remarkable distinction of being peacefully surrounded by people who either tolerate you or cannot see or hear you. Community harmony, achieved through selective deafness as decreed by management.
There is another aspect of this which a mute button cannot undo: the physical effect of the encounter has already happened. Verbal abuse is not experienced solely as words arriving through speakers or appearing on a screen. Human beings respond physically to confrontation and distress. The body does not first consult the graphics card to determine whether an attack is sufficiently real to react to it. For a healthy person, that reaction can be deeply unpleasant. For somebody who is dying, already seriously ill and functioning with greatly diminished reserves, the consequences of that stress can carry considerably greater weight and could even be the last stress that body can take. And once that distress has occurred, telling the person “you have a mute button” is not a remedy.
The button cannot take you backwards in time. It cannot prevent the encounter that already happened. It cannot erase the stress already inflicted. And it certainly cannot answer the question of why the behaviour that caused the complaint apparently attracted no consequence. There is a peculiar cruelty in dismissing that distinction which no amount of virtual-world branding can disguise.
I did not expect sainthood. I did not expect somebody to erect a statue of my avatar outside the welcome centre. I expected basic human decency and a complaint to be treated seriously.
Apparently that must be the 'Super Ultimate Friend of the Owner' premium feature. Neverworld Grid calls itself friendly. People considering investing their time, creativity, communities and money there should understand what “friendly” meant when my complaint was placed in front of its owner. Because communities reveal themselves not through their slogans but through the behaviour they are prepared to tolerate. Anybody can write: “We are the friendly grid.” The interesting question is what happens when somebody isn't friendly. In my experience, the answer was depressingly simple: Nothing. The complaint was effectively binned. Apparently making bad actors into clouds is your only option meanwhile Management avoided doing anything meaningful other than preserve a monthly tier payment. And the slogan will survive. Perhaps that is the most impressive achievement of all. In virtual worlds, apparently even irony can be rendered in 3D.
Neverworld Grid also seems very keen on telling people that it isn't Second Life.
Second Life gets plenty of criticism, some of it deserved. One complaint you hear is that region owners can make their own rules and, if you don't follow them, eject or ban you. That can certainly be irritating. People can make ridiculous rules. People can throw you out for reasons you think are unfair. Give somebody control over a virtual patch of land and occasionally they begin behaving as though Buckingham Palace has asked for the keys back. But there is another side to it. If you enter somebody's region, you know they have rules and that breaking them can have consequences. If you behave badly enough, somebody can actually do something about it. After my experience with Neverworld Grid, I find myself wondering why removing that is supposed to be an improvement. If the alternative to somebody saying “These are the rules here” is somebody behaving abusively and the person being abused getting told “You have a mute button,” which system is actually friendlier?
There has to be some middle ground between petty little dictators throwing people off regions because they don't like the colour of their shoes and a free-for-all where nobody wants to intervene.
Rules can be abused. So can the absence of rules. The difference is that when there are sensible community standards, ordinary people know where they stand. Don't abuse people. Don't deliberately disrupt things. Don't make somebody else's experience miserable. Hardly tyranny. And if somebody does cross those lines, there should be consequences. Neverworld seems to dislike the way people in Second Life exercise control over their own regions. Fine. But what is being offered instead? If the answer is greater freedom, then whose freedom are we talking about? The freedom of somebody to enjoy an event without being abused? Or the freedom of somebody to behave however they like without anybody in authority becoming involved? Because those freedoms collide eventually. Mine did. And apparently I had a mute button.
Then there is the question of tier. People pay to be on grids like this. That makes it reasonable to ask whether somebody who keeps paying can expect considerably more tolerance than somebody who just visits but still contributes to the success of the grid. I cannot prove that this is what happened in my case. But the response I received certainly gives me reason to ask. If somebody pays tier and behaves disgracefully, what happens? Are they warned? Are there consequences? Or does everybody they upset simply get reminded where the mute button is? Because if the practical message becomes: Pay your tier and management will look the other way, then who exactly does that attract? Most decent people don't need immunity from basic standards of behaviour. Creators don't need it. DJs don't need it. People running events don't need it. People who simply want somewhere pleasant to spend a few hours don't need it. The people who benefit most from a place where bad behaviour carries few consequences are, rather obviously, the people most likely to behave badly. That seems an extraordinary foundation for something calling itself “The Friendly Grid.”
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be different from Second Life. But different does not automatically mean better. If Second Life says, in effect, “behave yourself here or somebody may throw you out,” while Neverworld's answer to abuse is “you have a mute button,” I know which approach now looks more like a community and which looks more like an incompetent Management avoidance strategy. Being different is easy. Being better requires rather more than a tagline. If Neverworld Grid believes this account misrepresents its standards, it can explain them.
What happens when someone reports serious verbal abuse? What behaviour actually results in action?
Are paying residents treated exactly the same as everyone else? And why was “You have a mute button” considered an adequate response to my complaint?
Those answers would tell people considerably more about Neverworld Grid than any slogan ever could.
Until then, perhaps the tagline deserves a small amendment:
“Neverworld Grid — The Friendly Grid. You have a mute button.”
or
" Welcome to Neverworld the Friendly Grid where you may have to mute your fellow residents"
or perhaps as almost happened in my case:
" Neverworld the Friendly Grid (we let you away with murder just keep paying you'll see)"
The bottom line has to be this:
If you claim friendliness you automatically accept a duty of care to all users. and paying doesn't excuse unfriendliness. Community standards you claim must be enforced swiftly and across all tiers of membership and extend to visitors. I was told my abuser hadn't broken any TOS. I guess there is no actual TOS beyond the owner's mood. Yes you guessed it my abuser is a friend of the owner.
My final advice to anyone looking for a new home...lift the carpets before you decide.
I won't see a resolution to this issue or see Virtual again but that doesn't mean you can't learn from my experience.
Azraella.
 | Ⲙⲁꞅi: Azraella, I am so deeply sorry. Reading this broke my heart. Behind every avatar is a real human being, with a real life, real struggles, and real feelings. Sometimes we forget just how much courage ... 3 hours ago |
🎣 HISTORY MADE — ANOTHER HALL OF FAME MEMBER! 🎣
Huge congratulations to Yinni.Benelli — another of our first anglers in REEL8 history to reach Level 11: Mythic Fisher! 🏆
50,000 XP. Permanently etched in Reel8 history. Legend!!
🎁 AND — Prize Boards are now live at all 4 Fishing Zones! Be sure to swing by and check yours — trophies and rewards are waiting to be claimed.
Fish on, anglers. Who's next? 👀
🎣 I can Reel8 to That! — reel8fish.com
Huge congratulations to Yinni.Benelli — another of our first anglers in REEL8 history to reach Level 11: Mythic Fisher! 🏆
50,000 XP. Permanently etched in Reel8 history. Legend!!
🎁 AND — Prize Boards are now live at all 4 Fishing Zones! Be sure to swing by and check yours — trophies and rewards are waiting to be claimed.
Fish on, anglers. Who's next? 👀
🎣 I can Reel8 to That! — reel8fish.com
| | Yinni Benelli: Thanks. ;) yesterday |
Kater's PBR clearer men’s shop that’s getting bigger every day, at the moment only for the Legacy Body.
◥▧▧▧ DJ Chocolate Today▧▧▧◤
◥▧▧▧▧TODAY 11AM Grid Time▧▧▧▧◤
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴏ : DJ Chocolate
█◄♫►█ ⇨ sᴛʏʟᴇ : Worakls Vision The Best of
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇɴ : 08/12/26 -- start is 11am Grid Time
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: C/C/C-Shoppe-Center-Events
█◄♫►█ ⇨ GRAB YOUR FRIENDS and come :))))
When techno beats meet electronic and classical music, it's Worakls!! An unforgettable event awaits you in a fantastic event scene! So don't miss it and join the best community ever @grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002:CCC-Shoppe-Events
◥▧▧▧▧TODAY 11AM Grid Time▧▧▧▧◤
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴏ : DJ Chocolate
█◄♫►█ ⇨ sᴛʏʟᴇ : Worakls Vision The Best of
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇɴ : 08/12/26 -- start is 11am Grid Time
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: C/C/C-Shoppe-Center-Events
█◄♫►█ ⇨ GRAB YOUR FRIENDS and come :))))
When techno beats meet electronic and classical music, it's Worakls!! An unforgettable event awaits you in a fantastic event scene! So don't miss it and join the best community ever @grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002:CCC-Shoppe-Events
| | C/C/C: and we start out Worakls Event right now !!! hop over and dont miss it !!!! 2 days ago |
🔥 HAPPENING NOW @ MK3 POOL! 🔥
Come down, get wet, get wild & pretend tomorrow’s problems don’t exist. 😂🍹🎶
Music • Mayhem • Good Vibes • Questionable Decisions 😈🏖️
Taxi: mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
Come down, get wet, get wild & pretend tomorrow’s problems don’t exist. 😂🍹🎶
Music • Mayhem • Good Vibes • Questionable Decisions 😈🏖️
Taxi: mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
Galaxy Love songs Tuesday
hg.gbg-world.com:80:Galaxy
Event begins: in 2 hours : 2026-08-11 11:00 SLT
Added by: Esti✦
Details:
❤️ Love is in the air at Galaxy! ❤️
Join DJ Nick every Tuesday at 11 AM Grid Time for a set filled with love songs, beautiful melodies, and good company.
Galaxy Region — Tuesdays, 11 AM Grid Time
Come dance, relax, and let the music do the talking.
hg.gbg-world.com:80:Galaxy
Event begins: in 2 hours : 2026-08-11 11:00 SLT
Added by: Esti✦
Details:
❤️ Love is in the air at Galaxy! ❤️
Join DJ Nick every Tuesday at 11 AM Grid Time for a set filled with love songs, beautiful melodies, and good company.
Galaxy Region — Tuesdays, 11 AM Grid Time
Come dance, relax, and let the music do the talking.
| | Nickos: taxi : hg.gbg-world.com:80:Galaxy 3 days ago |
added a couple ships that circle the region, pretty cool grins.
Just now inworld on BeauRoche.💚
The image was digitally enhanced with AI.
dorenas-world.de:8002:BeauRoche
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Eben gerade inworld auf BeauRoche.💚
Die Aufnahme mit KI nachgearbeitet.
dorenas-world.de:8002:BeauRoche
The image was digitally enhanced with AI.
dorenas-world.de:8002:BeauRoche
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Eben gerade inworld auf BeauRoche.💚
Die Aufnahme mit KI nachgearbeitet.
dorenas-world.de:8002:BeauRoche
| | NightshadeCeres: wow. what an outfit! (is das enhanced? wenn nicht, wüßte ich gern, wo du‘s her hast…) 4 days ago |
a new collection of complete avatars for the new residents.....
🎶 **Songs That Touch the Soul**
Join **DJ Yana** for a very special musical journey on the **NewLifeItaly Grid**.
This is an afternoon filled with timeless voices, unforgettable performances and songs that reach a little deeper.
From **Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Toto and Bruce Springsteen**, to **John Farnham with Mitch Tambo** and **Michael Jackson**, together with some absolutely gorgeous cover versions that may surprise you and leave you with goosebumps.
This is more than just a collection of songs.
It is a journey through **memories, emotions, beautiful voices and extraordinary live performances** that have the power to bring people together.
Among the artists and performances featured:
🎶 Paul Simon
🎶 Olivia Rodrigo covering Carly Simon
🎶 Choir! Choir! Choir! with Patti Smith
🎶 2,500 Montrealers singing Leonard Cohen
🎶 John Farnham with Mitch Tambo
🎶 Stan & Jonas from Belgium with a spectacular cover
🎶 And many more wonderful artists and unforgettable live performances
**Every song is a live performance.**
So come dressed up, settle in, relax, and let the music take you wherever it wants to go.
**Requests are always welcome!**
🎶 **Songs That Touch the Soul**
**DJ Yana**
**Monday, August 10th**
**1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Grid Time**
**NewLifeItaly Grid**
**Dress Code: Formal**
*Where Music Brings Us Together.* ❤️
hop://newlifeitaly.com:8002/IsolaDellaLuna/29/191/43
Join **DJ Yana** for a very special musical journey on the **NewLifeItaly Grid**.
This is an afternoon filled with timeless voices, unforgettable performances and songs that reach a little deeper.
From **Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Toto and Bruce Springsteen**, to **John Farnham with Mitch Tambo** and **Michael Jackson**, together with some absolutely gorgeous cover versions that may surprise you and leave you with goosebumps.
This is more than just a collection of songs.
It is a journey through **memories, emotions, beautiful voices and extraordinary live performances** that have the power to bring people together.
Among the artists and performances featured:
🎶 Paul Simon
🎶 Olivia Rodrigo covering Carly Simon
🎶 Choir! Choir! Choir! with Patti Smith
🎶 2,500 Montrealers singing Leonard Cohen
🎶 John Farnham with Mitch Tambo
🎶 Stan & Jonas from Belgium with a spectacular cover
🎶 And many more wonderful artists and unforgettable live performances
**Every song is a live performance.**
So come dressed up, settle in, relax, and let the music take you wherever it wants to go.
**Requests are always welcome!**
🎶 **Songs That Touch the Soul**
**DJ Yana**
**Monday, August 10th**
**1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Grid Time**
**NewLifeItaly Grid**
**Dress Code: Formal**
*Where Music Brings Us Together.* ❤️
hop://newlifeitaly.com:8002/IsolaDellaLuna/29/191/43
| | ♫ тσммʏ ωнιтε ♫: woww Great music—awesome party—best atmosphere 4 days ago |
Sometimes, it doesn't take much.
A warm summer day,
the sound of the waves,
a beach chair overlooking the sea,
and a smile.
For just a little while,
worries can simply wait.
Because life is not made of storms alone—
sometimes it also gives us
a day filled with sunshine.
........................................................................................
Manchmal braucht es nicht viel.
Ein warmer Sommertag,
das Rauschen der Wellen,
ein Strandkorb mit Blick aufs Meer
und ein Lächeln.
Für einen kleinen Augenblick
dürfen Sorgen einfach warten.
Denn das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Stürmen –
manchmal schenkt es uns auch
einen Tag voller Sonne.
A warm summer day,
the sound of the waves,
a beach chair overlooking the sea,
and a smile.
For just a little while,
worries can simply wait.
Because life is not made of storms alone—
sometimes it also gives us
a day filled with sunshine.
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Manchmal braucht es nicht viel.
Ein warmer Sommertag,
das Rauschen der Wellen,
ein Strandkorb mit Blick aufs Meer
und ein Lächeln.
Für einen kleinen Augenblick
dürfen Sorgen einfach warten.
Denn das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Stürmen –
manchmal schenkt es uns auch
einen Tag voller Sonne.
Hold Me Close
Though thunder shakes the sky
and fierce storms rage around us,
hold me close
and never let go.
When the rain falls like tears
and life puts our hearts to the test,
we will find our shelter
not from the storm—
but within each other.
Let the winds howl,
let the cold rain drench our souls;
together we are stronger
than every storm
that crosses our path.
For as long as we hold on
with love and hope,
even the darkest night
will give way to dawn.
No storm is powerful enough
to tear apart two hearts
that have chosen
to walk through life together. 💜
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Halt mich fest.
Wenn der Himmel zerbricht
und der Sturm uns den Weg nehmen will,
dann lass deine Hand nicht los.
Wenn der Regen wie Tränen fällt
und das Leben uns prüft,
dann finden wir Schutz
nicht vor dem Unwetter –
sondern ineinander.
Mag der Wind noch so wild sein,
mögen die Schauer uns treffen,
gemeinsam sind wir stärker
als jeder Sturm,
der über uns hinwegzieht.
Denn solange wir einander festhalten,
wird selbst die dunkelste Nacht
irgendwann dem Morgen weichen.
Und keine Böe der Welt
kann zwei Herzen trennen,
die beschlossen haben,
gemeinsam weiterzugehen. 💜
Though thunder shakes the sky
and fierce storms rage around us,
hold me close
and never let go.
When the rain falls like tears
and life puts our hearts to the test,
we will find our shelter
not from the storm—
but within each other.
Let the winds howl,
let the cold rain drench our souls;
together we are stronger
than every storm
that crosses our path.
For as long as we hold on
with love and hope,
even the darkest night
will give way to dawn.
No storm is powerful enough
to tear apart two hearts
that have chosen
to walk through life together. 💜
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Halt mich fest.
Wenn der Himmel zerbricht
und der Sturm uns den Weg nehmen will,
dann lass deine Hand nicht los.
Wenn der Regen wie Tränen fällt
und das Leben uns prüft,
dann finden wir Schutz
nicht vor dem Unwetter –
sondern ineinander.
Mag der Wind noch so wild sein,
mögen die Schauer uns treffen,
gemeinsam sind wir stärker
als jeder Sturm,
der über uns hinwegzieht.
Denn solange wir einander festhalten,
wird selbst die dunkelste Nacht
irgendwann dem Morgen weichen.
Und keine Böe der Welt
kann zwei Herzen trennen,
die beschlossen haben,
gemeinsam weiterzugehen. 💜
**DJ Net is live at SNB**
Real mixing, one track flowing into the next, and a set built from the energy of the people around him.
Join Net’s set on the island. We’re already here. Come join us!
mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
Real mixing, one track flowing into the next, and a set built from the energy of the people around him.
Join Net’s set on the island. We’re already here. Come join us!
mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
| | Aphra Hendrix: wow, Net, what a good idea to post events now! 7 days ago |
💚We wish you all a wonderful summer day.💚
💚Wir wünschen euch allen einen schönen Sommertag.💚
| | Dorena Verne: Thank you for your kind comments. :-) 8 days ago |
Galaxy Love Songs — Tuesday 11 GT
DJ Nick at the table • Host Esti
Feel the cosmic warmth.
Taxi: hg.gbg-world.com:80:Galaxy
| | Nickos: Taxi: hg.gbg-world.com:80:Galaxy 10 days ago |
Swimware for Man
🌴🤣 SNB – THE PLACE TO BE! 🤣🌴
🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨
Scientists have confirmed that sitting around doing nothing is 97% more boring than partying at SNB. The other 3% were asleep during the survey. 😴
So what are you waiting for? Your avatar isn't going to embarrass itself... well... actually, it probably will. 😂
Expect massive tunes, questionable dance moves, random air guitar solos, and at least one person insisting they "only came for five minutes"... four hours ago. 🤣
🍹 Drinks are cold.
🌴 Sand is warm.
💃 Dance moves are highly suspicious.
🕺 Fashion sense is completely optional.
🤣 Dignity... left the region hours ago.
⚠️ WARNING:
Side effects of attending SNB may include:
• Uncontrollable dancing.
• Laughing at strangers.
• Forgetting what teleported you here.
• Accidentally making new friends.
• Staying until the sim politely tells you to go home.
⏰ PARTY IS ON NOW until 6:00 PM!
🏝️ SNB – THE PLACE TO BE!
Come for one song...
Stay because you can't find the teleport button.
Leave only when your keyboard starts judging you.
🚕 Taxi: mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
😂 No shoes. No stress. No dignity. Perfect.
🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨
Scientists have confirmed that sitting around doing nothing is 97% more boring than partying at SNB. The other 3% were asleep during the survey. 😴
So what are you waiting for? Your avatar isn't going to embarrass itself... well... actually, it probably will. 😂
Expect massive tunes, questionable dance moves, random air guitar solos, and at least one person insisting they "only came for five minutes"... four hours ago. 🤣
🍹 Drinks are cold.
🌴 Sand is warm.
💃 Dance moves are highly suspicious.
🕺 Fashion sense is completely optional.
🤣 Dignity... left the region hours ago.
⚠️ WARNING:
Side effects of attending SNB may include:
• Uncontrollable dancing.
• Laughing at strangers.
• Forgetting what teleported you here.
• Accidentally making new friends.
• Staying until the sim politely tells you to go home.
⏰ PARTY IS ON NOW until 6:00 PM!
🏝️ SNB – THE PLACE TO BE!
Come for one song...
Stay because you can't find the teleport button.
Leave only when your keyboard starts judging you.
🚕 Taxi: mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
😂 No shoes. No stress. No dignity. Perfect.
The coaster is ready...
sit in the car
touch to start
We have not done a show in over a year, but once in a while we like to introduce someone new to the grid. Today we are pleased to bring you KnightOwl Logan, singing live at The Almost Islands at our original venue. Come and join us for a nice time and very good singing.
| | BrogalsWorld: Ein sehr schöner Club 13 days ago |
enjoying good company with Lone Wolf at the bedou-in
| | Wolf Territories Grid: Amazing Art Region 14 days ago |
We have just added a few items to the stores.
1 - Doll in a Box - Everything you need to be a Latexdoll. Full Avatar! OC Implant, Binder, Gag, Corset, Ankle Ballets, Hood! The separate items are all RLV enabled!
2 - New Inflatable Harness Gag.
Also, we have updated our gags to now include "sound". When the user is gagged and sound is active, it will play random real gagged sounds when the user types in nearby chat!
Sound can be disabled, and volume controlled.
Enjoy!!
1 - Doll in a Box - Everything you need to be a Latexdoll. Full Avatar! OC Implant, Binder, Gag, Corset, Ankle Ballets, Hood! The separate items are all RLV enabled!
2 - New Inflatable Harness Gag.
Also, we have updated our gags to now include "sound". When the user is gagged and sound is active, it will play random real gagged sounds when the user types in nearby chat!
Sound can be disabled, and volume controlled.
Enjoy!!
| | John Sheppard: The sims are still set up for Littlefield grid residents... so visitors from osgrid cannot access those sims or get any of the content. 14 days ago |
We have just added a few items to the stores.
1 - Doll in a Box - Everything you need to be a Latexdoll. Full Avatar! OC Implant, Binder, Gag, Corset, Ankle Ballets, Hood! The separate items are all RLV enabled!
2 - New Inflatable Harness Gag.
Also, we have updated our gags to now include "sound". When the user is gagged and sound is active, it will play random real gagged sounds when the user types in nearby chat!
Sound can be disabled, and volume controlled.
Enjoy!!
1 - Doll in a Box - Everything you need to be a Latexdoll. Full Avatar! OC Implant, Binder, Gag, Corset, Ankle Ballets, Hood! The separate items are all RLV enabled!
2 - New Inflatable Harness Gag.
Also, we have updated our gags to now include "sound". When the user is gagged and sound is active, it will play random real gagged sounds when the user types in nearby chat!
Sound can be disabled, and volume controlled.
Enjoy!!
📝 Admeja Grid is dying -long live Admeja Grid! (blogpost)
You are not expected to care about this.
🌴🎉 SNB – THE PLACE TO BE! 🎉🌴
🚨 Oi... why are you still reading this? Get your pixel backside over here! 😜
The sand is hot, the drinks are cold, and somebody has already lost their dignity... don't let them have all the fun! 🍹😂
🎧 DJ NET is LIVE right now, dropping everything from dancefloor bangers to those tunes that make you shout "I haven't heard this in YEARS!"
💃 Dance like nobody's watching... because everyone's too busy embarrassing themselves anyway. 🕺
🌊 Beach vibes.
🔥 Tiki torches.
🍹 Great company.
🤣 Zero judgment... well, almost.
⏰ Party is ON NOW until 6 PM!
SNB – The Place To Be!
Come for one song... accidentally stay until the sim restarts. 😏🏝️🎶
Taxi : mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
🚨 Oi... why are you still reading this? Get your pixel backside over here! 😜
The sand is hot, the drinks are cold, and somebody has already lost their dignity... don't let them have all the fun! 🍹😂
🎧 DJ NET is LIVE right now, dropping everything from dancefloor bangers to those tunes that make you shout "I haven't heard this in YEARS!"
💃 Dance like nobody's watching... because everyone's too busy embarrassing themselves anyway. 🕺
🌊 Beach vibes.
🔥 Tiki torches.
🍹 Great company.
🤣 Zero judgment... well, almost.
⏰ Party is ON NOW until 6 PM!
SNB – The Place To Be!
Come for one song... accidentally stay until the sim restarts. 😏🏝️🎶
Taxi : mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
| | Aphra Hendrix: wow, the logo looks amazing on the location... i love it! 15 days ago |
Many OpenSim residents reach a point where they start dreaming about a new home. Perhaps you've found a more beautiful landscape, a larger parcel of land, a waterfront retreat, or a community that better matches your interests. The excitement of imagining a fresh start is often accompanied by one powerful emotion: fear.
"I want a new OpenSim home, but I am afraid to move."
Sometimes the hardest part of moving isn't packing your virtual belongings—it's deciding to begin. Once you do, you'll discover that a new home isn't leaving something behind; it's opening the door to your next adventure in OpenSim.
Hourly region snapshot backups
Daily asset backups
Single sim island with 10,000 prims - Free to active residents
Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details. https://friends-grid.com/
"I want a new OpenSim home, but I am afraid to move."
Sometimes the hardest part of moving isn't packing your virtual belongings—it's deciding to begin. Once you do, you'll discover that a new home isn't leaving something behind; it's opening the door to your next adventure in OpenSim.
Hourly region snapshot backups
Daily asset backups
Single sim island with 10,000 prims - Free to active residents
Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details. https://friends-grid.com/
★ Summer Party @ GypsyCamp ★
★ WHO : Adriana Darkheart, Evan Williams, PutrSolo, Casaenia Baxton ★
★ WHAT: Live Music ★
★ WHEN: Thursday the 30th of July / 10.00 AM PDT/ 19:00 UHR CET ★
★ WHERE: GcpsyCamp★
★ TAXI: hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/GypsyCamp/301/363/22★
★ WHO : Adriana Darkheart, Evan Williams, PutrSolo, Casaenia Baxton ★
★ WHAT: Live Music ★
★ WHEN: Thursday the 30th of July / 10.00 AM PDT/ 19:00 UHR CET ★
★ WHERE: GcpsyCamp★
★ TAXI: hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/GypsyCamp/301/363/22★
╭─────────── ✦ WEDNESDAY ✦ ───────────╮
SNB POOL PARTY
Tropical vibes, poolside energy
and two live DJ sets.
2–4 PM PDT • ADRIAN
4–6 PM PDT • DJ NET
[]~(￣▽￣)~* Come for the music.
Stay for the party. *~(￣▽￣)~[]
📍 mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
╰─────────────────────────-────────╯
SNB POOL PARTY
Tropical vibes, poolside energy
and two live DJ sets.
2–4 PM PDT • ADRIAN
4–6 PM PDT • DJ NET
[]~(￣▽￣)~* Come for the music.
Stay for the party. *~(￣▽￣)~[]
📍 mk3.org:5002:Sexy Naked Beach
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| | Aphra Hendrix: nice logo and interesting picture! 15 days ago |
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I am sorry to hear that Aphra. Good luck on your next adventure.
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Bar-Bus-Bay
Very unique location. Winter has outdone herself on this region. It's not finished yet but there's lots to explore and do in the meantime. Hope you'll stop by, leave a 5 star review and a like before ...
[TTG]Twiztid Timez Grid✦ 18 hours ago
Club Exile
Came for the International Sock Hop Event. Friendly staff, awesome music and good company! Be sure to check it out for yourself! Thank you DJ Kenny for a great first Experience!
Faith Fromund✦ 22 hours ago
futa fantasy zone
A funny place, with cool music and where above all freedom reigns... long live Futa!
LuciFer isBack✦ 23 hours ago
futa fantasy zone
A genre based on sex games in which the performers are mostly of Asian descent and are reduced to having oversized breasts and vaginas.
It's more than just embarrassing!
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Zweet ZurroundingZ
The feathered friends are so awesome. The cranes work like a charm and have so many characteristics of birds in flight. Thank you for all your hard work and for sharing it.
Mogan Chaplin 2 days ago
Sexy Naked Beach
I had a great time enjoying the one of a kind city scape. It pretty much is the best theming of its kind. the uniquely themed beach blends in nicely with the rest of the connected regions. Impressi...
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Alina's Cars and Vehicles
Fantastic place and fantastic person. Always willing to help!!!! Thank you so much Alina!!!!!
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Monentes Jewelry
Really love the beautiful jewelry, i been wearing a few even resized to fit my dinkie , just gives it a nice, touch keep up the wonderful work
Snowey NativeWolf 3 days ago
Whispering Willows
Whispering Willows is stunning. Azi and I spent 2 hours there, entranced and still a lot more to see. If you like farming, this region will bring you to an entirely new level.
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