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Trol-a-lol

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  Virtual worlds have a Troll problem. Trolls are people who hang around in virtual worlds with the singular point of upsetting people. More than that they seem to be there to destroy or cancel anything they disagree with. Some of these people are why I pulled my plug on VR I ended up feeling as I have many times that I don’t wanna be surrounded by that kind of venom or by people who are content to let it go for the common good So maybe I also want to cancel people. I hang around in hubs in second life in my spare time. Some of these hubs are populated with this low-level racism. It’s the kinds if insidious crap that people tolerate. I tend to speak my mind and don’t put up with crap like that. There are a few ways of looking at Trolls They are being racist for effect and to score troll points Or they are racists I think there is no difference between the two things. I also think that to not speak out is to condone it I lost a lot of friends this way and I look fo

Musings on the lost metaverse

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  Musings on the lost metaverse For a few years a little while back I was involved with High Fidelity This lost me a lot of friends and made many more people angry Why did I spend all that time there when I could have been doing something else instead? Firstly, I was intrigued by the first video they released. I remember Philip Rosedale from second life so applied to and got accepted into it as an Alpha. Going in I assumed I knew how games or whatever we call them are made. Well, you read stuff about game engines and features. I knew code was a lot of zeroes and ones And assumed you type one of these and get the other But to tell you the truth I hadn’t really thought about it. Turns out I knew nothing about any of it. I wandered around chatting to different people there who all seem to have been born knowing how to code. They had a forum we were allowed to talk to other people in the Alphas about hifi in Everyone was very polite. So, I set myself up as agent pro

NFT's

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  NFT’s   The King is in the altogether, but all together, the altogether   They are well meaning but stupid. Content creators for years wanted absolute proof of ownership of 3d models, images, and music etc. If you’re not protecting the creator or the owner, you’re not selling anything I’m buying. I don’t see how a NFT offers any protection beyond what intellectual property laws offer. No one has your back or is offering to hunt down and batter the person who stole your work. Its all on you the poor sod who put their art into the world Till this changes you’re wasting your time.