Arduenn Schwartzman

Maybe someone stumbled upon this otherwise extremely interesting video about heap data structures, but then let their imagination go wild and started a bunch of BS on FB for likes. If you pardon me going off on a tangent.

According to a friend, there's this rumor going around on Facebook that sends people into a frenzy. The rumor is that Linden Lab is going to 'flatten' the inventories of SL residents - i.e. to take items out of folders that are 'too full' and relocate them in other, smaller folders. One resident claims that this already happened to her. It seems to have stirred a heated debate on the platform. Does anyone have any clue as to whether this rumor is rooted into some kind of truth? Or is this just one of the many reasons to stay away from Facebook?

This is what I always imagined what the cause of blurry textures would be: Temporarily seeing blurry textures = textures showing in stages of increased resolution while they are being downloaded from the internet. Persistently seeing a blurred texture = the download process got interrupted somewhere mid-way. I'm just theorizing what happens under the hood here, because I remember, from the old days of the electronic highway, using NCSI Mosaic and Netscape Navigator in combination with a dial-up internet connection, that pictures on web pages would load like this. Am I correct with that? Or is there another cause to this problem (other than what Qie suggested - a corrupted texture cache)?

Maybe, upon arrival, present every new visitor who has not accepted your Experience yet, with a little token (notecard, HUD with text, a simple dialog window even), that lays out the necessity of accepting the Experience for the sake of automatically teleporting through your build for full immersion. If they do not accept, maybe provide an alternative, like little teleportation poles (simple sit/llSetRegionPos/unsit) that require a single click to send an avatar from A to B. It's best to test run when your build in place, subject testers to either possibility and ask the testers' honest opinions on what option they like best. All the theorizing aside, I think you'll just have to try it out. Side note: I don't mind teleportation and automatic attachments at all in an Experience. What I absolutely hate is the Experience taking over my camera control, though.

If intelligentsia means what I think it means then aren't the American founding fathers and their associates intelligentsia? And the founders and developers of Linden Lab/Second Life and whomever they were inspired/advised by? And am I correct in understanding that you're asking if SL needs an intelligentsia in-world? Would that require the need or demand for some sort of organized, structured societal entity within SL? Like a roleplay community? I imagine the usefulness of an intelligentsia to be to design such community in a sustainable way, guaranteeing survival and a basic quality of life for all within that society. I also imagine survival of a community in SL to rely on the minimization of drama. So, if SL ever would need an intelligentsia, it would have to be one that specializes in drama reduction. An intelligentsia of psychologists and sociologists would be most useful, in that case.

I can't wait till the Olsen sisters to turn 65, so they can star in a remake of the Golden Girls! Seriously, someone should make a countdown clock website for the Olsen twins.

Under some circumstances, like proposed above, it would be convenient to allow a worn object to be set to 'left-click pay'. Right now, that's impossible in SL. I wonder if that was a deliberate choice by the SL devs. It probably was. If it becomes easier for people to pay, it probably also becomes easier for people to be deceived into paying.

Alarm bells went off when I read Paris Hilton. Checked out a more detailed description on the website. Turns out she only wrote the foreword. Still, the whole thing reeks of Facebook and crypto. I'm extremely prejudiced towards those, so, by fully embracing my Desire Of Missing Out (DOMO), I'm going to respectfully decline. [Update] I saw what they did there. There was an attempt to get Paris Hilton fans to read a book.

Maybe, in the first 10 minutes, newbies come to realize that SL isn't as pretty as they thought it would be, based on some pretty pictures on Flicker, or as shown in some promotional videos, and think: "well that was all a bunch of misleading advertising". Also, how does the SL new user retention rate compare to other massive multi-player online platforms? I remember ditching WoW and ARK pretty darn quickly, quite unlike SL.

- Wondering what the Land Impact of RL objects would be. Another mix-up thing between SL and RL is related to English being the dominant language, and Dutch being so closely related to it. - Sometimes starting a conversation in English rather than in Dutch, IRL. - Sometimes remembering English words for things better than Dutch words. I think that spending my time with people in SL is mostly the cause of these. Also, quite often, I keep making comparisons between English and Dutch. I tend to translate Dutch phrases literally to English and vice versa, just to see how hilarious or weird they turn out to be. Both languages share a lot of cognates, but, hilariously as well, a lot of false friends.

Rent directly from Linden Lab themselves.

Linden Lab just forgot to change the two letters to two other letters (EU to UK) on the website, that's all. Don't worry. Your money does not 'go to the EU'. It 'goes to the UK'.

Don't worry. Just get a job at a three-letter agency and enjoy all the freedom you don't have now.

A clean slate SL clone is an interesting concept. But for many reasons already stated above, it's unlikely to succeed. It'd probably be more meaningful to sanitize the existing SL grid. That is, to clean up all the junk, especially on the mainland, that's been idly lingering around since the dawn of SL. I'm also curious what gives with the vast numbers of stacked rentals, literally hundreds of thousands of them, scattering the skies of mainland SL, eating up valuable space and energy for naught. It's almost as if some desperate wannabe land barons cling onto these, hoping that people will suddenly start to rent and live in them. [Update] I quickly hopped into SL for a gloomy outlook of said stacked rentals: A lot of them seem to be quite new even. One of those boxes you can rent and decorate with a measly 50 LI-worth of items: That's high quality real-estate, right out of the box, that is. This one was erected in December 21, so it seems, people are trying to reinvent the quick money making scheme over and over again. I guess, for the sake of freedom and habeas territorium, we just have to live with it. It's also making a point that, most likely, on a 'clean SL slate', the same ***** is going to happen all over again.

I'm not following any trend. And I don't hate him either. I'm just avoiding Facebook, Instagram, WhatApp and anything Meta like hell. To a point that I'm even using a browser that blocks all trackers. (For reasons.)

Legs or no legs. There's no way in hell I'll ever set foot in Meta's metaverse, for reasons.

You'd be surprised how little corporations can achieve with so much money. I believe that scarcity stimulates inventiveness. I also believe that excessive wealth does exactly the opposite. Go on, Zuck, shovel a few more billions in that Black Meta hole money pit of yours, while you struggle to concoct Meta's mission statement by consulting total strangers on f**ing Twitter. "Here's 10 billion. What are you going to do with it? "I don't know yet. Let me ask the people on Twitter."

Maybe some day, there'll be a continent of protected land available on the grid, with miles and miles of gorgeous wildernis. Just for recreation. (On a side note: watch Keith Moon play the drums in this particular music video. There's no doubt in my mind that the Muppet Show's drummer character Animal was based entirely on him.)

In a culinary context, it's almost always treated as a vegetable. Tomato ice cream, tomato candies, and tomato cakes have never really become mainstream. Tomato juice is a rare go-between thing. Pizzas are sandwich-leaning. And let's not talk about the Gazpacho. But yes, for botanists and biologists, it's a fruit. Like cucumbers, zucchinis, egg plants, peppers, squashes, avocados, olives, and pickles.

Arduenn's Second Law of Forum Dynamics: Any discussion on any topic on any internet forum ends in a basic quarrel over whether a [tomato] is a [fruit] or a [vegetable].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

I visited York once, when they held a herpesvirus workshop back in 1998 . It's a nice town, with a pub for each day of the year. [Update] Filled in the form. I hope we'll get the results/analysis/conclusions to see here, some time.

"Affect", not "effect". Corrected.