[New Article: "SL's loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections"]

The media just slap people for clicks, they say nothing of substance.

[Profile Pic Size?]

On 2/29/2024 at 9:11 AM, Zalificent Corvinus said:

The DEFAULT Quality/Compression setting for jpg's is 80/20, so setting it to 75/25 means you are DELIBERATELY reducing the poor quality of a jpg below it's default poor quality.

Outstanding.

Use png or lossless tga instead.

 

Taking the original quality image, and fubaring it to jpeg2000 is bad enough, double fubar by uploading as a jpg is worse, triple fubar by deliberately saving in "worsethan default" jpg is just...

Don't....talk to me like that....I've dealt with all forms of digital media for over 20 years.

I know what I'm talking about, you sound like you don't!

If for some stupid reason people still don't believe me.....do it yourself.

Upload a 1024x1024 jpg to SL in 100, 75, 50 and 25 percent quality.....put them on 4 prims....and see what happens.

I've had hardline sim owners swearing blind "it won;t make any difference" jaws on the floor when they see it DOES!

[Profile Pic Size?]

Just take a slightly bigger than 1024x1024 image of yourself, cut out the best 1024x1024 portion and upload a jpg of it set to 75% image quality.

In my 12 years in this realm, never had one issue, always showed up perfect, loaded faster than anyone else's and never failed to load.

Anything else is just distraction from my independently verified results.

[Apps to make movies]

OBS for recording segments, and a linear editor like Nero Video

 

[How does your avatar look when enhanced by AI?]

Oh no😆

[How does your avatar look when enhanced by AI?]

Which one is the Avatar?

[Video Comics]

Due to the limitations of our platform, seems to be the most coherent form of storytelling we can achieve.

Do you think it has merit?

Something you would like to try?

Would the vanilla folk outside SL understand or be too distracted by the limitations to enjoy it?

 

[How does your avatar look when enhanced by AI?]

[Playing with cars]

It gets hard with SL's policies on real world brands, but those who know.....

[Who are your favourite POSE creators, and why?]

Anypose.......................make your own!

.....as nobody seems to be making the kind of moves I need!🤣

[Having problems with textures loading very slow on Firestorm]

Well not many know that saving your jpgs at 75% quality does make a difference....as does a light gaussian blur.

But I think Linden Lab didn't buy enough bandwidth from Amazon Cloud servers, and the moment you need it....it all goes to someone else while you're sitting there....taps wide open...looking at grey shapes & your network bubbling along at 4kbps usage.

[Best Vehicle creators in SL]

Indulge seems to be the new king of the hill.

[Do you primarily use a human avatar?]

I use little else!

[Look what Flicker just added]

Too late!

I used to be Flickr Pro but one incident ruined everything.

I only defaulted to Flickr as it was this then unknown to me image hosting service mentioned as an option in my Second Life viewer just as all the cool kids were moving to Instasham.
It served me well enough and brought me to over 10 million pairs of eyes globally...but one incident ruined the whole show.

My whole stream was marked restricted 18+ due to mislabeling harder images as moderate.
I had to manually change over 3000 photos back to their righteous status.
...the incident was unforgivable.
Being so strapped for money & unable to spare staff to show me due process...they treated me as guilty till I could prove innocence.
...it's what drove me to other sites in the first place.

No matter, my Flickr stream will be of the free tier now and with it....only the last 1000 photos will be retained moving forward.

Gone will be a lot of history....a lot of memories....memories I still have in storage....they just won't be online until I post them somewhere....sometime!

I am moving my primary focus to Deviantart where I'm a paid subscriber and examining all the features & services my money brings.

I'll still post all my stuff to flickr when possible, but it will be a rolling update...as new pics arrive...old ones will go...but I don't think people cared that much about the oldies.

Hopefully better times ahead!

[Amazing what you can achieve!]

What began as hastily assembled scenes in my spare time, today clicked over to 10 years, thousands of fans and 10 million views. Thank you for indulging my strange hobby, hope it entertained...and hope you'll enjoy the next 10!

 

[Open 3D Engine (formerly Lumberyard) Use in Second Life?]

13 hours ago, CaithLynnSayes said:

You obviously have ZERO understanding of how SL works under the hood.

...now just reading that makes me so mad!

How DARE you say such an arrogant thing about me!!!!

And it didn't even accomplish anything, please can you never speak to me again if you're going to be like that!....I don;t need it!

[Open 3D Engine (formerly Lumberyard) Use in Second Life?]

Just opening up the taps so SL uses more power would solve a few problems.

You have people with Ryzen 9 cpus, RTX 3080 gpus....SL runs like mud....the load?

cpu 10%, gpu 12%

....just take the gloves off!

This hardware can run the biggest & baddest at 4K 120fps while barely cracking 90% on both cpu & gpu!

SL has ZERO excuse!

[Your avatar is you? Or just a computer generated graphic to play with?]

On 3/2/2021 at 6:23 PM, Doc Carling said:

Do you see your Avatar as mirror of your real self? Or rather as a computer generated fantasy character that has nothing in common with your real person? Perhaps a character that you would like to be in real life? Well, I don't expect outings. lol But I noticed that some residents seems to consider their avatar and themselves as one and the same person.

A simple image search will show anyone I am as close to me as I can possibly be!

[How to get HQ photos on Flicker?]

-Use Firestorm

-Save to disk at 3840x2160...as I've been doing since 2012

-.......compress your JPG's to 75%

[Your favorite photo editing program?]

www.xnview.com😄

[How does your creative process work?]

An idea...followed by utter chaos.

Not many people know that even though we were all in the same video together...we were all filmed separately!

 

[How do you take super realistic photos like this?]

Wearing a REALLY good hair, skin & head!

[Is the Universe a computer simulation?]

On 3/28/2020 at 6:23 PM, rasterscan said:

Is the Universe a computer simulation? This was the subject discussed by Neil de Grasse Tyson and David Chalmers amongst other high falutin' scientists in a Youtube vid I watched. Imagine my surprise when David Chalmers of all people dropped Second Life into the equation ! The moment occurs at 49.25 mins in !

 

It's unlikely the universe conforms to human ideas.

Just like every flying saucer sighting over history changed depending on our current SFX style, I expect our idea of what the universe is will change over the next 50 years as well!

[Coronavirus Response in SL Communities]

17 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

In response to the Coronavirus pandemic many communities in Second Life have begun to make changes.

In BDSM communities, rubber gloves are recommended, and rubber pants, rubber corsets, rubber masks....

The Tiny community is actually welcoming new tiny "virus" avatars and having lots of fun.

Gorean slave girls must now have N95 rated silks. (N95 blocks 95% of 0.3 micron or larger particles)

Members of the Furry community are debating if the virus even affects non-human species.

"Residents going to shopping events are now required to be inspected", says the guy who normally cams up skirts all the time.

The Cyber Goths have been told to prep.. no.. wait.. they're all wearing black facemasks already.

 

[My analysis on how LL's marketing of SL can be even better while simultaneously increasing its cultural relevance]

15 hours ago, Tarina Sewell said:

Need to add a disclaimer that you need a super computer to see it like this ; 0 

 

Funnily enough mine's a mid 2016 model, not even a gaming rig!

In fact the image on the bottom is the first I ever took on it, back when St Pete's City was around.