wesleytron

You can't. It's not currently possible to change your username. There are however plans to introduce it as a feature, but that is still in development and isn't showing any signs of becoming available any time soon.

People whose only contribution to local chat is to comment on how nobody is talking in local chat.

I would DEFINITELY jump at the chance to get a Premium home if that's what was on offer. Add me to the queue now!

Personally I'd rather hosts did that anyway, whether I have a squiggly name or not - being greeted directly by name the moment I arrive on the sim is on my list of pet peeves. It's even worse when it turns out I'm the only arrival. It feels like an emotional manipulation 'trap' designed to make me feel too uncomfortable to just leave! Really I just wanted to blend into the background and listen to some music, but now I feel like I have to make small talk, discuss the weather where I am and talk about cats and that sort of thing. So I make my excuses and get away as soon as I can "Oops I think I left the oven on. See ya later! Bye!" At least if it's a busy club I can sneak right back out of the back door without anybody really noticing.

Oops. Apologies. I didn't realise there was history and I didn't mean to cause offence. Yes.. my post was meant in jest - a joke in which I was presenting myself with faux ignorance and to be laughed at for suggesting the moles even remotely needed my advice and guidance. I'm fully aware that they don't need it! I wasn't trying to patronise them; rather I myself was meant to be the butt of the joke. I put a smiley at the bottom of my post, but I guess it wasn't enough to set my intended tone. I wasn't aware there was a history of actual mole harassment and that is certainly not something I intended to be dismissive of. Again I apologise. I intended no offence to the moles or anyone.

Uh? What... ?! I'm just trying to be helpful... 🤪

Well... if the moles feel they are getting harassed then they can file an abuse report. If they're not sure how, guidance is available here: 😊

You can't get the builds themselves, but all the textures and sculpty maps for each of the homes on the Premium regions are available at the corresponding info hubs. With those it shouldn't be too difficult to at least build approximations of the houses. The flat-roofed Meadowbrook houses should be a doddle!

I don't know. I thought I'd seen other people refer to them as 'he', but if I'm wrong then my apologies to @Grumpity Linden I can't see anything on their profile to confirm one way or another. Maybe Grumpity prefers gender neutrality.

It's the middle of the night in Linden Land. Grumpity is probably tucked up in bed by now. I'm surprised he posted and responded in this thread when he did - on a Sunday night no less! Now that's commitment!

It's not (as far as I'm aware) in the viewer preferences - it's a 'My Second Life' privacy setting you access from the Second Life website (via the dashboard) at https://my.secondlife.com/settings/privacy You can set it to be viewed by 'Everyone', 'Second Life' or 'Friends'. I looked up the OP using Firestorm 'legacy' profiles, and the Picks tab says 'user has no pics', so either they removed them all or the setting does work on legacy profiles. On web profiles the tab just doesn't exist for those people Picks are hidden from.

I'm curious why you'd want security on your Linden home anyway? Who are you trying to keep out? I'm wondering if you're preempting something that barely ever happens anyway. I've hardly ever seen more than three or four people on premium home regions and most, if not all, of those lived there. Your neighbours are the least likely to come wandering in uninvited. I doubt you really need ban lines (which are ugly), and a security orb is probably an unnecessary expense. It's going to be very rare you get random 'explorers' turning up on on the classic premium home lands wandering into people's houses. Any notion that there are hoards of trolls and griefers wandering those lands to wreak havoc by invading residents' homes is just a myth, and just locking your doors will probably deter most genuine newbies should one show up (although newbies turning up is even less likely). In the very rare event that you DO find someone coming into your home while you are there, ask them politely to leave and if they don't you can eject and ban them. Which is much more satisfying

...and unless you're a Catholic, and then there is NEVER an age at which you can do it unashamedly .

I think it's a case of saying it's okay to consent to sex at 16, but you have to do it shamefully. Only once you're 18 are you allowed to do it unashamedly.

Interesting. How do they define 'commercial' I wonder? If we were to take that statement at face value, I'm guessing it means all the free porn is unaffected. So it's no help at all.

I could be wrong, but I think one of the options available will be the choice to not change your name if you're happy with the one you've already got. It will probably be free as well!

Probably nothing. They're just not thinking at all. Which is the problem. I'd hazard a guess that some of them do all of their work with their sun position set permanently to midday and remain oblivious to what it looks like at night.

That might be because some creators have a habit of making things 'full bright', without considering if it makes sense to do that.

Sure, but even the default Kemono is not exactly skinny in the hips and thighs area. Plus the problem is compounded by the Kemono's use of a scripted deformer which basically 'squashes' the shoulders (and therefore the arms) closer together. So it's almost guaranteed the hands are going to clip through the sides.

Sounds similar to my approach. I usually wander using region settings so that I get to see a sim the way the owner intended (an apocalyptic sim will often already have a suitable windlight for example). But if it just uses the standard SL daylight settings or I just don't like the choice of windlight, then in those moments I pick a windlight I like better.

I'm not sure what you're saying. What's a 'full' AO? Oracul AOs are also full AOs and cost up to about L$600 for Bento. From 200 to 300 for non-Bento. But still 'full' AOs Tutys are 'full' AOs and cost from around L$450 to L$950 for Bento (and less for non-Bento) Voir AOs cost no more than L$399 for a full, complete Bento AO. Those are all full AOs, often mocap, complete with stands, walks, sits, ground sits and all the rest. You don't have to pay upwards of L$2000 for a decent AO.

Akeyo are good but I suspect they cost quite a lot more than someone who was looking at Oracul AOs would be wanting to pay. I did a quick MP search and Voir AOs - including a Bento shy girl AO for curvy girls - actually cost less than Daiz Papp's Oracul sets (the Bento ones anyway). But if money isn't an issue then I think VISTA also do something.

Possibly. I've noticed that even some of the skinniest shapes are too curvy for some of the Oracul AOs in that regard. Especially on hands on hips/resting behind the back type poses. If you know what you're doing, you could just take the animations which don't suit you out of the AO. Or check out Tutys and Voir - I think they do some AOs better suited to curvy avatars. They cost more than the Oracul AOs, but quite a bit less than some of the other names.

Did you demo it using the same avatar and with the same body shape you're using now? Differences in shape - eg things like arm length, shoulder width and body fat - can make all the difference to how compatible with an AO it is.

These days I tend to wander the world of SL with my viewer set to region setting. If not, then I use something from the windlight settings (in Firestorm). But hardly ever the default midday (mad dogs and English men and all that...). I sometimes work late, which means on the following day I might be having breakfast when most people in my timezone are starting to think about lunch. On those occasions I might choose a nice sunrise from the windlight list so that I can at least feel like I've seen something of the morning.