New World Notes

Watch Now: Latest Seracast Discusses Linden Lab's New C Suite Hires, SL's New High Concurrency Sims & Much More

The latest Seracast from the creators of Seraphim SL is live! Highlights include a convo around my post this week on the new C suite members joining Linden Lab, and the recently announced high concurrency sims. (The ladies then discuss how these new sim offerings might work with sales events.)

Also be sure to take Seraphim's home and garden survey , which includes 8 chances to win L$5000.

Watch: New SeraCast Featuring a FaMeshed Giveaway, Time To Penis Talk & Advice for New SL Bloggers

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Dropping now, here's the 10th episode of Seracast from the ladies of Seraphim SL, the most-viewed Second Life events/shopping blog.

Highlights include smart answers to a viewer question: "What advice would you give for someone wanting to start a site like Seraphim?" -- short answer: find a unique angle/market -- and also at around 22:30, the inevitability of virtual sex on metaverse platforms and TTP, i.e. Time to Penis. (Spinning off this New World Notes' post/article here.)

Other a giveaway to FaMeshed, the long-running mesh content extravaganza:

Watch: New SeraCast Featuring a Lelutka Mesh Head Giveaway & My SL Revenue Share Survey!

Fresh from YouTube, here's the latest SeraCast featuring a new Lelutka Head giveaway (watch for details on how to win), and a discussion on my survey for SL content creators, on their revenue split with Linden Lab -- click here to take it.

More highlights:

Watch: SeraCast Announcing a New Easter Egg Hunt & Much More SL Fun

New video from SeraCast to watch over the weekend: "This week's highlights are a massive giveaway for early access to a the huge Legacy Spring Fair and a further contest for winning Legacy bodies coming on Sunday," Del tells me. "We also discuss the new SL University and Del has a conspiracy theory on an expected ramping up of new residents and the onboarding of them." They also discuss my posts about coming regulation to metaverse platforms, and the saving of the Tempura sim.

More highlights:

Watch: New SeraCast Featuring a SeraPride Date Announcement, Philip Bringing Back the Fun & a L$5000 Giveaway!

Here's the latest episode of Seracast, the fun and chatty YouTube vlogcast hosted by Del and Kess, co-founders of Seraphim SL. The top highlight is announcing that June 18 is the date of SeraPride, the LGBT+ fundraising extravaganza to benefit Rainbow Railroad. (New World Notes will also be part of that event, more details soon.)

More highlights below! 

Watch: New SeraCast Featuring Great Advice for Running a Good SL Event, a Look at Seraphim's Massive Pageviews & Much More

Here's the latest episode of Seracast, the fun and chatty YouTube vlogcast hosted by Del and Kess, co-founders of Seraphim SL. The top highlight of this show include: 

• 5:45: Details on a special live stream event next Monday at 9am SLT
• 10:45: Teaser on the upcoming Easter Egg weekend hunt featuring top brands on the SeraSim
• 11:35: Still seeking sponsors for SeraPride, including gift cards and other gifts for donations, with all L$ converted to US$ donations to benefit Rainbow Railroad.
• 13:25: Viewer question: What's key to a great SL event in terms of longevity and foot traffic? Great and valuable details here. Spoiler: Big brands are, well, big.
• 18:30: Mythbusting (with an intro rap!) rumors that Seraphim's web traffic numbers aren't accurate. But you can see Seraphim's total pageviews and estimated value right here on reputed analytics site SimilarWeb:

Watch: New SeraCast With Del & Kess, Featuring Seraphim's New In-World Event Launching Today, Literally Called FUN

Here's the latest episode of Seracast, the fun and chatty YouTube vlogcast hosted by Del and Kess, co-founders of Seraphim SL. The top highlight of this show is the launch of Fun -- yes, literally called that -- an event full of, as Del puts it, "Truly just stuff that's fun and gives us a good laugh... we don't want to show you because that just makes it more fun." 

Fun is open now for, well, fun, on Seraphim's official Second Life sim: Click here to directly teleport.

Many more highlights from this show include: 

Watch: Seracast, Seraphim's New Weekly Show on Second Life Trends

Here's a fun and chatty new YouTube channel from Del and Kess, co-founders of Seraphim SL, by far the most read Second Life fashion blog on the interwebs. (Which like I mentioned, has more readers than many top real life fashion blogs.)

Stepping out of the website shadows, Del and Kess' weekly Seracast -- highlighted on their blog here -- is the first time the ladies are featuring select SL content, events, and personal opinions from the wider Second Life ecosystem. (Including a very nice plug for New World Notes, and Cajsa's recent post on Blueberry's new metaverse ambitions.)

"It is a fun, new way to communicate with our readers and share a bit of information about Seraphim and Second Life trends," as Del puts it.

Get Wet When it Rains in Second Life! New Weather System Update Works With Items from Izzie’s, Salt & Pepper, Mina Hair -- and Blueberry!

Here's a fun new update to the Really Useful Mega Weather Maker from The Really Useful Scripts Corner launching this weekend from The Really Useful Scripts Corner (a proud NWN sponsor) -- a mesh-based rain system that drenches your avatar in real time! Even cooler, it’s compatible with select items from top SL brands Izzie’s, Salt & Pepper, Mina Hair, and Blueberry. 

Available only from the in-world store starting early Saturday SLT: Click here to teleport.

This announcement comes with a statement from Blueberry's legendary owner herself:

"At Blueberry we are always seeking opportunities to make our platform more immersive. We are thrilled to support this initiative to connect our apparel to the weather. Clothing that becomes wet when it rains? That’s brilliant. As simple as it sounds, it’s these details that truly form a wholesome metaverse experience right at home in our Second Life."

Watch the video above and check out the images below to see this effect in action. Unlike other systems, the Really Useful Mega Weather Maker has options for mesh not particle-based emitters, and is optimized to reduce lag

Here’s all the details straight from Really Useful Scripts Corner’s Grace Ling:

Give Your SL Avatar Realistic Wounds With the Really Needy HUD’s New Explosive Pack!

Just in time for Halloween and Squid Game roleplay in Second Life, the Really Dangerous Explosives Pack is a fun new addition to the Really Needy HUD (a proud sponsoring partner), which turns SL into a Sims-like game experience. Now, with the help of major style brand Izzie’s, any damage from nearby explosions will cause visible wounds to appear on your avatar. 

Here’s Really Needy creator Grace7 Ling with more details, along with some new NSFW partnerships: 

Roleplayers can now give their urban game more gritty realism with the Really Dangerous Explosives Pack, which includes a feature that auto-applies blood-splattered BOM layers onto your avatar body, if hit by an explosion.

This is a feature of the Really Needy HUD which are used by roleplayers in Second Life to simulate their avatars having Hunger, Thirst, Energy, Health, Hygiene and even Toilet and Procreation needs.

This new release builds on the different types of injuries recognized by the HUD (which goes much beyond a simple combat meter), such as burns, falls and gunshot wounds, and now blast injuries.

As covered in a prior New World Notes post, gunshot wounds automatically appear on the parts of the body where the avatar was shot. With this new release, avatars within the blast radius of a fragmentation grenade will get covered in blood splatter or bloody cuts (depending on how much gore you want), or might be bruised badly if they suffered shock damage from a nearby explosion.