HarrisonMcKenzie

Say another troll who just got reported. Keep your personal attacks and non-substantive posts out of this. If you aren't going to add anything to this thread, then don't.

Since you seem to be here for no other reason than to pick fights, I'm out. I owe you nothing, and I do not care what you think. I and others have already explained why we made the decision we did. You acting like a troll, throwing insults, picking fights, and demanding entitlement doesn't change the fact that I owe you nothing and do not care what you think. I long for a day when garbage like you no longer occupies SL so that I can go back to enjoying myself in piece, without people fabricating reasons to pick a fight with me when they have no actual interactions with me. Good bye. I've already reported your post. If you keep picking fights, I will continue to report them. Go back to your bridge.

Context is a funny thing. Yes, I made a plain coloured shirt. Would you like a gold star for noticing that? And since that is your only example, I'm going to assume you didn't bother to check my store to see anything more than that. I do not allow derivative works. Full. *****ing. Stop. Why is that so hard for you to understand? I don't care what your reasoning is for wanting to deface my work, and frankly do not care. If you want to make yoir own clothes, then make your own clothes. I'm sick of this petty witch hunt from people who aren't even my customers.

That's not really how copyright law works.

That's not really how copyright law works.

Like I said, if you feel this way, then buy full perm mesh from full perm sellers so you can make your own designs. If you want to make your own designs because you don't like mine, then do it. But that doesn't change my decision to protect my work and declare my copyright on it. I do not allow derivative works. Full stop. You not liking that doesn't change that choice.

No, protecting my work is not overkill. You demanding that everyone in SL change how they do business because you want to be pretty is overkill. Here's the thing. If you want to buy a full perm kit that you can texture yourself to show of your artwork, for right ahead and do that. That's exactly what I do (though more modeling work goes into it), yet I still by designs from other sellers quite often. But understand this, and understand it well. I'm not in the business of reselling full perm mesh. Even if that's ok in the ToS of the mesh I buy and use, that's not what I want to sell. I am selling you my design, not reselling full perm mesh so you can make your designs. There are plenty of options for you if that's what you want. I fail to see why protecting my intellectual property makes me the bad guy.

One of the bodies I make clothes for has a similar autoalpha system, and I include the script already. If the script changes, I offer free upgrades. The end user doesn't need to add it because I've done that work for them. As for how my clothing looks reflecting on my skills as an artist, the answer to that should be self-evident. If someone sees a piece of my clothing and it looks like complete garbage, they are going to assume that's my doing. That hurts my sales. Your desire to ruin my work doesn't outweigh my desire to protect my brand.

It all depends on your age. Are you a baby, a little kid, a preteen, or a teen? Each one of those comes with a different body, clothing, and choices.

I sell clothes without mod because there is very little reason to sell them with mod. I spend a lot of time making the textures for my clothes, and I'm exercising my right to not allow derivative works. I don't want people shifting around the colour because that's going to make the final product look like garbage and would reflect poorly on me and my ability to make clothes. I don't do it to keep my work from being stolen and I don't do it to force that extra sale (I don't really do palette swaps as unique items).

To me, "virtual world" just sounds pretentious. It's like everyone in my university Japanese classes who watched j-dramas instead of anime because they were trying to be so elite and artistic. SL is a game. It's built like a game and plays like a game. Just because it doesn't have levels or a questing system doesn't mean it isn't a game.

Lol. No. I don't need to be cool that badly. I might consider it for $5, but not for $35.

Games don't have to have win scenerios, NPCs, or quests. Thinking they have to shows a limited understanding of what a game is.

I'm no particular order, -Non standard characters in names. Readability aside, these characters mean something in their respective languages, and it can be confusing when you know said language. -Grotesque appearances. In particular, I cannot stand looking at avatars with gigantic butts, thighs thicker than my shoulder width, or baby t-rex arms. Most of these people seem to want a fairly realistic appearance, yet clearly haven't seen what a human being looks like. -Adult only non-adult content. It drives me crazy how hard of is to find roleplaying opportunities as a preteen child avatar. Nearly every similar I find is adult only but doesn't advertise it as such, and entire genres of play are always off the table (like cyberpunk for some reason, or anything with fighting). -People who insist that SL is a social media and not a game. Sorry, but this just stinks of pretentiousness. It's a video game. Get over it. But why is rhat a bad thing? -Baby talk. This is incredibly annoying and many, many levels, and no one seems to get why people hate baby avatars. I think the biggest problem child and teen avatars face is how much people hate being around baby avatars. They're hard to understand, upsetting for those with reading problems, they tend to abuse gestures, and many baby avatars act like trolls, using the excuse "I'm a baby. That's what my character would do" to try and justify it.

I play a child avatar. The normal system body only scales down so far, to the point where it's almost impossible to make a 10 year old that looks human. Mesh bodies allow foe these different body types (children, aliens, animals, etc) because they let you go beyond the shape of an adult human. Beyond that, mesh avatars tend to look fare better than system avatars. One of the biggest offenders is feet. System avatars look like they have door stops for feet, while mesh avatars can have things like toes. Mesh avatars can also give a lot of control over appearance. My body, for example, actually gets wet when I'm in water, making my shiny shine a bit until the effect fades and I dry. This can help with immersion and photography, as the avatar can look better than a system avatar can.

Simple. As others noted, hidden things don't always stay hidden. Your clothes could derender, not render in the first place, your "parts" could clip through your clothes, your hidden "parts" could become unhidden by accident, you can inspect the attachments of other avatars... any number of reasons. There's also the fact that land owners and admins can do anything they want for any reason, regardless if it's in the ToS or not. They control the land and they can make the rules. At the end of the day, you're on G rated land. Here is no reason to have your "parts" attached. I disagree with our cultural obsession that anatomy automatically equals sex, but that's the culture we live in. Chances are, your "parts" were made for the sex side of SL, so seeing them alerts people that you might be flaunting sexual content in a G rated area, which is against the ToS.

I just unpacked my AOs and built a new one using Firestorm's built in menu.

At the end of the day, the biggest problem I see is land cost. The change to premium tier does help in that it's actually possible to have a small amount of land, but anything more than that is prohibitively expensive. Seeing more affordable land to build roleplay areas, stores, and art pieces would go a long way to keep things going. If I could get a sim for $30, that would go a long way in me wanting to consider that.

I think some people need to take off their tinfoil hat prims. LL isn't making you do anything, and no one is spying on you just by seeing the FB integrated comment section in the destination guide. Why do people insist on fabricating such nonsense? If you don't want to use Facebook, then don't. If you don't want to log in to comment, then don't. What exactly is the problem here?

I dunno. There are a lot of people dancing.

If LL put SL on Steam, that would just confirm that SL is a video game, and too many grognards would be upset by that. The 18 plus nature of SL is what's keeping it from being mainstream. It's too easy to stumble across a sex dungeon and it's too easy to lie about your age online. I like that scene from Futurama where 3 kids on a trenchcoat get into an adult chatroom just because hey said they were 18.

Threads older than a month shouldn't show up in the first 2 pages of the forum. 😛 I've necroed threads on the first or second page without realizing it. As for special character in your display name, let me explain something that doesn't seem to come up. Many of the special characters people use are really graphemes (letters or characters) in a real language. You know that cute smiley face everyone uses? ツ? That's a Japanese grapheme. Whenever I see that in names or gestures, I think people are sneezing. It can also mean that you are angry and upset. These characters mean something in the languages they come from, and when people use them thinking they are just a normal letter, they just end up looking like a fool.

Whenever people ask about this kind of thing, this is what I say. I help run a boy scouts roleplay group. There are two subgroups in it which operate at different times. The main group holds weekly events, many of which are hikes to other sims. I hold twice monthly events that focus on different kinds of activities like campfire stories or craft building. If the main group is going on a hike, they might only be at our sim for 30 minutes to coordinate what's going on. Add in my group, and we might only have a few hours worth of events in a given month, yet we have hundreds of members and regularly get dozens of attendees in the main group and a rotating group of about 15 people in mine. If you came to our group's sim at any other time, even missing us by 1 minute, you would never know that we are as active as we are. Now scale that example up to every single sim in SL. Yes, a lot of places look empty. That's because no one is there right now, but that doesn't mean it's abandoned. If you show up to a dance club after hours, you might never know that they just ran a 24 hour long event. If you show up at a roleplay sim in the middle of the night (what I do because of my timezone), most people are going to be sleeping, so of course it's going to look empty. If you walk downtown in some real world cities at night, you'd never know that millions of people could be living there. Just because a sim looks empty during the infinitesimally small amount of time you are there doesn't mean it's a ghost town, especially considering how expensive it is to rent that kind of land. People don't run sims for long if they don't get used.

Because those people don't know what they're doing and/or are using old *****ty garbage and full attachment points. I run at around 60k, and got booted from a sim once for having too high of a complexity. I brought this up with some friends and had everyone strip down and slowly add their hair and such back. The older guys were really surprised that they had some heavy items like flexy hair and old jewelry but never really though about it.

So you've never used email, posted anything on any web forum or comments section, used a messaging app, or played a video game online before? Guess what? Your login name for any web service is broadcast anytime you use any web service. Hysterical panicking is hysterical.