Syo Emerald

I could only contribute with some RL pieces (I own around three dresses) as my SL wardrobe focuses on a very different style. 😄

I live on the ground. My current home is a stilt house in Belliseria. Therefore the surrounding landscape is not an eyesore, that would push me to reside in the sky (which I have done in the past on some parts of mainland).

I'm aware of what many people in the west think, when they hear the name. Its understandable, to some degree. My response to belinda stems from my feeling that she is "misunderstanding" on purpose. Ignoring, that completely different things with similar names can exist without being the same thing. Insisting on ones position, even after the attempt of clearing up said misunderstanding is behond ignorant and silly. Its bordering on wanting to be offended and offend.

Ah, the dangers of a modest, frilly, feminine fashion! OMG! 🤣

Our health insurances feel like taxes aswell. They get deducted from the salary along with all real income related taxes before its paid out to the bank account. Of course, the given security is greater, than in the US (I can't be bankrupted directly) and the cost is lower in most circumstances.

You'll be fine. All of your sales taxes sound like absolut heaven on earth. So low...

Hows that any of LLs business? They ban people based on ToS violations and logging in from an IP located in a country that engages in warfare is not a point covered under the ToS. That would be news to me. I would be -very- suprised if any country is that incompetent and weird, that they would do anything in SL at all. Its really not like SL is super attractive or needed for that kind of stuff.

And I love being the exception! 🥰 But yes... I do understand what you mean, although I could never pin point why.

But there is a difference between "Do other people drive over the speed limit in your neighborhood?" and "What do you think about people who drive over the speed limit in your neighborhood?" I think thats what people had issues with. For me it was mainly odd how you threw all those very different groups into the same box and how having virtual sex was placed as not just normal but as such a centerpiece that does who don't do it would benefit from being in a different virtual world, where its not present, instead. I also think that viewing virtual sex as "the norm" leaves out the perspective that actually the majority of people outside second life and other, similar "bubbles/communities" might find the whole concept quite abnormal or strange.

If asking if I had sex recently would fall under "caring for others", I would hope that nobody cares about me.

Be careful or they will be lining up at your door.

Now thats a random collection of words.

And I would laugh at the both of you. Panties in a twist over something so silly.

I'm almost done with my Stilt Home.

Its been years ago, but till this day, I cringe when I think about it. I always have voice turned off, but just like in Nicks story one day that feature turned itself on. I was in a (at that time) popular store for womens fashion. They had daily discounts on items, so you always had a couple of people hanging out. So I had an audiance to witness me "arguing" with my mom over lunch being ready (I was still living at home then and you know, mom cooks and you know, if you don't appear at the table in a split second for whatever reason, the next call gets shouted a bit louder and I replied equally annoyed). They all laughed at me. I didn't log in for two days after that and was paranoid for a while.

Sometimes a lot of forgetting I'm logged in to be honest. Before that happened today I went shopping and changed my outfit. Some day this may lead to finishing furnishing my current home.

Another RL shopping peeve, that I didn't even know would be possible: Printing the shipping label way too early. So I ordered this big bag for traveling (it got rainbow dragons on it!) and recieved a shipping notification on the 26th. Their website estimates arrival time based on that, because the system thinks that this means shipping has actually started. But till today the tracking number still shows as just being registered. So now I have no clue when to expect my bag and have to check the tracking every day to see if shipping has *actually* started.

I'm not blameing anyone (Also just to be clear, because it pet peeves me right now: "Content creator" is not some elusive, secluded group. At one point we all could create). I'm pointing out that the nature of SL to let its content be entirely user created is a reason when it comes to lag. LL doesn't step in and doesn't view itself as a content provider. Thats why the SL standard body is what it is and why we are at the same time allowed to have all those systems. They are messy because they are unregulated, free growing user content. And since nothing comes from LL, nothing can be preloaded so it gets laggy, when you arive in a place full of stuff. Second Life is like a wild garden, that has been left to its own devices for almost two decades. At some point garden owner LL threw in some fertilizer and made sure their is enough soil and sometimes he would throw in some seeds to see what would grow out of them. Now its a jungle and it gets really difficult to reach anything within that garden. The garden owner could cut down some vegetation, but notices there are rare wildflowers growing among the weeds and some endangered species have found a habitat in the garden. And so he trades the comfort for the beauty of whats already there.

You want to get rid of lag? - Move the entire Second Life into the bin and make it from scratch. - Never allow anyone ever to freely create something outside of putting premade assets together.

I like the german names of some of the charlet regions in Belli. How did the humble Brotkasten make it into the ranks of your favorite words?

I could see a lot of (cringy) german residents jumping on that one...

Yes, sadly I am on european timezone. I'm going to miss out on everything happening past 2pm SLT more or less.

If Dragonlady is the threshold, we are in for a long ride. She was extreme even before that death wish.