gwynchisholm

The secret to secondlife is that its financial state is propped up entirely by suspiciously wealthy furries, it will always succeed if we have more furry avatars than vrchat.

Actually the opposite, pascal was definitely an outlier of a generation. But it’s hardware performance tier being similar to the rtx 3060 while being nearly the same wattage is somewhat normal. The 1080 is a 180 watt card, the 3060 is 170 watts. What isn’t, is that it’s product placement tier equivalent, the 3080 , is 320 watts, as is the 4080. Even my partners card, the Titan X pascal, the top end of that generation, is only 250 watts. Meanwhile the 4090 is 450 watts. And further is that those numbers for peak wattage don’t include transient spikes, where the cards can very briefly tap over 600 watts, both 3000 and 4000 series do that as well. Where cards like the 3090ti could run close to 500 watts under load and spike to 650 momentarily, which would actually kill some power supplies. GPUs have gotten way more power hungry, it’s a shame.

mmmm crunchy jpeg side note, the music being listened to here was the entire of Aquarium by Aqua, start to finish, at her request

This is absolutely a dig as a pc nerd, did you really get a tt tower 900 for a conventional, air cooled build with a single GPU? This is like buying a humvee to pick up groceries. One of the most specifically designed cases for elaborate water cooled hardware showcase builds ever made and there’s like, a 2070 and unsleeved cables in there. Bruh

It’s an 11900k, 64gb of ram and 16gb a770 at its core. Overall cost to build was around $1400? Nothing crazy Though this things primary purpose isnt sl, sl runs on anything. My partners PC I assembled for them as an upgrade is an i5 11400F with 32gb of ram and a GTX titan X pascal. And they still play in 1600x1200 so it doesn’t matter, at all. But I have a lot of hardware in general, it’s a hobby, there’s like 30 video cards on shelves in my living room. SL will comfortably play on some very low end hardware. I play this game at max settings in 4k all the time, but most people I imagine are like my partner and will put the game into toaster mode visually in 1080p or lower resolutions just because they don’t care if the shadows look pretty, or are even there. And with that performance target in mind, you could get SL playing well on your average cheap used business laptop from a few years ago, entry level desktop hardware, sub $500 used PC builds, etc.

“Lenovo ideapad” yeah, rice paper and glue see my lenovo is an x1 nano, it’s made of carbon fiber, I can pick it up however I want without running the risk of breaking it, because it’s not made of rice paper and glue I get the statement being made, but it’s more just like, don’t buy ewaste products from the start, you don’t need to treat your hardware like it’s super fragile if you buy stuff made to last, and low tier consumer laptops are not made to last

I don’t have this problem because my laptop isn’t made of rice paper and glue.

A lot of early 90’s house music from one particular DJ at one particular furry dance club. Details will not be specified. But it was super cool because this is all stuff I was just kinda aware that existed, but they started showing specific tracks and talking about the history of early house. I already had some experience with stuff of that era like Razormaid mixes which was all late 80’s and early 90’s house music, but learning about what else was going on at the time which was a lot more obscure was neat

THIS GAME RUNS ON ANYTHING

ARM translation isn’t amazing but it’s way better than it used to be. Blender has native arm support if youre using blender, and in general works well on Macs and specially on the ARM Macs. SL is a mixed bag, it’ll run, OpenGL is still supported on M1/2/3, it’s just not optimized. So you may come across general performance issues related to running the application through Rosetta to begin with, but also with an already unoptimized openGL game running on hardware that only has openGL support as a fallback. If you need a laptop on the performance equivalent end of a MacBook, but need secondlife to work well, there are a lot of other options. Unless needing MacOS is a requirement outright, I’d look at different machines than ARM MacBooks when SL is a primary use case.

I still don’t understand the names thing, just use whatever and a nickname like anyone sane?

This is in the same vein as people who get upset when they get muted because “freedom of speech”, as if it applies to a privately run game on the internet. This goes without saying that the Geneva convention does not apply to a virtual chat room from 2003.

Just up your own scale of spending if you want things to be comparable. Though for most people, keeping this comparable to irl is not the point of the virtual currency. For a lot of people it’s not a translation of real world value, it’s just a game currency that happens to have real world value. I don’t look at a piece of virtual clothing like it’s worth $0.59 USD or something. The virtual currency operates on its own market and scale. A little plot of land costs under 20k l$ which is under $100 usd. I’d rather that than “oh this prime real estate costs the equivalent of $180,000 USD, or 43 million linden dollars”. And then it’s all also a matter of personal scale. I’m one to tip 5 grand or dump money into giveaway orbs at clubs because for the few rare times I even go to places like that, $20 is a cheap expenditure for a virtual night out. Pizza Hut costs like $50 all in these days, so I consider linden dollar four figure sums to be cheap entertainment all things considered.

Instead of trying to bring the games tech and culture to a modern era, invent time travel and throw the entire world back to 2008 so it just fits in better. Building with prims should be encouraged far more, and should work with incremental steps with a basic toolbox like Roblox. Sacrifice photo realistic detail for accessibility. There should be linden operate spaces which are just designed to be smaller chatrooms. Nowhere to go, just a conversation pit for 5-15 people. These should be found by random selection or by group traveling, and should be situated around info hubs across the world. Like the idea of a social island but compacted and on the mainland. A built in camera feature for a cut away top down or isometric view would be neat. Think of the sims. A linden run HOA of sorts that just maintains a cohesive aesthetic to the world around infohubs. If you want to make your home an eyesore, do it away from the primary locations in world. There’s a difference between an eccentric style and large blocking walls, ban lines, or intentionally disruptive terrain. Item tags, so items can be automatically classified in your inventory to where they’re supposed to go. With a 2 layer sub folder system, ie Clothes > Shirts, no further. Obviously users could go further but just having that automated would make the inventory much less of a pain to use. How many of my ideas are real, how many of them are jokes, some may never know.

“Right click > add” And then if they want, talk with them instead of being a nuisance trying to DIY being a guide. Anyone actually interested in this game will figure it out.