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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.

Looks solid, proper SI doing normal builds with normal parts. You’re going to need a better cooler with that 13700k. Intel doesn’t ship it with a stock cooler because the stock cooler that comes with the lower wattage chips isn’t adequate. If they offer it, any 120mm tower or basic water cooler will do. This is down to your own personal financial situation but do be cautious of rent to own programs. Go for credit if you have to or if your budget simply doesn’t allow for something like this, you might have to diy to save money. Rent to own PCs are a known questionable business. PCs depreciate in value like cars do, as is the nature of a market where new things come out every year. And rent to own programs will try to lock you into long term rental agreements where you end up paying 2-3x the price of the pc new, years down the line, when eventually just a payment made on the pc is worth more than the pc is.

A virtual proxy to an eBay store, where you buy items in L$ as a currency conversion rate equivalent to the real items listing price. When you buy it you have to send the seller a notecard with your address irl in order to have the real item shipped to you. I guess you could do that with any real storefront, have a SL virtual store mirror it where you buy items in L$.

“Generation alpha” will never touch games like SL with a 10 foot pole.

I like to bring my partner here and annoy the hell out of her by exclusively talking in cymraeg the entire time so she has to translate everything I say pa un ohonom yw r un rhyfedd allan yn awr, collwr

I’ll have to get one of the higher end Radeon cards to play around with some. I think the only two I have which are higher performers than the 580 or 5500xt are the Vega 56, 6600 xt and r9 nano and I love the r9 nano and all But it’s a 4gb card which wouldn’t be a fair comparison against all the 8gb cards, should probably scour eBay for something like a 6800 or 7700 and add them to the reference pool

The 5500xt is a card which is heavily affected by its vram and the bus speed it’s on. The 4gb one on pcie 3.0 will perform much worse under load than the 8gb one would, or either on pcie 4.0

I mean, I think I posted about this before, that’s not too crazy of an idea, and other games, notably other social worlds have done that habbo introduced them in 2012 for users to buy, though they had been ingame since the release of the game smallworlds had programmable NPCs in like 2010, They can get pretty advanced using ingame tools, smallworlds was pretty complex out of the box and could do a lot if you spent the time to program them. But with habbos bots they can get very complex in capability but not chatting, they can be integrated with “wired” items, which as a side note is kinda like physical scripting with blocks, dependent on stack order and tile placement: it’s not out of the question at all for AI integrated bots to become actual products in SL, that’s something people would totally use

As a person who was and no longer is a fat guy, absolutely yes and it should be encouraged more. Someone else’s unhealthy coping mechanism should never be encouraged and should be discouraged as much as possible. “Oh you’re still beautiful even if you’re overweight”, no you’re not, you’re a visual indicator of your life falling apart and instead of reaching out to help, people just look at you and tell you it’s no big deal to fall apart anyway. I have an unending resentment for a substantial amount of my family for this. I have a 7 year old cousin who weighs 160lbs, that’s just child abuse. And his parents aren’t much better, I’m probably going to watch one or both of them die of some weight related complication with their health within the next decade. And nobody batts an eye because it’s rude, shouldn’t body shame them. I share sympathy to people who are struggling with their body and want to improve. But I absolutely loathe the people who try to normalize it and convince others it’s ok to live miserably and die slowly.

Proprietary motherboard, its an HP pavillion with a different shell and name. Same proprietary power supply, cooler is mounted directly to the chassis which isnt ideal since changing the cooler means modifying the chassis itself. Wouldnt recommend it if you ever wanted to do any upgrades. A better GPU down the line would require a different power supply, and since the power supply is non standard, it means youd have almost no options or would have to buy adapters to get a different power supply to work with it. Anything with a mechanical hard drive even secondary to an SSD is to be ignored as well. A 1tb HDD is like $30, its not a selling point when a 1tb SSD is $50. Same applies to the actual pavillion, proprietary. Also a few generations out of date if youre going to be buying new. Buy something standard, from a big name for components, not entire systems. Thermaltake doesnt really make PC's as a whole, they just sell prebuilts with their components in them: Amazon.com: Thermaltake LCGS Quartz i460 R4 Gaming Desktop (Intel Core™ i5-13400F, 3600Mhz 16GB RGB Memory, NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 4060, 1TB NVMe M.2) S2QT-B66R-460-LCS : Electronics 13400F is only one generation old, current asrock B660 motherboard which is a solid choice, 3600mhz DDR4 from thermaltake, decent ram. Its a thermaltake S200 case, decent power supply, decent cooler. MSI RTX 4060 in matching white. You could basically take this pc and its just like any other gaming pc that people DIY. Because theres no compromise of weird parts or brands. Something like that is what i would highly recommend for a normal gaming PC. Its a reputable brand with good components in a normal standard. For people outside of the PC community the whole standardization thing is not well known, but basically all motherboards and power supplies for off the shelf parts are compatible, going back over 25 years now. All of these boards primary difference is slot count, and some minor dimensional changes. But any ATX case can take all 3 types of board. Any power supply will work with them as they all have the same 24 pin power connector and 8 pin cpu power connector. They all use the same rear i/o spacing, they all use the same slot spacing. This means any system with any of those boards, you can swap the board for anything else of the same or smaller size. You can use any power supply. Any add-on card you put in the slots wether its the single slot of the mini itx board or slot 7 on the atx board, will fit. They will fit in any ATX case, even if your case is from 2001 or 2025. This is the board from the victus 15L (the AMD version, same layout as the intel one): It is not the atx standard. It will only work in that HP chassis, and wont fit in any other case. It doesnt have a 24 pin, it uses a proprietary power connector and will only work with a power supply made just for it. This is a non re-usable component, and since the case is proprietary to this motherboard it means you cant even swap out the board for a different platform later. I recommend AIB's like skytech: Amazon.com: Skytech Gaming They make normal PCs, in off the shelf components. Its the same build as you could DIY yourself for the most part. Any component can be changed if you wanted. There is no "only compatible with skytech" out there, its just normal pc standards.

I’d like to see the new user experience translated to a closed ecosystem like what a lot of other games do. The iconic tutorial island of runescape This teaches you just the core basics. Movement, camera control, key aspects to the game. The basic steps of doing some of the basic skills, and a little chat at the end about account management. And nothing more. This doesn’t show you how the grand exchange works. It doesn’t explain gear tiering, pvp, what higher level prayers and special attacks are, none of that. This shows you how to at best navigate the game. Everything else you learn on your own or via other smaller explanations as you come to certain areas. A new user may never know about pvp until they click on a wilderness gate and it gives them a warning they can be attacked there. And that’s worked, it’s worked extremely well. After tutorial island the game dumps you in lumbridge with 1) a very basic assortment of gear and tools 2) no skills beyond what little xp you earned on the island 3) no goals, quests or notifications youre just there, it’s up to you at that point to do anything, it directs you to nobody and nowhere And it sounds so sudden and rushed to throw just the core essentials at someone and then toss them into the game but it works, and has worked for 22 years. Jagex tried to change this several times and every time it was dumb and didn’t work, and they reverted back to tutorial island because it has the highest player retention. That is I think something sl needs to replicate, simplicity with the core essentials in a closed environment. Then dump the player into a crowd and let them figure it out. Explain basic movement and camera controls, avatar customization, chat and the friends system, content guidelines, searching and maybe some basic object manipulation like interacting with pay or touch items. And then no more, no detail, no history, no lore, no specifics, this should take 15 minutes tops. Dump them somewhere with a bunch of people and let them have at it. It’s been a while since I’ve done a new user experience in SL, I should make an alt and do that again to see what’s changed. But from what I’ve seen they’re still trying to get too much content into it.

When searching for land not that long ago I found the solution was just to set up shop close to a linden owned area, namely an infohub. And everything around me looks nice and fitting because a core build in the area is an infohub, so everyone around it makes fairly open stuff because it’s free traffic.

I don’t think I’ve ever given one iota of care to someone’s username in terms of its composition unless it was some other kind of red flag in terms of its content. I have a lot of unique usernames in some places, low character count, just my name, real words and such. But that’s never actually that important versus someone who’s just xXjose.gonzales.2007Xx, that’s their name choice. Not everyone cares that much to try and make unique usernames, especially on a platform where you can also have a display name anyway. Roblox had this problem, with i think close to a billion registered accounts, a solid quarter of them estimated to be unique real users and not alts or bots. Theres so few remaining usernames that anything under 6 characters long is taken. That includes underscores, letters and numbers. So they just introduced override display names. So everyone can be any name they want, and you don’t even see their real username unless you visit their profile. But like, nobody cares. I have a 3 character username in that game and at most I’d see someone say “I didn’t even know that was possible” once in a blue moon, because usernames are not important at all. Thats a relic of SL’s type of internet culture to care about a username or even just the presentation of other users in general. Web boomer stuff. Nobody else cares at all.

It would do SL fine, it’s just worth noting the economical issue with it being $1300 when you could DIY something substantially better for under $1000 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XJMxPF In looking at this kind of machine I would reach out to local system builders and see what they charge for assembly and setup, and just order a set of parts yourself. Getting a PC assembled shouldn’t cost any more than $200 and you can probably do it for less if you have any tech inclined relatives.

Clean and repaste your laptop. Any decent laptop is supposed to be capable of running at full system max load without thermal throttling itself. If it can’t, something is hindering cooling performance. SL is fairly demanding on a system, substantially more so than it would look like. Reducing load is one way to accomplish this, framerate limits, reducing settings, etc. You could also set up a power plan when playing SL to limit the max cpu or GPU frequency to reduce thermal output, or use an external cooling pad, but that might not do a whole lot depending on the design of the machine. But the biggest one is clean and repaste.

I don’t want to meet with my coworkers using voice only in a teams call, let alone in a 3D virtual space where I can pretend to be doing anything other than sitting and lamenting my career choices while listening to presentation number 13391 about trailer safety. Even if I could do it with ears and a tail it would still just be me sitting there waiting to get donnie darko’d in my bedroom or at the very least to be the first person to genuinely drop dead of boredom.

The work laptop is no longer the work laptop, so it is now just a regular laptop I can confidently use for other things. So I put SL on it kind of a shame the Linux viewer isn’t being maintained anymore so I gotta use firestorm high UI scaling and a touchscreen are surprisingly useful for navigating the ui? Didn’t expect that one. I found myself barely even using the trackpoint and instead just using the touchscreen This is a gen 1 thinkpad x1 nano for reference running Ubuntu 22 lts