Cartoon of the Day: Hoarding or Planning Ahead?

 

 Taken at the Blarney Stone Pub. In most households, this would be obvious hoarding. But an Irish Pub on the night before St. Patrick's Day, another reason comes to mind.

By Bixyl Shuftan

The Last Roll: An SL Avatar Builder Makes a Fun Game For Real Life

One of the stranger and more aggravating, or amusing, aspects of the Coronavirus crisis is the numbers of people buying up as much toilet tissue as they can, leaving the rest of us without it. Wanders Nowhere, known for his work at Prehistorica, responded to the absurdity of the situation by coming up with a funny board game: The Last Roll. In the game, players compete with one another and dodge cartoonish obstacles in order to buy up the most toilet paper. The Newser contacted Wanders, and he had a chance to describe how he came up with the game and some of it's craziness.

Read the story in Extra.

News In Brief

There's a lot going on in Second Life. But between the Relay, the SLB, and our upcoming anniversary, so little time to write about it. Here's a brief mention of a few things going on.


In an article in Vice magazine, Linden Lab's CEO Ebbe Altberg stated Second Life's monthly usership was close to 900,000 thousand. Ryan Schultz would point out this was a 50% increase from the days before the Coronavirus Pandemic.


There's a new Firestorm viewer out, Update 6.3.9.58205, "this one comes with a LOT of changes, bug fixes and improvements."


A few days ago, Linden Lab would announce all further US dollar transactions, not just those for cashing out Lindens to real world currency, would be handled via it's Tilia service, "to stay compliant with regulations across a number of U.S. states." Also a few days ago, the Lab announced it would be adding the Value Added Tax to transactions involving residents of Norway and Australia.


Earlier this month, Daniel Voyager reported that the Second Life app, powered by Android, was still in an "internal alpha" stage of development, "This is a communications only app, for now." There's no date as to when a public beta will be out, Ebbe Linden recommending for now the web-based Speedlight.


Yours truly was also given a tour of the CDS Catacombs, located at Colonia Nova (78,108,22). Mermaid Celene (CeleneHighwater Resident) of the Radegast Viewer group met up with me to discuss "Silver Economy," which blind SL users can take part in. After a tip from a friend about "a free downloadable board game ... based around making fun of the toilet paper shortages," I had a talk with the maker, Wanders Nowhere.


We'll have more on some of these when time permits.

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day : TP Hoarder

Taken at the Builders Brewery sandbox. When the Coronovirus started to hit English-speaking countries, one reaction by some was to buy up as much toilet paper as they could. Which leads one to wonder, if they were anticipating not being able to buy any more tush tissue for six months, how much of other things that were more important were they getting?

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day: "On a Roll"

From Club Cutlass. Gil Otaared (and Mini-Me) had a roll of toilet paper with her that night. When I asked what it was for, I couldn't remember the reason she gave. But the Internet being the sum of what it's users put into it, some put ponies, and some put, well, you know.

By Bixyl Shuftan