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Katherine Heartsong

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  1. I'm in the camp that SL is certainly a strong contender for the best example of what Blush said, with the small change I made to her words ... "a virtual world [singular] in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and usually focused on social and economic connection.

    It's one world though, isolated island unto itself.

    My definition of the metaverse are a huge number of virtual worlds like SL each with their own physical attributes and basic rules that allow you to move between them freely, bringing your avatar, inventory etc (where appropriate based on theme) much like thousands of websites you can simply navigate to. Everything from purely RPIng worlds, to worlds where the owners have made rules that you are merely twinkling glimmering balls of light that pulse and float around the environment with no physical structures or body. There'd need to be a standards org that helped define the attributes of the worlds, items, etc but build and explore whatever you like.

    Think a thousand unique SLs. All connected.

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  2. Years of life drawing and proportions, the classic 8:1 idealized height proportions ... If you're looking for anything near real, what the OP posted ... note the knees 1/4 up the body, crotch 1/2 up the body, nipples 3/4 up body, etc.

    If nothing else to look some what "real"? Crotch half way up, not where you belly button should be (aka the tall legs, tall head, short torso and non existent hips syndrome in SL).

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  3. 13 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

    Oh, this is SUCH a good point, too.

    I always imagine avatars just smell like Drakkar, to be honest. Or Axe. Omg.  😂

    I'm a subtle neroli (aka orange blossom).

    Not Tom Ford intense, more like one of the more subtle French perfume brands like Diptyque on boulevard St Germain.

    And to the OP. Umm, no-ish? I like a realistic avatar but physical beauty is only 1/3 of what makes a person attractive to me.

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  4. 49 minutes ago, Modulated said:

    It's a multilayer thing, yes your bank may not do that directly, but the card the bank issues is by a major provider/processor, i.e. visa and the like, they can share your informaton and do and you agree to such when you get their cards and use their services.

    Oh, they sure do. Worked in one of Canada's major five banks.

    VISA and Mastercard are more than happy to sell along your data to the point that unless you're using a system that completely anonymizes the transaction, the banks will know about everything you purchased, what you purchased, from who, when, how much etc. The credit bureaus buy that info, so do the major data brokers, and even Meta a few years ago entered into agreements with the CC issuers to buy that data. Meta was so bold a few years back to even try to offer to buy all your transactional data from several of the major US banks.

    The current systems I am most familiar with have transactional data on every single purchase that the 230 MILLION end users (mostly NA based) are making in almost real time. It's how targeted ad and offer campaigns work. Not bought anything in the past five days from your favorite coffee chain and suddenly an offer appears for 10% your next coffee and donut if you spend over $5? That didn't happen by accident, you were targeted because your purchase patterns changed and it was noted in a system somewhere based on past transactional data, and not by the bank.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Cindy Evanier said:

    payment information on file

    and @Love Zhaoying  I think no if a kid uses parents card?

    But how does a child use a parent's card without the parent knowing? That point has always confused me.

    Who has enough money they don't care about the charges on a CC bill? I know I don't. I get my CC bill, look over every transaction to make sure XYZ subscription service didn't charge me twice etc etc. If I saw "LindenLabs" or any other charge I didn't recognize, I'd be on the phone with my bank after asking around the folks in my household.

    Also, if I'd ever tried a stunt like that and been caught? Trust me, I grew up in an era I'd have only ever done it once. < old

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  6. 29 minutes ago, Starberry Passion said:

    Yeah, I agree, I made an avatar that was basically a model inspired face I found really pretty,  but with bigger lips

    and people got pissed for it saying it was a child. This is her She has a baby-face, child-like face

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    She is 36 years old.

    As an artist, I can tell you that her facial proportions/angles are adult.

    Nose top to top of head a near perfect circle, lips adult width compared to pupils of eyes, angle from edge of nose to outer point of eyes—one of those people you look at twice if you're an artist because she's outside the usual looks—but definitely adult, etc. She's a bit unusual looking due to her eye size and shorter jaw, and that makes her look younger than her 36 years (plus very high end make up/contouring professional application), but I wouldn't mistake her for anything less than mid-20s given the adult proportions.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Ok, so you may have just answered my question? You do support better enforcement? And think that that has been hindered by organizational issues and institutional culture?

    I know you're asking @Cristiano Midnight but for me, yes, better enforcement, and yes, hindered for a variety of reasons perhaps including volume of reports and lack of resources. If the latter is the case, get more people on this. Better still, if we could see a public monthly report summarizing the number of ARs, for what category, and the state of resolution we'd have a better understanding of how things are being taken care of at a governance level.

    The oddest thing to me is that a post in these forums that strays off topic seems to get much faster attention and removal/reprimand/reminder than a report of a group with an X-rated, TOS-breaking image for their group. Much faster.

    I ARed one groups picture once—and believe me, it wasn't just racy or sexually explicit, it was something I wish I hadn't seen—and yet three (four?) days later it was still there, at which point I just gave up reporting stuff like that in world.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Orwar said:

       It probably wouldn't be very accidental though. Chickens will happily kill and eat rodents, frogs, snails, lizards etc, if they get their beaks on them. They're not vegetarians, they're tiny omnivores that happen to be excellent hunters.

    See?! I knew this thread was useful, I've learned a new thing today. Thank you @Orwar.

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  9. 4 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Honestly, if they just made some real effort to police and enforce their own ToS properly, much of this would be solved. A half day spent on in-world search of groups and parcels/regions would pretty quickly suggest some targets for action.

    This ... honestly just this. Heck, there are images used in certain group descriptions which are clear violations of the TOS.

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  10. As an Apple user since owning an Apple II (yes, that old am I) I'm sadly with @Modulated. Except for those brief moments I need my male alt on transferring me his 300L weekly stipend, I don't run SL on any of my Macs.  That <10fps at Muddy's I see is 40+ for me on my gaming PC, with Ultra settings, even more avatars on screen, and a longer draw distance.

    As much as a Mac fanboi I am, I'd never suggest running SL on macOS. But thanks for posting that for folks to reference and decide.

    (That low fps might have been partly due to you running the video capture software though I admit, now thinking about it.)

  11. 2 hours ago, Asadora Summers said:

    As land owners, club owners, sim admins, what have you, there are features that enable us to enforce rules that are set by LL and by those that own land.

    I'm glad most sim owners do abide by both the rules as written and the spirit (ethics) of the rules.

    It's the obvious ones who are deliberately ignoring the rules or who are pushing the boundary very very hard by deliberately designing and promoting their sim to be attractive to certain types of users and turn a blind eye to the obvious problems that creates. Sure, a  blatant violation might get a user banned, but if the overall vibe and theme is attracting traffic, they don't seem to mind.

    Again, it'd take anyone two minutes to find and visit some of these well-known sims and groups if you wanted to see exactly what I'm talking about. Pre- and young teen looking waify female avatars in skimpy or kids clothes, along with all of the other attributes I've previously mentioned, on sims dancing and engaging with older guys in suits, what does anyone think that adds up to?

    They're not there to have a picnic.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Stephanie Misfit said:

    It's not a 1950s-like situation to separate child avatars from the main grid. Nobody is being discriminated against. People often bring up this concept of discrimination against child avatars or short avatars. Avatar height, or any other avatar attribute for that matter is not a protected characteristic, and can't be compared to the discrimination some groups face in the real world.

    Personally, I would not mind seeing child avatars restricted to G sims only, completely away from adult furniture and activities. Reinstating the teen grid because of child avatars is a silly idea, as most child avatars are played by grown adults.

    Correct. And to state the obvious ...

    It's not avatars who are barely in their teens that is the underlying main problem.

    It's that, plus a slew of other factors when taken together move it out of RPing a non-adult to something far less benign. If you can't see when things start to coalesce along the lines of younger appearing avatars plus sim theme, specific dress styles and hairstyles, behaviours, residents (often older men) who hang around these sims to meet these avatars, racier chats, names of sims etc, then you're being naive or deliberately ignoring the obvious.

    These places are so easy to find I can't believe anyone who has been here any length of time isn't well aware of them.

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  13. 1 minute ago, InnerCity Elf said:

    Maybe it took so long because they had to make absolutely sure to have the right person make the statement, respectively be the spokesperson for the statement.

    Given many decades in the corporate world, I'll lean towards this as well.

    This kind of reply isn't something someone on their own can just write up off the cuff and post. C-level people never do that. There will be layers of proofing, editing, and the longer process of legal review and vetting by other C-level people and a legal/business and communications team before a response like this gets to be released.

    I'll assume a lot of the "delay" was due to bureaucracy (and looking into the facts) rather than ill-intent.

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  14. 1 hour ago, Cinos Field said:

    It's not exactly the right thread for this, but I'll ask anyway - I'm missing two essential wardrobe items for the Lara X: A plain tube dress, and especially jeans with a low waist. Yeah yeah I know ultra high waist is fashionable right now but I need those 90s ones that barely cling to my hips. :P

    Has anyone seen either? Preferably with modify perms.

    Not sure they're low enough but both Bumblebee and Friday have lower-waisted jeans that look really nice.

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  15. 39 minutes ago, Jaylinbridges said:

    By going public, it forced LL to "wake up" as Brad said in his post. 

    I haven't been in this world long, but sure long enough to know that there are some pretty slippery and dark places here, and not-hiding-at-all places anyone with two minutes of time and certain keywords could TP to that skirt the edge of whatever sword that blog post was discussing (ahem) very very closely.

    Spend five minutes in a few of the obvious ones and it's a no-brainer that the spirit of the rules are being broken, if not in practice.

    If LL really wanted to police that side of SL better, it shouldn't be hard finding the places to start and at least start explaining to the owners of said sims that skirting the edge as close as some of these places do is not going to be tolerated to the degree it has in the past. If I can find the obvious ones, surely anyone can.

    But I am glad that at least LL has acknowledged the kurfuffle publicly, even if weeks past when the blog was originally posted, and very quickly after being more widely disseminated. Let's see where all this lands as the mature adults we all are supposed to be (or cat, since I am a cat IRL).

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  16. Do you mean she has a Premium Plus membership with the associated 2048 land tier available to her? Her options are either to log in and go to her Dashboard and select one of the 2048 homes available through the "Get Your Own Home Now" option and that will give her a "free" 2048 plot and one of the Linden homes for that theme area. That will mean she won't have to worry about bad or ugly build next to hers but the downside is a uniform sub urban feel with only 8–9 styles of home to pick from. Her PP subscription pays for that land; sort of like renting a 2048 from Linden as part of your annual PP subscription.

    Or she can buy a 2048 parcel from another resident somewhere on mainland and then buy a home from one of the many home sellers in world like Scarlet Creative or Trompe et al that will fit on the parcel (hopefully a 32x64 rectangle), rezz that, and decorate, landscape etc. That gives you more freedom of style, but means you have neighbours whose house looks you can't control and the better parcels can be expensive.

    Or browse through the mainland for sale forum ... https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/286-mainland/

    For example, here's a cute one for sale at a good price ...

    From the title of the post she seems to want mainland, so my suggestion is to simply open Map on your in world viewer and move around the continents looking at the yellow "for sale" lots (32x64 are easy to spot) with their prices indicated, and TP to one's she likes to check them out until she finds one she likes. If it "looks" like it's on water though and she wants to explore sailing/boating, be very sure to go there and hover just above the water and fly in all directions slowly to make sure no one has put up ban lines blocking deep water access by boat.

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