HarrisonMcKenzie

I actually prefer unrigged shoes. Aside from liking to wear socks (and rigged shoes not playing nicely with that), I play a kid avatar and no one makes shoes for kids anymore who aren't babies. There are a few bodies that kind of seem to fit, but it's always risky buying shoes since you can never guarantee they'll be usable. I also prefer adult styles of shoes that little little kid ones, as there's more variety and better construction.

I've never been a fan, probably because all the ones I've seen look really outdated and clunky. It also adds to lag and avatar complexity, so I try not to make a habit of it.

Adding to this, gacha is a reference to gachapon, which are Japanese coin op machines that give out little trinkets. A lot of cool stuff got made as gachas because people would make more money selling them for a limited time than as a standing product, but a lot were also really lazy. As since it was meant to be unique, they were no-copy (what that message was referring to). The whole thing also blew up I think last year because it was basically gambling (same issue as loot boxes in games), so there's a new system someone made that's more transparent.

The challenge is that any change like this can break user content. Granted, that content might be worth breaking (thinking about really old scripting), but that does seem to be a concern LL heeds. Plus we're all cranky old people who don't like change. I absolutely agree that some housekeeping could make SL a lot more accessible for new players though.

Only. No. I want all of SL to conform to human proportions so that everyone can enjoy being in-world. This idea that everyone who is under 6 feet is a child and has no place in SL is fairly problematic and just turns into another form of discrimination. Given that a large population in SL is disabled, ethnically diverse, has significant mental health or identity concerns, or is otherwise a minority, it's odd that we keep doing things that make people feel unwelcome.

Starting in SL is an absolutely horrible experience. You have to come in knowing what all of the different avatar types are so you can simply use anything, have to know how to layer parts in a way that makes no sense, and have to learn controls that do not align with normal game and software conventions. Thankfully, the feature known as Bake on Mesh makes this markedly easier since you no longer need special skins and huds to make an avatar work. But it's still absolutely horrible and extremely off-putting for new players. But there really isn't a way to fix the problem without breaking a ton of content, since everything in SL is user made.

As a child avatar (I play a preteen), I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE what I call SL Scale. Buildings with 14 foot ceilings, door handles so high that I can't reach them, chairs that I need a ladder to get into, props and other items being 2-3 times their real size, and adults being 10'3". In SL, I'm about as tall as one of my dad's legs, and I'm still quite tall for the age. In RL, my brother's 9 year old is approaching my average adult height. I find it beyond frustrating that everything in SL is built for people who are the size of giants. But LL won't do anything about it because it can't. Everything in world is user made. All we can do is call on builders to stop doing this, call on residents to dial back their avatars, and call on sim builders of realistic sims to make them to proper proportions. I'll never be able to afford it because land is overpriced, but I would love to build a modern day neighbourhood that is scaled for real humans. Buildings with 8 foot ceilings. Props and furniture that people can actually use. Stuff like that.

When there were hoards of guns involved, money coming in from known hate groups, federal watch lists, terror tactics used against the public, and no clear message, it's terrorism. BLM was a protest movement to bring to light the oppression of minorities. What happened in Canada was fringe groups using the pandemic to sow anarchy. They are not the same thing. And the protests were shut down because of said investigations. If you're not following, this was also a another huge concern with them. When First Nations groups blocked infrastructure to protest the illegal seizure of treaty land, the police were sent in the the Right painted them like terrorists. Alberta, for example, passed laws against such protests. But then when white people blocked infrastructure, the Right called them heroes, the police dragged there feet, and the laws that Alberta passed about this very thing were not enacted. Do you see the difference here? These are facts. What happened in Canada was disgraceful and showed why the BLM movement took place. It showed how hate groups can mask their actions and pretend that they were protesting COVID restrictions while all such restrictions were being lifted. It brought legal racist hypocrisy to light, because authorities failed to act in line with how the acted when First Nations groups were protesting a land invasion. These are not feelings. They are not opinions. This is what happened and this is why it's different.

My alt is actually my first account. I made it, couldn't figure anything out, and then abandoned it. I came back wanting to roleplay and made this account, having somewhat forgotten about the other one. I originally used my alt for photos for my store (so I'd have an extra body to show off what I was making) and for working with AVSitter (so I could test out multiple poses at once). I later revived my alt and started to make a character for him, initially with the intent of adopting a child avatar and being a dad. That didn't work and I ended up making him a teenager at the last minute for a roleplay that didn't work out, but the character stuck. So now the bit is that he (my alt) did piecemeal work for my child character (this account)'s store and is friends with him. He's been involved in some cross roleplay, and my child character has been involved in some of his roleplays and friendships. Outside of that, each are an opportunity to log in with a degree of discretion (though they both share some friends), such as if I'm working on something and want some privacy. Using my alt has also given me some distance from my main, as I've been having some personal problems that got tied up with my main, like stress from event planning and a dry spell in roleplaying that was getting me down. That distance gave me a chance to redo his appearance and look at how I was approaching roleplaying. Oh. And I have a third account I made so I could offload group advertising for my store, but I haven't done anything with that account yet.

I'm happy to hear why you think this (noting that I am so left I'm circling back around). I really have no idea what's going on with all of this because I don't follow celebrity gossip. However, I will ask that it remain factual (even if it's still about your opinion), and not turn into another one of these labeling sh*t fights where everyone who disagrees with someone is evil. What is Musk promoting that means supporting hate groups? Freedom of speech does not in and of itself protect hate speech, but we've seen a lot of dangerous people use "freedom of speech" as an excuse for their nonsense many times over the last few years (including when terrorist groups stormed Canadian cities and blocked highways). Is Musk doing something that gets into that territory?

Could someone explain why everyone has their knickers in a bunch over this? I genuinely don't know what the problem is? Is Musk a bag of crap? Or do people just hate him because he's rich? What is the actual problem here?

All the time.

Neither are you. I am well aware of how that works and make the very same statements when people cry tears that their infringements get shut down. But as stated, it's not LL's job to police that. It's the IP holder's job. If DC-Warner has a problem with a Superman shirt, it's DC-Warner's job to take action. If Disney has a problem with all of the Disneylands and Disney content in SL, it's their job to take action. All of this highlights why copyright law is dumb and doesn't work. These laws are about 6 decades out of date and probably didn't even do a good job of it before then. The second you open your borders to the rets of the world, your laws no longer matter. This might have been manageable prior to the 1980s or 1990s, but it's a complete *****show now and copyright laws are proven almost on a daily basis to not be working. They don't stop offenses because they can't, and they don't protect creators. They only protect the people wealthy enough to throw their weight around, and that includes prolific copyright thieves with deep pockets. That is being used against them because IP holders don't care to enforce their rights (such as LL praising known infringement of Disney's IP) just proves my point. I'm not saying open the flood gates. I'm just saying that copyright laws don't work and all of this is an example of why it doesn't work. At the end of the day. I'm more interested in protecting and supporting genuine works, not things that should have been in the public domain decades ago nor the companies that throw their weight around to keep it that way, even though I won't openly and without remorse steal their work. Using the Superman example once again, which the character is certainly the IP of DC-Warner and they have exclusive rights to make comics and movies about him (or not), the character is a huge part of public consciousness and our culture, and DC-Warner can't pretend that there isn't a degree of public ownership there. We just don't know what that ownership means yet because out laws are too often decades behind the problem they are trying to solve. You can't own experience, so as long as there is no real damage (and there isn't just about anywhere in SL), that icon belongs as much to the public as it does to a company that screwed its creators of it out of their rights. So I'm not going to cry myself to sleep when I see a picture of Superman somewhere in SL because that's really not a problem. Neither DC-Warner nor Disney needs your protection, nor does any other capable IP holder, especially if they are choosing not to act.

I don't think there's anything at all wrong with playing a non human character. The only issue I can see coming up would be on a roleplay sim, where talking animals or weird monsters would break immersion. It can take a lot more effort to either make it work or to pretend it's not the case. There's a furry I sometimes roleplay with, and we just pass everything off as him playing pretend. Beyond that, non human avatars are really cool, and there are some need ones I've see.

Tweenster is infinitely more popular. I only ever hear passing mentions about Tweeneedoo, and I'm not aware of anyone who makes clothes for it.