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Multiple failures for today... In-world search won't let me check the "adult" box, even after setting my preferences appropriately and re-logging. I've had to ask for help with even this very basic thing, and I'm awaiting response. My Mac keyboard on my work computer has the windows and alt keys (option and command on the mac) swapped to work as I expect. I'd like to do that at home, but I don't remember how I did it, and I can't find an answer that doesn't involve allowing some damned website to run any damned scripts it wants to download some little app, something I'm sure I didn't have to do at work. Looking up keyboard scan codes to do my own registry edit is like stepping back in time thirty years. I can't even read Microsoft's damned bitmapped key map. Welcome to the twenty first century, guys. I'd like to put payment info on file for this avatar. After much research I've decided it's futile to try to use a prepaid credit card. Not that I need to do that, but since I decided I wanted to do that and was denied, I'm kinda not feeling the Linden love. Last time I tried to use my Windows 8 PC for Second Life, it kept getting graphics timeout errors and crashing my viewer. That was months ago. With so many people reporting success running SL in Windows 8 I thought maybe things had improved. Nope. I've tried a registry hack to increase the timeout tolerance. If that doesn't work I'm going to give up. This machine is so much more capable than my old Mac. I bought this stupid video card just for SL. If it doesn't work I'm going to give up on this silly SL idea altogether. Also, I'm getting graphics artifacts. Distant objects, and whole regions, flash, as if there's a huge transparency sort order glitch going on. And, I don't know if it's intentional griefing, slow loading, or a graphics glitch, but every now and then an avatar turns into what looks to be megaprim sculpty barf. Once again, I've spent my allotted SL time and not accomplished a damned thing.

I've set my preferences to "I want to access content rated: general, moderate, adult". I've re-logged. The in-world search still won't let me check the adult box. This is an account without payment info on file. Is this working as designed?

I don't know if I'll stick to it, but I've decided to explore SL for the first time in a long time. Mesh is new since I was active in SL, so I'll be trying out some new fashion. Mostly, I want to see if I can find where people are hanging out. I created a facebook page, if you'd like to follow along... Data Resident on Facebook

LL's picture of the day usually falls into the "staged picture of something pretty" category. It'd be nice if there were occasional pictures of groups of people doing something.