Zidaya Zenovka

Yay! Best of health to you both! Got both my Moderna shots. Whoo!

I had covid back in January. It was pretty bad & pretty terrifying. Fortunately I ended up being mostly OK save for being extra tired and not being able to smell or sit up for too long. I'm disabled so already spend most of my time lying down anyways. It still sucks but oh, well. Got both Moderna shots-no side effects (fortunately). Fun fact-one of the folks working on the Moderna vaccine is a furry molecular biologist.

I'm fine with venues charging ticket prices. Would I pay to go see somebody? Nope. Not unless I knew it was a good band and the performance was for real live instead of someone's avatar miming. There is one group I do tip as generously as I'm able-Frogg & Jaycatt. They're good & fun to interact with as they perform. They're the exception, though.

Unless we stop being *****ty towards one another aliens being real or not isn't going to matter. You've got idiots refusing to wear masks and get vaccinated despite the benefit it would be to other people's well being. I honestly would tell any aliens out there to stay the %$#^ away. We're stupid and dangerous.

If Linden Labs wants me to promote SL they can either A. Pay me or B. put a significant enough amount of work into dealing with customer and community issues that I feel it's worthwhile getting people into a game that still has an unnecessary learning curve and not enough support for its creative community. Don't get me wrong-I love SL and appreciate all it's done for me but at the same time they're a company owned by a corporation with deep pockets. Why should we do their work for them? If you want SL to take advantage of its potential stand with the creative community and get Linden Labs to quit turning a blind eye to issues that have been plaguing the platform for almost two decades now.

The main issue is SL isn't really meant for kids. That said I'd try Bare Rose, too as they have a decent amount of clothing both mesh and non and they tend to go for Asian-styled classy rather than sexy.

Some good suggestions in this thread

Enjoying my new outfit.

I've seen people become uncomfortable but as far as purposefully making them feel unwelcome I've never seen this. Speaking for myself whenever I see someone in a human avatar come into Luskwood or any of the other furry (or brony) sims I hang out in I do my best to be as welcoming as possible. The only time I've ever seen a human avatar be encouraged to leave is when they were there to troll people in the sim. Furry sims get griefed a lot so we do tend to be cautious but unless someone gives us reason to most of us are pretty chill. If there's any assumption we don't want humans around it's entirely on those visitors parts. As far as themed sims I totally get people want a medieval roleplay sim or even a beach club sim to feel like real life. I'm cool with that but as others have mentioned there were definitely times where the anti-furry bias was more prevalent in the past. Star Wars sims, Star Trek sims and even some sims where the medieval setting involved things like minotaurs and sapient dragons always made me confused. Trek and Star Wars are full of anthropomorphic characters and fantasy settings are full of creatures like minotaurs. At any rate if anyone reading this feels uncomfortable in furry or brony sims please give the folks there a chance. Most furries and bronies are pretty cool (but then I'm biased).

Depends on the thread. I've seen thread merging that has resulted in massive train wrecks. I've always felt that unless you're getting spammed with tons of threads about the same subject in a short period it's best to let a community self-moderate necro threads via either people pointing out a solution is stickied or via necroposting meme as a subtle (or not so subtle) discouragement. After all-even if someone's bringing up a dead topic at least it means the forum's active.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/boosting-your-immune-system.html ""You actually don't want your immune system to be stronger, you want it to be balanced," Dr. Cassel says. "Too much of an immune response is just as bad as too little response." Dr. Cassel says most of the things people take to boost their immune system, such as vitamins or supplements, don't have any effect on your immune response." Supplements are mostly junk. You get all the vitamin C you need from a healthy diet. Eating a bunch of oranges isn't going to do anything but possibly put a bunch of extra sugar into your system you don't need among other things. https://www.livescience.com/45057-oranges-nutrition-facts.html#:~:text=Health risks,could also lead to diarrhea." " Oranges are great for you, but you should enjoy them in moderation, Flores said. "Eating too many oranges has some uncomfortable side effects," she said. "When [oranges are] eaten in excess, the greater fiber content can affect digestion, causing abdominal cramps, and could also lead to diarrhea." Though oranges are relatively low in calories, eating several per day can end up leading to weight gain. It is also possible to consume too much vitamin C (more than 2,000 milligrams a day); an excess of this nutrient may lead to diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, heartburn, bloating or cramps, headaches and insomnia, according to the Mayo Clinic." As far as laminating your card definitely don't do that.

It's not. As other's have correctly pointed out in previous comments to mine just because you have the card does not mean you must wave it all about showing it to everyone or that people can make you show it to them. It is merely a way to ensure you have a record you can show your doctor or doctor's that you've been vaccinated and when that way in case further boosters are needed they know what vaccines you've gotten. This is to both avoid any potential vaccine interaction reactions and make sure you're getting them in whatever sequence they need to be in, etc. Also as others have pointed out people requiring you show them proof of vaccination (say a restaurant or cruise ship, etc) doesn't mean you have to show them your card. It just means you don't get to eat there, go on that cruise, etc. They don't have a right to your info but they do have a right to deny you entry based on your being a potential health risk to staff and customers.

Listening to the early Van Halen demo's. While lyrically most are rough it's a pretty neat look at what they sounded like just before they got signed & these songs were tweaked in the studio.

I mostly ask because as the years have gone by I've seen less and less of this type of location. I think the last time I saw a place like that was this out of the way tiki bar that didn't seem to be getting much traffic, anyways. I have seen a few roleplay sims forbidding them due to their being off-theme but I can kind of understand that. It's still a bummer but far be it for me to go breaking people's immersion. I used to run into this a lot back when I started in SL (March of '07) but the overall atmosphere in SL seems to have gotten a lot more non-human friendly. I will add the only time I ever had an issue with anyone as far as getting kicked out goes was when I changed from a furry to a pony and the furries I was with and had been having a decent enough conversation with suddenly started shooting at me and threatened to kick me out if I didn't change my avatar. I of course left-furries of all people are the last folks who should be exhibiting that kind of prejudice. Btw-please don't name locations. I'm not here to encourage any kind of naming & shaming.

Just my main OC chilling atop their EVH amp in front of their Eddie Van Halen shrine

The issue with doing this is what about threads where an issue was brought up and a solution to it found years later? The only time I advocate locking threads is when the topic becomes topic. Otherwise while necroposting can be an issue there are just as many times where posts made later in a threads life add something constructive. It's far better to revive an old thread than have multiple threads on the same issue. All that does is clutter forums up.

Rolling 7's by Dirty Honey. It's pure unfiltered rock & roll & I like it. A lot. ❤️

Ban lines under high altitude skyboxes or anywhere where it impedes your flying over an area to get to another. Security orbs that only give you five or ten seconds to leave an area. Discriminatory people in general.

Honestly it used to bother me that certain regions didn't allow furries or men or women, etc but as time has gone by I've realized it's a convenient way of pointing out bigots to avoid. Generally if someone's all for excluding an entire group of people for whatever reason I'd rather they have their own place to hang out where I'm not.

That dress looks amazing. Thanks for pointing out that store.

The one from this video. It had been in SL forever only this year I only found it once and it looked like it was being taken apart. Then after a week or two it was gone. I was hoping it was just being moved but suspect it is no more.

Yeah-I understand some sellers not being around anymore. It does make me wonder where whatever money they might make goes. I know a popular furry avatar vendor who pretty much pulled up stakes and abandoned SL...yet some of their stuff is still for sale on their old Marketplace account. As far as outfits go it's just a little frustrating as I still prefer to wear a lot of older avatars and outfits. At least places like Bare Rose have always been reasonably priced. No price adjustment needed. As much as I love their outfits, though I wish there was a bit more variety and that it was more affordable.

I was just looking up an outfit I bought for $900l back in 2009 and it's still $900l on the marketplace. The outfit itself was new in 2007 and while I still like it there's no way it compares to the quality of clothing creators can make today. There's a lot of old stuff around that people still charge a ridiculous amount of money for. My first shirt was a goofy pink shirt with a rooster and popsicle on it that was pretty much a basic circa 2005 shirt with a badly applied design. It's still in their shop selling for $75l. I know it's difficult for vendors to keep up on things sometimes but I can't help feeling like there's a lot of overpriced older stuff clogging up the marketplace.

Grace Potter ftw

True, true. It's just a little frustrating to see so few options for male clothing that isn't abnormally oversexualized or cobbled together from the least-oversexualized feminine clothing you can find. It seems like every time I find a decent androgynous-leaning outfit it lacks mod options.