Join Littlefield Grid for our 10th Annual Oktoberfest Celebration!!

TONIGHT! Saturday September 17th - 8pm Pacific!!

Rides, Free Outfits and Accessories, Great live Music with live DJ Walter Balazic!!

DJ Kith Saturday Night Rockin' Blues at Rockin' the Blues!! 7:30!
Region: Rockin' The Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
Event begins: 7:30 pm grid time
Added by: Amara Uloran
Details:
When DJ Kith spins, it's like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what you gonna get! Whatever he plays we guarantee it will be fresh, sweet, and full of surprises! Might be blues, might be blues-ish, might be bluegrass or other blues roots music. If you like your blues with an edge, come on down to the Bayou for fun, friendship and great music with DJ Kith!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues

DJ Riker's Saturday Blues Showcase at Rockin' the Blues Tonight at 6:00PM!
Region: Rockin' The Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
Event begins: 6:00 PM grid time
Added by: Amara Uloran
Details:
Tonite at 6:00...start your Saturday night with DJ Riker! Riker spins totally unexpected blues with a rock twist! Someone said he spins fast and loud! Is there any other way?? Every week, Riker brings you a featured artist or 2 with tunes you may not have heard before! In addition to that, he'll have tunes by many of your favorites plus some we are sure will become favorites of yours! Come early for Riker's famous pre-set!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues

I wanted to make from parts a lighthouse like a popular one i have seen around. So I did. It's at cyberdatastorm.com:8002/DragonFyre. Take a copy if you like. Unlike the one it is based on, I designed this one so you could actually walk up into the top area. { ikr, clever?! } Here's a photo. I created all the large prims... The columns were made by some girl. The rocks by felix mafia. Anyway ... there it is. ain't it?

When I meet an AV that looks like a dragon, I always ask them to voice verify. They have to literally melt my speakers for me to believe they are as they present themselves to be. I've never had that happen - which, truthfully, is disappointing. I mean, who would not want to meet an actual dragon?

Even if it doesn't melt your speakers, in-world voice can present a problem. Some people don't seem to understand that Open Sim is not a dating site. It is not a hook-up site. And it can be more than a costume party chat site. At it's best, OS is an immersive world for role-play. And most people don't have the voice and/or the acting ability for the role they are playing. At best, in-world voice is a distraction. At worse, it can make it impossible to deeply and actively engage.

In truth, our avatar is but a pixel puppet. For some reason there can be an extraordinary interest, by some, in who exactly is pulling the strings. I just treat people as they present themselves in-world. Anything else ruins the show many of us take a part in creating.

I see Satyr changed the flag above. Not that anything, but the colors are still wrong, the support is still for a dubious favorite and...
But what should he do? Such is the "western world" or at least what we call it.
Does it really matter, since then no one will find the strength to admit their mistakes and apologize?

Hello Everyone!
I'm performing at Event Plaza early today!
Come join us if you are free! I will be taking
your requests & singing your favorites!
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Rogue Galaxy ☆ ☆ ☆ ★ ★
★ ════ ☆ LIVE at 12:00PM GRID TIME
★ ════ ☆ RIDE: hg.osgrid.org:80:Event Plaza
★ ════ ☆ Come Join Us for a GREAT time!

DJ Macy's Friday Night jumpin' Blues Party! Tonight at 6:00PM(SLT) at Rockin' the Blues!
Region: Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues
Event begins at 6:00 tonight! 2022-09-16 18:00 SLT
OMG! It's FRIDAY!!! The work week is over! Let the party begin! Tonight, DJ Macy is here with 3 hours of "Macy Magic", the most upbeat and happy, toe tapping, butt wiggling blues you have ever heard! Yes!! Macy loves the boogie side of the blues, and she rocks it like no one else! Add the Blues Tribe and you have the makings for a Friday night blues FRENZY! Come on down to our swamp where you will find the best blues and the best people in any world!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues

Blue Lagoon
Castaway's hut and their Raft.
You can take copy them.
about The Raft: Rez and open the edit window. delete notecard "RIDE".
after you should add points for your place, and make a new "RIDE" card

LGBT Dance Party im neuen Moonrose Club. DJ SILVER wird den Abend mit den besten Rock Classics und Euren Musikwünschen aufwerten.
LGBT Dance Party at the new Moonrose Club.
DJ SILVER will enhance the evening with the best rock classics and your music
wishes.
moonrose-grid.de:8002:Moonrose Club

So now we've recently had quite some drama about a crossplayer. Someone who uses at least one avatar whose gender isn't his own.

Being tricked into virtual sex and then ghosted if you were hoping for something permanent is one thing. The sudden discovery of avatars who are NOT the virtual representations of real-life people but completely unrelated to their users is another thing.

The biggest issue seems to be avatars with genders different from their users'. Or rather, people not knowing that this smouldering hot lady is a GIRL (Guy In Real Life). From this, demands arose that all cross-playing avatars shall inform people that they're cross-playing avatars. Some may even demand a total ban on cross-playing.

On the other hand, there are users whose avatars aren't them, and who want to keep their real lives as secret as possible. They also don't want to know anything about the users behind other avatars, especially not without asking first. OpenSim is a role-play to them, and real life breaks immersion.

Now, the question is: What'd be the best practice then?

Keeping it secret may end up in awkward situations with avatars that are virtual representations of their real-life users instead of fictional role-play characters. Blurting it out without being asked (female avatar arriving at a party: "Hi, I'm a cishet guy in real life!") leaves a lot of people with TMI (Too Much Information).

But there actually is a standard place for real-life information. And your real-life gender is exactly that, real-life information. That place is in your avatar profile.

No, not the "2nd life" page, the first page you see when you open your profile or someone else's. That page is exclusively for in-world information about your avatar.

The place for real-life information about you is on the "1st life" page. That and only that is also where a real-life photograph of you should go if you absolutely have to have one in our avatar profile. And that's the right place to tell people about your real-life gender.

A big advantage of this is that people who check your profile because they're interested in your avatar but not in your real life won't have real-life information about you slapped into their faces. The "1st life" page is not the first thing you see when looking at someone's profile.

Granted, this practice isn't perfect. There are people who find it inconvenient to have to navigate through a profile, and who demand all information they want to know be served to them on a silver platter, i.e. on the very first profile page. Others don't want to read profiles at all (or anything, in fact), they want male crossplayers with female avatars to tell them right away that they're guys in real life without themselves asking for it. The real-life information they want to know would be readily available to them, they just can't be bothered to look it up.

But I guess there are also people who don't want to see any real-life information in avatar profiles, who don't even want to accidentally stumble upon it by clicking on the wrong tab, because they don't want to know anything about the real-life people behind avatars, at least not more than necessary.

Stil, going this "official" way should be good enough for most people.

There are still a few days left to enjoy summer season in Novale before we close down to install autumn. We received the HG Safari crowd a few days ago. Take a look at the very nice and detailed blog entry by Thirza Ember https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/09/creanovale-in-summer... to get a feeling for the region.

hg.creanovale.ca:8052:NOVALE

Visited Tropicana Bird's Nest, it's well done.
Then I met this guy. But he said he isn't Wolfman Jack. I don't belive him. I'm sure... he is!
https://opensimworld.com/hop/87742

Guess Who - Clap for the Wolfman (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk7xzzzwDiI

Heute ab 20:00 Uhr wird es noch mal heiß. Wir verabschieden den Sommer mit Badeklamotten, einem kühlen Drink und jeder Menge toller Musik von DJane Loru und DJane Brucha.
Wir freuen uns auf Euch und einen schönen relaxten Abend.

I see that I have a huge list of "friends", most of whom are just number hoarders. Many others are online but never thought to at least insult me. So if you're one of those, don't be mad that I'm cleaning up the list.

In just a few short very busy days we have really developed this beautiful area, adding water below and attaching Aspen Homesites to the continent. Also, to the east I have added a sandbox for Bountiful Members only. I started putting in some street signs as the roads are very complex. There is a large freeway as you can see running West-East. The Waterways have either raised bridges, or drawbridges. There are tons of embankments and other details. yesterday I added some sims to the east that are named after Fallout 4 place names. Maybe we will do a RP on that area ... we shall see. Come visit, and come get a free parcel. PARCELS ARE FREE TO ALL IN THE CONTINENT NOW. Please follow the few rules: be nice, build only in theme of the region, no ban lines, no terraforming. Thats it!

LGBT Dance Party im neuen Moonrose Club. DJ SILVER wird den Abend mit den besten Rock Classics und Euren Musikwünschen aufwerten.
LGBT Dance Party at the new Moonrose Club.
DJ SILVER will enhance the evening with the best rock classics and your music
wishes.
moonrose-grid.de:8002:Moonrose Club