Hicks @hicks

All I ever did when I was here was build, create magic huds, create oars, and try to help people. I was harassed a lot by a band of trolls, constantly picked on and lied on by others who will say and post and do anything. Even fake made up stuff. Many of you have asked me to come back and keep creating. I will think about it. I did have some more oars I designed and it would be a shame to see them languish on an old hard drive and not get shared. I'm not sure if they survived the last ssd failure on my system. But to date they have not been seen by anyone but me. Perhaps I will come back in a few weeks. I am thinking about it - in the very least to upload the other fantasy oars I have made if they survived.

Region Monitor added here @ Valland Shop Section Estate Manager & Estate Owner Tools


features
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. Monitor visitor in your region
Statistics:
parcel visited,
zone visited,
arrival time,
departure time,
time in,
Avatar name,
Gender,
Arrival position
and many others
. Parcels: Parcels visited
. Zones: You can also define your own zones:
Sphere
Cube
. Work with LinksetData
. Output Statistics on Notecard or MySQL DB API
For the MySQL Query:
Detailed visits,
Daily visits,
Numbers of visits daily (unique visitor, Nbr visits),
Query on specific users or Zone,
Number of visits per month
Number of visits last n days
. Reports in Notecard to come later.
. Requirements:
You need OpenSim 0.9.3 for this to work as it keep data in “LinksetData”.



hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/ValLands/1180/815/52
http://www.vallands.ca
Thank you for your generous donations.
https://paypal.me/valr300?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US

Gracie and Dexter's Community Dump is Open to Public - Everyone Welcome

I added Giraffe Family today and Fred added his excellent camels!

@FerdFrederix thank you for adding your rideable camels so that we can ride here 🐪🐫

three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Gracie and Dexter's Community Dump

As we inch closer to the WolfTec Learning Conference beginning this Saturday, I have updated the website with the locations for all the events:

grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:WolfTEC Campus
grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Calypso Island
grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:VWEC
grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Europa University
grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Wolf Workspace

See the updated website @ wolftec.wolf-grid.com
And see you at the conference!

MEMORIAL DES FRANCOPHONES DE L'OPENSIM
Une cérémonie civile à la mémoire des amis francophones disparus d'opensim aura lieu le samedi 11 janvier 2025, 21h30 (Fr), 15h30 (Qc).
A cette occasion, nous partagerons, durant quelques instants, le souvenir de ceux qui ont eu une vie virtuelle et qui ne sont plus parmi nous aujourd'hui. hop://francopholie.fr:8000/Francopholie/784/763/38

Dear Music Man (Aussie) / MillyAnn,

We were so saddened to hear about the passing of your son. He will be deeply missed. Please know that we are thinking of you and your family during this difficult time. May his soul rest in peace.

MG / Sandra and all of OS ... We Love you ❤

Réunion Francos – Jeudi 9 janvier à 21 h (heure de Paris) chez Eden :

1ère partie : Petit préambule sur les sujets à aborder , techniques , bilan 2024 , ou en est la communauté francophone en 2025

2ème partie : Le projet Théâtre lien : chez-eden.biz.st:8002:Chez-Eden

"Pour explication, le jeudi 9, la réunion classique chez Eden était prévue à 21h, ce qui coïncidait avec la réunion Théâtre avec Tristan à 21h30. Il a donc été décidé de faire cette réunion du jeudi en deux parties chez Eden. L'inauguration du mémorial, qui aura lieu le lendemain soir, sera sûrement expliquée."

=Dali Babe Stretch Marks & Cellulite Marks Addon FATPACK=
Hi everyone! Out at the store we have another customisation add-on fatpack for the Dali Babe tone range.
Available for LEGACY and REBORN bodies
Includes Belly, Cellulite, Legs, and Breasts addons
Each comes in the 22 tones of the Dali Range
Uber: hop://playground.darkheartsos.com:8002/Starchild%20Shoppe/...

I'm tired of the Opensim or OSW atmosphere.
I'm tired of always trying to be normal and nice and seeing people, strangers, or worse, so-called "friends" spend their time wanting to hurt or denigrate everything and anyone for no reason!
In addition, I had stupidly thought that this end of year and New Year period could be conducive to more kindness and perhaps even a return of some to more kind behavior.
Of course this was not the case at all on the contrary. So I did some cleaning in my contacts and will continue to do so, it tires me not knowing when someone will go from a normal friendly dialogue to attacks!

The latest one: in the morning I was very happy that a certain Marianna was passing by my Scorpion Island, she had promised me but we had not spoken about it again since long. Well she only spent 50 seconds but I was also happy that she talked about it in The Box...
A little later I had a troll in my french post about the easy configuration of a grid, troll saying that there was nothing new (what I never claimed. But go on to find something like that in french just to laugh....) and giving a link that I had given myself in the post, I sent him away and he blocked me and threatened me in The Box. I went to answer him in The Box with my other account (not blocked which seeing all his craps ) and the very dear Marianna came to complain and break me because I was "talking to myself" (which is totally false!)... These two morons who clearly do not understand anything, and especially not French (the troll even took me for an American!), allowing themselves to put their two cents in everything, are pissing me off!!!

Trolls, sick women or men, let me go! I will no longer take gloves, I will no longer be the second to block idiots, I will no longer participate in anything common here or in OS. I will only do what I want to do! Now if I hurt someone, too bad! Almost no one has been too careful with me!

And for the wishes: have the year you all deserve!! And if it turns out to be bad for the idiots I met, I admit that it won't make me cry!

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J'en ai marre de l'ambiance d'Opensim ou OSW.
J'en ai marre de toujours essayer d'être normale et gentille et de voir des gens, des inconnus, ou pire, des soi-disant "amis" passer leur temps à vouloir blesser ou dénigrer tout et n'importe quoi sans raison !
De plus, j'avais bêtement pensé que cette période de fin d'année et de nouvel an pouvait être propice à plus de bienveillance et peut-être même à un retour de certains à des comportements plus bienveillants.
Bien sur, ce ne fut pas du tout le cas, au contraire. J'ai donc fais du ménage dans mes contacts et continuerai à en faire, ça me fatigue de ne pas savoir quand quelqu'un passera d'un dialogue "amical" normal à des attaques !

La dernière en date : le matin j'étais très contente qu'une certaine Marianna passe par mon île Scorpion, elle me l'avait promis mais on n'en avait plus reparlé. Bon elle n'a passé que 50 secondes mais j'étais aussi contente qu'elle en parle dans The Box...
Un peu plus tard j'ai eu un troll dans mon post en français (!) sur la configuration facile d'une grille, troll disant qu'il n'y avait rien de nouveau (ce que je n'ai jamais prétendu, mais cherchez ça en français pour rire....) et donnant un lien que j'avais donné moi-même dans le post. Je l'ai renvoyé paître, il m'a bloquée puis menacée dans The Box. Je suis allée lui répondre avec mon autre compte (non bloqué ce qui me permettait de voir ses attaques) et la très chère Marianna est venue se plaindre et me casser parce que je me "parlais à moi-même" (ce qui est totalement faux !)... Ces deux abrutis qui ne comprennent clairement rien, et surtout pas le français (le troll m'a même prise pour une américaine !), se permettant de mettre leur grain de sel dans tout, me saoulent !!!

Trolls, femmes ou hommes malades, lâchez moi ! Je ne prendrai plus de gants, je ne serai plus la deuxième a bloquer les cons, je ne participerai plus à quoi que ce soit de commun ici ou dans OS. Je ne ferai que ce dont j'ai envie MOI ! Maintenant si j'en blesse, tant pis ! Personne ou presque n'a prit trop de gant avec moi !

Et pour les voeux : ayez donc tous l'année que vous méritez !! Et si elle se trouve être mauvaise pour les cons que j'ai croisés, j'avoue que ça ne me fera pas pleurer !

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

We all need cat crap right?
groovyverse.com:8002:Dingleberry Dump
model: Small Cute Cat Table
It can be used as an interior decoration or as a small coffee table in front of the sofa in a thin living room.

File size: 2.0 MiB
Face count: 1,931
Tags:
cat
table
decoration
interior
props
sculpture
furniture
License: Royalty free license
Royalty Free
royalty free license

This license protects the work in the way that it allows commercial use without mentioning the author, but doesn't allow for re-sale of the asset in the same form (eg. a 3D model sold as a 3D model or part of assetpack or game level on a marketplace).

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

I made a slot machine and lucky spinner game as a way to get gold for the Tradewinds economy game. They work now and you can accumulate gold, but the Tradewinds game is not totally ready yet. :) getting there!

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!

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!
groovyverse.com:8002:Dingleberry Dump

Bla Bla Bla Magazine is out now - (Hud Version) can be got at
"AMV Welcome" in the "BLA BLA BLA Boards in both Kiosks"
(Join the Bla Bla Bla group on AMV to read it before it goes live on the Webpage.) Can be found at " alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV Welcome "

or wait for it to go live on the web at: https://alternatemetaverse.com/blabla/#mybook/ (to see older Issues - Click on the drop down tab above the Magazine)

Happy Reading!!!
(Always looking for Opensim grids for Advertisements and Special Event Happenings to add into the Magazine.)

Little Pooper!! He is @ Dingleberry Dump!
Twisted Dog Poop Balloon
Royalty Free
royalty free license
This license protects the work in the way that it allows commercial use without mentioning the author, but doesn't allow for re-sale of the asset in the same form (eg. a 3D model sold as a 3D model or part of assetpack or game level on a marketplace).

creator Mojo
https://www.blenderkit.com/asset-gallery?query=order:-scor...

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.

what if.....
we spent our time focusing on our similarities
instead of our differences?

I have seen many discussions here become very toxic recently because people are focused on how we are all different. I love how we all are different, but we also have some common similarities; the most obvious is that we are all people behind the pixels.

Sometimes in life and Opensim, it is much easier to tear a person down than to build them up. Let's make the extra effort and support eachother!

This is our Opensim.....lets take pride in it!

what if.....
we spent our time focusing on our similarities
instead of our differences?