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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    Peeve: had to dispense with the chill-out skybox at my home parcel and move stuff down to the ground yesterday — while it looked fabulous with PBR texturing and a reflection probe around it, that was a big chunk of LI being used up that could go towards more plants and sculptures where people can actually see them. 🤷 On the plus side, it'll make the house on the ground feel more homely. 🏡

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    How Does Your SL Look Today?

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    42 minutes ago, Cinnamon Mistwood said:

    I haven't been in the forums much lately because they have not brought me joy.  What does bring me joy is the fact that I went dancing in a new club and everything looked great. Black was black, latex was not reflecting blue. I assume the club put in a reflection probe. I am not sure, but I had a fun time and the music was to my taste.

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    I tend to only check out stuff on the Forums here from the daily update email I get from Second Life — I find that I can usually suss out from that which threads are going to get heated & are best avoided.

    I've been mostly decorating at home in Second Life this past week or so, when I've had the time & energy to login. In the process, I'm rediscovering a lot of alien flora and other décor that I've accumulated over the years. 🙂Just need to keep an eye on my land allowance, over half used up now so I may ditch one of the skyboxes and make more use of the ground level. (I have one skybox for personal space and another for photography and dress-up, plus an asteroid.)

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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    12 hours ago, Zrina Nebula said:

    I wanna see you wearing Reborn ☺️

    I really like how it looks on others, but when I wear it I feel like I’m a butt with legs 😫🤌 It’s too much butt 🥹

    But the hands, feet and boobs 🫶

    As I'm counting my L$ these days when making purchases, I'll only be getting Reborn if eBody do another sale at some point. 💸

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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    11 minutes ago, Zrina Nebula said:

    The Petite and PetiteX both have prominent nipples. But they don’t just stick out, they point upwards in a weird way. 

    Huh, now that you mention that, I have a vague memory of thinking something was a bit off when I demo'd the original Petite.

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    3 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

    My Reborn doesn't have prominent nipples at all nor do they shine.  Just taking a peek, mine don't shine in RL either.  😁

    I might consider Reborn at some point... I'm noticing more & more creators targeting that and not Maitreya. Mind you, I have so much clothing already, so there's no rush plus I could probably get Reborn versions of many of those via redelivery. 🤔

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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    2 minutes ago, Clem Marques said:

    Is the "Maitreya Petite" body better in that regard, or is it pretty much the same? Curious, since I've never paid attention to nipple sizes until this was mentioned.

    Been a while since I tried the demo, but from memory I think they're about the same. Might have changed with PetiteX, but at this point I've given up and learned to live with the pencil-erasers... until such time as I learn enough to be able to make my own mesh body and outfits to go with it.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    Peeve: due to needing to tighten my belt financially (again), I've initiated a downgrade from Premium Plus back to Premium. I've bumped up my Land Tier to compensate, but even so that's a lot less money.

    The extra stipend, group slots and no fees for image/sound/animation uploads were nice, but I need to put money aside from near-term and longer-term goals IRL.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    3 hours ago, Claireschen Hesten said:

    Peeve: Advertising something as a set and only describing the land impact as "Low Li" whatever that is. go to view inworld, all the items are sold individually (bit annoying not unexpected) and everything is linked as one piece in the demo display so i can't hover over the one item i'd buy and see what the Li is. Was able to spend the L$ i would have spent elsewhere.

    Oof! Yeah, that would be a red flag for me too. Thankfully, most creators are up-front with that information.

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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    3 hours ago, Zrina Nebula said:

    I own some tops that I can’t wear because of the monster nipples it gives me. I can stab someone with them lol

    This is one thing I dislike about my Maitreya Lara 5.3 and LaraX 1.1 bodies — I keep the boob-age to a minimum but the nipples are super prominent, like pencil-erasers sticking out from my chest. Yes, you can neutralise them someone with the included add-ons, but those don't have any material shine alas. 🙁(Also, as an alien, I object to having these "hoo-man" artifacts.)

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    9 hours ago, ValKalAstra said:

    How about you go and...

    *deep breaths* No. I don't want to be THAT person anymore but thank you for showing me I still had hate in me, Adobe. Good job.

    I finally extricated myself from Adobe's clutches several years ago... and was still finding leftovers on my Mac up until last year, I think. I was a Photoshop & Illustrator user for over two decades, plus various former Macromedia products like Dreamweaver & Fireworks. Creative Cloud seemed like a good deal when it was announced, but a year or so in it became clear that Adobe were doing more money-counting than product development or bug-fixing. But even that wasn't enough, so they took away the separate (and cheap) TypeKit subscription and rolled it into CC. The worst part was trying to cancel the subscription... there's a special place in Hell for whoever designed that side of things.

    Peeve: and now I'm wondering if the Affinity apps will get screwed over by new owners Canva...

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    3 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

    Hair peeve again...

    Without hair...https://gyazo.com/1888b258f4a221d3705b8df1e3aa8f7f

    With hair...https://gyazo.com/6cef76d22a15a378b94da9d0b8e0d0cb

    With hair AND the bangs included...https://gyazo.com/c3ddb155d926a2049ac72bdc9e3ca4ba

    Oh yeah, that brings back some (painful) memories, particularly of why I ended up switching exclusively to braids prior to acquiring my current SKNK Vasaran alien head. 👽

    SECOND LIFE VIEWER

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    I just checked the Feature Request section of the Second Life Feedback portal, and there's one for viewer AO that is currently at Tracked status. As for making the chat opaque, I don't see anything specific yet so it may be worth raising the idea yourself. Same goes for ideas to make the official viewer more 'user-friendly', although bear in mind that not everyone (or indeed the Lab) may agree on what exactly is 'friendly' or 'useful'.

     

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    Ban Lines - time to finally fix it?

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    Personally, I rarely use ban-lines because there are better options available — I have a security orb, but right now it's just to log visitors, thankfully it's not directly accessible from the nearest road and waterway so most of those are flyovers, which are fine with me as my sky-boxes are high up and unlikely to interfere with aircraft users — and because I find it's more work to whitelist those people I don't mind dropping in (plus I'd likely forget someone.)

    Besides, with the options available to restrict what people can see or do within or from outside my parcel, I've no problem with people crossing the air-space above my ground-level house or even walking or TP-ing in — I'll only reach for the security blacklist or parcel ban-list if someone gives me cause to.

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    PBR "Repository of help"

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    13 hours ago, Charlotte Bartlett said:

    (Not sure I get to say what you can and can't do in a thread I start - but hey I am going to give it a go - if anybody is naughty the alien probe will be coming out!)

    Ohhh, so that's why I can't find mine! 😆 👽

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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    7 hours ago, ananoelle said:

    I had a class in "Is Gor for you," today. Lets just say not for I .. 

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    As someone who isn't in Gor in Second Life but works for a radio station that broadcasts to the Gorean community, I'm glad to hear that you got to find out what Gor is about (as opposed to what people think it's about). It's definitely not to everyone's taste, and I would advise anyone who's curious about Gor (and indeed any kind of D/s role-play) to learn what they're getting themselves into, and not take the first collar that's waved at them. (Been there, done that, lesson learnt.)

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    Alternative "Community Exhibitions"

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    3 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

    No. That's not the solution. I personally would never apply and would never be accepted, nor would I be picked unilaterally.

    The Lindens do the picking, even if there are applications, and it's always one sort of group that gets picked, like a combination of 4H Club and AV Club.

    With all due respect, Prokofy... I feel that you're simultaneously demanding that Linden Lab do a better job here and stating that it'll never happen because it's all one giant fix-up? Or is the purpose of this discussion merely to restate that Linden Lab Cannot Do Anything Right and Second Life Is Doomed?

    Personally, I'm inclined to see a more practical explanation for the lack of representation from across Second Life in the current iteration (emphasis there) of the Community Exhibition space — namely, that it's currently just the one region, and the Lab want to provide exhibitors with sufficient space to showcase what they do.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    22 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

    I always thought, that the English and Welch get totally nervous if it doesn't rain at least once every week and the Scots need their rain shots at least every other day.
    :D

     

    Climate change has put paid to any kind of regularity in the weather here, or the seasons for that matter. Case in point: our 'autumn-fruiting' raspberries have had fruit since June this year. The wildlife in the neighborhood seems to be coping with the changes so far... it's us humans living in Edwardian single-wall houses who are having more problems...

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