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    Bots in SL are over reported, yes they exist, but not in the huge numbers some might suggest. Those that are used come in two flavors. The fairly active "survey" bots that constantly teleport around gathering region statistics, and utility bots that perform group invites or populate AFK sex places. Gaming traffic was a use for bots, but that has sloped off since stores no longer depend on in world locations as a primary income, the event ecosystem (and weekend sales especially) have largely replaced that practice with real people. AFK or silent avatars are often mistaken for or accused of being bots, when likely they are real people who aren't following local chat or have no desire to respond to inane "how r u" attempts at conversation. People do log into SL for extended periods, plenty stay logged in while they are sleeping. There was a period recently where access to SL was broken for all clients using an external library to connect to SL, this did not affect regular users on regular full fat viewers, only bot clients. This resulted in barely any impact to the live feed of active user stats. SL is also really large, we all have homes and private spaces, and only a fraction of us are online at any given time .. and those who are clump up. So SL can feel empty regardless of what the published population count might state. I've written an open source script that will show the ebb and flow of SL population during the day from live published stats. https://github.com/0xc0ffea/SecondLife-PopulationMeter
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    It's the same with display names
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    Easy work around. Add the relay HUD and make sure its unlocked (I recommend the DEM relay HUD) Edit it on your HUD, scroll down on the mousewheel and move the HUD outside of the rectangle. Detach and reattach the HUD (this saves the position). Right click on it in inventory to get to the menu and lock it. One Locked HUD attachment that wont show up in screen shots.
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    That's a rough road. The only thing you yourself can ever say with any certainty about what you deserve, is that you deserve to be happy. If it makes you happy, keep doing that. Especially if you feel guilty about it. Target the guilt not your own well being and burn it out with self indulgence. We can only make the best decisions with the intent and information we have in the moment. We're more than capable of making terrible decisions, eyes wide open, on purpose. Don't dwell on the ones that didn't work out or the missed opportunities. Hindsight really is 20/20, and it can sod off. To oops is literally what makes us human. Other people don't get a say on the amount of "stuff" you can have, especially when those who might judge probably have more "stuff" and more accessible space to stuff it. Don't let other people (especially imaginary ones) define you in any way at all. I have ADHD. Clutter is a way of life. Just keep going though it one pile at a time, enjoy it and find a new home for the bits that have served their purpose. Don't forget to add more new stuff, because that's fun. My life has bombed back to a suitcase more than once, and as neat and empty as my home looked once I got back on my feet, It wasn't worth it.
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    Then you need to hide it better !!
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    Who's fault is that?
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    Who doesn't like cake?!
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    In place of honesty, I would say be authentic .. we all wear a little of our soul on our sleeves here and at the end of the day, that's what matters. The exact configuration of the RL plumbing is irrelevant and certainly not what anyone falls in love with. I would even go as far as to call out negative suggestions of "catfishing", not because the target of ones affections misrepresented themselves, but rather that meaningful love really can comes in all packaging and sometimes, that just means we have to adapt and pick up a couple of new tricks. Bi/Pan woman IRL, I like boys like I like my girls - that is to say, girly. SL has really been a fundamental force in my own personal growth, especially when it comes to sexuality and gender. I wasn't always so open to all the possibilities, I was an idiot.
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    To put this in context, I recently spent $40 on an out of print paper back.
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    Having your home reboot every 8 hours is about the best way to torch whatever remaining goodwill extends to "explorers".
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    Introduce recursion into everything you do .. they will beg for comments
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    What if .. that was always in the viewer and everyone habitually switched it off to the point viewer just shipped with it off by default. Advanced menu > Disable Camera Constraints.
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    SL can easily be a primary hobby or entertainment medium. If you weren't doing SL you would be doing something else and spending money on that.
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    In the great long list of SL users hopes and dreams. Being able to pull faces at each other via a web cam and an AI model is .. not really on the list, we all know it's not even going to be close to the kind of magic available on platforms like VRChat, and honestly .. if we're not getting that (and all the systemic changes that would go with it), what's the point.
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    Owning mainland does not grant right of way though others mainland. Citing numbers from 10 years ago and using them for anything serious is the height of speculation. For one, far more of the mainland is now abandoned or held by bulk land owners for sale, there are also significantly more rentals which depend on orbs for even basic security. That is part of their land. They own the parcel, be it above or below water. They own the water too. Private land ownership, by a significant factor. Especially once you remove Belli from the Linden land as that operates on a very different business model. An "explorers" inability to drive a boat though someone's parcel that happens to extend into visible water is not hurting their revenue.
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    I remember the problem and at the time .. the Linden solution was passable. What we need now is the region to send a complete list of all the parcels on a region (and neighboring regions) that informs the viewer about where the user can access and where they can't. Even just a raw matrix made from 4m squares that the region updates as and when parcels are redefined changed would be awesome. I would also like to see parcel access controls improved to allow better access and avatar visibility much like we have for EEP now with multiple height based zones. The cherry on top would be prohibiting sub letting of mainland.
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    Banline visibility was broken in 2007 Rather than add viewer side controls to allow users to show or hide banlines as needed for whatever they were doing at the time, LL did the cheapest simplest option and fudged when regions informed the viewer of the nearest (and only the nearest) neighboring parcel with an access restrictions. This is why we can't do anything at all in the viewer now - The viewer doesn't know a parcel has access restrictions until you're about to slam your face into it. The only way the viewer can get that information is by repeatedly brute forcing requesting data on every parcel on the region you're on, and then deducing if you do or don't have access (This would be bad).
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    The point is that as a product, land has forever been sold as "your land your rules". If that includes denying access to everyone, even by use of the provided parcel access controls, then that is entirely the land owners right to use the product as sold. No one has any access rights to anyone else's purchase by default. It is a courtesy that the vast majority of people are happy to provide. Orbs come into play when people are ignorant of setting up group only access, or are renting mainland and have no other option but an orb to recreate the same "no access" condition. This argument is about the demands of a tiny few "explorers" who have mistaken a widely provided courtesy as a right, one they have zero claim to. It's not without cause that some of the parcels explicitly blocking access are in high traffic areas (such as coast lines). It only takes a few "explorers" to cause a problem before the land owner simply runs out of patience and rescinds their offer of passage.
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    I don't see how this could have gone any other way.
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    You an me both. They would look awesome with a floofy cake dress!
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    The increasing number of people openly and publicly prepared to identify as being LGBTQ+ unequivocally demonstrates it absolutely does not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States It's amazing how many people come out of the woodwork when "the thing" goes from being being openly punishable to embraced. No one is being made queer, we were here all along and literally silenced. Care to guess when societies attitudes changed and stopped actively punishing left handed people? Bet that felt pretty confrontational.
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    Corporate pride is broadly welcome because it raises visibility and awareness, not least of all for LGBTQ+ employees of those participating. Hypocrisy will be called out. We will not be pushed back in the closet. Pride is about visibility and maintaining that visibility is vital for our on going civil rights and social acceptance, especially for younger people just coming to grips with their identity.
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    But will it .. will it really .. or will it just tell the viewers to play some stock SMILE animation
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    Corporations treating pride as a marketing opportunity is not new, nor is them not updating their social media images in some locations. Showing solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community during pride is one thing, treating it as a marketing opportunity or trying to have it both ways by funding regressive anti-LGBTQ domestic politicians does not go unnoticed. At the end of the day, while corporate support is broadly welcome by the wider LGBTQ+ community, It's not pride because BRAND put's a rainbow on their logo, and any doing so can expect to be held to their statements supporting LGBTQ + rights and identities. There is a growing expectation that flying the flag in support must also come with meaningful action and support the rest of the year too.
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