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1 minute ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I'm from Wisconsin, where we use "Chicago screwdrivers"...

That is one weird-looking screwdriver. <_<

[If someone IMs you...]

Polite IM will usually get a response from me unless I'm busy. Rude or plain WTF messages get ignored, and repeat offences get that person blocked.

I get lots of nice compliments about my avatar, which always make me smile. Thankfully, being a) non-human, b) bigger than most folks means I don't get hit on much these days, though it happens occasionally...

[If someone IMs you...]

17 minutes ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:

Av lands right next to me in my personal space with a "Fancy taking a break?" He's naked, complete with boner. This is Zindra after all. It does, however, save me the time of checking his profile

"LOL, not going to happen. Firstly I'm straight, second I'm not up for a casual hookup right now." and I get back to working on the build.

Visitor backs off out of my personal space, thus avoiding being promptly ejected from the land. Continues to try and flirt but not so obnoxiously he's annoying and is politely but firmly rebuffed every time. Takes the hint and moves off of his own volition before he becomes annoying.

I've had a naked person show up on my land while I was there. (No boner, thankfully). Was civil and moved along, but expressed surprise that people kept ejecting him from their parcels. I suspect he was mainly out for the lulz. 🤷

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Just now, Madelaine McMasters said:

... beams aboard while the cloaking field is down and rearranges all your furniture.

WARNING! WARNING! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

😛 Rearranging the furniture on my ship would be tricky, even with a sonic screwdriver.

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Drops ship's cloaking field Greetings, carbon-based forumites. 🖖👽

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Took this a few days ago at The Pond.

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Got myself a new mesh head last week, the Vasaran alien head from SKNK, and made a custom texture for it to match up to the custom BOM skin I made for myself earlier this year.  I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

[Black Dragon alternative (photography viewer for mac)]

I've tried Alchemy Viewer in the recent past, and gotten really nice photos from it, plus good framerate. The only reason I didn't stick with it was an audio dropout issue that made it impractical for my DJ-ing and broadcasting work, plus attending music events.  However, there's a test project version in the works that should hopefully fix that. 🤞

Catznip is another option to look into, and again they're currently testing a new version, I've not tried it yet but it's on my to-do list.

General issue to be aware of with any viewer on the Mac, enabling support for Retina display (HiDPI) will impact framerate to varying degrees depending on the viewer. Oh, and you'll need to go into System Preferences > Security & Privacy and allow the viewer to launch the first time, as most aren't signed or notarised and will trip Apple's security system.

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9 hours ago, Rah Rehula said:

Here's a shot showing Rah in The Future, The Present, and The Past (2007)

Those boots look freaking awesome! Who made them?

[Fixing Field of View for better screenshots]

Thanks for the tip, Pussycat.

While I was in Preferences in Firestorm just now, I also had a play around with the transition time and smoothing. Those are probably of more interest if you're looking to do video, but it's good to know that you have those options there.

[Decade Challenge]

I joined Second Life in February 2015, so coming up for a half-decade. But enough time to go through a lot of changes!

First pic is from summer of 2015, when I was still a human avatar, rocking the standard body but with lots of customisations. The corsetry, gloves and boots from Rosal were my biggest purchase to date at the time, almost as much as a mesh body!

Second pic is from end of 2019, after I'd finished tweaking my current look to work with Bakes On Mesh.  All mesh now, Maitreya body, GA.EG head, braids from EMO-tion, ears & antennae from Stargazer Creations, skin from Lumae (now closed down, alas), spots from Tigerpaw, and make-up from Dotty's Secret.