PheebyKatz

This. It actually works. You just can't dwell on it, or it takes longer.

There is that, yes. Knowing how to make everything myself, these days I could probably enjoy such a thing, but than there'd be no real fun. People make things fun, even the stupid people make things fun. If I never had to kick anyone off a sim, I'd get all flabby and bored. I think sometimes that the whole desire to be completely alone and private is in direct conflict with a person's desire to be noticed, loved, and important. If someone is completely alone, and expects others to think they're important, and respect them, I mean, why should they bother? They don't even know the person who's off alone even exists. I notice sometimes that when I wish there were people around, nobody comes around, and when I wish I had 5 minutes alone with nobody on the sim so I can work on my outfit, the place ends up full of people. There has to be a way to leverage this. Maybe people could use the twisted nature of human psychology to advantage. My SL mom had a whole region, open to the public, decorated beautifully by a master SL landscaping artist, and we invited everyone we ever met to visit the place and call it home, and never asked a thing in return. Nobody ever came around. I realize now that the whole "flinging open the gates and welcoming everyone in" thing was actually used as a strategy in war, to ward off invading armies when outnumbered and unable to defend against them. It was so perfect and good, that the opposition just knew it had to be a trap of some sort, and would avoid the place like the plague. So, maybe being super nice and loving company and wanting everyone to see your place could be just the thing to fix the problem of having people around all the time. And if it doesn't work, at least you'd be surrounded by people who like what you did with your place.

I firmly believe that if a person rents land, anywhere, they have every right to boot anyone they don't want there. I also believe that people should at least be respectful enough of the fact that they aren't the only and most important person in the world to be realistic about it. And maybe respectful of others, just in general. They don't get that the very thing they're complaining about is caused by the same attitude they themselves have, that they are the one true god and everyone else doesn't (or somehow shouldn't, for some reason) even matter. Want a private island? Rent a private island. Set it to no entry save for your group, and don't invite anyone to your group except for your sexy alt. Then you won't have to be ashamed of your fantasies. Nobody will see you acting them out. They won't even have time to cam on you before the sim ejects them. Want a cheap place to rezz your bed, and hang your wall art? Plenty around, and really cheap, but expect other users to be around. Renting on the mainland and going off about anything related to the fact that other people exist there and like to roam about on it, well, usually everyone but the one complaining sees the absurdity of that. I honestly think that LL should offer a single-user instance of SL for paid users. They can download the little sim server unit, crank it up, and chill in privacy in SL, with no fear of any other entity existing in their universe. Of course, then they'll all complain about the lack of content created by said other entities, but that's their problem.

The butthurt in this thread can be felt from outside. A couple of additions: For what it's worth, I respect that people who pay for something should have the right to enjoy it. Renting land doesn't make you special, give you higher status as a person, or anything, but it does help keep the world afloat, and that should be respected. There are also many people who pay a great deal of money (relatively speaking) every year, have their Linden homes, and also rent properties. Some of them rent many, many properties. Not everyone out wandering the mainland in search of fun is a freeloader or bum. People spend a great deal of money on high-quality vehicles, and like to enjoy them. Where should they do this? Sandboxes? The mainland makes sense. If I rent a house along a highway, and trucks zoom by at all hours, and people ride motorcycles past my house, etc., and I complain about my location, chances are I'll be told that I'm being foolish. If cars and trucks are always crashing into my house, however... Then maybe some preventive measures are in order. I see properties that are raised up off the road level like cliff faces, and still ban and send people home when they bump into the cliff face. I think that's silly. And heavy-handed. What nobody anywhere seems to realize, is that you can rez this thing called a prim, make it into a fence shape, and turn it invisible. Make it thick, and people won't pierce through it when they're going fast. It isn't an eyesore, because it's invisible. It isn't in anyone's way, because it's on the property line. I made a security unit for my friends that doesn't say or do anything. All it does is solidify the inside of the property when the owner isn't within 96 meters of it. People go to invade the house, find it's solid inside, and look for an easier home to invade. Nobody has given anyone grief over it. They just treat is as an obstacle, and avoid it. In my opinion, people who rent property and go off like volcanoes about their rights are usually suffering from feelings that they should be of a higher perceived status, that nobody is respecting them as is their due as someone who has paid for something. The use of vicious security systems, the blaze of flaming on the forums, all of it is like using a sledgehammer to swat a mosquito, and it's more than likely motivated by the desire to lash out and flex some kind of status power. People rent land on a continent full of other people. Other people appear. Suddenly they are unhappy, because they wanted privacy, to be alone in the virtual world, to relax away from it all. If I rent an apartment on Bourbon Street, and then complain about the nightclubs being loud all night, that makes me look like a fool. And yet, it happens. People do this IRL. They rent an apartment in the French Quarter, the land of all-night music and partying, then complain to the city that they have trouble sleeping, and as they are paying for something, they have the right to have their way. They are fools. It's like moving to the woods, and deciding that all those dern birds have to go, because you never get to sleep in anymore. So you sit on the roof all day with a shotgun, and all you have left to enjoy is killing birds. If you can't afford a private island, good luck having privacy. If you want to get away from it all, don't move to the burbs. If you can't have what you want, find a way to get it, or you're only wasting yourself by being tormented. Why suffer? Adapt to the environment, or adapt it to suit you. Just don't expect that renting a parcel on the mainland gives you any power over what others accept as part of life on the mainland, due to its very nature.

I scrape rooftops with my knees, and fly low enough to hit trees and stuff. People on my home sim duck when they see me coming. Even on foot. There's even been talk of making a big flyswatter to use on me. But then I realize I'm a bit... different.

Being stubborn as a rock, I've got a landmark in my favorites that starts with a tiny rez zone right next to a parcel I'm already banned from for bumping into, and the roadway extends across what seems like a hundred regions without a single rezz zone. It's tagged, "Loooooooooong drive, NO rezz zones". It's full of places that have hair-trigger security, too. I landmarked it for when I feel like a real challenge, and need to conquer something. I've never made it all the way across. It's sure taught me a lot, though.

I dislike that roads have no shoulder, so if you go even a little bit wonky on a sim crossing you could end up bumping into a property line and end up instantly teleported home with your vehicle poofing. And of course the mini-map only shows those parcels as red after I've been banned from them. For bumping into them while driving across a sim corner. Also, people who set security orbs to give people 5 seconds to get out are just doing that to be poop heads. Even flying, I can't turn around and get out that fast. And the notification takes a second to see and that takes even more of the time up. Jerks. Still not as bad as the lady who came out of her house and harrassed me every time I showed up at the rezz zone, though.

Holy freakin' crap, I even get an Extra Delight. That's 4 in one day. \o/ Extra, Additional Delight: Someone I've known through IMs for a year or more, and only met inworld once before, actually came and visited my home sim, and I got to give her a tour of the spooky hidden places. Yayee~!

Seconding. And make it collapsible.

I know I'm sort of late to this party, but I thought of some things that not everyone has mentioned yet. Dance naked in sandboxes until you get kicked out. Fly to the topmost areas of sims and then fall back down, to see if you hit anything (misplaced prims, etc.) on the way back down. Fly up high enough to cross banlines, and then hover over the parcel, going "nyah, nyahhhhh" at the parcel owners. Most satisfying if they are home at the time. Find the one spot on a sim that is set to disallow avatars to see you, fly up to about 2000 meters, and see how long it is before someone parks right under your dot so they can cam on you. Then TP down next to them and say, "sup". Park in malls and pose like a bot for hours, to see if anyone notices. Play poltergeist by flushing your cruddy neighbor's toilet & flapping the lid up and down, turning on their fireplace, etc., from across the sim. Filling their apartment with exploding chickens is fun too, but only if the sim owner approves. Wear non-rigged mesh clothing, and act like you don't notice that it isn't moving with you. Put on 4 pairs of wings and toruses covered in repeating eye textures, turn everything full bright and add glow, then appear before newbies in the welcome areas, claiming to be the voice of the only true authority in Second Life. Then tell them not to be afraid, and give them the landmark for Freebie Galaxy. If I think of more I will add them.

Maybe they're just now coming down from all the mushrooms.

I have two Bonus Delights, making this another Triple-Delight Day. Bonus Delight 1: Being told by a customer/patron that I rock, and they like my work. It's really gratifying when people notice how much I put into what I do. Bonus Delight 2: Seeing half a dozen dots on the mini map, on a sim I used to lurk on because there was never anybody there, and noticing also that every one of those dots is on my friends list. Pretty good for a Wednesday night.

I think the People section gets too many "Let's All Diss LL" topics. Not enough people talking or asking about how to do anything, just whining about how nothing is good enough. Someone is having an issue with something, and people with over a decade of experience with SL try to help them, and they just tell everyone to naff off if they aren't going to fix it all for them magically somehow. They're playing "you can't help me, so hah!" And a forum devoted to things like how to make an awesome avatar or where to find things to do inworld isn't the place to play games like "no, YOU'RE a troll!", or "you can't help me, so hah!" In my opinion.

Delight of the Day: Pizza quesadillas with mozzarella nachos.

I had no idea you could apply environmental settings to yourself like that! That is absolutely amazing! And here I was, just finally getting used to the fact that I have permanent duck lip! @Rowan Amore: Thank you so much for showing us this, it's really awesome how much you know, and how generous you are with all of it.

All life grows from decay. If it weren't for all those frozen-in-time-reblogs of every article on Wikipedia, where would the internet get all of it's freshness? Youtube content creators have to have something to work with.

I ran out a couple months ago, and I got tired of people wiping on my frock. Not trying to rant myself, either. I just get tired of people treating the People forums like a giant Support Ticket of General Displeasure. LL has a phone number somewhere. If you want to yell at them, find their number and yell at them there. Doing it here just looks kinda, iunno, poopy.

I thought stagnation was the whole point of blogging.

I'm pretty sure an empty (all zeroes) rotation vector in a sit target is a bad idea; I always make mine at least <0,0,0.0001> or something. As for fixing your issue, the post above mine shows a valid way. Myself, I would change the first zero (the "X" slot) in my rotation vector to either 90 or 270. One will put you upside down, one will put you sitting upright. I just don't remember which at the moment, as I'm just now having my coffee. The red arrow in the editor shows the X axis. It goes through your center and faces forward. Rotating on the X axis will turn you around in a circle without changing the direction you're facing. Like a cartwheel. The green arrow goes sideways and is the Y axis (middle 0 in the rotation vector). rotating on the Y axis will tilt you forward or backward. Like a somersault. The blue is Z of course, last 0, and rotates you like a top. The rest will come to you as you play with this stuff more. For a quick fix, just do as Quistess said.

I actually made a dancer out of this one. It strikes fear into the hearts of grownups when I turn it on. This pleases me.