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    I agree with everything you said, and this right here is pretty much why I wrote off VR a million years ago. I was just being cheeky making fun of the ugly equipment. To be honest, I never saw VR going anywhere in the first place, so I really don't care what it looks like. Companies have been trying to push it for years - even SEGA gave it a go in the 90s (though theirs never fully released). And yet - they still can't get over the motion sickness hurdle. I've not used it myself, and there's absolutely no chance I ever would (I can't play normal first-person games for too long even, outside of walking sims with very slow movement), but I've watched streamers play games in VR and it looks absolutely horrid. The streamer himself looks completely disoriented after a bit. And honestly? Even watching games in VR for longer than a few minutes makes me nauseous. Can't do it. All the tilting and bobbing and flashing colors - ugh. And there are a whole lot of people who have trouble playing in first-person, too, so I imagine they won't be thrilled to strap on a headset either. It's gimmicky - that's about it. I can't see widespread usage of it until tech advances far beyond where we're at now (teleport me somewhere and really let me walk around a whole new space - not just bump around a living room filled with furniture). And since *that* will never happen, I'm just wondering how long companies will pump money into this stuff - or if they'll even try to solve the physical sickness, anyway. Meh, I'd be surprised if it goes anywhere. I'm making bets with myself over how long it'll take for companies to get bored with the entire thing and move onto something else.
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    Ohhh Cocteau Twins - they were on some of my old goth compilation CDs, lol. And yeah, don't even think about the price. Even new releases coming out on vinyl are super expensive like that. And oooooo if you like Prince, you should get on the official mailing list - https://store.prince.com/ His estate goes nuts from time to time and releases things he'd probably strangle them for. Yeah I felt kinda bad buying knowing how he felt about stuff like that, buuuuuuuuut - they released a completely unheard acoustic demo recording of his and I couldn't resist owning a copy. Just him and his guitar - no studio. Just jamming out. Limited run. This is so off-topic...sooooooo about them VR boxes!!! Wait - can we get Prince hologram concerts in VR? Asking the real questions now...
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    Oh yeah, had those, too! I used to rock out with the Smurfs on vinyl. 😂 They're still around, though. I just bought a limited edition Prince vinyl a few years ago when his estate sold limited copies of one of his unreleased recordings. Because of course I did. More for collector purposes than actually using it, though. No way am I ever taking that out of the packaging. But yeah, they're still in use. Brand new releases and everything. Can still buy turntables and all that. On Amazon even.
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    Lol, they were technically before mine, too. My mom just had a collection of old ones that I used to look through like...what the heck is all this?! 🤣
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    Lol. I lived through the tail end of 8-tracks, cassettes, Walkmans, VCRs, LaserDisc, CDs, MP3s, Napster, Limewire, BitTorrent, a gabillion versions of Windows and Mac, a ton of consoles and handhelds, Teddy Ruxpin, and freakin...Furbies. Don't even get me started on the entire evolution of landline to cell phones with that entirely pointless detour through beepers/pagers. VR headsets are just taking their sweet time I guess. Living their best box-on-face life. 😂
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    Ohhh, I am not a Gianni fan at all. It's just so...muscular lol. Legacy is decent. I have my issues with it (hate the HUD and both my home and photo platform are way up in the sky, so the mesh is always glitching where the alpha cuts are). I got it for half price, though, which made it the cheapest male body at the time. Right now, if the Belleza sale is still on, that would be Jake. Jake also now comes with a mod version - if that's important to you. The male Slink body is soooo nice - love the shape. But yeah, you likely won't find new releases for it.
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    Funniest part to me is I had assumed the tech would've evolved much faster than it has. If you asked me years ago if I thought people would still be wearing face hugger VR systems in 2022, I would've said no way.
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    Gah that looks so ridiculous. Am I the only one who finds that totally ridiculous? Better! Still kinda ridiculous, though. Wake me up when they invent a portal we can jump through that will automatically teleport us into the metaverse.
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    I still can't take any of this seriously. Wake me up when we progress far beyond whatever this is.
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    Maybe grab demos of Legacy and Jake and run them (and Slink) all over the grid checking out and demoing clothing and body mods you're interested in buying (wings, paws, tails, etc. etc.). Then you can see which bodies have your desired level of support before you start buying anything. Keep in mind that you might want to add new animals to your collection along the way and check support for items you'll need for those, too (I started with a fox, but now I'm more often a deer, and I can't shake the urge to make a birb, rat, maybe a bunny...lol). I wear Legacy Male on occasion and I don't have any problems finding clothes, but I haven't gone looking for furry mods for him yet (at present, only my female avie has been furrified).
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    That looks really nice!
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    Okay finished. Was just super curious to see if I could get the head into my usual age range. I think I succeeded. For those who aren't sure if you can work with Prim - I think you probably can! Note: Yes, I'm demo fabulous! AND, I left off the smile lines. Adding those ages her up even further, but I didn't find it necessary in my case. I wanted to keep her features more subtle. I also busted out some flexi hair because why not. Shoutout to flexi hair - miss ya girl. Also, I shaped the face quite a lot. Including the eyebrow shape. This is *not* an out-of-the-box look. I started with a custom shape I made for Lel Lilly and tweaked every slider from there. If you start with Prim's included base shape - you are going to have a time. 😂 Lazy credits (head only): Izzie's: Eyebags (Eyebags, Circles, Shadows), Age Spots, Frown Lines, Forehead Lines Trend: Maleficient Lipstick Lelutka: Layered eye shadows w/tinting (HUD) & piercings & Prim head (obvy) Skin: Pumec - Luna Hair: Truth - Magenta Adding glasses for funsies (Triggered: Widow):
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    Yep! All of those photos are using the same exact head (Lelutka Prim). I grabbed a demo myself and I'm still working on putting together an older (late 20s-30s) look for it. There are some slight issues (I don't like the nose shaping and even after trying various BOM shaders and contours, I still don't like it), but I've had great success playing with various enhancers from Izzie's and Jack Spoon - wrinkles, lines, age spots, eyebags/circles, contouring, etc. I'm almost done playing with it and I'll post a photo when I'm done. She just needs some more tweaks for hair and makeup n stuffs.
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    No idea, but some did share their experiences (both positive and negative) with relocating abroad. Several discussed moving to Canada, a few of us to the UK, etc.
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    Behave, LOL.
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    Yeet will forever be my absolute favorite word. You ever seen those customizable athletic leggings Blueberry makes, with the words going down the legs? Yeah...betcha can't guess what mine say. 😂
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    Damn...that's cheap, lol. I don't even think I've ever visited a place (yet) with rentals in that range. Trinidad is probably the closest and that's...like...ehhh $500 or so to thousands upon thousands a month, depending on the region. That sounds like a great deal, though! You should go visit and check things out. Having easy access to Spanish classes is going to prove invaluable, too, as well as an expat community for support. This is so true, too. In the places where I've been, I just haven't found that same obsession with it. Sure, people want to make money. That's natural. But living out here is a whole other ballgame when it costs thousands of dollars to rent in the worst neighborhoods and for some reason, everybody's on that Audi and BMW grind (ugh they are hideous, whyyyyyy????!!!).
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    Espen is super cute! I'll second Cerberus, though, since I use that one. I have their Canis Bento Head and I absolutely adore it. Great facial expressions, too. Male version here. I use her with Maitreya, which offers a lot of flexibility for wearing skins and mods. I'm fully BOM, which I agree is way easier. And of course, finding clothing is never a problem. For skins, you've got tons of options, but I love Whisk. It looks like Whisk has also started making skins, eyes, brows, and addons for Espen, too. They might be a bit cheaper in-world. If you want/need paws, you can find some nice accessories at Apricot Paws. They work with a lot of different male and female bodies (Reborn, Kario, Slink, and Kupra included).
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    That I'm not sure of. I know my braided knot style is the absolute worst one I have in the time it takes to render and whatnot, whereas my Foxy ones - with animations - load way faster. Maybe he meant what you said - that it's all one wig with various parts made invis, but in doing so, it's like wearing 6 hairstyles at once. No idea.
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    My assumption is it's possibly hair with a style HUD? I have several hairstyles that can be changed (some even have animations included where you can toss the hair over your shoulder or brush it forward). Ponytail up, hair down. Left shoulder or right shoulder. Bangs over one eye or the other. Etc. I have one style that will lag me to absolute death and take a whole 2 minutes to show up on my head because I can change it about 6 different ways - braids here braids there no braids at all this length that length, etc. I love it but...yikes!
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    Lol, to be fair, the guy was my boyfriend's friend more than mine, and we both found the dude to be a bit of a cranky, obnoxious jerk - to put it nicely. Definitely one of those people who feels there needs to be some financial payoff to any real pursuit or else why bother (and not even remotely creative himself). I didn't take the advice to heart THAT much, though it did sort of plant the seed that yeah, I was spending a LOT of hours a day on a hobby that wasn't really going anywhere. I feel like a lot of creative people get into that mindset, though. Most artsy people I meet/know seem to struggle with that. On the flipside, I've always had positive encouragement, too. My brother is just as creative as I am and he's always been super supportive. So the writer's (and creative in general at times) block isn't really coming from a fear of wasting time or anything that doofus said. Considering it started right around the time I came back to the US, I have a fairly decent idea of what's causing it... Not only that, but I came to the realization that since absolutely everything I loved to do tends to be in the creative realm, I'm going to have to choose one or more of those things to monetize at some point. Weirdly, unlike a lot of creative people, I have no desire to "make it" as an artist/writer/musician/etc. I know many have the dream of getting paid millions to do what they love, but I hate money (apparently lol), so my plan was to finish college and just live my life out in some little tiny obscure corner of the world and write stories and do my thing and that's it. Of course, being back in the US - that's not really a thing one can do without being independently wealthy, lol. And oof, trying to work "normal" jobs was so brutal. Everyone around me so obsessed with making as much money as possible and all that. Gah, can't relate. Living my worst nightmare with all that, LOL. Dipping out of that environment and opting for freelancing saved me from having to be around all that on a daily basis, at least. Didn't fully bring my creative spark back, but it's less dire than it used to be. I've been able to channel a lot of creativity into SL, so that's progress! Ahhhh, the struggle to be basic is real. 😂
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    Walmart can be called a department store, though that's usually a more common term for a very, very large store in/near a mall - Sears, Macy's, JCPenney, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue = department stores. Walmart = that place you shop online so you don't wind up on People of Walmart. 😄 Around here, I almost never hear vendor in use unless it's 1) a street vendor or 2) a vending machine.
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    It's come up before in Lel's Discord and they did say she's intended to be an adult right out of the box, which can be further enhanced with a lot of BOM magic. If I ever get around to demoing it, I'll try to style her older and see how it holds up. Might take a whole lot of Izzie's and a little bit of luck, but we'll see!
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    I agree! I don't like wearing young-looking avatars myself, and Prim looks awful to me in adult gear that some on Flickr put her in (just no!). For humans, I try to aim for 30s+ anyway, so it wouldn't be my first choice for that (though I do like what others have managed to do with it). But yup - I think Prim could easily make some gorgeous fantasy avies. I'd love to see what kind of fairy or dryad or water nymph or something I could create with it. It's just so stinkin' cute!
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    Omg thank you! Lol, so funny you say that, too. I've always wanted to be a writer in some capacity and used to take classes all through school and college that were sure to force me to read and write papers on books, films, and plays so I could practice (gotta learn the rules to break the rules!). I might be the only person who took an entire Shakespeare class I didn't need just for fun. 😂 I have about 5 horror/dark fantasy novels-to-be of my own in various states of "what am I even doing with this story?" though. My issue has always been that I love to write stories but hate to end stories. I get deeply attached to characters and don't like having to say goodbye. So I don't - all my stories are unfinished. I'll get hundreds of pages deep in Word and just stop! I've got a sequel half-done with an unfinished original!🤣 Unfortunately, I was hit with a massive wave of writer's block and I haven't written creatively in years. I went from writing hours and hours a day to not at all. It's been brutal, honestly. I always want to tweet to Stephen King like HELP how do I break out of this?! Yeesh, that man can write a book a month. I'm so jealous! I did also get discouraged by a friend who read a little of my stuff and told me if I don't intend to publish, writing was a full waste of my time and ability. I wasn't sure I wanted to publish at the time as I don't write for an audience. I write what I want and it's often very bizarre and experimental. King, Poe, and J.G. Ballard are some of my literary idols, so you see where this is going, LOL. Creative writing has always just been a hobby, though. Thinking of publishing it all just felt wrong, somehow. Writing about others' writing seemed like a more natural fit for me. Reading totally off-the-wall bonkers books or screenplays and writing entire pieces on them - that's my jam. I guess that'd fall into reviewer/critic/script reader territory. I just never pursued it, though. I have recently considered going in a more business-writing direction. I used some (under)paid article writing gigs to try and shake the writer's block and it worked decently enough. Deadlines do tend to do that, I guess. It just didn't feel fulfilling ghostwriting blog posts for someone else. I still think about starting a monetized blog of my own, but we'll see! That's definitely a popular choice for a lot of writers who love to travel/live abroad and it sure beats freelancing. I just need to get my groove back!
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