SheaButter @SheaButter

Recently I have had a number of people requesting that I allow child avatars at friends-grid and I want to discuss this openly and honestly.

It is not my place to try and push my morals and values upon others....however, as a grid owner, it is my place to learn the laws of every country involved. In this situation, I need to understand the Child pornography laws of not only where our servers are located, but I also had to research and learn the laws of every country we have residents and guests from. We currently have residents from 30 countries and guests from another 35. People who say "laws dont apply " are incorrect on this subject. You may have servers in one country.....but all the laws of your resident's countries come into play also.

A good thing to remember is that because you have gotten away with something for 10 years does not make it legal. You may never get caught....and then again.....somebody with a grudge may turn you in.

I want to point out a recent post by Jerralyn Franzic . Jerralyn showed the cutest childs outfit ever! ....and she also made the wisest statement ...."I don't understand the hatred towards child avis in Open Sim. Sure, they shouldn't engage in adult activities and maybe not hang in Adult sims but otherwise, what's the problem?" Personally I would love to see kids riding ponies at my farm....and having fun being mermaids. If everyone in child avi were to abide by Jerralyn's statement, there would not be an issue.

However, lets talk about reality. Not all child avis are simply riding ponies and playing in the water. The simple truth is that many (not all) of these child avis are having sex. Some grids use this to boost their traffic. In some countries, including US, the graphic illustration of a child online having sex is 100% illegal. You see, it does not matter if the person behind the computer is 12 or 52......the visual computer generated depiction of a child (child avatar) involved in sex is very illegal in a number of countries. 18 U.S.C. § 2252 Many people will say their countries are different....and this is stupid. I did not make laws........but I need to abide by them. Before people jump on this and criticize me ....I would suggest you read the laws of your country....your servers country...and the laws of all your residents or guests. There are many misinformed people on this subject. I am not saying the laws are right or wrong......but learn the laws.....then comment. You need to learn laws for your servers country...and all your guests countries. This post is not about morals......it is about laws....of all the countries involved.

I have spent over 200 hours reading international laws. Some countries allow things that others do not. However, you have to consider all the laws because of guests.


In closing....do I hate kids and kids avis......nooooooo. I would love to be able to allow them to come to friends grid. However, this is a less than perfect world in which we live, and I have to look at the potential liability of allowing those child avis. Because of that, Child avis are not allowed on friends-grid......no exceptions! I am sad....because there are some wonderful people in kids avis that I do not get to have visit.

Friends-grid is an Adult community and we are looking for adults, with adult avi's who want to make this their main opensim home.

▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ ANNIVERSARY – Jubiläumsparty C&C ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂ ▁

We clebrate our 2 Year Partnership CRAZY & CARMEN
Wir feiern unsere 2 jährige Partnerschaft

You are all warmly invited to celebrate with us
Ihr seid alle recht herzlich eingeladen mit uns zu feiern

Monday / Montag 11.September 2023
starts ◕11:00 OS time / 20:00 Uhr europ.

with/mit ☊ DJ TOMMY WHITE & DJ CRAZY
▶▷▶ at our POSEIDON CLUBYACHT

good mood / gute Laune

TAXI : hg.osgrid.org:80:CC CLUBREGION 2

░░▒▓◙█◙█◙ CC-CLUBREGION 2 ◙█◙█◙▓▒░░

For the last 3 weeks, I have dealt with a intermittent issue on my grid that has about driven me nuts. I have tested, and eliminated possibilities …..without luck.

Yesterday two of the largest grid owners in open sim, Lone Wolf from Wolf Territories and Josh Boam from Aviworlds, took time from their busy schedules to help finally fix this issue. In addition , Rafael from Wolf Territories assisted. I cannot say thanks enough!

Although I work with Josh’s hosting business, this involved much more. Josh would not give up and recruited Lone Wolf.

In my opinion, maybe this is what opensim was designed to be: sharing of knowledge and helping each other.

Lone Wolf and Josh did not have to give up their time to help a tiny grid…..but they did!

Maybe we can all learn from these individuals!

Sharing knowledge is Caring



FYI. The default setting of 2 threadsets can cause major headaches depending on your region….it is way too low in some cases. You all probably know that…but I learned.

CLOSED!
That's it for this year. I would like to thank all of my loyal visitors who brought the sim to life. I hope you had a nice time. Many things that you suggested last year had been implemented and have brought a breath of fresh air into the sim.
Unfortunately, there were a few black sheep who didn't know how to behave. That's why I couldn't keep my promise to keep the sim open to everyone and everything this year.
Thanks also to the visitors who actually r e a l l y visited various Halloween Sims and then gave their great reviews.
I would like to thank you again for the many great encounters. It was an honor to be the host again this year.Hopefully we see you all back next year. Until then, have a good time.
Your Thomas

As some of you noticed..everything is a different this year. The sim is open for all,friends foes and in between. So no reason to rez alts from different grids!
For all newbies: - flying is ,for sure, allowed but you would miss half of the fun!
- look into every building (church,castle (even on the roof, houses..)
hidden items in every corner
- please be nice to each other. A smile or a nice "hi" always
welcome!
Happy weekend!... ps and yes I offer flying vacuum cleaners ahem flying broomsticks too:-)

Dear Lily Sparks. I don't know if you will see this, but I made you a special version of my mesh object vendor. It is just for textures. All you do is copy & paste the textures into it. That's it. No renaming, No muss, No Fuss. It just works and is very low lag and super low cpu usage. :) It's at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:SandBox Make sure to get the one that has the textures on the face, there are TWO vendors there one for objects and one for textures and they look just alike. The texture vendor I stuck some seamless elven wallpaper textures in so you could tell them apart. :) Your Friend Cyber

I repaired MAHJONG by Xylor Baysklef. The amazing Xylor made this years ago, and it was broken and stopped working. I just went through thousands of lines of code and fixed all 13 broken scripts. Now it will work in dreamgrid or anywhere. :) I'm leaving it at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:SandBox This is a fun 1 person or multiplayer game and it is very advanced and sophisticated.

Every one, something I did not know. I upgraded to the most recent version of dreamgrid and the other day I had massive problems. My grid would not restart and I had to reinstall completely from oars and an old iar. I lost a ton of my inventry. Someone pointed out to me that the latest version is a 'beta' version that has not been well tested, and I didn't know that. Apparently we should only use the latest 'stable' version and stick to that until a new 'stable' version is clearly marked on the dreamgrid website. I apologize to everyone for posting when a new version of dreamgrid came out. Not realizing these are beta versions has created a massive mess. As usual, many people are angry with me for joyfully informing them of the latest release. I hope you can forgive me, I meant no harm, and was trying to be helpful.

MORTIMER!!! WE'RE BACK!!!! Thanks to the people of the metaverse. So many of you came to me offering free land, free help, and really demonstrated your friendship. You brought back my latest creations to me to refill my store at Wizardry. I am very greatful and love you all. I could not ask for better friends. Special thanks to Milly Money, Fresh Virtual World, Jay R Cela, Kater_V_Kater, Marianna, PagaSuccubus, Safine Mahoe, HugABug, Mistress Dalgato, Lone Wolf, Nexus Storm, Fearghus McMahon, KatKakoola, Fred BeckHuesen & Druskus. You are wonderful and awesome people, and I am forever grateful to all of you.

FINALLY I OPEN THE SANTORINI SHOP FOR PUBLIC.
I WANNA THANK YOU ALL WHO HAVE WRITTEN ME AND GIVE ME ADVICE AND SUPPORT. THE SHOPS ARE OPEN AGAIN. WELCOME BACK
WHILE IT´S OPEN IÁM IN PROCESS TO BUILD UP MY NEW ISLAND CLOUD9.

BEAR WITH ME. IT'S A BIG JOB JUST BUILDING EVERYTHING UP AND FIXING SHOPS. BELINDA WILL HAVE HER NEW SHOPS WITH HER NICE CLOTHES ETC. STAY TUNED IN THE GROUP FOR UPDATES AND IN OPENSIM. IF YOU HAVE IDEAS FOR WHAT YOU WANT ON OPENSIM THAT IS MISSING. FEEL FREE TO WRITE AND PM ME. THANK YOU ALL ONCE AGAIN FOR ALL THE SUPPORT.

SOPPORTAMI. È UN GRAN LAVORO SOLO COSTRUIRE TUTTO E RISTRUTTURARE I NEGOZI. BELINDA AVRÀ I SUOI ​​NUOVI NEGOZI CON I SUOI ​​BELLI VESTITI ECC. RESTA SINTONIZZATO NEL GRUPPO PER GLI AGGIORNAMENTI E IN OPENSIM. SE HAI IDEE PER QUELLO CHE VUOI SU OPENSIM MANCA. SENTITEVI LIBERI DI SCRIVERMI E DI MANDARMI IN PRIVATO. GRAZIE A TUTTI ANCORA PER TUTTO IL SUPPORTO.
TENGAN PACIENCIA CONMIGO. ES UN GRAN TRABAJO SIMPLEMENTE CONSTRUIR TODO Y REPARAR LOS TALLERES. BELINDA TENDRÁ SUS NUEVAS TIENDAS CON SU ROPA BONITA ETC. MANTÉNGASE ATENTOS AL GRUPO PARA ACTUALIZACIONES Y EN OPENSIM. SI TIENES IDEAS PARA LO QUE QUIERES EN OPENSIM, FALTA. NO dudes en escribirme y enviarme un mensaje privado. GRACIAS A TODOS UNA VEZ MÁS POR TODO EL APOYO.

Ertrage es mit mir. Es ist schon eine große Aufgabe, alles aufzubauen und Geschäfte zu reparieren. BELINDA WIRD IHRE NEUEN GESCHÄFTE MIT IHREN SCHÖNEN KLEIDUNGEN ETC. HABEN. Bleiben Sie in der Gruppe auf dem Laufenden, um Updates zu erhalten, und in OPENSIM. WENN SIE IDEEN HABEN, WAS SIE AUF OPENSIM WOLLEN, DAS FEHLT. Zögern Sie nicht, mir zu schreiben und mir eine private Nachricht zu schicken. VIELEN DANK EUCH ALLEN NOCHMALS FÜR DIE UNTERSTÜTZUNG.
hop://junglefriends.opensim.fun:8002/Santorini Shops/367/354/2534
Angelina Santorini

Sky Harbor Museum of Flight is happy to announce the opening of our latest art exhibit at the Exhibition of Aviation Art.

"Women in Aviation" is a glimpse into the many women who have forged the path that is now so open to women of today. Come and share in the thrill of flight that once was considered limited to men only.

Walk through the "Women in Aviation" sign at the welcome area.

This exhibit is also the grand opening for out new larger art building.

See you soon!

They are exhausted, but the fox hunt went well (or studying scripting pack behavior)
Arriving with an exhausted pack https://gyazo.com/0c620b98847038e78b505ee876569886

Sim crossing over 4 var regions with followers works extremely well IF you cross calmly and keep your objects close.

MAGICAL JELLY FISH (*) on mesh for your underwater regions or even parties with blinking lights and rotation (**) Available for FREE and FULL PERM at BOX 04 (XMAS AREA). Enjoy :)
(*) Jelly fish looks different than the one exposed here -as its trully difficult to make a decent an alpha pic with almost transparent objects....
(**) Available also model without rotation and particles, if needed.

Hello folks.. some people ask me where the nice shop is with the funny costumes for system avatars. Well yes it sank together with the liquidation of the art sim..
My fault not bringing it back. To busy in real life. But I heard you and it will be back soon ! I will go on making funny avatars out of the creations too. I need just a few more hours and Froggie Ponds original creations will be back.
Here is a sneak preview

Hier ein paar impressionen vom Karneval in Köln. Danke allen die ein Teil davon waren.


Here are a few impressions from the carnival in Cologne. Thank you to everyone who was a part of it.

https://youtu.be/kURgrpqVxk0?si=roTFPWcDcmihjclA

ADULTS ONLY REGION

Announcing the opening of a new little pet store at Raven's Peak - Cinders Bay - Raven's Pets. A collection of companion pets that will be growing over time. Pop on over to check out this little gem of a store!

Mike & Zoey ♥

Hello everyone, hope everyone came good into the new Year 2024.

Yes, we still working on the Mall but as always Real Life crossed our Plans :)

We just released new Stuff for Gianni and Athena, as well as Tattoos!
Feel free to come around and check them out.

We opened our Winter Wonderland as well on Christmas. You had allready check it ? We just made a custom Ropeway inspired by the Ropeway Oberwiesenthal in Saxony/Germany.

Have a great Sunday.
Amelia & Hertha

***** NEW RELEASES *****

CASUAL VALENTINE & PARTY VALENTINE

Both outfits include 6 solid colors and 6 patterns
All pieces can also be worn seperately,

CASUAL VALENTINE INCLUDES:
Pants in 6 patterns, Sweater in 6 solid colors and Platform Shoes in co-ordinating colors
!!!NOTE: This outfit is for Athena & Legacy ONLY

PARTY VALENTINE INCLUDES
Dress in 6 patterns, Jacket in 6 solid colors & Shoes in co-ordinating colors
This outfit is available for Athena ,Petite, Legacy & Perky


Early Happy Valentine's Day

Enjoy Shopping

Trizzy