LibGwen

I gave up on the Outfits folder years ago when no-nesting was first implemented and started dressing via my inventory: I made a folder called Ensembles and have my outfits sub-foldered by the ways I look for outfits--snow, dancing, steampunk, crowded texture-tastic events.... I heard it became possible to nest Outfits folders again but carried on with my new system, figuring no-nesting was apt to happen again someday.

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That was probably Druscilla's Whim. The "Danger Tinies" and "Danger Dinkies" things are a hoot.

I haven't spent enough time in Kama City (northwest Zindra) to know what's normal, but I'd assumed that's how traffic lights there work. I'm surprised they're actual barriers; the region borders tend to be in the middle of the road, so if someone switched lanes to avoid a barrier then switched back again they sometimes might experience problems. Makes me think of a running joke in an old comedy sketch show. The punchline was always "Well don't DO that!"

Alice Project, maybe?

I love that there's a place in SL where I can go and walk for ages that's sure to be nice and is always *going* to be nice. No suddenly vacant parcels, no getting threatened or sent home by security systems that weren't there yesterday. And I can even pick from different themes.

Wish I'd heard about the closure soon enough to do that. Missed it by four days, apparently. I wanted the alpha layers pack too.

Is there any way to still get those alphas? I thought I had them but I don't.

Strange how hard it is to find pants-layer indigo jeans that go as high as they can. I do file by waist height, but my inventory has nothing. Everything is either not indigo, holey, doesn't go all the way up, or isn't pants layer. Two *underpants*- layer dark denim jeans that go as high as they can are in the inventory Library: Female Rocker Jeans & Male City Jeans. Being underpants layer, they're skin-tight. The latter have optional sculpt cuffs, one of which for no obvious reason is titled "(Brown)".

When I was new one of the first things I did was reduce my height to something realistic. (And learned to make a measuring stick, my first lesson in building.) For the next few months as I slowly modified all my dimensions people kept asking me if I was a child avatar. It all suddenly stopped when I lengthened the neck. I've only been asked twice since. Proportion apparently is important to perception.

The systematic harassment of people posting New Year's ASCII that I saw last night settled my mind on the subject. The art, in moderation, makes me smile. People whining that it's unfashionable remind me of school bullies. Suppressing the positive and accentuating the negative is A Bad Thing. Let the positive feelings roll!

Sounds like for some reason the regions aren't "subtracting" elements that are de-rezzed or which leave the region.

If there's snow, the winter breeze occasionally makes a drawn out hiss. In winter if there are trees nearby, there's a creaking sound, especially when it's breezy. Wind in winter branches sounds like autumn's rattling leaves to me.

Why not just memorize the name of the continents like in RL? There aren't many of them. In any case, the names are only to make it easy to mention them to other people, we could just say "the bullseye continent", "the fishhook continent", "the continent with the snowlands", "the unfinished northern continent" etc.. That said, it is surprisingly hard to find a free readable map you can place in-world, and most are more than a decade old (so Bellisseria isn't there). They all tend to leave out the Sharp continent and they don't feature commonly referenced areas like the Sea of Fables, Horizons, etc., but they do tend to point out the Blake Sea, the Snowlands, and Bay City. - When I was new, the first map I found was Aley's "SLestrial Globe" [sic] (https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SLestrial-Globe-10-prims/6258051 ) which has this old map: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Antique-Nautical-SL-Old-World-Map/6256555 which also mentions the Nocera islands (old Linden housing). - You see this 2009 map all over the grid, but the Second Life Wiki search engine doesn't turn it up unless you already know where to look: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Road_Network_Directory Well, there's always Google Images....

The policy also punishes subsequent residents--who weren't the one who employed the offending orb. They have to take the time to remove a name from the parcel ban list and have no idea if it's harmless to answer this surprise request. In many cases they also have to learn how to manage a list they didn't even know existed, which may require someone else's time to explain.

The shrubbery looks like cactus to me. I was thinking American southwest.

What strikes me about the topic of this thread is 1) The original poster's contention that people should be forced to spend more time in SL. Not only that, but that extra time should gain nothing for the time spent. 2) The original poster's emphasis on status and status symbols. This is particularly noticeable if you've been reading comments on YouTube the last day, which are full of bots and bot heads lauding and cursing the fact that billionaires can afford things that only billionaires can afford. Ooh, shocking. This is just another tentacle of a multi-platform social influencing campaign by some agency of some nation that has a large portion of its populace making a living on the internet, one where status symbols are important, one that believes in bombarding people with advertising, one that doesn't quite grok a concept like free will.

I wasn't sophisticated enough yet to pick up if there were subtle suggestions of LGBTQ, but in the 1970s when people asked "Why are they all white men and blonde women?" the answer was "If not, the Southern sponsors will boycott." Apparently Southern sponsors were/are very powerful, although I wonder if boycotts would really have been significantly injurious. By the 1980s there was subtle advertising for "and those who aren't in the model husband-wife-2.5 kids situation". There's an account on YouTube (RwDt09) that assembles compilations of title sequences to old U.S. TV shows. The shows that are supposed to take place in Texas or Louisiana stick out like a sore thumb because everyone looks the same. Where *was* mid-century modern, anyway? I can't think of any places synonymous with it.

I can never remember the name of that Linden house type, I just call it "university" or "student housing". I can remember the names of the other three just fine. If LL replicates the style but not that feel of "school days" in the area between the homes, I wonder how many people will say "Meh, there's something not-right about it"? * Hm, another thing: Bellisseria houses tend to have eight or four models. I've always wondered how many models there are of the old Linden housing. Some of them are in groups too, which I remember appealed greatly to people who were friends or relatives in real life and hoped to share a group of homes in Linden housing. No idea if any succeeded, but they were eager to roll the dice.

Several people in these forums in the last two years have sought an old Linden home because they wanted to, not because there was no new housing available. I wonder if LL should keep one of the old Linden home continents for a long time which has all four housing types? They could funnel everyone who wants one into just it. I expect there are a few people who can give very good reasons why they ought to be able to continue to obtain a home there. I just thought of one: Lower land allowance means less lag from the neighbors.

In the last year I've seen two regions move, one by one grid square, one a long distance, but my LMs for them still work. The first few days they may not, but after that a landmark works as if nothing changed.

That's because the makers of goods have decreed that we can no longer wear each other's clothes. Pre-mesh we could sculpt our bodies to look like we wanted and wear any clothes we wanted if we were able to put the work into tweaking a copy to fit however we wanted to look today. Now we have to accept a narrow band of stereotyped clothing and stereotyped body proportions or hunt the old stores for what we really want--or be shut out. And often be shut out *because* we insist on wearing what we really want. A person has to be pretty artistic or pretty stubborn to continue to do things their way in the face of such exclusivity.

Extending Sid Nagy's metaphor, remember silver tarnishes. Too many posts in this thread remind me of when TV shows I've liked got popular. New enthusiasts would flood the forums and executive mailboxes, "This show is great. And don't you think it would be ever so much better if it was like this other show I used to watch but I don't any more?" And soon the show would be *un*popular because the original audience had left in disgust and the new audience had moved on to trying to influence some other show. * When people ask me what Second Life is or what I do with it, I say "It's a platform. You can do all sorts of things. I really like that." But I'm not aware of any articles or blogs that see it like that.

I tour it all and play with most of it, and it takes me the whole two and a half weeks. I don't seem to have the difficulties people have been complaining about despite a supposedly below average computer, but then by necessity I'm accustomed to periodic re-logs, avoiding texture cache overruns and recognizing when I'm in danger of a viewer crash. I do the Birthday with a 56m draw distance and one of the system avatars I change into specifically for these big events.

In the days of MS-DOS, having too many items in the root directory would slow processing to a crawl. People generally knew not to have more than 200 files and sub-directories listed in the system root directory, but this was true even for the root directory of a storage diskette that contained no system files. People got in the habit of making a few general directory names in the root directory and storing the bulk of their stuff deeper in the directory tree. Running counter to that habit later, Microsoft Windows 9x onwards had the problem that all those directory names are part of the name of the file and there's a limit to how long a filename can be. "Why won't my computer let me Save As?" "Are you trying to put the document inside many nested folders with long names?"