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    Help Please

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    Posted · Edited by 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.

     

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    What are some of your pet peeves?

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    1 hour ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    In a club hosting situation, a simple 'welcome to all new arrivals' is sufficient.

    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.

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    New Linden Homes

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    Oops. Apologies. I didn't realise there was history and I didn't mean to cause offence.

    19 minutes ago, kiramanell said:

    And telling them they can just file an AR (another thing, btw, they really don't need someone's unsolicited advice about, as I'm pretty sure they already know they can do that), that's, if not equally shameless, pretty on the low end too.

    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.

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    What will become of the old Premium homes?

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    7 minutes ago, bigmoe Whitfield said:

    They could stick them into the library,  man I'd love to replace the house I have.

    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!

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    Profile Pick got me banned

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    47 minutes ago, Syo Emerald said:

    I never came across any setting that made me chose if a pick should be private or not. Maybe that feature isn't supported in all viewers

    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.

    Linden home security.

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    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 :)

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    UK plans on blocking Porn soon... How does this affect SL?

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    1 minute ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    We have the same silliness in the US.  You only have to be 16 or 17 in some states to consent to sex, but you have to be 18 to see strippers or any sort of porn (and 21 to drink alcohol legally).  Go figure.

    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.

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    Secondlife 15th anniversary and CEO's letter

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    38 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

    I guess I am missing the point why someone who already has a first and last name would want to change their name? Most of the folks I know are perfectly happy with their name

    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!

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    Sun position - How do you play your game ?

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    7 hours ago, Gadget Portal said:

    I never know what these people are thinking.

    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.

    Arms clipping through body with new ao

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    2 hours ago, MaggiJin said:

    ah oracul. don't know how skinny they want you to be because even when i use the default kemono, my hands clip into my sides with oraculs aos.

    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.

    Sun position - How do you play your game ?

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    1 hour ago, Sagadin said:

    ...for general wandering/exploring it depends on the mood of the sim -- apocalyptic sims look great with lots of haze IMO;

    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.

    Arms clipping through body with new ao

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    11 minutes ago, Claireschen Hesten said:

    If the op can only afford oracul prices then they'd have to do a bit of saving as full AO's cost approx L$2000 but are worth it

    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.

    Arms clipping through body with new ao

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    11 minutes ago, Claireschen Hesten said:

    I'm sure the one I use from Akeyo is stated as being suited to larger figures

    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.

    Arms clipping through body with new ao

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    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.

     

    Sun position - How do you play your game ?

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    Posted · Edited by wesleytron

    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.

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