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SinfulPrince

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  1. Nobody asked me for my .02, but as someone who just likes to see stuff when its convenient for me as opposed to managing a meetup, is it possible you might see more traffic by listing the location? (ex: Brigadoon 176/39/80) Of course if its a sublet situation with the current resident still living there I guess I get your method.
  2. I would have thought that a creator included a style card just so that they didn't have to answer 900 individual questions about avi models. Not because its the only way they can manage a sale. But I guess those who need to do that do that. Either way , good luck to you.
  3. Solaria Goldshark wrote: There is no nice way to put this: When your real life photo ends up in your SL (avatar) tab, you''ve missed the point. When your focus is on an avatar's real life sex makes you cringe, you've missed the point. When you've lost your ability to use your imagination, you've missed the point. When you make SL a dating service, you've missed the point. When you make this life similar to your own, what's the point? If a sense of escape is not the point, let's shut the whole thing down. If you've been disappointed by your experience, let's shut the whole thing down. If you've been heartbroken and can't go on, let's shut the whole thing down. If you've felt cheated, angry or felt that the world owed you something, by all means, let's shut it down. Grow up dear residents. I'd be willing to bet that the best of you take chances, make connections, and form lasting friendships despite any expectations of a person's real life situation...and the latter being the icing on the cake. The real risk being disappointed on what you might find on the other side. If you are, leave it at the door.....do not judge the pregnant wife, the slave, the wolf, the vampire, the **bleep**, the tranny, the manwhore, the prostitute, the warrior, the saint, the surfer, the slacker, the fashionista, the builder, the players...for they are all us, and we are legion....and we do not make excuses for our fetishes and fantasies, for that is the point. Welcome to the escape. I'll clear my plate for a serving of humble pie if I'm wrong. My god I think I love you LOL. Where have you been girl? **APPLAUDS WILDLY. I couldn't have said it better. And while I know there are a fleet of people who will agree with Amethyst, I think what Solaria is getting at really is inferred (at least when I hear it) in the name itself ; SecondLife. She didn't make up that name. Neither did I. It"s creators did. And it smacks of "not your real life", "other than your real life". Other wise they could have just called it Pixel Chat, or The Extention of Life. They however, honest to god , named it "Not Your Life" (if you look at the wording itself) since your life is not a "second" version &already being lived. ....we hope. Maybe our flaw is that we are literalists.
  4. Personally, I would say 50/50; didn't want to talk to someone she didn't know and possibly from a place where that is not the convention. In rl I'm from a place where strangers act like you killed a puppy if they speak to you and you don't speak back. But the fact is I just ain't always feeling talking to people. At what point do we take away the person's right to not want to? You can never know why someone does something. Maybe her "friend" was actually her lover and there was tension before you came along about her being approached/hit on. Maybe you were ignored to keep the other person from being pissed. You just never know.
  5. When I first came to SL I attempted to make my av as much like me as I thought. Even the flaws . LOL Nobody appreciated that. Basically what I found was people like meeting "movie stars". Even if you tell em you're not. They'll tell you they want your representation to be. I've done vastly different avs. Ones so different from me that I couldn't relate to the av anymore. In the end I like being "close" to what I feel like.
  6. One shape (I like the face) and an ongoing "tweeking" on the body. The skin......I've bought several but oddly am returned to one I had almost fromthe beginning.
  7. As Tweety Bird would say : Be vewwy vewwy careful unlinking a whole house. Thats all 100-200 (however many prims....) taken aloose and easily missed or put out of position when you want your house reconnected. As was stated, if you do want just one piece unlinked, "edit linked" , then unlink . You'll likely have to close the entire edit box and reopen it following that move to have your one piece show up solo to the touch . (at least I always have to ) To retexture walls (or floors , or windows....) its probably easiest (read: safest) to do it linked with "edit linked" selected as a safety (that way even if you hit the wrong object /face you only change one prim) and then add "select face". The select face will always clearly show what space you're intending monkeyin with.
  8. ProfessorSchaeler wrote: It happens when I'm over water (Blake Sea), so there are no "forbidden" areas beneath me. It's an anphibian plane so if they'd let me re-rez the damn thing I wouldn't be as angry. I'll try the NE quadrant like he was saying, but there's still no reason for it to be happening. Also, what if I'm not flying a seaplane? I'll have to somehow get it back in the air after I finally figure out how I'm gonna re-rez it in the water. Convenient, huh? Wow. That sucks. And it sounds like you were in the right area. I don't know enough about how the game engine deals with vehicles to be of help. I WILL say however that the inability to really "use" vehicles in SL is one that particularly disgusts me though. Maybe it all would work better if vehicles were "wearable" so you could travel places without someone flipping out that you "rezzed" something someplace or are "bringing" items onto x or y land? ALL I know is I miss ridin a hover bike lol
  9. white cissexist heteronormative patriarchy. Here's hoping you mean people who fit ALL simultaneously and not individually, or you could be disqualifying a good portion of earths population.
  10. Alot of what's been said bears listening to . I used to be partnered to someone who worked at a club where a consistent , group type "prattle" was the norm in open chat. The kind of thing it sounds like you were expecting. So it IS out there, maybe just depends on where you hang out at. For me as an individual though, I fell in the catagory of people who found that annoying lol. I'm one who often doesn't want to hear the remarks/offerings of people I don't know about topicss I potentially dislike. Neither do I like keeping track of it all as the open chat scrolls quickly by with so many contributors. I have my private IMs open and really that's where my attention is. Are there times when its definately about the open chat for me? Certainly . But not in nightclubs or spaces where the population is undefined. I save that kind of chat for clubs that you join; a defined circles of people, with specific directions of conversation, that I came there for.  I'm just saying, consider that there are a couple of types of "audiences" out there when you talk about socializing methods.
  11. Monti Messmer wrote: Germany, and even for a preview you need to pay to the GEMA - the reason we cannot view alot videos on YouTube even Machinima when there is a slight possibility it´s a licensed track. You can play each song only once in 2 or 4 hours and only such often a day ... have to mix local songs and not only play top 10 all time. For short lots of rules that only suck ! Monti Wow. That does suck. But maybe it shows all of us different things. For those who don't have that situation , to appreciate what they do have. For those in that situation maybe to inspire change by being able to compare. Always beneficial to know how things are outside your own backyard.
  12. MoiselleErin Teardrop wrote: Someone said one must learn to entertain themselves in SL (Your world your imagination). Well, this then requires the user to HAVE an imagination. Maybe they could create a social life they cannot enjoy in RL, maybe a ranch with horses, maybe a mansion by the beach, maybe learn to build and one could build their dream home (of any caliber)... If SL could be called a game, then it is a strategy game. It is not something simple. You have to either have book smarts, be a big dreamer, or both. In other words - SL is not for dumb-asses. Let's face it, the world has an overabundance of them. The mistake that us serious residents of SL often make is - we tend to forget that the average person in RL just wants entertainment spoon-fed to them. They don't want to have to think, they don't want to have to learn anything. That is why Television is probably STILL more popular than the Internet. You sit back and drool while the TV is your eyes and ears. In the SL grid, it just isn't really possible for someone to enjoy it if they want to sit there and have everything done FOR them. Sure members share ideas about things but that is what learning is ABOUT. What LL could do for the mindless drones who know cannot be entertained by using their noggin, they COULD create like a different grid where you choose the land to go to and everything is set up but in a different way - It would be more like a standard video game that would require little or no editing of things, Just like say a racing arena where you picked a car and just drove. Or maybe for the FB zombies - a world where you see falling prims and you have to click on as many as you can to "like" them. In other words, a second version of SL that is really watered down from what we know. I will say it again - the general population is too lazy to use their brain for anything except watching garbage on TV or playing ultra-simple games that are no harder than pac-man. An idiot is going to enjoy himself in SL about as much as Ellen Degeneres would enjoy herself at a Chippendale show. EDIT - recently I was telling a friend about SL. He is hooked on that stupid-assed FB and I keep telling him, "...SL..." but his first concern was - I just want a game I can sit down and play outright, I don't want anything complicated". I looked on the computer and he was playing some racing game less complex looking than the 1981 version of Pole Position, and my only thought was, "God help him". I'm not even mad, and to an extent I have to sort of go along with some of what she said because it applies to me lol . While I love being "able" to build (and I do ) in a lot of ways its a "drag" for me to need to employ 9999 huds just to accomplish any animation beyond walk, run, jump and fly. I know that it lops over into parents wanting to be able to feel that little jr does not have certain animations at his/her disposal, but for me as an adult it is unreasonable to need to "shop around" to be able to execute a hug, or engage the other person while throwing a punch, or anything else that engages more than one avatar. Where is the ability to "socialize" in that? Its why SL (in my opinion) disolves into nothing more than conversation while standing still in your avatar. They can't really "do " much else. And thats boring as h*** And if you would like to attempt to make it UNboring and bring interactive behaviors between yourself and any others in , AFTER it is very stiff and awkward (with the whole jumping on poseball detour....) it also becomes expensive. Why? Because you have to look for "the good" hug, or the fight sequece that does not make you look like a buttwipe, as opposed to having set, game driven , interactions that are across the board and for everybody. Guy 1 doesn't have his avatar doin animations that are any better than anyone else. And you don't have 9 "reject" huds to lament the purchase of that you paid for with real money. Cuz the fact is EVERYTHING In sl costs real money. You are never 'done" paying. Because each scratch of the eyebrow, each shrug of the shoulder, or squat on the toilet is a bought thing with user scripting and NOTHING is LL issue, you are NEVER done paying. Every day, every hour of use , is another opportunity to either buy something or not be able to accomplish much of anything. If someone who had never logged on sl asked me what it was like , that would be my blanket response, "You can't actually "do" anything in sl. You can just buy a lot of things that can." If your fun time is sitting around and making those things then I guess that works for you. Mine is not.
  13. Aw, well now that is disappointing . But thanks for "catnip"; thats new.
  14. That all sounds very logical but I have my doubts as to it actually being the case. I have an age verified accont with a cc given. HOWEVER the secondlife site did not just take the cc and grant me age verification I had to directly answer identity questions. I used the same cc on my alt's account without answering those questions and he is not age verified. That blows up the "because the credit card grants age verification" theory based on experience. So there obviously is some other reason. And (since I agree that a SL specific prepaid card would be a great move for both the membership and LL...) that being the case I see no reason not to pursue instituting such a card.
  15. I've been gone a looong time. Long enough that I understand LL finally enabled RLV on their newest viewer? If so , where the heck is the button?
  16. Please don't take my questioning wrong, I'm trying to learn/find out something. What is it about this land that is on the mainland that should make it $2000 (or any price actually). Is the seller still the "actual" owner in the eyes of LL? Assuming that they are not , and the buyer is paying tier directly to LL, do they not then also have to have the added expense of a premium account along with the tier? Typically the neighboring land to parcels on sale on the mainland look like crap. So if you were planning to personally live on it then you have less than aesthetic surroundings. Or is all of this buying and selling between real estate types just wanting to accumulate large enough amts of terrain to create residential areas? Trying to find out what it is the buyer is "getting" by spending 2000 , 1000, or however many lindens to "go mainland".
  17. I'm just surprised there's a such thing as "too strong". Either way, might the "milk" work? https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/DLS-Aestali-1-Milk/3124812
  18. I dont know about that Camille, I"m one who also likes the "neighborhood" , on the ground , set up. And I have no child avatar, no desire to live around them , or do the "family" rp. I like community. And I"ve found others who feel the same way. Theres a definate market of people looking for established walkways, roads, and streetlamps. The scattered , haphazard motif is the one that is unattractive to me. There may be six of one but there's definately a half dozen of the other. Do those types of people tend to be more oriented to rp of some sort? Probably. Since to rp itself suggest interaction. There are those who came to chat with their closed circle of friends and want a skybox to not have to mix with "everybody" and there are those who came to have a "life" (as in second life) that is not their offline one. And life means being in the soup with a community. The "problem" is people who don"t appreciate that someone's home is exactly that. It may look fascinating as all get out to you as you pass by but that does not mean waltz in. Or cam in . THAT is probably what led to a lot of people's opting for skyboxes. If its too "awkward " for you to speak to me and (surprise surprise) be ASKED in then don't worry about what's in someone else's home. Oh to have the constrainsts of rl. So then its a Respect issue. But thats a whole kettle of fish no one asked me to open......
  19. I had a tattoo (body hair) that made my clothes , shape, all ot it not load. I rebaked, detached , clear caches ...you name it. None of it worked. Till I got rid of that tattoo. My vote then is: Entirely possible.
  20. When I was a newbie I thought v2 controls and interface was AWESOME. I thought anyone wanting to fool with the pie menu setup on phoenix was out of their minds; I hate the pie menu. HOWEVER with the sl viewer came the tendency to be ruthed . Bar none I despise finding out 48minutes in that my avatar is ruthed. After trying out phoenix and seeing some of the very customizable settings , I got over the pie crap much easier than I ever would have the v2 issue. Now we have v3 but I'll still take the safe route and go with a third party
  21. All I know is I've owned severeal different kinds of property ....mainland AND private region....and it did in fact happen for me the same way the O.P. stated; at the point the land was let go of ban lines appeared . I didn't want it back or anything just thought it odd and didn't understand how anyone would rebuy it if they couldnt land there.
  22. Well thank god I found this thread. I was beginning to wonder why we even worry about vehicles at all in SL .
  23. Ariel Vuissent wrote: [snipped] I do think the system needs to be revamped to run on a good-not-great computer, though. I'm sure there are ways to get SL to run on something other than a $1500-$2000 gaming rig. [snipped] While it may not apply personally I do have to agree that in less than a year I've heard way too many statements to that affect. That SL graphics were virtually undistinquishable because of having to have extraordinarily low graphics. To be dismissive regarding it is to dismiss the larger share of the market. Yes, it uses "gaming" graphics but is the larger market - a market who's dollars are needed to keep sl running - made up of more gamers or more surfers. It was recently said that SL added the "following" features and whatnot hoping to draw the facebookers ; looking to appeal to that crowd BECAUSE of their numbers and the way they are dedicated to facebook. Is that a hardcore gamer? Or is that more likely to be someone with that walmart/officemax computer? Without being an expert I would venture the later. So yes, I'd think some thought might be given as to how to work with that persons situation since given a choice -in particularly at these times- very few will say "well honey we're just gonna have to do without at home cuz ya know , even though we already saved, budgeted and used the credit card on a computer we're satisfied with, we gotta forget that and go out and get that get that gaming rig so we can log on second life".
  24. I would love it if we could honestly travel long distances over land or through sky (plane , helicopter, vehicles) . Teleporting will get ya there but loses a lot in the translation for me.
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