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16 wrote: ps how have you managed to hold on to your first name? forum account creation date isn't the same as sl account creation date. So he could have been in sl for 5 years yet only yesterday created his forum account.

LuciaRiley wrote: this is pretty much me, and it already got be banned from one place. I was in a bad mood and took it out on them, but couldn't help it. Been there, done that, more than once. Not (yet?) in sl though. Maybe I've grown since those days, learned to control my temper better (though I'm still far from being politically correct, and that lack is what caused my bans from most places I've faced them). That said, my current un-PC, unconventional lifestyle as I practice it in sl makes such things exceedingly unlikely. I'm more likely to get thrown out of sims for being improperly clothed after stumbling into them looking for something else

not everyone, in fact not most people, have the skill, tools, knowledge, time, and wish to spend that time to create everything from scratch. I know I don't. But I do like to tweak bits here and there, especially as the average SL shape is terrible. Way too tall, oversized body parts (especially breasts, butt, hands and feet), etc., and that includes many commercially available ones. Got lucky a friend turned out to be a designer of shapes and made me a custom one with mod rights I only had to tweak a little bit.

Well said, sadly you can't be a good citizen by just being a good openminded person. The SL TOS at times is rather narrowminded after all. Of course ethics, principles, values, etc. differ wildly between people. What I find perfectly acceptable and reasonable may well (and indeed at times does) conflict wildly with what others think such, including LL (and would thus get me banned from SL were I to practice it, especially outside Adult rated zones) even if it harms no one (e.g. I'd love to be a fulltime nudist, can't do that as many sims even where the TOS allow it don't accept nudity even in a non-sexual context, same as rl btw, but with the benefit that it's never too cold in sl). Respect for others is a great thing, and I practice that. Yet respect has to be mutual or it is worthless and to me that means respect other lifestyle choices, sets of values etc. as long as they don't harm you (and no, seeing someone naked never hurt anyone).

RL many sports and other competitions require participants to pay an entrance fee, same for the audience. In SL, that hardly ever happens (at most a group membership with a one time fee is required in most cases, and often not even that), the cost of hosting events and contests/competitions is therefore exclusively defrayed from affiliate vendor sales, tips, and the occasional sponsorship/advertising drive. And please remember who pays the money you win in a contest: it is the person hosting it. In most clubs, that means it either comes out of the pockets of the club owner or more frequently out of the personal finances of the club host of the night, a host who may well make less in tips that evening than she has to pay in prize money to the contest winners! As to bots and other ways of trying to influence contest outcomes: having to pay for voting privileges helps to a large extend deter that. If there's 500L on the board and each voter has to pay 50L, the cheater bringing in 15 bots is losing out

they tried, they posted status updates regularly on the status page. But with the website and support channels affected as well, there was little else they could do. What'd you expect, an email every 10 minutes telling you what they were doing? You're not paying that much, boy.

Chimn Congrejo wrote: jwenting wrote: If all the existing ones were deleted I'd get together with a few friends and start one, make a killing :matte-motes-nerdy: Seriously, wth are you even asking this. Seems like what we have here is just another bunch of self righteous do-gooders who want to control what other people do and like. Have you ever spend some serious time there as an open minded person (I don't mean the seedy places like rape sims (yes, they exist, ended up in a few accidentally that were mislabeled)? Most sex/dance sims I've been to (tbh, not an awful lot of them, maybe I got lucky) have very little sex, just a lot of flirting and chatting. What sex there is is mostly directed away from public areas. That's true even for strip clubs where, in my experience, the strippers most often are NOT prostitutes, and will not grant anything even remotely approaching sexual favours beyond showing off their bodies and maybe blowing a few kisses. Yes, there are brothels, escort services, and what not. Just as there are outside sl. Big difference: in sl no one is forced into it, the people working there choose to do so of their own free accord, can always turn off their computers if they don't like it. The job isn't for me, but I won't judge anyone who chooses to engage in it. If you even read the post you would understand why I was asking. It's impossible to find interesting and creative places because the game is flooded with sex clubs and DJ classifieds. And ffs, I was just using the title as a metaphor. What interesting places are there in Second Life if you could finally clear away this large foggy veil of people trying to get internet girlfriends and jack off at the computer while they sit on poseballs? This game is a great outlet for artists and programmers.. especially with the mesh upload feature that has now been added. You can actually learn 3dsmax, zbrush, form, shape, and character design.. and make some money in Second Life with that knowledge. Sex is the EASY option. It takes almost no effort.. especially in this game. Just make a female avatar and pretend you're not a dude.. strip for money. I read it all kid, and my point stands. you want to control what others do and think. If you weren't so self-righteous and actually search for things you like rather than things you want to prevent others from doing you would find it in droves. If not, you might want to consider your second paragraph and actually create something original rather than try to prevent other people from doing their thing. And oh, for most of us it is NO game. Especially for many of those of us who hang out in the A rated areas, where life is fun and people are serious about their persona rather than just playing around. Whether sex is involved or not is irrelevant, we are ourselves, or rather what we would want ourselves to be without the restrictions and inhibitions that thing called 'the real worls' imposes upon us (and which you want to impose on us in sl because of your narrowminded attitude).

"gorean" isn't adult, get over it. Though it MAY contain adult activities, it doesn't have to. Where it happens in M rated areas there are warnings, the areas are effectively private, and things that wouldn't pass content guidelines for open areas in M zones are typically kept indoors. And since when is the word "animal" something that's "adult" (by which you clearly mean sex related)? If I put up a breeding farm for horses and pets on M rated land and advertise it as "animal farm" or some such I'm in violation of LLs TOS according to you? Or a zoo? The very fact that you're actively looking for things that by your definition violate the TOS without ever having seen them is clearly indicative of you being a griefer. You apparently get a kick out of causing trouble for others. You also seem to have no clue about the TOS and how it relates to M vs. A areas. While advertising explicitly might be a technical violation in some cases, the activities themselves are not. If the activities are performed indoors, in areas set aside for them, and/or the parcel is locked, invitation only with age verification, there is nothing wrong with it. That's what sets aside the A zones from M zones, as there those restrictions don't apply as access is automatically barred to underage accounts.

that said, pretty much all of sl has been laggy for the last few days in my experience, maybe it's just part of that.

PeterCanessa Oh wrote: greek Wingtips wrote: every day something in SL does not work It's always been that way and we've never been LL, just residents. Your important point though is true - I've never seen a day in SL when everyone was happy that everything was working properly and I don't expect I ever will. Partly it's because so much of SL was only poorly or partially implemented (boo!), partly it's because LL keep giving us new features (hooray!), but mostly it's because SL was never *planned* to be like it is now, or possibly like anything. "SL" is layers and layers of patches, fixes and add-ons. Then, of course, there are all the people trying to run it on any equipment from a steam wrist-phone upwards. It's an impossible thing to maintain! I don't know if SL is poorly implemented. Is suspect that like most complex and relatively old systems parts of it are of highly varying quality. But overall you're spot on. It's a massively complex environment of hardware and software, and any such is impossible to have fully stable with even close to 100% uptime. I work on such professionally, and we MUST retain near 100% uptime as public safety is involved (things go down, people die, real people). The cost is prohibitive for most purposes. For such, you rely on full duplication of everything, multiple layers of failover, hot and cold standby environments which are exact copies of your entire infrastructure, multiple shifts of workers with overlapping schedules to keep the systems fully manned 24/7 with backups on call for every single person in case someone calls in sick, etc. etc. Were LL to implement that, the cost of running SL would rise 10 fold most likely.

I agree with hugsy, it's probably trying to rez outside your home (or in part overlapping another parcel). Try changing the spot where you rez the box and see what happens, then move the unit after it rezzes.

if you're all so unhappy, why are you still here? Get the hell out of sl and leave it to the rest of us who are having fun. LL provide the world, residents provide the content. As long as they keep the servers up and running (and preferably the marketplace, which though sometimes slow is reasonably stable), which they mostly succeed at, better than most other companies running such large server farms succeed in fact, I'm happy with them. If you need Linden Labs to tell you what to do you're better off finding a game to play. They're not perfect, no one is. But they're doing a decent job at a highly complex venture, far more complex than all but a smithering of users can understand (I can understand some of it from my rl background, but far from all, and that little shows me how bafflingly complex this thing is).

If all the existing ones were deleted I'd get together with a few friends and start one, make a killing :matte-motes-nerdy: Seriously, wth are you even asking this. Seems like what we have here is just another bunch of self righteous do-gooders who want to control what other people do and like. Have you ever spend some serious time there as an open minded person (I don't mean the seedy places like rape sims (yes, they exist, ended up in a few accidentally that were mislabeled)? Most sex/dance sims I've been to (tbh, not an awful lot of them, maybe I got lucky) have very little sex, just a lot of flirting and chatting. What sex there is is mostly directed away from public areas. That's true even for strip clubs where, in my experience, the strippers most often are NOT prostitutes, and will not grant anything even remotely approaching sexual favours beyond showing off their bodies and maybe blowing a few kisses. Yes, there are brothels, escort services, and what not. Just as there are outside sl. Big difference: in sl no one is forced into it, the people working there choose to do so of their own free accord, can always turn off their computers if they don't like it. The job isn't for me, but I won't judge anyone who chooses to engage in it.

UncommonTruth wrote: How sad... I didn't make it to a welcome center when I joined. SL freaked out on me and I was stuck in the start tutorial thingy. I eventually figured out how to tp out of it lol. I haven't seen that greifing, haven't spent but a few minutes ever at a welcome center. Now I want to go adopt noobs. Start a group maybe, Noobs helping Noobs, somethin like that lol. At the very least, I will start finding welcome centers to help out. neither did I, but seen it countless times elsewhere. I have a different start experience, I never saw the tutorial thingy. SL crashed during account creation and I ended up at one of the LL game sims when I first logged in, no clue how to even move There are several organisationf for helping newbies. Places like NCI (New Citizens Inc.) are great and actively hunt down griefers in their sims.

Tamara Artis wrote: Summer Logan wrote: Looking for child avatar with good knowledge of child roleplay. lol, I'm actually curious, why is child rp needed for a photoshoot? The ones I worked with needed much more effort and explaining, e.g., I needed to sit on a pose stand to show where to sit. to know proper positions and movements? Many child avy's played by adults move like adults, behave like adults. Less than convincing. Not as important for photo shoots where the studio sets the pose, but for the catwalk?

Inuyasha DeVinna wrote: I've stumbled upon those groups of individuals myself and I wil lsay this much, "I can't quite understand why they would stay in those areas and insult people and give other types of abuse.. quite annoying, actually... But, then.. on the other side, I like to think that some individuals have certain issues and I guess they feel comfortable in those spots, so I tend... to just walk away." there are people who get off on making others miserable. And where better to do that than in places where many who come there have no knowledge about how to file a complaint against them? Where many may be new and inexperienced, vulnerable?

to remain btb it'd probably need to border on violating the terms of service. The books have the main people involved be mostly children, but the themes include extreme violence, death, and at times nudity which in sl can not take place in those areas child avatars are typically welcomed (or maybe even allowed to go).

Eileen Fellstein wrote: lol, I had a nude one for a while and no one complained It was a tasteful nude though, like a Marilyn Monroe nude. It was obvious I was nude but the pose was such that the bits were coverd by my arms, and was in no way vulgar, unless you consider art like Venus De Milo vulgar. Maybe I am wrong but I thought the profiles used to let you set your own rating. Could be faulty memory banks on that and in any case, you can't now. I just checked. same here. my current profile picture is the one I use on the forums as well. Looks naked (though she isn't, but all her clothing is out of the frame). Forum profile pics have to be moderator approved (or so it says, I noticed no delays after uploading it) and PG. Of course one person's definition of "naked" may be different from another's. In some cultures even showing a knee or elbow is considered obscene after all.

it's basically network delays. You talk, the server receives your data, it gets sent back to you and your listener(s), and at that point your animations are triggered as well. As it's a lot of data, that can take a few seconds when things are busy.

Ry0ta Exonar wrote: See this page: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Login-failure/ta-p/700109#Section_.1.2  this usually means that your Second Life account has been administratively blocked. Short-term blocks (less than an hour) may be the result of inappropriate behavior inworld. Longer blocks are typically the result of abuse. You will be unable to use Second Life until the indicated time; if that is more than an hour away, you will receive an email from the abuse team on the matter. Be sure to check your spam filters.? I've had it happen a few times, never because I was temp banned though, and could always log in before the timer ran out (usually within minutes). My guess is the thing sometimes pops up in error instead of the usual one you get when you crash and try to log in again before the server notices (maybe after this happens several times in quick succession).

pretty similar here. Started off with freebies and slowly modded and replaced them with more advanced (and expensive) stuff as I found things I really liked. That way I didn't end up buying and discarding many different skins and stuff.

Bree Giffen wrote: Users like me will only see your display name. I think all users with the standard LL viewer will see just your display name unless they change their preferences. People can choose to see you in wireframe, or use terrible windlight settings, or not see mesh. You really have no control over how people see you. no, LL viewer (certainly the latest) displays both by default, never found an option to turn off account name for public view or I'd have done so for account security reasons.

Lucinda Bulloch wrote: LOL, the linden TOS, sounds like a African dictatorship, lets call it "chief screaming chickens laws". don't like the TOS, don't log in (in fact, cancel your account). It's that simple.

banning people by IP does more harm than good. Most if not all responsible site operators don't use the practice. Not only does it not work (a griefer can simply get himself another IP address, takes but a few minutes) but it blocks legitimate users who end up with the blocked address afterwards through DHCP. It also blocks legitimate users who share the same IP address with a griefer because they for example live together (think students in a dorm) or otherwise use the same connection (internet cafes). In effect then, what you suggest would be griefing on a massive scale, denying dozens if not hundreds of people access to SL while not hurting the people you want to block at all.

MP underwent maintenance yesterday.