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    How do other people react to your avatars?

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    I usually get positive comments, from both men and women on Syo and my male alt. Today I went to a beach club and got nice IMs telling me I looked stunning and sexy.

    I know from the past, that people can react very differently based on avatar apperance. During my furry days, the interactions in non-furry spaces were less frequent, but when they happened, they were overall positive and I got called cute a lot. When I spend some time years ago in a full-demon avatar, nobody talked to me, unless they were men looking for a mistress.

    This was my avatars apperance today, for reference:

     

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    Is there really no place for high quality humanoid characters to hangout and meet each other?

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    I don't think people gather based on avatar quality, because that is usually not considered a shared interest. Unlike for example the furry community, which connects over a shared love for a certain category of avatars (and fandom).

    My gut feeling is also that places that do focus on avatar type in that way are a bit... snobbish and "picked fence of realism", meaning they don't want any deviation from standard human.

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    Where do I buy a Head???

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    4 hours ago, Orion Pastorelli said:

    @Beth West is right; a lot of the best stuff is in-world and not on MP. You should check out Shopping Events, they're a great way to get an overview of the best of many stores have to offer in one place. This site is probably your best resource:  https://www.seraphimsl.com/

     

    I'm not a newbie. I do go to shopping events, although the qualities of displayed products is... not consitent and -very- attached to fads. Not a good way to search for something specific.

    1 hour ago, Blaise Glendevon said:

    That's not how the MP search works in practice, though. You have to filter through bucketloads of crap to find one thing that might work - and you're better off going to the in-world store to examine it in person, because most ad photos are photoshopped to the gods.

    This is how it works for me. I have rarely problems. For worn items I just get the demo (I like trying it directly at home, instead of grabing the demo in the store, going home, trying and then returning) and for other stuff I put up with going to the inworld stores, which is often an unpleasant experiance.

    Where do I buy a Head???

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    10 hours ago, Tarina Sewell said:

    Wish more stopped selling on MP

    That would be terrible, as it would require people to already know a stores name, instead of being able to just search something like "white table" and getting shown all kinds of tables or clicking into the tattoo category and discover stores that specialize in tattoos. Honestly, if stuff wouldn't be on the MP, my house would be empty

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    1 hour ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

    That is my point. They can't because they don't have those items in their inventory. It's all in the model's inventory and they don't own those accounts. 

    What I wrote is not "your point". Let me reword it:

    *Sukubia asking the creator for other products in a vendor add*

    Creator: "Sorry, I can't answer that. I had these photos made by so-and-so." <- Thats an answer! Dead silence or thinking too highly of oneself to give credit (when the knowledge is there) is not an answer.

    2 hours ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

    They are not going to advertise another creators' products for them free of charge!

    Then they shouldn't use other creators items to boost their own sales and instead present their own work bare as it is or with only their own creations, that people are actually able to find and purchase. Or of course be an a-hole.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    38 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

    If they are hiring models for the ad work, they aren't going to know because the models choose the accessories. 

    But that answer would be an answer and not what Sukubia is venting about: Getting ignored.

    And I'm with her on that. How often do I see totally bloated vendor pictures for products, where the product is only presented in a good light, because it just happens to work so well with all the 3rd party products, that aren't from that creator? Its just decency to give credit to the work of others (if you can of course).

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    -Bellisserians Show Off Your Home and Garden-

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    13 hours ago, sailorcipher said:

    I hope it's okay to post some WIP-ish shots!

    I've moved into a stilt house lately through Sheer Wild Luck (...okay, and a lot of refreshing on an alt), and have been delighting in decorating. The add-on I'm using comes with a little extra room lined with windows, so I figured, why not a simple greenhouse/sunroom/whatever?

    msc3fGk.pnghkwKA6R.pngI at least think it's coming along nicely, although I definitely want to get more interesting things from events instead of having almost all marketplace items. :) Still, would love thoughts/ideas/things you think I should throw in here.

    (The vegetables are my favorite part - I figure my avatar doesn't want to boat all the way to land and find a grocery store every time they want some carrots!)

    Oh, wow! You make me wish I had planned to use this addon for my Havanna (now I'm alread almost out of prims...)

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    ALWAYS ADULT CONTENT???

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    9 hours ago, Tama Suki said:

    I also opened it in incognito navigation and I have more or less the same results.
    it's clear what most users are interested in ...
    It's a shame because SL I think has a lot of potential beyond the small niche it has closed itself into.

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    Ah yes... the sinful interest in... hmm... TVs, shoes, skin appliers, hair, short pants, aquariums and animation overriders! Can nobody think of the CHILDREN?!

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    LL should make simpler looking starter avatars

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    38 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    1. That's the opinion an established resident and not an outsider. I'm trying to think from the perspective of someone not like ourselves. That's how I get my ideas. If you build it they will come or rather if SL builds it and gets behind it the eco-system will grow. It won't be fast. It never is.

    But we are still... people, not aliens. Why should new residents not want to customize their avatars and upgrade their visual apperance to their desire? That would be a first time in SLs history. The other issue is, that an eco-system will only form, if there is money to be made and that is only the case, if established residents would drop their current bodies and heads in favor of whatever LL puts out... and I'm not seeing that happening. LL is not without talent, but I simply don't see them out-compeating the existing brands.

    44 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    2. It's positive because people will see similarities. When you look at metaverse offerings and SL there is a big difference. Trends are a big thing in marketing. This will widen SL's appeal but it's not simply about joining a trend as I've explained in my other points.

    What do you mean by that (people will see similarities)? What people? The metaverse people? My question is, if the type of person who likes stuff like Zuckerbergs metaverse video will have a positive impact, if they come to SL. The whole metaverse is currently a trend/hype. I don't see how its not.

    46 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    3. You're thinking the worse case scenario. You're thinking of the mistake LL made to compete with resident made avatars. This is different. The difference is the key.

    You are contradicting yourself again. Now you are saying LL made a mistake by compeating with the resident made avatars, but just a bit above you claimed that this is the way.

    50 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    4. So you agree with this point, right? 😀 

    Only in part. I can obviously not exclude that some people will like super simplistic avatars, but if they are currently driven away by avatar complexity, they still will be (even with those avatars), because the world outside of their simplistic-starter-avatar-bubble does not conform to what they have experianced so far.

    54 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    6. You're right. The current starter avatars aren't sexy but they share the same design as resident made avatars which are sexy. The correlation is there. My idea of new avatar would break that correlation.

    That is still not where the sex controversy comes from. Nobody thinks about the avatars in those conversations and articles. They look at Second Life as a world and its content. Wii Sports avatars won't change that.

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    LL should make simpler looking starter avatars

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    20 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    First, it won't compete with the resident created avatars. By looking at the past history of starter avatars we can see that LL has never tried to compete and a new simple avatar would continue with that decision. The entire eco-system for these new avatars would not compete with the eco system of the current.

    No starter avatar ever has competed with resident created avatars. We do not need simplistic starter avatars to archieve, what is already reality. So this isn't an argument for new starter avatars, its a highlight why it might be wasted ressources to create them. Also what makes you think there will be an "eco-system" for these avatars?

    22 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    Second, there will be a one to one comparison between SL and other metaverse-type platforms which have simple stylized avatars.

    And... thats positiv how?

    23 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    Third, a new resident can differentiate themselves from long-time SL residents. People want to be the new thing and not simply join an existing trend. The new avatars would enable this desire built-in to the human brain. Everyone wants to have their own unique generation

    Yeah, they will differentiate themself by looking like newbies. Who actually wants that label? Having your own expression by an individually created avatar is not "a trend" to join. Its simply what humans want. Hard no on the built-in desire to be "Girl-next-door No. 29865" forever. I have also yet to witness people identify themself as part of a generation or group based on what starter avatars they picked when creating their account. Or am I they only one, who never had a defining conversation about starting as that blond haired chick with the pleated skirt?

    30 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    Fifth, LL needs something unique that sets it's avatar apart

    You just claimed it would be positive for SL to look like every other metaverse project out there, by presenting oversimplified avatars. Pick one.

    31 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

    Sixth, the new avatars won't be sexy and won't bring up old complaints about SL being just about sex.

    Please, please show me a "sexy" starter avatar! 🤣 The controvery around sex and SL never stemmed from the starter avatars, but from the resident created content inworld and the simple fact that LL made the choice to allow sexual content instead of trying to be "advertiser friendly". So new starter avatars would change absolutly nothing.

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    Why SL is been left out of the current metaverse hype?

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    15 hours ago, Oct Oyen said:

    For sure a lot of hypes now are from crypto-rich companies and people who got into it early on, a thousand dollars of ETH today costed them a few pennies back then. But I would not call blockchain based metaverses a ponzi scheme. Majority NFT tradings on Opensea are those get-rich-quick ponzi, they are small groups of people who truly appreciate the artistry.

    Digital contents creators have been asking for copyright protection since day one of digital era, it couldn't be enforced automatically until NFT came along. With these blockchain based metaverses, pirated contents can be deleted automatically. The biggest issue now is the environment impact from minting all these tokens. Some metaverses have switched over to a side chain network which uses very little energy.

    I think LL should definitely consider get on the blockchain, not for the hype (while it does drive traffics to SL) but for the sake of copyright protection.

    Lots of the hype comes from people, who are religiously obsessed with crypto, NFT and metaverse and companies who want the hype to squeeze money out of the hyped people. Not actually sucessful by definition. All I have seen so far, who talk about metaverse in combination with blockchain technology have been scams, ponzi schemes or at least very much in favor of "dressing up reality".

    NFTs are not an artists friend and they do not solve copyright issues at all. The problem was never identifing who had the copyright, but to actually enforce it. Especially with entities in foreign countries and if it just happens a lot. NFTs do not grant a magical button to delete your stolen picture from... lets say a chinese aliexpress shop printing it on t-shirts.

    The hype around NFTs has actually increased art theft, because people are taking artists works without their consent to use as NFTs. Other NFTs are usually artifically created images, that don't have any artistic value to them and are simply tokens to gamble on the hope that a "bigger idiot" will come and buy it from you for even more than what you paid. Also owning an NFT does not give you any rights in the realm of copyright law. You are still not allowed to use the image in the way its true owner could.

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    Why SL is been left out of the current metaverse hype?

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    One other reason: Half of the metaverse hype is crypto-bros hyping up whatever get-rich-quick ponzi scheme they recently came across. They aren't interested in creative, community driven things. They want to become rich.

    If more people would understand that Second Life, roblox and VR chat are our current "metaverses" and that we do not have the technology currently to make anything thats turning out to be different than some variation of that... then we wouldn't even have that senseless buzz around the metaverse.

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    What I see ruining the SL economy

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    3 minutes ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

    "You get what you pay for?" In SL? Not sure what you mean.

    Its not even true in RL. Prices contain much more than pure effort of work and ressources. Paying more for brand products is a thing. Paying more, because something is supposed to be a luxury version item. Paying more, because a company has additional cost factors or just wants a larger profit... its everywhere from food in the supermarket to obscure hobby items.

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    What I see ruining the SL economy

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    7 hours ago, rocksBoxer said:

    The value to spend 40 plus hours in a week crafting in z brush and blender, scripting for hours creating HUDs for options is just not worth it.

    Then don't do it. Whats your issue?

    7 hours ago, rocksBoxer said:

    you get what you pay for

    I got a damn cool collage of pictures today for 0 L$. And by the way: Judgeing a product by its price alone is for stupid people.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    3 hours ago, Jordan Whitt said:

    Or when they just switch out the picture in their picks and have the same soppy love drivel they had about you under the new one's picture now!  

    That explains why they all sound the same to me. 😁

    On 1/13/2022 at 7:31 PM, Rowan Amore said:

    I can, however, sing every single song in The Lion King as I think I've seen it 38475738 times.

    Oh, that makes me feel a bit guilty towards my father. I requested to be read the book for the movie every evening for months.

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