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    I'd rather just the teachers were given back the authority to chuck out unruly students and that telling them to take off their cap or put away their phone couldn't cost them their jobs because someone got 'offended' by it.
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    Peeve: now I feel like re-watching Stargate SG1 .. Again.
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    There's been a lot of talk in the news lately about how young school children don't develop proper motor skills (they can't somersault or use scissors properly!), and there has even been some talk about banning 'screens' in schools as it is considered to be one of the reasons kids these days come out of school dumber and fatter than in the past. There's also a lot of fear of the whole digital warfare thing going on, and just imagine the hilarious chaos that would ensue if someone managed to hack the TeacherBots and have them teach the kids to swear or something. .. To be fair I did have a teacher who did spend a lesson particularly on the five profane swearwords in highschool. Fun times!
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    Can't charge you L$5K for that though!
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    Ah, those avatars are .. A little special. But yes, the 'hairbase' on those avatars are directly textured on their skins, and thus can't be removed (I suppose you could technically make a 'bald cap' tattoo and slap it on there though).
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    Fresh fruit are pretty safe, but there's been a lot of looking-into some of the 'health foods' available on the market, and a lot of them are hardly any better than their 'non-healthy' counterparts. Some studies have even found that certain big-brand fast-food places' salads contain more calories and even worse sodium levels than their most infamous 'big meals'. Buying a salad or a sandwich with a ton of greenery and 'whole grain bread' in a plastic box/wrapping is seldom going to be anything near 'healthy'.
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    It is getting a little frustrating, especially as even a fair few of the 'mainstream' clothing brands on the big events don't do LaraX - even if they used to do Lara prior to its release. Not sure if it's because they can't get their hands on the devkit or if they think that their brand is somehow stronger than people's preference or loyalty to Maitreya and that people are going to swap bodies just to wear their stuff. Personally I have zero interest in any of the bodies they do rig for, so until they make stuff for LaraX I'll just have to take my business elsewhere.
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    Clubs tend to be a lot less diverse than SL communities that are based on actual interests. The aviation community in SL have all sorts of people, and we're all there because of our shared passion in aviation - doesn't matter if your avi is system or mesh, or huge or tiny, or a human or a ferret or a pony, or if you're 18 or 98, or if your interest stems from being a retired RL pilot or because you really liked Talespin when growing up. We've got this very broad topic not only to discuss, but also have lots of stuff we can actually do together in SL, whether it's group flights or races or dogfights or SAR operations. If someone new shows up that share that interest that's just good for everyone, so of course most people try to be nice and helpful. But I'd advise you don't try to approach that, or really any established SL community, with a mindset of exclusion; you don't have to befriend men if you don't want to, but saying that you don't want men to even be around is going to be a red flag for a lot of people and might potentially create awkward situations for them - and if made to choose, which is an awful thing for a 'friend' to do in the first place, they may just find it easier to withdraw from you rather than risk missing out on the rest of the community. Besides, a lot of relationships begin with of introductions by mutual friends; I have a few friends that also happen to be lesbians, and a fair few gay men - obviously, our friendships aren't based on sexual or romantic interests, but as you make it clear that someone such as myself wouldn't even be welcome in your presence, I have absolutely no incentive to turn to any of them to ask if they know of any such venues or if they themselves might want to get to know you. Being vocally exclusionary may well burn bridges you haven't even seen; it isn't really conducive to making friends in SL.
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    That's one solution. Another is to over-do the DoF for a higher resolution image. DoF and shadows both work the same way when taking snapshots, if you've got a 1920x1080 display and tinker with the DoF and shadow smoothness to look perfect, then a 1920x1080 snapshot should look the same - but if you do a high resolution snapshot, the settings are too weak and will be much subtler, as they scale. These two images all have the exact same settings, aside from that the first is higher resolution (3840 x 2160) Look at the keys to see the difference (focal point is on the lampshade).
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    It's a little hard to tell from the pic, but it's probably a 'hairbase', which could either be a part of the hair itself (many hairs have them, some can turn them off), or a tattoo (if you're BoM) or an applier (if you're not).
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    .. Do we get to eat the people we meet?
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    I think you may have watched a little too much Scooby Doo .. Hmm, of course, in a social deduction game the least suspicious are also the most suspicious. So. Whose alt are you then? 🚟(also why is there no 'suspicious' emoji, but one for 'suspension railway'?)
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    I never 'steal' souls, though. I mean I may seduce or charm the living daylight out of my victims, but 'steal'? Nah.
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    Yeah I befriended the gravedigger in the town I used to lived in (as one does), he mentioned that the corpses don't decompose as they should and that it's giving them scheduling problems (didn't quite catch how or why, I might have been half-way through a bottle of whisky). We don't even really do embalming here, but we've now decided human beings are now too toxic to do a number two in nature because it's bad for the environment - which I find quite charming!
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    I only eat friends. Can't go around nibbling on strangers - you never know where they've been!
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    VS was the truth, wasn't it? So sad to see it go!
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    Don't diss 2009 stuff, much of it was leagues ahead of much of the junk released today!
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    I mean, he does have the right forum profile pic. #FreeTheRealSid
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    I do get peeved when people claim that 'eating healthy is expensive'. It really isn't. It is in fact a whole lot cheaper than the super-processed, pre-digested food-substitutes that a lot of people eat (>60% of the US' caloric intake, you guys are fricking scary sometimes). But hey, who cares about a few strokes or a bit of type-2 diabetes when there's pop-tarts and convenience.
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    We're all Rowan's alts.
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    Just because a pair of boots and a pair of jeans both are rigged for a certain body doesn't mean they're compatible with each other. Heck, it doesn't even mean that it will 'fit' the body, but it will generally 'work' with the body assuming you alpha out the body beneath. Jake isn't in any way unique in this; if you put on a pair of thigh-highs with a Maitreya which has more clothes available to it than any other, you'll still find the majority of trousers, even when given in 'underboot' versions, won't work. A lot of times if you put on a pair of mesh trousers rigged for a certain body, if you turn off the alphas your butt will clip straight through. As Persephone mentioned though, a single creator that makes a pair of boots and trousers as a part of one outfit, those two items are designed to work with one another and generally do so well. But try any other trousers, even from that same creator, and you'll likely see clipping. It's also why a lot of people find it easier to display a bit of midriff rather than trying to build an outfit in which the top and bottom work together.
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    Very much the same experience here!
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