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    Collective Wisdom For New Residents

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    1.  Don't try to escape being a "noob" as soon as you get here. Enjoy it. Its the most awe filled time you will have and holds the memories that will be dearest. Like childhood its your "beginning".

    2.   Push all the buttons. Its exactly the right time to make a physical object or link that door. Not only will you learn what stuff does and what such and such is for, but you have the least to lose material wise in this time if its a goof.

    3.  Try things out that you "always wanted to". Situations as well as personaes or states of being. It will help this come true -->

    "#3: Understand that, while you might arrive in SL wanting to just meet other fun people, ultimately you're going to learn much more about yourself than about anyone else."

    4.  Do not be afraid of other people's opinions of your choices. Clothes, hair, other friends, roles.....for every one opinion there are always 6 others going the other way that you have not heard yet.

    5.  Always make sure your second life is making YOU happy. When you decided to join the person you wanted to make happy was you. "You" were the only person you brought with you. So don't put that person second. Cut loose the people who make it suck for you.                     

    6.  Never forget you can always change who you are here. And without even making an alt if you just want to.

    Intimidated

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    Welcome to SL.

    Yeah, my first journeys into sl I bailed cuz it was too "odd" as compared to what I was used to in "a game". (No hunting/harvesting/ across-the-board venture that "all" participated in, the real money aspect pissed me off more than it did anything else, people so vastly scattered that I never felt like there was a society I was living in.... I didnt try it again till last year some time.

    And honestly the thing that turned it all around was meeting one person. Sometimes thats all you need to build a social group on. I'm one who  all the building and creating in the world aint gonna cut it if theres no human group.

    In other games the society is "corraled" into being around one another; they must to succeed at the hunting/whatever and the subsequent trade. It makes people gather places etc. Second life has nothing to "make" anyone even come out of their house if they dont want to. And so they dont. There's a lot of "alone-ism". And for those who don't choose that then its a matter of them getting out and finding "their" people , and making a social group. None will develop "left to its own devices".

    Anyhow, like everyone said, google and tutorials are your friend. You'll figure out who you want to be here, what kind of AV and all of it. Stick around. Your niche is someplace.

    Stuff I like or have liked: RPs (Kingdom of Sand, Al Raqis, City of Concord, Shady Falls, Ravenhurst, The Crack Den....more "mature" but not all about sex unless you're one who prefers no sex in a 100meter range...then those might not be for you.)   Zombie sims; especially Resident Evil ones or Siden /Siden Hospital. A little bit of Gor (not so much, the drawn out actions make my head hurt). Modding stuff I buy to the point it makes no sense. Ballrooms. Aircraft. Boats. Friends and fam.

    They have plenty of stuff here. Matter of finding it. And sometimes theres even a fun in the searching

    The Downgrade Survey

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    In the beginning I was premium. Right up until I "really" understood about buying land. As a premium member with 512m of free tier, in order to live on 1024m, it costs 10dollars for the membership plus 8 and maybe some change for the other 512 tier. Total cost : lets call it 19dollars and  Prims (I can't remember exactly but...) someplace between 200-300.

    On a private sim, even one thats a little upscale, nice landscaping and no giant toad (or other eyesore I commonly had the pleasure of finding beside lots sold by linden) next to my house or paying a buttload of money to some other player to "buy" the plot they bought from linden at auction, and rarely seeing neighborhoods that looked like neighborhoods (I like when they do) and the cramped up encampment of linden houses so close together that they can't help but lag.....after seeing that, and after calculating the cost of a private sim neighborhood I end up with MORE LAND for less cost (about 7-8dollars less) and MORE PRIMS (500something or other).

    The value was in going basic and buying land on a private sim.

    Linden labs then would have to increase the land allowance AND prim allowance, AND regulate what kinds of builds could be in a "neighborhood" AND landscape the environment for exactly that same 19dollars to make it even a topic for me to consider.

    And if they raised the prices for the sim owners then I really would feel sorry for LL, cuz there is not enough enabled by way of animation in the format of SL to make it worth either cost. (Translation, time to dump SL. Which I already have done twice in only a year and a half :/ )

    People like me only pay grown up money when we can play a grown up way.

    Kinda wondering if this is possible

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    I couldn't help but smile when I read it Orca. I haven't been around a fraction of the time you' ve been here and yet I still am amazed at what some folks "need" on an AV. I stand to the side quietly though while I think it:  "custom mesh cuticles? really??" (chuckles) But hey, happiness is found in any number of ways . More power to em.

    Mesh Clothes - Why are they better?

    in Fashion

    Posted

    As an ogler of women, mesh sucks in my opinion. This "standard sizes" business means girls with no shape worth looking at :( Everybody's "straight" with no tush or they're wide hipped (like they've given birth to a few things....) but still no tush. And I've yet to see a dress where the top half looks "endowed" unless the waist is almost matching it. Unless somebody knows somethin I dont, ALL mess clothes require wearing an alpha. So in the end its a bunch of half erased people with "blah" shaped clothes taped over the blank space. And they are all the SAME blah shapes.  (*bangs head against wall for the monotony....)The only garment I've seen on a female yet that is a welcomed one, is the pencil skirt. And  those still lack in a nice tush. I DO get the thankfulness to be away from the global-universe sized rumps sculpted dresses gave you ladies (wow, they were monsterous)  but surely somebody has some hotter dimensions on the stuff they're makin?  (Please holler out if you are that maker)

    And please, for the  love of God, do not reply about "realistic" portrayal and all that other rhetoric when we're livin in a virtual world where none of the avatars have psoriasis, hair loss, or hump backs either. 

    Right to Know: GMO

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    It is ALL about not giving up folks. (Thank you Pussycat Catnip, cuz you called it for that first :-) )

    Just because bad guys get 3 seconds in the sun does not mean you roll over and say "they've been doing it we might as well let them continue".

    Thats a victim mentality of the highest order. And if you have it as  a country....

     

    You never give up. Ever.

    Their moment in the sun is nothing but an opportunity for you to see where they are. Your time to chart out what it is you want to happen and how you are going to go about causing that change.

    No change in our system causes itself. They only happen when people make them happen.

    16 said that where she is when the bad guys try to pull the slick moves to get around laws those people have fought for the judge strikes it down. Judges strike down stuff like that not just because they personally happen to be "good" people. They do it when the pressure is there from people who say "you won't sit on that bench if you don't".

    If you want it, be those people.

     

    Loft style rentals

    in Wanted

    Posted

    I had a one room/open space apt with exposed brick once in Virtual Soho-Manhattan N.Y. (Bembecia 242 / 248 / 12)  <<those coordinates should get you in the vicinity.  The rental company has several buildings with slight variations on the loft-type theme. They were great to work with if I remember. The only question could be if the meter-by-meter space is large enough? Still, I'd check it out.

    Are both Darwin and creationist wrong?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    You go with both being "wrong". I go with both being "right". I love science and am a proponent of the physical world having very "logical" explainations. I feel sure that some type of evolution occured. Either Darwin's OR yours, or some unmentioned. BUT I believe that they occur as the result of the intent of the God of Abraham.

    I include "big bang", cosmic explosions, and alien life forms in that mix.

    A million scientificly explicable things happen every day , from hurricanes to the fluttering of an eyelash BUT they happen ultimately because God has deemed that it will. AND given us a mundane processes by "how" so that we can make sense of our world in ways that we humans can.

    My profits are in the crapper

    in Merchants

    Posted

    That slide show is AWE-SOME. First saw it when a wife of mine had it. I've bought it, given it as gifts......  It's interesting reading you guy's thread from the perspective of "the customer"......Yes, lol I guess we are a fickled bunch when it comes to what "gets" us. :manlol:

    Restricting Child Avatars

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I don't know.....I have seen some pretty extreme behaviours when people adopted kids (all of whom were portrayed by 20somethings). The "parents" basically felt they needed to never be intimate in the house that the kids had access to ever again and set up "away" skyboxes and such because they even feared having sex menued furniture in the same house with them least someone  claim "ageplay".

    In the end the couples divorced. Who can live that way?

     

    It makes someone like me feel that having "alive" children then is more of a drag than its worth.

    Blocking Images?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    You can change your viewer preferences to general and moderate only. That'll keep it out of your searches and teleports. If you're referening to something you saw someone DO however I'd say stay away from whereever you saw it.

    Also, when searching on the marketplace change the filter to exclude adult.

    Shyness & SL - The terrible games your mind can play!

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    When I was new I thought clubs in sl where like clubs in rl; you go and its a "meeting" place. Having learned its not, its a mass listening and  (unfortunately sometimes ) rampant gesturing place I "accept" it for what it is.

    If it'll help, what works when ladies try to get my attention is not "hi" , especially if its in local and I'm someplace public. Odds are I came for a reason and am so focused on what I'm doin I'll never see it. If I do odds are I'll just say "hey" back and go on with whatever is in my head. IM is your friend. Least with someone like me. It makes me realize "oh, you mean me 'specifically' ". Then I need you to add "why" or some indicator of what led ya to msg so I know where we're headed/what the point is and yeah, to get me out of my own thoughts again. It can be as simple as telling me where you saw me/know me from but give me some idea what prompted the contact. And if you REALLY want to be efficient SAY that its not a flirt if its not. I do have strictly platonic contacts :) But I don't want to have to guess at what the intro is all about.

    What do people look for in a home in Second Life?

    in Merchants

    Posted

    To have the footprint/required lot size listed on the photo or someplace easily found on the vendor. Thats the very first thing I'm going to look for before anything. I dont buy lots to fit houses. I buy houses that fit lots. It becomes relevant in a time period where it could be "critical" to the buyer to remain in a given tier amt.

    After that I look for it to be  modifiable.  You can be the best  builder and have used all the best textures but it will never stop me from either getting bored with a given texture set  or just plain wanting my own for a very personal feel. Its not just textures. I'm one who likes to take out a wall. Add a wall. Remove one section of floor and put a staircase there. The very "best" house I ever bought in terms of being satisfying was rather "boring" in terms of its textures at the time of purchase (ok they were hideous). And I was fine with that. It had a great /interesting shape though , the facial structure of the building (if buildings can be ascribed facial structure... ) was "awesome" AND I could switch up the textures to whatever I liked and rip and add walls. Interesting archetectural shapes then is a big one for me.

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