Arduenn Schwartzman

Don't feed the crypto trolls, people. I think they're too busy getting filthy rich in [insert trendy metaverse du jour - as seen on TwitterX].

Here's a thing that's very good about Second Life and Linden Labs, because it hits many birds with a single stone: you can save time, energy, screen space and keyboard wear by spelling Linden Lab correctly. (As a bonus benefit: it triggers fewer people with OCD tendencies, like me.)

Wait, that's a good thing, right?

Raytracing can look good in dark wet/metallic environments with lots of light sources all around, like Cyberpunk 2077. In dry rocky and leafy places (say nature/forest/deserts, but also dry urban places during daytime, the environment with RTX on does not differ noticably from that with RTX off.

A good blogger grabs all the stuff from the blogger room, rezzes everything out in front of a backdrop, little bit of shuffling, rotating. And then it's time for the scanner HUD, which convenienetly lists the object names that have been meticulously placed all around, and, if it's a really fancy HUD, adds their respective store names. and then it's time for a snapshot. Nice and big, 7500 pixels wide, so you can see a hint of the stuff tucked behind other stuff. And then it's time to upload the picture to Flickr. And copy paste the item name/store name list from Local Chat in the Flickr description. And then comes the hard work: (i) submit the art to at least one thousand different Flickr groups, (ii) 'Like' a whole tonne of related pictures from blogger friends on Flickr in hopes of reciprocity. And Bob's your uncle. The written word is for boomers. Pictures are worth a thousand words and Flickr is King. What makes a good blogger? If they write stuff that I enjoy as a reader, I guess. Most importantly, listing a bunch of pros and cons of the product in question. What I really miss, though, is, when I take a bloggers criticism to heart, and I improve upon it, it's practically never that these improvements get a follow-up in a blog.

Am I correct in concluding that the following is the core of the problem? "Avatar/cloud stands too close for too long near other avatar." After all, since there are options as Block and Derender, all other details of this debate topic are trivial. It doesn't matter what role the adversary plays. When they are blocked, you can't see whether they're a ninja, a zombie, a pirate or a vampire. Also, it does not matter what they IM to you. Once they are blocked, you have been liberated of their verbal harassments. So, the only thing that's left is an invisible physics bean and a little cloud of particles that invades your personal space. In the worst case, they might even push your avatar around when you are afk. And, gee, I wonder how one could solve that problem.

Shhh! Don't mention... them! They are listening! [Edit] This thread is some good Streisand Effect sh*t. I had never even heard of Progeny vampires before. (Not that I'm looking into it any further, of course.)

Read The [Friggin'] Notecard

This Halloween is going to be a good one for signatures.

Got it. So I'm already rushing to update my new sig with an SL pumpkin.

So, signature quotes about unnamed cheating golf players aren't allowed . There goes my plausible deniability.

Yes. It's keyword spam You're right. I didn't consider that. Keyword spam is rampant, more so than miscategorization.

Boo! Election interference! /s

Oh, you meant roleplay politics! (I see that a lot, confusion between roleplay and real world matters in SL.)

I clicked this and it was totally worth it.

I've always been hiding all signatures, but for this thread I'll make an exception. Together, each for themselves! (Political party slogan.)

Yes bento Where was this announced? I don't understand. How do you know that Linden Lab is adding toes to the Second Life armature? Because (i) no one else but Linden Lab can add bones to the current Second Life avatar skeleton, and (ii) I'm pretty sure the current Second Life avatar doesn't have toe bones.

Where was this announced?

Is LL adding toes? The word 'toe' does not appear in the Project Bento skeleton guide: https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Project_Bento_Skeleton_Guide

Yes. All answers answered.

I was of course being facetious. I guess I should have typed "C. Gaming laptop or perfectly capable laptop designed to do actual work with very similar hardware to gaming laptops". Oh, darn, I'm being facetious again.

I guess I left laptop computers out of the equation. Unless they're gaming laptops, they'll always be the least suitable platform for SL, no matter how new they are. Perhaps the survey should have included an extra question: Which computer are you using? A. Desktop computer B. Laptop computer C. Laptop computer with fancy lights That's why I said 'average life-span'.

With my old computer from 2012 I had to leave it off, or my frame rate would plummet. With my new(er) computer from 2018, it does not matter whether I have ALM off or on. SO it's always on. So my guess, whatever the outcome is of this survey, is that the percentage of people who have ALM off represents the percentage of people who's computer is six to eleven years old or older. That's past the average life-span of a PC, so my other guess is that this percentage is small and rapidly dwindling.

Some griefer once made a replicator with tiny little tortured prims that were hard to see, select, inspect or delete - especially for someone with little experience with building and land management - which is a lot of people. The griefer in question would put these prims in a spawner and gift this to the newbies of SL. Each little spawned prim contained a list of people to harrass by constantly sending them IMs with very long lines with cursing and swearing and big unicode characters that would flood their screens. These people (including me) were put on this list out of spite, because they had an argument with said griefer. It was impossible to block these spamming prims, because new prims would rez constantly, without their unwitting owners ever knowing, other than that their land would run out of prims and they would not understand why. This device caused a real crisis in SL. It was a big burden on the grid's chat network. Offline IMs were capped for months for many people. it probably cost Linden Lab many months to clear the grid of these nasty things. Lesson learned: if someone harasses you the second you enter their 'territory' (public sandboxes), don't engage in any conversation with them. Block, ban, and if possible, Abuse Report and go on with your life elsewhere. These are criminal psychopaths and you are not a therapist or law enforcement. Leave it to the professionals.