[Can Linden Labs get more better last names?]

I like Labs. If I could change my name into Arduenn Labs, then I'd pay fourty bucks for it.

I kid. Not really.

[Make Second Life Great Again.]

Don't feed the crypto trolls, people.

14 hours ago, Randall Ahren said:

If this was a troll, the OP would have replied a few times already to lure in more people.

I think they're too busy getting filthy rich in [insert trendy metaverse du jour - as seen on TwitterX].

[Tell everyone one good thing about Second Life and Linden Labs]

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Tell everyone one good thing about Second Life and Linden Labs

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.)

[IM message]

1 hour ago, MarkeusFeehily said:

I started experiencing not receiving random people replies

Wait, that's a good thing, right?

[Raytracing]

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.

[What in your opinion is a good blogger?]

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.

[VAMPIRES!]

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.

[VAMPIRES!]

8 hours ago, Lauren Mortal said:

you must be one of them yourself

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.)

[Describe Second Life in 4 words.]

Read The [Friggin'] Notecard

[Question about forum signatures]

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

[Question about forum signatures]

53 minutes ago, Quartz Mole said:

Sigs about golf, unless it's SL golf, are off-topic for SL forums.

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

 

[Question about forum signatures]

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

[Question about forum signatures]

[About Marketplace]

8 hours ago, PheebyKatz said:

On 8/24/2023 at 5:43 PM, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

On 8/24/2023 at 4:37 AM, Micaiyahwen said:

I'm not sure if it is because some creators are just putting the product into the wrong categories or many categories

Yes.

It's keyword spam

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

 

[Question about forum signatures]

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Activities and/or displaying items that could be construed by Linden Lab as political campaigning is not permitted in Bellisseria.

Boo! Election interference! /s

[Question about forum signatures]

34 minutes ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:

well then how about “Kama City Campaign Headquarters (RP)” for my chosen candidate.

Oh, you meant roleplay politics!

(I see that a lot, confusion between roleplay and real world matters in SL.)

[Question about forum signatures]

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NSFW====> Bewbies collection

I clicked this and it was totally worth it.

[Question about forum signatures]

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

[Armature rigging add 5 toes of foot.]

32 minutes ago, KentDavis Edman said:

33 minutes ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

39 minutes ago, KentDavis Edman said:

42 minutes ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

Is LL adding toes?

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.

[Armature rigging add 5 toes of foot.]

Where was this announced?

[Armature rigging add 5 toes of foot.]

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

[About Marketplace]

13 hours ago, Micaiyahwen said:

I'm not sure if it is because some creators are just putting the product into the wrong categories or many categories

Yes.

All answers answered.

[Do you use Advanced Lighting in SL? a little poll!]

12 hours ago, AmeliaJ08 said:

There's a whole category of perfectly capable laptops designed to do actual work with very similar hardware to gaming laptops but without fancy lights

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.

[Do you use Advanced Lighting in SL? a little poll!]

3 hours ago, Jaylinbridges said:

My example above using my partners's HP desk size laptop

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

3 hours ago, Jaylinbridges said:

My PC's last 20 years btw

That's why I said 'average life-span'.

[Do you use Advanced Lighting in SL? a little poll!]

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.