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Sasy Scarborough

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  1. Pink Panther movies all hilarious You should also look for The Party.
  2. While some may think that bringing someone to the store is for 'traffic' - as in the look of being popular - it could also be a reason to have a store at all. Tier is not cheap, you spend money on having a store, you buy or build a store itself, you may decorate the region or landscape etc, you have prim limits and so on, and you may go all in on making it your dream store and no one ever goes there ? Marketplace sales are a hundred times more common than ever before in SL history, it used to be stores, malls, occasional events then marketplace if you were desperate, that has changed a lot, and now people really need the justification on having land at all. If everyone just marketplace purchases then people will more and more close up their brick and mortar locations, which will also have an impact on the economy overall, because they wont be buying builds, decor etc. People will be logging in throwing items in a folder to list from and log off again. That isn't really an SL we want, because if you do not go out in the wild, how will you see others out in the wild, how will you interact, potentially make new friends, find new stores to shop at because the girl trying on hair beside you in a store is wearing fabulous shoes and while you could use a gadget to find out where from, you could just as easily type in local chat and ask and engage with another human being/furry/cyborg/table with pie. Tack onto that that every other transaction other than the demo gives a percentage to LL, but in store purchases do not, so that percentage can be used towards tier instead. Not saying do not buy from Marketplace because of the percentage, but now that LL changed the rules on allowing prices to differ, you could actually be paying more to shop on the marketplace than you would in the store. You will also see other things in store that you may not in marketplace, such as items they may have as gifts, items that may be at events at that time. You may also see items they have used to make their store location look fabulous that you may want for your own home, most people have at some stage inspected an item rezzed somewhere to see where it was from and off they went to buy it. I like to consider Marketplace a big fabulous catalogue, while it is convenient to grab something you need to add to something you already have put together last minute before you run off, if you are just looking to shop, then look at Marketplace but actually TP to the store, see the store they may share a region with, enjoy the atmosphere, say hi to the other people there, I do it all the time, that contact you may have with someone new may change your day for the better, or even better, change theirs.
  3. Had to log in to show something else in another post, so added on to this too https://gyazo.com/670c8b191c134342f4596b050c2ac280
  4. @Raven Huntsman do you mean like the animated Cinnamon & Chai feet that Siddean Munro released a year ago ? https://i.gyazo.com/28d488fd78b794a115d47bf53d453a6f.mp4 only animations no multiple feet so they can be animated however you want to animate them and if you make flat shoes for them they will adapt to the height, great for realistic movement and looks.
  5. @Marjolaine Seymour https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/DCNY-Everything-Jeans-in-Regular-Wash-Now-with-Phat-Azz-Appliers/1997055 these are system layers they are not high waisted that was not really that common back in the day because of the seams issues with upper lower but they come on all layers so you can wear your jeans over a longer top.
  6. Seems you have missed Bakes on Mesh perhaps somewhere, you do not lose any of your clothing options now when using a mesh body if the mesh body uses the SL UV and has bakes on mesh active. You should perhaps try a demo of one with any of your favourite outfits and bam, there you go instantly done but smoother and more meshed out. As for the two and three letters it sounds as though you are hitting Standard Sizing as suggested, the xxs xs s m and L were before we had fitted mesh, so they had a standard sizing format. If the other letters are creators simplifying a name of a body type then I agree with you, people calling well known products by two letters or even just one does not help someone that does not know what that means.
  7. I have over 400K only because I have deleted tens of thousands of items over the years. The subfolders can take thousands so do not stress too much on that, and then those folders can have folders, so if you only have hundreds you should be doing just fine, pretty much its under 10K I was told back when items were vanishing if you didn't have subfolders. I tend to just grab huge chunks of loose folders and nest them in other folders, like Sort Me 2021 and then i start over, one day I might just 'Sort Me 2016 2017 2018 2019 and so on ' but my inventory loads instantly I rarely have issues, every so often i get the empty folder thing and relog and it sorts itself.
  8. Whimsy had so many letters just for that reason, we would be shopping and the store would have chairs and she would see a letter come up that no one in the store had, so she would log in an alt with that letter, sit down and log off. Her reasoning was so that the next letter may help someone actually there.
  9. Applauds @GuliaMCRfor keeping their cool through the whole four pages I just read, because wow were there some that just grabbed you by the teeth and started shaking their heads, but did also turn that back around ♥. I also can get very protective of Second Life overall, and I do agree that spending some time in Second Life and doing what you are asking about would be a great way to not only experience but also observe. I am not sure if this was made clear, but you can do everything mentioned without spending, just for more experience. There are many stores that have groups that once you join them you can get free/gift items, and those can create the same rush of YAY GIMME GIMME GIMME as purchasing can, depending on the creator and item. There is also a very strong thrill from just trying on DEMOS of items, whether your taste or within your budget, seeing first hand and on your own avatar the skill required to make items is sometimes literally breathtaking. There have been many times that I have purchased things just so that the person that put that much talent into it got that monetary thumbs up so to speak. Hair is my personal crack, no exaggeration I have times in the past when we used to have to wait much longer for releases, felt like I was having withdrawal symptoms, would search the whole grid for something I did not already own that would make me happy. I once not during a SALE purchased 13 styles in one go because of that incredible rush of finding 13 styles I did not own. It would be cool if you came back after a week or so of spending time on the grid and did another survey based on experiences you yourself have had, for example question one you combine things in a way that are not often comparable in this platform. Such as Clothing and Skins being together, when a Skin is often something someone wears every day for a length of time that can vary from a few days, a few weeks or in some cases years, to clothing that we can often change on the hour. Then animations and emojis are not a grouping we even have, we have animations and static poses, and depending on what you do in SL you can never buy a static, have only one Animation Over-rider, or have thousands of poses and animations due to all kinds of uses, modeling, blogging, photography, advertisement posters etc. I saw you mention that it was mixed because of the way it was being formatted by your school, but it would be great to have you come back with your own survey because you are interested to know more. Many in here would welcome that commitment I am sure. Marketing in Second Life is a whole other thing, we use a lot of resources here, ones that over time were developed by Residents to expand the reach of their products, or by Residents who wanted to share their skills at finding content. There are marketing groups in world, groups on many Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Plurk and so on. Stores do their own Marketing as well as using Bloggers to spread to their own Audience, it really is something that based on what you have said you would be really impressed by. There are shopping events, shopping groups, yearly events for charity based on shopping and donations, there are systems that people have created where creators pay to use those tools to promote. There are also full Magazines of just Second Life content put together each month by truly creative teams. Regardless of what you do end up doing, I truly hope that you come back at some stage and let us know that you did get that chance and take that time to look more into the very complex platform that is Second Life. Good luck with your education, being the first to take on a new course must be an exciting challenge also. EDIT: came back to giggle at the do you think you will purchase virtual items in the next 6 months - for us it would be next 6 minutes (even seconds) they really did mix up everything with other platforms, it is a shame that happened.
  10. from the original post its original set up fees for new regions from LL https://gyazo.com/028a5652605e3d3132751d93505d9ad9
  11. must rename (included in fees) Tier due on the 11th of each month available from 6th December Buyer must pay fees in lindens to seller 300USD (78000L) Please contact in world with offer only
  12. Daddy is a sexualised term now and that is just very different. My first experience of Wives calling their Husbands what the kids would call them and vice versa was the old Ma & Pa Kettle movies, it was endearing, it was in no way sexual, it was just this is your Pa and that is your Ma and lets just not make more noise by confusing things it was wholesome. I do not understand when I see a Male character in a show sidle up to a YOUNG girl and call her Mama, with a sleazy intention, that is also very different and confusing, and honestly cultural or not, it has definitely taken on a strange newer pop culture type of thing. I know in some Asian countries it is all titles all the time, but they are not adding an element to sleaze to that.
  13. that made me giggle, because while I am Sasy Scarborough all over the internet, I do not feel as though Sasy Scarborough is in blender making a cube look broken, or in Photoshop as Sasy Scarborough working on pictures of Sasy Scarborough for the blog SasyScarborough.com or the Flickr that belongs to Sasy Scarborough lol ok maybe I do...goes off to ponder that while making Sasy a cup of tea.
  14. https://www.gridaffairs.com/events/ they do a good job of it so far https://media-sl.com/category/events/ also a strong structure https://www.seraphimsl.com/calendar/ also has one but not sure if it only includes events they cater to in their website The SL 'events' are anyone wanting to promote just about everything and that is not really the same thing as people would want to promote on a region. While it would be great to know, you are asking people to promote things for other locations on their location and that is a big ask, as an in world calendar could remove someone from their own region as soon as they land and see the calendar and go somewhere else.
  15. I said ten because of the tenure thing, also because I am nearly 17 did not want it to seem like I was trying to gain somehow.
  16. I was a late computer and even later internet person too in the grand scheme of things. I was too social RL back then and knew if I got a PC that it would end up a towel holder or get lost under a pile of stuff and gather dust. I was 28 - 29 first pc, and did nothing but hotmail and sims games on it. I did not grasp the World Wide Web at all. I landed here when I was 34 and before that a bit of yahoo. Second Life is the only reason I know how to actually use my computer, use the internet and so on, the software, the ease of use, everything has come from Second Life and wanting to do all that I do and have done. It is an education no one expects.
  17. Interesting, because I had been told or seen it said a few times that you lose that stipend if you stop, good to know in case the cheese keeps going up in price down here I do not blame you though, you only make some of the cheese in your neck of the woods.
  18. I have been a premium account holder since very early on, back in the days when first land was like the Gold Rush, you made a mad dash to try and get a good spot. My stipend is a cool 500L a week and I have paid yearly the whole time. The only thing that has happened though is that it has gone up, and that is not a complaint that is life, but I was thinking would it be in LL's best interest to incentivise staying on for the long haul? It could be different kinds of options. 1. You reach ten years so your stipend is locked in, meaning if you do miss a year or even a month you don't drop down to the lower rate when you are able to come back, life happens a payment is missed, you should not be punished for it when you have such good standing with a company. 2. You reach ten years and your cost per year goes down, even five dollars a year every year after that would still take twenty years to get to zero and honestly if you have been paying premium for thirty years at that point you should be rewarded. The zero could even just be for one year and then maybe jump back up to full price and you start again. 3. You reach ten years and you get to gift an alt premium, kind of a two for one deal but maybe the second account does not get stipend, just the other perks, like land, concierge, teleport gains etc. Edit 4. You get a special category on your profile saying you are awesome or something like a badge of honor lol and you get to pick a colour frame WOOHOO What do you think some cool ten year rewards could be, and do you agree something like this would be a good incentive to keep going. I am 16 years so I am not trying to set this up for my tenth lol but on top of all the other things many of us pay it is definitely a huge commitment to one thing.
  19. I think about 4 and those happened in the first years of my SL. I derender things for lag sometimes but only temp. I do not get spammed luckily and if I catch a person having added me to something I contact them to remove me, it would take it happening over and over again to block them. I am too of the mind that a spammer today may be someone I need to communicate with in ten years kind of thing.
  20. I have it, I use it sparingly for some communication, but also do not like it and do not believe it should be an only resource for something in Second Life. I especially do not like that in Discord I have no idea who anyone is, because they have different names than in SL and you can change your name per server but how annoying, and then it lends itself to trolling. Seems to work for many, but I wish SL had not become so diluted...it makes what there is in Second Life feel a lot more detached, because you have to keep track of where everyone may be actually doing stuff.
  21. I have aged well and truly in SL started in my 30s and am now 50 and I do not know how that happened. I have had customer service interactions with people over 70 a few times, more so lately than anyone would have admitted in the past possibly? When I started SL everyone was apparently 19 so much so that it became a joke. I am so long here I remember that people actually asked A/S/L as soon as you landed anywhere, I was so late to the internet I did not even know what it meant.
  22. I understand when it is 1L because then you can gift the gift to alts or friends etc, but 10L is definitely not a gift.
  23. I agree that dating listed would have a whole lot of misinformed customers thinking because it is old it is not good. What I would really like to see instead of anything to do with listing price is 'Creator last logged in' I know this seems a privacy thing, but I would much rather keep on supporting content where the creator is around, also to provide assistance if needed vs someone that is just riding the unlimited value of SL content and just cashing out or just long gone for whatever reason. I think that this would also help Marketplace in the long run because honestly having items listed in the thousands when the person may have long left the platform and not even cash out because their items don't sell or they just do not care about the lindens, it could make it easier on search and so on to be able to justifiably remove content when the owner is visibly absent. That should be something in the TOS.
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