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The 2009 Second Life Com-munity Convention is sched-uled for August 13-16 in SanFrancisco, Ca. A variety of registration packages areavailable according to date of registration, and more infor-mation on pricing and thehotel is available atwww.slconvention.com.
By PHOENIX PSALTERY
Special contributor
Stroker Serpentine, the owner and operator of Eros LLC/Stro-kerz Toys, which makes the lineof SexGen beds considered bymany to be the best sex anima-tions in Second Life, announcedrecently that a recent action byan unidentified member of theLinden Lab staff had resulted inone of the crucial scripts that power the SexGen line having been blacklisted, caus-ing virtually every Sex-Gen product on the gridto break.“Several weeks ago, Iwas called at homearound midnight by mymanager, AndreaFaulkner,” Serpentinesaid. “She had ‘thattone’ in her voice thatimmediately let meknow something waswrong. She asked if Iwas aware of any major grid malfunction or if I had pissed off LL somehow. She toldme to get my a** into SL so shecould show me.“When I logged in I was bom- barded by IM’s of ‘My SexGendoesn’t work,’ or ‘Menu notloading.’ Andrea additionallycut/pasted similar IMs she wasgetting in email. I immediatelyknew what happened after [asimilar] fiasco last year… Wehad been blacklisted.”He placed a call to the Lindenconcierge, who expedited a ticketthrough to the developmentteam. The next morning, DataLinden arrived and helped Ser- pentine isolate the specific scriptthat was the problem.Data discovered that the assetID (UUID) had been blacklisted, but was at a loss as to why. Heinformed Serpentine that despitethe fact that he could remove theUUID from the blacklist, thiswould not solve the problemswhich already existed. Strangely,the version of the script whichhad been compiled in LSL was blacklisted, but not a newer ver-sion which was compiled inMono.According to Data, the factthat the script’s UUID was black-listed was odd: “We almost never blacklist by asset ID — it’s dan-gerous,” he told Serpentine.Serpentine said he is trying tomake sure all SexGen ownersknow that “…we’re willing andable to make this right. We’regiving free upgrades and gifts totry and salvage our customer base. For the most part everyonehas been understanding, butsometimes we lose an IM or re-turn. Occasionally we get the ‘I paid good money for this,and itdoesn’t work!’ They usuallysquelch their discontent when weexplain what happened and givethem something free… It’s goingto take time and patience on bothends. We’re stilldealing with hun-dreds of IMs at atime.“The best avenuefor support is to sendthe broken items witha notecard detailingexactly what prod-ucts are being sentfor repair,” said Ser- pentine in an exclu-sive interview withthe Messenger. “Thissaves time playing‘IM Chase’ and duplicating ef-forts.”He indicated that the first point of contact should be An-drea Faulkner. If she gets over-whelmed, the overflow will go toSerpentine himself. “Of course, Iam always available if I am on-line,” he added. “We’re offeringa free gift and/or upgrade where possible to ease the difficulty thishas caused. There is also a ‘Re-
By KATIER REITVELD
Staff writer
Residents around Second Life began their preparations for the annual Second Life Birthdaycelebrations, as Second Life turns six years old onJune 23. As with previous years, Linden Lab is do-nating a number of sims for residents to organiseexhibits and events.As Second Life enters its second half of adecade, the message of this years event is one of looking forward.The official wiki had this, “This is your secondhalf-decade! Now you’re
so
much more sophisti-cated than five, but still hovering near the oven,anxious to devour the cake, and wondering whatsix has in store for you. Or, for that matter, whatabout seven? 10? 15? Where do the years go, any-way?“Since you’re never content with things as theyare, the event this year is a challenge to Residents:show how you intend to make things in five, 10 or 100 years. The Birthday theme this year is The Fu-ture of Virtual Worlds,and we’re betting you havesome pretty awesome visions to share of the futureyou’re building here.“How will Virtual Worlds work? How will theylook? How will they be part of everyday life? Howwill we learn, socialize and evolve in them? Howwill they affect your beliefs, and be affected byyour actions?”As with previous years,while Linden Lab spon-sor and oversee the event, it is a team of residentswho put it all together.This year,the team is based around the sameteam who took over comparatively late in the dayand made the event a success.It is led by Phaylen Fairchild and Dusty Linden,and planning for the event started a lot earlier than previous years.One issue that caused a lot of discussion lastyear was the fact that, for the first time, the eventwas explicitly classed as PG. This caused a good percentage of the population of Second Life to feelexcluded.This year, again, the event is PG,and Lindensaid “We’ve tried to be very clear right from the beginning that the event grounds are completelyPG rated, but that exhibitors wishing to highlighttheir work in non-PG areas are welcome to givelandmarks to those areas from their exhibit on theSecond Pride, SecondLife’s annual celebration of the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transsexual)community,saw unprece-dented crowds and recogni-tion this year. The one week festival, held over six sims,had eight packed days of cultural and entertainmentevents. Amnesty Interna-tional co-hosted the event;final fund raising tallies willshow a significant donationtowards enabling its humanrights’efforts.
Celebration draws record crowds
A CROWD GATHERS
for the opening day cere-monies of Second Pride (top), while evening celebra-tions were packed every night (bottom). See morephotos in this issue,
- Photos by
EDDI HASKELL
LL breaks SexGen
Second Life to celebrate sixth birthday
was one of several at last year’s SLbirthday celebration. Plans are already underway for thisyear’s birthday party.
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