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    @Miranda Tretiak enjoying the view. As am I.
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    Peeve: people saying my food is too hot. Look, if your scalp isn't sweaty two bites in, and you're still wearing a shirt at the end, you're not doing tacos right. And yes, Tabasco is a totally valid substitute for salsa, m'kay? It's in the book. I think. Nods.
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    Nah, it's all good - at least you had some bacon!
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    It's called being an actual coffee enjoyer. The types who make some sort of Frankensteinish ice cream sundae with strawberry syrup and a few stray drops of coffee in there and call it 'coffee' are just weirdos. It's like those folks who'll take a half-litre cup and briefly dip some Lipton Synthetic Forest Berries Flavour sprinkled over the leftover tea swept up from the factory floor in a little bag in it, put in enough honey that it becomes viscous, and then claim to be 'tea lovers'. Yeah, no.
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    You're welcome! Nah, but, the materials even at the lower settings are pretty aggressive, the normals can make your face look like a moonscape in certain light conditions with how deep things are. I never really played around with using 'custom' materials for my head (I have tried some tattoos with like gold which came with a material applier for my body though), but to look like a porcelain doll you'll want the normals to be pretty much totally disabled. Whiiiich I reckon would be pretty easy to turn off with a custom HUD, assuming the scripts for changing materials are included in the devkit (I haven't touched that thing in ages - turns out painting makeup does take some skill; but if anyone needs some panda face painting I have the skills!). It's pretty weird there's no option to just turn them off in the main HUD. Got all these fancy sliders to adjust the speculars, but an on/off switch for the normals? Nuh.
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    Most creators only do about three quarters of the steps, on average. And even if we assigned some sort of filter, how would it be categorised? People have always complained about the categories on the MP and how a lot of creators don't know where to put their things. And if such a system was implemented, what happens with all our current stuff that hasn't been assigned any such tags? Forced 'mod'-esque rights for people to assign/reassign anything they like freely? I'd approve of the latter, tbh, I don't see how it's anyone else's business how I categorise my inventory - that we can't rename no-mod stuff even for our own inventory displays is also pretty silly. And that modifiable stuff with no-mod components can only be renamed if you rez it first.
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    I was served home made pistachio ice cream yesterday. It was hard to say no. But, thanks to a bit of moderation, I didn't eat enough of it to kick me out of ketosis. I have no diabetes, but it's been years since I sweetened coffee or tea, now the taste of those with sweeteners is almost repulsive to me. I also feel as if after cutting back on added sugars, my cravings for it went away after a while. Sugar (and artificial sweeteners that make our brains go 'yay') really aren't too different from drugs.
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    In case you want to buy a porcelain doll skin and then look less like a porcelain doll, of course! Honestly though, I do use a fair few of those sort of things myself, finding a skin tone pale enough was hard, and I kind of prefer it not having all those details textured on the skin itself in case I do want to look like a porcelain doll sometime. And because I can choose the opacities and then tint stuff, I have more control over the final look.
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    Or you get an older skin and then you add some 'skin enhancement' layers with pores and whatnot. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Izzies-Face-Pores-Capillaries-Evo-X-regular-BOM/23599474
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    I refuse artificial sweeteners. And I also won't eat carb-heavy stuff. When I feel as if I need more fat because my food is protein dense, I'll sometimes make a creamshake (that .. Sounds naughty - name is still a WIP!). Tall glass of chilled cream. Shaken frothy. Better than any milkshake!
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    The under-18's, who aren't even supposed to be on the platform, not understanding how directories work because their parents stuck a mobile monitor in their face as toddlers and called parenting a day, whenceforth they're somehow incapable of understanding really simple concepts of digital boxes just does not feel as if it has anything to do with SL though. Maybe we should change how cars work too because kids who only ever rode bicycles prior don't understand how motor vehicles operate? Oh wait, we do something about that, don't we - we teach them to drive, I believe? Hmm, what would be a good way to teach them, though, driver's licenses are so expensive and time consuming to get. If only there was a short-format way of sharing information, which could explain the concept in less than maybe 5-10 minutes, perhaps with some visual aid along the way, one that those sorts wouldn't feel totally alienated by .. Preferably something easily accessible, maybe with a comment section or something where they can find more info or ask questions, now where might we find a system like that ..
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    .. Holy s***. He can sing?!
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    Those things are pretty darn cool. You cyborg, you!
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    As a lower-end-of-30-something I find that rather shocking, to be honest. By the time I started high school there wasn't a one of us my age who didn't know how to use folders, in fact even before then we often had the option to write school works and essays on the computer and everyone was running around with USB sticks to take stuff home to finish or into school to print. Those processes were done entirely manually, both getting files off and on USB sticks, in and out of your personal folder on the school network, and into the printer queue, were all done via directories. Also to keep the school IT guy from nuking Liero and Soldat for us, we'd just hide the games in random person's folders (although sometimes we had to install them again because we'd lost track of where we put them or because the student in question ran to ask him what all the weird stuff in their folders were). And when he caught us playing games and banned our school network logins we just locked him out and unbanned ourselves and held the entire school IT hostage until we were unbanned (which we usually were when we totally pinkie-swore we wouldn't play games on the school computers .. Which, on average, lasted 5 minutes, tops). Also pranked people by putting random junk in their essays if they were silly enough to actually use their personal folders in the school system (which were about as private as a sex swing in a greenhouse) - everyone knew (eventually) that the only way to avoid getting into an awkward conversation with the teacher about how their essay on Greek mythology was just a filthy 'love letter' to the teacher in question was to hand them a paper or a USB stick rather than them fetching the document from your turn-in folders. And of course most of us had already gotten into piracy by middle school, which at the time was entirely based on sharing X amounts of data to be allowed into the nicer, faster servers with all the cool stuffs, which again, was all done via directories. And because, usually, it was easier (and sometimes quicker) to download an album than to rip it yourself (and you needed to, because, mp3-players - speaking of which, it's also how we put music into our mp3-players, which also had their own directories to represent albums and artists, or making playlists, etc, and for a long, long time, no one went anywhere without their mp3 players), everyone was doing it.
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    LaraX?

    Orwar replied to Rowan Amore's topic in Your Avatar

    Did you update it to LaraX 1.1? They softened the butt-dimples a fair bit after people complained. They're still there, but they're a bit less .. Crater-y. Other than that, there's a fair few differences between the two, although most of them are rather subtle. The biggest difference is that the rear got a little larger and rounder, and that the shoulders were totally remodelled (which in turn has shifted the arm position slightly; the combination is why most Lara tops won't work on it unless they're strapless and sleeveless, and even then the subtle differences to the torso itself may be just enough to make some Lara clothes too tight, especially around the flanks of the ribcage), and that the crotch area has become quite different (the thigh joints deepened whilst the mons pubis became more pronounced, making it a lot 'bumpier'). But yeah, if you're wearing something that covers the shoulders (and crotch) it's really hard to tell which of the two it is at a glance.
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    LaraX?

    Orwar replied to Rowan Amore's topic in Your Avatar

    It's a little rocky at times, but then I'm not the kind of person who gets excited by 'generic H&M-esque dress no.14', I want pieces that either are versatile and can be worked into other outfits (but having 2-3 tank tops is sufficient, I don't see why I'd need a 4th one). But I do feel that, whilst a fair few 'alternative' style clothiers have dropped Maitreya completely, some of the best (IMO) brands did grab onto LaraX fast, which is good. I still swap back to Lara every now and then to wear specific stuff that doesn't work with LaraX, but almost all my new purchases are all LaraX, and overall I think that the LaraX section of my wardrobe is pretty decent.
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    I did, so now I can't.
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    As someone who, at least occasionally, identify as 'people': we do!
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    .. That .. May have been me. lol
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    I think I might be a little peeved. But mostly just .. Confused. Was demoing a dress. And, as the demo only has the fatpack HUD with it, I went to peek at the info notecard to see if it contained any information of what features are available to the single colour HUDs. Second line in the notecard states 'XYZ is a black-owned brand'. Um, all right .. And? So? What? I just don't understand the relevancy. Is it supposed to somehow influence whether or not I shop there? Am I not welcome as a customer for being of another ethnicity? It was a totally normal dress that wouldn't stand out if you saw it in a H&M store, so it's not like the product could somehow cause a 'cultural appropriation' situation. Or do they suggest I should shop there because of some peculiar redistribution-of-wealth-to-empower-certain-ethnic-groups thing? I kinda just buy stuff I like, nothing else really matters to me. I might recoil a bit if I look up a creator's profile to find their in-world store/social media info and find a swastika or hammer & sickle in the profile pic, but other than that .. Meh?
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    I guess she was just his type! People have weird tastes.
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    A crush, no. Felt a lot of attraction to, sure. Thing is, a 'crush' is something I think of as idolisation of an individual, in a rather juvenile sense - it may cause you to daydream and fantasise about being together. And sure, that happened a lot when I was a child/teenager. But I'm no longer that, and whilst I certainly can appreciate attractive people it's not as if I waste my time dreaming of how wonderful it would be to be with a person just because their avi is enticing. I require more than good looks to be interested, I need a person to have a personality I enjoy, too. There are times I spot a nice-looking avi, gloss through the profile and say to myself 'oh, too bad they present themselves to seem to be an absolute b!tch'. And then I move along, and probably have forgotten all about them a few moments later. I'm much more likely to feel attraction to a person whose avatar might not be very attractive, if I find the contents of their profile to be agreeable - to a point, of course; it'd take a hell of a personality for me to 'get feels' for someone who look like they were designed with an etsy-sketch.
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    Hm, this comes up every so often. It could be a few different things happening though, so if you could add a picture of your avatar for reference it would be easier to point at which issue is at play. You may be able to find the answer by browsing this thread, as many of the potential issues are addressed (although some are more body-specific to that case): Neck seam post #729
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