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I have a new shop at the Mall on the Genesis grid!! Star Ravenhurst Designs has original content, mostly prim twisted. You can take a TP to the Specialty shops to find it. Perhaps you will find some Christmas gifts for your friends and family! Also, check out the many houses and buildings at the mall on the lower levels. I have a few free buildings for you and will be adding more of my builds and content. There are also many builds by Thundergod Thor, Lavia, and Gramzy. Much Love and Peace to all of us in the New Year!

grid.genesis-roleplay.org:8002:Masala Al Kahov

There's a new Holiday display area at the Emporium on Wolf territories Grid. There you'll find ice to skate on and free skates in multiple colors with a skating AO built in (sorry, I know they're rollerblades. Haven't had time to bring the ice skates in yet). Click the Seasonal sign in the lobby to get there.

HG Address is: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

Hypergrid International Expo opens this Friday and sessions start Saturday in multiple languages!

HG Address: craft-world.org:8002:HIE Welcome

For full information go here: https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/

I am pleased to advertise the second blender class on rigging. Below is the notecard of required downloads to participate. Class will meet here promptly at 9PM Grid time.
downoad wuff
https://sketchfab.com/lixyco

Oni Girl
https://github.com/nessaki/Onigiri

auto rig
https://actorcore.reallusion.com/auto-rig

blender 3.5 preferred
https://download.blender.org/release/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1I9o5Oeo-A

This video was filmed live at the Copperville Holiday Celebration.
It features a presentation of Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
We gathered around the parlor and enjoyed the storytelling of Shandon Loring as we became immersed in the wonderful sets and characters created by Koshari Mahana & Kimm Starr.
A good time was had by all as most everyone came in period costumes as well. Kudos to everyone and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Movida Italia

Movida Italia was born six years ago as a Videochat because the reality of videochat allows you to get to know each other better and talk longer with many different people and personalities. Over the years we have always tried to create and develop many projects within movida, one of which is RadioMovida,
a web radio created with the aim of entertaining, entertaining, keeping company and creating an increasingly true and direct relationship with our users and listeners.. and it is above all for them that we have decided to land here too, giving all users a " world" where they could feel free to build and play with their imagination.
On Movidaitalia you will find various interesting shops, from furniture, to clothing (both for men and women), a Disco and a Music Club, the Christmas village with an adjoining market and many games that we can play together with the intention of having fun and getting to know each other better . Join the world of Movida too!! We are waiting for you. The staff

Me gustaría aclarar algo porque se ha puesto en duda, como siempre, por estos lares, la integridad de muchos de nosotros a la hora de poner cosas en las tiendas. He abierto mi primera tienda en Opensim, gracias a un gran amigo que me ha dejado un local en su terreno. Ha sido una de las pocas cosas que me han mantenido entretenida y mi única idea era compartir, con todo aquel que perdiera un poco de su tiempo en visitar el lugar, las cosas que he podido ir comprando en otros grids. Cosas que al comprarlas aparecen como copy/modidy/transfer. No he robado nada a nadie, principalmente porque no sé hacerlo, y, aunque supiera, tampoco lo haría. Creo que la mayoría de los que nos movemos por Opensim, queremos tener cosas bonitas, interesantes, diferentes...Yo he pasado muuuchas horas recorriéndome todos los sitios que he podido, buscando items que merecieran la pena, otros que me parecían graciosos, otros, símplemente para ayudar a otras personas a montar sus tiendas, decorar sus casas, sus terrenos...lo que sea. Los que me conocen, saben que esto lo hago porque me encanta descubrir sitios nuevos y, si de paso, encuentro tiendas que me venden cosas que puedo compartir, pues mejor. Las cosas que están en mi pequeño rincón, están tal y como las he comprado. Podéis ver el nombre del creador y a qué grid pertenece. Yo no modifico nada porque es el trabajo que ha hecho otra persona y no voy a ocultarlo porque no sería justo para ellos (según pienso yo, eh? que esta es una opinión personal y mi modo de actuar). Así que, bueno, espero no haber ofendido a nadie. Solo comparto esto porque duele que te acusen de cosas que no has hecho y afecten a otras personas que gentilmente han confiado en mí.

Sanctuary of The Ancients built by Star Ravenhurst is an absolutely gorgeous build, beautifully textured and well thought out. You can find this wonderful build here at our mall on the 2nd level of builds. Hope to see you there soon!

Season's Greetings to all my friends, when I think of the new year I like to think of it as the beginning of a new novel and the first day is the first page~ Let's create a novel of good deeds and good wishes for a prosperous new year for everyone. Let's not "Hit On" people to use them for our needs instead let's prop them up and collaborate together as a team.

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virtual-hg.com:8002:PacificNorthwest https://virtual-hg.com/Jopensim/index.php?option=com_conte...

Today starts my Opensim Appreciation Giveaway, and it's happening all this week at OSFest from Monday July 18th through Sunday July 24th. Everything I have out on my four merchant regions at OSFest will be free, with the exception of two structures still under construction that I will debut in the next month. Freebies include castles, entertainment venues, statues, landscaping, airships, and decor of all kinds - if you see it you can get it for free. I have four parcels on the OSFest grid: one on the Chlorine region and three on Unobtanium.

DON'T MISS THIS

In addition, there are nearly 25 merchants participating with me in a massive sales event all week - sales prices and freebies galore. Supporting is caring, and encourages quality creators to set up shop in opensim.

Start here, then look for the merchant teleport board: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

The rusty locomotive of forgotten history...

100 years ago, on 23/09/1923, in a slightly more advanced country, the people rose up and stopped the first attempt of fascism to seize power. The uprising is drowned in blood by the fascist government, but it still succeeds because the government falls from power and the fascists never succeed in fooling our people again.
Unfortunately, after only 10 years, fascism succeeded in another country and is still fooling the more naive people of the world.
Little evidence remains from that time.
In front of the train station in the town of Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, the locomotive of modern history is rusting... Yes, that's right, with this locomotive with the iconic number 555, more than 100 years ago, progress moved across half of Europe (try to find more of his long history).
Lost or intentionally deleted pages of history, changed facts... Maybe you also need safe transportation for the future? The locomotive is here, it hasn't escaped...

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We collectively raised $206 for charity with $108 going to UNICEF as 36 visitors attended out charity event! We decided to triple our donation for such a great turnout. Attendees at the event pitched in another $98 towards charities. Thanks to Posy Potts, Mathilda Stark, Niki Stark and Edison Rex!

If you can, please continue to support a charity of your choice or donate to one of these. Thank you all so much for this great event and the donations!

https://donate.unicef.org/donate/now
https://giving.unhcr.org/en/ukraine/
https://donatenow.wfp.org/ukraine-appeal/~my-donation
https://www.ohchr.org/en/donation
https://www.amnesty.org/en/donate/

Here is the original post: https://zetaworlds.com/blog/view/charity-event-2023

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To celebrate World Peace Day we are holding a charity event on the 21st of September. You can visit the events region during that day and find some links to charities if you wish to donate and for every visitor during that day we will donate $1 to UNICEF.

Later that day at 10am grid time we will kick off a little event for everyone with your favorite DJs.

10am - Hazel Ito QUIRKY ECLECTIC
noon - Mattie Stark LIVE!
and at 2pm Vincent Sylvester will just play music until you keel over....

TAXI: hg.zetaworlds.com:80:Events

My Sister Ms. Kitty shared this with me this morning. She finds the best stuff! Especially when she knows I have an interest in something. This is around 18 minutes and worth every minute of your time. It will open, blow, and astound your mind. At least it did me. A thousand kudos to the creator of this short film!
I hope it is OK to post a link here. I just want everyone to watch this. SO creative.
https://youtu.be/ZWsSkY8EvF4

Pangea 11/9/22 Immersive Opening
Los sueños de los muertos permanecen entre nosotros.
Coming soon Be part of the Art
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2022/10/breens-dreams.html?f...

I just opened my first store for my new Egyptian antiquities at ACRES Mega Sky Mall in Digiworldz. Currently this is the only place on the hypergrid you can find these since I do not yet sell them at my home region of Luxor or at the Main Store on Wolf Territories grid. Here you'll find Egyptian statues, decor, and vendors for some of my larger Egyptian structures, one of which is displayed outside. The mall uses Digi currency and there is a Podex terminal at the mall entrance.

Store Address: hop://login.digiworldz.com:8002/Nefertari%20Acres%20of%20B...

KRAMPUS THE CHRISTMAS DEMON

What do you mean, you've never heard of Krampus?

Krampus, in central European popular legend, a half-goat, half-demon monster that punishes misbehaving children at Christmastime. He is the devilish companion of St. Nicholas. Krampus is believed to have originated in Germany, and his name derives from the German word Krampen, which means “claw.”

Better watch out, you better not pout, Krampus is coming to town!!!

ANIMATED ANIMESH VIGNETTE AVAILABLE ON THE KITELY MARKET HERE:
https://www.kitely.com/market/product/67882013/VIRTUAL-VIG...

Advent – die schöne Zeit – Glocken klingen weit und breit, Kerzenlicht in jedem Heim – Frieden soll auf Erden sein!
Advent - the beautiful time - bells ring far and wide, candlelight in every home - peace shall be on earth!

This may just be my opinion, but I believe that OpenSim should be represented in the Metaverse Standards Forum (https://metaverse-standards.org/) in some way.

If you're wondering what the MSF is: They try to develop and design from scratch what we've already had for 15 years as OpenSim and for 14 years as the Hypergrid.

For one, I guess nobody there even knows that OpenSim exists, not as a platform, not as several thousand virtual worlds. Even Intel may have forgotten their early engagement in OpenSim.

Besides, they could learn from OpenSim what they're bound to learn from the mistakes they'll make. And they could see what OpenSim has done right that they should do, too.

It's just a pity, I guess, that there's nobody who's able and willing to represent the OpenSim ecosystem as a whole.

(By the way, Linden Lab isn't a member either.)

I asked Nyx Breen if he would like to join our exhibit and display his work too at Mind Odyssey, to my delight he has accepted and will be working on his exhibit in the coming days. Thank you, Nyx.

https://continuum.outworldz.net/JOpensim/index.php?option=...

Below is a reposting of a comment I made in response to Openlife’s pathetic and wrongheaded rebuff to my initial post. I promised to repost my comment if it was deleted from the thread. Not only did my comment get deleted, but I have been blocked, but through the wonderful technology of alts I am able to access Onellife’s diatribe and also what others who have blocked me are posting. No surprises, it has allowed Onelife to distort and manupulate in order to put across his (wrongheaded) point of view, even to the point of contradicitng themselves on a few occasions.

Seriously, 4chan and 8chan could learn stuff from this lot! Indeed, the more I think about it there is an element in Opensim that seems to want to promote some kind of conspiracy theory. Inadvertantly I seem to have provided fodder, though I cannot for the life of me see how my few comments, none of them at all outrageous, unless you’re one of the EIOSSBF cartel, have created such a furore From that they seem to have taken on a life of their own, becoming ever more grossly distorted according to the viewpoint people like Onelife want to project. Good luck to them, my original piece is there to refute their accusations.

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Good to see that there is at least a fewwho have a balanced view of the software industry. In the interests of full disclosure I am the person who wrote the article for which Openlife’s article is, I suppose, a attempted rebuff .

For clarity's sake, my piece is still up and there to read. Several people have rather bizarrely taken what I wrote and assumed that it is an endorsement of the EchoVoice project. It is not. It is, however, an opinion piece suggesting that if we want the nice things in Opensim, then it's likely we'll have to pay for them, or do without - it really is that simple. EchoVoice was used as an exemplary, nothing else.

I was also accused by Openlife of more or less demanding money with menaces, and by another suggesitng that I was calling people ‘cheap’*.when all I did was to suggest that most people could afford small contributions: not that they had to, and nowhere did I even hint that people should donate, merely that they more than likely could. Of course there will be a very small number of people who won’t be able to afford to contribute to anything, but I hardly think they will exist in any significant number in virtual worlds as they will be destitute, not inworld, and have far more to worry about than the people on here who are triggered at any suggestion that they could, shock, horror, pay some money for something for once in Opensim.

One of Harper Held’s comments was so abusive and intemperate that I not only deleted all their comments, but also blocked them. Both Openlife and GlennXpletive had some of their comments deleted due to them being either needless repetition, or irrelevant rants that had no place and only served to interrupt the flow of the thread. Because of this Xpletive then felt it okay to make xenophobic comments about my ethnicity. A complaint has been made about that.

Any pertinent comments were left. And yet I have been accused by Xpletive of restrictung their free speech, which is ludircrous. If they want to rant about me there are plenty of places where they could do that, and heck, they could even set up a website to do that - but of course, to do that properly, it would cost them money, and presumably these people are the core of the ‘Everything in Opensim should be free’ cult.

Sure, it's possible that someone could come along and do it for 'free', but it's unlikely. The eagle-eyed will also have spotted that my piece, whilst focusing on a voice module, was somewhat wider in scope, and was presenting an argument that maybe we should be prepared to cough up a small amount of money, if we want nice things in Opensim. There is a precedent, though it’s from 2015 (before the EIOSSBF nonsense started) https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/02/dahlia-trimbles-...

And if that wasn’t enough, there is this one so we could have decent vehicles in Opensim:https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/01/opensim-users-pl...

And... Related to what trggered the OP into writing their piece: https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2014/01/zetamex-announce...

However, that one didn’t succeed, probably because of the avaialbility of Vivox, which, to a degree is understandable, but hardly an ideal solution.

The notion that Red Hat Linux is free of cost because Fedora is free is also a bit of a dishonest claim. Red Hat does have a cost: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms

EDIT: IBM through Red Hat largely finances both Fedora and CentOS Stream, and development is by both the community and paid professionals employed by Red Hat. A symbiotic relationship common to many opensource projects.

And, as Mike Chase says in his comment, there is a heck of a lot of paid-for work in GNU/Linux and the ‘free’ is more about freedom than free of cost, and, to be fair, most distros don’t make a charge for, but many (if not most) do ask for a contribution to cover their costs, such as this, from Ubuntu MATE: https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/amd64/jammy/thanks/?metho...

I certainly didn’t intend to stir up a hornets (or is it a vipers?) nest over this, all I wanted to do in essence was show how the power of numbers could work hugely to our collective advantage. Anyone might think I’d suggested that people should donate their life savings, or steal the bread from their childern’s mouths! Seriously, some of you would do well to go back to school and learn English comprehension.

*Come to think about it, I do think that most of those bitterly complaining and using the poverty of others as a weapon with which to beat me are indeed ‘cheap’. Not just because they don’t want to contribute towards Opensim project, but because they are cynically and despicably exploiting poor people to bolster their arguments rather than going off and berating exploitative employers for not paying their workers enough to live a comfortable life, or petitioning the government to ensure that adequate unemployment benefits are paid to workers unable to find work.

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My very first attempt at a fully mesh living room suit. It has a sofa, chair, coffee table, end table and multicolored touch floor lamp that works. The sofa and chair both have sits, just right click the cushion, select sit here and when you sit the menu pops up. The only thing not mesh is the oval area rug for obvious reasons, it's only one prim to start with. The upholstery pattern is "Peacock" and the wood is light walnut. The coffee and end table are brass, glass and wood. I hope you will enjoy this suit for your region as much as I did making it. - Blessings and much love, Lavia