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  1. I forget what it is called, but there is a fishing thing you can drop on the land like one of those fishing for lindens things that if you don't clear it properly before pulling it up then you will still have people tping to your land randomly. That's the only thing I've ever seen on here that's had people popping in constantly. Had a lot of a fun with it back in the day before I got married in SL when I was dating this jealous insane fatal attraction type chick. She'd accuse me of doing stuff even thought she was with me 24/7. So finally I decided I'll give her something to really complain about because I didn't want her to be a liar. lol I'd drop it. Go sit down and watch a movie while she'd be cracking it over all the ladies coming over to go fishing. lol Does that make me an A-Hole? It's probably makes me an A-Hole. Lmao!!!!😁😁🤣🤣
  2. This right here mate. I'd try and play with some of the graphic settings. It's weird though because I can run FS on an older rig with a much older AMD card myself with zero issues. And one of my biggest gripes about FS is that they lock out older viewers and force people to upgrade. Which is really my only and primary complaint about that viewer. I've had versions run flawlessly and been forced to upgrade and ended up with a ton of issues over that BS just to have to sort it all out in the past. lol The best alternative to FS IMO is Singularity if you prefer the OG viewer look and style. That's my go to viewer when FS pisses me off. lol👍😎
  3. I tried that and I do have admin privileges. I even moved the folder to my downloads folder just to change permissions and it still doesn't change. So it doesn't really matter because even with admin it still resets regardless of where I place it at. I was just wondering if there was a fix for that because I've never had a folder not let me change permissions on it until now. It's all good. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.👍😎 You actually nailed it. I didn't realize I could switch preset locations on it. I thought it had to be in the same place reshade was installed at. So I did like you said and set it to there in a ReshadePresets folder I created there for it specifically for that. I'm rock'em sock'em and good to go now. Thank you oh so very much. I really do appreciate it. You saved me a big huge headache with this one. lol👍😎
  4. I've seen videos of people using reshade with Firestorm so decided to give it a go. However I can't save presets because for whatever reason the FS folder won't allow me to take it off read only. Anybody know a fix for this? Not gonna lie it was kind of a piss off to tweak everything out perfectly only to have it poo the bed like this. Anyway thanks in advance mates.😎
  5. SL is struggling enough without people being reported for BS. Just find another club mate.👍😎
  6. Twitter has been a poop show for a very long time now. I, personally hope Elon Musk does exactly what he claims he will do. Not gonna lie I've been amused by how many people got triggered over this. lol Moderation has been one sided for a very long time now. My primary gaming Twitter got locked for stating a simple fact and simply telling people to get over it because it wasn't a big deal. In other words stop arguing. Which was a tweet posted on my own page expressing my thoughts. My secondary gaming Twitter account got locked for defending Jaden Smith on his page when people ganged up on him over something his Pops did. Because I am sitting there thinking ya'll actually took time out of your day to Tweet on this kids Twitter with toxic BS? Ya he is famous, but so what. That doesn't entitle the world to be a-holes to him. So I simply said they were punks for that type of behavior and could use a good slap themselves. lol Nothing compared to what was being said to him. They went unchecked. I caught some heat for it. It is what it is. Certain groups of people can behave and say what they want and out right threaten people on that platform even. Speak against them, or gut check them rather and you catch the heat. So if Elon Musk levels the playing field then I am all for it. The reality is I should have never even participated in any of those conversations. Read them, sure. Either shake my head or laugh and move on. The only reason I even had a Twitter account in the first place was to promote my channel. So my Twitter problems are about to drop to zero anyway. At best I might do a video about my experiences, but if I do it'd be more to ask Twitter to point out the exact rule I broke on the first instance because I read all the rules very carefully and I literally broke none. In fact that was how I found out about the whole censorship issue in the first place. On the fence post about it though because I don't want to pollute my channel with politics. Even in gaming news videos I considered doing I've opted out because of things like gender and/or racial politics. I don't want that crap on my channel. So as far as my gaming persona goes I'm all about the good times. Plenty of other Youtubers out here talking about that stupid mess. I ain't about that life.👍😎
  7. This here pretty much nails it. Anything Epic would produce would be a lot similar to Creative mode in Fortnite. They are already trying to push that whole metaverse theme with some newer game I can't recall the name of right now where you can world build in it. And to be entirely honest the issue a lot of these platforms have is that kids are being allowed on them. So I don't see this as an alternative to Second Life for a variety of reasons. It's already been proven to fail. For example I read an article about one called Avakin Life I think it's called where local chat is getting policed so hard people are copping bans left, right, and center over every little thing. In fact one user on Youtube even said it has gotten so bad you hardly see anyone going out anymore and when you do it's dead silence because everyone is afraid to speak.. It is what it is. And the reason for it makes perfect sense even because it's to protect the younger kids from predators, but here is the thing. Grown ups go to the grown up clubs. So unless you're playing chaperone for your own child you got no business hanging out at the teen clubs. Which at the end of the day that is what these platforms are. So Epic pushing out a metaverse it is not going to happen the way people think it is. If I am going to play a game then I will just play a game. As for the metaverse thing I'll stay in my own lane. They can have at it for all I care.👍😎
  8. I think you misunderstand me or maybe I didn't articulate myself clearly enough. When I made that statement I was making from a traditional point of view. We all learned that. That's why people argue and fuss over it so much. As for what I personally learned from my parents, I learned to be self sufficient. Which I applaud your parents on because they obviously taught you the same. To many out here do not teach this. So what little you've told me about them I can already tell I have a huge amount of respect for them on that. The reason I mainly commented in jest on @Rowan Amore's post was because she isn't wrong. Women do put in a lot of work at the home especially if the man is the one out working 12 and 16 hour shifts. Now the typical man will come home tired and obviously expect a meal at least. That's been the common theme with a lot of my friends growing up when I'd stay over for the night. I come from a generational military family so if I had to label my mentality in one word then I would say I was brought up/trained with more of a survivalist mentality. I was taught not to wait around for someone to cook my food. Go cook it myself. Don't wait around on others to get things done. Just get things done. So for example say I come from work after 16 hours if my wife didn't have time to cook or simply just didn't feel good I don't say, "What's for dinner?". I obviously can see ain't shirt for dinner. lol I'm a grown arse man. I can do math. lol So you will never ever hear me ask that stupid question. lol So what I do is I let her know that I am fixing to go cook. What I will ask is two questions though. "You eat?", "The kids eat?". Only two questions I ask because I go cook dinner myself. I'll go a step further even. There was a time after she had retired military service when she asked me asked me if she could do over the road truck driving. It was something she had always wanted to try. Which I think I shocked her on and I would have thought she'd known me well enough, but she expected me to out right shoot it down as most men probably would have. I mean after all not many men would be comfortable with their wife being gone, then stuck with all the duties, and them working around other men far away. However trust and freedom in a marriage is crucial if not everything. So if I recall I am standing there cooking and she asks me and my response was brief. No questions except for one and one only. "Is that what you really want to do?", she replies, "Yes.". My reply, "Then do it.". Her expression was priceless. lol I remember she asked, "Is that all you got to say about it?". I replied back a tad sarcastically with a smile, "Would you rather we fight about it?". lol I mean later we obviously discussed it more and I let her know. I'm not going to ever tell somebody they can't do something in life they really want to do. In fact the only time I ever got some what angry regarding that situation was a few years later when she called me from the road and asked me if I minded if she quit and came back home. In fact it kinda royally pissed me off now that I am thinking about it. lol My Hispanic accent came to the suffice. I told her straight to the point. "You don't need my permission to come home woman! You no ask me shirt! You wanna quit and come home then just quit and come home!". I'm not gonna lie. I had to woo saa on that one. I don't believe in people needing to ask permission to come home. I get she was just trying to be respectful and give me a courtesy, but that's just not something anyone ever has to ask me. So we talked a bit and she made the arrangements to come home. So I do know what it is like to run a house solely on your own. I've always had a respect for the things women do at the home and in general basically. If anything the main thing it changed is I could relate a lot more to it. Funny story though. I'll explain how the transition of power in the house happened once she got home. Our girls while glad their Mother was home thought they'd be glad because they did not have to suffer Dad's inspections no more before they were allowed to leave the house. It was the first, last, and only time I ever had my behind chewed over what they were wearing. It was over a skirt the youngest was wearing who was 16 at the time. I, personally thought it was fine. However her Mother did not. lol So when she called herself having a go at me I looked at her, grinned and said (Again Hispanic accent sufficed. lol), "You know what? You no like my inspections? Then you do the inspections from now on. I, quit!". Our daughter, still trying to argue her case is looking at me for help saying well he liked it. I looked back at her, smiled real big and told her straight to the point. "Did you not hear me girl? I, quit!". Walked off like a boss. lol Thus the transition of power has successfully been navigated back over to the wife. lol Mission accomplished. Wife is now back in charge. Check. Wife is now in full on drill sergeant mode exerting her dominance over her cubs. Check. Wife is happy. Check. Happy wife is a happy life. Check. Life is goooooodddd!!!! lol The lion is now back on the rock awaiting the next orders. lol🤣 So hopefully that gives you a bit of a better idea of how I operate and function in my RL. While I may have some traditional views in how I see certain things I simply do not just up and fall in line. I do things my own way and always on the same page equally with my wife. We do things together. No one ever had to tell us or even teach us this. It simply just is. For me the way I see it is it is more of a every day we wake up is a blessing from God. Each new day you have a new mission for that day to accomplish that life gives you. It doesn't really matter how it is accomplished. It just matters that it is accomplished. Do so with love, compassion, understanding, pride, dignity, respect, and honor. Whatever duty the wife doesn't do the husband should do and pick up the slack and whatever duty the husband doesn't do the wife should do and pick up the slack. No complaints. Only accomplish the mission. That's real teamwork. These are some of the things I teach to my kids, grand kids, and now *coughs* one great grand child. To be self sufficient above all else and to understand the value of true teamwork. I teach them by example not to place their own self worth above that of their partner. If anything I teach them to place their partners self worth above their own. And after putting God and Jesus first to put and protect family above all else. God does not like vanity. Nor do I for that matter. It serves very little to no purpose in life. I mean I don't mind if they joke around. We all do, but I need them to understand to protect and to have a high value, respect, and regard of all life. All life is precious. Which brings me to my next point. Regarding the men and dirt thing you said. I had to actually laugh at that because it's hard for me to imagine. lol I'm going to say that may be a thing in your area. A lot of the men in my family are gardener's in their free time. lol It kinda goes hand in hand with the self sufficient, survivalist mentality I was brought up with. In fact in the early years of my life I spent most of it as a forest child in the woods with my hound dog named Prince. I'd say about 90% of it was spent with him and the other forest creatures who lived in the woods who were my friends. Good times.🙂
  9. All right. Well I am sorry then. It sounded like you were having a go at me and to be honest I'm sitting here thinking, "Well fork. What the heck did I do to you?". lol🤣 I was just saying how it should be in terms of running the show equally. Duties should be shared and swapped out accordingly is all.👍😎
  10. Not in my house and I don't concern myself with 50% of the workforce. They don't pay my bills. I didn't raise 50% of the workforce and I darn sure didn't marry 50% of that workforce. So I don't give two craps about them. We wasn't discussing that. I just simply made a joke off that one comment you made. You coming at me with BS. Like you know how I run my business. So I am letting you know now. Don't come at me with that BS because you have absolutely no idea how I rock and roll my house hold. Have a blessed day.👍😎
  11. Well since you want to get all serious with it we can do that too. I been married just as long as you have and it's not a 50's thing. It's a life thing. Yes marriage is a team effort. Men do man shirt and a woman does women shirt. If a man works all day and puts food on the table and clothes on everyone's backs then ya the woman needs to make sure that meal is cooked and them kids are taken care of. And if they want to switch them roles the same rules apply. If they both work then they split that shirt. That's not a 50';s thing. That's a handling your business thing if you expect to stay married for very long thing.👍😎
  12. I just want to add that I am all right with this program because that meal keeps us old lions fueled up for when Momma yells out our name and it's time to get off that rock on pounce all over someones behind.👍😎 So there is a trade off on that program. Momma never has to worry for nothing. lol👍🤣
  13. All right. Awesome. I'm impressed already. I actually vetted your viewer about 3 years back and while at the time I would have liked to seen certain features implemented in it I was still impressed with the performance of it none the less. For some reason your signature didn't show for me the other day, but now it's clear as day. Anyway moving on.👍 Sounding reasonable so far.👍 I can agree to that. I'll just add that both can be equally just as complex depending on the project.👍 Eh, I half agree with this. Reason I say that is I'm not sure if you familiar with what Total Conversion mods are, but they often can and do rebuild a game from the ground up. Software is software. It'll do whatever you tell it to if you know how to sweet talk it just right.👍 I didn't take it personal and sorry I haven't really participated in to many of these type of topics let alone recall seeing them. My participation in this one was more of a in a passing by sorta way. Got my own thing going on and was more a tossing ideas to focus on for those more invested in this.👍 Well first fun fact. As far as Androids go anyway. As I am sure you know they are based off Linux. I'm going to also assume you're familiar with Vulkan. So single threading is not so much an issue as a lot of Android devices take full advantage of Vulkan drivers. So that's really a non-issue at this point. Even if it was that is the very reason I referenced Singularity because I tested it with opengl purely on Linux using a toaster and it runs flawless and renders 5 times faster then any other viewer out there. So again, non-issue. There was an actual reason I recommended that specific one as a base model for Android devices.👍 Now hypothetically speaking and I'll see if I can explain this properly, if LL ever created an actual client that allowed for or created rather actual assets as the world loaded or when new items appeared similar to how the cache function works except actual assets are created then the platform very well could go go go go gogoooo!!!! Vroom! Vroom! Style. lol It definitely would reduce lag issues. I don't see that ever happening though given the way people crap their britches over content in this game. So that's out. lol🤣 Personally on the point as far as me wanting it running on my phone. I gotta be real honest with you. I don't really care. I am good with SpeedLight. That's my Slim Fast viewer right there. It does what I need it to. Tested the 3D on my phone. Thought it rendered fine. So my original suggestion seemed very feasible based off my own tests. I'm personally not going to be playing Second Life on my phone. I got an app for check in purposes should the need arise. So I'm good mate. lol👍 I was thinking more about the people with tablets and such or those who's PC's pooed the bed on them. I get it though. I do. You're basically saying it can't be done. My suggestion is crap. Not a problem. I got no problems yielding to the expertise of someone who's worked 10 years on Second Life viewer projects. My skill set doesn't include that. So it's all good in the hood as far as I am concerned.👍 Well I didn't just up and jump to the same suggestions. My opinions are my own and I've had them from day one ever since I vetted this platform out when looking for a solid mmo with a player base economy as an alternative to Star Wars Galaxies for a 500 player Guild/Fleet/Clan at the time. And while it does have one it never made the grade for so many reasons I won't even get in to because that's not the point. The point is my opinion is one that is decades old that I still stand by even to this very day.👍 So I am sorry if it is one that you heard before, but since what that tells me is if I am not the first or even the only one to have said it then I would totally get and even understand why you might be annoyed by the suggestion. What I am also taking away from this is that it is either not feasible to do as you said which I am happy to run with or to entirely much of a pain in the behind to do or even deal with which also I can relate to from my own projects. lol🤣 Having said that I am going to leave a few suggestions for you and/or anyone interested and people can ignore or do with them what ever they want. Just something I think is worth mentioning is all. There is a port called Devolution X for the PC version of the original Diablo. Very nicely done project. Awesome development team. So my first suggestion is rather then looking at building viewers from the ground up just either create a port for existing one or pack them as an apk making the adjustments needed in order for it to run. If it ain't doable then not an issue.👍 My second suggestion is a bit more on the technical side for people out here. Alternatives such as WINE or some other apps that allow you to run Windows programs on Android. There are also ways to run Linux programs on Android using certain apps as well too. So you can run programs and even games like The Lord Of The Rings Online for example with little to no problems. So you all could try rolling the dice with that.👍 My third and final suggestion for people. Perhaps my top suggestion if I were someone that I just needed to have a 3D viewer on an Android device for what ever reason then I would look in to Shadow Cloud Gaming. It does run about $29.99 a month if I recall, but the benefit to this you do not have to worry about or deal with all the issues that @Coffee Pancakewas kind enough to explain. Which thank you for that by the way. The application for it would save on disk space for your device and you would get the benefits of a high end gaming rig to boot. And honestly it would probably save wear and tear on your device hardware at the end of the day.👍 Anyway option three is my best helpful tip for the day. Stay safe and have a blessed day everyone. Peace, love, and hair grease.👍😎
  14. First. What viewer? If you don't mind me asking. Curious about your skill level since you obviously seem to question mine. Second. You wouldn't be the first viewer developer I've spoken to over the years and from what I've been lead to believe from each one is that there is a massive difference in how each viewer is coded. So while true they are based on LL code as far as graphical viewers are concerned they are absolutely not all the same. Not everyone carbon copies viewer features from one to the next just like that. And Singularity is absolutely not like any other viewer. I'm not even arguing that. I stand by what I said on that viewer. Also if that were the case in terms of being allowed to log in then text based viewers would not exist. Either way that is neither here nor there. Really has nothing to do with my point. Thirdly. You pretty much validated exactly what I said in regards to beating a dead horse. You essentially said the same thing in a different way. So I don't really disagree with you because you basically made my exact same point. So thank you. lol👍 I disagree. While I am not a Second Life viewer developer I am someone who has created and worked on many mod projects in the past in several various gaming communities over the last 25 years in my spare time off and on. So I know a thing or two about a thing or two. lol So challenge accepted. I'll submit two examples validating my point. First we'll work from the ground up. Take Star Wars Galaxies Legends. Pretty old mmo right? Can run on a potato PC by today's standards. However if you pop one of the higher end texture mods over all of the entire game those system requirements sky rocket right on up. Now let's work from the sky down. Take Elden Ring for example. Pretty high end game right? Brand new in fact. Minimum on the video card alone is 4 gigs, recommended 8 gigs. Know why? Texture resolutions. I could easily scale those same graphics down and reduce the games size and make it run on a potato machine with 1 gig video card. Your comment about Ark Mobile again has validated my point. Of course it runs. The textures were designed for it to. The PC version of Ark. It's sort of a no brainer it obviously would not which is exactly what I originally stated in the first place. So it's pretty obvious they are not going to be the same. Which is again leading right back to my original point.👍 I understand more then you think. Maybe I am reading you wrong, but I get the sense you're trying to downgrade my intelligence level rather then offering a feasible explanation as to why something can't be coded to be done in a Second Life viewer. If that's the case you might want to pull that shirt with someone who actually hasn't contributed to the creation of mods packs that re-scaled entire games from the ground up. As for why someone hasn't done it in the last 16 years. You tell me. You're a developer you said. Why haven't YOU done it? Fair question right? You say the 3D end point is different. Let's start there. How so? The viewer controls how the world is rendered. Explain to me how it can't control that rendering process to fit a much smaller scale for lower end devices. I am curious to why when several other platforms that render via a browser out here can, but yet Second Life is some how unable to. I mean outright gave you and everyone else the fix. I said it because I've never once in all the years on this platform seen anyone else say it. People are to busy trying to get it to render on their phone like they can their computers. That's always seemed to be the focus. Not ever gonna happen. We obviously both agree on that even. I feel like you call yourself trying to tear me down and yet in all your reasons you gave you pretty much validated every single solitary word I said as to why it won't happen. However you didn't explain why it can't. You were to busy trying to call BS on what I said in which you are actually dead wrong about. Backed it up with examples even. One of which you can currently test out and see for yourself if you feel so inclined to do so. So I showed you'd mine. Now show me yours.😎
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