This is the 18th in a series of largely demographic interviews that are conducted with established residents, to find out more about them and their involvement with Second Life, and to contrast the differences between their views and experiences and those of the newer residents. The questions may be tailored slightly for each interview; responses may be edited for purposes of clarity.

I've known Psyra pretty much as long as I've been in Second Life. Always a welcome sight and quite often a visually impressive one. His custom bird creations and avatars are well... extraordinary.

Second Life Name? Psyra Extraordinaire

Second Life Age? 1,129 days

Label your subculture in Second Life. (Can be all the cultures you're involved in, or some part thereof.)

Light roleplayer, artist; I have an interest in birds and fantasy critters and doing things in SL other people have not done.

Do you have a favorite Second Life celebrity and why? (This could be a Linden you like, or perhaps someone well known in your community, etc)(Content creators are covered in the next question.)

Hmmmm, tricky one. I don't usually think of 'favorites', usually pretty even on that line and that would be a *lot* more than one. So I'd have to get away with saying Torley [Linden]... since in the early days when he was new we hung around, and that hasn't really changed, though the hours have. He's still given me ideas and things to work on every so often. Secondly, most of the members of the Grendel's Wanderers group, which usually are constantly bombarding me with ideas. :D

As well as Flea Bussy and the Grendel's Children group of course.

Do you have a favorite Second Life content creator (scripter, builder, artist, machinima, music, etc), and why? (Anyone whose work you personally like.)

Definitely Flea Bussy, we're partners, we literally work together, creating the prims, shaping them, connecting them as two different people for one av. So avatars we make quite literally have multiple creators.

Then there's Piper Zuhal, our "top scripter" that helps get everything functioning right. Starax Statosky, of course.

What do you prefer to do in Second Life as regards content creation (scripting, building, artistic, machinima, music, OR NONE, etc), and why? (A brief overview of all the things you like to do.)

Building, some scripting, sound effects, gestures, and some music. Building birds. Scripting birds. :D Snagging/mixing sounds for birds, etc...

What sort of events (if any) do you prefer to attend?

I rarely attend them any more, but usually the big causes like Relay for Life, Cancer Awareness, I'll still get involved with those ... My real life keeps me too busy to really get out and socialize or 'network' these days. I'd love to get to an SLCC some day.

What would prevent you from attending an event? (Technical, ethical, mood considerations, other people, etc)

Well, until recently (read: yesterday) voice-only was a problem as I did not have a capable sound card that was actually full duplex (meaning Sl voice has not worked for me until, well, yesterday). Until then, it was about the only factor. The only other factors would be probably mood ... I'm just not comfortable at solemn or "overly serious" events.

I'm not a crowd person .... so i tend to avoid things that are really really popular - with the exception of Relay for Life and similar causes. Things that involve lots of wide open sims, I'm OK. Things that involve packing into a little auditorium, I'm not quite so OK.