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  1. Syo Emerald
    They do indeed tell you absolutly nothing. The person who came up with the infamous Myers Briggs test had zero credibility in psychology, to my knowledge. Also needless to say that people aren't to be put into neat little boxes, where are short summary tells you who they are. This is the zodiac signs for people who like their zodiac signs with science flavor. The descriptions are vague enough, that you have way too much freedom to "read yourself" into any description.
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    The only thing that makes me a bit sad about the fanatsy theme is, that the "fantasy" stops dead in its tracks once you enter the houses. They just look normal. You would need to pull out an arm and a leg to make medival/fanatsy themed furniture not look out of place in what just looks like another trad from the inside. So even for an elf, this is... a bit meh.
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    I can tolerate them under the conditions, that the time is plenty enough to test it and that this limitation replaces -all other- typical "messurements" to make an item a demo.
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    Demos were the demo signs obstruct my view on the actual product. Please let me view the god damn lingerie without 5 big circles around my body. You already gave that thing a 10 minute self-delete timer. ... also when did that trend start to let everyone hear your avatar constantly grunting, moaning, breathing and sighing?
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    I'm an Atheist. I love Christmas. All of the non-religious stuff is great. The tree, the food, the winter decoration, even the joyful consumerism. Never set foot into a church for that and were I'm from its just culture more than "the thing you celebrate when you are a devoted christian". If I can annoy someone with some festive decoration: Good. Let them drown in their misery. Just like some stuck up religious person might get their panties in a twist over Halloween decoration (Because Satan or something).
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    And we still don't "need" it. Its a niche entertainment program, not a fundamental change to the world, in that its either completly new, re-invents the wheel or solves a problem in a significantly better way. But those inventions provide something significant. Of course you can manage to do things without them, but it makes a process a lot easier and provides things that weren't possible before. This isn't about inventing something and artificially creating a need for it. People always wanted better navigation and more acessable information and communication. I'm still waiting for facebook and co. to explain what their metaverse idea is supposed to do. What problem does it solve? What solution does it improve?
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    I don't even know why anyone would need any metaverse anyway. SL turned out to be niche product and isn't completely used in the way it once was envisioned.
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    Vendors that use items to advertise their clothes with, that do not exist. Great you made panties and moon stickers for my boobs. Would you be so kind to also offer the matching shoes and choker your model is wearing in every single promo photo, because they are clearly needed to tie the outfit together?!
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    You are going to be a rabbit, not an anime avatar. I don't think thats going to be a problem for you.
  10. Syo Emerald
    No way is that an avatar. Lots of photoshop: Yes. But I would bet money the base is not from Second Life. That is either... a) a real life human being in a costume, heavy theater make up and LOTS of photoshop (one of my hobbies is Cosplay, so my eye is familiar with how some of the heavy editing fantasy photoshoot pictures turn out.) b) something entirely made outside of Second Life in advanced 3D rendering programs, because it also has this "Big budget fantasy game/movie trailer" vibe going on. Whatever it is _that_ is not archieveable in SL and shouldn't be used for advertisement. It gives unrealistic expectations to newbies and looks out of place for veterans. Edit: Looks like my Cosplayer-instincts were right, that is a RL woman in a costume with heavy photoshop: She is first seen at around 1:12, getting dressed. So its from a professional add. Still...terrible choice without the proper context.
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    They do fit the early 00s look the whole thing has. The logo size is the smallest issue with this build.
  12. Syo Emerald
    I would activly avoid anyone with a lastname like that. Nothing more cringy than this. Its like and advertisement above their heads, warning people that they will unironically use that in a conversation and probably even engage in that weird mixture of "furry babytalk". Urg.
  13. Syo Emerald
    Nah, we will be getting 15 more pages of denying that there is any problem with his ideas. Just like all the other threads from him.
  14. Syo Emerald
    Sometimes I wonder whats wrong with some people.
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    Something that does not suprise me. The Meadowbrook style combines two excellent attributes: 1. Neutrality. Meaning, that the houses easily fit a varity of furniture styles. From futuristic to a 60s style. 2. Easy to furnish. Its box shapes stacked together. Every donkey can place furniture in there.
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    Nah, getting a stilt home was way easier. I consider this year already canceled, because the government can't get their ***** together and it might take them until next winter to finally get to the general population. At least thats my estimate.
  17. Syo Emerald
    We were talking sim names and I used the city were the McDonalds headquarter is located at (Chicago) and a random example city elsewhere as a stand-in to explain why franchise/chainstore concepts work in RL, but not in SL. So in fairness it wasn't about knowing the RL city Chicago, although its still odd to assume knowing a sim name is relevant or that people from outside the anglosphere are that isolated from the rest of SL.
  18. Syo Emerald
    My two cents: All I see in the discussed picture is an avatar limited by the deficient abilities of the standard avatar body, not a caricarture.
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    If you are happy with what you already have, you don't need one. I couldn't stand the rough edges, the wrinkles and ugly feet anymore a couple of years ago and wanted the content specifically made for a certain mesh body. Thats why I switched.
  20. Syo Emerald
    Correct, but no place in SL is a desert in the same sense of the RL thing. They may not know about the Chicago sim, but they may know McDonalds. So they type in "McDonalds" into the search and the search gives them "McDonalds Mainstore" located on the Chicago sim. And off they go, teleporting there and purchasing stuff. Most of them will have enough english skills to get that done and if the McDonalds owner has doubts (because maybe the fries come with a really elaborate hud), he includes a notecard with translates instructions. And we are still talking about a business that sells stuff, right? Because thats never going to be a place in SL where people hang out (most hangouts barely break even and are more or less some whales hobby or a community effort). Sure, some of them will prefer to seek out people from the same region/language and those places do exist, but I think you are overestimating this "bubble effect". The international community of Second Life is not just made up of the anglosphere and everyone else stuck in their tiny, national bubbles. We happily shop at Maitreya as it is. We wouldn't need "german Maitreya".
  21. Syo Emerald
    Thats not going to work, because you lack a key ingredient that makes both franchises and non-franchise stores work: Physical distance. Max Mustermanns McDonalds restaurant in Hamburg works, because his customers in Hamburg can't buy their fries and burgers directly from the McDonalds headquarters in Chicago. If McDonalds was a business in SL, I would simply teleport to the "Chicago" sim and buy my fries and burgers directly there. No need to teleport to the "Hamburg" sim to buy fries and burgers from Max, who rented the sim and purchased a bunch of franchise equipment to set up a McDonalds restaurant there. The little bit of franchisy stuff that worked in SL took a big hit, when the MP became popular.
  22. Syo Emerald
    A bit off topic, but I got to say: Lovly home!
  23. Syo Emerald
    Du hast also knapp sieben Jahre für einen Premiumaccount gezahlt, den du gar nicht nutzt? o_o Hmm... und zwischenzeitlich gabs nie Probleme mit Rückbuchung etc.? Kannst du nachvollziehen wann das letzte Mal abgebucht wurde? War das auch ganz sicher der Account und nicht ein anderer?
  24. Syo Emerald
    They are completely seperate things. One does not include the other. Together they influence how your avatar looks like. The shape is a combination of slider settings, that determine how your avatar is well... shaped. How long your legs are, how big your butt is, how close your eyes are to each other and so on. The skin is basically the texture that goes on top of that. Its colour and details also have a great influence on how your avatar looks like. Both are considered "essential" avatar parts, meaning you can never not have a skin or shape, you can only replace them with another skin or shape. They are often often sold as pack, because they depend so much on each other.
  25. Syo Emerald
    Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I will never understand why items like this go into male specific shopping events. Whats so manly about a storage rack for paintings?!
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