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DJ Ray's Best Tunes from Movie Soundtracks Tonight at Hot Daddy's--6 pm!!!
Where: Hot Daddy's Dance Dock
When: Tonite at 6:00! [7 Mar 2022 18:00 SLT]
Tonight at Hot Daddy's, from 6 to 8 pm, DJ Ray is spinning his favorite tunes from Movie Soundtracks!! What will it be? Footloose? Pulp Fiction? Top Gun? Purple Rain? Beverly Hills Cop? Your guess is as good as mine, but you can bet that DJ Ray will put his usual "spin" on the theme--pun intended--and that he'll have us rockin' the Dock!! DJ Ray's sets are always full of surprises and he never fails to show us a good time!! So, get yourself and your friends down to Hot Daddy's Dance Dock on the Wyldwood Bayou Grid for one of the best parties you'll find this week!!!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Hot Daddys

Working on a new Lunaria Emporium satellite store at Emmalena Damour's Ocean Waves Mall on DigiWorldz. Turning out to be a fun take on a mall store ?

You can find my store here:
HG Address: login.digiworldz.com:8002:Damour Enterprise Three

There's already a smaller Lunaria store in Tari Tari's mall on her region. You can find that store here: login.digiworldz.com:8002:Nefertari Acres of Beauty.

Click my sign at the entrance to go directly to my store, or have a leisurely stroll and see all the mall has to offer.

New! Amazing! Pegasus stargate that actually rotates and dials other sims and grids!!! PLUS this one has a working DHD, the dialer device in front of the gate in the photo that talks to the gate and actually will dial the place for you!!! NOW FREE AT cyberdatastorm.com:8002:Free Magic COME GET YOURS TODAY!!!

Having some fun with a visitor to Redlight City out on a pair of Suzuki road bikes.
Great fun, especailly on the long straight road into the main City.
I'm now planning to put more roads in the region for visitors who fancy a bike ride.
There are many great vehicles availble to drive or ride in the City, especially the 50's cars.

Bienvenue à Mardi Gras (Welcome to Mardi Gras 2022!!) de DJ Macy and DJ Kith, tonite starting at 6:00!
Where: Wyldwood Events 3 French Quarter Bourbon Street N'Awlins District
When: Opening Party tonite at 6:00 to 9:00! [25 Feb 2022 18:00 SLT]
It's the party we have been waiting a whole year for!! MARDI GRAS!! Wooohooo! Wyldwood Bayou is based on New Orleans, and what's the biggest event there every year? Mardi Gras! And NO ONE celebrates Mardi Gras the way Rockin' the Blues does!! Tonite, DJ Macy and DJ Kith open Mardi Gras with their most fun and festive tunes of the year! Cajun and Zydeco with some seriously awesome blues...just the way they do it in New Orleans! The way to have the most fun at Mardi Gras is to dress up but you can come as you are! Mardi Gras costumes are flamboyant and colorful....as flamboyant and as colorful as the Blues Tribe themselves! Eat King Cake, sip absinthe! Dance in the street the New Orleans way! We love Mardi Gras and we love you! Come and be prepared to experience Mardi Gras as if you were really there! Guaranteed...this is as close as you can get to the real thing! See you there! "Laissez les bons temps rouler"!!
DJ Macy at 6:00! and DJ Kith at 7:30!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Events 3

Witches Hud update to VERSION 5
What do the magic huds look like?
NOTE: you MUST have OSSL enabled in your sim.

Well depending on which magic hud you got they can be very different.

The witches hud has purple buttons that turn blue when you click them to cast a magic spell.

The vampires hud has red glassy buttons.

The fae hud has light green buttons.

Remember, to end all spells simply close the HUD menu button. This retracts all the buttons and ends all the spells. :)

Each hud has a part you have to wear as an attachment. The vampire hud requires the vampires magic ring to be on your finger to work, the witches hud requires you to wear the witches heart, and the fairy hud requires you to wear the fairies necklace.

Of course you may GOD MODE these and take the guts out and put the magic into any ring, necklace, or object you prefer.

These huds tend to work best for people that own a dream grid, or own their own region setup with npc support. I did go back as a special favor and make the vampire hud runnable on osgrid. Changing some of the original spells so they would work there.

Please note: If you go to my region, go with no scripts, and as plain an avatar as possible. This is because there is a device there now that will kick you if you are wearing too much stuff, if your avatar is too new, or too small. This device has become a necessary evil, due to a few talentless people who insist on editing the things I've made and destroying them so no one can get a copy. Currently they have found a way to delete textures inside my unlocked objects, and they can kill scripts. So if you get something that is not working, just ask me, and I'll give you a full working version. This also helps to let me know when the talentless jealous b/c they can't make anything, people, have been back to my sim damaging my creations.

I also have some new mesh I have purchased that will soon be released there is a total of about 16 all rigged for Athena and 2 that are fitmesh but work with Athena and will include notecards for their use. The Ankle Boots are the first of the releases.

Wishing all you sexy ladies, a very Happy Valentine's Day and a big welcome to Amoa Nude Beach for all of you Valentine's couples to enjoy a romantic setting upon.

Whether a stroll through the woods, stroll along the beach, hit the waves, catch a sun tan or getting it on, there is something for everyone ))

It is a hot and erotic or romantic setting either way.

(Picture with my sister on it because I didn't have anything else at hand...)

Yes, I know it isn't really beach season (unless you're on the Southern hemisphere or in some subtropic or tropic area). But on the other hand, if it's too cold to go to a real beach, there are plenty of virtual beaches where it isn't too cold.

Now, what I'd like to talk with you, the community, about is: What makes a good beach? What does a good beach need in your opinion?

Generally, from my point of view, a beach should be more than just eyecandy on a sim that serves another purpose (freebie shops, event location, welcome landing, whatever). A beach should serve its own purpose, namely the same purpose real-life beaches serve. And that purpose shouldn't only be sex either.

So there are certain things I expect from a beach. Fair warning ahead: I'm biased because I grew up between a whole lot of nice beaches, and I've been to quite a number.


First of all: It should be possible to go into the water. Possible, credibly so and not hazardous. The sand should slope into the water gently so you can actually walk out into the sea (or lake or whatever) just like you usually can in real life. This is such a basic demand that you may wonder why I mention it.

Well, in many cases, this isn't possible at all. Either you have textured ground which drops off steeply from one metre above the water surface to way below. Sand can't do that, and it renders the number one key element of a beach useless.

Or you have a beach made of mesh sections. But these pieces of mesh either only barely lead into the water, or the water-side edge lies on top of the water surface, and all that washes over them are the waves. You can't even walk into ankle-deep water without falling off the edge and seeing the large hollow underneath the mesh beach pieces. I guess this is often a case of a beach built by someone who spends so much time flying above their own sim that they've literally never set a single foot on their own beach.

So, either way, whether or not you build your beach out of mesh: Please let the sea ground slope away from the beach gently.

This, by the way, is also why springboards on beaches are non-sense. Unless you place them on piers where the water is deep enough.


Speaking of swimming: Swim rezzers.

They come either as a single white-and-blue life-saver (where you have to explain how a life-saver floating in the surf stays in place) or as two life-savers on a wooden pole (the more elegant solution). In case you don't know them: What they do when you click on them is rez another life-saver. You sit on it, it disappears, and you assume a swimming position, complete with swimming animations. You can steer yourself while swimming. You can swim like you walk, only that you swim. If you stand back up, the life-saver reappears. If you wait for long enough, it deletes itself. One swim rezzer can rez multiple of these life-savers.

Why do I deem them important? Because you may want to actually swim. And not stand in the water. Because that's what you do on beaches (in case you don't know because you've never been to one).

Some of you may confuse them with those old-style swim balls. They're basically poseballs for swimming: You sit on them, and you swim back and forth, back and forth, and you can't control where you swim. But seriously, 2011 called, it wants its OpenSim 0.7.3 tech level back. Poseballs may still have their places, but this isn't one anymore.


Now comes something that may not be interesting unless you "play it real" like me: What do you do after you've been in the water? Lay down on a lounger or a towel?

Nope.

When I was a kid, we were taught by the adults to take off our wet swimwear and slip into something dry ASAP. Real life isn't Hollywood where your swim trunks or your swimsuit is dry the instance you come out of the water (or after the next cut). Nope, it's wet and clingy and getting cold, no matter how hot the weather is. So I'd like to have a chance to do that on a virtual beach as well.

Now, either the sim is Adult-rated which usually (but sadly not all of the time) means that nudity is allowed. Or it's Moderate-rated, and nudity is allowed (but sex isn't), whether or not it's mentioned. Or you don't really "play it real" (layer clothes: replace your swimwear directly with something new; mesh: put on your new swimwear, wear two sets clipping through each other for a few seconds, then take off your old swimwear, or replace one full swimwear outfit with another one in one go).

Or you do "play it real", but you can't be naked in public, so you have to hide. The same goes for when you arrive on a beach in street clothes with no swimwear underneath, by the way.

Ideally, the beach provides changing cabins (with scripted doors, not just static decorational dummies!). If not, there should be something that you can go behind to change. This something should be a) placed in such a way and large enough that it's hard to look behind it (camming or intentionally walking in notwithstanding), b) large and opaque enough that it actually covers you up (knee-high shrubbery isn't) and c) arranged in such a way that you can easily walk behind it and back out (a 100-metre-long hedge isn't; a long dune is if it's tall enough because you can walk over it).


As for other things, there should be a difference between "natural" beaches and other beaches.

If a beach is "natural", there shouldn't be any more facilities. Maybe a few beach towels for convenience (and plants to change behind unless you're allowed to be naked), or rezzing should be allowed so that people can place their own towels.

Everything else should be left to beaches which are officially run by someone, but then it should be there. Loungers. Beach showers or even full facilities. Changing cabins if necessary (see above). A bar or two (a halfway credible beach would have more swim rezzers than beach bars, though). Ideally a place to get something to eat. Lifeguard chairs. (The latter three work even better with appropriately-dressed NPCs giving life to them.) Shops and a party area with a dance floor and a permanently installed DJ set don't belong on "natural" beaches either.

On the one hand, a fully stocked beach bar one some remote secluded beach island that doesn't even have a landing pier doesn't make any sense. On the other hand, a beach that's otherwise so fully equipped as though it's right in front of a resort hotel is kind of incomplete if you can't get anything to drink.


A few more things concerning the above: Please, dear beach builders, if you place down furniture such as loungers or towels, sit on them. Can you sit on them properly? If you can't, do away with them because they're just a waste of space and prim capacity. It doesn't matter if you have never sat down on furniture, and you never will. Other people do, believe it or not, they do.

As an extra precaution: If the sim isn't Adult-rated, and the furniture has a menu, look at it. If there's anything sex-related, either replace the furniture with something without sex animations or edit them out.

Also, inflatable, floating items only make sense in pools. If you place a pool floater or a bouncy island in the surf in real life, it will be carried away unless you anchor it very thoroughly. And none of the floating items on the Hypergrid looks like it's anchored at all. So no floaties in the ocean surf.


Last but not least: The "dress code" on the beach (and in the surrounding areas) should be clear, and visitors should be informed about it both in-world and on OSW if the sim is entered there. Textile? Clothing optional? Nude? It's nigh-impossible to safely assume from the rating (or from the culture wherever the builder lives). Adult may mean a full-blown nudist "piggy beach" of which there are dozens just as well as a textile beach on a sim that allows nudity only in one small and well-concealed nook with one piece of sex furniture. And even Moderate may or may not allow for nudity.

Please pardon the dust of the Ferris wheel while its being fixed, it seems that January 14th or before caused it to break down. Issue is unknown and didn't know it was broken until recently. hopefully soon it will be fixed.

DJ Ray's "Hair Bands and Glam Rock of the 1980's"!
Where: Hot Daddys on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
When: 6:00 pm Grid Time
Hair Bands?? But..I'm BALD, you exclaim!! Not THOSE hairbands...HAIR BANDS!!! Long haired rockers who combined punk and pop into their already "metal music'! Add to that some make-up, glitter, costumes and platform shoes and you get "Glam Rock"! Tonight DJ Ray brings you a set of 1980's rock performed by some of the hottest Hair Bands and Glam Rockers of the era! Get ready to dance and sing to bands like Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Def Leppard and Van Halen, and to flamboyant Glam Rockers like Elton John, Rod Stewart and David Bowie! Every tune handpicked for you by one of the hottest DJs in any era!! Use your own creativity and dress (Ohhh we do love to dress up!) as one of your favorite Glam Rockers or come as you are to enjoy one of the year's hottest concerts on the Hot Daddy's Dock! You are gonna love this event!!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Hot Daddys

Une soirée romantique a qui aime la guitare et des chansons romantiques Timothy chante du Presley du Sinatra du country etc…
Timothy Presley
chanteur live
le 05/02/2022 a partir de 20h heure ( française)
lieu le clan bathory
@ http://virtualdream-grid.com/index.php/events/2336/
Hypergrid : virtualdream-grid.com:8002:Clan_Bathory
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A romantic evening for those who love the guitar and romantic songs Timothy sings Presley, Sinatra, country etc…
Timothy Presley
live singer
on 05/02/2022 from 8 p.m. (French time)
place the bathory clan
@ http://virtualdream-grid.com/index.php/events/2336/
Hypergrid: virtualdream-grid.com:8002:Clan_Bathory

*** NEW RELEASES TODAY ***

Valentine's Day Lingerie & Gowns
Virtual Beach Apparel
Arianna Short Sets
Triffina Lingerie
Bernice Lingerie
Madison & Scarlet Gowns

YESTERDAY'S RELEASES

Davida Skirt & Top Set
Capri Pants
Riley Jumpsuit
Fringe Bikini

Question:
Is the AVITRON GRID the Reality World created by Alexsandro Pomposelli aka Alex Ferraris aka AviTron Metaverse aka... a dead end street?
A friend with an Avatar in the AVITRON GRID asks me and send me this screenshots.

I Have Nothing To Say, And I Am Saying It.
So said John Cage, one of the leading composers of avant-garde music in the last half of the 20th C. He was influenced by Zen, hence the cryptic non/statement. I invited John to give us a review of this outfit. Here it is.....

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I think I asked the wrong person.

Well, you will certainly make a statement yourself when wearing this new outfit, now found at oh HELLO. To paraphrase another John, Johnny Cash, you can be the "woman in black."

Oh HELLO: Inspired by Fashionista. Accessible to all.
fireandicegrid.net:8002/Xinashi

Cornflakes Week! It is the final week of February.
It's a uniquely Opensim festival, not linked to any season, religious, or national festival.
It's about silliness, fun and bright colors.
It's a way to show solidarity and unite opensim.
Any grid or region can hold their own version of a Cornflakes party! If you plan to mod your usual weekly dance event to make it cornflake-y I would love to know, and include it in the video this year.
To know more about Cornflakes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZD8PR2r9s&t
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2018/03/safari-and-cornflake...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2015/02/safari-gets-corny.ht...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2014/07/cornflakes-woodcock....

The Witches Hud of Magic has been updated to a heart version 12. This fixes the magical shield sinking into the ground, and also repairs the issue of the deity not showing herself, but only a glowing light appearing. So if you haven't got the latest this one is just released a few days ago. Come get your awesome copy now! p.s. This hud works best if you own a dreamgrid, and have permission to rez, run scripts, and etc.

Burns Night on the Auroa II
A Dinner & Dance
Addressing the Haggis by Clan Escotia
followed by traditional tunes
and Clan and his Band live

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/SevenSeas/1019/1206/103

Greedy Sunday today 10am grid time @ AVW Moe.
Here we have a nice northern mountainous region with zero lag snow capped mountains, a greedy area over the hot springs, some wildlife around some of which no one has ever seen before (ever seen a Bear ? a Moose), well @10am grid time you can and use your skills playing greedy to boot.. Fun folks fun games and lots of stories. Use your MAP avirtualworld.org:8002:Moe 10am grid time see you there arrive early save your seat.. bye