Ayashe Ninetails

Rowan I'm cackling. Surely you knew I was joking around. 😂 Though to think of someone at LL having to really think seriously about some of this very niche stuff is somewhat amusing to me. Not to say diaper fetishes are entirely rare or anything, but I've seen it in SL exactly that one time that girl posted her photo in that other thread. I'm more familiar with the RL scene, and of course I'm of the mind that as long as consenting adults are involved, have at it. In SL - well, I'm just glad I don't have to investigate the reports and work it out. 🤣

Depends. Oh god. What did I just say. Anyway, from the Yakuza game series... Would these guys get banned? I dunno. https://i.gyazo.com/e4795cde8dd73a412e9c217f05e0d896.jpg I placed it as a link instead of an embed. You're welcome, lol.

That's a good idea. I could set up a new profile for SL. My default mouse config just has copy/paste on my buttons because I'm lazy like that. 😂

Oh no worries! I'm one of them, which is why I responded. SL is mostly just a shopping/avatar customization and photography simulator for me. For everything else I like to do, I go elsewhere. Totally hear you about the camera, though! How many times have I sneezed and hit something by mistake and messed up my perfect shot, LOL.

Second Life is your best bet for those particular activities - especially the level of avatar customization we have, if you're already used to our system and how it works here. You can go customization crazy in The Sims 4, too, with custom content. Other games have very, very good customization, but that's not all you'd be doing - they're usually RPGs, so you'd be leveling and fighting with whatever you created. True privacy would be either singleplayer games or renting out a private server and only inviting your friends along. Clubbing - not sure. Maybe VRChat. When most people say other places do X better, they're mostly talking about activities like small or large-scale combat, roleplaying, life simulation, farming, card/table/dice games, building, racing and driving/flying vehicles, exploration, and large-scale socializing (like guilds with hundreds to thousands of people all being able to chat together without group chat dying a sad death - either using in-game group features or Discord).

Same, honestly. I don't wear kawaii fashion much (well, maybe on my frog on occasion), but I do really like the style and feel people should be able to wear it if they want to. It's crazy popular both in SL and out.

And that's only one of so so so so many groups on there. In fact, go peek at today's SoKawaiiSundays ads. Hopefully word about the changes spreads fast in-world.

Agree, especially about Flickr. If you take a look through any of the more active fashion/photo groups there, well...if that's truly how people look in-world, they're in for a surprise. Not only that, but vendor ads and things. Just browse the promo groups and weekend sales. Welp.

Riiiight? I have issues with Genus for obvious reasons, but woooooo, they are killing it on the male heads. I may have to seriously start considering one. Have you seen the M002 Classic? OOF. Also, if you're open to wearing male non-unisex heads, really dig into Lel's offerings and check out skin stores like Unholy, for example. You can do some THINGS. Unholy Cornelius on Lelutka Wade: Unholy Lestat on Lel Connor: Edit: Another trick - you can wear female skins on male heads and male skins on female heads. Yolo. Try it!

Human? Akeruka has Pride. Lel has River and Zo. BeSpoke has Yon, Azure (elf, but I believe the ears are optional), Ryker (an older, mature face that makes for some hawt wicked male avies I'm just saying), and Marionette (technically a doll head, but can look very human). All EvoX. If you want something a bit different (and are okay with using a male head and male body, not unisex), Genus' male Baby M002 is cuuuuuuuuuute! Just mentioning it because I never see it, but it could make some very nice avatars. Not EvoX.

Do colors need modesty layers, tho. Anyhoo, I don't think anyone's particularly concerned about what colors their bras, panties, boxx0rz, bloomers, or speedos will come in. Probably a variety. Maybe even patterns! I think some are more concerned with what they're going to look like, will they break existing content, will they play nice with low/open back tops/swimwear/dresses, will they allow people to present as whatever the heck they want without feeling pushed or punished, and whether they're tight enough to cut into the underarms/hips - gawd that is SO ANNOYINGGGG!!!!

Yep! Moving things around and positioning is totally fine and very easy, but if you're going for a certain theme that's a bit off the beaten track, just the shopping aspect can take a lot fun out of it. I spent ages hunting for 80s retrowave neon furniture and decor for a paid decorating job I was hired to do, for example. I did find stuff, but it took a lot of digging to find it. I was designing an arcade/gaming lounge. Of course, I can't easily make that in Minecraft either, buuuuut...well actually I dunno, never tried. I might have to try that sometime. The good news is furniture and decor is often mod here, but the bad news is modding it WELL often requires leaving the platform and opening graphics programs, and I just don't have that kind of motivation. But yeah, gathering is so relaxing to me. I always play Minecraft in survival, but in a peaceful mode with hunger because, listen, I need my foooooood. The food/farming/cooking/baking/gardening/ranch/livestock mods are SO GOOOOOD. 😂

While SL is very pretty, visually, when I'm looking to design something, it's all about ease of customization for me. SL looks muuuuch better than the Sims 4, but I don't need to learn 3D (or even open Photoshop) to swap shapes and textures around in The Sims. Plus, I'm one of those weirdos who loves farming my own resources to build with, so games with a lot of crafting in addition to building appeal to me much more. I could go farm rocks and stones and wood in Minecraft alllllllll dayyyyy (especially once modded to add a bajillion new biomes and material types, plus foods and plants and flowers and and and). SL decorating, while I love it sometimes, generally leaves me very frustrated.

Agree with all of this. While SL is my first choice for avatar customization, it's my absolute last choice for crafting/building/decorating/landscaping. I have no desire to learn 3D to build myself a house.

Saaaaaaame! Even in pixel games, I'll sit there forever making my little pixelated face with no nose and two little squares for eyes. 😂 The Sims 4 + custom content, though? DAYS to get myself in-game, lol. And I agree - if customization/shopping and photography went away, that'd pretty much be the end of SL for me. Those are the only things I even do here anymore!

Avatar customization here is really good, but it also comes with a pretty steep learning curve that's completely non-standard and non-intuitive (buy my head and body in different stores? My head skin doesn't come with my body skin? Etc.). Other games that do it well often just have a single head/body on a single avatar that can be gripped, grabbed, twisted, molded, slid, yanked, and shaped into pretty much anything (see Dragon's Dogma II). And yeah, while there are absolutely a LOT of people who could easily spend 3+ hours in character creation, so many often hit Randomize a few times (another feature we don't have) and settle on something so they can get into the game and go. Here, you can get very stuck and very visually "broken," requiring some Googling, foruming, or searching for people in groups or Discord to help. I've seen a few people get to that point and log out in total frustration. Short version - our customization takes a lot of patience and practice. Completely ideal for people who love that sort of thing, but terrible if you just want to log in and focus on something else entirely. Senra's designed to help with that but...yeah. Edit: Oops, I believe we do have a randomize feature, but only for new residents making their Senra in the web customizer.

Bodies with male and female neck fits - CZ Slim and Anatomy. Just to note, if your head is unisex and has two versions (one female neck, one male), you can wear your male fit on any male body and your female fit on any female body. If your ideal head is not unisex, then yeah, a body with both neck fits works well. Anatomy's clothing can go very, very feminine. Unisex looks are also available, but the body seems to have landed very much in the feminine presenting arena, including lingerie. There are some basic and niche/alternative male clothing options for it, too, but the wardrobe is nowhere near the standard male bodies. Still, it's gorrrrrgeous and extremely flexible on the sliders. It also has a "soft" version for more feminine looks and a muscled version if you're having a Kario moment. CZ Slim has more male presenting clothing available and far more weekend sale stuff. It's mostly designed as a slender/thin option for guys. I haven't seen much in the way of female shoes, for example. It also has no alpha HUD, so you'll need to use layers, which is kind of a pain. I cross-dress way too much not to have an alpha HUD. Legacy and Jake have quite a lot of options, both in the masculine and feminine arena. Jake needs third-party support to wear heels, so that greatly limits shoe options as not many stores support those mods. Legacy has a high heel foot included in their newest update and some stores do fit their shoes and heels for it. Both do have a bit of muscle definition that can't really be softened toooo much, but with the right skins, it's not so bad. Maitreya, Female Legacy, and Reborn have flat options, though Maitreya 5.3 is probably the best at squeezing into male-fit clothing (lately, I've had luck with Gianni and Legacy fits, and Jake, if the butt isn't ridiculous, lol). There are also stores that carry more tomboy clothes for it - like Red Girl.

Gawd, that's so ridiculously cute, but the hair is sending me. 😂

There's a very wide range. Some anime avatars are quite adult. Take a peek at this Flickr group for anime avatars. It's listed as a non-adult group, however, I cannot guarantee it's 100% safe for work/G/PG-rated. Just take care if that matters to you.

I don't know. Profiles and partner status don't change as you swap avatars and it doesn't affect me enough to check the TOS for it. Thank you! Yeah, that's very unfortunate. Being cautious with chat is really the only way to prevent things like that from happening.

Not to speculate too deeply as I don't know the full situation, but it sounded as if Madi was saying they were indeed doing that together (it was Madi, right?). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. To @brodiac90's point, I do agree there should be some separation there. If a couple both likes roleplaying as children, then keeping their convos G/PG while in their child avatars should be totally fine. When one is in an adult avatar while the other is not, however, it seems risky to engage in adult conversations. In your own dang house in real life, whatever. Online, though - risky. No, I do not agree with whatever proactive moderation is or IM surveillance or anything like that, but we do know chats are logged (which I'm also not a fan of - don't worry, I'm with you on all of this). Just to keep things on the level and for the couple's safety, though, romantic separation during roleplay is a good idea. When both are wearing adult avatars, then do whateva. That said, if they were reported for partner status or something, that seems more of a case of mind ya business, but we know how that works out.

There's been some anime discussion over in the spinoff discussion thread about the child vs. adult photo thread. Hopefully some do chime in here, though.

I laughed so hard at this. It is rather legendary, isn't it? What you may not know is we also had a large portion of the population many years ago who found it absolutely hilarious to create female Night Elves, strip off their clothes (don't worry, they had modesty layers!), and yeet them off the tallest tree in their starting area, leaving piles and piles of dead bodies around for the newbies to log into. Real wholesome content. Absolute same and I agree. Every single thing I can do in Second Life is better done elsewhere (for efficiency's sake, if nothing else). In my case, the only thing SL does better than everything else on the market is virtual photography. Combined with our avatar customization, there's really nothing like it. Unfortunately, the number of people who are going to come to Second Life just to create avatars and photograph them is low. If SL were to rid itself of adult content entirely (which we know is impossible as nowhere's been able to do that), it would need to get itself up to date and start competing with everything else on the market on the gaming side, combat, roleplay, life simulation, building/design, social/group features, or virtual events. It'll need another hook to replace it, and good luck with that.

It might be helpful to think of nonbinary as an umbrella term. There are very different ways a person could be nonbinary, so color preferences are going to be all over the map. I'm simple. Just give me purple stuffs, cuz that's my favorite color and I don't personally associate any colors with any genders anyway. Also, pink and blue are only good when blended together in dreamy beachy pastel color stories, thank you for coming to my design TED talk. 😄

Lol. I've been working on something like her for a long time. The idea originally started as "eccentric old woman who lives in the woods and is rumored to be a witch," but given how close she looks already, I just may give in and turn her a lovely shade of green. 😂