MartinaVaslovik

Chopin, Nocturne in B flat minor.

Why not talk to them? Is there some rule I don't know about? You don't know anything about them unless you talk to them. Are we not here to be social?

Yeah, I had guessed he lied, and about my profile too. I cut the chat short and left. Yes, I knew FB was like that but not as bad as some other places. I just go there for the lag. Best lag in SL.

Thank you for that Rolig, it helps a lot. So I'll just find a nice parcel to rent and buy a house to plop down on it.

I'm watching the YouTube channel Fall of Civilizations, by Paul Cooper. The Han dynasty is very interesting, and he covers the late bronze age collapse of civilization as well, a fascinating story. He also covers the Sumerians, if you are into history this channel is a must.

I was just at Fogbound, where a man IM'd me and his profile was marked Offline. I told him so, he said he was unaware of this, and he claimed mine was too. Well it wasn't when I looked at it, and I've never done that, so is there some kind of bug about this?

Where have I said that bigmore? I just asked a question. Got a problem with that?

Got to the store, and looking around. I remember when I was in SL before there was a problem many had with a line where the head joined the mesh body. Has that been resolved?

I"m shopping for a new head, just bought a Mailtreya Lara body and I'm going mesh finally, after 8 years, so I need a head and I'm looking around the Catwa store and see Bento heads, that say you must use a Bento viewer. I use Firestorm and I like it, so will that work with a Bento head? I don't know what Bento even means, I've been away form SL so long. This is a big investment so I want to get it right, and I don't want to have to switch viewers for the head. Advice welcome.

Okay, that makes sense too. Thanks!

Ah! That makes sense. A defense against tricks I didn't know about. I took it to mean "don't you IM me, I don't want to talk to anyone." So I guess I can IM them and they won't be offended?

I find myself confused by this. People inworld with their profiles marked "offline". Why do that if you are going to be in SL moving around? Do they just not want anyone talking to them? I don't understand that.

I've been trying to find a place to rent, but without success. Web search in the viewer gets me nothing but sims that have no one in them, and there is nothing under classifieds. There has to be a way, I just don't know it. Anyone?

Hey, I finally got through, and resolved the issue. Whew! So glad that's done!

Yes well I stopped doing business with PayPal when they would no longer let me cancel payments to those defrauding me, and told me it was between me and the seller. No protection there, so I don't use them anymore.

Yes, I've tried to call them during those hours, and I get a recording that says they are not available to help me.

When I added it nothing was said about PayPal, and I stopped using them when they would no longer get me refunds from fraudsters.

Debit card (Visa) on the same bank as the last one, which worked just fine for years.

I can't buy anything on Marketplace because SL will not let me use the new card I added over a week ago. I've no idea why. I have ticket open on it, no replies at all, and cannot get SL on the phone.

Well I came back to SL after some time away, and while I was away my card got hacked and the bank had to give me a new one. So I added the new card, over a week ago, and SL still will not let me us it, telling me I have no payment method to buy Lindens. I've opened tickets about it, and get nothing back on it at all. I call the support number, and can't get past the recording telling me they are not available to help me. i don't know what to do, but I'm open to suggestions.

I've got LookAt enabled, but I'm not sure how it works. I see the crosshairs, in different colors at different times, which when they are on my head seems to mean I'm being looked at by someone or maybe they are reading my profile, or something, I'm not sure. At times I have someone's crosshairs on me for a very long time, and why would they want to be camming me for that long a time? I don't get that. What do the different crosshair colors mean? Distance? If someone's crosshairs are on you for a very long time, what's going on? Can they really be camming me for that long? Does that happen if they are reading your profile?

yes, well I was not camming around, I was just standing there, engaging in local chat, and boom, "you have been logged out of Second Life, perhaps the region is having difficulties..." or something like that, and when I got back everyone else was still there and no one else had crashed. So if that griefer crashed me it was a specific attack. He also had a friend in there with him, perhaps called in for the attack. I'd never seen him there before.

I derendered and blacklisted him, then talked to a staff member who told me she'd also had a contentious exchange with him. She's going to advise the staff to keep an eye on him as he's known for being like that. I'm thinking there must be some way to defend against such attacks, if that's what he did.

I was at a nice pub, just minding my own business, when this guy IM's me about my profile, which says I'm just in SL for social reasons and not interested in cartoon sex. As we talk he gets on this "social reasons" thing and just like a dog with a bone he will not stop chewing it, trying to spin "social reasons" into all sorts of things, demanding I define that. Long story short, he got nastier and nastier until I muted him. So much for him I thought, but today I was in that pub again and suddenly I crash. When I get back in there is his green cloud sitting there and it wasn't there before I crashed, so I'm having to wonder if he somehow crashed me, and if he can do it again, and what I can do to protect myself.

Okay, just crashed again, so I rebooted, and restarted the DSL modem, and then I couldn't log in at all, DNS could not resolve the host name. Yeow! So I restarted Firestorm and it finally let me in. SL is now the only think running on my system, and I find myself wondering if perhaps iTunes might be causing a problem, it does use the network when it's loaded, but a friend tells me she's having the same problems now and they started about the same time mine did.