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  1. PheebyKatz
    Yeah, see, I think a lot of people would like (aside from politics and religion, because fights) to be able to post about things "out there", even just to see how others "in here" are relating to them. Especially if it's stuff that people can participate in regardless of geographical location. Like, sure, maybe the running of the bulls in Spain is completely off-topic, but things like major events that everyone can relate to, well, sometimes people in SL have their own takes on these things as well, and takes that are interesting from the standpoint of a resident of SL. But even junk like someone posts about whether they like soccer (football) or not, really. Even people who disagree about politics, religion, and Second Life sometimes find their common ground in such things sometimes, and the more people find they have in common, the less they tend to act like unfeeling automatons or worse to one another. Because maybe just a little bit of ordinary chatter and socializing might not be so harmful. Maybe. A healthy body often even includes a spleen, for that matter. The Peeve thread is one of the most popular. Everyone needs to spit up some ugh now and then. It's part of a healthy forum, I think, having at least one designated place for things "nobody else" wants to see. EDIT: And I get that football (soccer) was a bad analogy for people getting along with one another. I did say earlier I was making more coffee.
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    Peeve: Taking forever to complete a project because I have to actually make it look good, and that takes hard work sometimes. It's just a big pile of ivy, with some smaller piles of ivy, with some streamers of ivy connecting them. It's just some flops of mesh, hardly even a couple dozen triangles. But painting the damned IVY... Leaf. By. Leaf. Sucks. Making custom brushes only helps so much, because I don't want a pile of repeating patterns that look like someone used a brush. I want it to look like ivy. Sigh. *makes more coffee*
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    This one? Garden of Whimsy? I don't think HTML tags really work here, at least not in posts. You can use the Other Media tab to post images via URL, though. I usually just upload pics as attachments, but the URL option is nice. Also, Whimsy rawks. Just saying.
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    Was it the incremental progress thing, or completely overcoming the block, or both? Either way, congrats~! You'll be sure to send me a copy of the completed code, so I can proofread it for you, right? >-> <-< Totally not trying to get a free copy or anything. My only intent... is to help... >-> <-<
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    You are very welcome. I was happy when someone showed it to me, so I've always remembered it's there.
  6. PheebyKatz
    I prefer a loose, flowy stupidity. Anything too sheer and my nipples poke through. AWKwarrrrd~!
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    Yeah, but most people would rather be seen as having an off day than being stupid. I figure at least grant that much courtesy to them. Even if it's not returned, I'm still going to at least try.
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    In my humble opinion, I believe this forum would benefit from having a garbage section. It might seem like it's more to moderate, but giving people a section of the forum for when they are bored and feel like discussing off-topic things is, in my experience, a beneficial thing. I see users who are bitter about the forum being about what it's about, and wishing they had more freedom to simply talk about whatever. When there is no off-topic section on a forum, there is nowhere for any of that to go, and it bottles up, and people leak off-topic and bitter and all sorts of things all over the place, to the detriment (read, derailment) of otherwise interesting threads. When there's nowhere for this stuff to go, it leaks all over. When there's a section for it, even if that section sees little activity because nobody wants to start a topic in the "trash" forum, it does seem to lessen the amount of it in other topics. Just a suggestion. EDIT: I see an emoji. Let me clarify. Every (other) successful and healthy (yes there are healthy forums) forum I've ever participated in has had a Spam, Garbage, Off-Topic or Trash forum. General isn't usually inclusive enough, as forums tend to have an overall topic of common interest, and subtopics or subsections of related things, and so forth, and then things in a General section tend to either get a bit spammy or get derailed, as it is closest to being "off-topic". Having a dedicated section to either move derailed/mutated topics to, or to start off-main-theme topics in is a good thing, I think. Even letting people make threads about TV shows. Just saying, it's worked at other places, and people can always just point at the "off-topic" forum instead of getting upset by things veering off-topic. It works. At least I've seen it work. I myself would like it, too.
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    Being quoted in such a way is really obviously someone chippin' the shoulder at me. Peeve: People chippin' the shoulder at me, possibly for mentioning that this forum isn't supposed to be Facebutt. But, as I always say, it's okay to be different. It's even okay to be misunderstood. Nobody has to be nice to other people. It's the internet, after all. Bonus Peeve: People proving me right, over and over again, but only when it's something poopy about human nature that I was right about.
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    Here you go. In case anyone needs it. I don't know if all viewers have this, but Firestorm does, at least. Select all faces with the texture, choose Planar as the mapping option, and then tick the checkbox, "Align planar faces". The texture on the faces will then align at the same scale and rotation, etc. as the first face selected. Or was it the last face selected? I'm not logging back in just to find out, lol. Anyway, this is a useful thingy. I deliberately rotated, misaligned, etc., the texture on the leftmost of the three faces, prior to selecting the faces and ticking the box. They automatically matched. It's easy.
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    I know you already found a way around the problem, but there is a feature in the Edit window (not inworld right now so I can't find it and screencap it) that allows you to set prims to align textures automatically to match the ones around them. It auto-scales/rotates textures so they match up at the edges and everything. I had trouble finding it without help at first, but it's proven invaluable on a couple of occasions. When I find it I'll post more info, logging in (again) now to do so. It's a really useful thingy.
  12. PheebyKatz
    Your parents only told you that to stop you asking questions about cooties. Trust me, grownups lie.
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    Honestly, I think the future of education is wherever those seeking to learn can find it. As it has always been. Trying to find a place for something to have a future is like having to host weekly revival meetings to keep something alive. There is no future in that. Finding ways to spread knowledge that can't be corralled into potential dead ends (like universities, etc) is probably better. Maybe take up writing comics. At least people will always like comics.
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    This is so true. If not for the restriction I can totally see people doing that, even just to see if it had the desired results. Like ordering 50 pizzas and sending them to someone, knowing that when they can't pay for it all, they'll get banned by the pizza place. Or sending a SWAT team to crash someone's pool party. There's usually a good reason behind any restriction that's in place in any system.
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    Only little kids believe that nonsense. Big kids know better.
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    Because they're trying to harm it, and think people don't notice. Words are all most people online have to use in order to influence things, so they talk a bunch of trash about whatever they don't like, because that's how you get other people to not like things. At least that's the logic. I know that when I myself have talked trash about certain places, my intent (my fondest wish, in fact) was to see them burn. I would presume others do so for the same reasons. Whether it's justifiable or not is a different question, and we have to answer it for ourselves, I guess. I generally only talk trash about places that normalize the objectification of children, myself. Others have their own motives, probably.
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    I always just figured the boy kisses the girl and she gets his cooties on her belly button, and the baby comes out from there. Maybe try that.
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    Seconding this, I love acme.com. I use their generator for all of my inworld license plates, I just download them and clean them up a little before I upload them.
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    I had a vendor send me an IM telling me to leave a new review, as he had relisted the item to get rid of my bad review. He didn't ask me, he told me. I responded by reporting the listing, and it was removed within 5 minutes. Because f**ck that guy. I've also had vendors thank me for being honest in my reviews. Even just the other day, when I logged on to upload something. They were very pleasant. In return, for my part, I always try to offer the best service I can, even a week late, and even on a freebie. Best you can do with a review is just to be honest about the experience you've had with the product. Anything else, and they can rightfully say it's being made personal. Even if they're rude, just be honest in reviewing what your experience with the product was. In fact, especially if they're rude. Let their reactions speak for them, not you. People eventually find out who is a schytbird and who isn't. No need to get the schyt on yourself as they fly by.
  20. PheebyKatz
    Heck, it created a market for voice changing services!
  21. PheebyKatz
    I don't consider it to be so. It's nothing like Facebutt or similar platforms. Social Media, in my mind anyway, is any platform used for the express purpose of advancing oneself socially. People use social media to promote themselves and their real-world businesses, as real-world people. I would not expect anyone on this forum to start posting RL selfies and promoting their Onlyfans, for instance. Nobody here (with half a brain cell anyway) is using the forums in an attempt to further their RL status as a celebrity, or get people to visit their Patreon. Most importantly, I think, is that while a forum is, indeed, a medium through which we do tend to be social towards one another, the forum's purpose isn't necessarily socializing. It has areas for people to post that they would like to meet others and socialize, but really the socializing aspect (in the sense of hanging out and having a good time together, or promoting our respective hustles) is secondary. Even the term "social media" conjures images of people trying to become media personalities in their social lives. I don't see that happening here. Some might try, but then, that's forums for ya. Social media, to me, is media used for social networking. This forum tends towards a different theme, that of talking about Second Life and the things we do in it, and how we use it and what we like or dislike about various aspects of it. It's not as pointedly egocentric as social media. Or at least it maybe shouldn't be treated as such.
  22. PheebyKatz
    When I bake brownies, I stand in front of the oven and watch the entire process. It gives me time to think, and I never forget and let them burn that way. One of my exes, when asked if they ever just sat still and quiet, and listened, said they preferred noise and activity, because when they sat quietly and listened once, all they could hear "was the screaming". I asked what they meant, and they refused to discuss it any further. I do think SL is a good place to practice extroversion to some extent. Most of the time when I'm inworld, I'm hovering over a build, watching the dots on the mini map, all abstracted and at peace in my solitude, even if I have a few people in IMs. But, if I log on and the Opera House is full of dots, I immediately teleport down and join them. There's a slight expectation that people will attend events, even if not everyone on the sim does so, and that's enough of an excuse to get me out of my comfort zone and make me enjoy hanging out with other people. I actually enjoy it, too. And a couple of hours later I'm back in my hover spot, with a few IMs open, enjoying the relative solitude. I can live with that.
  23. PheebyKatz
    Some of my favorite people hardly ever talk to me. But when we actually talk, it's hugely satisfying, because we have things collected up to talk about. The hardest part of SL for me is being a recluse and having so many friends. Having a somewhat public image is weird for me, even having worked in entertainment IRL (a stage performance is a great place to hide, oddly enough). I see the introversion/SL connection as making perfect sense. Introverts, or better, introspective people, tend towards imagination. There's a great deal of boredom involved at first, but once the imagination is turned on, via books, etc., we learn to have an inner life. I feel terrible for people who don't have inner lives. Having this inner world inside of us, and looking for a way to bring it out into a more tangible form (though still ephemeral, at least it's more easily visible/audible), and finding others who are in the same network and who are doing similar things, we find ourselves in the weird position of being introverted loners in a community of people who share our gift of having an inner world. It can take some adjustment. I think it's worth it, though.
  24. PheebyKatz
    Yup. It's why I'm still around. Took me a minute to get into it, take me a lifetime to get out of it. XD
  25. PheebyKatz
    Many many years ago, a friend showed me Second Life. He said he had never seen or participated in anything like it, and tried very hard to get me to see what was so cool about it. He showed me the map, homed in on a dot, and we watched someone dance in a club. He seemed to have trouble finding the right words to explain to me that there was more to do than spy on people who were alone in nightclubs. I was like, okay, you can look at people without being seen, so... voyeur box. Oh, and it's probably a guy, not a girl. Big whoop. A few years later, a transgender friend of mine tried explaining to me how fantastic it was that they were able to make a living building 3D models of houses and selling them to people who wanted to live in them online. I thought to myself, how stupid, they're spending money on things that could just go poof if the servers went offline, but I said nothing. Said friend is now also a successful professional artist IRL, using what they learned while marketing their art in SL. A few years later, an artist/historian friend of mine who was into supernatural roleplay lured me into joining this sandbox/chatroom thing so we could play vampire dress-up dollies together. We went to Freebie Galaxy, where I transformed my starter avi into something more closely approximating my true self. My enthusiasm was immediately engaged, and I've never looked back. The rest is history. TL;DR: people who "got it" tried to share it with me, and I held out for years. It took someone getting me inworld for me to "get it". And not everybody that ends up inworld "gets it", either. It's not for everyone, but for the ones it's for, there's something for everyone. As for what's real to whom, reality is what you can get away with. I've had experiences that were only real for me. They were still real. Even imaginary things are real.
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