LibGwen

Was Campwich Lodge ever cloned and done out in snow? I've been seeing a ghost region on the map.

Turn it upside down and it looks like a fat cat seen from behind. I noticed when this topic started that Gaeta I, II, III, IV resemble an arm and hand giving a thumbs up, or hitching a ride.

LL tries to limit keyword spam by limiting how many characters we are allowed in the keyword field. In general it's a good solution. I see two problems with the proposed alternative right off. If I want to see what pinky purple asteracea suitable for putting both outdoors and indoors are available on Marketplace, 1) People disagree on what's purple and what's pink, and where fuchsia, magenta, and red fit in. Checkboxes will work badly for that. This is an example of the inventory problem of people confusing where they think things should go with actually *finding* them again to use them. 2) I had to choose "asteracea" for this example because the flower I'm thinking of could be a chamomile, a daisy, a chicory, a marigold.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteraceae#/media/File:Asteracea_poster_3.jpg That's just not practical for checkboxes. Not that the current system is better. After I've optimistically tried more specific terms, I have to go to the "Home and Garden" category and wade through 800 pages of "purple flower" or "pink flower" under "Landscaping > Flowers and Plants" (the category they're best organized in), "Greenhouse", "Decor > Cut Flowers and Potted Plants", and "Other Home and Garden" hoping something will be suitable.

I would love to be involved in a project to improve Marketplace categories. Breedable plants, for example, currently can be in several categories. That's fine if you're looking for a particular brand, but discouraging if you're just looking for exotic plants to decorate with. My assessment is that on the whole the Marketplace is well organized and titled, but it's very difficult to narrow searches sufficiently to find out if anyone has a particular sort of thing you'd like to find. It's not like real life where you can go to a shop specializing in the category and *ask*. "I'd like 1" dancing shoes in nude with a strap, something like character shoes." Good luck with that. We need a place where problems with Marketplace searches can be listed so we can see them in greater context, and a place where people can discuss how to solve them. There are several problems with attempting to have discussion about organization. One is a lot of people don't grasp the difference between where they think an item should go and where they would actually *look* for it--you see this a lot in inventory discussions. Another is sloppy thinking--"I call it X so it should be called X even though it's a non-indicative term". Another is people just throwing in random complaints--this thread, for example, has a few good discussions interspersed with unhelpful, unclear, or inaccurate comments. Here's my unhelpful, unclear, or inaccurate random comment: Wouldn't it be nice if there was a checkbox to *not* search shop names and avatar names? "beardeddude07" problem solved.

The catalog slide shows of the shopping guide only scratch the surface, depicting two items from each shop. Useful for catching the eye or reminding you of the name of a place you'd forgotten, but merely a taste of what's for sale at Fantasy Faire. The page has to fully load before the slides become viewable. This page at the website links to a list of blog posts the writers have self-reported. There are no dates in the list, but it does include the topic of the post and brands featured: https://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/blog-posts-2021/

Oh, neat!

Oh, *now* I know what MB means. * "QA Vault" is a name almost artistic in its plainness.

Of the avatars whose height I bother with, my female avatars range from 1.60 to 1.69m, and my male is 1.80m. * Calling 1.75m "short" seems like weighting the scales. For a real life human male that's on the high side of average.

As far as I know Alli&Ali is still making fully modifiable ones.

A continent detector script is how I got a feel for the world when I was new. I was always thinking "But where *am* I in this world?" I think I found the script in the Second Life wiki, and used it to make a script in the backpack Female Student has in the inventory Library. Every time I teleported: "You are in Corsica." "You are in Sansara." "You are in the Western Ocean." etc. If you don't use a Library item, be sure to put the script in a *copy*. You don't want to permanently alter the original item.

Prokofy Neva's comparison is apt. Some wealthy guys decided to see if they could influence the stock market and found that they could. But it caused such a big effect it triggered safeties. They are claiming those safeties shouldn't apply to them, because, er, rules shouldn't apply to people like them. Sound familiar?

Wish I could figure out why embedding never works for me here. "Everybody Rejoice" from "The Wiz" motion picture: https://www.youtube.com/embed/zy8dUJEOqos

It was 2011. I remember in June people without adult verification were complaining they couldn't enter one of the Steelhead regions for a particular hunt stop. At that time SL required a form of ID for the proof. Then sometime between September and December someone mentioned in one of my groups that they were now taking people's word for it, and for weeks people who had just heard about it went stampeding to the main site to verify in case LL changed the policy again!

The finale of Bugsy Malone sets the feet a-tapping. Unfortunately the only YouTube clip (I checked six) that gives context has a squashed picture and compressed sound, is only 480p, and the auto-subtitling is awful, so I considered just not posting a URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_0cvd1EUM

I never noticed before: Remove the pool and you have the saloon on a 19th century American paddle steamer.

I remember a similar discussion in the forum a couple years ago. Fundamentally, you're arguing that SL's continents need more biomes than "granite", "green grassland", "coastal", and "underwater". Plus "snow" in Sansara.

The catchy end credits to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: https://youtu.be/8MqJ3iGBdOo?t=16

Oh, Myst! Here's "Convergence" from URU, the online Myst sequel. It's a loop of power-up music: You emerge into an area of rain forest, realize something amazing, then discover the only way to advance is to do something dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIf1nFpa7E

On YouTube, most Stardew Valley tracks have a parade of people exclaiming, "I like this one best!" so it's hard to choose just one. Here's the first thing you hear when you wake up the first day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO9WXi9gxQg One of the charms of the soundtrack is the surprising juxtapositions of instruments by the composer. In this one, autumn comes to Stardew Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd96mpRuHtQ

Rock cover of the Babylon 5 season 5 theme. Not a lot of difference, actually, it's just ... more epic. There's a twelve second intro and outro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alhlect33vQ If anyone wants to compare, the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxdLult6YKU

Does anyone know why the system skin makeup system was changed to monochrome like that a few years ago? Our poor "come as you were" avatars now have to have gray cheeks and gray lips.

Four places I truly enjoyed shopping at were Rag Dollz Steampunk Emporium G&N Quality Design Sweeter Than Candy Meena Oh, and there was a gacha shop called Gacha-ya that had delightful things.

G&N Quality Design (Nikki Heron) has non-mesh outfits for women mixed in among the mesh ones. Generally not quirky, but many have character. System, system+sculpt, system+flexi, and at least one that's all sculpt. Everything I spot checked is L$10-20: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/17344

1 & 2) I keep the original package if a copy of the item is still in it and i) the item is modifiable or ii) there are several different sizes but I don't need all of them out and available. I may also keep a box if the picture on it gives information that isn't mentioned in a notecard. 3) I delete store logos. I delete notecards and landmarks that don't tell me anything more than what I can find out just by looking at the maker's profile and picks.

I've visited parcels in A regions during hunts that make it quite clear that *this part* of the region has certain rules. You also see it in the visitor center in some roleplay areas. So *some* people do a good job of informing visitors.