| 15:00 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It is 3 PM, SL Time, and it is time to start. |
| 15:00 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Welcome to this Sunday's Oxbridge General Q&A. I am here to answer any of your questions about Second Life, Caledon, Oxbridge, Steampunk, Linden Lab, Virtual Worlds, and anything vaguely related to any of the above. |
| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Anyway. I would like to direct your attention to the large poster at the left of the stage for the annual Caledon Harvest Festival |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Feel free to click it for more information |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If anyone else has any announcements, please speak now... |
| 15:03 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you for that donation Kara. |
| 15:03 |
Kara2016 |
smiles brightly. |
| 15:04 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Still hosting the Writers' Meeting in Thursdays... |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Not much in SL news. I have been told that teleports are not working well, presumably due to transition issues related to the move to the cloud servers. Can anyone else confirm that teleports are sort of broken? |
| 15:04 |
Jorge Serapis |
They are broken to el maximo. Doubleplusuncool broken. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
They are either slow or nonworking. |
| 15:05 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
It has appeared twice to me. but it may depend also on user's computer and connection. |
| 15:05 |
Cychwynn |
I have been dropped into the weirdest of places. |
| 15:05 |
Jorge Serapis |
Either TP fails or crashes.. though it's not been bad the past few days. |
| 15:06 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Presumably LL is working on it. |
| 15:06 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Let's go right into the questions! |
| 15:07 |
Jorge Serapis |
Any idea how the migration to cloud is coming along? |
| 15:07 |
Gronk Seriman |
I have been having texture issues more than TP. I can wait forever for textures to show up, then boom! All at once. |
| 15:07 |
Larky (larkylouz) |
I will say that I've had significant issues in SL even when I'm on a sim that is not yet on the cloud. |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Jorge, SL to cloud server migration is well underway. I think that is what is causing the teleport issues we talked about a moment ago. |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hopefully it is just problems with hand-offs between LL-based sim servers and cloud based sim servers. We will see. |
| 15:08 |
Jorge Serapis |
Also, I remember someone asking about Lumiya a while ago.. I saw this on NWN: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/11/lumiya-android-sl-viewer-alina-lyvette.html |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you. |
| 15:09 |
Phrynne |
`FWIW, I can change outfits without relogging three times, which is an improvement over last week |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That's good. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Do any of the clothing issues seem to involve changing sims? |
| 15:11 |
Jorge Serapis |
Lumiya is excellent for phone and tablet users, though I have yet to figure out how to use 3D view and text chat at the same time. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
Not for me, Carl, though I admit that when it's really slow I tp to Orange, where there is no lag. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
The Fruit Islands in general are lag-free |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I've used Lumiya myself, but the graphics were really slow. Thought not that bad considering I was trying to run it on a Kindle Fire 10. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Next question? |
| 15:13 |
Kara2016 |
I still find Mesh clothing and mesh bodies splotchy. |
| 15:13 |
Jorge Serapis |
Lindal seems to be AWOL for a while now. Any news? |
| 15:14 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
No communication with her. |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
Nothing I've heard of. |
| 15:15 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I have been told that she posted last week in the SL forums. |
| 15:15 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Other than that, no indication she has been in world. |
| 15:17 |
Jorge Serapis |
Ok. That's reassuring, at least. |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That information comes from Larky, by the way. |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Time for our next question. |
| 15:19 |
Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) |
Tell us about this Harvest Festival? Or was i napping during that? |
| 15:19 |
Gronk Seriman |
I had horrible connection problems during the last Q&A. Did I hear that the Advent gifts are not happening this year? |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The Harvest Festival is an annual event in the Caledon Oxbridge Village commons put on by Stero Nacht. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Click the poster to the right of the stage for more information. |
| 15:20 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Unless somebody can swiftly arrange the Advent gifts, Oxbridge has to skip this year, I think |
| 15:20 |
Cychwynn |
Aww too bad :( |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Gronk, Phrynne said that the last year's calendar would be the last she could do. While there was some talk about putting together another event, the two people who talked about it most (me and Aevalle) never had time. |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
For myself, I've had very little time in SL for the later half of this year. |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
So there will be none. |
| 15:21 |
Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) |
I am working on a Christmas tea set for the home and garden Christmas expo—I could put it out on my porch in Stormhold as a giftie to whoever might want it— when it's done? |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That would be very nice of you, Zaida. |
| 15:22 |
Gronk Seriman |
Sad to hear, but understandable. |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hello Basta. |
| 15:22 |
Cychwynn |
Lets hope 2021 might bring new advent :) |
| 15:22 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
We would have to start collecting the gifts long before December. |
| 15:23 |
Phrynne |
When I was doing the Advent Calendar, it took much of nine months to pull together the 30 to 45 gifts for 25 days. |
| 15:23 |
Phrynne |
well, 24 days. |
| 15:23 |
Cychwynn |
yeah things like that take amazing amounts of time |
| 15:24 |
Gronk Seriman |
....and effort. |
| 15:24 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Let's move on to the next question if there are any more. |
| 15:24 |
Cychwynn |
Indeed. |
| 15:25 |
Jorge Serapis |
How is CARL doing? :_0 |
| 15:25 |
Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) |
yeah we like this Carl character |
| 15:26 |
Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) |
He's our "Sleepy Joe" - lol |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I have been having trouble sleeping in RL, but that's been part of me for decades now. |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I am doing fine. Just a lot of work. |
| 15:27 |
Jorge Serapis |
Good to know. We DO appreciate the work you put in here. Just thought I should put that out there. ;_0 |
| 15:27 |
Gronk Seriman |
I noticed the new Horse Dispenser in the Plaza. I haven't explored it yet. Who do we have to thank for it? |
| 15:28 |
Phrynne |
RainyDay created the horses. |
| 15:28 |
Larky (larkylouz) |
RainyDayRecess. I think Word helped with the scripting. |
| 15:28 |
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Gronk Seriman applauds Jorge's statement. |
| 15:28 |
Larky (larkylouz) |
They've been working on the project for years |
| 15:28 |
Cychwynn |
Oooeeee new horsies, I will love to check that out! |
| 15:28 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you, but I have not been doing much the last several months. |
| 15:28 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Oh. That's good to hear about the horses! |
| 15:29 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
No carriages yet. |
| 15:30 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Working horses are more than half the battle. |
| 15:30 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Next question? |
| 15:30 |
Jorge Serapis |
what's the capital of Sweden? |
| 15:31 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Stockholm. |
| 15:31 |
Jorge Serapis |
*fills in the crossword* Thank you. |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I am tired; I could not remember. |
| 15:31 |
Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) |
why did you ask? |
| 15:31 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
"Tukholma" in Finnish :-) |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I asked for more questions. |
| 15:32 |
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Lightweaver Balan thought the question rhetorical, |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Usually I do good at trivia type questions. |
| 15:32 |
Jorge Serapis |
He asked, so I asked. :_) |
| 15:33 |
Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) |
Just a quick reminder for me—what's 1 US$ in linden$? |
| 15:33 |
Carl Metropolitan |
About 250L$, Batista |
| 15:33 |
Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) |
thanks |
| 15:33 |
Gronk Seriman |
Where can you find a legless turtle? |
| 15:34 |
Carl Metropolitan |
As a disarticulated fossil, Gronk. Very common. Few fossils of vertebrates are found complete. |
| 15:35 |
Jorge Serapis |
*looks at Larky and remembers he has that exact same outfit* |
| 15:35 |
Gronk Seriman |
No, the answer is...right where you left him! |
| 15:35 |
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Lightweaver Balan facepalms. |
| 15:35 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I guess if there are no more questions, we will adjourn. I will be back next Sunday for more Q&A. |
| 15:35 |
Jorge Serapis |
*slowly turns to stare at Gronk* |
| 15:35 |
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Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) thinks that newcomers are still to shy to ask questions. |
| 15:35 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you all for coming this afternoon. |