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1. 2nd Life - Pure Fantasy Or Something Else?

   i can give you my old dubstep gun, the musical lasers will punt avatars if you're not careful 😆 Tempting, but as a rule Spiffy doesn't engage in violence, so if anyone gets in my face like that I'll politely inform them that the Prime Directive requires I don't engage directly with less advanced species. 🖖 Then block & move on.

2. Marketplace Backend Upgrade - Nov 3rd

   i can only confirm that some update did take place on Marketplace at around 18:30 CET on Nov 3, because exactly at this time i was trying to list a new item on MP and it didn't let me. Uploading a picture gave a strange new error "Failde to fetch". And it didn't want to save the listing description. I had to wait for about 5-10 min, after which everything was working again. Bulk Redelivery history is still showing status In Progress, of the items which redelivery was initiated on October 9 (almost a month ago!!!) So, whatever they were fixing, it didn't fix that

3. Do you guys still think PBR is worth it?

   Experience with the leading game engines such as Unreal or Unity would absolutely prepare a developer for the theoretical and artistic side of PBR. I think they’d understand what needs to happen and why. I think I understand the principles of what needs to happen, as do others who have contributed to this thread But SL’s challenge lies in the how? Taking those same principles and surgically grafting them onto a living, aging engine that was never built for them is where the real challenge lies. To use one of my poor analogys; It’s like knowing how to design a brand new electric car, then being told to retrofit those systems into a 1970s camper van… whilst it’s still driving and stuffed full of passengers.

4. Do you guys still think PBR is worth it?

   You will have to wait I am at work now, I can try and do better later when home. When I looked at water presets in firestorm I am sure all I saw were ones I had bought, none of which looks that different.

5. Ping spiking to 3000+ only when on SL, any ideas?

   If you have (or can borrow) some other, more portable wifi-connected device (smartphone, tablet…) that could run a speed test, it might offer a clue. I'm guessing that other device would give stable performance even in the same location as the PC, even when SL is running full blast and lagging out every other app on the PC, but it would be useful to know if that's the case. My guess is still that the PC's network connectivity has degraded for some reason, like a frayed or broken wifi antenna or drivers or IP routing or something else local to the PC that Second Life is uniquely triggering. But we can rule out all that hocus pocus if another device suffers similar degradation at the same time. And if it can be moved next to the wifi router and its performance dramatically improves, then yeah, some combination of a cable and/or mesh router needs to be in your future. [ETA: I really like @Vicious Hollow's suggestion of deleting the cache files. It's very unlikely to work, but SL cache contents are extremely expendable. It's not something that needs doing regularly, but it's a cheap and quick thing to try. (Incidentally, some advice suggests deleting and re-adding whitelist entries with every re-install, which I suspect is superstitious but to the extent it's real, maybe it applies to cache files too... but folders? Don't know what that would even mean.)]