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I have a feeling that that's not the answer @Maitimo had in mind, but I'm delighted I'm not the only one with a daft sense of humour!

Odourless wind.

Preferences -> Sound and Media -> Media Media autoplay - disable check - enable media filter (increased security) That should stop the problem. Come back to us and let us know if that worked please.

Definitely!

When I was a bit younger, just a few (cough-cough) years ago, my Dad would grasp me by my hands and bounce me up and down while singing a simple version of a cute song that went like this:- Poco the Pup_pet could do any_thing, Do any_thing.... Do any_thing, Poco the Pup_pet could do any_thing.... If some_body else pulled the string....Bom-bom! I've no idea what brought that to mind....I just thought I'd share it with you.

You might at least have let the mathematicians have a go first!

A very old one for you:- As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?

I can understand the arguments for moving with the times, attracting younger users etc., but despair of the way in which technology drives us to modify our behaviour to suit the technology. One result is an inevitable dumbing down of language, which increases our ability to communicate rapidly but seriously decreases our abilities to communicate effectively. It was the deficiencies of the technology that spurred the situation on. When the number of characters you were permitted to use was severely limited, the use of abbreviations became essential. The use of other ASCII characters to represent emotions was probably a natural extension. These deficiencies no longer exist but the deficient languages persist, despite there being no need for them to do so. We have seen the folly of emoji use on many occasions in this forum; examples are surely not required here. Perhaps one example, in general terms, may be worth examination though. Consider the following responses:- * That was so funny; I nearly split my sides! * I couldn't help giving a wry smile to that. * That was so ridiculous that it was just laughable. * I shouldn't really laugh at that but it was funny! OR 😃 instead? I suspect that emojis are here to stay but you no longer have to use them. You are now free to say exactly what you mean, if you are up to the challenge.

Letz tork about spellin and gramma furst. emojis is 2 advansed. ok?

The Marketplace has been under maintenance, but that is all finished now according to the Status page:- Marketplace Maintenance Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Oct 21, 10:54 PDT BUT.... the Status itself still shows Marketplace Purchases as under maintenance. Keep an eye on the status page:- https://secondlife-status.statuspage.io/ Edit to add: I've just successfully logged into the Marketplace, but haven't tried to buy anything.

@cc501- there is a whole bagful of possibilities that may be causing this. Try logging in to a very quiet area like HATTON, give things a few moments to settle down, then go to your viewer's Help menu -> About [viewer name] -> Copy to clipboard, then paste that in a post here. There may be some clues in that information that might help. No promises, but at least we'll know exactly what the situation is so far as the basics go. Hatton is an undersea region with very low texture loadings, You'll stand your best chance of staying connected there.

Sadly, very true.

According to Oz Linden's blog post, they've fixed the problem. " Bake Failures Wednesday and especially Thursday of this past week were bad days for avatar appearance, and we're very much aware of how important that is. The avatar bake service has actually been uplifted for some time - it wasn't moving it that caused the problem, but another change to a related service. The good news is that thanks to a great cross-team effort during those two days we were able to determine why an apparently unrelated simulator update triggered the problem and got a fix deployed Thursday night. You can read his entire update here: I have noticed that textures are very slow to load. Coupled with a bit of network lag, the loading might be giving up on timeouts? Certainly check out your network performance.

RLV's "Follow" is a bit more civilised than "Leash", when taking your BF shopping. But it's so much nicer to be holding hands (and hopefully getting BF to pay!)

I suspect you've only bought the animation, which needs to be run from within a Vista Couples Hud. I haven't checked recently, but you used to be able to pick up a free couples Hud at their store (somewhere near the couples dances section or the AOs section if I remember correctly). When you've got the hud, rez it on the ground and edit it. Go to the Contents tab; there'll be a notecard in there (in the free hud, this will be empty. Drag and drop the animation you bought from inventory to this notecard and it will then show up on the hud's menu. (It usually pays to reset the scripts of the hud before closing the edit) There might be instructions as to how to properly format that notecard, but I'm pretty sure just dropping the animation in will work.

Bur delightfully effective in a restaurant, cinema, theatre or classroom? Very low payload, of course. COVID is doing enough damage to those places without wiping them out.

As you like! Its "Your World, Your Imagination". But there are the Terms of Service and the Community Standards to be aware of. You did, of course, read these before you signed up to them, didn't you? Actually, hardly anyone ever does, which is why some people think they can do anything they like, and it doesn't quite work out like that. Just in case you didn't, you might like to have a look at them before doing anything contraversial. You might benefit from having a look at the Maturity Ratings, too:- I'm only trying to help! But getting banned from Second Life is hardly the end of the world?

Blindly map-TPing into somewhere just because there's some green dots there can sometimes be disastrous. It really does pay to find out a little bit about that region/parcel first. It can avoid you arriving slap in the middle of somewhere completely unsuitable for you, or, for example, you may have an avatar that is against their rules. (Some places will be nice about that and politely advise you of their rules and give you plenty of time to pop off somewhere else; others not so nice may just eject you, leaving you wondering what the hell that was all about.) A quick search on the region or parcel name (obtainable from the World Map) should come up with some information.

Point of order, Chairperson! You can't have a peeve about people having a peeve in a thread about people having a peeve!

Oh dear.... we're starting to talk at cross-purposes here, I suspect. A 32 texture for THE lipstick, the object itself, or a 32 texture for the applied finish on the lips? And scripts? Yes, it depends entirely what those scripts are doing, not the number of them. We do know that even idle scripts seem to take up mysterious amounts of time on the server, and so when the number of idle scripts is huge, there is an impact on server load. I understood that this is something being investigated by LL. But just one single "dirty" script can weigh very heavily on the server. To blandly blame scripts (which bring SL to life) is very short-sighted.

There has been some changes recently that have introduced that sort of freezing in several areas. For, example, open a second instance of your inventory and your screen will freeze until the second instance populates, accompanied by a couple of screen blankings. It's all part of the "improvements", I suspect.

Back in the dark ages of the birth of Second Life, registering a "friend" almost certainly meant a friend in the normal meaning of the word; someone you hang out with, see regularly, enjoy similar activities etc, etc Fast forward to 2020. The concept of "friend" has become completely distorted and generally refers to anyone with sufficient intelligence to tick the correct box and the gall to ask in the first place. "Oh look! I've got 1242 friends!!". Oh no you haven't. If you're lucky, you might have 5 friends and 1237 names that you can't even remember where you were when you met. To avoid this gross misuse, we have Calling Cards. If all that was wanted was a quick and easy way to get someone's contact details, that is the perfect solution (and offers nearly the same facilities as a "friend" without conferring the status. "Calling Cards? What the heck are those?", I hear...and that's my peeve.

This is a good time to pause for breath and let me thank everyone who has replied so far. Inevitably, I think, some deviation from the topic is occurring but hopefully there are still to come some more of "things to do" in Second Life. I suppose that debating the weaknesses of the platform does count as a "thing to do" but that's not what I had in mind when I started this off!

Thanks, @RowanMinx. You are exactly right! That's what happens when I rush and the brain doesn't keep up! Kindly ignore that post above and I'll copy it back to where it should have gone!