Extrude Ragu
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"Stud Lesbian"
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On 6/3/2020 at 8:05 PM, Arduenn Schwartzman said:
Never ever in the 13 years that I have sold Mod items have I had a support request from people screwing up their items.
I've had occasional support requests about people screwing up their items. It does happen. Not often enough to justify making items no mod mind you.
With that said, I think that decision to sell mod or no mod should be left to the store owner, and the decision to purchase or not purchase no-mod items left to the consumer, and simply let demand and supply do its thing
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48 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:
Slums are a result of inequality and racism, not a cause. ffs
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On the Identity of SecondLife
On 3/11/2020 at 5:17 AM, animats said:Worth thinking about when asking the marketing question "What should a new SL user's first hour be like?" What should be preset, and what should be changeable? This a hard and critical problem.
I think that SecondLife itself is little more than a very elaborate browser. What is seen below the address bar is very much the choice of the user.
This is a location on the good old 2D Web:- https://www.kokoro.academy
This is a location on the 3D Web. secondlife://KINGS%20RANCH/163/138/2338
Let's replace 'SL' with some browsers.
"What should a new Chrome user's first hour be like?"
"What should a new Firefox user's first hour be like?"
The answer then becomes obvious. The first hour should be the user going to where they want to go, and doing what they want to do. There should not really be a 'shared experience' besides learning to use the browser. The browser should empower the user to search and find their interests by themselves.
SecondLife is a virtual-world browser but has the barriers to entry of a game
You do not have to register, confirm your email address, etc to download Chrome or Firefox, but you do for games.
SecondLife has the barrier to entry of a game, which creates the idea in the user's head that when they log in, they are going to experience a game, they are given the expectation that they will be rewarded for their work with the experience of a game.
In reality behind SecondLife's registration wall is the entry-way to another smaller internet. User's choose to go to different locations the same way they choose to go to different sites online. Different places have different themes, experiences and expectations or lack thereof for their users the same way that internet sites do.
Often, the users identity even changes depending on which location/site they visit, and they may not even wish to have a shared identity between two 'sites' or 'locations' etc.
I don't have the answers to these thoughts, just chucking them down here.
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On the flip side, something that irked me was that people in my friends list I give the permission to edit my objects, are able to take copies of the objects I've created in-world
As a sim owner, it's useful to let other people build and move stuff around as needed, but many of the assets in my sim are made specially for my sim as they're a part of what makes it unique, I don't want people to be able to just take copies of whatever prop I've made (and I make 1,000's of them)
I discovered this by accident, and since then I tend to think twice now about giving permission to edit my objects.
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I've taken a break from reading/replying to this topic.
At one point I snapped at someone and called their views racist, I just wanted to say I'm sorry for doing that.
I'm actually afraid to go read through the posts to see who it was incase I read something that makes me mad again. Pretty silly right?
Well, that's me pulling out of this thread for now. Maybe I'll read when things are not so stressful irl and i have a level head :s
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1 hour ago, Luna Bliss said:
Your 'shoulds" and "it's that simple" depict a world that doesn't exist.
No. I refuse to accept this stance at all.
We must judge individuals on individual merits.
We must set the golden standard that all others should follow, and never stoop to the lowest common denominator or accept that as reality.
For as long as good people hold the world up to high standards and expectations, the sooner the world will reach those standards.
When you accept anything less, you are no longer a leader but a defeatist.
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2 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:
I would like to see those so outraged about violence at protests be as horrified by the violence perpetrated against people of color throughout the centuries.
Don't lump me in with your racist views on others.
I am horrified by it all.
I want everybody to treat everyone as individuals. Did that person do a good thing to that person? Did that person do a bad thing to that person? Race does not need to enter the equation at all. It's that simple.
I will never let it become a race thing, and neither should you.
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Do not mistake my indifference to race for an ignorance to racism.
For as long as people like me exist, who judge solely on the individuals actions, there is hope that racism as we know it can end.
Only when everybody follows my example and lives by these principles will racism be a thing of the past.
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12 minutes ago, Pixieplumb Flanagan said:
They? I've seen mainly white provocateurs doing this, I've seen the police escalating violence, I've seen people of colour forming cordons to protect businesses. If you watch faux news you'll see what they want you to see.
Frankly the way I see it is like this.
I honestly do not give two monkeys about the color of skin of who is doing what. I've never cared about anyone's skin color and never will.
Everyone needs to sit down, realize that the looting, arson and destruction of property is destroying peoples lives and agree to do what it takes to put a stop to it.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
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Just now, Pixieplumb Flanagan said:
if you're still more concerned with property destruction than you know, actual lives, then you're a big part of the problem.
Properties are peoples lives. When you destroy someones property, you remove a roof from their head, you remove their safety and force them to live on the streets in danger. You ensure any children have no safe place to sleep at night. You ensure somebody doesn't go to work, doesn't eat.
If you can't fathom this, to throw a quote right back at you:
3 minutes ago, Pixieplumb Flanagan said:then you're a big part of the problem.
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5 minutes ago, Pixieplumb Flanagan said:
People like the Nazarene then?* The USA has had almost 500 years to get their 'stuff' together and stop oppressing, torturing, murdering, side lining, bullying and r*ping people of colour. No, I know plenty of other countries are also pretty bad, yes, mine included. If there truly were an army of non working, non contributing, constantly active campaigners they must have learnt to live off fresh air. Of course they also work. They contribute. They have families. But they see injustice and will not let it stand. I like those people; I am in awe of those people, I want to be more like those people.
*Trashing the temple was such a shocker - why couldn't he have protested peacefully? /s
They've been destroying small businesses, low income homes. There will now be people who find themselves homeless who have little to no income and those without business unable to feed their families. This is not an act of social justice. It's not virtuous. It's wrong.
Mindless destruction and outrage is never the answer to social issues, it only brings more suffering and misery and most often to those who least deserve it. It has enabled looters, anarchists and arsonists to do what they love to do best.
Unless people start realizing this and becoming more responsible, I am afraid they will soon find themselves living in a world where the color of your skin is the least of your issues but for all the wrong reasons.
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From my experience I've come to the conclusion that there are people with a type of personality who base their entire identity around what ills the world has done to them.
They don't do work, they don't contribute, they actively seek out things to be outraged by as an excuse to act in selfish destructive ways that destroy the lives of others.
Without outrage, without injustice, they are nothing. The world cannot be peaceful to these people.
That is why, they label people who aren't actively protesting for their ideology as 'complicit'. It's the only way they can perpetually ensure that there is never peace, that people never stop fighting or having a cause to fight against.
I don't like those people.
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2 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:
What would you say it is?
I'd say the biggest problem regarding most social issues right now are the massive outrage mobs that use social injustice as an excuse to raze everything to the ground, loot endanger lives and destroy livelihoods of innocent people who have nothing to do with the incident. If there was one way to really ramp up racial hatred, I think that was a good way to go about doing it.
I sympathized with the protests until news of buildings being burnt to the ground started reaching me across the pond. Many of which apparently low income housing, small business etc. Now I think that they are just as bad themselves. It's unfortunate there is such a great lack of self awareness.
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I'm unfamiliar with what rules creators have to comply with to qualify their machines as 'skill gaming'. Would be interesting to have a read.
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I think LL only responds if it is the creator complaining.
With that said, it's possible they may have used one of those full perm props sold on the MP or something. I think it's best to inform the creator just in case.
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I would be interested in this too.
I have a robot cat friend who looks up at me when he is talking. It's very cute.
I noticed that with people with rigged eyes that have a head overriding ao, if they send look at info, the eyes follow you whilst the head turns, making the character give you the 'side eye' which is an unfortunate effect
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This seems pretty nifty, ty for sharing
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I think OP knew exactly what they were doing when they said 'I don't think cisgender people can understand this.'
I don't think that OP or Nemz are marginalized. I don't think marginalized people would talk to others like what I've read. I think that if they were, they would be a lot nicer to others as they would know how it feels to be called out for who they are. I have not witnessed that virtue here.
I really do think that most people in SL simply do not care about what your identity is. It's never been made into an issue and I've met a lot of people of all kinds of sexualities or lack thereof. I don't think other people are as mean and cruel as they're being made out to be and believe that most people on SL are nice people.
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On 4/27/2020 at 2:09 PM, Jackson Redstar said:
i wouldn't be surprised if Linden started charging non-premium members a fee to save an image to disc!
Don't give them ideas 🤫
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I'm not drawing conclusions. All I'm saying is that I wouldn't know, and that the first impression you've given on the forum doesn't appear to be a good one to me.
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I noticed this in Firestorm before when I tried to take a high resolution snapshot, so I think it isn't EEP
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2 minutes ago, SimplyNemz said:
I'm normally quite friendly.
I wouldn't know, your account has 4 posts and 3 of them look like talking down to others to me 🤔
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Are You Showing Support for Black Lives Matter in Second Life?
in General Discussion Forum
Posted · Edited by Extrude Ragu
correction
I think the issue most people have with a lot of social justice movements in recent history, is the feeling that they try to 'fix' social injustice, by creating another. Whether that's by excluding people for being a 'majority' or by razing cities to the ground and leaving people homeless or jobless and creating an unsafe environment in general.
People like me advocate for a very different ideology, in which we simply remove identity politics from the equation. We don't care what your race is, what your faith is, whether you identify as a unicorn, what your social status is, how much wealth you have accrued. All we care about is your actions as an individual and never as some collective. Lady Justice wears a Blindfold for a good reason.
Most creators on SL know just how much effort and time it takes to build something worthwhile, and how easy it is to destroy what they've made. It can happen in an instant.
There are good people and bad people in all groups. Black people will willingly destroy the lives of other black people, and white people will destroy the lives of other white people. It's not racism, some people are just assholes and no amount of identity politics will fix that. You simply need to hold each individual to account for their own actions.