SL Advices and selflearning
Tymmerie Thorne is going to open a hotel for new residents soon. We all know that she loves memes so she was inspired by her truly wonderful initiative and asked 3 questions:
1. What the best SL advice you ever received?
2. What is the worst SL advice you have ever received?
3. What didn’t anyone tell you that you had to learn on your own?
Here go my answers:
1. On my first 15 minutes on the grid this very nice girl (wish I remember who she was) told me about Gurl6 and free prim hair. Well this is not quite an advice but believe me that made my beginning a lot happier. There was also a very good friend I met some time after who taught me almost all the basics, from using the camera to box opening and object editing.
2. The worst SL advice I ever received… hmmm… this is a tough one. I really don’t remember any bad advice. Not even camping for Lindens. In my earlier days camping did pay. 7L/10M no limit was a
blast and I did camp all night while sleeping iRL, thus not missing all the fun of exploring SL. In fact my first land was bought with camping money.
3. Nobody told me about all the drama going on in SL. I had to find that on my own. I hate drama in no matter what world and being confronted with it in SL was quite a shock. I always thought people were there for fun. Didn’t know either how feelings can be so deep in our wonderful world (even made fun of it in the beginning). Now is one of the things I always warn “my” new residents about: There are people behind the avis and feelings can be very strong here. So don’t mess around with people.
And I think it’s about it.
Tymm congrats on your great great plans for new residents. Like I commented in your blog, in case you need anything, from clothes to notecards, do ask and I’ll gladly send them to you. If you want to organize some “lessons” about SL basics (from inventory organisation to editing appearance or merely Q&A sessions) please feel free to call me.
Lots of luck for your Hotel
And that down there is me on my first day, already with prim hair swiping the floor for lindens (ok and I didn’t know how to take snapshots yet hehe)
Hi Winter. Tym and I will talk to you more later. But yes, we will need help in all forms
We are putting together a package to give them with helpful tip and landmarks. We may even tell them how to open it – lol. Another feature we have at our place – Starting Point, Moodle sim is a small arena that seats about 15. We want to encourage anyone who wants to give a class or just talk SL to use it. We would like to keep it free if possible. I also want to see if I can get some kind of live music there periodically too.
I am so glad you answered these, Winter! And I love the first day picture you kept of yourself! I wish I had done more of that to see the evolution of my avatar as time went on. And as Jerremy says – yes we will definitely tap you for assistance and advice. Thank you!!
Thank you for your comments guys. Any initiative concerning the welcoming of new residents and them feeling less lost in our wonderful world is worth being spread. You two rock
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