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6 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I'm not understanding why this is a debate. Is there some reason that both arrow keys AND WASD can't be default controllers?
You can set your preferences. I have WASD turned off so I don't go jumping around when my screen has the focus:
The OP felt old, because a young gamer had no idea the arrow keys moved your avatar. Be like a student driver having no idea that round ring thing in front of them (steering wheel) was used to turn the car.
WASD became popular in the 90's. Not all of us were tweens in the 1990's.
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5 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Younger people are gamers and that's who we need.
Gamers are lousy tippers. They need a scoreboard when using an adult bed too.
I worked for an ex-gamer, claimed he was in the top 100 in the world for some MMO games. He started a business in SL, and was a control freak - ran the business like it was a game. All his employees quit.
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9 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:
Anyone new to SL is going to instinctively reach for WASD and immediately be put off when it doesn't work.
Any gamers new to SL you mean. And younger gamers too - us older farts used external joysticks and switches. The keyboard was for sending a note to your mom.
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3 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:Forced "arrows to move" mapping would probably make me quit SL permanently. 😄
Forced WASD mapping would probably make me quit SL, permanently
I started with the Apple IIe in 1980, where the arrow keys were in a horizontal row at the bottom, but for games I used a joystick w/ buttons to move. Never liked WASD, because I had no interest in the shoot em up games from the 80's and 90's. Was too busy earning a living to play computer games. When IBM came out with their modern keyboard, I switched to using the arrow keys instead. Being right handed, it's too late to train my brain for WASD and the surrounding keys. I play the simple jump and run games of Paleoquest and Linden Realms in SL, where all avatar movement can be done with the arrow keys and PageUp to jump. There is very little mouse use in those games. Just a click at the end of each quest. I tried using WASD and could never complete the quests. Would take me days to just complete them. With the arrow keys, I can finish them all in 15 mins. Life's too short to relearn WASD for me, even if my left hand is now free to sip a drink when "gaming".
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Rude? They are promising advancements in their mobile 3D program. Patrons will get the first chance to test them. Seems like they could use a little cash infusion to build up their development team - about 100 Million as starters.
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Speedlight is looking for an experienced 3D graphics engineer. Maybe LL could loan them one.
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14 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
That's all they promise as far as avatar rendering is concerned.
I think Love said he paid for the Gold version...
I was able to touch objects with the Free version, and sit on them but without any animations. I can't see the Adult menu being very stimulating though with naked stick figures.
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I spent an hour on Speedlight early today, using my mid range desktop gaming computer and 100Mbps fiber connection on a 24" LG FHS/IPS LED monitor.
It is still basically a text client. The 3D mode was not usable for anything I might do. Horrible lag, like 15 secs to respond to a walk command, 1/2 my build never rezzed, well designed mesh benches rezzing to 4 triangles while standing on it, etc. Poses don't work with the stick figures, they just stand there. I also was logged in with another alt on Firestorm. Wanted to take a snapshot with both viewers, with two avatars standing together, as in the fake LL marketing photo, with Firestorm and Speedlight. I could never get both avatars to rezz at the same time with Speedlight. I'll play with it more and try to show what 3D looks like. Imagine SL on a 56K dialup modem. I think the Speedlight servers were overloaded and short on memory and bandwidth. Maybe SL should pay to move Speedlight to the cloud. Otherwise disable the 3D mode.
Of course your avatar looks perfect to someone with a direct connected Viewer like FS, so if you need a club full of alts, this is an expensive way to do it.
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Premium Plus needs a 15 day free trial, so naive peeps who believe deceptive advertising can try Speedlight out. They won't realize there is a free version, because they will believe SL marketing.
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7 minutes ago, Drake1 Nightfire said:
visitor #1, whom she knows said looked all good.
Visitor #2 who blocked her.
First visitor again said place was trashed.
Yeah I was thinking she had 3 visitors, and the last two were the same. It was visitor #2 with the block, who was the trashing man, which we both agreed on.
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20 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
Hope you're not bored now though
Yes, I have already conceded that an SL Event is anything that happens with more than 2 people in SL. Well, if it's listed somewhere.
The club was non profit, no tip jars allowed, like all Belli clubs and RP businesses. There is no way the Lindens can detect if you get tipped directly, so that's how it works. And they know that. I was careful to never mention Bellisseria in my event notice, since SL Events has a forbidden word editor in Moderate rated listings. I don't know if they have added all the Belli region names to the SL Events ban list - probably low on their priority list (I hope so).
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44 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
In that case a link would be helpful.
She explained how community posts were not by her. She did not say an SL Event is any event that occurs in SL, so perhaps it is - meaning we have thousands of SL events every day!
I guess an "SL Sponsored Event" is more accurate, so call the latest Adult rated pron spam from the "Hole In The Wall Restroom Club" an SL Event. Works for me.
44 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:They couldn't really allow SL events for Bellisseria because of the no-commerce rule. I doubt there is anything stopping a resident creating an event on mainland where they have a TP to their Bellisseria location for where the party is. Not sure what any of that has to do with what events are called.
Actually doing that is against the Belli Covenant, because you are trying to work around their no SL Events listing policy for Belli. I actually tried that once, using my mainland to post an SL Event and redirecting them to the Belli Club. The club owner about had a heart attack when she heard that, worried her club could get banned from Belli for breaking the rules.
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14 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
I think it would serve your argument better to show where LL backs up what you are saying explicitly.
Strawberry Linden, who writes the Community Blogs section of the LL BLOGS, has already explained the LL position about Community Blogs vs SL events clearly, somewhere in this forum, explicitly.
People still call Regions as Sims too. And the SL Events calendar is from another era, where a single DJ set is called an Event. It's a club event. But it is listed in the SL Events calendar along with all the hard core pron "events". You can not list an event in Bellisseria in the SL Events calendar, even though it occurs on Linden owned land and is open to all SL residents. So Bellisseria has non SL events, I suppose.
Yeah I might be a little bored tonight too.
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42 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
SL event system for a showing of such a video to get people to gather around and I did that for my SL business, it could still legitimately be called an SL Event - because it was put into the SL events system. I don't know whether the gathering in the OP was added there but I don't see much if any difference.
An SL Event is not something in their Community Blogs section:
Community News
A group blog by Second Life in General
You may think it was an SL Event, but it was a Community Resident Event. SL Events are owned and administrated by Lindens and Moles, like the SL sponsored shopping events, on Linden owned land.
It was a legitimate Blog posting because it was "filmed" in SL with SL avatars, and in the Community Blog. But it had nothing to do with the Lindens or Moles or their plans and projects. Admittedly the LL Blog (BLOGS) is a confusing mix of seven distinctive sections, some for only LL sponsored events and some by only private SL residents. So it's easy for the web reader to get confused.
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Given LL's aversion to the RL, I am sure LL does not want this video to be called an SL Event. SL Events are listed in... SL Events section.
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13 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Maybe the OP meant "an event in SL", thereby ok to post about? Not sure if she meant to indicate it was mentioned in the "official blog", which I gave the link to. I was very confused until I saw the official blog post.
I didn't mean posting about it in this forum was wrong. Maybe it is, but was thinking of all the closed topics about the Queen here when she died.
In any case it is not an SL Event, and just because you can watch a professionally made video show on Vimeo, shown inworld, does not make it an SL Event. The show is still worth watching, and in the Studio of Dreams in SL if you like watch parties.
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This is NOT an SL Event. It is sponsored by private residents in SL writing in a web blog, Designing Worlds.
"Second Life Blogger Network! SLBN is a curated showcase of posts from Second Life Bloggers (and vloggers) in our community."
And as we know, this discussion would not be allowed on this forum.
https://primperfect.net/2022/10/03/designing-worlds-marks-the-passing-of-the-queen/
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What do you call a group of Lindens?
With our drought conditions, A Fire Hazard.
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2 minutes ago, Blaise Glendevon said:
These two things are not even close to being equivalent. Lordy.
Where did I say they were equivalent? But I think a stick figure avatar compared to a modern mesh avatar is not that far off. A tent keeps the rain out, so does a mansion...
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"*Please note that avatars in images are not from Speedlight and Speedlight is a third-party viewer listed in our third-party directory."
This protects LL from any lawsuits.
I guess an online real estate company can show a photo of Mar-a lago (sic) and really be selling you a tent under the Chicago overhead...
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On 10/3/2022 at 3:05 PM, Kate Ayashi said:
Well, well ... I know when it happened ... Here are my visit logs (redacted, of course) ...
Basic Visitor Detector 2.6: [redacted] : 2022-09-27 04:21 PM GMT/UTC+5
>> this visitor reported it as all good, and he's a regular[13:19] Basic Visitor Detector 2.6: [redacted] : 2022-09-30 05:17 AM GMT/UTC+5
>> no response to my general inquiry and suddenly blocked[13:19] Basic Visitor Detector 2.6: [redacted] : 2022-10-01 03:43 AM GMT/UTC+5
>> this visitor, again, a regular who I know, noted that a tornado had hit it when they visited[redacted] ... I found you.
So because one of your group members makes a humorous comment upon seeing your torn apart build, you are sure he/she did it? What else did you use to be sure [redacted] did it? Did they admit it? If they were the last to visit in your log, you assume they are the one? Just wondering?
I would never give my group members edit permissions on my builds, unless there was a very good reason in which case it would be a temporary permission to someone I trusted, and was a competent builder.
It's like leaving your car unlocked and a box full of $100 bills in your front seat, in a ghetto neighborhood, overnight. Only good for a police sting operation.
Second thoughts added. I assume you spoke to all the prior visitors in your log, and they all said it looked good. Your suspect acted guilty by blocking you,
and made a comment when he visited the next day. He should have said everything looked good, like the others when you asked them. And made no further comments, hoping someone else would comment after him.So he wasn't too bright. (or she, but only men do these things I have been told.)My mistake crossed out. This is why I never made the detective squad.
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22 hours ago, Aethelwine said:
I haven't used the Linden viewer in a long time. All I can say for sure is it didn't.
LL finally (after 10years?) has a beta viewer where the small map shows parcel boundaries. It's a new feature they claim. It should show up in their default viewer "soon".
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9 hours ago, Aishagain said:
Look at the Deploy post thread...looks like they dun broke it. Rollbacks happening now.
LL listed the Linden Games as a separate issue with Linden owned experiences. The Experience issues seemed to start right after the first region updates started in the Realms though, so could be connected.
https://status.secondlifegrid.net/incidents/lvk5wfk81qmf#:~:text=Investigating,11%3A26 PDT
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3 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Some of those people may buy, assuming they can afford it, a better, newer computer. But a lot of them will simply abandon SL. And no amount of smug satisfaction about "minimum requirements for an up-to-date computer playing modern games" is going to make good on the loss to concurrency, revenue, and community that that would entail.
Of course I agree because I already know of several cases where that has already happened to friends of mine. I don't hang out with gamers - they have one-track minds and are generally isolated from the real world.
The real question is what does the LL management think about this? It seems to me they believe their gamer managers, who feel losing anyone without a 6 figure income and instead attracting the 18-40 something single employed gamers (men) is their road to higher profitability. Show me one statement from LL that shows any concern for the less fortunate. Show me one policy that considers fixed income or disability as anything but a negative for LL.
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I really hate pink, but I never got a pink message from LL, so I probably would not hang myself if I did.
When I got a ridiculous 36 hr ban from SL and my LL web account for helping in the technical forum here, my first reaction was to cash in all my lindens to dollars to paypal when it was lifted. You never know when helping in a web forum might cause them to ban you by IP, and keep your lindens.
My first reaction was, they are out to get me, and since their TOS allows any action for no reason at all, I better cash in. I calmed down after a few days though.