PheebyKatz

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.

When in doubt, just give a shout. Smart people always make sure of things. ^-^

A worthy goal, and I look forward to your success with it. I might need to know more of this particular stuff in the future, myself, so it's good to know it can be done, seeing other people make it go and all. I remember my first HUD; it had a script in each of the 12 buttons. I'm so glad I learned how to do it better.

I swear, we all tried really hard to behave. ^-^;

My dad was all about me learning it, I just wasn't any good at learning that sort of thing at the time. Now I can write in 10 alphabets at speed, but yeah. I also was scared shipless of talking to people on the radio, so there was that, too. I got over my fear of communication. To his credit, my dad did give me his old computer when he got a new one for RTTY. Even back then, I fantasized about something like Second Life, and wished we had it. So in a very real way, my family's responsible for me being in SL. They made me an artistic escapist introvert and gave me a computer.

Rowan Knows!®

Delight: It's junk-food Tuesday, so frozen burritos for dinner. \o/ With nacho sauce. My stomach is angry at me already (and I haven't even gone to the store yet), but the rest of me is thrilled. UPDATE: And dark chocolate Oreos. *belches and groans*

Thank you for quoting that, Rowan, I was going to look it up later, about something unrelated. You saved me some scrolling. And on the alt thing in general, I know not everyone is this way, but I always sort of have a tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt, and treat every account I meet as its own person, even when I know they're a friend's alt. I might slip now and then, but that's usually just mentioning someone by their main's and their alt's names as one person, and only to people who also know they're both on the same typist. My reasoning is pretty simple. Art is self-expression. Self expression is art. I'm an artist. So is everyone I meet inworld, they just may or may not be aware of it, or have the same tastes or definition for art. When I read a novel, I don't sit there and remind myself that all of the characters are fictional aspects of the writer. I read the story and enjoy it for what it is. It's art. If I see a puppet show, I don't care whose hands are up the puppets. I care about how the characters interact, and the story they're telling. On a deep, fundamental level, we are all the sock puppet. We're all characters, even those of us who think otherwise. When I was little, nobody liked me because all I did was point at all the strings and tell everyone that everything on TV was fake, and turn the brightness up on the TV and look at the people dressed in black, making the chairs and people dance around in black-art puppet shows. I complained when loud explosions happened in space movies. Because space. I complained about Battlestar Galactica only using two explosion clips, and just flipping the sideways explosion so they had a third explosion. Nobody liked it when I did any of it. Now I'm big, and while I could pick apart every single thing anyone does or says anywhere, I could kinda care less; I put away my most childish things. And all of those people who hated how I was before, well, it seems to be the norm now, and they all do it. I've actually been looked down on for NOT being that person and trying to ruin the movie for others. I don't care who any of you are behind it all. I don't even care who any of you think you really are. Doesn't mean I don't care about you yourself, I just don't care if that other guy over there is you also. I want to see what you can do with it, with whatever character you've invented to be that day. I love a good story. I love a good movie. I love good acting and storytelling. Just don't play a character that likes to shove me off of tall objects when I'm working on them, and we're prolly just fine.

For what it's worth, Midnoot was very polite to me when we briefly spoke inworld. Would hang out with.

As far as I know, nobody in my family would ever do SL besides me. My dad would say it's pointless because all you need for communication across a distance is a good transceiver and set of Morse code paddles. My mom would say it's the devil. My sister would complain that the guys don't look like they have enough money to give her for nothing. My brother would diss it for not being as immersive as DMT. My daughter would probably at least try it, but when she found out not everybody wanted to play characters from Spongebob or Uncle Grandpa, she'd probably drop it and look for something else. I'm the black sheep.

This is a keen insight; places full of people aren't usually as conducive to friend-gathering in the wild as smaller gatherings are. The larger a crowd the more diffuse the focus, and crowds actually seem to have a different mentality than people in smaller packs. Now, if one identifies a smaller pack within a crowd, and becomes a part of that pack, things are easier, but most of the initial pack-bonding stuff generally doesn't happen at jam-packed events; those mostly serve to reinforce the bond already shared by the group. It's just easier to become part of a group of friendlies when they can focus better, like in smaller groupings, and at say, the smaller venues they frequent when they aren't at the big places full of people.