Hi All,

I've decided to leave both OpenSim and Second Life. It's not for some sulky reason, someone offended me or anything like that. I've just decided my life is going in a different direction.

Big hugs to all those who I have come to know over the months or years and hope you all have great virtual lives in OS :)

Thank you for helping us track the notorious and very dangerous PRISCILLA KLEENEX. Here at the special grids investigation center in langley, virginia, we've set up a special team to help find this MOST WANTED criminal! Our computer command center runs non stop 24/7/365 supplying leads to Local Enforcement Officers in the grids to eviscerate this highly obnoxious and extremely mischievous individual. The G.I.S. plans to put an end to this monkey business once and for all! God Bless America!

Ok... just looked through some of the recent front page posts. I've been here in Open Sim for about nine months now.

I have accounts in OSgrid and Kitely.

I'll have to admit a good deal of my wardrobe is possibly copybotted. I'd like to know if anyone is willing to send me a list of LM's showing truly original, OS based stuff (aside from Lunaria), I'd appreciate it. Most of my wardrobe is rigged to the Athena body. I also have a small number of Ruth2 takes. For my male alts (yes, I have a few, using the same names that I established for them in SL), I use Adonis and Roth2.

There was a discussion recently that influenced me to write this post. It's located below the post from Luna Lunaria, #92052. I totally understand creators desiring to be compensated for their creations. I have spent a fair amount of L$ to gather some of my clothes in SL. I wouldn't mind paying a few K$ or O$ for some creations on this side of the metaverse, as I think that's quite fair.

Thansk to anyone that can help me out, I appreciate it. I'd prefer that the links be included publicly (instead of PMing me), so other users can find it easily.

So this post was left on one of my regions and is fairly representative of the mindset original opensim creators will grapple with if they want to sell their products here:

"It looks nice but I like the whole sharing is caring idea. So many places in OS that offer free stuff. Not here, too bad."

I don't blame this shopper at all for wanting to find quality items for free - who doesn't? I was grateful that they visited in the first place and cared enough to leave a comment. It's for that reason that from time to time I do exactly that - offer most of my stuff for free as I did this past OSFest.

No, the ones that make life for opensim creators difficult are those freebie mills continuously churning out stolen content from Second Life and calling it 'sharing', and who aggressively push the idea that merchants in opensim have no right to exist.

As I replied to this user: Sharing is truly caring only if it's the original creator giving it away free, or if they have explicitly given permission to others to do so. And that only works if they don't have to pay for their regions, which is not the case for me.

My region costs average $20 per month per region, and the money I make from sales covers that most of the time. There are months I take a loss with my opensim stores (my Second Life store has never posted a loss in 14 years). But because sales do cover most of my rent I can keep doing what I love: making original content for Opensim.

Paying for regions of course is my choice - I prefer to be on well-run grids that truly respect creators rights. I know that you can easily find quality items for your regions for free all over opensim, so no one is more grateful than me when you choose to purchase at my stores :-)

Just visited SL and looking through the very first jewelry I created. This set is in gold but I brought in the ring, made it silver. It is in the foyer at the store This set had a pendant and earrings, I will work on bringing those in too soon. This was a blast from the past to see this!! continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

~Ara~Nova~ ein Land geschaffen um den Geschöpfen der Magischen Welt eine neue Heimat zu geben.
Alle sind herzlich willkommen egal ob Elfen ,Feen oder Hobbits oder Trolle, auch Menschen ohne Mystischer herkunft sind gern gesehen . Respektiert euch untereinander und vergesst nie ihr seit auch alle nur Gast bei mir, so seit immer gerne gesehen.
Endeckt das Land mit vielen möglichkeiten, ihr könnt zu den fliegenden Bergen reisen oder schaut euch in den Höhlen auf ~Ara~Nova~ um
Endeckt die vielen kleinen ecken und lasst euch an manchen orten verzaubern.
Damit das Spiel auf ~Ara~Nova~ mehr Spass bereitet ,habe ich ein Elben Shop mit einigen hübschen Kleidungstücken für euch . Folgt einfach dem Teleporter.

Eure Taliya

~Ara~Nova~ created a country to give the creatures of the magical world a new home.
Everyone is welcome, whether elves, fairies or hobbits or trolls, even people without mystical origins are welcome. Respect each other and never forget you're all just my guests, so you're always welcome.
Explore the land with many possibilities, you can travel to the flying mountains or look around the caves on ~Ara~Nova~
Discover the many little corners and let yourself be enchanted in some places.
To make the game on ~Ara~Nova~ more fun, I have an elf shop with some pretty clothes for you. Just follow the teleporter.

Your Taliya

@Shirl Taintedangel keeps creating great .oars to share, Thank you Shirl!! Fred has just put in your drop-down list of Free Outworldz .oars the latest two .oars offered. The Permanent Vacation and Motels and Hotels!! #outworldz #shirl #oars #oar
Outworldz-DreamGrid .oars
Fred Beckhusen designs and creates .oars to share with his Outworldz-Dreamgrid members. The OAR is licensed exclusively for use in DreamWorld Grids. CC-BY-NC, Outworldz, LLC.

Just a touchy-feely ... a friend of mine wanted to know about an online witch-coven, I would consider building it, to help her out.... just want an opensim feedback first... please leave your comments

"Pangea lässt die Sau raus"
Freitag, 20. Mai 2022
☆ Live und in Farbe anwesend: Porky Pangea Famlie
☆ 11 PDT/ 20.00 Uhr europäischer Zeit
☆ Am Musikpult Gridsau Marlon Wayne
☆Taxi pangeagrid.ddns.net:8002: Porky Party Pangea
☆Pangea Info: www.pangea-grid.com

https://youtu.be/gwH9ZrtVLAM
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"Pangea Porky-Freakout!
Friday, May 20. 2022
☆ Live and in color present: Pangea Porky Famliy.
☆ 11 PDT / 20:00 European time
☆ On the music desk Grid sow Marlon Wayne
☆Taxi pangeagrid.ddns.net:8002: Porky Party Pangea
☆Pangea Info: www.pangea-grid.com

https://youtu.be/gwH9ZrtVLAM

Amoa Nude Beach has been re-opened.

No one was banned, but due to all the issues and repercussions related to emotionally disturbed idiots griefing regions and grids over the past couple of weeks, changes made across grids caused issues with performance at Amoa Nude Beach.

To slow the influx of so many IM's letting me know the beach was a lag monster crawling at a massively slow pace, I shut the region down until it was resolved.

All group members were sent a notice regarding the issue, however if the half that would actually read it, may have never received it.

Again, our apologies for the inconvenience and much thanks to grid owners Huga and Gabe of Barefoot-Dreamers grid as well as Fred Buckenhausen for his assistance as well in improving the performance and helping restore the best and only nude beach on the hypergrid.

2 years soul grid
2 years living with friends
2 years living with YOU
2 years of creativity, fun and cohesion,
2 years of a community that makes us happy.



We want to celebrate all of this with you this weekend at Tosca.

From Saturday 14.05. until Sunday 15.05.2022

Our program :

Saturday 05/14/2022

10:00 PDT Welcome Party with Tailor
11:00 PDT Show in the sky : Soul Man Group with an amazing light show & Gisela Blue and her cowl gang
11:15 PDT Tailor's dancefloor
13:00 PDT Bea's Nightwish

Sunday 05/15/2022

Hunt the Soul in the morning until 7:00 PDT The hunt around the grid.

01:00 PDT Birthday pint at Tosca
10:00 PDT Warm-up with Bella Diesel
11:00 PDT Janice Mills, a smooth voice with heart and soul. Live at Tosca.
We have been able to win over this wonderful singer again and are looking forward to a top-class concert

Afterwards we party until the lights go out.

Celebrate with us, celebrate with friends!

We look forward to welcome you

Your Nasti and Rudi

On May 4th, Season Two of the reborned HG Safari kicked off in region Novale (hg.creanovale.ca:8052:NOVALE). As usual, Thirza Ember published a nice blog entry describing the visit in details with many pictures. Read it at: https://shorturl.at/kpqMS . Second stop was at the impressive Abyss Observatory in Japan.