Like many people do, I have different sides to me. I did enough of the brooding earlier in life, so you get a lot of the happy, springy me nowadays. If there's something I'm not showing, maybe I have no interest in it, but more likely it's because I've done it before?or don't know about it yet!

Here I go, logging into SL again… achieving the higher levels of my existence.

When do you suppose we'll have a Strogg conveyor belt system in SL?

This is where even more grim, macabre tentacles crawl out from under the decay of the obsolete woodwork. Like a grimoire that casts spells selfishly for itself, the world has sucked itself inside out and we get the counterpart to Second Life?Second Death.

I remember how comparatively immersive Sinatra Cartier's Spook House ride was when I first hit Mouselook and went through the variations packed into a geographically small amount of land. You can still find it at Noyo (84, 154). Very clever, and nothing's been quite like it since. Which is a testament to its uniqueness on one hand, but points to what's lacking on another. Or, I remember the time Casval Epoch stitched together many animated textures to make a video, which we then watched?again, in Mouselook, with avatar parts showing. That was great. Or what about another longstay, Virtual Hallucinations @ Sedig (26, 45)?

What this brings me to, this thoughtline, is more Mouselook-optimized content meant to be experienced first-person through your avatar's eyes, your avatar as extension of yourself, arms to keyboard+mouse to the computer and channeled back out from all that circuitry through the bright lights of the monitor. The walls don't have to drip blood, but maybe they can open up like a purse being torn apart with a jagged pair of shears from the wrong end, all the contents spilling out into your view. And you react.

I suspect HUDs (forthcoming in 1.7) will encourage this for games?action games are definitely an obvious line-of-sight, but the more sedately-paced adventure and exploration types of entertainment could also make good use of it. I've long wanted to do something like the Fantastic Voyage in SL?Nylon Pinkney's Burning Life build reminded me!?

So as we shall, avatars we are, wonder about things great and small within our world. From the brightly burning sun overhead (and all the beautiful shadings it genuflects upon the grass) to a higher level of precision in the future, such that we may be able to get out of prim microscopes and explore our insides with 10,000x camera zoom?and who knows, what about Second Life as a playground for experiments in virtual nanotechnology?

Specifically, avenues for discussion about healthy sexuality inworld. It's such an… er… obvious hole that's not being filled.

See, I'd like to talk more about it on the SL Forums, but they are PG and I don't want to run afoul of the Forum Guidelines. But when you have articles like qDot Bunnyhug's new feature and seeing his work cited on FleshBot (adult link follows), and on top of that, his pioneering experiments in SL itself gaining gravity?who knows what joys they can lead to for partners who want a more adventurous sex life??how can I resist?

It doesn't currently make sense to me that we have both PG and M regions inworld, but that is not shared on the official forums.

I've remarked how much I love sunrises and sunsets, and even the simpler particle simulations we have now. The buzzterm "cellular automata" is in there somewhere.

I wonder if just like we have such an array of Resident-created content, from clothes to vehicles to houses to gadgets, if there'd be "weather kits" you could plug-and-play with. This will, of course, depend on how the featureset's implemented, and as a finer point, how precise control Residents will have over their climate. I bet someone would get awful cranky if their picnic grounds kept getting rained on?even if the effects were client-side, because then each and every other person would have to turn it off as they went munching too. Unless something was put in like a "Disable Weather" switch in Preferences.

Introvert Petunia started an SL Forum thread about this, join in if you can!

I also should hope that the current and confusingly-titled Force Sunset be retitled Force Daylight and put under the View menu. Currently, it's not mint in my book.

On a connected note, having individual sets of Preferences for each Resident login on a computer would be better than the everyone-in-household-shares-same-prefs approach we have right now, or some way to transport your Prefs (like Firefox) and sync 'em up if you have multiple computers. This would, of course, include the weather setting.

Ah, Torlavian the MelonJay continues to grow on me… it's the full package I'm appreciating. Psyra made it to override the default walk with a more appropriate birdie waddle, and when I'm flying?well, my wings really flap! I can hear a swoosh-swoosh-swoosh too. Greatest comment yet came from Akela Talamasca who I just met in the WA, he said:

I've been focusing on pinpointing cracks. You know how it is, something overlooked as "Meh, not a big deal" soon shatters the whole mirror if allowed to expand. And then the reflection of one's self becomes utterly twisted and blind to the obvious. I thought I had a penchant for missing the obvious! I'll cite a specific example, something Wayfinder Wishbringer said on the SL Forums:

You ever hear something like "It sounded like a good idea at the time?"

Smell it out, put your paws on it, and make everyone stare.

Could we have seen it coming?

I know how blind, oblivious I am to many common going-ons in the world. I have problems crossing streets because even if I look both ways, I'll miss something. Simple chores to most are a confusing smudge on the manuscript of life to me. Get me to participate in conventional social rituals? Forget it, I'll scroo up! (And I have, many many times before.) These are things I don't relate to.

But this? I can do! On the level of being a Resident of Second Life and interacting with my fellow Resis (heck I'll just abbrev.), I know that reliably, time and time again, I've been able to pick out many great fillings and help get them make that essential transition from idea to virtual reality! "Many tentacles in many pies, o a hungry octopus am I!" More of a trickster than a muse, I've made tons o' feature suggestions in both additive and subtractive senses, doubly for Resident-created content and Second Life itself. I celebrate the accomplishments of those I admire, again and again. I will actively support what I believe in with likeminded individuals who form groups who consist of the community.