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InnerCity Elf

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  1. It does sound fun. If I was a Jessica in either life, I'd be in-world to buy that boat now. Wondering whether maybe "lucky chair style" would work better, "Person whose name starts with "J", buy a sail boat."?
  2. Person yes, but avatar, no, not once. I sometimes see avatars that I admire... or, rather, I admire the ability of the person who "put that avatar together"... or, rather, still, the abilities of the people who created the avatar's components πŸ€”.
  3. It's lovely! And what a nice rainbow. My only complaint is that somehow I landed in the middle of a pond. Good thing I didn't have my Sunday, but just my Monday boots on. ;)
  4. ... hmmm? Apologize to Silent (and anyone else I didn't write clearly or correct enough for, to know what I meant vs. what I might unintenionally have said). I think, "Excuse me" would be more for asking the example stairs and corridor cleaning person to let me pass if they didn't on their own? But that was not what I was trying to say. All I wanted to, originally, was to agree with a poster who posted about rudeness towards people working a service job, several page ago, already, but seem to keep misexpressing myself; I'll just see myself out now, so people can focus on the current peevesπŸ˜…. Thanks for helping!
  5. Semi-ban the word "banlines" on the forum - any time anyone uses the word, they have to pay 1L$ into the "banlines funds", which finances an in-world region with two zones. One, a battlefield, where friends and foes of banlines may fight each other with those gatling guns from the first post. One a party zone, where they can smoke peace pipes together. And forum gets monthly statistics of how many avatars were counted per zone...
  6. In the houses I know, they clean both corridors and stairs, but I apologize in any case, I guess I should have expressed myself far clearer. What you wrote is exactly what I got from your post; I just wanted to clarify that I do not find it rude at all if they get acknowledged in - some - way, and did not mean that it's needed to go out of one's way or thank them *for their work*. Probably my English is too bad, or I'm too careless when writing on forums, and indeed should know better by now. Sorry, again, I did absolutely not interpret your post as if you pass them without any reaction at all.
  7. Sounds like my standard wasp procedure, though that's a mini version, with a glass and postcard instead bucket and shovel . Assorted peeve: Why can wasps and similar beings always find the way in, but never out, even if they obviously try to...
  8. That's not what I meant. I meant, they are cleaning the stairs, and have to stop their work to step aside and let you pass on your way up or down the stairs. Not "thanks (for doing your job)", but just a polite, and, for me, natural "thanks" (for letting me pass); doesn't necessarily have to be a "thanks" either, a "hello", "good day", or such, while passing, works, too. But passing them without saying a word, as I do sometimes see, yes, I'd classify that as rude, in that situation.
  9. Maybe it would be easier for newbies who do not want that, to get help if there was some "pick up a newbie who does really (at least for now, and from a "helper oldbie") want just some general help and nothing romantic or more" spot. πŸ˜…
  10. I also don't meet, respectively get into contact with newbies often these days. If so, trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and chat a bit, and if they have questions, answer or help with landmarks or links to fashion blogs, mesh body ecplainer website, tell them how to search groups and such, but only if they ask. I don't give L$ to people who ask for them (think that often aren't newbies, anyway, or might be kids who have no business being there), but sometimes L$ or gifts to people who don't ask, with "Welcome to SL" message.
  11. Alas, I do. Trying my best to be especially nice to people who do "servant jobs" πŸ™„ even though I'm far from the most outgoing person irl. Seeing how, for example, people walk past the stairs cleaning person in the house corridor, with neither hello nor thanks, almost makes me pity the rude person, thinking they must have had awful or no parents. Almost. Usually, I'm just too baffled by that kind of behaviour to think so far.
  12. I even get cranky with myself in form of my own one account with an old free surname, whenever I spott a buyable surname that I like more, but it seems like really too much waste to get rid of a surname other than "Resident". "Elf" was irresistible, but administered to a "Mrs. Resident" account, so could convince my inner accountant to cough up for that. Surnames are a great occasion to crank over, in several ways, in any case, am always looking forward to the "New Surnames available" threads, names cost $ now, but the new names thread is always free entertainment, provided by and for cranky oldbies and cranky newbies alike!
  13. That's hard, but fun, too, so let me another hyper objective criterion or two... Anyone who was around before 3rd party viewers is an oldbie. Anyone who just pretends to be cool with despicable newbies having, qu'el horreur, *bought* their last name, but, in truth, is not, is ... ah, no, sorry, that doesn't work, ... is a cranky oldbie ... or a broke newbie. And... anyone, who feels the need to preamble each and every single one of their comments, stories, remarks, and statements with something to the effect "My first account was an oldbie", isn't. 😜
  14. It's a "better than nothing age verification". Too many years ago, when I saw that there are things I'd like to spend L$ for, I found that I'd rather spend money earned in RL than spend my SL time fishing. Back then, I could get L$ by simply buying a PaySafe card in like three or four shops around the corner, no credit card, ID, anything needed. Very low barrier, and would've been easy peasy if I'd been underage, too. At some point, PaySafe card didn't work anymore, which was a big issue for many SL users at least in my country, as credit cards weren't really widespread (more so, now, even more so since 2020, of course, and we all know that forces at work really hard to eliminate cash, and for different reasons than viruses, too). Debit card didn't work, either, just credit card and now, also PayPal, which needs to be verified, too, at least here, at least past some time/amount. Had I been underage, my only option would have been asking for or stealing either of my parents' credit card (which they didn't have any, anyway, so, no way for me). Which might be no issue for some, but definitely is an issue for many. Without getting into the reasons, I definitely wouldn't have done either, and certainly others neither, even if some might, but that, again, "better than nothing age verification". (long paragraph deleted, because people tending to not like their financial info, ID scans, etc., flying around too many companies, and potentially turning up in leaks, dark web,... isn't exactly the topic)
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