MoiraKathleen

Bottom line, as far as I'm aware, is that you won't be able to find out why another avatar was banned from a sim, nor will you be able to find out if any abuse reports were filed with LL regarding another avatar. If you're already feeling leery, I would definitely make sure to keep RL info private, and I would probably give some credence to the those feelings.

For sky platforms I generally do build it on the ground first, then send it up to whatever height I've chosen. Usually I just make it the largest single rectangle shape that fits within the parcel lines - I hadn't thought about adding additional pieces for the odd shaped edges and then linking that all together. I'm going to remember that for in the future. I generally use the parcel boundaries extended up all the way when I want to be able to see if something like trees or shrubbery have any parts that extend out of the parcel boundary.

These are not the same parcel lines that you get with World -> Show More -> Property Lines. If you select an item and click "edit" on the item, the parcel boundary lines should re-appear while you're editing the item. At least that's how it's been working for me.

It refers to the yellow semi-translucent lines that show up around your parcel when you either bring up the "About Land" window or you select something for editing. So try doing one of those two things with that box checked.

that can't be harvested for

I thought perhaps it was a recent law enacted in California, but the Law Enforcement Advisory that Spitewick linked to in the first post was from 2010, so not very recent. I found that interesting as I live in California and I know that I've seen the types of machines discussed in the wiki article Selene linked to in restaurants and pizza parlors still, even after 2010. It looks to me that enforcement might be haphazard or not a high priority in some areas of the State. Out of curiosity, I'm certainly going to be on the look-out for them, now.

I don't feel that being a conversationalist is one of my strengths. I'm most talkative in RL with family, otherwise I tend to hang back and just listen to the conversations happening around me. There are just a couple of people I've met in-world that I feel comfortable chatting with, so far.

The easiest way is probably: World menu -> About Land

waiting for my ship to come in

explodes when warp is encountered

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The Land Forum General Discussion area is not the right place for advertising - though I suppose we could start a discussion about whether paying an estate owner a weekly figure for house and prims is actually a sell or a rental/lease situation. This should be in one of the following sub-areas depending on the type of land (if it's advertising rentals): - Region for Rent: Full Private Island - Region Rentals: Homestead - Parcels for Rent: Mainland There are similar sub-forums for land sales.

see if the TP bug

Most of the time I'm not conversing with anyone in-world, so If I'm going to get up to do something around my RL house, I just hit the "home" button in the viewer so that at least I'm in my SL house before I get up from my desk to do whatever. If I happen to be conversing with someone in IM's or local chat, and I think I will be AFK for more than a minute or two or three.... I will tell them "just a sec..." and "ok, back". If I get an IM from a stranger, I do check the profile first before responding. There have been a few rare cases where I couldn't get past what was in the profile and therefore did not respond at all because I knew that we had absolutely nothing in common.

as the sun rises … danced away the entire SL night

scrambling up some breakfast

I've spent the last few days relocating my main residence in SL from a mainland parcel to a long double parcel along the water on the west side of Hither. I always have some feelings of trepidation when making moves like this, especially when changing to a new house as well. Overall, I'm pleased so far with how the landscaping has turned out (and I even did a little terraforming without having to call the land owner for help ). The long look back towards the house: Closer view of house, patio and greenhouse: Long look towards other end of parcel, where I have set up a little retreat/art studio (and a little teardrop trailer for when my alt comes to visit):

If you upgrade to premium membership, you always have the option to freely return to basic membership. The caveats are: - you need to release any linden home you might have, or sale any mainland you might own, before switching to basic - you will not receive any refund of remaining premium membership paid - instead you will remain as a premium member (without the ability to own mainland or a LH home) with a pending downgrade to Basic until your premium membership term you paid for expires. During that time you will still receive the other premium perks (weekly stipend, higher maximum number of groups, live chat support, etc.) - if you start the downgrade process to premium, but then change your mind, you can contact live chat and request that the pending downgrade be removed, which will restore you back to full premium membership. Premium membership is automatically renewed using your payment info on file. When you upgrade to premium, you have a choice of paying monthly, quarterly or annually. Monthly is the most expensive option, annually is the least expensive option. As long as your payment info remains on your account, and LL is able to successfully receive payment for your premium fees, you are good. If, for someone reason you remove your payment info, or LL is not able to successfully bill it when your premium term expires, there could be a situation where you are not able to login inworld until you have brought your account back into good standing.

Prior to demoing a mesh body such as Maitreya, I would suggest doing a couple of things first: 1. Save the current fixed version of yourself as an outfit. Click on the Appearance tab on the viewer (it may just show as a tab with a shirt icon on it) and then do a "Save as" on the bottom of the appearance window - name it something like "base outfit". Then if something gets mixed up later, you can fit this outfit in your inventory under "My Outfits", right click on it and choose "Replace Current Outfit". This will let you reset your classic body yourself. 2. Be sure to read through the instructions that come with the mesh body demo so that you have an idea of what happens when you use a mesh body, and so that you understand the steps involved and which items from the demo folder need to be worn.

I didn't mean to imply that "the 50s" was just a fantasy theme. I often do not do well at expressing my thoughts clearly. If we were talking about a national or international real life celebration, I would think differently about it than as a celebration in SL (which I view as a fantasy place in part to escape from the darkness and grit of real life). In real life, I am very much a firm believer that societies need to learn and understand the past so that they don't repeat mistakes of the past or, perhaps more importantly, unwittingly give up rights and advances that were only won through hard-fought social change battles several generations ago.

Happy Birthday @Catrie

As a general theme for a celebration in a virtual world that's filled with fantasy, I don't see an issue with it even if it's glassy-eyed nostalgia. People choose themes for parties and celebrations all the time, focusing on what is iconic about the theme even though I'm sure most all themes also have a dark side. Being mainly a child of the 1960's (I was born in 1959) I can say that even the flower child peace and love experience of that generation had a dark underside. What is iconic about the 1950's in my mind are poodle-skirts, soda fountains (and root beer floats), bowling, music, dancing, what my mom called peddle-pushers (and I call capris and might have been clam-diggers on the eastern US coast?). I think the general iconic images of that period are great starting points for a celebration. As so much of the SL birthday builds are resident built, even the migration of blues artists from the South to Chicago could be chronicled and celebrated in a resident-created exhibit if one wished.

Night at the Hither Falls beach

I'd been wondering where on the grid the traffic bots hide out, and then I finally saw one today while browsing the booths at the Steam Exposition 😁