EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT - BLA BLA BLA MAGAZINE's First Issue of 2025 is hot off the press!

WINTER 2025 Issue 4: https://e91a5210202c461ea06c0207ef7a40ab.elf.site/

For those of you that aren't familiar with the BLA BLA BLA, it's a beautifully curated magazine for all events, sales, life updates, etc. in OpenSim. The magazine is for any OpenSim User that wants to get the word out for a special event, a new region, grid opening, new outfit release, birth or wedding announcements, etc. Advertise for your next roommate or yard sale! Contact Sofee Supermarine if you're interested in submitting to the Magazine.

Contact Sofee Supermarine thru Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nHMEbE53Ea
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sofees/ or thru Discord

Alternate Metaverse Grid Opensim
DJ Dragon heute 17 bis 19 Uhr im Bikers Heaven mit Klassik Rock, Rock und Metal.
Nehmt Eure Freunde und kommt rüber zu Bikers Heaven.
Freu mich auf Euch
bis gleich
Dragon

DJane Dragon at Bikers Heaven 8 to 10 am gridtime playing
Classic Rock, Rock and Metal.

Take your friends and come over to Bikers Heaven and lets have some fun.
See you there
Dragon

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Carpe Noctem/209/221/1496

or im for a teleport

@JamieAnna Wright reminded me this morning of my art exhibit I created when she placed her Dali clock out at the Dingleberry Dump! OH Yes!! I remember I created an exhibit titled Persistence of Memory by Dali. I rezzed it at SkyRealm and can be viewed here:

three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002/SkyRealm/220/110/287

Thank you Anna for perpetual inspiration 💗

It's almost here! The first WolfTEC Learning Conference, January 11 & 12, 2025!
Digital Frontiers in Virtual World Education

You can learn everything you need to know about the Conference at:
wolftec.wolf-grid.com

- Two extensive poster sessions
- Workshops
- Tech Talks
- Networking / social hour
- After party

We have room for more posters! Please reach out to Xenon Darrow in Wolf Territories or send an email to: vdickenson@gmail.com. I am also available on Discord - Xenon Darrow. We would love to hear your personal learning experiences and / or your research.

See you at the conference!

Lynnestra Parker and On The Rocks present "New Beginnings"

Sunday Jan 5th, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Pacific

DJ Maldrul will be playing a collection of Rock & Pop songs about new beginnings & starting over. He will also be playing his signature selection of SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Airmid/478/97/23

Firstly "Happy New Year" everybody!

zetaworld grid automatically logs out any hypergridders from dynamic dns grids from visiting them (SUPER RUDE ZETA!), so in return I've done the same, so if zetaworld residents get logged out when hypergridding to "http://snik.loseyourip.com:8002:home of merci" then that will be the reason why.

I'm more than happy to reverse my decision, assuming zetaworld does the same :)

I'm trying to be a more positive, encouraging, creative and empathic individual, but currently I'm struggling. I'll do my very best to do better in future. :)

Always happy to share grid admin tips along with general opensim support and help, generally, I don't bite, unless you do :)

x

Miss Munk will be spinning her wheels of steel at 1 pm grid time, at The Piazza!
Bring your headphones and get on down here and listen to nonstop beat matching and full spectrum sound!
Plug the link into your map and we'll see you there.
http://bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

Taken by Harper.Held @admeja.bounceme.net:8002 at Digleberry Dump - A hidden valley of treasures, Dingleberry Dump "The Dump is Jumping"

Pictured is Harper Held, Hanks, Jamie Anna Wright, and Dexter Dung Beetle (Hyacinth is present making sure everyone is set) thank you Hy! Snik came out, Wendie, Prim, Enoch so many if I did not list you I apologize just know I love you very much! https://opensimworld.com/groups/1078

The OpenSim Worlds Fair is coming for the whole month of March, 2025!

Please grab a parcel to promote yourself, your business, your organization, your art, or your region! Everyone is welcome to participate.

A full sim parcel has just become available. If you or someone you know is interested please see the "Exhibit" page on the website. https://www.opensimworldsfair.com/exhibit

We also have one 1/2 sim size and two 1/4 sim sizes available as well as a few of the little parcels.

On the map, black indicates that the parcel is already taken.

Hope to see you at the fair!

Learn more: https://www.opensimworldsfair.com

Do you have a web page or blog? Want people to actually log into your home world?

Add a link like this: secondlife:///app/gridmanager/addgrid/http%3A%2F%2Foutworldz.com%3A9000

Like this: secondlife:///app/gridmanager/addgrid/http%3A%2F%2F[YOURRGRID]%3A[YOURPORT] You must escape spaces with %20.

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

Hey Everyone 🙂 I will be performing at
OSGrid Event Plaza today! Come join in
the fun & send me your requests!
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴1:00pm/1300h / 4:PM EST ∵∴ ❈
» Шhere: ✫EVENT PLAZA - OSGRID✫
» Шhat: • LIVE VOCALIST/MUSICIAN •
» MAP: hg.osgrid.org:80:Event Plaza

I have various circlets and tiaras created at the back of the store by the wedding rings. I was asked to create these when I first started creating jewelry and have loved them ever since; these are always so fun to create and look pretty when worn. three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry
Circlet is created using RhinoGold/Matrix Gold Software.

For fun i made this system to play with NPCs, if you want to play with it too come get it.
Inside there are all the commands i set and how to use them, you can use multiple NPCs just change the channel in the description
if there are bugs let me know


hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopCenter/23/189/22

Virtual Africa präsentiert HEUTE am 04.01.2025 ab 20 Uhr Winterspaß mit Skifahren, Snowboarden, Rodeln, Eislaufen und anschließendem Tanz. Wir freuen uns auf Euer Erscheinen.
VirtualAfrica.spdns.org:9000:Alpen

All this talk about my work as being poor quality crap gave me inspiration! It is true many creations are just that Poor Quality Crap! Who needs it? YOU Do! so we formed a new group where you can find all sorts of Free Crap https://opensimworld.com/groups/1078 Our first giveaway @JamieAnna Wright kindly offers to you! Be prepared and don't forget the poop scoop!

Join us at the Piazza at 3 pm grid time, for a couple of hours of fun and music while Rockin' Robert spins the tunes for us via his radio station Wax Radio.
The Piazza, where good friends and great music always come together.
bridgemere.outworldz.net:8002:Paradise Lagoon

Hey Everyone 🙂 I'm performing at Sound City -
Littlefield Grid! Come join me, request a few tunes
and have some fun!
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴2:00pm OST/5:PM EST ∵∴ ❈
» Шhere: ✫SOUNDCITY✫
» Dress: ❈ ∵∴ CASUAL∵∴ ❈
» Ride: hop://lfgrid.com:8002/Littlefield%20East/123/113/21

here we are. another collaborative project that opensim allows.
starting from a fact that could pass for a joke we have a group and a region.
to participate it's simple. you must be the creator of the object and give it full perm.
the region is provided to us by hyacinthe admin of https://groovyverse.com/.
you need the group to rez.
the osw group : https://opensimworld.com/groups/1078
there is no desire for competition or even provocation.
let's say that it is the product of amateur creators but in a less standardized way

DJ JUSTIN IS OUR NEWEST DJ COME CHECK HIM OUT
♬ WHO: DJ Justin
♬ WHAT:MIXED
♬ WHEN: 6-8 pm GRID TIME
♬ WHERE: THE BADASS HARLEY LOUNGE
♬ COME DANCE WITH US!!!
♬ BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND SONG REQUESTS

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Badass%20Club%20Land/431...

Lynnestra Parker & On The Rocks present TGI Thursday!

Thursdays from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Pacific time

DJ Maldrul will be playing a mix of classic and contemporary Rock & Roll and his signature selection of SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

Come check out Rocky Shores where you can dance, surf, play Greedy, hang out and explore!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Airmid/478/97/23

Open Mic Thusdays 12:30-2:30 Hosted By Dave, Wintermyst & Whisper

Open Mic Thursdays! accepting talent by avatars throughout Alternate Metaverse & The OpenSim Hypergrid as well! Live Open Mic events are on Thursdays from 12:30-2:30pm, Hosted by Dave King, Wintermyst Tangerae & Whisper Carfield! We accept people in the order of which they sign up. Some of the talent will include:
Bands, Singers, Musicians, Poets, Storytellers, Comedians & Free-stylers! What hidden talents do YOU have??
alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Open Mic Arts (232, 43, 51)

Freitag 3.1.2025
Rock-House
mit DJ Anachron

Beginn 20:00 Uhr

Auf ein Neues
Wir starten ins neue Jahr

Ende wie immer um Mitternacht
Friday 3.1.2025
Rock-House
with DJ Anachron

Starts at 8:00 p.m.

Here we go again
We're starting the new year

Ends as always at midnight

Some *might* have noticed that these words have been in every one of the four store builds since I started a year ago. Therefore:
'...let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honour and humility, mirth and reverence within you...'

The recent "knicker twist" (a *very* ugly and overly dismissive way to blow off what I read as being well-thought out and reasonable points raised by Marianna) does bring up a couple of questions:

Are there amateur builders left in Opensim?
It would be useful to define "amateur" -what do we mean by that term? Myself, I mean "self-taught", someone who has not been to art school or taken formal (not counting Builder's Brewery etc) courses on building. Other people may have different definitions -let's hear them.

It would also be useful to define "builder". When I say 'builder' I mean someone who makes creations with prims or mesh (Blender). (I'm excluding scripting, that's programming.) I'm aware that others define it in such a way as to refer to making modifications on pre-fab/pre-made mesh. Basically a "modder". In my mind it's a valid thing but it's different than building.

But language shifts and definitions change, "hacker" used to mean "someone who comes up with clever approaches to computer problems or design" -but for roughly 30 years it's been used to refer to people who break into computer systems and/or write viruses. As I say -definitions change.

So how do we define "builder" now? What constitutes "building"?

I can only think of a small handful of builders in the sense of making something from nothing, there's a larger pool of people who modify pre-made content -and unless I'm mistaken Marianna and Luna Luneria do a mix of both. Again, one isn't better than the other and both are forms of creative expression. But they are different.

The point of all this is to assess *need.* Do we need an organization? By "we" I am referring to "amateurs", I'm not referring to AuroraAsteria's group.

Moreover with the extremely low user numbers of Opensim would there be a point to creating an organization (beyond a collection of friends -I mean, if you already know each other knock yourselves out)?

I suspect -and have for years, that any such group would wither on the vine from lack of interest. Otherwise I'd be trying to start something myself.

I reserve the right to delete obnoxious comments and lock the comments entirely if it looks like they're going to simply be a shit-show. Show me that you *can* adult, OSW. Don't post insults (I'll delete them), paranoid rants (I'll delete them), off-topic diatribes about how somebody done somebody wrong songs (again -will delete). If there's a question about what the topic is intended to be -ask.

Make this a pain in my ass and I'll delete everything and lock the comments.