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FEATURED Whispering Willows 0 Users 9 1 A **Whispering Willows** is a 6 x 6 enchanting fantasy world filled with Elves, Fairies, Unicorns, Hobbits, Gnomes, Humans, and the realm of the Dragon King. Explore magical lands, discover hidden place... |
Find your dream home on a relaxed shopping spree.
The ultimate house gallery of the best architects with free spirit.
Governor Heron
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery I
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery II
The ultimate house gallery of the best architects with free spirit.
Governor Heron
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery I
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery II
Find your dream home on a relaxed shopping spree.
The ultimate house gallery of the best architects with free spirit.
Governor Heron
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery I
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery II
The ultimate house gallery of the best architects with free spirit.
Governor Heron
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery I
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery II
The second in the March series of Art Talks at the Institute. We will be running these again soon!
Free House Market II
hop://213.200.254.17:17002/Free House Gallery II
https://www.rakisworld.ch/video/VillageNewZealand.mp4
Thanks you to everyone who came to celebrate Ellen's Birthday. Wonderful People!
Nous répertorions toutes les destinations francophones que nous trouvons ,et nous posons un panneau de téléport ,si vous êtes francophones et que votre grille ou standalone n'y est pas encore ,contactez nous .
...and we have some unique ways of transportation here at Neiferleaf
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 ... 5 hours ago |
| | Xenon Darrow: GF, you pushing the limits of GORGEOUS! yesterday |
Our new Campfire Foods table is ready. Touch the placemat and choose something delicious to enjoy while relaxing by the fire—from nachos and hotdogs to sweet s’mores and more.
Good food, warm fire, and great company
located at Weatered Woods three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002/Catena%20di%20Isole/401/110/22
Good food, warm fire, and great company
located at Weatered Woods three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002/Catena%20di%20Isole/401/110/22
| | JamieWright: You beat me to making both virtual and real smores...lol lol I love it:) 2 days ago |
Hobbit Hollow Hearth... now we all can see you terrorizing your hubby! hahaha'' kidding... we know you're not like that.
The Jester dumps a video stream:
https://youtu.be/j07pWBbyfqg
| | Spax Orion: DJs, Streamers & entertainers: Would you like to get in on the Main Event? Let's chat! 3 days ago |
Wow, thanks to the contributors!!
Come and pick up the materials offered by the community—and maybe even find a hidden gem among the items left there.
What is Friends Grid?
We have the most amazing people from around the globe, but in addition; we have some of your favorite stores!
Bodies & Clothing
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Bodies%20%26%20Clothing/...
Textures Trees & Scripts
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Textures%20Trees%20Scrip...
Furniture & Art
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Furniture%20%26%20Art/65...
Alina’s Boats
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Boats/516/45...
Alina's Cars and Vehicles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Cars%20and%2...
Alina's Race Vehicles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Race%20Vehic...
Alina's Motorcycles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Motorcycles/...
Alina's Aviation
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Aviation/539...
And some fun places to explore including:
Fantasia
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Fantasia/129/130/27
Moana
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Moana/408/1618/24
Underwater Worlds
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Aquamica/1009/1179/21
Centro Hispano
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Centro%20Hispano/522/386...
After Dark
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/After%20Dark/124/125/2
Friends Casino
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Friends%20Casino/129/62/...
And many more regions to explore!
* limited free parcels with 10,000 prims are available to people who want to make this their main home and become a part of this growing community. Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details. https://friends-grid.com/
#the best damn little grid!
We have the most amazing people from around the globe, but in addition; we have some of your favorite stores!
Bodies & Clothing
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Bodies%20%26%20Clothing/...
Textures Trees & Scripts
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Textures%20Trees%20Scrip...
Furniture & Art
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Furniture%20%26%20Art/65...
Alina’s Boats
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Boats/516/45...
Alina's Cars and Vehicles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Cars%20and%2...
Alina's Race Vehicles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Race%20Vehic...
Alina's Motorcycles
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Motorcycles/...
Alina's Aviation
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Alina%27s%20Aviation/539...
And some fun places to explore including:
Fantasia
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Fantasia/129/130/27
Moana
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Moana/408/1618/24
Underwater Worlds
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Aquamica/1009/1179/21
Centro Hispano
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Centro%20Hispano/522/386...
After Dark
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/After%20Dark/124/125/2
Friends Casino
hop://login.friends-grid.com:8002/Friends%20Casino/129/62/...
And many more regions to explore!
* limited free parcels with 10,000 prims are available to people who want to make this their main home and become a part of this growing community. Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details. https://friends-grid.com/
#the best damn little grid!
| | Danger Lytton: 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. 5 days ago |
Step into a world where tradition, storytelling, music, and breathtaking visuals come together in an unforgettable journey through Día de los Muertos.
🌼 Wander through vibrant streets and candlelit cemeteries.
🦋 Ride into the mystical Spirit Realm.
💀 Meet the elegant La Catrina.
🎶 Enjoy music, dancing, cultural history, and interactive experiences unlike anything else in OpenSim.
📅 Experience Dates: September 2 – November 3, 2026
Keep an eye on our page and Discord for the complete schedule of public tours and special events!
🌟 Special Tours
🚩 Hypergrid Safari
🚩 VWEC
🚩 OSFest 2026
📍 Only at The Zones in OpenSim
This immersive experience celebrates remembrance, culture, and the beauty of life in a way you won't soon forget.
https://youtu.be/Fk7R6JjESLc?si=LDG6nBMqWuDSNDZD
🌼 Wander through vibrant streets and candlelit cemeteries.
🦋 Ride into the mystical Spirit Realm.
💀 Meet the elegant La Catrina.
🎶 Enjoy music, dancing, cultural history, and interactive experiences unlike anything else in OpenSim.
📅 Experience Dates: September 2 – November 3, 2026
Keep an eye on our page and Discord for the complete schedule of public tours and special events!
🌟 Special Tours
🚩 Hypergrid Safari
🚩 VWEC
🚩 OSFest 2026
📍 Only at The Zones in OpenSim
This immersive experience celebrates remembrance, culture, and the beauty of life in a way you won't soon forget.
https://youtu.be/Fk7R6JjESLc?si=LDG6nBMqWuDSNDZD
| | Kimm Starr: The event runs from Sept.2nd to Nov 3rd! 6 days ago |
New project!
test out my new fountains! there are 3 of them, different choreography, lights, mist and all synched to music! Please let me know what you think even if its bad. this is 95% done and i think its going to stay there. Sometimes you can only go so far in Opensim script wise and features.
This project took 4 days and got started when I went to my local six flags, they had a cool water show and I was like, can Opensim do that. Weeks later chat gpt and I came up with this.
Please be patient while it loads the next song, even if the current song isnt done. set environment to night, you can still view this in the day.
There are six songs and one of the songs I used was something fred had shared that also inspired this project. So, thank you Fred.
They are located at Virtual Beach by the gazebo
hop://grid.myvirtualbeach.com:8002/Virtual Beach/49/283/26
test out my new fountains! there are 3 of them, different choreography, lights, mist and all synched to music! Please let me know what you think even if its bad. this is 95% done and i think its going to stay there. Sometimes you can only go so far in Opensim script wise and features.
This project took 4 days and got started when I went to my local six flags, they had a cool water show and I was like, can Opensim do that. Weeks later chat gpt and I came up with this.
Please be patient while it loads the next song, even if the current song isnt done. set environment to night, you can still view this in the day.
There are six songs and one of the songs I used was something fred had shared that also inspired this project. So, thank you Fred.
They are located at Virtual Beach by the gazebo
hop://grid.myvirtualbeach.com:8002/Virtual Beach/49/283/26
| | Ⲙⲁꞅi: Beautiful things happen when we "listen" to @ferdfrederix 8 days ago |
Das ist kein KI = Künstliche Intelligenz
Das ist NI =natürliche Intelligenz
This is not AI = Artificial Intelligence.
This is NI = Natural Intelligence. :)
| | Aphra Hendrix: https://i.gyazo.com/d64e28831cde97813f229d8b62aa5a37.jpg Kreativität & Umgang mit KI In dieser 60-minütigen Online-Stunde entdecken die Teilnehmenden, wie künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Krea... 9 days ago |
Negotiation's complete at avirtualworld we have reached a deal!
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| | Gentle Dragonheart: 24/7 buzzing covered huh. Not sure I like it :)) 11 days ago |
🎣 **REEL8 Update — Share Your Fishing Glory!**
We just added **Share Buttons** to the Reel8 website! 🔥
Head over to the **Leaderboard** or **Hall of Fame** and share your rankings with the world!
📢 **Share to:**
🔵 Facebook
🐦 X (Twitter)
🟠 Reddit
💜 Discord (Copy Link)
💚 WhatsApp
🏆 Speaking of the Hall of Fame — it's still waiting for its **first ever Mythic Fisher!** 50,000 XP and the throne is yours. Your name will be permanently etched in Reel8 history AND you'll have a shiny Share Button to brag about it! 😄
👀 Check the live leaderboard here:
https://reel8fish.com/leaderboard
We just added **Share Buttons** to the Reel8 website! 🔥
Head over to the **Leaderboard** or **Hall of Fame** and share your rankings with the world!
📢 **Share to:**
🐦 X (Twitter)
💜 Discord (Copy Link)
🏆 Speaking of the Hall of Fame — it's still waiting for its **first ever Mythic Fisher!** 50,000 XP and the throne is yours. Your name will be permanently etched in Reel8 history AND you'll have a shiny Share Button to brag about it! 😄
👀 Check the live leaderboard here:
https://reel8fish.com/leaderboard
| | GAY_ASIA: Nonsense as usual … 11 days ago |
| | Aphra Hendrix: impressionant! 15 days ago |
Many of you told me that the walk from the Welcome Area to the gallery inside the pyramid felt a little too long. Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. It inspired this little oasis.
That is exactly why the bedou-in came to life.
Now there is a place to pause, enjoy a good coffee, take a deep breath, and let the impressions of the photographs and poems settle before continuing your journey.
Enjoy your stay.
arabian عربي
That is exactly why the bedou-in came to life.
Now there is a place to pause, enjoy a good coffee, take a deep breath, and let the impressions of the photographs and poems settle before continuing your journey.
Enjoy your stay.
arabian عربي
| | MaraWindsong: Second visit and I agree the Bedouin look really makes it so much better and the art and photography you have is just wonderful. I really enjoyed the walk and look you have created on this region. 16 days ago |
🌙 The BloodMoon community keeps growing! 🩸
Every month, new players join the adventure… Why not you?
Step into the dark and mysterious world of BloodMoon RolePlay and choose your destiny: Human, Vampire, Lycan or Hybrid. 🧛🐺
Although the game is closely connected to the BloodMoon Grid, you do not need to have an account on the grid to take part.
🌐 The HUDs and all other game items are 100% Hypergrid-compatible, which means you can join the adventure directly from your own OpenSimulator grid!
🔎 Discover a few player profiles:
🩸 Hybrid:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=52
🧛 Vampire:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=152
🧑 Human:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=167
🌐 Official website:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/
📖 Game guides and information:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/guide.php
🌑 The Blood Moon is calling you…
Will you be the next creature to join BloodMoon?
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🌙 La communauté BloodMoon continue de grandir ! 🩸
Chaque mois, de nouveaux joueurs rejoignent l’aventure… Pourquoi pas vous ?
Plongez dans l’univers sombre et mystérieux du RolePlay BloodMoon et choisissez votre destinée : Humain, Vampire, Lycan ou Hybride. 🧛🐺
Bien que le jeu soit étroitement lié à la grille BloodMoon, il n’est pas nécessaire d’y posséder un compte pour participer.
🌐 Les HUDs et tous les autres objets du jeu sont 100 % compatibles Hypergrid : vous pouvez donc rejoindre l’aventure directement depuis votre propre grille OpenSimulator !
🔎 Découvrez quelques profils de joueurs :
🩸 Hybride :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=52
🧛 Vampire :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=152
🧑 Humain :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=167
🌐 Site officiel :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/
📖 Guides et fonctionnement du jeu :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/guide.php
🌑 La Lune de Sang vous appelle…
Serez-vous la prochaine créature à rejoindre BloodMoon ?
Every month, new players join the adventure… Why not you?
Step into the dark and mysterious world of BloodMoon RolePlay and choose your destiny: Human, Vampire, Lycan or Hybrid. 🧛🐺
Although the game is closely connected to the BloodMoon Grid, you do not need to have an account on the grid to take part.
🌐 The HUDs and all other game items are 100% Hypergrid-compatible, which means you can join the adventure directly from your own OpenSimulator grid!
🔎 Discover a few player profiles:
🩸 Hybrid:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=52
🧛 Vampire:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=152
🧑 Human:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=167
🌐 Official website:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/
📖 Game guides and information:
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/guide.php
🌑 The Blood Moon is calling you…
Will you be the next creature to join BloodMoon?
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🌙 La communauté BloodMoon continue de grandir ! 🩸
Chaque mois, de nouveaux joueurs rejoignent l’aventure… Pourquoi pas vous ?
Plongez dans l’univers sombre et mystérieux du RolePlay BloodMoon et choisissez votre destinée : Humain, Vampire, Lycan ou Hybride. 🧛🐺
Bien que le jeu soit étroitement lié à la grille BloodMoon, il n’est pas nécessaire d’y posséder un compte pour participer.
🌐 Les HUDs et tous les autres objets du jeu sont 100 % compatibles Hypergrid : vous pouvez donc rejoindre l’aventure directement depuis votre propre grille OpenSimulator !
🔎 Découvrez quelques profils de joueurs :
🩸 Hybride :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=52
🧛 Vampire :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=152
🧑 Humain :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/player.php?id=167
🌐 Site officiel :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/
📖 Guides et fonctionnement du jeu :
https://bloodmoonpack.com/pages/guide.php
🌑 La Lune de Sang vous appelle…
Serez-vous la prochaine créature à rejoindre BloodMoon ?
The famous old mall.... with old stuff, new things, and more....
The weekend is almost here.
Come visit the Osgrid anniversary regions.
Original creations and gift boxes to take away.
the bus : hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/OSGB1/248/255/24
| | JamieWright: I'm a junkie for a diorama:) 21 days ago |
[Violet Moon Shop] New Releases
Sweet swirls, soft curls, and a touch of starlight magic!
Give your Dinkie a cozy new look with the Starlight Swirl Hairstyle, available in a variety of gorgeous colors to match every mood and outfit.
Available Now At:
• Mainstore
• Cosplay Corner
• Acres Mega Mall
• Rosemoor Mainstore
Mainstore
hop://login.digiworldz.com:8002/Moon%20Wolf%20Lounge/491/4...
or search:
login.digiworldz.com:8002:Moon Wolf Lounge
Sweet swirls, soft curls, and a touch of starlight magic!
Give your Dinkie a cozy new look with the Starlight Swirl Hairstyle, available in a variety of gorgeous colors to match every mood and outfit.
Available Now At:
• Mainstore
• Cosplay Corner
• Acres Mega Mall
• Rosemoor Mainstore
Mainstore
hop://login.digiworldz.com:8002/Moon%20Wolf%20Lounge/491/4...
or search:
login.digiworldz.com:8002:Moon Wolf Lounge
"Pathology of love" is a disorder that one doesn't want to treat.
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I am sorry to hear that Aphra. Good luck on your next adventure.
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This is too important to not archive, as far as reminders of such instances are concerned. I was both angry and sad when I read through the whole thing, twice. :(
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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 ...
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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!
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A funny place, with cool music and where above all freedom reigns... long live Futa!
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A genre based on sex games in which the performers are mostly of Asian descent and are reduced to having oversized breasts and vaginas.
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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.
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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
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Whispering Willows
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