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  1. Orwar
    I had a PS1 and then a PS2, the games I enjoyed on them (and those I did enjoy a whole Hell of a lot) were Crash Bandicoot 1-3, Hercules (yes, the Disney film-made-video game!) Tekken 3 (oh yeah, I forgot that category - arcade fighting games work well on consoles too, and admittedly better than on PC), and Driver 1+2 (Driver 3 turned into some weird GTA-wannabe FPS and I was so disappointed with it). We did then get a PS3, and I did try to play GTA on it and it was just .. Stupid. Oh, right, I'd forgotten about that. When I was sick and dad brought me to his workplace I sat all day playing some NHL game on a PS1 until my thumbs bled (never liked hockey, but it was fun to get into fisticuffs and button-mashing people down!). And Jazz Jackrabbit on a spare PC. Also some weird Ghostbusters game that I never really understood. And watched strange cartoons on VHS tapes (like Count Duckula) .. Man, I loved being sick when I was little. Unless I was with my mum, sitting in a hospital basement playing 3D pinball got boring fast. And there was no free hot cocoa machine there either. And I couldn't just waltz into the OR when I wanted a hug or felt as if I was about to throw up. And the hospital cafeteria food felt subpar even at that age!
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    The only games mobile phones are good for are Sudoku, Snake, and that bouncy ball game my first phone had. The only games consoles are good for are platformers and driving games. People who want the ability to place accurate clicks and type coherently use a computer with a mouse and keyboard. People who play first-person shooters and real-time strategy games on console shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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    That's a feature LL would have to implement though, and I don't expect anything such to appear any time soon. But I also hate inventory bloat, so I have a slightly different approach; I have one outfit which is my 'base' avatar, which is about 40 links to all the things I'll always want to have on me (and also puts all the layers in the correct order). When I put together an outfit with apparel and accessories, I then only put links to those in there - so instead of being 40-something plus 6 (shoes, top, bottom, rings, necklace, bracelet, for example), it's just the 6 items. Then I can just 'Wear - add to current outfit' to get dressed in an instant. Or remove that outfit in an instant. It also saves me having to go updating outfits whenever I make adjustments to my avi. It does take a little bit of work as you'll have to either create an outfit and then delete all other things in it, or manually put the links into an outfit via your inventory, but I can have 10 outfits with 100 links total rather than 460. 360 links saved is a lot when you actively try to keep your inventory under 10K elements. As for whether I hoard though, kind of. I save unpackers/boxes, but I also occasionally unpack things I stopped using to reassess them - if I feel like I'll never use something again, I may finally delete the box.
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    And this is how I would describe that effort in one picture:
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    Yes. If a script is modifiable you can read it, and if you can read it you can copy it.
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    Can't wait for Halloween! .. .. Oh, wait, right, I don't. Every day is Halloween! Cackles maniacally.
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    Home, sweet home.
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    Well, if generation alpha is from 2010 onwards, there's no generation alpha that should be in SL for another 4 years. And it's not as if we already have all of that ..
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    Nope, but they still fit. They're a little tight at the back but there's no clipping. The top is from Worn and the bottom is from Have Unequal, can't remember if I picked them up at Fameshed or Anthem or both, but they're somewhere there. The sleeves are from an outfit from ViSion.
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    Some good stuff in the events/sales this weekend. LaraX wardrobe slowly growing!
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    I think the importance of friendship in SL varies a lot on how you 'use' it, and I think that's one reason that a lot of people who hop on the grid because they view it as a 'social platform' end up feeling disappointed (some people are just here to play dress-up and take pictures, others are here to create stuff and don't necessarily want to get involved with any people along the way). I don't really ever go out to 'find friends', I meet a lot of people doing the things I enjoy and some of them ascend from acquaintances to friends over time. Being an introvert, I'm very picky about which people I'll expend my 'social energy' on; and a handful of people I feel comfortable enough around that their presence doesn't feel like it's using up that energy (not talking about social vampirism here, that's another issue entirely). Whilst I don't fully agree with the concept of viewing oneself as one's friend (it seems a bit schizophrenic to me), there certainly are similarities in how you should view and treat yourself as you should others; most importantly, accept you for you, you may aspire to become a 'better' person but don't put expectations on yourself that you can't live up to, and don't punish yourself when you experience failures. It is fine, even important, that you reflect on your failures and try to find constructive ways to improve (it's what we call 'growth'), but telling yourself you're 'worthless' or such isn't constructive. Then there's the whole gratitude thing; enjoy what you have and who you are. But you also shouldn't lie to yourself, so if you are an entirely depraved person with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and no ability to improve .. Well, the only way I can think of to separate yourself from your own company would be a lobotomy. But those are pretty hard to do in SL! But for the modest fee of L$5,000 I'll give it my best shot!
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    You make caramel and then you throw in onions. Easy! Seriously though, it's one of those things which a lot of people get wrong and/or don't have the patience for (which is bonkers, because it's well worth the time and effort!). It's also one of those things which seems it would be straight-forward enough, but ask 5 different chefs how to make them and you get 6 different answers. Personally I just put a pan (cast iron, of course) on medium heat, add a large knob of butter and cook off the water (you could just use clarified butter, but meh, unless you have it around, adding the step of clarifying butter on an already lengthy process is going to tie you to the stove a bit longer!). Meanwhile it's getting hot, I'll slice up my onions (I usually do them fairly thin, as it makes the cooking process a little quicker), and once the butter has gone quiet I'll toss them in with a healthy sprinkle of salt. After that you just wait, and give them a shuffle around every now and then, letting them go through the soft stage and into the browning stage. I usually also add a little splash of Worcestershire sauce (and if I feel like something with a little heat, chipotle Tabasco), you can also deglaze the pan by adding a small splash of water once you've got a build-up of 'caramel' in the pan; this will slow things down a bit but seeing as how the browned stuff is exactly what you're going for, it's well worth dissolving it and redistributing it back onto the onions; you'll want to do that before it turns into charcoal, and may need to do so before the onions are done. It does take about half an hour (and if I'm doing them for topping a hamburger, I'll up the heat a little at the end and make sure there's enough butter in the pan to partially deep-fry them, making them nice and crispy). I'd pick a bowl of just straight caramelised onions over any other snack or candy. There have been more than a few times I was making some to top a burger, and in the time between the onions finishing and the burger getting made, the bowl had mysteriously gone empty! Peeve: I'm tipsy, and now I crave caramelised onion; but it's four in the morning and I'm not so tipsy that I'm about to do it right this moment.
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    Peeve: just snagged my sock on a floorboard which I hadn't noticed had a crack in it. Carving out half an inch of sharp stick from your sole stings (it went in sideways, just through the skin, along the 'ridge' just behind the toes). On the bright side, I'm off to drink some rum so I won't have to be too bothered about the pain until tomorrow.
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    Innsmouth, inspired by HP Lovecraft's work: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Innsmouth/14/247/55
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    Peeve: when you plug in your mic whilst wearing your headset and manage to catch a tuft of beard without noticing, and then you rip your headset off to go AFK.
  17. Orwar
    Not all vehicles are modifiable (a lot of them are, at least partially), but as long as the object itself is modifiable (might list as 'no mod' because scripts or other contents inside of it aren't) then you can change the textures freely by selecting the relevant face in the build menu whilst editing the vehicle. Some cars that aren't modifiable have scripted license plates that let you input your own UUID or write out what you want to put on it - so there's no really universal answer to how its done or whether it can be done. If it asks for an UUID to apply a texture, you can upload a texture to SL and then grab the UUID from it by right-clicking on it in your inventory ('copy asset UUID'). As for putting your RL license plate on an SL vehicle .. I'd say there's a 97-ish % chance it won't really matter, unless you tell people that you put your RL license plate ID on your SL car, in which case they could use that to figure out your RL identity or just try to hurt you by calling your local authorities to say 'I saw a car with this license plate speeding like a maniac through a school zone!' or suchlike. I'd just refrain from doing it, myself.
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    Glutz!
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    I snuck by to steal a slice, but you were nowhere to be seen. Off to Yelp to leave a scathing review I go!
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    I know, I'm one of them - but there's a right way and a not so right way to do it!
  22. Orwar
    Peeve: this top is black. It's 2024, and creators (a fairly well-known brand, even) still don't know how to materials? Luckily they at least give you the option to turn it off. Or you can go balls to the walls with it and make it look like pattern-pressed rubber. For the umptieth time, this is not a good specular map to stick on just anything!
  23. Orwar
    Nah, 3. British-Portuguese time, proper European time, and European night-owl time.
  24. Orwar
    LL already have official guidelines for this: As per: https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/maturity-ratings-r52/ Of course, it's a pretty vague and open for interpretation (and doesn't specifically say anything about apparel or attachments per se) - I may well say or do things in front of a grade school class that others wouldn't. And as has many times been discovered on these very forums, people have very different ideas of what is 'sexually explicit' (haven't seen any thread explode because of nipple discrimination lately though!). Ultimately it is up to the region owners to police it though, it's not like LL will install a knicker-checking mole when someone sets up a G-rated region (right?), AR-ing someone for a nip-slip feels kind of silly. If you see something you dislike, the first step ought to be to tell the offending person, if they aren't receptive to your feedback then the next step is to tell the region's staff/managers/owners - if they can't be bothered to deal with it or disagree with you, AR should be the last resort - but then I'd be more concerned about ARing the region owners for failing to comply with the ratings than a random person with '*****' tattooed across their forehead happening to be in one (unless of course they're blatantly portraying a sexualised child avi or something equally egregious - if such a thing may exist - in which case an AR is well warranted and should probably be the first thing you do).
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    Peeve: AI answering machines. Particularly when implemented by various authorities, and with no option to just type in numbers for what you were calling about as it used to be in the past. Especially since the AI doesn't seem to at all understand the local dialect (which is silly considering I'm calling the local authorities), and when I well got through to 'it' she just goes 'Okay, and do you have any other errands today?' Me: 'No.' It: 'Okay, have a nice day!' - and hangs up. Like, oi, I didn't get any kind of answer to my question I rang about in the first place, so I had to call back and go through the exact same conversation again, and answer 'yes' to be put in a phone queue. Then I get the same AI voice telling me periodically what place number I have in the queue, and the way they put numbers together is pretty disturbing. 'Forty-five' fine, 'forty-three' still fine, but then 'forty-' and 'one' spoken as through a moan. Didn't help that I got stuck on that place for a while either so she told me the same number three times over, and each time I just kind of went 'are you okay over there?'.
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