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  1. Let me add a different perspective. Behind all those good venues and places we loved were always key people, owners and those they drew around them by their vision and will and attractive natures. THAT is what makes the good places work, and well, sometimes they too must move on, undertake other challenges elsewhere. SO, one can't really deduce much about population swings by this, and where others may try to step up and take their place but that never seems quite to work out. Each of those were like, say, a Lily in the heavens, year after year and you get used to visiting, and their permanence seems a thing, and then.... well, even the flowers will pass on, shrink away and eventually leave a dark spot in the heavens again. Many, many dark spots we each acculumate in our memories. It says nothing more really, than a testament to specialness. What a neat thing that. The title of your post... yess... most poignant. We all miss them. Gives you a hug.
  2. The only way to understand the calculus of this discussion (FB and its "metaverse") is to realize that SL is the Soho of the '50s. It's the Greenwich village of modern cyberspace -- the artists colony of 1930's (and earlier) Paris filled with writers and painters and poets at work. SL is alive and well, in that spirit, and the art (the creations!) they just never stop! It's nothing short of amazing. It is one of a kind (a Classic as I have said in past posts), and Zuck can't magically reproduce that. He's not even aiming for that. Sure, he will come along and build his modern highrise amalgams all around it -- his new so-called "metaverse", but that's hype, that's salesmanship. Fine. He's not going to be creating an SL clone, nor even any competition to it. His bland concept cannot destroy creative communities nor recreate them. Nor can he destroy their space, in this instance. He's not a realestate developeer. He's strictly social media, where real day-to-day people in their bathrobes and slippers sit and chat with family and friends and keep everyone updated. In past generations grandma used to write letters, then later she would be on the phone (still so today) and now she can use the FB platform for instaneous postings at any time. So, what is a cool new "avatar" in some kind of new FB metaverse going to do for her? Like....oh look, grandma has a new avatar! Boy, look at her! Or, hey... business meetings can be held online with our own avatars in the FB metaverse. Oh! what will Putin be. The world is poised on edge to know! No, Zucky can't willy-nilly duplicate the special spirit of the creators' colony. And he won't even try -- why should he? He created and hosts a giantic social platform built on text and photos and will now add, ...what?..., moving avatars? His idea is the Ma Bell of mid-20th century, come to change the world, and yes, that technology was transformative, and it went to Paris and New York, and San Francisco, and yet, did it diminish/displace the arts? Did it shrink and shrivel that spirit? Oh, hell no. Because the two aren't related. It may be that his conception of an integrated metaverse includes adding in the little neighborhoods, this cyber Soho and others. If so, that's fine. Just another doorway in. Another passage down a unique cobblestoe street. SL need not move toward the ideas of Zuck. His thinking is a playtoy. His view, that future corporate meetings will allow attendees -- magnates of industry and governments-- to simply represent themselves with a placeholder avatar in an animated boardroom of Zuck's new metaverse platform? ... O Glory! No, the thing about social media is that even gamers who are followed on Twitch by the thousands of subscribers & viewers, while playing in-character game avatsrs, yet, they will turn ON their cams to their REAL in-person faces, sitting at their keyboards wile playing, and why? Because their viewers want that. THAT is the real point. Zuck's platform and his new avatars will not displace the desire, the need, to link the two, the necessity to see the real face of that party you are negotiating with. Soo, the metaverse only becomes a way to share videos and display slides to a single chatting group. Ohhkay.. REAL business, like REAL family is not the realm of fantasy and creation. It can't be. So, can Zuck build his metaverse and even get some people to use it. Sure he can. It's never gonna be "Soho." So.., we can assume it's not meant to be. Just an added income stream to the Zuck empire -- 'cause... he sure knows how to sell. And that's fine.
  3. Couldn't you just Clear Visible Cache? If you remain at a lower DD while on the ground, say 96, or 200, or 400, whatever you want that is NOT in the thousands, you'll not see the shadow, after clearing visible cache. That's my theory. You can do it like this: get one of those freebies that are a singple prim and say "Sit to clear visible cache," and keep it on your land handy. You just sit on it and ZOOM!, up it takes you several thosands of meters, I don't reemember the height.. 2000? 3000?, I forget. And it holds you up there while your visible cache is clearing itself, and when done it zooms you back to ground. Simple. That skybox shadow should be gone. That's my expectation. And will stay gone until next time you cam up there from ground and reload it into visible cache. I could be wrong. But you can probably experiment right now without that freebie. Just hover yourself in Fly mode at ground level, make sure your dd is appropriately low, then using chat command, type: gth 3500, then hitting Enter UP you zoom. I would just hover up there (since you are in Fly mode) for 3 to 5 seconds just to be sure it clears all. First time i ever sat on that freebie box (shaped like a log in Gor), i was zoomed up, and there i sat in the heavens for almost 5 seconds and thought, someone just played a prank on me and so impulsively unseated myself and fell the whole thousands of meters back to land. There was no flying ability in Gor sims. Hah, that bent my sword.. But, once on the ground all my greyness of textures was gone. That was in the early years. Should work still today.
  4. ...partial narcissist, percent narcissist... OKAY!!.. Let’s settle this! To the OP: No, you are not a narcissist, just another spoiled brat! :p OK…OK…. I’ll admit it, I’m one too. Alright…? Alright! Now, get off my back!
  5. That is the root, and here is the historical reality. Humans have always borrowed from other cultures and for differing reasons. Like gathering relics of war among your enemies whom you feared, for the pride and esteem among your compatriots -- this goes back to ancient times, and too, human cultures will tend to learn and mimic from other cultures for their differing uses of medicines, diets, habits and clothing, and even spiritual beliefs and methods of upliftment. This is the reality, and is not in itself a negative. Normal people have always loved borrowing from other cultures out of admiration, and too, it can seen very cool among your friends when you appear more educated and worldly and they more blandly provencial and ignorant loafs. Hah. This explains the American hippy culture of constant appropriation, and it explains our current times, and every other generation before us and those to come. You can't stop it, but you can hopefully learn not to take umbrage at this kernel of it. No, the face of a foreign cultural god should not be blindly converted into a dinner plate, nor tattoos for sale, without expecting some cultural blowback. But that can't deny nor halt the inbred, broad appeal of interest in other cultures among human beings. I like to think that respect lies at the core of that, even when it is clumsy or seeming blindly commercial. The fact that there is a market (mostly among the young and naive) means it has a long, abiding appeal among homo sapiens. Yes, education and patience are the key here.
  6. THIS! Thank you very much for that candor, it makes me feel better and imbues me with renewed patience. We are "getting it on," so yeah, keep up the push. I came here just now out of concerns at the continuing issues in performance, but you just explained it all. ~Cheers!
  7. THIS, is such a GREAT point, and your son would benefit in such a place as Second Life, simply because of the use of writing. We are all different and many of us are quite verbally fluent, yet when it comes to the written word we can stumble, and my theory is that our brains move so fast, that writing, being a slower medium, acts as a sort of moving roadblock -- our fingers can't keep up with the firing synapses of our cortex. So, like... our great ideas get mangled by now smashing into one another in their fast occurring sequence, while waiting for the labors of trying to capture them onto written media. That capture is never quite as good as the very stream itself. Add to this the left/right brain theory: speaking is a left side activity, and intuition/imagination (where ideas are spawned) is right side, the side which does NOT use words for speaking. That's a crude description but let me move on. So, we must learn to mesh these. THUS, a place like Second Life is exactly where your son can benefit. Roleplay sims to me were a heaven! I could practice using my fingers to work fast and keep up with my imaginative stream. You build true skills here. Many people like your son become writers, and this is how they do it. Practice, fueled by desire, and real fun.
  8. SECRETS TIME: Using the HUD you can get for Hugs and Kisses, stand casually in front of your mate, bump up against him, but don't struggle at being EXACTLY in front (I'll show you why), and then execute the Hug animation via the HUD, and when your partner accepts the permission popup (or when you accept one) then... AND NOW FOR THE SECRET....!! >> Go into Mouselook (press the "m" key) and here you can turn your body smoothly and easily and in tiny increments during this animation and get your smacker right onto his!. Then come out of mouselook (scroll back your mouse scroll wheel) and enjoy. Your partner can do this too so you meet nicely. You see this all the time amongst experienced players. They start the hug, it's wrong, then they magically swivel so easily to mesh together, and make a damned near perfect embrace/kiss. But there is another tip... seen in below comment, about hover.... As for walking I can't answer that one. Sitting and snuggling, of course, is the right furniture, even rugs. You can learn to adjust x..y..z... positioning with practice but DON'T forget your hover. Learn your hover! When sitting to snuggle, adjust your hover position to "0.00" and see if that gives you the perfect position with your mate. But she/he may have a hover setting of their own that is different from zero. So, Okay, just try to adjust your height up or down a bit and see if that doesn't bring you two into unison. It may not, some furniture is cheap and the animations not so perfect, or someone else has tinkered with the x..y..z.. etc, but these things can often bring fast improvement for you quite easily. --Cheerio!
  9. Yeah. I think I've come to see it that way too, and in a broader sense to answer my own "general" question. It is that, when we log onto a "game" platform or some chat platforms, that just because there is a convenient little interface there for us to control the volumes, even turning them "off" (which may in fact not be true), during our experiences on the platform, doesn't mean those little UI's are functioning as absolute firewalls. I get that. So, it makes sense that clever other people can find work arounds and still broadcast to your speakers or headset (around those interfaces, in a sense) and it's not necessarily a malicious attack on the player's home system or computer. That is what I suspect is the reality in this.
  10. ...an to elaborate, is was inside SL (not outside on the player side), since the player realizing she couldn't turn it off in the viewer (Firestorm latest vers.) suspected foul play and closed the viewer, logging out, and the sound stopped as she exited. The next day in the same region she heard the voice clip again and asked a friend with her if she heard but she didn't. She is rather calm about this, but concerned. It happened tonight that in a public sandbox, a music clip came loud over the region music and she franticlly pulled all sliders to the left and unchecked boxes and the pulled Msaster volume to the left, and yet after some interim it came again, the exact same clip, so she tp'd out of the region and that brought it to a halt. She went back with another man and soon it came again and that man could not hear it. She cammed around the samebox and located a transparent sphere under ground that had an avatar name to it, so she opened his profile, and even IM'd him to ask if he was playing the cool music and who the artist was, heh, in hopes of a response but none came. She then waited calmly for the next occurrence so she could try blocking that avatar, but it didn't come again and she finally wearied and left. She told me all this and I haven't gone to that sandbox yet, nor heard of such a thing happening. To me the general interest is HOW is this possible?
  11. Is it possible to receive sounds (music or voice) in your headset (or speakers) which are not coming from any of the sound sliders on your settings as you stand in a region where suddenly it comes in OVER the region music if you have it on, and you turn that music OFF, turn the voice off, media off.. all sliders moved hard to the left, including Master volume itself, and yet, the sound plays on all by itself....and after some small interim will repeat regardless all of your settings of everything off... and maybe you tp out to another region and it follows you and finishes it's short clip, such as a 10 second (or so) clip of music, or in one case a voice as of someone speaking on a phone call.. and when later maybe 5 minutes or so, it repeats and you cannot mute it or find it,.. thus Is this possible? Can such sounds/clips be made to reach you AROUND the viewer itself, around your router, and into your headset, or speakers, and emanating from inside SL itself?
  12. Funny how consistently wrong you are. Know it or not, I've been helping you. You appear to be someone who just labels what they don't understand. It's not going to serve you well going forward.
  13. Oddly, you didn't attempt to expand on my concepts, but rather to roll your eyes, label them, and then express frustration. That's when anyone can see you are not serious about discussion. You seem to want to pretend. But that's ok. I accept you. I support you in your growth. But don't think you fool anyone.
  14. Yes, and frankly, this thread portended its own "flame war" even predicting what on pages it should begin. Then, it is suggested further on, with, "/me takes a long toke, passes it to someone else in the dorm room and settles down into the role of devil's advocate." So, it's all fine, no real bullying going on here. And yes, ad hominem reared it's face at, "...I roll my eyes at your superiority gig," from the OP. Ok. I'm game to play. Hope it wasn't too distracting. And btw, the purpose of the "comment search" suggestions was to buttress the fact that originality of expression (which stems from thought) is alive and well, and found everywhere. Ok, not everywhere, maybe even hardly ANYwhere. But, oh well.
  15. Wow. Thank you for this thread! I love African music -- from the Cape to the Nile -- that is our common cradle. Listening to that Blood Diamond piece is moving as such music is; it gives you the sense of a long forgotten pathway receding far away behind it. I'll offer up here my latest that I listen to while doing work. Like yours, the instruments become definitive as it progresses.
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