What would you do if Linden Lab took away your legs and everything below your waist?

[Bree Giffen]

It seems that for some odd reason Facebook and Microsoft think legs are vestigial appendages. What if LL did the same thing to be like them? How would this affect you? 

[Rowan Amore]

7 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

It seems that for some odd reason Facebook and Microsoft think legs are vestigial appendages. What if LL did the same thing to be like them? How would this affect you? 

Cry because now my 47564857 pairs of shoes are useless!  

[Akane Nacht]

become Yurei

[Prokofy Neva]

29 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

It seems that for some odd reason Facebook and Microsoft think legs are vestigial appendages. What if LL did the same thing to be like them? How would this affect you? 

I think LL wouldn't have a world if it didn't have legs and of course I would cry over my 30L sneakers but also the ability to walk normally instead of hovering like Rosy the Robot.

I protested these legless wonders at FB the minute I saw them, on Twitter, and this guy who actually designs them got into an argument with me. I showed him all these wonders of SL -- everything from intricate ballet and dance performances to tinies river-dancing, not to mention the many things legs do on a PG couch, let alone anything adult.

While the benefits of "nothing below the waist" seem to be all about sex, I was told that it's because it is hard to design for legs folding, crossing, doing *something* to get tucked around a chair neatly. Apparently it was too hard to do this gracefully so they just got rid of them. I was puzzled at that, because there are poses in SL that have everything from standing on your head on a chair to man-spreading to tucking in "Japanese sit". It made no sense.

He insisted that this was a limitation in virtual reality done with goggles, as distinct from our kind of world done with duct tape and spare parts (to hear techs criticize it, although I think it is superior to VR worlds requiring goggles).

I don't believe him, but apparently there is something to that notion, and in any event, since the Horizons use-case was work meetings, it seemed you didn't need legs.

Edited November 12, 2021 by Prokofy Neva

[Nick0678]

3 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

How would this affect you? 

I am a sentimental man, my mesh legs play a very important part in my second life, if they were gone i would squeal like a pig.

[Alwin Alcott]

3 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

It seems that for some odd reason Facebook and Microsoft think legs are vestigial appendages. What if LL did the same thing to be like them? How would this affect you? 

they won't .. it would kill  100% of their adult source income...and it's about 75% of their total.

[Elise Banx]

you mean no shoes??? ever?? noooooo 😭

 

[Anna Nova]

Well I don't use legs in Zoom meetings.  But for fun you need a butt.  (and I have more shoes than@Rowan Amore)

[Jolly Nova]

I wouldn’t have to find shoes, pants, or otherwise for my new body. 😂

in all seriousness though I enjoy feeling like a complete and functional being in SL and loosing half of me would just feel wrong. I still insist on having bathrooms in my homes despite ripping all the scripts out… just something about the immersion I guess. 

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[colleen Criss]

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[HelenaNavy92]

First of all they won't do it. But in case it happens.. lol, idk, I would protest.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

I'd get myself a snail avatar

[Teagan Tobias]

 

Its the only way...

 

[Ceka Cianci]

I'm probably not gonna worry about it until it happens.. hehehe

[SarahKB7 Koskinen]

What would I do? I'd want them back, as my footwear collection would become completely redundant, for which I would demand recompense. Plus, LL removing feet and legs would put thousands of footwear makers out of business too. Tsk.

Edited November 12, 2021 by SarahKB7 Koskinen

[Orwar]

   I'd just have to start shooting my avies waist-up.

   I'm not worried though, it's not like it's a feasible option for LL anyway - they're not the creators of the bodies people wear; people can make anything they want to be their avatar. And if they somehow disabled our ability to design our own avatars and our own content, well, SL would die overnight. 

[Jules Catlyn]

Make a new set

 

[Marigold Devin]

3 hours ago, Profaitchikenz Haiku said:

I'd get myself a snail avatar

What an awfully good idea  

 

[Luna Bliss]

I would sit right down on my little stub waist and create a flower, planting it on the gravesite mound at the funeral for my lower body burial.

And then, I would create a big shoe for my waist to sit on (not a pair of shoes, only one would be needed for my waist, after all). Maybe give it a high heel, just for the sexy.

[Extrude Ragu]

It is a bit dumb that Facebook wants to ban half of the human body for being controversial.

inb4 people start getting amputations to be 'inclusive'

I'd probably just stop playing SL to be honest. I like that SecondLife is mature enough to accept human bodies and human behaviors for what they are.  Facebook seems to want to treat grown adults as children.

[Silent Mistwalker]

First, I would tell LL how stupid they are for wasting all the work they put into solving making a human avatar walk in the first place. Then I would take all my "toys" and leave when they insist on treating adults like children. It won't be the first time and I had hoped the first time would be the last and only.

If I want to be around children there are tons of MMOs out there geared towards children. The one I do have a lifetime sub to I haven't played in about 3 years now. SL is not the place for children. Yes, LL has made some accommodations for 13- 16 year olds but the grid is geared for adults and always has been. Including children was a last minute thing. They weren't going to.

[Chris Corvinus]

6 hours ago, Alwin Alcott said:

they won't .. it would kill  100% of their adult source income...and it's about 75% of their total.

Nah, our genitalia would simply float and the visuals would be even more hilarious.

[Coffee Pancake]

2 hours ago, Extrude Ragu said:

It is a bit dumb that Facebook wants to ban half of the human body for being controversial.

I don't think it's that cut and dry, yes there is certainly a techbro aversion to anything adult happening in a virtual world (perhaps SL's only last legacy), but from a practical perspective .. not having legs provides several technical benefits. 

A greater proportion of the avatar poly budget can be spent on heads, hair and related accessories. Remember, they are targeting a much lighter hardware platform.

Legs can be nightmarish to real-time animate procedurally and from a marketing standpoint, no legs is a better criticism than duck walking or weird uncanny behaviors.

Controlling the narrative is the most important part of the entire venture at this point, there will be lots of criticism and negative press so providing such an obvious omission for media to latch onto is intentional.

[Janet Voxel]

Creators would somehow create a mesh lower body market with 13 different choices for women. Men...sorry fellas....your market will only have three. 

Countless arguments about which lower body is the most aesthetically pleasing and proportional would ensue on the forum.

[Theresa Tennyson]

11 minutes ago, Janet Voxel said:

Men...sorry fellas....your market will only have three. 

 

Welllll.... for most of the lower body, at least...