Fraser Lisle

I always thought that SL gave me a long lost feeling of old internet, IRC specifically. It's hard to describe but after the early 00s I drifted away from that and SL definitely brought back some of the feelings it gave me. Chatting for the sake of chatting, I stopped doing that until I came here.

It's also just plain buggy. I have a few MOAP HUDs that need a lot of coaxing to even work, often have to manually start them to get them to load. I certainly don't really like it being used for HUDs but it does make sense for a lot of them, it's just not very well implemented imo.

I believe there's a setting for that in Firestorm, disable camera constraints or something? Anyway there's one that lets you interact with things from a long distance. You need it on to use cam sims for most big events etc.

The little arrows serve this purpose but are quite awkward, they only cycle through links/faces and you are right it would be nice to have a pop out floater/window or something with a list of faces to select. On this topic is there a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable "Show Highlight"? I click this one a lot and it'd be nice if there was a shortcut.

There seems to be a lot of people who just don't want to hear it. Some degree is expected though, major updates do that. Kind of surprised so many were even unaware it was coming though, this has been a year+ in the making and plenty were running alpha/beta viewers to play with it and follow development. Also the fact that ALM is now ten years old... Change just scares and angers some people. I think it's good SL finally has real lighting that is forced on, the ability to disable ALM was a disaster as far as product quality.

It's the CPUs that make it feel stagnant, genuinely most people could get by fine on an Intel core iwhatever from 2012. They're fast, multi core and really don't struggle with many or potentially any modern task. Sure newer is faster but the way those older CPUs have just lasted for what feels forever is how they cope with current day tasks. Moores law is not dead but the average person got a computer that is extremely fast in the 2010s, comparatively speaking. GPU is different story though, gen on gen large performance and efficiency improvements, entirely new APIs, crazy features like DLSS, real time raytracing etc. They are the component that has aged fastest but even so stuff like Nvidia's 10 series from 2016-2019 copes pretty well with SL even with all this PBR stuff. You might as well consider it the one thing you can expect to need to replace every 3 years now. I understand how many haven't upgraded in a long time though, it is definitely not the 90s anymore. 2010s PC's are often still perfectly usable for less intensive everyday tasks.

Lol this release has been tested to death for months, it runs absolutely fine.

Have used a 2070 and 2080 with pretty high settings in PBR alpha and betas, performance was very good. You can reasonably crank up the settings near max on that hardware, it will be fine.

You never know, maybe the move to Vulkan will actually happen and maybe a native ARM viewer will come out too... I know it doesn't seem likely but the mobile viewer does at least provide some hope, entirely new engine is probably the most significant move in that direction in SL history. In theory when there's a decent code base for that a full fat desktop Unity based viewer seems at least a lot more possible. It's just a long way away still.

Wow that is pretty extreme. It has been years but I do remember the experience of being new, it wasn't much fun with so many places having a 30 day old restriction but I'm not sure I remember any as long as 100 days. Truth be told I'm not sure any restriction is worth it, if someone intends on trolling your store they will just be prepared and register the accounts in advance. Better to be active and vigilant if you can or have staff that can watch over a location. It's going to be more effective a deterrent than any account age restriction will be.

To complicate matters further: Rebirth Body. Is it child or adult? It certainly markets itself as a universal body and the difference is a click of a switch in the HUD. Note that content is shared between the modes and the actual switch merely changes the chest 'mode' from flat to petite to larger breasts. It is not labeled as "child" and "adult" as far as I know yet marketing imagery would suggest this is the intention... yet an adult can of course be small or flat breasted. This is the kind of thing this policy does nothing to clarify and only endagers users who may not have the same perception or intent as any other user or administrator.

Would you say it's therefore basically impossible to present successfully (as in free of any risk) as an eighteen year old avi? Just based on what you have said, I think I agree. There's nothing we can use to define seventeen Vs eighteen so here we have an adult avi that is highly likely to be victim of rules that are not supposed to apply to them.

Yeah the rules seem super clear, that's why there's a multi page discussion on if it's okay to report clothing for Kemono and being cute or wearing underwear if you're using a - completely undefined - child avatar...

Nahh. Just be careful if it feels a little flexy in the lid. Even if hinges do break (it's actually usually the chassis itself that breaks, the hinges tear out of the moulded in mounts) it's not an expensive repair usually, can even do it at home if you have a screwdriver and gentle touch.

That has an Nvidia GPU doesn't it? Or were they AMD at that time? Edit: some sort of Radeon Pro if Google is correct. I have tested Rx580s etc in SL and yeah they work but performance is poor compared to Nvidia cards of same class and age, its just AMDs slow OpenGL drivers though not the GPU itself.