Katherine Heartsong

I understand. It's the content creators and the adult platforms that supported them have been removed/banned from payment processing because VISA et al do not want to be seen as supporting the creation and dissemination of adult content. VISA doesn't care if you buy something from Lovense online, they do care if they are acting as a payment gateway for people who make or facilitate the distribution of adult content like porn such as videos, fan subscriptions, etc. My point has always been that when anyone actually looks in here and sees what can go on, that's when the flags might go up. Tips in Lindens to sex workers and for access to the harder edged stuff that is available (even virtual ones in SL) are bought through payment processors who may (may) decide they want nothing to do with that. I'm waiting and seeing. Who knows what some corporate PR/legal/C-level team will decide.

There's an option when setting land for sale to say either return objects or let them stay for the next owner. People sell land like that all the time, they'll advertise it as "nicely decorated with landscaping and house that you can keep or return". Just set it to let the objects stay.

The main PC gaming rig I use to run SL was pre-built back when finding a 3000-series nVidia card at retail was near impossible. Five years maybe now? About $2500 at the time.

On iOS the app will need to be clearly designed to explicitly ask the user for permissions to do that or it won't get past the review stage at Apple. Plus it will say exactly what type of access/data it gathers in the description on the App Store. That list of accesses is the first thing I check before downloading an app. If it gathers anything near personal (and you probably wouldn't be surprised at how much devs want access to for the simplest of apps—i.e., a shopping list app) I don't download it an find an alternative. Then again, I'm older and value as much of my privacy as I can, and never use most apps, websites, and services that everyone else seems to use without much thought. Anyone who agrees to those sort of accesses for what would be a simple SL messenger app is being foolish (and becomes the product that is being sold themselves).

We'll at least be able to buy shrubbery cheaper in the MP, I guess

That was me. While changing, it's still a very socially and legally conservative country still. For example, they still have blasphemy laws on the books (Article 298 in their national laws) for hurting another person's religious feelings.

It does, but as @Alwin Alcott pointed out, all of us are shown and should read the terms and conditions before we click agree, so that decision was the buyers choice, not LL's fault.

Agree 100%. Thankfully for everyone doing the huge HUDs (and I could name several other vendors), there are at least an equal number doing it well. Neve and ISON come to mind in the doing it well side of things.

There's vanilla adult stuff like Hotwife Hotel and clubs for every type of BDSM or D/s lifestyle you enjoy, then there's Bob and Wanda's Grand-daddy Beach Resort & Farm Experience. And while we're under the radar now, it'll take one good look at the later (made up name) establishment to cause more a stir for a company based in Singapore where there is generally and legally a far more conservative attitude towards thing like that. But again, let's wait and see. I'm not in panic mode (too old for that), just pointing out the reality of the world today and the pressures on any kind of adult content getting paid through the usual payment processors.

Love Lelutka, but once I got Lake into the shape I loved, I have never changed. Two years at least now same head. Now, if I could only find a cute little "tip of nose" cleft BoM thingy I'd be thrilled.

To prevent a "think-of-the-kids!" "oh-my-god-that's porn!" lawsuit from a pearl-clutching investor or just the general way payment processors view porn and smut in general. Cautious conservative thinking. What is permitted here goes way past mainstream in many people's minds, sadly, far beyond nudes being on Tumblr. But again, I'm not falling on either side of this. Could go either way or none at all, who can say.

Coming here to say exactly this as well. It might not happen, but to assume it won't happen as a few have suggested here is being deliberately naive to how—in numerous past instances—VISA, Mastercard, and most banks look at porn-content and decide to not permit adult business to use their platforms for payment processing or even banking. You think if they got wind of some of the content that is permitted on this platform they wouldn't have a freak out? If you do, I have a horse farm in SL to sell you Might not happen. Might. I wouldn't bet any money on either outcome. I'm with @Sammy Huntsman here and will wait patiently. It'll be an interesting thing to watch.

To address the last one, I'm pretty sure you could, just not sure how. Re: the first point. What I meant to say was this: I have one base outfit called "** Kat-01-01-2024" or something that lets me see it's the most recent "me" avatar. The only things in it are my body, head (incl. teeth), BoM skins, brow and custom body shape, BoM enhancements like freckles, moles, hair base, the rings set I always wear, etc. This is stil an outfit, per se, so it's in my outfit folder at the top. Additionally, since they are body related, I keep three hair styles (I wear one of them 90% of the time) just in my Favourites Panel to easily add/remove, so if I need to pin my hair up for a formal dress I simply remove my usual one and add the updo all through the Favourites Panel. I also keep my few favourite pieces of jewellery in the Fave Panel like a few pairs of earrings I swap between, a bracelet or two, etc again, so I can easily add or remove them. If a long sleeve blouse interferes with my usual bracelets, I can just open the Fave pane and remove the bracelet until I change into some other top. Now, I was able to create a bunch of subfolders in my Outfits folder before they removed that feature (grrrrr) to help me organize, so I have folders like Casual, Dress, Formal, Swim/Exercise, etc. In these, but in your case in your Outfits folder, I create a new Outfit folder (right click, New Outfit) and then in these I put links to the clothes I bought for one outfit. I get very specific with naming my outfits by the way, again to help me organize. In your case, make a Outfit, rename it something like "Suit-Grey-OpenCollar-w/shoes-DW" (DW for Deadwool) and then copy and paste as links each of the items in the suit you just bought. When you have the pants, shoes, HUD(s), jacket etc pasted as a link, move the suit folder into your Clothing folder. By using only links you could now accidentally delete the Outfit but not lose your actual clothing. Trust me, we've all done that at least once. Let's say for example you have created three outfits ... that suit, a jeans/casual tshirt, and a swimsuit outfit. That means you have four outfits in the Outfit folder now ... ** TenMell0w-naked-base-04-20-2024 Suit-Grey-OpenCollar-w/shoes-DW Jeans-thsirt-jacket-runners Trunks-striped-w/sandals You will obviously be wearing the ** TenMell0w-naked-base-04-20-2024, standing around naked in your skybox. Now, in the Outfits panel right click and "Add to outfit" the suit one and voila, you are wearing your suit. Right click and "Remove from outfit" and voila, naked again. Right click and Add to outfit your jeans outfit and you're wearing jeans. Takes five seconds now to take off clothes and put on a new outfit without messing with any of your base avatar, or having to dump then reload all of the styuff in your base avatar outfit I guess the final benefit is if you want to try on a new BoM skin you simply right click and copy the "** TenMell0w-naked-base-04-20-2024" outfit and call the new one "** TenMell0w-naked-base-new-skin-test" or whatever, and now you're naked and can mess around with your base avatar without worrying about messing up the main one. I always duplicate and make a back up of my current shape for safety too. Finally, if you're like me and have an alternate shape avatar (I have a cat, for example), that's also just an Outfit that I can right click on and choose "Replace current outfit" and whatever I'm wearing, my base and some clothes, I suddenly morph into my cat. To change back to human, I choose my base naked avatar Outfit and do the same thing "Replace current outfit" and voila, back to naked human. This is an overview of my Outfits folder in Firestorm. The Format outfits with the "*" are simply my latest purchases I like keeping at the top for a few weeks. Notice how everything in the one formal dress outfit is just a link to the real item, and I included the HUDs to change colour of dress and shoes?

One easier/more efficient way of doing this is have your base naked avatar (plus freckles, BoM skin, shape etc) as one outfit, and then a whole bunch of well labelled and organized individual outfit folders that simply have the links to clothing items (shoes, accessories etc) you Add to your avatar (or Remove to get naked again). Include the links to the colour HUDs for the clothing, shoes etc in the outfit folder so when you Add it they simply pop up and can be immediately dismissed if you don't need them. For example, if my outfit includes heels, I'll have the shoe HUD come up as well as the dress HUD. Unless I change the colour of my dress, I'll most likely stick with black heels (perhaps changing to sole colour to match a belt or something) so an usually dismiss the shoe HUD right away. For other things I often wear that require HUDs sometimes (like necklaces etc) I'll have those few items and their HUDs in my Favorites panel (in Firestorm) and can call them up immediately as needed without having to dig into Clothing and Inventory folders ad nauseum. The Favorites and AO panels make FS the only viewer I'll use, simply for the convenience of those two features.

Lapointe & Bastchilde, A&P, hoorenbeek (spelling??), and there's some at toksik as well. Those were my go-to stores when I was getting my male alt all fitted up, and if a guy asks me in world, but that was a few years ago now, and I actually haven't spent money on his clothes in three years maybe, I'm sure there are more quality menswear these days. At least I hope so. For women, the list is endless. I could list at least 20 amazing women's clothing stores just for outer wear. \o/