Ayashe Ninetails

Ummmm, similar ears exist, but mostly attached to a mesh head. There are some separates, though. Group gift from Aii (not sure if still available as a group gift - take a peek at their mainstore) - updated for Evo X. Separate drow ears that were available at the Christmas round of We Love Roleplay. Check in-store to see if they're still available. The above is a spinoff of these, which come with their elf head: None of those are suuuuper long, but they're longer than what's included with other heads.

I wear Andore. Their newest line is the miHD (and the MAX addon) set that was available for a mega discount for group members at one point in time. The MAX addon group discount sale for 1L just ended yesterday, but you can see if they're still available at the shop. Shopping for piercing sets for them can be a little tricky, though, as the naming conventions are easily confused with Leltuka's base ears, but Andore does sell quite a lot of things for them. Other stores do, as well. The ears come in human/human gauge, pixie/pixie gauge, and elf/elf gauge. Another con - their demos cost 1L, but you absolutely need to demo, as some of their older sets come with the ears, some of the newer ones only come with the piercings but were designed for the older L.E.X. set (which should work with miHD, but I haven't tried yet), and some are for Lel heads vs. their own. Another choice is Pumec's old mesh ears, available here as a fatpack - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PUMEC-Mesh-Ears-42-IN-1-SUPER-FATPACK/24325461 With those, you'll get mostly human and a few pixie. The con with Pumec is their earrings/piercings are "baked in," meaning you won't be able to remove/swap them. You'd swap the entire ear instead. Not terrible unless you really don't feel like color matching and positioning numerous pairs of ears. I still wear them from time to time.

LMAO, I know, no worries! It's an age-old debate from the very beginning of tiiiiime!

Oh gosh. I hate this game vs. not-a-game argument so much (nothing against you, Wulfie! Just in general), buuuuuut, perhaps I could chime in with my opinion? My embarrassingly huge Steam, GOG, Epic, Prime, Game Pass, Itch.io, MMO, NES, and C64 libraries are compelling me to ... agree with you on this. 😆 That said... Yeah, SL is very, very close to a multiplayer open-world sandbox game in some ways. Minecraft, Roblox, GMod, let's not talk about Everquest Landmark or Next as I'm still mourning that, with WAY better fashion and a much steeper learning curve - especially for content creation. There are, of course, a LOT of differences, but I can't really fault anyone for making the comparison or coming here from some other open-world sandbox and expecting some things to be similar. I would say it's NOT similar to ones like No Man's Sky or Rust or The Forest or any of those survival/base-building/exploration-focused games, but yeah, closer to the list you provided, sure. I have seen it compared to The Sims, Animal Crossing, GTA Online, EVE, and Runescape for various reasons (everything from community to roleplay to economy to life simulation), but ehhhh, I wouldn't really put it with those myself. It's its own thing, really, BUT someone calling it a game because of XYZ doesn't seem too far-fetched to me overall. More on topic, which I guess is game addictions? Uhhh, yeah you could get addicted to some aspects of SL, sure. Shopping, for one. Loads of people blow tons of cash on in-game item shops in all kinds of games. And back when they existed - casinos, for sure. Wouldn't really throw it into the "grinding and raiding 24/7 so hard I'm missing work" category, though.

Same, and that's all it really is, too. I'd say I'm surprised some find it new or unusual or somehow limiting if I thought they were arguing in good faith, buuuut I know better these days (like the carrying-on about it on Twitter, yeesh, forget all that). I have been toning down and moderating my own colorful language ever since I first learned my first swears (which is probably in the single-digits, as I grew up watching some of the foulest-mouthed individuals in comedy, lol). Can't say that around mom, she'd have a fit (I gave up that personal rule once I hit my teens, though - couldn't hold it in THAT long). Whoops, lemme not tell my sis to !!! her !!!!! !!!! into a raging !!! of !!!! !!!! (despite really, really wanting to). Okay time for school, guess I shouldn't tell my teacher to !! or get caught telling off little so-n-so she's such a !!! !!! with a side of !! !!!!. Grow up, start using the Internet - hey guys, make sure you keep the chat G/PG. Damn, well then I guess I'd better not say !!! and definitely not !!. Hey cool, got my first job, wow my boss is a real !!, but perhaps I shouldn't say that out loud cuz getting fired is a thing. On, and on, and on, and on. I learned this at like 8, and as @Rolig Loon so eloquently said, these are all the same words we've been using forever, so nothing banned on this forum is new to me. Anything perceived to be new is just the result of an atmosphere where we've come to realize that annoying everyone isn't the nicest thing to do, like chats and sites banning discussions of spoilers, for example. Spoiling is not even offensive, but it's really, really obnoxious and will get you muted or yeeted out of some places. Now, catch me outside of moderation, and I've got all kinds of interesting words... 😂

Well said! Fully agree, except there's one little thing... In many cases, they're simply borrowing words that we've been using forever and using them entirely wrong. Quite a bit of Gen Z slang is just AAVE used rather improperly. Excruciatingly improperly. Hella wack, one could say. There are entire Twitter accounts that repost Gen Z tweets that, when translated back to their origins, mean absolutely nothing. Pretty funny, honestly.😂 Many of those words are NSFW, in addition. Ah well, if only they knew what they were saying.

Back on my usual BS today. Jamming to my favorite female deep dubstep producer (not that there are too many of those around).

Of the ones I own - Ford, Alain, Quinn, Kris. Of the ones I don't own (yet?) - Gen, Connor, Yves.

LOL. I missed that. See how effective skimming posts can be.

Not to extend this bit of off-topic discussion, but I fit quite a few of those bingo categories (flat, crossdressing both directions, feminine male, long hair???) and I'm in both the straight and LGBTQ+ communities (y'all can figure that one out I'm not going to explain it), and I'm not seeing any reason whatsoever for anyone in a similar boat to panic. None of us have (nor will we ever have) full context as to why people are receiving bans, but considering Pride/LGBTQ+ was the second community LL chose to highlight and the page is still very much on their homepage, I'm seriously doubting it's simply because they were rocking Maitreya + V-Tech + an evening gown. If that's all it took, I can think of several creators and their very popular in-world shops who would be gone by now. Speaking to my fellow nonconformists and communities - don't panic just yet, mkay? We're right here on the homepage and our page is linked from it: https://secondlife.com/community/lgbtq

You aren't the only one who makes threads like that! Though you are one of the culprits... I'm just teasing, anyway. I like reading them. It just takes ages to catch up if you miss a few hours! Don't worry, Love. I still read your posts. ❤️

Given how this (and most) forum software handles blocks, I absolutely hate doing it anywhere. It's far more obnoxious having that notice on the screen reminding you every time someone you blocked posted something. Discord used to have that, too, but I think they've since toned it down. I dunno. I don't block anything there, either. Scrolling by without reading is far more efficient almost everywhere, IMO. Anything that cuts down the time it takes to catch up on some of those zillion-page threads you guys like to make is fine by me. 😂

Actually, no. About 99% of my favorite music genres aren't really club-friendly, though some of it very much could be if anyone was willing to play it, so I wouldn't have heard it there. The industrial rock could be, but many DJs stick to the classic club hits for that - same as RL DJs, for the most part. Unless I request it, it ain't happening. I've never met a musically adventurous DJ with a huge catalog in any life, though they do absolutely exist in the real world (I watch them frequently on YouTube). That tends to be more of a DJ/producer thing, though - mixing their own tracks and tracks from others on and off their label. If they exist in SL, I haven't found them yet. I'd have much better luck in SL's live music scene if there were any artists in there performing world fusion or international rap or something (are there?). Anyhoo! Outside of clubs, I have gotten a few music recommendations from friends, but nothing I really stuck with. My music preferences are all over the map, quite literally, and pretty niche overall (niche for my part of the world, anyway), even though I like a LOT of bands/artists/projects/groups. They also skew quite dark, so outside of the occasional comedy music I love so much (Marc Rebillet, Reggie Watts, Harry Mack, etc.), much of my music is an entire moooooood. Not always! I love some booty-shakin' dembow, too, but...I do be likin' it kinda dark, I'm not gonna lie. A common phrase I always say when someone recommends something to me - "what the hell is this happy ish, I need it darker!" 😆

At the risk of giving everyone way too much insight into my music playlist shenanigans... 😂

I've got some heavy hardcover "Complete Collections" I'm willing to lend to the cause. A friend with peeves is a friend in need of a friend who reads. Not my Poe. You can't have that. Lovecraft is all yours, tho.