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Coffee Pancake

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  1. 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.
  2. To put this in context, I recently spent $40 on an out of print paper back.
  3. Having your home reboot every 8 hours is about the best way to torch whatever remaining goodwill extends to "explorers".
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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).
  10. 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.
  11. I don't see how this could have gone any other way.
  12. You an me both. They would look awesome with a floofy cake dress!
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. But will it .. will it really .. or will it just tell the viewers to play some stock SMILE animation
  16. 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.
  17. If you're on wifi (especially if you're on wifi) reboot your router. Install the stock Linden viewer. https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ Start the viewer (dont login). Open Preferences. (CTRL+P) If you had it installed before, Preferences > Advanced > Clear Cache Preferences > Setup > set bandwidth as low. Press OK in Preferences. If you cleared cache, restart the viewer. On the login screen, set your login location to KARA Log in, open inventory and WAIT. Don't minimize or tab out to chrome or something .. just stare at your avatar, on KARA and wait. Seriously, be patient and do some waiting. Make a brew If this doesn't result in a complete inventory, you need to log out and file a support ticket. Explain these are the steps you took. https://lindenlab.freshdesk.com/support/home
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