Returning to Second Life

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A couple weeks back I decided to take a hiatus from Second Life. Mostly due to the fact that I’m frustrated that the community has mostly turned into a mass of hermits hiding on platforms who don’t talk to anyone anymore. And that’s really how it is in most online games nowadays, no real way to avoid it. Everyone’s burrowed in Discord servers, and if they’re out in public within Second Life, they’re probably AFK. But …

My store within the virtual world has exist, as of a month ago, for ten years. And even after shutting off the homestead I was renting, the store still continues to make random sales.

So, in the interest of not throwing away what I guess is a part of my life now, I brought the store back to an in-world location, here.

It’s enough space to expand if ever I should feel like making more stuff, and it’s cheap enough that I can ignore it for however long I feel.

Suffice to say, I don’t think I’m going to return to having a whole entire city to myself, with an apartment, shops, arcades, and a place for my store. It just doesn’t feel right, unless I somehow become a millionaire who doesn’t care about blowing nearly 200 dollars a month. It’s hard to let go of, because I spent months, and months building it in 2023. But, with building in social communities, you also have to find a way to pull people out of their hermit holes. Which, I am, again, not really interested in doing.

Maybe things will change in the future, in that respect. But, I know for sure they won’t if the current person operating as owner or CEO or whatever of Linden Labs continues his push for “AI.” CEOs in-general need a slap in the face of a wake-up call, in that nobody wants this garbage. And the people who say they do may as well be robots, themselves.

But that’s a whole other conversation I’ve had about a billion times.