Angelina Sinclair

My ava is 1.67m by SL measurements, by firestorm it is 1.84m. In inches that is 6.7inches of difference. Shoe bases add about that much. Despite that height my arms ARE long enough to wipe myself and I got 30 more points in the slider to make'em even longer...! 😝 Firestorm is not. It is an overhyped viewer. All "accurate" measurements in SL is based on LL's own prims. How certain can you be of that 0.5m cube being actually 0.5meters when LL has messed up so many things-- as you say. People are measuring avatar heights with the same broken code LL used to build this uviverse. How you trust the cube to be exactly 0.5m like in RL, but trash everything else is beyond me. My avatar is perfectly fine and normal looking.

Shut down? No but there was rumors. I was an admin on a sim that did get a warning from LL about it. The sim owner was definitely scared about it. I also had reported someone for child porn stuff in their profile and that person got banned along with their partner who was very child like. They were banned the next day after the abuse report. LL takes this very seriously since US has some extremely strict laws on child porn. Even lolitas doing explicit things will have you breaking the law. Also people shouldn't assume cause their ava is a "teen" they are safe to engage in adult stuff either: So when people kick/ban others for being too short or child-like, they are protecting themselves and their regular visitors.

SL is not built to mimic RL human proportions. The scales are all off, the sliders are off. To make it worse the default camera height is bad and encourages people to size up so they don't feel like they are watching a short person. This goal of realism is unobtainable and should be kicked to the curb. SL itself has a different height measurement but everyone goes with Firestorm or some random 3rd party scripted nonsenses that makes the person calc'ed to be 6inches taller or more. Somehow Firestorm is more accurate than Linden Labs, the actual creators of SL. That's how absurd this height nonsense is. People think it is the height measurement in Edit shape that is off. What if it is the measurement on the prim blocks? Is that legitimately 0.5m tall? This is a company and game made by americans you know...

Adult sims have a good reason for excluding people based off of height. US child porn laws are pretty extreme and even fictional characters is illegal. Beyond that, I don't know why any other place would care about height. Unless it is breaking their immersion that hard.

scratch that.

Well sure, if they wanna be 5ft shortie that's fine. The problem I have is said shorties keep calling me tall while I am size appropriate anyway at 5'6". It is just I wear 6inch heels all the time making me 6ft. 😛 The other issue is the child ava on adult sims and this is where I tend to run into a lot of the tiny ones that run that questionable line TOS or not.

5'1" is exceptionally small in SL. It is near child-like, and no I am not calling short people, children. Due to camera positions and the height of objects in the area, you would just appear more child than adult. You can't assume everyone will adjust their cameras away from SL defaults, that's just silly. Nor can you assume folks will bother measuring the height of their furniture and homes to make sure it is realistic. Some people are overly obsessed with realism, but then are perfectly ok with fantasy stuff, magic, furries, breedables and other unrealistic things. Let it go! Let them be whoever they want to be, even if it is an 8ft giant! Plus it is not like you can't make your avatar taller and make different shape sizes for different communities.

It really depends where you show up as an animal. It is quite easy to be disruptive in RP sims with the wrong ava. Say.. a giant dragon flying around in a realistic urban setting. Or a panther standing in the middle of people in an adult sim. These are things I've seen happen. lol Though in any other place, I don't see why it would be an issue.

This is a bad thing? Pornhub is a billion dollar company. In the wake of Twitter shooting itself in the foot by removing adult content and OnlyFans having to back peddle their decisions to remove adult content as well, this doesn't sound like a bad thing at all. The fact SL can stay profitable while having "weird sex fetishes and perverts" should be a testimony to the potential SL has hidden. Just imagine what SL could do with a real engine! Real game mechanics! lol I just think to Roblox and what they've manage to create and the plethra of games and things you can do there vs SL lacking the tools for people to replicate that here.

False. If your GPU will crash over someone having too high of complexity, then it is time for an upgrade. Nothing within the past 5 years will crash from that. Avatar complexity is over hyped and dramatized as the ultimate factor in lag. It is not. The mere presence of avas with no scripts, no attachments, is enough to induce lag. The SL engine and architect is the issue. Not me wearing an extra piece of jewelry.

What I'd love to see is: FREE OUTFIT GALLERY UPLOADS (Seriously, introduce outfit gallery but nickle and dime us per upload for it just asinine) Free uploads (or like free 100 uploads a month or something) Ability to share inventory with an alt. (at least one!) Larger tier/land allowance Being 1st to be able to buy land from LL cause buying it from expensive 3rd parties is terrible. Ability to own homestead without a full sim (thanks Anna Salyx for the idea) Increased attachment limits Increase animesh attachments.

Yup, having the same problem as well

Ok so amazon AWS thingy mentions the issue here: https://status.aws.amazon.com/ But also includes a fix: Where's LL's network hamster nerd? Please decipher and fix it! 🥺

Thank god these forums are not on amazon's web services. lol

I've had a few odd chats. With some guys making remarks if my white skin and beauty. I kindly tons them I'm not white but Hispanic save not interested. I've also have seen a number of white and black supremacy groups in SL all focused on it being a kink and not you know, neonazis and the such. Definitely not a kink for me. I do however find it odd that people have this kink cause like you could still have all the usual bdsm stuff without the racist undertones. Guess there's something there in not seeing but each to their own.