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    Lines that annoy you most

    in General Discussion Forum

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    Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Was the woman who told you this sporting a mesh avi?

    My li'l devil avi is mesh and was given to me by... a man!

    Honestly, I don't remember.   At the time I thought mesh meant any avi that didn't look like one of the starter ones.

    Lines that annoy you most

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    Just now, Selene Gregoire said:

    Sorry Paragon but that simply isn't true.

    That's funny - why would you believe they were lying to me?

    Or are you trying to say that I imagined the entire conversation?

     

    2 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    There is no way to tell for certain, short of meeting face to face offline.

     

    Thank you, Captain Obvious!

    Lines that annoy you most

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    1 hour ago, BelindaN said:

    Very very occasionally I get asked to voice or Skype, but it got way less when I went mesh for some reason.

    Ohh.. I may have an answer for this..

    Early when I started I was chatting with someone who "warned" me about men with woman avis.   She said that mesh is a good way to tell if someone is a "genuine" woman because men don't care about their appearance, so they don't bother spending money on mesh avis.

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    teleport down?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

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    11 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    It's an improvement though.

    Right? o.O

    From that post, it sounds more like one of the devs said "hey, I found something that could be causing it, but probably isn't.  Why don't we roll it into the logging release and see if it helps anyway?"

    Are you a good conversationalist?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Gopi Passiflora said:

    Some people say I am, but I still don't think so. I'm usually better with more people, though

    Nope, I pretty much suck at it, unless I'm with someone I really click with.

    And more people for me generally means more anxiety.    Even if I know the other participants well, the more people there are the less I have to say.

    teleport down?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Sith Soulstar said:

    Well, after a couple of hours on SL, I can now officially announce that (for me) turning up my bandwith seems to have fixed it. I usually crashed around 6 to 8 times in 3 hours time and I had none today (my teleports were crazy fast actually). 🙂

     

    I tried the same thing in Firestorm last night, and had no disconnects either.   Previously it was set at the recommended maximum, which is (IIRC) about half the highest.    My actual available bandwidth is significantly higher than the highest value that Firestorm allows. 

    Also there was a notice about rolling restarts this morning; anyone know if this is another attempted fix for this issue?

    Male Mesh avatar recommendations

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    My avi is by Alantori.   They're inexpensive and (IMHO) decent quality (skin and shape included.)   Latest model is supposed to include BoM.

    There aren't a lot of people making clothing for it though - everything I have is made for other bodies.

    How do you manage your friends list

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    My own criteria is simple: "am I likely to want to talk to this person again".  If the answer is yes, then I ask (or accept).  If not, then I don't.

    I think I ask more often than not.

    I'm still relatively new, so my friend list isn't very large (30 or so).  I think I've removed three friends,  all due to "irreconcilable differences".  I haven't had the urge to remove anyone due to non-contact or absence - again the reason being "will I want to talk to this person again."

    teleport down?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Cinos Field said:

    I would predict that it's a problem with some hardware. Presumably AMD since SL doesn't really like their stuff. Is anyone with Nvidia affected?

    As Fionalein stated, hardware shouldn't have any bearing, but to answer your question directly: I have Nvidia 1070it and it happens frequently to me, in both Firestorm and Singularity.

    Biggest pet peeve thread (profiles)

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Amina Sopwith said:

    A huge number of people really do care about that.

    Absolutely true - perhaps not on the forums, but in-world.

    1 hour ago, Amina Sopwith said:

    apparently nobody gives a monkeys about a man's voice

    Don't be too sure - in my short time here I've had three people who insisted I voice with them so that they could be sure I was a man.  One of them got quite abusive when I refused.  (Although I'm sure it's nothing compared to what women go through.)

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    Is Secondlife american culture ?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    4 hours ago, Lureo said:

    Why do I never meet people from Africa ? People from Russian rarely speak english and use translator or stay in they community. The diversity of SL is not really diverses. what is your experience with multucularity ? Are you american or native english at least ? I don't count countrie from notherm europe that are really english friendly.

     

    I'm from Canada, I speak only English.   Most of my friends are from Europe (both northern and southern).  (A couple from Asia, and a few from the americas.)  I'd say I met a good 90% of my friends in London City.

    Until this week I'd never met anyone from Africa either - but I met one on Saturday and one on Monday.

    In the past week I also met two people from Turkey, although one didn't speak any English, and Google Translate wasn't terribly helpful.

    I've met several from south american Spanish-speaking countries, most speak passable English, but two of them only speak Spanish and I use Google Translate to converse with them.

    I've found that the times I'm online dictate where the people I meet are from.   If I'm online during the (for me) morning, I meet more Europeans (and now Africans).   Evenings I meet more people from the americas.

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    Dawn of the SL Dead

    in General Discussion Forum

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    3 hours ago, Ipecac Burnham said:

    It didn't?.

     

    Yes, someone did.

     

    Or are we all so blind to what happens around us we'll refuse to acknowledge that too?.

     

    I joined in, said my part, there was no reason at all for that question other than to cause offense, and it succeed.

     

    No, it didn't - regardless of your insistence to the contrary.

    The only person refusing to acknowledge anything is you.

    Hint:  if *everyone* says you've misinterpreted something, it's likely not everybody else who's wrong.   Perhaps you might try a little introspection?

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    Conversion starters

    in Make Friends

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    On 2/12/2019 at 12:57 AM, Derekmate said:

    OK so there is a topic about lines what you hate. But what about the lines you like to read when somebody say hi to you?

    The best line that worked on me:  

    A woman came up to me and said something in spanish.  I responded "No hablo Espanol, do you speak English?".    She then said "Come with me, we will do things."

     

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