InnerCity Elf

Wouldn't it use up more electricity, though, if you're logged in with two viewers or viewer instances? Just as it also would be to be logged in with one avatar, even if your computer is on for other things anyway? Not wanting to be nitpicking, just curious; any educated guesstimate on how much an hour of SL costs electricity-wise if your computer is on anyway? On average, I suppose it would matter what specs the thing has.

Awwww. TIL, "pet envy" is a thing 😅 I can't have one at this time for different reasons, but someday I will again (or so I hope)! ___ RL pet delight of the day: When a Starbucks barista asks for your name but then actually remembers it from last time, before you answer. Idc if because I made an impression, or if they just happen to have a phenomenal memory (I tried to memorize the name on their name tag then, and failed but I'm at least double their age if not more, so that's my consolation), it still was delightful.

I'm pretty annoyed by that on RL market places, too. On Amazon, for example, if you want to buy a "cotton" something, while it's officially not allowed to use misleading keywords, you might get to see lots of anything-but-cotton somethings, even whole pages of them, before an actual cotton something. Now, in some cases, that's due to them stealthily incorporating "cotton" in form of "not made of cotton but of 100% polyester for longevity and easy care" in the visible parts of the listing (so that you can't even flag them as misleading), but often it's not, and the customer can't see the "backend keywords". If you could easily see them, it might make some people decide against supporting keyword spamming practices, and buy from those who don't, and it might make brands/sellers rethink enough to make a dent and give people an easier time actually getting hits for what they are searching for.

Oh, isn't it a lot of trouble to find your work platform for that... They must be very afraid of virtual motel sheets. Or they are bored of being early adopters and want to be hyper early adopters of your furniture. In any case, it's a security orb use case that I understand too well. ___ Beggars asking for L$ without even a preliminary "Hello" of sorts. (An RL peeve, too.) If that's my only interpersonal interaction with a fellow human being for the day, I want a "Hi", at least, before being asked to turn over my hard-earned money, just so.

Mhhh, I think there's a disclaimer somewhere, that they might reuse seasonal names, though, they did think this through, it seems, it's money, after all. So, none of us new money noblesse with a seasonal name can rest in the peaceful knowledge of having managed to snag a really nice last name that'll be retired soon-ish and becoming one of precious few. We could check the birth year, though, and refer to ourselves as "Elfs (or Daddys, or Hollypaws, or whatever) of the First Generation", or "Vintage Elfs (etc.), and still be sneery towards both the Resident Commoners, and the following generations of seasonal nobles, what a deal! Yes, I've always understood that wanting a pretty name in a virtual world is a thing, but never understood the concept of sneering at the poor fellows who already can't claim they haven't been there since the inception or at least the prim age ;). When I read about that there's actually a market of people selling/buying "legacy names" (forbidden as it is, so, with the risk of losing a paid account, or even potentially being banned for good) that's beeen a real eye opener as to how much people really wanted a pretty name (whether or not because of experienced sneering), and I wondered for years, why SL doesn't bring them back, either for free, or even as an additional money source. The only thing I could imagine holding them back, was the sneery type of oldbies going into a huff, as they'd see it as kind of a downgrade of themselves, like when a real world country decides to downgrade nobles' names, and the "of" to be taken away from their names, so that "Jane of Doe" will have to suffer her further existence as "Jane Doe". Fun fact, while running around in-world, minding my own business, someone IMed me out of the blue, wanting to buy my name... and that was many months into names being buyable; no idea if they were a very ill-informed newbie, or a (relative) oldbie living under a rock and not in the know, or someone with no trust in their own creative skills, or someone hoping for a good deal (but heck, you can't just buy a name without the attached account, so why would someone give you a deal for less than they paid, plus hand over all the goodies like mesh head, body, ao, and so on that they sunk more money into...). I know I should've stayed and found out, but I'm a scaredycat, so I fled. 🙀. It's quite an interesting topic, actually, sneering, and all, and imagine how much money governments could make by allowing people to change their names, apart from through marriage, and without needing to jump through hoops of proving that having their predecessor's name is psychologically unbearable to them. It would be an organisational nightmare as of now, but maybe in future, we'll have user-IDs stamped into ourselves somehow, so they won't mind if we want to go under Johnny Mnemonic instead of John Doe.

Ya, me too, that's basic politeness to me if they put a display name. I personally, though, was sick of all the scripts in greeters, doors, etc., referring to me as "Jane53279.Resident" (not literally, but you get my drift), having to log in as "Jane53279 Resident", and seeing it in lists all the time, when other people had pretty, or funny, or relevant (useable as rp names) names, just because they happened to be a bit older or had discovered SL sooner. The sneery type of oldbies definitely exist, but they'll keep being sneery anyway; they'll look at your SL birth year, or will make sure to learn the "new old names" by heart, to be able to immediately, without having to check your birth year, feel awesomely superior to you. I JUMPED at the pretty name option, not because of sneery oldbies, but as a treat for myself, because "Resident" ain't a pretty name, at least not to me, and, sure, I think it's overly expensive, considering that people who happened to join before whenever got them completely for free, but I consider it a contribution to SL's existence, same as I pay for clothes, or rent, or premium, etc. ETA: not even sure why we need to discuss this in a thread with this title, but whatever 😄

While some seem to stay around for ages, the non-holiday ones definitely aren't permanent, I can say as much. But whether they replace them after a certain number of users chose them (like someone above mentioned, I'm pretty sure I've read that this was at least the plan), or after a certain time, or combination of that, or even purposely keep the more popular ones around for longer than they should, for more sales, I can't tell. I check for new names every once in a while, usually before a season, and while I don't do bookkeeping, there are non-seasonal names that disappear. Sharing the sentiment that the rotation takes too long, though, even though I check quite rarely, as some names really seem to hang around for a small forever, so that would have to be either names that few people pick, so the limit number isn't reached yet, or they keep popular ones around even they should retire them, but the latter doesn't make too much sense, they should be able to replace them with other certainly popular ones. I'd love to know that mystery limit number, and whether they eventually retire unpopular names that don't reach that number, after a certain time, or just keep them up until they do.

Sometimes, I do a bit of ruthless cleaning, and delete complete folders with things that belonged to a roleplay character from a long-gone sim, or folders like, "new stuff 2017", but at the slightest hunch of maybe-remorse, I'm usually too lazy, or cherish my time too much to do that, to go through to sort, and push it all into my "archive" folder. One day, I'll drink a mulled wine too many, and delete that one, and start a new one But, really, maybe just push it all into a folder that won't stare in your face too much, you could also name it "zzz" instead of "archive", so it won't stare, unless you scroll

Lag. Annoying people who keep being annoying, even after you made clear you're not interested. Ah, maybe not, we need every concurrent user, don't we. Just lag, then.

Lovely. I moved in RL recently, this will be my first winter in about seventeen years without "snow duty". Not sure yet if I'll be relieved or if I'll miss it... probably both

Very true. As a real-life self-employed person, when confronted with money or more time to not work or to work on something I really enjoy or like or care about in some way, I'll often pick time. Money isn't everything, some people seem to forget that. Regarding uniqication, my tip is, use add-on wrinkles, higher chance of being unique in SL than with freckles and moles or just go for unique in non-visual aspects, that's stressless, as pretty much built-in anyway, and even free. Myself, I tend to stick to one body and head until they become kind of obsolete, or I see something that really wows me enough, but I also understand that others like to play around with many or all that's available. I imagine this to be like when you'd sit people in a giant room with Lego of all colours. Some will sit in the middle of the room and build things using all colours, while some, like me, will gather loads of grey, brown and green stones and build intricate but mostly monochromatic castles, forests, or maybe a blue sea with the occasional few grey bricks to symbolize waves. And we all will have fun and be happy with our builds 😂 (Nah, in fact, everyone will quarrel about which kind of build is better, prettier, healthier, complain about the base ground plates not being available in a light middle reddish shade of magenta, and so on ;))

Ah, I have the profile loading issue too. I've been thinking it might my internet connection, but when the rest of SL and the internet at large loads fine, that's a little vexing, as I love looking at profiles.

Because it's so easy and cheap to have a different home whenever I fancy a change of scenery, even continent, with zero weight furniture conveniently stored in my inventory 😅 Jokes apart, or was it, I think it boils down to having wanted to be more part of it all. I'm not a creator, and I don't always have much time to contribute, but I usually could afford a bit of money, and loved "owning" a little bit of land, and whenever it was mainland for me, make something nice of it and keep it open for other people to enjoy - no idea if ever anyone did, though, ha, but I did my best to make it clear it's meant like that. I'm pondering mainland again, and this time, I'll look at MP and into setting something up like a visitor counter or something, to see if actually ever anyone passes, or even spends some time there, if possible, I'm curious. I like having a skybox for the odd things like unpacking, dressing, AFKing, and such, but for my "main property", I've always liked it to be a (semi-)public space, like a garden, library, café.

🤔 Maybe they just liked the name of the sim, I certainly do, and had plans for that plot, but then had a change of plans, too, and nothing better to do with their land allotment, for now, and will drop the price, or abandon the land sooner or later. Or they wanted to give other sim owners and land forum readers something to speculate over as a gift for the sometimes drab pre-Advent season. Maybe the grand plan is to make a kind of reverse advent calendar out of the plot, when you visit on December 1st, the price will be set to L$24, and LS1 less every day until December 24, and if still nobody buys, it'll be a Christmas gift on Christmas Day for L$0. Who knows. Isn't it kind of people to not always do what we expect, though.

I never paid attention to that feature, so it's always been the standard settings, whichever those were, for me... until I happened to hear or read about dramatic persons causing drama over "crosshairing" where said "crosshairing" didn't even occur, because, not accurate, or accident, or something. Since that, I've turned it off, seemed a neglectable waste of time compared to potential dramatic botherances.

An LL winter sim with winter ambient music and sounds and just a nice fireplace to gather and be merry, and everyone who visits may place 1 wintery or christmassy thing until all prims are used up. 🌲

SimCrossing Crash Test Dummy

My most important folder is the "meh" one. I'll chuck in there things I'm not that keen on, after all, or have better alternatives for. Sometimes, I'll look for something specific in there, and take it out, otherwise, every once in a year or two, I'll just delete the meh folders in each category, clothes, home, and other, and open a new one. My home and décor specifically, is organised more around where I lived when I bought the item, my memory cam deal better with that approach than category trees like shopping site URLs.

Application of the "smells like a rainy afternoon with a whiff of sea salt caramel and a hint of lilies" tags that some roleplayers wear... But, more seriously, yes, scents aligned to sim landscapes, like "forest", "ocean", "city center bakery", etc., might be cool, although one might then have to avoid scenic spots with dumpsters, or hell, but I'd probably wouldn't have the money to upgrade accordingly on my side, if it ever happened.

Woah, this is awesome, I've candies, I've my first tier prize, I've seen many awesome places (some of you really went all-in with decorations, either spooky or beautifully autumnal, crawl-through TP, skyboxes, fog, sounds, and everything!) I've even had the chance to say hi to someone who posted here, I've had fun! My visited pumpkins so far all worked a treat, see attached "proof". Thanks for all the treats so far, I shall venture out to collect more, closer to Halloween! (I may also have petted someone's Kitty Cat, sorry, it was irresistible... err, I mean, ... purely by accident! 😻) The only downside... I think I'll need a Belli home again eventually...

A close relative's variation is: "You need to let people make their own mistakes." I use it on a close relative now, too, but I just think it, I don't say or roll-eye it This variation is worse, though, or, rather, delusional, as it implies that they could actually have hindered them believing the wrong thing, taking the wrong action, clicking that phishing link, or whatever, while, in reality, in most of the cases, no chance in hell that they could have. 😛

As a customer, I also appreciate, when a product picture is included in the folder. If it's not, I'll still buy if I really "need"/want the item, but it's a nice bit of customer service that will certainly endear the brand/creator more to me, and hence might be a factor if I buy again, or maybe also buy items that I don't really "need" but just want. I've had a brick and. mortar RL shop myself for many years, and I think little touches that you'd not really absolut have to do as a real life retailer in your shop, like a smile and small chat with a customer, putting effort and creativity into seasonal decoration, a nice sounding bell instead the awful one that everyone has, and so on, add value to all parties, build rapport. And if you sell on MP, you can do such not strictly needed but nice little things, too. A product image, thoughtful naming of your things for search purposes, prettily textured box if you use a box,... and, most probably, especially the frequent(er) 😅 shoppers will notice...

Definitely one of my thoughts, too, I've always wondered if that thought doesn't cross people's minds who are "protective" about what they wear, even ask for "shields" against inspecting. Probably not.

I'll very happily answer any specific questions, but listing every last detail, having to look it up... far too boring/time-consuming/"like work" for my tastes, and to what avail? Even when I see an avatar that I really admire, I'd not even get the idea of wanting to know (copy) all the details. I'd rather tell them "the basics" like head, body, skin, and to be creative, have fun with all the things that are out, or tell them my favourite shops, tell them about the existence of "style cards" if they really are at a loss, or go shopping with them for a bit while chatting if they (think they) need help with putting together their avi. If it's because they are very new and don't have the slightest idea how to go about it, depending on how the person is, and on my time/plans, I'd help them, but probably would have to refer them to forums, websites, googling, too, as I usually don't have a whole month worth of SL time in a row 😅 As a public service, I'd also talk them into my "good Ao first, nice looks later" maxim if they don't have enough L$ or maybe gift them one, that's my bias, I'll rather look at a starter avi looks person with good moves than a superbly dressed one with starter moves

On the one hand, yes, on the other, I think it's quite fun as it is now, the thrill of the hunt for a "useful to you" name, the disappointment of not a single one you like from the current batch, the "what will we get this Christmas" Vorfreude, the prayers for a soonish release of a name that's similar to your current honey's or just the opposite of your latest ex's... I really don't know but I think I might actually prefer it the way it is now, maybe exactly because all other games/places let you choose freely, while here, the name game itself has the chancey gamey effect, too.