Dresden

Chance Acoustic wrote: Indeed. I may have to post a new thread to get some answers Posting something remotely coherent would help. What you're complaining about is obviously not a copybotting situation. Perhaps, if you explain it with more specificity, people might actually be able to understand what exactly you're going on about. ...Dres

This will probably sound crazy, but If I were faced with solving this sort of dilemma, I wouldn't mess with boxes at all. What I'd do is put the LMs into a main folder with the sub-folders I'd want my friend to receive. Then, I'd set that folder up as a listing on Marketplace for perhaps 1L, at which point, I would go there and buy it for them as a gift. That way, I wouldn't have to mess with scripts (which I'll probably never use again) and I wouldn't have to worry about my friend having to unpack a ton of boxes or waiting for their contents to load. Might be something to consider. ...Dres

Prinella wrote: Starting to get a bit bored. Between chatting and dance clubs, I wish there was more to do. Any one of have any ideas? You could always do what I do when I get bored in SL... sign off and mansturbate to gay porn. ...Dres (or, watch Judge Judy.)

HughJegow wrote: Dresden wrote: No, I'm not the one who has your favorite restaurants in Second Life, nor would beat them if I did. ...Dres But would you Bugar Kinf? Of course, I would. Not only that, but I already have. ...Dres *doesn't wanna look like a Bugar Kinf virgin*

HughJegow wrote: I have been searching for several years for one that does my favourite pasta: Ferlighetti. Wasn't that a member of the Black Eyed Peas? ...Dres

Profaitchikenz Haiku wrote: ETA I got bleeped! My first ever. Ok, the offending word was an FLA for those forward-jutting motherly glands, in case you're curious. Usually, when I inform someone that I am entirely enamored by "forward-jutting motherly glands" (which I often do, using that exact same term), they normally shoot me a surprised look or otherwise indicate some sense of shock and/or awe. ...Dres *only offers this post because of it's certain ability to add something intangibly, yet, crucially relevant... unfortunately, what that relevance may be, escapes him at the moment*

No, I'm not the one who has your favorite restaurants in Second Life, nor would beat them if I did. ...Dres

I suggest you read this over (https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Billing/ta-p/700037#Section_.2.1), then provide us with a bit more information as to what you are trying to do that isn't working. Alternatively, you can contact Billing support (https://support.secondlife.com/billing-support/) directly. ...Dres

irihapeti wrote: Medhue Simoni wrote: The avatar is so central to everything. agree the avatar is the central and whole point of a virtual world basically if building a world then dont do it like God did in the Bible + like God made the world and he was pleased and then he went hmm! is incomplete is my awesome. I know!!! I will make me a little guy who looks like me so he did. A stumpy wonky little guy who didnt fit in the awesome world. So he made sex for him so he can be happy in his stumpy little wonky godlet body. I mean a lady for him and he made a garden for the little guy and his girlfriend lady but not in the awesome world that he had made. A garden in a private island then the little guy and the lady got wasted on apple juice and done the nawti and God got miffed and chucked them out the garden into the world that wasnt made for them. I think God got miffed when he went: Adam wherefore art thou my faithful little crawler who knows that I am like totally ever everything of your reason for exist ?!?? and Adam muted him bc he was doing the nawti and he dont got any time for any pervy cammer so miffed was God and out they went. The little guy and his gf. In their stumpy wonky little bodys and they done it hard in the awesome world not made for them for ever more ever after bc God said to the little guy and lady that he cant change the world just to suit their stumply little arms or anything really. bc if he change them then they will break his awesome world, and they just do the nawti in it anyways. So there !! + so now there is a new God to rule over us all so far is 2 and 0 first there was Bible God. Who apparently is a Western God. For 1 and 0 and then there was Philip God. Who is a Eastern God. For 2 and 0 now there is Ebbe God. Who is a Northern God. Like a Viking Can the Viking God of the North defeat the Gods of the West and East ?? will the Northern God make the man and the lady first, and then make Valhalla. Or the other way round and be defeated for 3 and 0 (: Beautifully stated, irihappy. But, you forgot to mention Blue Buddha... ...Dres

Radium Soup wrote: Prokofy (never use a dozen cogent words when 800 random ones will suffice) Neva wrote: rant rant rant. Possibly something about cats. Such an abuse of internet bandwidth when you could have simply said "AH discarded me for my crazy hateful rants, then added insult to my injury by tolerating Woodbury members. I am angry and butthurt waah waah waah." Simply delicious. ...Dres

Venus Petrov wrote: Consider getting inspiration from some of your fave goth bands. I don't have a suggestion for a name but make sure whatever you choose isn't already in use. Good luck! This is a great suggestion... not names of goth bands but perhaps names of gothesque songs. "Exterminating Angel" "Love like Blood" "Waste Land" "Black No. 1" "Spellbound" Stuff like that. ...Dres

Kelli May wrote: /me runs off to see how much difference this makes... (I don't disbelieve you, but different set-ups give different results, enquiring minds etc.) I went to the busiest spot I could find, but it didn't seem to make any difference to me. 24 avatars in view and I got around 20fps regardless once the scene settled down. Different set-up, different result. You probably have a much better graphics card than I did at the time. I'm sure the one I've got now can easily handle rendering them, but I'd gotten used to not seeing them so I just left it that way. ...Dres

Treasure Ballinger wrote: Thank you Cathy! FIFY ...Dres

Zazaaji wrote: Just curious what the majority generally tend to do. Personally I have them set to show like this: Display Name (Username) That's how I have it set as well. I believe that's the default, at least in the viewer I use (Firestorm). I have both enabled simply because both impart useful information. I want to know what an avatar's user name is because that is what makes them truly unique within the SL system. Because anyone can set their display name to anything, we've not the ability to perceive their unique identity by acknowledging display names alone. Nevertheless, they are a useful indication of how an individual wishes their avatar to be addressed. I believe addressing others as they choose to be addressed is the very minimum amount of respect which they deserve. One thing I do though, which is probably different than most, is set my viewer so that the hovering names don't show at all inworld. I started doing that years ago because my old video card had a horrible time rendering them in places with lots of avatars and would cause my viewer to lag, sometimes to the point of crashing. After I updated my card, I saw no point in turning them back on... because I liked not knowing who everyone was at first glance. It just seemed more realistic to me. And besides, I also had it set so that I could get the same information on a one-avatar-at-a-time basis by hovering my cursor over them. ...Dres

Deltango Vale wrote: Dres, Of all people, you know the answer to that question and the reasons why. You may have gotten me confused with someone who is clairvoyant. I have no way of knowing how anyone will answer a question before they've answered it. Deltango Vale wrote: As an aside, eBay and Amazon have badly damaged their reputations worldwide by adopting an authoritarian, paternalistic and blatantly political position under duress from social trolls. Yeah... how dare they exercise their right to discontinue selling products they deem to be offensive? I'm sure they'll be driven out of business within the week. ...Dres

EdgeSteel wrote: I never thought things would come to this. Being a Vet...... the things going on now is not the reason I agreed to fight for this country. No way are you going to make everyone happy. I also doubt very seriously that removal of the confederate flag is going to fix anything, in fact - its making it worse..... I don't get it. Are you suggesting that the reason you fought for this country was so that state governments could continue flying a treasonous, racist flag in public spaces? It's as if whole swaths of idiots honestly believe that the removal of such contentious imagery from public sites and the inventory of a few, private companies induces their disenfranchisement... it most certainly does not. ...Dres

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: congrats! EDIT..ah now I see the other thread, well maybe "the land of the free" will have some actual freedom in the future then, a good step into that direction... Thanks Kwak. ...Dres

Well this has been fun, but I have to run for a while. I'll be busy celebrating the fact that I can finally marry my partner of over fourteen years. ...Dres

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: This has got nothing to do with convincing oneself. This is how one truly feels. People can't be held responsible for something they didn't know was wrong, as long as they couldn't know it was wrong. For the victims that doesn't make a difference, but as you said so yourself, it's about the ideology, not the "amount" of suffering. I see. In other words, the entirety of southern white slave owners are entirely innocent of the atrocities they've committed. Lovely. ...Dres

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: I am fairly convinced slavers felt they weren't doing anything wrong. I fail to understand why you can't see that regardless of that which they'd convinced themselves, they were in fact doing something wrong. Just because the something wrong they were doing was systemically considered acceptable doesn't make it all right. ...Dres

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: In the slaver's mind it is their right to prosper on the loss of others. In the mind of a nazi, it's fine to commit genocide without any valid reason. Oh, I get it... it isn't as bad to enslave, torture and kill people to make a buck, as it is to do it just because you just feel like it... right? ...Dres

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: Dresden wrote: Are you suggesting that no black person has ever been killed in the name of white supremacy? Because, that would be the only case in which your point would have any validity whatsoever. I am saying that racism and genocide, or more precise, racism embedded in society and a society based on the extermination of an ethnic group are not the same, not even close. And I'm saying that the ideology of supremacy is the basis for both and is just as reprehensible in both instances. ...Dres

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: Dresden wrote: It's not the level of atrocities committed, but the incredibly similar, hate-fueled, supremacist ideology of both movements which are legitimately comparable. Just because one people had it worse than the other, doesn't make the ideology behind such atrocities of either level any more or less atrocious. ...Dres You completely miss my point, as do irihapeti and Theresa apparently. If we're talking sheer numbers, many more people were and are affected by racism and slavery than there are by genocide. Unfortunately, racism is widely spread throughout history and throughout the world, and (again unfortunately) can be considered quite normal. It's embedded in human nature, based on a healthy fear of the unknown. It is a big leap from "we are not equal" to " you are a pest to society and you need to be exterminated" Certainly not the same ideology. Are you suggesting that no black person has ever been killed in the name of white supremacy? Because, that would be the only case in which your point would have any validity whatsoever. ...Dres

It's not the level of atrocities committed, but the incredibly similar, hate-fueled, supremacist ideology of both movements which are legitimately comparable. Just because one people had it worse than the other, doesn't make the ideology behind such atrocities of either level any more or less atrocious. ...Dres

irihapeti wrote: Drake1 Nightfire wrote: irihapeti wrote: Don Pedro Colley 1 character in 10 episodes over 7 years is kind of proving the point... as well Al White, Ella Mae Brown, Ernie Hudson, Herb Jefferson, James Reynolds, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, John Carter, Kevin Hall, Steven Williams, Wally Taylor, Woody Strode maybe you never saw any of these people bc you never expected to see them. That TV show being all racist and that I blame the shorts. ...Dres