[Do you care about your render cost?]

Yes, I balance it. If a hair is too render-costly but I like it, I’ll usually pick lighter items for other parts of my outfit.

[Normie and Anime Height]

OwO

[I am Too Complicated]

I’m not sure how to take not ever having managed to confuse anyone... I shall have to ramp up my efforts. Meanwhile I guess I’ll settle for a decent score on laughs.

[When typing, do you use punctuation to express your emotion?]

I type fast enough not to need sacrificing correct punctuation; it’s as much a question of habit as anything else. And if someone is that impatient, I’d gladly not talk to him or her at all.

 

Recently, someone told me in IM that ending phrases with a period made me sound blunter.

I resisted the temptation to demonstrate proper bluntness.

[How many novels have you written?]

0.01

[Anyone here does not RP?]

I suck at it.

[Psychology of de-rendering]

I’m not beset by visuals (or by others’ need to strut like peacocks), most are just a once-over for me, so on my previous PC I used to derender a lot of eye candy. Less so now, but I still far prioritize usable FPS.

[Have you ever squatted on someone else's land?]

No.

[Would it be weird to give away lindens?]

Much as I’d love being the recipient of some of that “drive-by charity”, I agree that user-to-user helping areas, or individual accounts of a certain SL age range, are your nicest choice; in the latter case I’d go for users not too new to know what to do with the L$ (or even what they are), nor too old that they can’t—and haven’t probably—gotten their own.

[Daily Positivity]

[Strange Object]

Yer all wrong. It was demonic rings, and I just got the guy for it...

[Mobile Clients: Must-have, Nice to have, or Absolutely Unneccessary?]

Nice to have.

[Would you play SL classic?]

No.

[Can't we all just get along?]

Can, yes. Want, no.

[Sims that ban new people]

Or roleplaying sims where noobs would land by chance and, in their confusion, spoil the play. There can be many reasons, so I think nothing in particular of sims that do it.

[What do you do when you're angry?]

I wait until I’m not.

[Server problems?]

Same. It slows down my dressing at home, but once I save the outfit, if I’m elsewhere and have problems detaching temporary stuff, I just go to the outfits list and click “Wear” on whichever I was using. Seems to work.

[A recurring theme in Second Life: Vanity]

42 minutes ago, Gopi Passiflora said:

... We Residents are obsessed with our looks and making ourselves even more beautiful...

Yes, but I don’t envy others’ obsessions, cos mine is already fantabulous.

[Would you ever give your avatar(s) an Instagram?]

No. Years ago I was a competent if uninspired photographer, but I’m too rusty now.

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

3 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

We should go hide ourselves in the deepest, darkest cave we can find. Will Carlsbad Caverns do? It's roomy enough we'd hardly ever bump into each other.

Unless we wore the blingiest, clickiest pre-sculpt boots we could find, over twin Ruths. Then we’d both be fugly and traceable. Just sayin’

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

IBTL, and also to steal some of @Love Zhaoying’s yummy pupcorn 👀 😊

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

6 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

Just thought everyone would like to see my old system avatar that I used for modeling a few years ago. It's sooooooo ugly. [...]

They're so ugly I should be ashamed, right?

Yes.

...

Ooops, sorry, I talked to you. I shouldn’t have, not with that ugly system av.

So I guess now I should be ashamed as well, right? 😜

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

1 hour ago, MorrianaDarkstar said:

... but if you don't look at your best 100% in modern sl world with new Mesh and Bento trands youu have small chance to get someone to chat with...

Here’s a quote I rather like, from an A.J. Quinnell novel:

“Her beauty controlled her mind. From an early age it had allowed her to tread different paths from most women. It was a weapon, and a vehicle in which to travel through life. An armored vehicle, protecting her from discomfort and indignity. She had a good mind and in a body even slightly less beautiful it would have been free to expand and develop and see beyond the circle of light which her beauty illuminated. But when the vehicle moved, the shadows were pushed back and she could not see them.”

 

I’ve seen quite a few system avatars who broke through the sea of indifference and got enough appreciation and warmth, by resorting from the beginning to things you definitely can’t buy from the Marketplace: charisma, niceness, intelligence, humour.

Sure, you can also get more IMs and invitations and friendship requests and whatnot, by making yourself shiny, but... what kind of people sends those IMs, invitations and requests? Are they interested by your personality, is that the first thing they’ll try to know more of? Or are they just looking for shiny and, at best, shiny is all they’ll have to offer in return?

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

I hang out at a very public place that also hosts new players, and often talk to these; some of them tell me, with some surprise, that I’m practically the first one who deigned chatting with them, and some go as far as guessing that it’s their primitive avatars that make some people be unfriendly to them.

I always advise them, “perhaps those are exactly the last ones you want to be friends with”.

[What do you use your alts for?]

To harass meself. No one does it like me alt.