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1. Oh hell yes! -- Pet Delights!

   I just strung a Floyd Rose guitar for the first time! Quest completed! When I told the guy at guitar center I was about to restring a Floyd Rose for the first time, and asked for advice, he gave me a thousand yard stare, and got the most wise, wizardly luthier they had to give me advice. It felt like I was leaving the shire to throw some jewelry into a volcano, or something. Turned out, it's not that bad, at all. Yeah, you have to re-tune it a dozen times, but if you pay attention, the tunings move closer each time you go through them. I think I didn't mind that part of it, because I expected it. Also, my guitar was already set up, so I wasn't messing with truss rods or the fulcrum of the saddle. Even the intonation held between restrings, so it was a simple process. Tomorrow, I'm going to restring my classical. Now, that's a real challenge! Half the things I do when I restring a classical are undocumented anywhere. I use knots I invented myself, by combining arcane knots from the Ashley Book of Knots. Restringing a Floyd Rose is easy, compared to stringing a classical guitar, IMHO.

2. Commercial Bellisseria

   Very true. I am quite literally eating popcorn while reading it.

3. What is the Belli end game?

   The fashion should make up for it.

4. Latest news on Linden Homes & Commercial parcels

   Some of this info has already been posted in different threads, but I thought it might be helpful to have it collated here for reference. It's from the recent official Concierge & Land User Group meeting You can listen to the full meeting here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxQw082idw Commercials and homes are discussed from the beginning to approx. 17:30, and then again from approx. 29:00 (mainly commercial parcels) Linden Homes: 2048's have been very popular - so more are coming Future releases will have more 2048s mixed with a few1024s There are still plans for a memorial for the legacy Linden homes There are plans for alternatives for the less popular Linden home themes in the future - not more of the same homes but some things that complement the themes [exactly what wasn't specified] Commercial parcels More commercials are coming next week (and they will try and start staggering releases in general in the future if possible) probably a similar amount to last week [which was about 300], and then the average 5 -10 regions at a time Covenant is/has being update with more clarity on what you can and can't do The time it takes to re-release an abandoned parcel into the queue is random (up to 2 hours) Cafes are permitted Breedables are not permitted (ie can't be breeding on the parcel - but you can sell them) Vendors are not permitted to be placed outside your store, or put anything on the roof You can not use skyboxes/platforms above commercial parcels for residences When owning multiple stores - they can't be the exact same store (ie selling the exact same product). They can be the same brand, just not a copy of each other, they have to sell different things Signage is only permitted on the front of your store - not on side or back exterior walls The original idea was that people could pick their own parcel, rather than being assigned a random one There are plans for clusters of commercial regions so that some homes aren't right next to commercial parcels Dwellings above stores isn't possible due to issues of privacy for homes A directory of stores in a region will be provided in the future [sounds like this will be a map board inworld] A list of regions will be provided at bus stops There's a possibility of getting mesh templates for inside the stores so you can make mesh interior shells [they said it's easier for them to do this for stores compared to doing that for homes]

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