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    I do think that there is room both for niche bodies and more 'mainstream' mesh bodies, especially if made right. Two of my friends decided to try on a demo of the Mirana body to play around with shapes and check out the mesh, and compared it to the Kupra. The hands are really quite nicely done, and the bottom half of the body can be shaped quite nicely. The breasts however begin to look weird if you reduce their size, they get 'squished up' in a rather unflattering manner. It does seem like it is made for a niche that already has plenty going for it though, competing with the likes of Kupra (which is doing fairly well by the looks of it; it has a decent amount of support as far as I've seen). If someone were to make a nicely meshed, female BOM-only body that's more athletic (being able to have a smaller butt than Maitreya, the breast sliders being more focused on detail within a more restricted maximum size, etc), I for one would jump on it pretty quickly. As far as pricing is concerned, I wouldn't honestly mind paying L$5K or thereabouts for a good body, it's something you get so much use of after all - but then it has to be a good body, both out of a technical and aesthetic point of view.
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    I saw an interesting documentary on Netflix recently about them big tech corporations. There absolutely is reason to be concerned when they get involved in deciding whose ideas should reach the public and whose shouldn't (and in doing so, only get even more attention, which is what they want to get more people to sign up). I'm no doomsayer though, I figure things will pan out ... Eventually. Just hoping it's within my lifetime!
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    They've all been spent.
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    Some variety from those chicken nuggets, huh?
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    But where do they find all the Neils? And what does customizing them entail?!
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    Hate the creators. Had you not known, you might have bought it, put it in your home, along with similarly laggy trash, and before long you'd notice that you couldn't be in your own house due to how sluggish things would run. Besides, I've found that you can wring a lot of enjoyment out of simply laughing at the creators, and then at the poor sods who buy their stuff. Schadenfreude - the path to true happiness!
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    And sometimes when just attaching or detaching apparel or accessories. Whilst T-posed. They just sort of spring to life!
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    A two-part peeve. Part I: When you make a cup of coffee, but then you end up in Gimp and the coffee goes cold. Part II: When you go to pop the coffee in the microwaver, and it comes out reeking of artificial popcorn-butter because your roommates are disgusting swine who don't ever clean the kitchen after themselves. Who even eats that junk to begin with? Groans.
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    'Murricah, zenter ov da junivearse! Seriously, anything SL-related can be considered vain if you just shift perspective a little. But this isn't a forum for American politics, this is a forum for Second Life users. You wouldn't go into a forum for senior knitters of Derbyshire to tell them that knitting is pointless because there's a guy in Spain who refuses to come out of a train station restroom unless they appoint him station master, and a group of bored punk kids decided to chase away the station custodian. And yes, from my perspective, the White House is about as interesting as any given Spanish train station restroom.
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    I ... Laughed. L$6.5K for something that has almost no information on it, and what little information it is appears to have been translated via Google Translate.
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    As long as we can all agree that I'm the innocent one, sure! I mean, don't I just have the face of an innocent little angel-baby?
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    It's practically the exact same UI to operate a prim light, except sliders in the HUD rather than a numbers window with arrows in a prim's edit window. It's as easy as pressing Ctrl + B and clicking on the ground, just go to the features tab in the editing menu and you have the light settings right there. A colour picker next to the 'light switch', below it you have the intensity, radius and falloff. To make it a projector, simply click the texture picker next to the colour picker (which lets you change it to any colour you want and add a texture (usually a white circle on a black background, but you can just as well click 'blank' if you don't intend on having the light's edges in the shot - or get creative and project a picture!), and beneath it you have the controls for that (field of view, focus, ambiance). And if you're concerned about rez rights, simply create the light in a sandbox or in your home, rename the prim to something appropriate, pick it up and attach it to your avatar and move it into position - zero scripts, zero cost, easy as apfelstrudel, and you can wear as many of them as you like (up to your attachment limit, of course). Surely, that minute amount of effort is worth saving $30?
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    Very much so. It was discussed extensively a few years ago, the Swedish agency for national health had a spokesperson say that people should make sure their kids don't just wash their hands but clean them with alcohol and never stick their fingers in their faces, as that would hopefully make them 'more responsible adults'. They were lashed back against, as the increased rate of allergies and diminishing immune systems (and why everyone and their uncle now think it's hip to pretend they have celiac disease and be glutenophobes) is due to how our society has gone more sterile in the past 30-40 years, children no longer playing outdoors as they used to, fewer people having animals - those things are imperative for building up an immune system that prepares us to live in, you know, 'the real world' that we're meant to be in.
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    We have a saying in Swedish though; 'a bit of dirt keeps the stomach clean'.
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    I've left most of the groups I was in on Flickr because of the plague of the bloggers .. Seeing a bad picture once doesn't really annoy me too much, but when I'm scrolling through my Flickr feed and it's the same pictures over and over because someone has shoved them into 300 groups to get as much attention as possible - just, no. And yes, I don't reckon a whole lot of creators really want their dresses to be blogged in a manner in which they appear as colourfully patterned blimp collisions of breasts and buttocks. I, for one, most certainly wouldn't want to see my hypothetical creations displayed on balloon animals.
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    Mine is 87 ... 66 if you skip the conservatory. Hm. Yeah it probably could have been better optimised.
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    Does this count? ... I think there may be a numbers pun in here somewhere, but I haven't even had breakfast yet.
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    Either hand over ownership to someone else before leaving, or you'll have to remove everyone else in the group and it will be destroyed after ... Is it 24 or 48 hours?
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    Consumed my new books from Christmas before I even went back home, so I'm bookless at the moment. I do have a fair few books in the workshop that I'm supposed to repair and/or rebind, but it's mostly utter trash - a biography of William Booth, for example, how fun is that? In addition to the books I received as Christmas gifts, I also had a go at some of the stuff in my family's bookshelves; a novel collection of H.P. Lovecraft, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Matilda by Roald Dahl (it was in the bookshelf next to my bed and I couldn't sleep, and it's a nice book that I loved as a kid!), and The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien (which I really loved, so dark!).
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    Tragically yours, obey and submit to me. I will find you wherever you hide, got a thrill for the hunt, a skilled criminal mind. So calm, tracking your every move. Unrelenting my conscience clear beyond a shadow of a doubt a force to be feared. Professional Killer - KMFDM
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