Avatar Repertory Theater: Shakespeare readings and workshops from the First Folio, every Friday 5pm grid time (Pacific), Kitely Events Center.

Please join Avatar Repertory Theater as we continue on Friday 2025-08-22 with Act 4 Scene 2 of "The Taming of the Shrew", reading from transcriptions of the First Folio.

Everyone welcome! No experience needed, no auditions. Read with us and/or listen and discuss. Kitely Events Center hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Kitely%20Events%20Center/462/24... Fridays at 5PM grid time (Pacific).

First Folio facsimiles and transcriptions suitable for virtual world actors are here: https://github.com/NewMediaArts-CTO/Avatar-Repertory-Theat... Announcements are here: https://discord.gg/cwZCShN2Z3

You will need headphones and a microphone, and be able to connect to Vivox inworld. We will help.

Avatar Repertory Theater, www.avatarrepertorytheater.org is a project of New Media Arts, Inc., www.newmediaarts.org, a nonprofit foundation, tax exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). Donations to our tiny endowment are most welcome, it pays for our servers. Please contact info@newmediaarts.org or PayPal treasurer@newmediaarts.org. Thank you!!

Für alle die wissen möchten welche aktuellen RP s gerade laufen und was auf der letzten Audienz passierte, hält Susi Soderstrom ihre informativen Vorträge in ihrer unverwechslbar, leichten und amusanten Erzählweise.

https://lennardmonday.blogspot.com/2025/08/feuerkreis.html

SATURDAY 23rd August 12:00 (midday) SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET)

Clwb Y Gath Du, Redoutable, Speculoos World

Once again Suzi spins an eclectic collection of sounds from around the world - prepared to be surprised as you'll hear anything from Quebec Punk to Welsh Rap and everything in between.

speculoos.world:8002:redoutable

Greetings everyone!
I’m excited to introduce my brand new shop _I_N_S_A_N_E_. The sim is still under construction and remodeling, but the store is already open with a special welcome gift: a UHD Female Head.
Come visit, grab your gift, and be part of the very beginning of INSANE.
More free items and updates will be coming soon!.
hop://dwalinnor.inworldz.net:8002/Insane/896/62/23 (TAXI)

Join us at 5 pm grid time for an hour of great fun with a live performance from Steven Strikker.
The Piazza, where great fun and good friends come together.
Drop this link into your map;
http://bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

Avatar Repertory Theater: Shakespeare readings and workshops from the First Folio, every Friday 5pm grid time, Kitely Events Center.
We continue today with Act3 Scene3 of "The Taming of the Shrew". Everyone welcome! No experience needed, no auditions. hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Kitely%20Events%20Center/462/24...
  First Folio facsimiles and transcriptions are here: https://github.com/NewMediaArts-CTO/Avatar-Repertory-Theat...
  You will need headphones and a microphone, and be able to connect to Vivox inworld. We will help.

Update!! VENDETTAGRID
Yes indeed we are in process with all work... this is one of the new avatars I have created for opensim and have more for you. Iám building new shop areas with new items and hope you will enjoy our work when we will open, we have some more to do before we can open the GRID. Hopefully we can open the GRID for public before christmas. We do all because we love to make people happy with new shops and much more. Hope to see you soon.....
Regards VendettaGrid

no comment at this time. the way craig and i were treated, i will never set foot in this venue or any other owned by sam sydney. we didnt do anything to deserve what sam, bel, alchy, and andre did to us. this all happened because of one person that i wont mention his nam. alchy also banned us from her reion and club. the club alchy owns now belonged to craig in the beginning, so the way i see it, she stole it from craig and now we are banned from there. I hope you all can live with yourselves after doing this to craig and me.

Ein Plakat mit dem Greta und Gerda gesucht werden ist bei Elas Cafe aufgehängt worden. Jetzt wirds spannend herauszufinden von wem es ist und wo die Belohnung abgeholt werden kann.

https://lennardmonday.blogspot.com/2025/08/das-plakat.html

Die Waldhüterin hat eine Höhle entdeckt im Elbenland in der es angeblich Kupfer gibt. Mit dem könnte dann die Amazonen-Schmiedin die so dringend benötigten Pfannen herstellen.

https://lennardmonday.blogspot.com/2025/08/kupferhohle-ent...

5PM grid time Avatar Repertory Theater, with A3S1 of "The Taming of the Shrew" for First Folio Shakespeare Read with us and/or listen and discuss. Kitely Events Center hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Kitely%20Events%20Center/462/24... Fridays at 5PM grid time (Pacific).

I begin to understand why most dance balls are still entirely filled with classic non-mesh avatars. And that isn't because nobody wants to donate their own avatars as NPCs nor make new ones.

It's because an NPC would have to work under any given condition with no clipping. But no matter how you approach alpha-ing, it's potentially unreliable.

Alpha cuts have the disadvantage of requiring scripts to work. I mean, they don't even always come with you when you Hypergrid or when you simply teleport to a place on a different region server. And what do you know, your whole body is visible again, and you can't even change that without detaching and re-attaching it which makes certain imported SL bodies blow up. And I'm not even talking about sims that don't allow avatar scripts yet.

Alpha masks are more reliable because they don't require scripts. However, they only work until some region server decides it's a good idea to change the alpha mode of your body from alpha masking to none. This is nasty on avatars already. Ruth2 v4 and Roth2 v2 let you restore the alpha mode with the HUD, but only if avatar scripts work. The same will go for the Max bodies in development. As for everything else, you'd better have backups with an intact alpha mode. But if this happens to NPCs, no chance to fix them.

If you want NPCs to be reliably devoid of clipping under any given circumstances, you have to build them from components that won't cause clipping. If you want such NPCs for a dance machine, there's the extra challenge to make them believable dancers. Easy for beach parties. Even easier for nudist places. Very tricky for ballrooms. Unless, of course, you reject a decade of avatar advancements and go for classic content on the system body.

Juno is occasionally working on NPC versions of herself that are made of content which suits today's general tastes more than what she uses herself, like a Simona body (sorry, no Legacy, you can't really dress a Legacy avatar like Juno), an EvoX head and an EvoX skin (sorry, no Doux hair because Doux themselves have never released a short bob, so the unrigged Paige hairstyle is the closest to Juno's hairdo in SL mesh). She's doing that to have something to donate to reduce the lack of newer NPCs. But her NPCs will have to rely heavily on auto-alpha. Testing them could be interesting, much less actually deploying them.

Key West's Bahama Village in the Keys Neverworld Grid

We are offering FREE PARCELS with generous prim limits for members, as well as parcels available for hypergridders. Join the Conch Republic and explore the landmark sites in Historic Olde Town, Key West.

Parcels are limited, so come and claim your piece of paradise today!

Connect to us at: hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:thekeys Bahama Village in the Keys Neverworld Grid As always, we have FREE PARCELS with generous prim limits for members and parcels for hypergridders also. Become part of the Conch Republic and visit landmark places in Historic Olde Town in Key West.

Parcels are limited so come claim your piece of paradise today!
hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:thekeys

Preposterous Asse that never read so farre

SAVE THE DATE

  Avatar Repertory Theater, with apologies for last week's tech issues, continues on Friday 2025-08-08 with A3S1 of "The Taming of the Shrew" for First Folio Shakespeare, workshop readings of transcriptions of the original publications. Everyone welcome! No experience needed, no auditions. Read with us and/or listen and discuss. Kitely Events Center hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Kitely%20Events%20Center/462/24... Fridays at 5PM grid time (Pacific).
  First Folio facsimiles and transcriptions suitable for virtual world actors are here: https://github.com/NewMediaArts-CTO/Avatar-Repertory-Theat... Announcements are here: https://discord.gg/cwZCShN2Z3
  You will need a headset and a microphone, and be able to connect to Vivox inworld. We will help.
 
New Media Arts, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation, tax exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). Donations to our tiny endowment are welcome.