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It's between this or The Perfect Cult by Deathstars. Mutter by Rammstein was good, too. Or Seven Inches of Satanic Panic by Ghost - but with only two songs, it's a bit short. But repeatable pretty much indefinitely!

Hm, well that guide only really covers the camera controls and zoom. To take a 'HD' picture you'll need to use a viewer that allows higher resolution renderings (not sure whether the standard viewer has that option), such as Firestorm or Black Dragon Viewer. As far as windlights go, and lighting in general, that's a whole little science of its own. You'll want to turn on ambient occlusion and the advanced lighting model in your viewer to make the most out of the in-viewer lighting. You can browse the windlights and just look for something that appeals to you, or you can edit (or create a whole new) windlight to manually set up the lighting - you can also work with local lighting (i.e. prims creating light) to have even more control over how your scene is lit. For blogging photography it's also important that you understand poses and avatar shapes, and how to adjust your avatar to fit a pose (or find poses that fit your avatar), as well as that you know how to adjust attachments (floating or clipping necklaces and gravity-defying earrings can make a picture look off real quick). Then you have your general photography practices for framing and composition, and your rules (such as the rule of thirds, and the rule of breaking the rules). You can learn a lot by reading 'real' photographer blogs as it's all applicable to SL as well. Finally you have editing, which again is its whole thing. The bare minimum for blogging should be that you can at least fix up neck seams, touch up shadows a little, and work with the lighting and pallet if needed - as well as putting in a signature. I did a somewhat longer post a while back where I showed the whole process of building a makeshift backdrop, setting up a completely dark windlight, creating a three-point lighting setup, setting up the camera and framing the shot ... But it's probably a few pages down on the photography board by now.

Yes. In Firestorm and Black Dragon Viewer both, you have an option to 'save' and 'load' a camera position, I mention it in my camera control guide here: There are also camera position save HUDs you can find on the MP. I know there's at least one for free. Cough.

I don't really take it personally, as such. I just find it awkward to have people around who've put a one-way glass between us. I can fully accept that someone is busy, AFKing, otherwise unavailable - or just not in the mood to chat (that's me 96.74% of my online time. Give or take.). But to go out of your way to manually untick all those boxes, when you have auto-responses for that purpose (and that just requires two clicks of the mouse), feels like really peculiar behavior. If it's that someone doesn't respect that you don't want to interact with them, we have another-- 4 mouse clicks (I think, I'm not in-world to check), to deal with that sort. Click their name .. Click 'profile' ... Click the block button ... Accept, I think? Yeah, four. Although if you also want to remove them from your contact list, you'll have to go to your contacts, which is one or two clicks, depending on which list you were looking at, then click their name, then click remove, and then accept. I kinda lost count and I can't be bothered to read this tiny text to count again, but yeah, there we have it. It also appears I've gone made a footnote longer than the actual message, which makes me think maybe I shouldn't use such small text, but then again it's optional reading, so meh. If you did get this far, hai!

It's a bit like asking what you should give your mother for Christmas. You're going to get impersonal, uninspired, cliche gift suggestions for pointless clutter that's unlikely to ever be used; and giving gift cards or cash is just a cop out. They are (presumably) your friends, and surely you should know of some of the things that they enjoy doing, whether individually or together. If they enjoy things that you aren't familiar with, inquire about that instead - 'what would be a good present for someone who enjoys skiing'? The only thing that comes to mind that 'always works' are books. You can get books on just about anything these days. Over the past five years I've successfully turned my brother into a crafts junkie by, bit by bit, giving him a small collection of woodworking books with the basics for wood carving and simple projects you can do with simple hand tools - and in response he has begun to build up a collection of knives and chisels. Now I'm just waiting for the Christmas he'll give me something he made himself, and that will be the best thing he ever gave me.

Personally I'll remove people if I catch them hiding their online status to me. If they want to reach me, they have my contact card. I don't go check on the web profile though, I just sporadically browse profiles of people I haven't seen for a while to see whether they've put any notice about taking a break.

All that exists, must expire. DREAD

You can opt not to show up in search. Some people do this as a step to avoid drama, or when being harassed by stalkers. It isn't fool proof, but I guess most stalkers and harassers are fools, so. Great success.

Most tattoo makers don't. You buy the tattoo as a set - whilst you could create tattoos with separate elements, this would require a whole lot of texture uploads and end up with the customer receiving a huge folder that most people would be terrified of. Personally I consider it a large part of why I don't like to buy commercially premade tattoos. I don't wear them that often (still damaged by the whole choosing between body hair or tattoos, I guess), but I occasionally make my own for personal use - and I know plenty of people who make tattoos, who I could turn to if I wanted something more intricate.

Wait, I'm not creepy anymore? Yay!

As far as I can tell, Genus has not yet adapted the 'universal neck' thing, which Lelutka has. Neph too has a pretty blatant misalignment between the body and head (not just a seam, but the meshes simply don't match up, leaving a fairly decent gap between the two). I'm hopeful that Genus eventually will, but I haven't heard anything from them on it - their last thing was an announcement that they seek creators to test the dev kit for the Genus male head that's apparently coming along quite nicely. Whilst the meshes do overlap, it becomes very visible under most lighting conditions.

Bookbinding and calligraphy.

Back when horror comedies were good.

India Ink, paper, parchment, veg tanned leather, gold leaf, hide glue, linen thread, silk thread ... I don't believe in 'talent'. Skill is the product of practice - the only requirements are having time (and spending that time), and having the required resources (whether it's a pencil or a teacher). Gothic Industrial music. Nope.

There's also the option of sitting on the patio in a rocking chair with a shotgun and yelling at people to get off yer lawn!

How could that possibly go wrong?

Genus don't have a specific layer for eyebrows, instead most eyebrows use the tattoo layer. When tinting it, make sure to highlight the layer in your HUD. If that doesn't work, it may be using the eyeshadow layer instead.

Are the brows BOM or appliers? And have you read the instructions that came with the head?

There's plenty of great stores out there, so I drop things pretty quickly if I don't like it. Six months later I'll have forgotten trying something on, even if the MP says I got the demo, and I'll try it on again - and usually stay away for another six months. As far as apparel goes, there are a few quick ways of earning my 'meh'; improper use of materials (most would be better off just not using them, if they don't understand how to use them), poor rigging (lingerie that fits like a burlap sack just isn't very sexeh), having an alpha mode on a piece of apparel that has no alphas (what the actual snickerdoodle were they thinking?), landing in the store only to be tossed sideways violently, and subsequently have a bot or object spam me with 'join our group! Subscribe! Follow us on Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! Join our Discord!' (give me a bloody second to render in - it's not my fault I got dropped into a room with a billion hi-rez textures and a carp ton of clutter; I'll move as soon as my avi is responsive to my movement keys, damn it). Also stores that for some inexplicable reason think it a good idea to have black be a Fat Pack exclusive - do they think ye average Goths are millionaires or something?

Yep! It's a really nice story. Victoria and Albert were depicted on this newfangled thing - a colourised Christmas card, posing in front of their Christmas tree. Immediately, the Brits all wanted one. A bit like her white wedding dress is why people now wear white wedding dresses. She was quite the trendsetter!

The tree is yet another pagan thing, though. It's not entirely clear what the purpose was, or if there was any purpose aside from it being decorative, but Germanic and Norse pagans put evergreen branches in their homes - probably to bring some colour into them. There's theories about the tree being a symbol of the cosmic world tree (Irminsul and Yggdrasil respectively), although it's been contested as A) there's no 'proof' of this and B) Irminsul was an oak, and Yggdrasil an ash tree - so neither were pine trees. It was, as many other things, turned into a more Christian thing with Martin Luther (being German himself) supposedly being responsible for the tradition of putting lights into them. Either way it's hard to say when, why, or who, when it comes to the Christmas trees. In the Scandinavian languages we, again, call it 'julgran' ('Yule pine') rather than in any way referencing Christ or Christianity. The earliest mention of them is from the 16th Century in Germany, at which point Germany had already been Christian for roughly a millennia, but being that they're also used in Scandinavia, it's believed to have pagan Germanic roots, and that the failure to stop people from observing those traditions turned into an attempt to turn them into Christian traditions (much like the Norse's dancing around a giant phallus symbol in hopes for virility in both themselves and their crops, was turned into dancing around a, if somewhat inconspicuous-looking, cross). The same goes for the character of Krampus and the Yule Goat (in the Norse tradition having been representative of Thor, as his wagon was pulled by two goats), that over time has turned from being the one to bring gifts - or earlier still, the one you'd give gifts (rather than Santa Claus, who is obviously Christian - Saint Nicholas), into a toy that was used for certain yule games, and these days is little more than a decoration - usually made out of straw with red silk bands. Again, our adaptation of Santa Claus went a bit wild as rather than introducing a wholly new character, it was more convenient to just add a spice of Christianity onto the existing traditions - the house elves. Every home was watched over by at least one elf, small in stature and wearing a pointy hat. They were present throughout the year, and were especially important in childbirth, whether human or among the animals. Once per year, during Yule, you were to show your gratitude by leaving a bowl of porridge with a lump of butter out for the house elf. There are also stories about how arrogant people think that their elf needs to be more appropriately dressed to represent their wealth, but how giving them new clothes would make them go away - as they no longer considered themselves servants (I wonder where Rowling got her inspiration for Dobby and the house elf rules in Harry Potter!). They are frequently depicted as this to this day, in Yule cards or, as in this case, on the label of a company selling Julmust (a yule beverage). TL:DR: Christmas trees can totally be used by people who aren't religious!