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Femininity is an expression of gender, it can be applied to any and all.

The only safe way to express femininity. Suck it up guys, this is what peek milf looks like.

This is the real problem. We're already bordering on open season targeting short avatars, women with petite breasts, anime, furries and femboys. New "tighter" rules (that the majority wont even know about till it's shoved in their face) risks creating a social dragnet where people will report first and ask questions later. These reports if acted upon are a summary death sentence for all avatars owned by that person. It's easy to to think 'this wont affect me', but with the stakes being so high pressure is on. New rules put's everyone in a 'better safe than sorry' mindset. "Is that a child avatar or is her bf crazy tall .. above my pay grade, report it so I can't get in trouble." Not everyone wants to be Jacked McBeefpack or Jane TiddyMilf, least of all the younger (20s) people SL desperately needs to join. If the rules attempt to prohibit child avatars entirely (or force venue owners to take that stance), then SL isn't safe for SL's users, this is how you get a social cascade, a run on Second Life's social bank and once the exodus starts, it wont stop.

Child avatars are not actually children in real life. WTF is all this trafficking nonsense. Why are residents as a whole getting new rules.

We need a lot more than the odd sign at a lonely welcome hub.

Zindra is half done because LL dramatically underestimated the size of the adulting population and the migration required. The initial grided regions was assumed sufficient. When it plainly wasn't, they hastily added more regions as the news slowly filtered though, demand and panic spread though the population, things inevitably got worse. The rules were incredibly vague. Some were afraid of getting reported playing dress up, did owning a sex bed count, would a different partner every night make a home a public location, what kinds of avatars could go to A land. There were specific personal use case questions from everyone affected, of which only a tiny minority raised here or via support. LL started trying to add carve outs and "clarifications" to the adult content policy to limit those who would be affected both as a way to calm fears and limit demand. This was of course ineffective as SL's social tooling wasn't up to the task (and still isn't), most users had no idea, just that sex could get you banned. The clarifications (often written up on the fly to answer a specific user question and later codified on the wiki) combined with a desire to be done created the situation we have today, where certain highly questionable activities are permitted under a strict interpretation of the rules and strip clubs don't need to be on A land. The rules acting like a giant dragnet under threat of a ban made the migration a social disaster and cemented the impression that Linden management not only refused to eat their own dog food, they utterly despised dogs in general, even the good boys. Adult land became 'better safe than sorry' with private regions a close second. Mainland has never recovered. LL seem to tacitly acknowledge its importance to platform health, while at the same time trying present a wholesome virtual world that demonstrably no one wants.

Belliseria is Purgatory. A liminal no-mans land.

Seriously, OP should do this. Firestorm support are awesome.

Oh ick .. ping @Soft Linden

This is evergreen.

Just do what all the lovense enabled performers in SL do .. leave the device buzzing to itself on your desk.

Every viewer on the grid supporting a specific thing is the best promotion. How many ran off and bought a space navigator just because SL had support for it .. and that was just viewer support.

Good idea. We will start charging for other TPV features based on how much of a need we determine people have. It would certainly help support the tireless efforts of the unpaid volunteers who make projects life Firestorm a reality.

They stated on their discord last night they they are "committed to incorporating RLVa support into the viewer", this was changed to "RLVa-alike functionallity" after I pressed privately on how they planned to accomplish that as RLVa is LGPL and thus far, their viewer does not appear to or intend to publish sources (they have been *****ly when pressed about it). I would like to see Lovnense hardware/API support in all viewers for all those who enjoy such content in SL.

"Y" - because running up to space daddy and stealing his thunder with a wet slap would be hilarious. We would get miles of print, everyone would laugh. It's on point for meme culture and raises a very resonant question begging to be answered a million different ways; "Y" are any of us doing this. it would be glorious and a solid power move. Marketing would have so much material to work with.

Yeah, you're right. They should have classes. All the newbies sat at desks, teacher can walk up and down rapping knuckles the moment anyone thinks about dating. Does anyone have an apple? What's todays lesson?

Cartoon avatars do not age. Realistic avatars age like milk. Doesn't matter how good a realistic avatar gets. Next season, it will look like this. and thats for us, used to looking at them everyday. Newbies, this is all they see..

This is where you're mistaken .. you're here to have an argument. I'm not.

All content above G rated was (is) prohibited. That, combined with the lack of social tooling made it very clear the last thing anyone should be doing was talking to anyone else, let alone *clutches pearls* roleplaying. It was barely possible to have friends, when traveling together there was no guarantee you would enter a new destination in the same instance. We all visited. We all left promising to "try it again when it's a bit more finished," and it never was, because it was. Job done and all that. The only thing LL made clear was that it wasn't for us. We're the wrong sort.

“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sheesh Sid .. I hope you understand that's not what I meant and are just being a pedantic berk. 🤗

No. Of course. No reason at all to call that "bloated drivers". But ok ...

I can wait while you get the source code, I'm sure it wont take you long to get a firm grasp of what it actually does. I have spent considerable time performance testing the viewer with actual tools. Shame LL doesn't ship your computer.

Puts on her viewer dev hat ... Unless you're in a crowd and you want to see more than imposters, then it doesn't matter how fast your compy is. Avatar processing scales linearly. 5 avatars are 5 times worse than 1 avatar. How many can you handle and still have a frame rate .. likely no more than 25. SL is single threaded, it uses one core. If it manages to burp a second core into life, well .. that second core isn't doing half the work. ... and your source of information is .. windows task manager? That chart isn't showing what you think it's showing. To get that kind of data you need development tools like tracy. Oh yes it very much does need a discrete GPU, and it will need more of one as the amount of PBR content goes up. SL doesn't use those fancy tricks. It's legacy OpenGL based, and for that Nvidia is king. It wasn't that long AMD cards were turning the world pink, still happens on some driver versions. I glad you can't see it. Look, we don't give this advice to be mean or mislead people. If you've bought a mid range laptop and are happy playing SL on it, I'm happy for you.

Most of us do .. Starting with 'omg sex' and settling down to 'comfortably near sex' and doing all the other things is a very common pipeline. We need to put the sex first on the quiet understanding that the novelty wears off sooner or later, and we can get to building train sets or whatever else we like. The stigma is self inflicted. LL wont embrace it so the topic becomes taboo. The solution is to meet that head on. Yes. We have adult content. So does the rest of the internet. Grow up.

Sexy without the potential for the sex is a waste of time, even if for most of us, sexy never ends in sex. We could have been sexy in Sansar.