Murmurs from the Other Side

[REVOSA] magazine returns, but what happened?

The last time I wrote one of these, it was in a notecard, like all the rest have been, and I was talking about how I stopped myself from making my personal apocalyptic city, Neo Machina, disappear. Months later, I still persist, but Neo Machina does not. What happened?

Ultimately, maintaining a whole city isn't too difficult, but attracting visitors, well, that's another story. And that's all well and good, but these things come with costs. Steep costs. And, it just seemed as though I was paying, out-of-pocket, for this big thing I'd built, that I spent all this time on, only for myself. And, that, unfortunately, just isn't sustainable.

For a long period of time, I decided to exist mostly in silence. I spent so much time working on Neo Machina, and staying within its walls, that I lost touch with almost all of the rest of Second Life. This put me in a place where I, kind of, sort of, no longer really know where to go, or what to do. It's hard to exist in a place where you had an entire city, and now you have a small skybox apartment. Which, for all intents and purposes, isn't bad, but my vision of having a full sim, and maintaining it indefinitely, isn't in the cards. Not right now.

But I made one mistake. With the shutdown of Neo Machina, I also stopped doing everything else. I ceased maintaining my store to the point that I stopped actually making new products, and promoting them (plus the store). And I stopped writing my magazine, that, technically, has been a thing for almost as long as [REVOSA] has existed. That's not what I intended to do, but my attention shifts and swings all over the place, and then it comes back again. Maybe this time, it'll stick.

Enter: ReMag.

Why ReMag? Why now?

Gone are the notecards, and picture attachments. As much as I miss the past, and wish we were still living in simpler times when everything in Second Life wasn't controlled by landowners making thousands of real dollars per week off of stores and shoppers, alike, I felt as though it was time for something fresh. Something you can just click, and then look at, and maybe even read!

Also, "ReMag" is a lot more concise, and simpler than [REVOSA] Magazine. I like it. I think I can work with this. And I can make it something that's still accessible when you visit my store, in-world, by only sharing it there.

Yes, technically, this is a magazine within a website, that is also my website. A huge, massive thing, that isn't all entirely associated with Second Life. Which is why the magazine had to return, For my ... eternal musings, and explorations throughout the virtual landscape.

What about [REVOSA]?

As far as the store goes, it still exists in-world! It exists, and it sits at this location, high up in the sky in a box. Obviously, if you're reading this, you're probalby already there. But, should anyone find this magazine linked outside of Second Life, well, there you go.

If there's one thing that's been a constant, the entire time I've been a part of Second Life, it's that my store has always had a place within Second Life itself. Not just on the marketplace. Despite my lack of interest in participating, or attempting to participate in large shopping events, I feel it is very important to have a location that people can visit. Even if it's believed that most still do their shopping on the website itself.