MoiraKathleen

It's an evolutionary process, and may take awhile before you're completely satisfied (and even then at some point you may decide to change things again). Make a few little changes, give it a little bit of time to see how they end up feeling for you, then decide if you want to keep those changes or try something else... You can save iterations of your shape changes with different names, so that you can go back to an earlier version if something you try feels really messed up.

. Exasperated and (despite caffeine) exhausted,

Limiting access to a sim or area based on avatar age is more of a temporary restriction than discrimination, in my opinion. Or it could be thought of in terms of 'leveling up' I suppose - once you've 'leveled up' to the necessary avatar age, you can access that area. There are newbie-friendly adult areas as well, so no one is being kept from pursuing that type of activity because of avatar age.

Hoping that 2018 will be a good year for everyone. Where ever and how ever you're celebrating New Year's Eve, have a wonderful time and stay safe.

rest stop on the way to the beach

Looking confused, searches for translator

She had the biggest, bounciest

at the annual tiggers picnic

jittery hands could send them

Shaking babies? Check the physics

The only other premium benefit (outside of the bonus that is paid after 45 days) that you lose immediately when you downgrade to basic is the ability to own mainland parcels or a linden home - in fact, if you have either one, you won't be able to down grade your account until you either sell or abandon them.

I enjoy exploring the mainland continents also. Sometimes it's a planned expedition, other times I end up someplace (perhaps at a store, or looking at a parcel for sale that is on a road) and I decide to talk a walk down the road. Sometimes I drive, though I'm not the greatest driver either, but as long as I have the whole width of the road to myself, I can usually stay on the road. Walking or riding a bicycle allows for the most freedom in stopping and checking out places along the way. I generally will stop in and take a look around at stores that I pass. I also try to LM each rezz zone I come across, especially if I'm driving, in case something happens and I need to restart from the nearest rezz area. Route 7 on Gaeta 5 is fun because it changes back and forth several times between being a land road and being a water channel (so bring a small boat with you for that trip). One of the fun things I found - though I can't remember now which road/continent it was on - was where a bridge is out along the route and there is a trampoline type square that you can jump on to be catapulted across to the other side. When I lived out on Heterocera, along the eastern coast on Route 5, I did make a trip to the Bay City fairgrounds via driving, some walking, sail boating, and then driving again. I think the biggest issue I had with that trip was trying to find a place to rezz a boat to leave the atoll (I could have just sailed from by my house which was close to an ocean rezz area, but I had wanted to drive down to where the ANWR Channel was. It was a long journey, but fun

forgetting that babies spit up

My avie does not look like my RL self. Although over time, there are a couple of similarities that my avie has developed - we both wear glasses, wear peace sign earrings and wear 8 rings (a ring on each finger).

wondering what the fox says

its gnarly hands outstretched towards

Ice skating on the frozen river behind my house, this evening.

Very casual today, just picking up a couple advent calendar gifts.

Very pretty dress! and the colors work well with the plant colors in the background.

In terms of other existing virtual worlds most similar in concept to SL, there are hundreds of OpenSim grid communities out there, plus at least one other which started out as OpenSim and then went a different path on their own. You also used to be able to (and maybe still can) download sim-on-a-stick and run your own sims on your own computer. Whether any of these really are competition or not depends on what factors you want to compare, and how important certain things are to you. I haven't been to any of the OpenSim grids for six months or so, but I did own a sim on one and have an account on another more commercial variation for 2 years. Personally, I found that the longer I was in SL, and the more familiar I became with things in SL, the more I noticed shortcomings with my experiences on the other grids. This was my experience, others may have different opinions.

In addition to "General", "Roleplay" or "Games" there is also the "Creation" forum area which has sub-forums for topics like scripting, LSL, mesh, building and texturing, animation, etc., so depending on what aspect of combat you're posting about, it would seem to me that some of those sub-forums under "Creation" might also be options. If you have an outside forum, you can include a link to that in your signature area here, to help interested parties find your outside forum. If you're trying to highlight the existence of the combat sims, and to draw in new people, another good question might be why there isn't a combat category in the Destination Guide... Have any of the combat sims tried to get a listing in the destination guide? and if so, what category did they end up under there?

I was thinking I might be able to exercise a tiny bit of self-restraint... but it I had a pot of good coffee to go along with the chocolates...

... "No!" Narrator scrambles back to

I think if I had one of those chocolate filled advent calendars today, it would be gone in a week-end