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HarrisonMcKenzie

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  1. I actually prefer unrigged shoes. Aside from liking to wear socks (and rigged shoes not playing nicely with that), I play a kid avatar and no one makes shoes for kids anymore who aren't babies. There are a few bodies that kind of seem to fit, but it's always risky buying shoes since you can never guarantee they'll be usable. I also prefer adult styles of shoes that little little kid ones, as there's more variety and better construction.
  2. I've never been a fan, probably because all the ones I've seen look really outdated and clunky. It also adds to lag and avatar complexity, so I try not to make a habit of it.
  3. Adding to this, gacha is a reference to gachapon, which are Japanese coin op machines that give out little trinkets. A lot of cool stuff got made as gachas because people would make more money selling them for a limited time than as a standing product, but a lot were also really lazy. As since it was meant to be unique, they were no-copy (what that message was referring to). The whole thing also blew up I think last year because it was basically gambling (same issue as loot boxes in games), so there's a new system someone made that's more transparent.
  4. The challenge is that any change like this can break user content. Granted, that content might be worth breaking (thinking about really old scripting), but that does seem to be a concern LL heeds. Plus we're all cranky old people who don't like change. I absolutely agree that some housekeeping could make SL a lot more accessible for new players though.
  5. Only. No. I want all of SL to conform to human proportions so that everyone can enjoy being in-world. This idea that everyone who is under 6 feet is a child and has no place in SL is fairly problematic and just turns into another form of discrimination. Given that a large population in SL is disabled, ethnically diverse, has significant mental health or identity concerns, or is otherwise a minority, it's odd that we keep doing things that make people feel unwelcome.
  6. Starting in SL is an absolutely horrible experience. You have to come in knowing what all of the different avatar types are so you can simply use anything, have to know how to layer parts in a way that makes no sense, and have to learn controls that do not align with normal game and software conventions. Thankfully, the feature known as Bake on Mesh makes this markedly easier since you no longer need special skins and huds to make an avatar work. But it's still absolutely horrible and extremely off-putting for new players. But there really isn't a way to fix the problem without breaking a ton of content, since everything in SL is user made.
  7. As a child avatar (I play a preteen), I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE what I call SL Scale. Buildings with 14 foot ceilings, door handles so high that I can't reach them, chairs that I need a ladder to get into, props and other items being 2-3 times their real size, and adults being 10'3". In SL, I'm about as tall as one of my dad's legs, and I'm still quite tall for the age. In RL, my brother's 9 year old is approaching my average adult height. I find it beyond frustrating that everything in SL is built for people who are the size of giants. But LL won't do anything about it because it can't. Everything in world is user made. All we can do is call on builders to stop doing this, call on residents to dial back their avatars, and call on sim builders of realistic sims to make them to proper proportions. I'll never be able to afford it because land is overpriced, but I would love to build a modern day neighbourhood that is scaled for real humans. Buildings with 8 foot ceilings. Props and furniture that people can actually use. Stuff like that.
  8. When there were hoards of guns involved, money coming in from known hate groups, federal watch lists, terror tactics used against the public, and no clear message, it's terrorism. BLM was a protest movement to bring to light the oppression of minorities. What happened in Canada was fringe groups using the pandemic to sow anarchy. They are not the same thing. And the protests were shut down because of said investigations. If you're not following, this was also a another huge concern with them. When First Nations groups blocked infrastructure to protest the illegal seizure of treaty land, the police were sent in the the Right painted them like terrorists. Alberta, for example, passed laws against such protests. But then when white people blocked infrastructure, the Right called them heroes, the police dragged there feet, and the laws that Alberta passed about this very thing were not enacted. Do you see the difference here? These are facts. What happened in Canada was disgraceful and showed why the BLM movement took place. It showed how hate groups can mask their actions and pretend that they were protesting COVID restrictions while all such restrictions were being lifted. It brought legal racist hypocrisy to light, because authorities failed to act in line with how the acted when First Nations groups were protesting a land invasion. These are not feelings. They are not opinions. This is what happened and this is why it's different.
  9. My alt is actually my first account. I made it, couldn't figure anything out, and then abandoned it. I came back wanting to roleplay and made this account, having somewhat forgotten about the other one. I originally used my alt for photos for my store (so I'd have an extra body to show off what I was making) and for working with AVSitter (so I could test out multiple poses at once). I later revived my alt and started to make a character for him, initially with the intent of adopting a child avatar and being a dad. That didn't work and I ended up making him a teenager at the last minute for a roleplay that didn't work out, but the character stuck. So now the bit is that he (my alt) did piecemeal work for my child character (this account)'s store and is friends with him. He's been involved in some cross roleplay, and my child character has been involved in some of his roleplays and friendships. Outside of that, each are an opportunity to log in with a degree of discretion (though they both share some friends), such as if I'm working on something and want some privacy. Using my alt has also given me some distance from my main, as I've been having some personal problems that got tied up with my main, like stress from event planning and a dry spell in roleplaying that was getting me down. That distance gave me a chance to redo his appearance and look at how I was approaching roleplaying. Oh. And I have a third account I made so I could offload group advertising for my store, but I haven't done anything with that account yet.
  10. I'm happy to hear why you think this (noting that I am so left I'm circling back around). I really have no idea what's going on with all of this because I don't follow celebrity gossip. However, I will ask that it remain factual (even if it's still about your opinion), and not turn into another one of these labeling sh*t fights where everyone who disagrees with someone is evil. What is Musk promoting that means supporting hate groups? Freedom of speech does not in and of itself protect hate speech, but we've seen a lot of dangerous people use "freedom of speech" as an excuse for their nonsense many times over the last few years (including when terrorist groups stormed Canadian cities and blocked highways). Is Musk doing something that gets into that territory?
  11. Could someone explain why everyone has their knickers in a bunch over this? I genuinely don't know what the problem is? Is Musk a bag of crap? Or do people just hate him because he's rich? What is the actual problem here?
  12. Neither are you. I am well aware of how that works and make the very same statements when people cry tears that their infringements get shut down. But as stated, it's not LL's job to police that. It's the IP holder's job. If DC-Warner has a problem with a Superman shirt, it's DC-Warner's job to take action. If Disney has a problem with all of the Disneylands and Disney content in SL, it's their job to take action. All of this highlights why copyright law is dumb and doesn't work. These laws are about 6 decades out of date and probably didn't even do a good job of it before then. The second you open your borders to the rets of the world, your laws no longer matter. This might have been manageable prior to the 1980s or 1990s, but it's a complete *****show now and copyright laws are proven almost on a daily basis to not be working. They don't stop offenses because they can't, and they don't protect creators. They only protect the people wealthy enough to throw their weight around, and that includes prolific copyright thieves with deep pockets. That is being used against them because IP holders don't care to enforce their rights (such as LL praising known infringement of Disney's IP) just proves my point. I'm not saying open the flood gates. I'm just saying that copyright laws don't work and all of this is an example of why it doesn't work. At the end of the day. I'm more interested in protecting and supporting genuine works, not things that should have been in the public domain decades ago nor the companies that throw their weight around to keep it that way, even though I won't openly and without remorse steal their work. Using the Superman example once again, which the character is certainly the IP of DC-Warner and they have exclusive rights to make comics and movies about him (or not), the character is a huge part of public consciousness and our culture, and DC-Warner can't pretend that there isn't a degree of public ownership there. We just don't know what that ownership means yet because out laws are too often decades behind the problem they are trying to solve. You can't own experience, so as long as there is no real damage (and there isn't just about anywhere in SL), that icon belongs as much to the public as it does to a company that screwed its creators of it out of their rights. So I'm not going to cry myself to sleep when I see a picture of Superman somewhere in SL because that's really not a problem. Neither DC-Warner nor Disney needs your protection, nor does any other capable IP holder, especially if they are choosing not to act.
  13. I don't think there's anything at all wrong with playing a non human character. The only issue I can see coming up would be on a roleplay sim, where talking animals or weird monsters would break immersion. It can take a lot more effort to either make it work or to pretend it's not the case. There's a furry I sometimes roleplay with, and we just pass everything off as him playing pretend. Beyond that, non human avatars are really cool, and there are some need ones I've see.
  14. Tweenster is infinitely more popular. I only ever hear passing mentions about Tweeneedoo, and I'm not aware of anyone who makes clothes for it.
  15. Copyright law is stupid anyways and is basically just a parody of itself at this point. You're never going to stop this kind of thing. I think that the focus needs to be on demonstrative damages, not on instances of irrelevance. For example, let's say I want a Superman tee shirt. In real life, I can go to pretty much any store and buy one. 9999 times out of 10 000, this shirt would have been properly licensed, so it's all above board. In that one time, if I bought a shirt someone some on Etsy or eBay, am I really hurting DC/Warner? Has their brand (that they stole, but that's another matter entirely) been hurt by me advertising for them? In SL, I can go to any number of stores and get a Superman shirt as well. It's technically not legal because the image hasn't been licensed, but here's the catch: it's never going to be. If DC/Warner wants to establish a presence in SL and sell Superman shirts rigged for child avatars of a specific size for less than pennies of net profit, then I'd buy one form them. But they haven't and won't. Someone somewhere is going to upload a Superman tee shirt texture, and DC/Warner has chosen not to do anything to stop it. And even if they did, is me wearing a Superman shirt in SL hurting anyone? There's too much subjectivity to those statements, but things change if we start looking at copyright law with a need to demonstrate damages (the same way as most other laws work). You can just blanket say it's illegal, but it's not going to stop. Instead, DC/Warner could go after people who are actively damaging their company and brand. If you're pulling six figures selling Superman shirts in SL, then they might have a case. If you're actively damaging their brand somehow, sure. If you're uploading same-day comics and thus allowing people to bypass retail channels, absolutely hammer down on that. But none of that is what we're talking about. Even if someone is "profiting" from selling Superman shirts, they are almost certainly not actually making a profit, and the presence of such things isn't hurting DC/Warner in any way. Same thing with Disney and all of the Disneylands in SL. Nobody is choosing those over an actual Disney Park in any demonstrable fashion. They're presence isn't impacting ticket sales, nor is it hurting Disney's brands. It's there for fun, and honestly might get people to go to a Disney Park so they can get the real experience or ride that ride they're nostalgic for again. As long as they aren't blatantly misrepresenting things, like saying they are the official digital presence of Disney Parks in SL, is it really a problem?
  16. Those are all answers. That you don't want to accept those answers is your problem. As always, I will remind people. If you want to texture and colour clothes, contact creators you like to see if they'll do that for you, or buy full permission items and make them yourself. Every single time this topic comes up, people are given answer after answer as to why this is done. But you never want the answer. You're either looking the ***** and moan, or you're looking for a fight. I gave an answer. It is the answer to this question. I'm out.
  17. Like others said, I try and sort out things into the existing folders and other ones I add. Clothes go in the clothing folder. stuff like hair and body parts goes in there. Buildings go in a building folder. In an ideal world, there would be nothing in my Objects folder or in root that isn't a category folder. So if I buy something, it gets opened and sorted. I'll let you decide how successful that it. When it comes to clothes, I've been trying a few things, and one is to sort clothes into what I would/am wearing (like, in an outfit) and what I wouldn't wear. I am 1. a hoarder, and 2. a roleplayer, so I don't delete things I wouldn't wear because maybe I would wear them later, or maybe I'm building a character that would. It lets me look from time to time and see if I still like what I'm wearing and if I've worn it in a while. Sometimes you outgrow clothes you used to like. Nothing really special in how I sort. I really need to spend a week cleaning things out though. Advent calendars and events are baaaaaaaaaaad and my inventory is a huge mess right now.
  18. That's fabulous that you're an amazing scripter. You must feel great for being such an exception person. Now if you're get off your soapbox, the street cleaners are coming. Not every 3d modeler is a software engineer. Not everyone has time to learn every single detail about LSL by rote. Some people just have time to make something good enough because that's not the focus of the product. So instead of condemning people for not being as exceptional as you are, maybe understand why they are doing what they do. Or hell, why not offer that scripting reeducation yourself? If you want to improve the quality of scripting in SL, maybe you should lead that charge instead of hoarding that skill and then condemning others for not having it.
  19. The answer is the same every time this comes up with any other creator or product. It's no-mod because they don't want you to mod it. They don't want you missing with things or breaking them. They don't want you to change it. They're the creator. It's their choice and power to do. People really need to hurry up and get over this.
  20. Big mood here. I'd pay for someone to clean my inventory (if such a thing was possible without handing over my account), but I'd also pay for a way to nuke duplicate items. Probably a quarter of my inventory is copies of freebies I'll never look at, copies of items I've gotten in advent calendars, and copies of "gimme" items like drinks or food items (like when you go to a park or there is an ice cream shop or something on a sim). That would make things so much easier to deal with. For the OP's suggestions, I would not pay for classes because I can never verify the quality of the instructor or their qualifications. I would also not pay to roleplay with someone. I can already pay for music, and I probably wouldn't pay for a makeover. I'm not sure what that leaves. I might pay for someone to pound the pavement for me to find kid-friendly roleplay sims that aren't just modern residential sims, but I don't know how much I'd pay for that.
  21. A lower cost sub option that gives you a stipend, land access, and more groups will just cause people to downgrade to that option. If there was a middle ground, it needs to do something different. The only thing that comes to mind is having a lower cost sub option that simply gives you land ownership access. Nothing more. Land is so stupidly expensive anyways that I doubt anyone would downgrade from Premium to this just over land, but I could see people upgrading to it just so they can purchase land. However, there is still a reason to upgrade from that to Premium. I would, without a thought, change my alt's name for $10. Not even a question, and it would generate free money.
  22. In world, I can think of a few ideas. You could maybe catch a movie (perhaps a romance type). You could go on a boat ride around a "romantic area" and enjoy the scenery. You could spend the time trying to find a date (kidding). Maybe do something like go to a zoo or go horseback riding. You could also spend time with close friends. It doesn't have to be all about romantic love or commercialism.
  23. I think this is more of an issue of people being lazy about setting attachment points (creators included). Since every single thing defaults to your hand but you don't see that with rigged items, everyone's just walking around holding themselves. Pick a bone that matches the item (I use chest for shirts, hip for pants in order to free up the pelvis, etc) and you won't have people accidentally stripping in public nearly as often. You also don't have people clubbing each other to death with their bodies when they haven't rendered properly. Basically nothing should be attaching to the hand unless it is intentional. After that, you set the double click actions and it's pretty much a non-issue.
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