PheebyKatz

It ain't Namin' and Shamin' if there's nothing to be ashamed of. Just like it ain't braggin' if it's the truth. Creators and vendors should follow examples like this as if they were feedback gold on how to be successful. Just my two cents.

Alwin mentioned boxing things you don't use; I do this myself and it helps a LOT. I'm a builder and I own sim decor and craploads of building stuff, and my inventory is always under 15k items. Another thing that can help a great deal is grouping things in subfolders by type or maker/vendor. This makes it easier to find things, and helps loading times. A folder with a thousand loose items in it loads slower than a folder with ten folders in it, each with a hundred items in them, at least in my experience. Getting there took a little effort, because I had to actually look at all of it and do the sorting, but once I did it that first time, it fixed everything. It's all way faster now.

I defend my honor with low-lag weaponry of the highest quality. If I know it's gonna be really laggy, and people's eyes will burn out if they see 2 seconds of naked, half-baked Pheeby, I wear my potato avi instead. I don't like traumatizing people on accident like that. When I traumatize people, I want it to be on purpose. XD

Way I see it, it's kinda the whole point. I agree. Having the option of making and/or being whatever you like, however you may think of that. And however you may personally like it. I might not make avis of my ideal fantasy partner, but I certainly don't see anything weird about people doing that. I'd think just about everyone has at least thought about it, or dabbled in it, at some point.

It just turned up on its own in my playlist, I swear. XD

I want a huge painting of Governor Linden, in a fancy frame, that turns naked when you get within a meter of it. I'd build a house to live in, just to put that in my house. Right over the fireplace mantel. Next to the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

My dream is to own an Edwardian-era children's fashion boutique. I think it would see little traffic as anything other than an oddity, because most people in SL wouldn't want to dress up as children from an Edward Gorey artbook. At least these days.

I'd probably make a rigged mesh piece bridging the shoulders/chest with the head, and make tattoo textures to go on it, but then I'm weird. I've made a lot of tattoos, but I tend to shy away from stuff like torso/neck seams. Even just lining up stockings at the hems can be ridiculously difficult for me.

I do this stuff all the time and I have no idea why it isn't showing properly for you, unless you're wearing the unmodded copy and not the rezzed, edited and re-taken copy. I'm baffled as to what could make it do that.

I say do as you will, and as a courtesy just put it in the sim description, so when people find it in search, they'll know before going that they'll be going to a sim that does the full-experience thing and doesn't make people give separate permissions for everything. That way, nobody even has anything to worry about. If I dropped by a sim at random (which I never do) and it hit me with giving it permission to do anything it wanted right off the bat, I would probably TP away on that occasion and try to find out more before going back. If I knew ahead of time that it's a themed adventure sim or similar, however, then getting the Experience prompt wouldn't even startle me. I'd be expecting it, probably. Experiences have awesome uses and make everything better when used in context. People just like to know ahead of time if the place is the kind of place they like to go to, is all. I don't even consider it Luddy that people like forests and stuff in SL, and like walking places, even along the highways. Just because someone doesn't present as a wizard doesn't mean they aren't one; some just like more "reality" in their virtual reality than others, and some like more fantasy/sci-fi/impossible-in-RL things. Me, I like it all, so bring it on.

Judging by the lack of response, either nobody knows anything new, or nobody cares. Either way, good to go. Now watch everyone tell me they would have done it differently once it's all finished. XD

I made it a Starfleet uniform, and it has all of the proper insignia for its role as security officer. It's actually a rather high-def potato avi; I just get a seam around my midriff if my texture isn't baked right, is all. Not going all tinfoil though, I know it's just SL. And yes, I already know every potato one-liner. I use them all.

I actually give away a script for silencing floors. It silences all the shoes that walk on them, too. I don't feel bad though, because it stops the hollow, wooden CLUNK every time I bump into a rock or a sidewalk curb. I can get people wanting their heels to go clickety-click, though. It does add a layer of immersion, especially in a misty, shadowed noir setting, or a long hallway in an acoustically-resonant type of building, but even the hardest shoes shouldn't make tapping noises on shag carpet, IMO. As for wings, I am never without them, they're just invisible until I start flying.

While I do realize it's true that people make what they want to look at mostly, and that people might (even unconsciously) express their ideals with their avatars as far as romantic stuff goes, I don't even want to consider the implications. If it's unconscious, it can stay that way. I play a child, a fish-monster-hybrid, an undead ghoul, a necromantically animated skeleton, a Yithian (Google it), a Starfleet science officer with bewbies, and a potato. I can't really imagine any of them as my ideal love interest, if I even had one. Even my science officer, she's just how I'd want to look myself if I was a grownup lady in space. My GF is a werewolf dolly. She gets jealous of my mermaid dolly, but I keep telling her I only carry the mermaid dolly around as part of my job, because fish-people live where I work. And I have two other dollies besides. I don't know if they have any alts. I only take them out for tea parties.

Even the "worst" posters have golden moments when they say what everyone in a thread needs to read. I don't think I have anyone on Ignore currently. If I do, they just aren't posting, or I'd notice. There are a few users I just won't interact with anymore though, even if they say something that makes my day. Only so much BS that one should have to put up with from others, especially online. When I do my best to act like a friend and be supportive of someone and all they can do is pull my pigtails and call me stupid-face, well, there was a reason I hated elementary school. Every clown has a toxic center, in my experience. It's why I've decided to start handling them with a long, pointed stick, lately. So when they pop, I get less of the ick on me, and I'm less likely to pop, myself. Edit: And yes, I realize the pointed stick might not help them much, but it sure helps me.

This thread has officially raised my Spock eyebrow now. I will be watching.

See, Rowan? People want them. Don't worry, you'll get a fair cut. Now I just need every devkit, so I can make them for everyone.

This is an awesome thread, I'm glad it came back up.