Ayashe Ninetails

You should try asking someone without any insurance before you come to that conclusion. 😂

I've never played Roblox, so forgive my ignorance on this, but looking at it (on Youtube, Twitch, etc.), I can't for the life of me see why players would even be interested in SL in the first place. They just don't seem anything alike to me. Does Roblox have land to purchase/rent? I assume you can build homes n things. Are there clubs and bars and lounges and DJs? I know you can run a shop, but does all that function the way it does here (where customers come in, buy, can get gifts, there are store hunts, sales, major shopping events and themed faires, etc. etc.). Are there groups to join? I won't even get into the more art/design-related SL hobbies like landscape/avatar photography, machinima, interior design, or building complex in-world art installations and galleries. Can you spend 4348123 hours tweaking your avatars like I do? Can you obsess over your avie's manicure and finding the perfect guyliner? 😆 Do you build inside the platform or do you use 3D software? I've honestly only seen a few gaming sessions where people played multiplayer games built inside Roblox - like Squid Game type things, back when that was popular. So my experience there is very limited. Btw, nobody has to really answer any of these questions or anything. I'm aware it's a bit off-topic anyway, plus I could always just Google. I'm just thinking out loud - don't mind me! I just always find myself wondering why the two platforms are compared so often. And why SL would market to Roblox players at all. Roblox always seemed more Minecrafty to me, which isn't at all a bad thing - I love Minecraft, too!

PEEVE: This thread is making me hungry.

Thank you so much for sharing your story, Scylla. I'm very sorry for your loss. I agree about the inventory sorting, too. Maybe find some empty scenic sims to do that in as well. I tend to like standing around in forests, beaches, empty urban streets, or even underwater (as a mermaid - I find the swimming AO oddly relaxing) when I'm feeling blah.

HAHAHA. Oh man...yeah lots of fire and destruction, pretty much. No I think Sims generally do alright on their own if you ensure they've got some basic skills. Like, I absolutely have had a Sim or...12, fail while making the most basic of meals (eggs or whatever) and set the entire freaking kitchen on fire. Granted, this is VERY similar to what happens in real life with ME, but I don't need that level of realism in my video games!!!! 😂 A couple of skill levels in cooking and a smoke detector will prevent (almost) most of that (hopefully). Drowning I've only seen happen if you remove ladders and stairs and things, leaving Sims no way to get out of the pool. Now, don't ask me how I know this little detail or anything. No, I never once drowned my college roommate's Sim on purpose after an argument, whatever do you mean?

Ahhhhh! You look lovely! ❤️ You also work fast, damn girl LOL.

Well, my view is basically that those people on the street could be native themselves, so even if a shop owner wouldn't be offended, that doesn't necessarily mean others encountered on a daily basis won't be. But, offense is only one small part of it IMO. One really has to ask themselves why they want to wear certain items and figure out their own motivations for it. Some clothing is just *there* of course, but other garments have very deep significance. I have no motivation for wearing any of it beyond "ooo that's pretty," so I don't do it. My own personal reason for that is not wanting to insert myself into something I'm not a part of. I'll admire it, I'll compliment it, I'll ask about the history behind it if I'm browsing in a clothing or fabric shop and chatting with the owner, I'll nerd out over the design/construction process (textiles are faaab), but that's about it. If someone else wants to toss it on, that's up to them, of course.

OMG that is so pretty! Looks comfy, too.

They do the same thing the CFO does - pass off the hard work to the temporary staff and wish them the best at making heads or tails out of what on Earth is even going on in the company. Especially right before a major external audit. -Signed, Former temp 😵 No but really - assuming you really don't know (to be honest, I'm not sure if I even worked in a company that had one but I'm familiar with the structure from working in other depts): A CMO basically guides a company's advertising, branding, and marketing strategy. They do the market research, analytics, handle the PR, figure out which direction to take the brand in, etc. etc. In theory, anyway. It's the directors (or managers) on the next rung down that actually figure out how to take the CMO's creative vision and implement it in a practical way. They then filter the actual work down to the rest of their crews (like the creative design and advertising teams - depending on how the company's set up). Oh and Drayke's answer gave some detailed insight into a day in the life.

You could, but surely they won't be the only ones with an opinion on that. People milling about on the street will have their own views, as well. That's a very complex topic in general and one I generally avoid messing with. Not because I worry about gaining the wrong kind of attention when out and about (I'm a goth for crying out loud 😂), but because I have no personal attachment to traditional clothing whatsoever. For me, it's not just a matter of "would I offend someone with this?" but more "why would I even be rocking this in the first place?" That said, as someone who realllllllly wanted to take belly dance classes in NYC years ago (dang Covid, and money, and travel time, and and), and has been obsessed with it for decades, I'm super used to seeing people wearing traditional garments that fall outside of their own culture (kaftan dresses, for instance). But that's slightly different to me - there's a reason for it, these are highly-trained professional dancers who tour and perform in international venues, some are super tuned-in to a particular region's culture/music/dance style and adapt their clothing choices to suit it, and they aren't just out running errands like that. 🤣

Only because it's the most recent version of the franchise with better building tools than 3. I assume most new people would be more willing to grab 4 (as it's still getting new DLCs and thangs) than the older ones. Sims 3 I prefer solely for the open world, gardening (don't even ask me why but it fees better in 3 than in 4), and ability to drive around and see neighbors on the road, which is pretty neat. Laggy as hell after you've built out your world and populated it and added a metric ton of custom content and story progression mods, but neat!

The Sims has an entire building component as well. Really well-done. You can basically design from scratch - build the foundation by "drawing" it out on the land, set up walls, design the entire layout, pick your floors, add doors and windows, add in your furniture, add decor, customize your wallpaper and roofing, landscape, terraform, add pools, add gardens, etc. etc. There are a gatrillion different types of homes you can build between the included default content, expansion packs, and custom user-created content that's available. With a custom-built home, you can move your own "main Sim/family" in or drop it on a plot and let another NPC household live there. If you really, really like to build, you could customize every plot in the neighborhood. You can also upload entire finished homes to the Gallery for other players to use in their own games. Or if you're like me and make a mess of the entire process every time you try, just download homes from other players. 😂 In my defense, I'm more of a Sims 3 fan. Sims 4 just didn't really grab me. Here's a random speed build to give you an idea of what's possible:

It just now hit me that I never answered your question. Well, almost question. 😁 I honestly don't know. I think you could probably just observe what others do and take your cues from that. I've seen travelers roaming around in local garb before and the reactions were generally positive, but who knows if that'd be the same everywhere. I don't personally wear cultural clothing at all. I do absolutely love certain items and styles and textiles and patterns, but I generally avoid them and opt for abstract prints that have no significance (when I'm not gothing out, that is).

I just found an official response (from a Lel CSR) in their Discord Help-Lobby channel that explains the issue in more depth. @Rowan Amore, you were completely on the right track!! The Left/Right buttons on the third-party HUD are indeed the solution. Thank you! ❤️ "It's a setting in the applier when they [the eye creators] create it. If the applier doesn't ask you which eye you want to apply to, then it doesn't have that ability." And "You'd need to get 3rd party appliers. Either Omega, (Making sure to also get the Lelutka Omega applier kit from MP and installing that to the eyes), or asking the potential creator that you're going to buy from if they have their Lelutka Evolution eyes applier hud if it has left/right options." So, Catwa's third-party appliers work without needing all that, but Lel's will not - they need to be set up with Left/Right buttons in the creator's HUD itself. Mystery solved! It's fine, though. I use Catwa like...99% of the time anyway. But at least now I know how to shop if I want to do it on Lel, too.

Check my experiment posted a bit further down where I tried doing it between Madame Noir and Pumec. I posted photos. To clarify - the eye textures in the Lel HUD will apply to only one eye. However, I'm trying to use an eye from one third-party store combined with a whole different eye from another.

Yup, I'm 100% BOM except for applier eyes (usually) and the occasional HD applier makeup (which works fine on top of a BOM skin).

Ew Omega, no. BOM, bayyyybeeee! Just stick with BOM. Put on your body skin and then put on the face skin on top (just in case there's neck shading/blending).

Nah, I didn't mean videos like that (the doll experiment). I mean videos where someone turned a camera on in a clothing store or a car dealership or restaurant or wherever to record someone getting harassed by store staff or another customer. Like, "in the moment as it's happening live" type things. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of those on there and TikTok - sometimes recorded by the customer in question, or by a bystander. As for Mexico, I have noooooo idea. Mexico City looked fairly diverse in the walkaround video I was watching, but I didn't really check much outside of that.

Demo that one - it's pretty! As for advice - yeah, get off the MP, lol. I can't recommend skin shopping on there unless you're going for old gacha skins or discontinued items. It's just too clunky. Flickr is way, way better, if you don't want to shop in-world. Use "Catwa" or "HDPro" as a keyword and browse the photos, or flip over to the Group tab and see if you can find more targeted photo galleries. But honestly, I find the majority of my skins just browsing some well-known stores that sell skins in my preferred tone - Pumec, Moccino Beaute, Ives Beauty, ItGirls, Nuve, Bold & Beauty, Raonhausen, Tres Beau, etc. I grab demos from all over and try them on at home.

I think I was around - definitely not as a poster but I was likely here reading. But yeah, I'm jealous of anyone who hasn't experienced that type of thing. It. Is. Exhausting. And hell, I'm a woman. Men get it way worse than we do. Oh and btw, you don't even need to point to studies. Just point to the numerous YouTube videos where it's all caught on camera.

Yeah - I seem to remember another incident that happened with Hermès in Paris - if that's what she's talking about there. The problem with this kind of thing, and even talking about it in detail for some of us, is the stores are never going to outwardly say "yes, this is our policy, we totally did that, we'll do it again, in fact, so there!" It just doesn't work that way. The reason I believe it happened to her is because I've had it happen to me on numerous occasions. Not when trying to buy a $38,000 purse LMAO - I'm too poor for that mess. But just browsing in a lower-priced store - get followed. Browsing in a mid-range store - get followed. Browse in a higher-end store - reallllllly can't shake that sales clerk. And they don't make it obvious (well, to me it is, because I've seen it a million times) - they just start acting real slick and busy themselves folding clothes right next to you. But if you're really on your game to know to start watching - no clothes actually get folded, because if you move, they move to another display to keep up with you. It's exhausting honestly. Online shopping taking off was the best thing to ever happen in my life IMO. Looking for that article btw led me to a few others about some lawsuits against some other major designer brands - apparently their stores used code words to signal to employees to keep their eyes on black customers and got sued over it. I'm not even surprised. Strangely, I did not have that experience whatsoever when browsing in Harrods and Selfridges in London. I even tested it - reached out to poke at some Alexander McQueen shirts and the section I was in stayed empty. I assumed they were just watching on cam but honestly I did expect a whole bunch of frantic clothing folding to commence but...dead silence. 😂 No for real - that type of thing never happened to me in the UK - even when I left the city to venture out into the Midlands or stayed a month in Scotland. Speaking of Scotland, the area I was staying in was so friendly, I had cashiers and sales clerks talking my ear off while ringing up purchases. Not saying that kind of thing can't happen there, of course. I've just personally never experienced it.

Oh lordt. To that I say - Sure, Jan. Btw, the one thing I DO know about her is this incident, because it blew up when it happened. Granted, didn't happen in America, and it turned into a she said/she said so who even knows what really happened, but there are at least 20 celebrities with profiling stories (BET and some magazines have whole articles on that), so I guess wealth isn't the shield people think it is. - https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/10/210574193/why-didnt-the-store-just-let-oprah-buy-the-38-000-handbag I could've sworn that happened to another celebrity in NYC, too, but I can't find it. Forest Whitaker got frisked in a deli in NYC, but the one I'm (maybe mis)remembering involved a clothing or jewelry store or something. Yeah, you could go to the area with more expats and move around from there. Might be better to start off with a community that's full of people who have been through the moving process and can potentially assist with questions related to all that, for sure. Oh gosh yeah, if you're on a diet, avoid some of those street food videos, LOL. I could build a whole vacation itinerary on those alone. I actually watched a bunch last night after I mentioned them to you - I watched someone wander around Singapore at night in a thunderstorm, which was weirdly relaxing (empty streets for the most part and the rain sounded good). I also watched a few videos on Mexico City, Dubai's City Walk at night, Cairo, Mumbai street food, Buenos Aires, etc. All in 4k, no real talking usually - just someone taking a walk with their camera out. I love so much that these things exist - even for the smallest of travel questions like "what's good to wear in X in the summer?" - go watch someone walk around the city and you'll find out in no time, lol.

Wait, what about her? I know next to nothing about Oprah honestly. If you have it drilled down to the city/town/neighborhood you want to live in, you could probably find videos on YouTube. I've done that before with India - watched a guy with a camera eat his way through an entire neighborhood over the course of a day. 😂 Some restaurant owners were nice enough to let him into the kitchen to vlog their entire cooking process. But some videos are more general - neighborhood walks, exploring x, days out in the city, walking around x in the rain, tours through markets/bazaars, everyday life in x, etc. You can find almost anything for anywhere. When I'm really in veg-out mode, I might throw on some street food/food market videos around the world and watch people cooking and serving customers. Don't even ask - the sizzling is relaxing LOL. There are livestreams for this, too, so I can't be the only one who enjoys it.

Real talk - What does someone even DO with a smartphone? 😂 Those tiny screens make me rage so much. Mine hasn't been activated in months - I choose Discord over texting/calls, tablet for casual gaming, PC for real gaming, PC for YouTube, Twitch, social media, web browsing, literally everything. I guess if I had to be away from the desktop I'd use one more, but ... no, probably not. Those tiny screens!!!!!!!!!!!!

This would be my same concern to be honest. Especially since reading that article about how students' FAFSA data was unknowingly funneled over to Facebook via their online applications - whether they had accounts or not. Yeesh. I generally trust kids to do the right things and I do believe many do, but online privacy really is an issue.