Sparkle Bunny

Report it and ask a mod to split it off into a new thread called '27li for a bed?!?! In 2022?!?' or some such thing. (I own a 27li gacha bed which I cannot, admittedly, bring myself to use and should probably just sell. I also have a 2li bed by Maya's which looks nice enough and is very useful for 512 parcels.)

This is a significant enough bug to file a JIRA, imo, rather than just hoping it gets picked up here.

Sometimes people lie. I suppose you could AR them for lying, but generally LL don't do anything about residents lying to other residents unless there's money involved; and to be honest I'm not sure they'd interfere even then. If she's not trying to RP with anyone other than the OP then I can't see a problem. If they go ahead and ban them both, then yes, they're being unreasonable; but you wouldn't want to be gifting traffic numbers to unreasonable people and hanging out in their spaces anyway, right?

I'm thinking this maybe doesn't go any deeper than the next Linden Home theme being AIRSHIPS </rampant speculation>

Combat sims are, as a rule, privately owned and not on Mainland. This means the sim owner can ban you for any reason (or none) and there's nothing you can do about it. Arguing the toss about the ToS is only going to make them dig their heels in more.

oh no. oh no. I didn't realise it was Swordfish they'd given away. That was my local beach the summer I spent in Thatch Lea. You used to be able to rez on the beach itself, not just the boat rez zone, and the beach was twice the size. But that whole area was one of those coastal Vic neighbourhoods which get gobbled up by alt armies, so I can see why the Lindens thought it would be ok. I can't find a rez area at the BBB, which is weird... it must be there, right?

I take the view that the Lindens built the roads for people to travel along, whether on foot or by pod or in their own vehicle, and that if you've chosen to buy or rent a roadside parcel you've done so either because you want passing traffic (you're a shop, or an art exhibit, or a GTFO hub) or because you're a road user yourself (and therefore know that lag exists and crashes happen). So I don't stray from roads when I'm exploring. If you want to play stupid games with zero-second orbs away from public thoroughfares, knock yourself out. This thread is about people who are using Linden-provided tools to prevent people from using Linden-provided builds as intended. Ideally there would be some kind of questionaire for new Premium signups like there used to be for mesh upload, so that you couldn't buy land without demonstrating a basic understanding of things like setting build permissions, keeping sounds within your parcel boundaries, what encroachment is, what roads are for and so on. But nobody's going to put any roadblocks up to collecting people's money, so Mainland continues to be what it is.

I don't get 'shipping container' either, unless you're using the metal cladding. With the wood or concrete, it's just upscale contemporary. The kind of place architects design for themselves because nobody else wants to live in a house with a flat roof, at least not in countries where it rains.

Can we just be clear, here, that nobody has ever advised an introvert that living on a roadside and putting up banlines and/or zero-second orbs is a better solution to their aversion to being disturbed than hanging out 3500m above ground? And that even if they had, said introvert would figure out very quickly that they were being trolled? Sometimes people use the word 'introvert' when they're actually talking about misanthropists. Misanthropists absolutely want nobody on their property, ever. They want nobody on the road driving past it, or the waterway sailing past. They want nobody on their sim. Damaging their relationships with their neighbours just brings them one step closer to the day the neighbours abandon their unsaleable land and leave it beautifully empty. And don't even try talking to them about 'the community they have chosen to live in'. Those are just the suckers they haven't succeeded in driving out yet.

I always go through Portal Park 2, so have not encountered creepy dude. I have noticed more 'ghost' crystals than formerly, and, yeah, my entirely unscientific opinion is that it's down to them getting hoovered up by speed-enhanced avs faster than the server can keep track of them. It happened a lot in the old Realms. I would also not be surprised if the portal shutdowns were the next stage in discouraging people from playing the Realms at all. If I run into that message, I only persevere about half the time; the other 50%, I just go off and do something else, which I'm sure is the intention. They're weaning us off. Maybe creepy dude is part of this endeavour

Mine too. Maybe open-plan Vics as well, though I'd settle for them adding doors and cornices to the content pack. Most people are assuming Rouge to be the Shareta Osumai update, right? Open plan, tatami flooring, mezzanines. I imagine the exteriors will be more modern and minimal; subtler, more neutral colours but hanging on to the traditional roof shapes. Landscaping with lots of ponds and pretty little bridges. I am hoping for seasonal changes, even if it's only trees switching colours like the Fantasseria crystals, because seasonality is such a central part of Japanese culture it would seem wrong to plonk those homes in an eternal summer.

There's this thing called 'lag'. Have you heard of it? It quite often causes issues for vehicles at sim crossings and causes them to veer off -course, or travel further than intended. This is only one of many reasons why no actual introvert would be half-witted enough to try and live on a roadside parcel when skyboxes exist. It would make about as much sense as opening a club on an island, limiting access solely to themselves, and wondering why they weren't being highlighted on the destination guide. Some people find it amusing to watch cars bouncing off invisble walls, or to teleport newbies to a home they haven't yet set, or to rez giant footballs in the middle of the road and kick them onto the surrounding parcels. They tend to take offence when these forms of entertainment are labelled as 'griefing' or 'anti-social behaviour', much like the people who rant about 'drama' in their profiles without apparently pausing to think why it might be following them around so much.

You keep telling yourself that. The end effect is the same.

I have to conclude that people who choose to live on roadside and enable banlines are just doing it to grief drivers. There is no other rational explanation.

A male avatar?

The fundamental problem, I think, is that they can't set out what the guidelines are because they haven't actually decided what they would be. It's the decisions on edge cases which are determining policy, not the other way round. The assumption is that Moles and Lindens are sensible people who will instinctively know a violation when they see it, so it somehow follows that residents will too. And if they get burned by their lack of telepathy, never mind, nothing actually got deleted, it's only their feelings that got hurt. It is entirely reasonable for a resident to assume that the fact an add-on is available on Marketplace is an indication that it's in line with the covenant. MP is a Linden-controlled space, after all. If roof profiles in Newbrooke are really that important to the governance team that's where they need to be.

Probably quite hard, but I'll leave it to others to talk about the technical issues that arise when groups have tens of thousands of members. As a resident, I wouldn't have minded landing next door to the bowling alley. I wouldn't mind landing next to someone with a tasteful roof add-on. I wouldn't love landing next door to a protest site, but rather than AR it I'd just re-roll until I got somewhere I liked better. I didn't adore being next door to someone who put a prim box on top of their houseboat to house their freebie sexbed, but hey, it was 2019 and I just had to suck it up and deal. If you'd told me then that tasteful roof add-ons under the 15m mark would end up getting returned I wouldn't have believed you. I've AR'd people for putting eleventy billion dragon eggs with hovertext on the front lawn of their chalet and floating a swimming pool in midair above their log cabin, but nobody did anything about the naked animesh dancer somebody thought fit to plop outside their Trad. (It wasn't that far from the beach, so obviously counted as in theme.) I mostly feel that Patch made a spur-of-the-moment error of judgement in returning the roof and the other exterior decor attached to it, and if we just have the patience to wait a couple of months for everyone to be distracted by the next shiny, people will have as much freedom in Newbrooke as they have with the other themes.

Void is not my favourite form of waterside, but the edges are less jarring in Newbrooke than they were in Logland. Something to do with the clean lines: (I find the Newbrooke 512's a little on the large side to furnish adequately with the prims available, but I like my location too much to go hopping again just yet.)

Yes; we urgently need links for everything interesting that Bellisserians have created, so we can visit them before they disappear.

I actually discovered lolita fashion through SL -- I was hanging out in Ferguson yesterday looking at 2009-era dresses, wondering whether I should buy one because who knows when the whole sim will end up reclaimed and auctioned off and I will never see them again. I could probably name a few dozen inworld brands from back then; it was pretty mainstream, since the clothing creation methods in use at the time lent themselves very well to puffy skirts and enormous bows. The quality is better now, obviously, but the quantity isn't there. I don't know of any active inworld lolita groups; store groups mostly have group chat disabled or are too small to have anyone chatting in them. My doll av was in a lolita meetup group some years ago, but never actually made it to any meetups before it folded (timezones & social anxiety, ugh). B@re Rose used to have parties about once a month, no idea whether that's still a thing. But yes, if you made a group, I'd join! (Or, rather, Violet would. Sparkle is more on the casual kawaii side of things.)

I suspect that because the reaction to Newbrooke was so negative they're putting a lot more effort into the next reveal and that's why Newbrooke is on the back burner for now. So much for 'very soon'. They'll probably do a low-key release when everyone is talking about the new theme, and clone new regions as they need them rather than overproducing as they did with the Chalets. I think most people would prefer them to focus on getting the next theme right, rather than tinkering around the edges of something that didn't quite work.

Go with Xeolife instead, it's basically free. There's (unofficial) cooking stuff on MP and you can insert food scripts into any copiable objects you already have.

I would have no problem buying the OP's super edgy goff stuff if it was very very cheap

You'd have more chance of reaching the owners if you contacted them inworld, I think? You might get lucky and stumble on someone who's planning to abandon when Newbrooke gets released. The worst they can do is block you.

If you'e holding out for a Shareta Osumai update, MaM has a bunch of no-copy items for L$10 each tucked away at the Shop 'n Hop: : I couldn't fit these 1li lamps into the shot