[What are you listening to?]

Someone's avatar with an explosive diarrhea gesture in a loop at the Arapaima Safe Hub.

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night!

[Do You Think the Original Barbie Looks Like Lucy?]

Yeah, she kinda does. I also want magic color changing dishes. If they'll change outside the dishwasher.

[SL performance on MacBook pro]

25 minutes ago, cheesecurd said:

"crappy-pants pc peripherals" this i will never understand, ill leave it at that. Apple magic keyboards are just regular bluetooth keyboards with an aluminum body, theyre island chiclets and really not the greatest typing experience, though that is more down to personal preference than anything.

Apple's peripherals are just the worst.There's no reason I'm aware of that anyone can't use a Magic Mouse or Keyboard on a PC. I just don't know anyone who has ever wanted to.

[Do you use voice chat?]

Yes, I like to listen to wierdos.

[8k Gaming Computers]

Documentation, the RL equivalent of profiles. 

[8k Gaming Computers]

Firestorm's limit on the texture buffer is variable and depends on your card's total video memory. 

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

2 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:

If it is any consolation I suspect it mostly just works on other guys RP'ing girls. 😏

Hopefully a guy RP'ing a girl who offers a helpful "you know I'm a guy, right" about halfway through. 

[Recommended System Requirements 2019]

2 hours ago, Israel Schnute said:

I don't think it really takes that much to do SL.  I would like to have a  super-high-end rig one day, but what does it do, let me see for miles instead of just the sim?

More speed with higher settings. Yes, practically any GPU made in the last decade can run SL, and let you turn on all the eye candy for snapshots. What they won't do is provide a very enjoyable experience if you want to do much more. Even framing the snapshot can be a hassle. Want to run shadows all the time? Attend events with a bunch of people and not watch a slide show? Film a video? You'll probably want something more powerful that can deliver faster frame rates consistently. For a whole lot of SL activities, a fairly modest system that can deliver ~15fps with some of the graphics settings dialed down will do just fine, though.

[Video cards to add to a Macbook? AMD works?]

Yes.

[Video cards to add to a Macbook? AMD works?]

You need to get AMD to use with a Mac. Apple has been using AMD exclusively for several years and doesn’t support Nvidia very well. 

[Second Life in the News]

31 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I was thinking..isn’t suing your ex-employer in an incredibly public fashion, a “career-limiting move”?

Maybe not if you plan on changing your career path.

[Second Life in the News]

40 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Yes. Because italic type was first introduced in Venice at the beginning of the 16th century.

(Where's @Orwar when we need him?)

I learned that in a video about Comic Sans, the best font in the universe.

[8k Gaming Computers]

I got around to watching Linus's video. That 20fps on Tomb Raider was with $15,000 of Nvidia Quadros driving the display. I get the feeling it'll be a while before I make the jump to 8K gaming.

[8k Gaming Computers]

I'll bet the viewer's 512MB texture memory limit really helps there.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

2 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It's all about positive avatar body image!

And the ones who hit on the noobs as they come through the starting gate seem to have no hang ups in that regard.

Those guys are extra desperate with a double shot of stupid. All LZ pouncers are. Insincere d-bags who give the same line to everyone just... I hate those guys. They deserve whatever they get.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

16 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Ryan? Is that you???

 

Gotta be honest, if someone opens on my ugly '09 looking avatar with that, I'm going to think they're either desperate or stupid.

[SL vs System Requirements]

14 hours ago, cykarushb said:

I don't see Apple sticking around for much longer in the consumer computer market, they've stuck with their fairly isolated ecosystem for far too long in an age where most stuff is intercompatible without issue, and their machines don't have the specs to do anything demanding anymore because the average person doesn't play demanding games often. The type of people buying a MacBook 5 years ago are not the same market today. They're selling mountains of MacBook airs with HD 620/630/610 but the last few MacBook Pro lines have been massive flops for anything outside of the enterprise market. 

As such, their popularity is declining. People are recognizing that "this has the same specs as [insert generic consumer tier laptop here], so why would I spend 1000$ extra?"

I'm less concerned about people deciding they don't want sexy thin MacBooks with luscious Retina displays than Apple will break OpenGL. The responses from LL I've seen here about the OpenGL depreciation sound a lot like Apple hasn't been updating OpenGL for the last ten years anyway so we're going to hope it keeps working until everyone moves to Sansar and we don't have to worry about Mac support anymore. 

[Starting SL behind an RDP connection]

I think it's because RDP uses its own display driver instead of the Nvidia driver. I don't think you're getting around that. 

[Second Life in the News]

2 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

It's that word "retaliation" that is the problem. She has blatantly admitted to filing the lawsuit just to "get back at" LL.

 

That's not what retaliation lawsuit means. It's a suit over retaliation by the employer over complaints of harassment or discrimination.

[Last Names Still No ETA]

What do they need to do except modify a little code at the registration portal? Code they already have. Last names were working for years in third party registration portals, and I suspect they would still be working today if LL hadn’t shut them down when they discovered people were still using them.

[Windows 10 all viewers stopped loading my avatar]

It’s probably not a problem with your stuff, but your inventory is jacked. 

There are some tips here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inventory_loss

and here: https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_missing_inventory

there is also a method that involves clearing your cache, logging into the beta grid, waiting for your inventory to fully load and then logging back into the main grid. Someone who knows more about this can explain it better than I can, maybe they’ll read this thread and help you with that.

[Why do people get so irrationally angry over others on their land?]

21 hours ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

You just made that up, didn't you?

What, doesn't everyone who needs to go AFK before the wife can see what they're doing in haunted yiff mansion, open their landmarks, and find one that looked like a good place to go AFK the last time they were there, three years ago, teleport there and instantly minimize the viewer? That doesn't sound totally legit?

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

2 hours ago, BloodDoll Lulu said:

There is no fix for this person. I've sent harassment tickets to LL for every alt they made to contact me. This has been happening for a LONG time. I started SL as a teen and now i'm late 20s and pretty much that entirety they've not gone away, I've blocked countless alts.  The sheer amount of alts I've blocked of theirs is more tiresome than a mmorpg grind in a free to play game.

Do it to him. Find some of the most excruciatingly unpleasant things in SL and every time he contacts you instantly teleport him straight into one. Terrible karaoke, wiredo poetry slams, furry orgies, hang around the vilest voice enables infohubs, wander aimlessly around the cornfield for hours talking nonsense about anything. Make his Second Life a living hell.

[Why do people get so irrationally angry over others on their land?]

I would have decorated your avatar while you were gone.

[What are you listening to?]