Scorpiiar

A trippy but chilled wrap-up to a day

The most soothing song Sunn 0))) have ever been involved with, and the most accessible thing Boris have ever done (as far as I can remember). So relaxing..

Seriously - do popcorn lovers not have this problem? I always get that thin shell stuff wedged between my gums and my teeth - drives me nuts. I can endorse this popcorn though:

Beautiful soaring sound - ignore the youtube comments, looks like it might have been used for a less than beautiful movie!

Agree with both of the above! Back when I played WoW I got to the point where I basically played one-handed a good chunk of the time using an earlier model of the Razer Naga Pro.

You don't like cats with popcorn? 😉

There's loads of indices of the best countries to live in measured a variety of ways, and the USA doesn't come out top in any of them. That isn't to say that the USA is terrible, but I'm always amazed when I hear people declare it can't possibly be better anywhere else.

Neglected this when I joined! Signed up because I was curious to know what Second Life was actually like, and now I spend my time either exploring some of the amazing places people have built, or shopping. Is it just me, or is at least part of the fun of this game being an adult and playing with really good dolls? Not sure what to say about interests; I love music, and I listen to a load of genres, so my spotify just went from Kate Bush to Portal (death metal) and then off to Blanck Mass. Not musically trained, but love the emotions of just about everything as long as it sounds like the band cares about something. Also enjoy scary movies, catty standup comedy like Dylan Moran, and documentaries. Finding I'm not meeting a lot of people apart from dudebros who hit on me (shout out to the married Australian guy who said he was just trying to have some fun - what a pickup conversation that was), but I guess I'm really just here to explore.

I'm gonna be super stressed until I know whether that egg was soft-boiled or hard.

Uh... don't do drugs, kids! 😅

I'm not totally up to speed on SL lore, but I think somewhere along the line a group of people decided that everything made by Utilizator looked too young. I went to one adult area just after starting out (fortunately in a default AV and not my new-ish Kemono alt) and I swear there was a sign ranting about banning Kemonos every ten feet.

Anyone want to name some of their faves from this year? I can't believe it's already October!

Quite like black metal, doom, post-metal, sludge, mathcore, and drone, as well as some things that I suppose are hard to categorise like The Body. I know a few power metal bands, but not many - Pathfinder's Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time and Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys are both favourites. Industrial is also fun, death metal sometimes as well.

Not what I was expecting, but I suppose it's not a problem since I'm steering clear of the adult stuff.

Been pulling my hair out trying to get this body sorted, decided I'd take a break to explore, and made some friends!

I'd be interested in the same thing! I've seen deformers to reduce butt size on at least one other body, but nothing for the Lara as far as I can tell. Considering a re-review of the clothes situation for the Slink Physique Petite - the whole itty bitty event might mean more clothes for that body? Clearly we need an itty bitty booty committee. 😄

I'm new enough that I could be doing something completely wrong here, but wanted to ask: I've got a Genus baby head, and got a Dura haircut with a pretty sharp undercut on one side of the head, pretty much like Natalie Dorner had five years ago. It wasn't until after I'd demo'd it that I realised I wasn't seeing anything apart from scalp on the shaved side. No problem, I thought - that's just the hairbase, I'll slap that on (it came with the hair), and everything will be great. Only thing is that I've added the hairbase, and nothing's happened; it's being worn, but not showing. Do some heads not support the hairbases that come with hairstyles? It doesn't look awful without it, but it could 100% look better. Real pain as well - the Genus discord is gone, the group times out when you try to chat, and the Dura group doesn't allow chats.

I'm a zillion miles away from being an expert, but one thing I do know is that you want to do is get a load of demo heads and try them all out on your body. Also, I'd say choose your head before you choose skin tones, and then demo all the appliers that are meant to make your head and body match to make sure they do. You end up running around in a cloud of 'DEMO' labels, but you end up with a body and head that match up and have the same coloring! Which head you choose is pretty much down to your preferences I think, but I like the Genus Baby, though the Genus Strong is also really nice - depends what you want your final look to be like!

Tell you what, I was standing in a body shop nude trying out sliders all of about four days ago and some kind woman spoke to me, escorted me to a sandbox and gave me a load of good advice on my very first day. Can't tell you how much I appreciated it - there's a lot to take in here! Thanks for being one of those people.

It's a shame there seems to be less support for the Slinky Physique - you can actually give it a pretty petite profile on its own, and miracle of miracles, it's smallest bum size is actually pretty small! The Slinky hourglass less so, but I can't really complain about that when it's in the name. SL avatars really have gone all out on big bums, haven't they?

Thanks for the replies everyone! I'll definitely check out the Itty Bitty event, and will also try out the demo of the Legacy Perky - it's not exactly cheap, but if I end up liking it a lot...

I'm just starting off in SL, and also just starting off in getting my head around all the options for bodies and heads - I had no idea there were so many! I want a petite avatar - not adolescent, just petite, and I've noticed a few of the big brands have petite mods for some of their bodies. I wasn't sure though - if you get (for example) a slink physique hourglass body, does the petite mod make a mess of the clothes that you'd buy for the normal physique HG? I was searching for stuff like that in here, and saw someone saying that some clothes for the Maitreya with their petite add-on didn't quite look right. Much as I'd like to have a petite AV, I also don't want an AV shape that means I can't buy any clothes!