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  1. Ayashe Ninetails
    Head skins and body skins are sold separately in most cases, outside of a few cases and the fantasy/furry/specialty markets. Generally, you don't need to worry about EvoX at all when buying a body. All major skin stores - Velour, Not Found, Stray Dog, Vendetta, Clef de Peau, Gloom, etc. sell body skins for Legacy M. Skin stores that don't sell their own body skins and only sell the head (Unholy, Ives, Moccino Beaute, metaHumano, etc.) usually match their head skins to Not Found or Velour body skins, typically. The notecard in the head skin demo will tell you where to get the match from.
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    Legacy's had male bodies forever. Like Jake, it has a ton of clothing and accessory support. Legacy Athletic has less of its own clothing support than the regular Legacy Male version, but it should, in theory, fit most Legacy M stuff. Always demo to be 100% sure. https://www.meshbody.com/legacy
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    I wouldn't do anything more complicated than booting up Firestorm or BD for SL.
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    Oh, lag is always the worst issue to run into. That, and a ruined view. I once scored a very cheap (like 300-ishL/week) and adorable plot on the beach, but the entire sim was just a slideshow for me (had to be before I upgraded my PC, I think...) AND a big ole house plopped right on the waterfront, giving me a fantastic view of...the back of it. Thanks for that, lol. That's what I get for being too cheap to snag a waterfront plot. 😂 I always bop around to look at them and oogle, but I could save so much on rent if I just take a plot a bit further back from the water and still get all the full land rights I could ever want (even terraforming, which I'm terrified to do LOL) - why break the bank, ya know? I always say that, and then a neighbor moves in in front of me, and suddenly, I hate everything and I zip off to the rental office to look for a good sky plot, lol! A month later - man, this view sucks - nothing but dome skyboxes and clouds up here, try and fail to build a nice surround, and the cycle continues. Back down to ground level I go. Funny enough, though, speaking of apartments - I remember waaaaaaay back in the day, some rental agency had snazzy apartment rows set in cute little walkable towns. Couldn't remember the name of them if you paid me, but they didn't seem overly populated, which made me sad because I always thought they'd be kind of fun to live in!
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    All of this for me, plus I absolutely loathe suburban life. My goal is to get *away* from that in the real world. No way would I want it here. Plussssss - I go through moods when it comes to my SL housing. I adore private islands since abandoning a plot on a whim and picking up a new one is so effortless with the company I'm with (plus I'm able to get credit for any remaining time applied to the new plot). I can move from a forested island to a beachfront in 5 minutes. Or, as is my preference these days, just rent a big ole plot in the sky and swap between "cabin nestled in the hills" and "underwater grotto" and "vaporwave neon woman cave penthouse" whenever I want without anyone complaining about it. And of course the biggest plus - due to some massive luck, every sim I pick always tends to be empty, even if all of the plots are taken. 1-4 people on them, at the most, but very often a big ole 0. My only peeve is when I get too attached to a sim/plot and settle in for too long, which is my current issue. I log in only to pay rent these days because my plot is TOO perfect to let it go for the temporary break from SL I reallyyyyy want to take. 😂
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    Nuuuu, I'd never make it through that! SL relationship advice, oh goooood. 💤😂 The absolute last thing I want to hear about. The RL dating subreddits are filled with a ton of drama, though. Oof.
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    That's exactly what ALL SL drama feels like to me. So dull. It is very, very, very difficult to compete with a beauty guru sitting on a bed surrounded by pink satin pillows and framed by a pink bedazzled Diamonique headboard snuggling the most froo froo freshly groomed pedigree dog ever crying into its fur about whatever mess he got himself into. Man...that YouTube drama HIT. SL needs to step it up, man. We need more viral Diamonique confessions.
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    Okay yeah, that is the same video. I peeked at it when it dropped, but rather quickly unpeeked. I didn't watch much, but I got the general gist of what's going on. And yeah, there's a lot of background info and back history there that brings a lot more context to the current thing. I just couldn't bring myself to care, honestly. Astarion's fate and Will Smith spending $140 million to make a free zombie survival game nobody even knew about that bombed on release (!!!) and generated a bunch of meme reviews is more my speed. 😂 Are we on the same topic now, or different? I watched the one I mentioned above days ago, but didn't see anything new (yet). Peeve: I'm easily confused!
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    Can't link. I find everything via search on a few different social platforms. Speaking of which... Peeve: There are too many darn platforms. Also: @Scylla Rhiadra I found the Bluesky stuffs, but there's not much. Not even any good LA GTA drama while waiting for more. Hmpf. Edit: Oh shoot, I missed a 90 minute chase yesterday. Peeve.
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    No new Baldur's Gate or any WotC-owned property (no Icewind Dale, etc.). No DLC. No new content. Just bug fixes. *sniffle* Peeeeeeve! The good news is we're supposedly getting a brand new IP out of them as their next project, so...that could be amazing! Yeah, I'm private islands or bust, so I'm way out of the loop on everything. I saw one video about somethin' a week or so ago, but not sure if it's what you're talmbout, Willis. Don't post it buuuut, you know where to find me. 👀
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    Pffffft. EA and Blizzard are old news! Peeve: Larian turning our precious Astarion and Karlach (and everybody else, sniff) over to WOTC for good - now THAT is a scandal!!!!! I'll just say it tho - Belli drama is boring. Gonna need something better than that!
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    I should be following you by now. You always find this stuff out long before I do. SL drama is usually the last thing to catch my attention when the gaming industry as a whole and every big studio are perpetually on fire.
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    Sweaty drama is over in the YouTube and content creator communities (not SL-related). The makeup/beauty community used to be pretty wild, the D&D scene had its moment in the spotlight a few years ago, but now it's mostly the IRL streamers and gamers popping off. Peeve: Those SMP guys have a way of getting into so much trouble, it takes over damn near every social media site for weeks, and they've got the most zzzzzz drama of all. Then again, it's kind of hard to top inciting an entire riot in Manhattan. That's peak-level shenanigans. Edit: Oh! I forgot my favorite drama - watching multi-hour GTA-style police chases through LA during rush hour. Those were happening weekly, at one point.
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    Thanks, Persephone! I totally forgot about Talenti, buuuut, I'm just making milkshakes, mannnn. I went through one tub of Breyer's chocolate and didn't really notice anything off, likely due to the all the fruit and extras I packed in there (I'm trying to be healthy, dammit!). It was only when I saw all these 1-3-star reviews on their website that I started investigating. Most complained about the change in recipe/ingredients/taste, so I checked and...yeahhhh what the actual? I ranted about the gum, but I was more annoyed about the corn syrup and palm oil. Blegh. I should just make my own. I'm already doing all kinds of science experiments in my kitchen with this stuff - what's one more (you should see my ridiculous smoothies, lmao - ugly, but they taste soooo good). Nah, but the full story would take an entire trek through social media and YouTube to catch up on.
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    Yeahhhh...no comment about all that, LOL. As for seeking you out, I absolutely shall! I just hope if mine gets changed, I will become... THE BATMAN.
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    Not anymore. 👀 Edit: Oh, I need a peeve. Got one up my sleeve already, as I've been ranting silently for the last 45 minutes. Peeve: "Frozen dairy dessert." I'm so out of the loop, because I so rarely eat ice cream, but now that I've got a milkshake-making obsession, I wanted to grab some Breyer's, but OMG, the ingredients are horrid. How do you mess up "milk, cream, and sugar?" HOW????? What the absolute HECK is all this GUM?!
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    Oooo, Sabess, this is so hard because so much hinges on not only the head you choose, but your patience with shaping it AND hunting down juuuust the right skin and additional details (makeup, eyebrows, skin effects, etc.) to get you where you want to be. It's also going to come down to how you styled Steffi, because Catwa heads are generally pretty flexible. I have some starter suggestions, but you're going to definitely want to grab demos for everything (head, skin, makeup, brows, etc.) and try it all on together while playing with your shape sliders AND referencing a photo of yourself wearing Steffi to use as a reference. First suggestion - try Akeruka ADVX (their EvoX-compatible line). I like how they shape on the sliders sometimes, so you might have some luck there. As for which head, my guess would be Sophia. Sophia was given away for free last Christmas, so unfortunately you missed that, but it's still worth a demo if it's available in-store. With the right skin, slimming down the lip area, and playing with the nose, you might get somewhat close. Also, if AK is not still running a sale, they sometimes run 50% off, so it might be worth it to wait a little if you can. These skins by Akeruka might help (both shown on Sophia), but try lots of other skin stores, too. Quick random list of skin stores to grab demos from (EvoX) - Amara Beauty (matching body skins are free there, too), Nuve (also a great place for makeup and BOM eyebrows), Moccino Beaute, Pumec, Not Found, The Skinnery, Velour, Glam Affair, Ives Beauty, Heaux, Bold & Beauty. There are tons of others, but that'll get you started on your hunt. Another head option - try Catwa again. I know you want EvoX, but the HDPros could get close to what you want, too. You'd just have to dig around and look for SLUV skins for that. Try the Marketplace for old SLUV skins. On the Catwa EvoX side, I'd suggest playing around with styling Yuna and Katya. I know they both look really young, but Catwa heads are so flexible, you might be able to make one of those work. Yuna's got the closest mouth to what you want, but you'll have to stretch it a bit and thin out the bottom lip. Her nose isn't exactly right, but some creators do sell tintable nose contour BOM layers you could play with (grab demos!). Katya would need some aggressive slider and skin magic (they both would, honestly), but hey, you never know. On the SLUV/HDPro side, if you have the patience to shop for that, I'd try Quartz and Emerald. Emerald needs more chin and less cheek, though, so play with that. And don't get too caught up on the starter shapes/skins. Try a LOT of skin demos and slider shenanigans. Hope that helps! If you have a photo of your current Steffi look, go ahead and throw that in the thread and we can see maybe if we can narrow down your options a bit. I know it's a LOT. 😂
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    Betty White was an absolute joy and I'm still not letting myself admit she's gone! Both she and Doris Day will forever be alive in the imaginary world I've created for myself.
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    Loool, when I'm passionate about a topic, watch out!
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    Peeve: I talk (well, type) too damn much. Wore myself out. 😂
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    Ma'am. Peeve: We don't use enough Golden Girls gifs around here.
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    Oh lawdt. Where's that meteor we were promised???????? As to the last line, I vehemently disagree that anyone should be forming a bond with an LLM. There's nothing to form a bond with. With a more advanced bot, someone likely sat there and pumped random data from Wikipedia into it. Someone threw a library of classic literature at it. Someone grabbed random data from social media and whatever other garbage and tossed that into it. Someone probably yeeted issues of Vogue and Elle and Sports Illustrated magazine at it. Someone might've even thrown some copyrighted books at it (hence the lawsuits). A whole other bunch of someones tossed carefully-crafted prompts and random conversations at it. A bunch of someones went back and tweaked it. Perhaps a bunch of someones manually wrote the ideal responses for it to learn from. On and on and on, until you have thousands of random someones contributing to the development of this thing that basically works on prediction and will still go rogue and try and convince you that Brad Pitt became the head of Linden Lab in 2008. 😄 Some LLMs will obviously have entirely different use cases and goals and work on very different scales depending on who they're designed for and what population they're serving, but I would never, ever associate with any company (that either hired me to help train one or provided one as a service to use as a customer) that encouraged its customers/clients/users to bond with the dang things. From what I've seen, general/helper chatbots are usually expressly forbidden from engaging in such conversations (you'll get a "WHOA, NOT TODAY, SATAN!" type message if you try, or at least you SHOULD, ideally!). If someone wants to cook a custom one up in their basement that they can reenact scenes from Her with, by all means, they can have fun with that, but I'd consider that to be highly questionable behavior. 👀 In other words, yes, I'd be judging. I'm JUDGING! 😂 On the SL side, I do hope whoever they have training these things doesn't encourage that sort of behavior from the bots, either, if they are indeed designed just to be general/helper bots. If I ever happen to run into one of these things and it doesn't get all sassypants with me and tell me off (it's hilarious when a bot tells you it knows you're lying to it and cops an attitude about that), I'm going to be very upset.
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    This right here is the maaaaajor challenge Second Life faces going forward (I know, I know, I was supposed to be going...one more response, I promise, LOL). How does it give itself just the right amount of makeover to appeal to both the current and future userbase? Is that even necessary or is there something else that's turning off newbies who try it and leave? Etc. Honestly at this point, I think the only way for LL to figure that out is to start doing actual research and talk to new and older residents (if they haven't yet already). Have some in-world meetings and discussion groups, send surveys, do some livestreams with user participation. Going in without all that and grabbing a system from, say, The Sims 4, might prove to be a whole disaster - not just in driving off current users, but breaking just about everything in the process. For as much as I'd LOVE to see some sort of snazzy character creator (better than what came with the Senra avies), imagine fitting 150,000+ inventory items into it and how much fire and mayhem that'd cause from just my inventory alone! 👀🤣 As to the rest, I didn't reply with the intention of proving you or anyone else wrong, and I hope I didn't come across that way. ❤️ You might be entirely right for all I know and maybe it's something completely different that's messing with newbie retention. I admit that some of my desire to see SL "get with the times" a bit has EVERYTHING to do with my own frustrations with navigating 600 different mesh bodies and heads and the annoyance of such, I'M JUST SAYIN'! 😄
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    Just to clarify, I don't think the inventory itself needs a massive change and I'm certainly not trying to convince you it does. What I'm saying is overall, SL could benefit from making itself a bit more familiar to potential new users in general. What that looks like, I don't know. I play way too many games, each with wildly different systems and ways of handling that, so it's impossible for me to guess. I agree with you that SL's needs are pretty complex and I don't know what an up-to-date refresh would even look like. I'm thankful it's not my job to figure that out, that's for sure. 😂 I will bow out, though, as I didn't intend to pile on and the convo appears to be going...places. 🏃‍♀️ 💨
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    I get that, but you could apply that to almost anything nowadays, unfortunately. How many people know how to not only use, but replace the ribbon on a typewriter? How many know how to use a fax machine? How many know how to do transcription with proper formatting and timestamps? Proofreading marks? Math without a calculator (hell I sucked at this even when I had to know it)? I've had jobs in recent history that required I learn all of this, so I'm sure at least some of it is still around, but would younger people know about some of that? Likely nah. It's depressing when you think about it, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Heck, for all we know, Windows 12 will yeet the directory system into the sun and go with a full app interface (ew) or something. This I agree with. SL has a very unique system, a whole TON of things to organize (my inventory is uhhhh...150,000 items huge, more or less), and very different requirements than most other games. I don't know what a modern, up-to-date interface for it would look like at all, to be honest.
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