InnerCity Elf

I used to set my avatar height to my rl height, but had to adapt to like 2m in my early days, because it would have been annoying to dance with giants, or have door handles on same height with my eyes, and such... In later years, furniture, buildings, other people's avatars on average, became much more rl scale, and I now keep my avatar's height at around 1,70, which still is a bit taller than my rl height, but tall enough to not have encountered any height booting so far, it's not worth fussing about a few centimetres taller or not to me. If I got booted for lacking height, knowing my avi is 1,70, I'd not bother adjusting to go back, though, I'd find that rule stickling too ridiculous. While I absolutely understand that sim or parcel owners do their best to assure no kid avis where none should be, I've seen so many avis that reek of child play and wouldn't have any issues to pass the height check. Of course, one could also argue endlessly over the actual height limit, and someone from Norway might think, 1,80m is reasonable enough for average avatar height, while someome from somewhere else might rightly say, their countries' average female height is 1,45m, ... They need to have to set the limit somewhere, if they have one, be it height, scipts, full-bright, or else. Generally, if I really want to be somewhere, or may want to be at a place long-term, I'll check the rules, and if they are reasonable enough to me, I would adapt. If not, not (edit for clarification: and leave, and strike it off my personal map). I respect it if people are required to "fit into a setting". When I want to insist on "coming as I am", I stick to exploring places that don't mind. How far I'd go, it's hard to measure (no pun intended), mostly would depend on how dearly I'd want to be there, I guess? In your club example, I'd have found it too fussy to argue about cranking my avi height up a notch, and just done it, if I really was interested in that club. The full bright hair, on the other hand, if I saw such a feature as such as a defining trait of my virtual self, and always wore it, that I'd feel bad changing it, I'd probably find it a bit silly of the place, but would respect their own best judgement in deeming it as too much of an eyesore to owner or their usual visitor group, and kindly take my leave.

I mainly roleplay, and I like NPC bots, it at least feels less lonely like that, hanging out in some medieval tavern, waiting for actual players to pass by. I might even say hi to them. When I am where many people are, like events, music venues, popular scenic sims, and such, I never had the impression it's bots. I've certainly read about and also noticed "bot pollution" when looking at the map too often to know how often, but never tried to purposely tp to spots with lots of green dots stacked one on the other, but I'm sure it must feel annoying or futile if you do that to find actual people and up with lots of mute bots instead over and over. What I wonder is what would happen, if all those bots got AI-ed up. Would people notice? Would they prefer them to non-interactive bots, or the contrary? Would they even notice? I'd hope that we'd at least get a clear tell, so we could decide if we'd like to chat away our time with an imaginary friend in form of a bot, or not. Personally, I prefer interacting with real people, even if it's someone just asking for Lindens, or where I bought something, or even someone I don't really like all too much, it's just more fun, more alive. But there's loads of otome games, guys with virtual girlfriends, even one famously "married" to some virtual idol,... So, the demand may be there, I don't know.

And I was still curious about your choice of alternate spelling of Lelutka.

Mine, too. This "separation" only came to mind, as just yesterday, I was telling myself, "why aren't you actually running to that shop over there, it's not as if it will increase your blood pressure or anything, silly :p" I love flying, though, but do that "in character" as someone or something with wings, and I love running around in a cat avatar, but usually go shopping in my "everyday real life" kinda avi/outfit, I treat it as an actual shopping outing, so, no running for me. And props to shops that have a nice little coffee corner...

1. People who run or fly when possible, while shopping 2. People who always amble about with an elegant and dignified walk animation, even from landing point to miles away shop, even when no one's watching

Or l00sing... I was wondering if the OO in the brand name was a double upper-case O to obfuscate the brand name, or a double zero to imply their take on the brand's quality (which I find great, I have both free and paid for L. heads), but typing out both OO and 00 here, it definitely seems to be two upper-case "O"s... 😅

A not unimportant point, I think, is also that people who start with (a free) L head, will be hesitant to buy another brand, once they are ready to splurge. "Learning" a new HUD and stuff is daunting. If you your family's go-to tech person, you'll know what I mean. The same or at least most similar UI gets more precious, the older the users get. The more people you get to start with your brand (even for free), the more future (paying) customers you'll have.

I'd also say it heavily depends, your world, your imagination, your financial commitment. From begging other people for a few L$ to people paying for multiple sims just for fun, there seems to be a big spread. Would be fun if the beggar in the shop was a real $ billionaire, roleplaying a beggar, though! It would be interesting to see stats of income levels of SL users, but then again, many wouldn't like to tell, or might lie, so, it's fine.

1. People who like SL at the least well enough to be there. 2. err... Sorry, I'll try to think of something else... ; )

My new desktop arrived yesterday, and I've been hanging out in SL quite a bit. It runs wonderfully, I'm happy. Thanks again for dispelling my AMD anxiety : )

Thanks! I went with a compromise, considering my budget, needs vs wants, local company (one of my biases when possible) with extended warranty, pick-up-and-return, and great customer support, power consumption (extremely expensive here these days...), and, thanks to you all, AMD for a change. My new pc should arrive in a few days, I'll update here to add if I'm happy with AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and RTX4070 combination in SL, in case it helps someone else. It should more than cover all my other use cases.

Sites that, still, in the year 2024, - don't give you the option to see your password as you type it in - let you type in a password, only once, only seeing ***********, and not having a verification box that has you type it in a 2nd time to make sure you don't register with a typo in your password, so that you'll have to immediately ask for a password reset if there actually was a typo.

The other day, I felt like a new outfit and hairstyle for the new year, so shopped a bit and put all of it in a new "2024" folder. Then got the idea to just search and move the essentials like body and head, plus the few things that my avatar would pack in their emergency backpack, i.e., I can actually remember I have and would miss into that folder. Everything else that I'll buy this year, in that folder, too. Everything else in a "pre 2024" folder, leave that untouched (unless I really suddenly think of an old item I really want to use and will use, which then shall be moved to "2024"). 2025, I'll make a new folder, only go through the 2024 folder and move what I want to "2025", move "2024" with what didn't make it to "2025" to "pre 2024", rename that one to "pre 2025", repeat to fade. The idea, you probably guessed it, being to eventually, let's say, after three years, toss the complete "pre xxxx" folder without too much anxiety, and looking forward and supporting the SLeconomy by getting new shinies and having fun shopping instead of digging through the pile. I'm rather sustainable and more of a non-shopper irl, often end up going to have a coffeed sweet drink instead of actually shopping for the thing I went to town to shop for, and my SL things don't end in a land fill at least if taking up some digital space, so I'm far less careful of buying new things there. Landmarks, oh dear, I guess over 50% if not more or much more, aren't valid anymore anyway, probably go through, delete anything that I can't immediately remember or have moved on from, and test the rest to toss what's inexistent or not of interest any longer. Notecards... hm, could probably delete them all without ever going to miss one, maybe keep a few dozen or so for sentimental reasons, like the notecard applications you had to send in to be allowed to rp in days of yonder, I may want to read my rp character's bg descriptions and have a good laugh someday. Then again, spending that time in a current rp sim probably is time better spent. I had to log out before I could decide on whether to separate into "clothes et al." and "home& landscape stuff", though, the hunch of maybe giving the latter a longer half-life, but that's the general plan. Let's see... 🙈

Hi Fen. For private use, and the cheaper owner having 10+ years, that would seem stable enough for me to try. For commercial or other events, stability could be more important than for private, like people trying to TP to their old landmark of your place. From my own experience, I've never had anything bad happen while renting all kinds of different parcels since about 2010, be it in mainland, on full sims, up to whole homesteads, without even bothering to do "background checks", so I don't think it's super common, but that's just my own experience so far. In theory, of course, it could happen, even without any bad intention, people can get sick, have accidents, die, go broke,... that you'd end up losing your rental, never mind the owner or their track record. The cumbersome but safest thing in any case is to not pay too much rent in advance. If you'd like to stick with your current landlord and upgrade to more land/prims, but find the price difference very tempting, maybe an option could also be to let your current landlord know that you want more land, and would like to stay with them but have an "1/2 sim w/15000 prims @ L$7999 per week. " offer, and ask them what their best offer would be, or let them know the price point at which you'd definitely stay. Unless your current owner is a friend whom you want to support or something, it's business, after all, no reason to feel bad about asking, and if they really can't or don't want to give you a similar price, they'll say so, and you can accept that, or move.

Now that you mention it, I have either been at a roleplaying sim that had such an option in their rp hud, or had joined a group that had BTB for a title. Could actually make a group oneself, and even have "BRB", "back in 5 minutes (hours 😁)", "in another window but will hear if you IM", or whatever personal afk/brb messages that would be most useful.

Well, that's a very sustainable solution.

Or keep them as pets. Like that, you'll never run out of pet peeves to post here for sure!

Hmm, while I try to come up with something specific, politeness, kindness, taking time, generally, there's too little of that in all worlds, so I'm finding it endearing. Ah, I know. I still remember a very nice IM from someone who very genuinely, and specifically complimented me about a roleplay avatar that I had indeed put a lot of time and thought into every little detail, looks, "accessories", animations, profile IC story, everything; looking back, it would probably have to be my "master work" out of all to this day, even as it was before mesh. While I'd done it completely for myself, and for the "realness" of the rp and other players, too, of course, it really was nice to "get proof" that someone (so, probably, more people) noticed and was kind enough to let me know. We never before nor after interacted, at least as per my knowledge, but I still remember it fondly, possibly every time I set up another roleplay avatar. I'm somewhat shy, and would rarely IM others first, but ever since, it made me jump over my own scaredycat shadow a bit more often, like compliment sim owners about their sim and such. So, what would that endearing behaviour be, showing people that their efforts don't go unnoticed, acknowledging that someone's there and does their best to "improve the scenery", motivating/inspiring someone in a very kind and subtle way? Something like that.

I read profiles a lot, and there sure are quite a few that evoke that feeling! =D I'm finding them useful, though, maybe not in the intended way, but still... 😃

I've no idea how I'd know, so it can't put me off. If not literally all the time and never, and I somehow knew, it wouldn't put me off either, if it's what they like doing, fine. Behaviours that I actually find off-putting aren't things that "random people" do, like hi, how are you's followed by radio silence, while they're busy trying to chat up any other roughly female looking avatar in the region, or even right-out asking for SLex despite your profile having "no!!!!!" written all over it, or begging, or such, but really mean-spirited behaviour that most people would probably also find off-putting with rl people, like gaslighting, causing fake mean rumours, and the like, "just for the funsies", while pretending to be friends with you or the person they are gossiping about or whatever.

To me, afk-ing and it's (perceived) rudeness seems highly dependent on the circumstances. If I go to the bathroom or to set up and later get a tea, I refuse feeling bad about it, as I'm rather sure that's the default of how the overwhelming majority handles such brief afk-ing. If I'm at a packed event or somewhere it's highly probable that others might see and talk to me, I'll tp home when I have one, or to some zero traffic place. If anyone IMs, I'll reply as soon as I'm back, and, really, if someone gets funny over not hearing back from someone right away, that's their problem. This doesn't apply in an "active conversation setting", in which I'll let people know something like "brb (+assumed number of minutes if all goes well/reason for afk, in case of too many variables, like doorbell rang, and I've no idea why the heck...;))". In theory, I wouldn't mind some automated visual like a hover text or (somwhat graceful) universal afk stand that indicates your as afk after 5 minutes. However, in practice, I don't want to have to type or move my cursor or anything every 4.5 or so minutes in all the situations where I "just hang out" in a pretty scenery and would be cool to chat a while if anyone IMs, or wait for para roleplayers to type their posts, hang out at a not yet lively sim in the hope someone will come by to play and to help out the ones who kindly set up the place to maybe get some rp going at a time I can play - while I'm working in another window, with sound notification on, so that I can and will reply right away if someone does come along. In case of such a forced afk marking, at least, I'd want to have a ping with customizable sound to let me know I need to move my cursor or something. Should we get that far during my lifetime that SL would somehow determine my afk-ness from spying on the close proximity of my computer setup, to safely know if I'm actually physically away from my keyboard or not, no thank you, I fear I'd finally have to quit for good then, not that I'd really mind if SL or the internet at large would know how long it takes me to... make tea, but, you know, out of principle.

Thank you both for the info, too, good to know.

Thanks, another voice for AMD, or at the least against Intel obligatory Less heat is good, too!

Awesome, great to hear, thank you for your speedy replies, that calms me a lot, going with AMD then, that one comes with a very pretty case, and 3 years warranty and pick-up service, too.

I'm trying to decide between two desktops, both with GeForce RTX 4070, 32GB DDR4 RAM, other technical specs same or comparable, too. One has AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, the other Intel Core i9-11900KF (around €100 more expensive). Generally, I tend towards the AMD one for a few reasons, and it should be enough for all my non-SL usage, but I only had Intel computers so far, zero experience with AMD and SL, and seen it mentioned over the years that for SL you should definitely choose Intel. Could it be a big mistake to take the AMD one, regarding SL? If it's just a few FPS less, I probably won't care. If it's more like just half the FPS or less, or everything in funky pink, or so, I might care... 😬 Realistically, I don't go to clubs or places with lots of people in a small space at once often; what I do like, though, is being able to look over and seeing as much as possible of a region. And shadows. I love shadows! Now, is it more like "you'd be really stupid to take the AMD one", or "probably you'll be fine, but if you're one of the very unlucky 0.1%, you'll end up seeing la deuxième vie en rose eternally", or "sure, AMD is fine, just your performance with Intel would likely be somewhat better"? Or is "Intel over AMD for 2nd Life" just an outdated myth by 2024? I've gone through some related not too old threads here already, but am not really much the wiser, might be because I don't understand tech (speak) too well. Maybe someone can shed some light (and shadow)?