Fauve Aeon

Maybe Puddles or NovaOwl? If not, maybe ask in this thread or join the group mentioned. Good luck! ☕️☕️

Can they? Sure. Easy-peasy - anyone can track anyone logging into SL by setting up something like this https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Platinum-Tracker-HUD-avatar-tracker-online-notifier-HUD/677735 then when it sends an email, one can set their email provider to play a special alert sound when mail from this particular tracker lands and bingo, instant notice. I think it’s a great idea to use something like this for alt account security - as @LittleMe Jewelldescribed, or maybe to monitor log-in traffic for several different reasons, the up-time/relog time of bots, for marketing purposes on the best time to send your inworld notecards, to look at patterns of when your best customers are usually on, to chart the activity of your most active group members, a double-check that employees are logging in on time, etc etc. I can think of lots of pretty non-invasive, mostly passive & pretty benign uses. The real question is the other one you asked, “Who does that to a friend?”. Why would someone use it in this way? I cannot think of any good reason. If a person I know did this with me, I’d be uneasy.

You can host Corrade bots yourself https://grimore.org/secondlife/scripted_agents/corrade

Observation: OP’s post hit a lot of hot buttons. 7 pages worth so far. Not much that I would have found helpful as a noob and several things that would have confused me even more. When I was confused about stuff as a newb, I was able to find help to suss out the problem. Painting with broad strokes, I think that’s a big reason why I stayed. I got hooked up with at least a few people inworld so I could ask questions. Forums are cliquish, at least I have always found them to be so. I limit my usage of them often because of that, even when yeah, I’m ‘in the clique’ (or heaven forbid, have been a mod/admin, lol) Initial instructions when onboarding SL newbies have always felt very bare bones to me, which can be fine - if people know or can figure out what to do next, less is best and let them ‘go at it’. For others of us who didn’t catch on to SL nearly as fast, I would wish for optional additional ‘lab-lessons’ or classes that are a little more clearly shown. I think that was part of the purpose of the Gateways but many people didn’t have a positive experience with those either, or so I’ve been told. I’m not sure why the Mentor system was discontinued either. Lots of questions. It should be ok to ask and discuss them in a courteous and friendly manner. But I don’t think discounting any newb experience (cited more than 2-3x) or shredding to bits under a microscope any certain particular UI function will yield productive, larger-picture user retention results either. @Paul Hexemi would take an afternoon and put all my shirts in a folder, sorted further into sub-folders if needed - and inventory thumbnails are supposed to be coming.

for 2023 - May all of your rounds of Game of Homes be Scenic! Here’s hoping your inventory loads faster this year! I'm wishing you the best-fulfilled feeling of ‘being yourself’ within your avatar and to have a satisfying ‘in-dwell’ within the world this very year! SLive, SLaugh, SLove? Something like that. Peace be upon all of your prims and meshes and also somewhere within your heart ❤️ . may your teleports be forever free of ‘shoe in butt’ in perpetuity (I know, it’s been ages, but what if that broke again somehow!?!) May any and all ‘Ruthings’ be deliberate. May you always be one TP in front of The Lag. 🦋🦋🦋

Touting archaic ruminations often tanks. TODAY

Chances are if we are 13 or so in SL, we are likely 18+ by now. 🙃 no ironclad guarantees tho… @alienaisha I’m non super-sus, but before agreeing to a recorded interview, I’d want to see some samples of your posted public work first, just to make sure it’s something that suits me style-wise. Unlike some, I’m not terribly worried you are a creeper/troll etc, I’d just probably pop you with a push gun if that were the case. 😎 But you do present a pretty blank wall for doing a cold call requesting in-voice interview subjects, IMO.

I stayed long enough to get over the newbie hurdles probably because a handful of people were nice enough to me that I didn’t feel dumb asking my noob questions and I learned a lot of cool stuff very quickly. Also because dancing events were (and are) fun and welcoming to most people pretty much anywhere in the Steamlands. No matter how many fish I was wearing at the time. (often lots). 🤣 People taught me things, showed me things, were nice to me, invited me along, took me shopping and to events, included me. All of that helped a lot.

2008 - lots of sculptie stuffs!

Adding that some of the ‘more well known’ & older merchants aren’t above some keyword spamming and ‘artful mis-categorizing’, I noticed. 2 in particular who know better and stake their ‘reputation’ on their historical accuracy. Well that’s disappointing. So as an experiment, I searched “medieval gown NOT *CC* NOT hues NOT TRES” (eliminating/excluding some words of the more prolific things that popped up & were clearly not a medieval gown) - then clicked the checkbox for ‘copy’, and ‘do not show demo or limited items’. I set my price range $50-501 in category ‘women’s dresses’ filtered ‘newest first’ and still returned 5691 results. I know from past searches that many historical fashions will also be listed under ‘women’s costumes’ too - ‘medieval gown’ also returned an additional 9043 results there when I searched. At that point, I looked at ‘best selling’ and ‘rating high to low’ in both of those categories. Still didn’t find anything I particularly liked in the first few pages of each category and still did turn up quite a few post-1700 fashions, including Rococo and Victorian styles mixed with 20th century stuff and also some fantasy based but vaguely ‘medieval-ish’ styled things - ‘fiction-wear’, I guess I’d call it? Point being, OP is right, it’s tedious to sort the MP for something this specific. This is too many search hoops to jump through to reasonably filter things down to something searchable. It would be really nice to be able to check ‘do not show this store in my item searches’ to filter the shops we know we do not wish to shop at - I think many of us have at least a few of these that we would happily choose to hide - some of us would hide half the MP but likely shop there more with this ability see demos AND all of the texture/color variations of an item managed in a single listing (like in Kitely MP) or even GROUPED within a few listings flag an entire shop for review if a certain number of their listings are reported within 24 hours as breaking MP rules, and a policy for the ones who continue to do it repeatedly @Wulfie Reanimator thank you very much, it sounds really useful to be able filter out certain merchants’ items. And just to say that 96 single listings for a variation on a single item is a perfect example of why we need better options even if we like that much choice/variety - it quickly becomes unmanageable with the current listing and searching criteria.

Niche fashion, minimal styling - check .Shi, a rl/sl designer (and some is unisex). RL clothing https://www.shi.boutique/collections/unisex In SL marketplace I feel like with Maitreya owning over 30% of the market in mesh body wearing, if I were going to design, I’d choose distinctive style, include Maitreya and do mix/match Limited Edition seasonal collections that were more expensive. Maybe I’d hire meshers to do a lower-end line that could meet events demands under a 2nd name to test that market. But I think all the very cheap sales events may be a race to the bottom. After years of SL shopping, the more unique things catch my interest.

There used to be a group that met to do this, I’ll look it up. I think the only reason I didn’t join them was due to a personal timing conflict of some kind, I can’t remember… I really like seeing the photography 📸 and FUN posted repeatedly in people’s resolutions. 🎉

I only have 2 RL resolutions for 2023, by design - so it’s fun to make an SL list and see how I will do with it. 2022 SL Resolutions: Take & post more photos Stream & record more audio, think about trying some video (but pondering what niche of video?) Attend more musical and theatrical events Placeholder for a creative goal Explore more places, play more games Secret Goal - will reveal only if/when fulfilled *hint 100 something something… Cull my inventory some (can I get it under 50k items, nicely nested, start using my CTS Wardrobe?) Play Game of Homes a few times and challenge myself to decorate mostly from my inventory Make a photo alt with a completely new look & style Have more fun (Just in general!) Ok if we are being honest, also shop less

That stinks! I know this feeling. From what you have been speaking of a bit regarding your sleep in general, it sounds a bit worrisome. Please take care and keep an eye on that. my peeve: putting on the default adult human female shape that came with a very popular older mesh head with intent to work on the shape a bit later to compare/contrast new and old heads, blah blah...realizing I was running late so hurrying to my class and getting auto-booted from an adult sim because my avatar suddenly was under an (unpublished) height requirement - detected via script I guess? Maybe a good requirement in theory but certainly overzealous in practice if a widely distributed default adult shape can’t meet it? Rawr. It seemed like human avatar sizes were getting a bit more into the realms of realistic human heights for a while but I’m also noticing a trend of them growing taller again in some circles. ~sigh~

Yass gurl, shine ON - now just add a crap ton of accessories and blow out the lighting...so good! #mood You can just burn a few important details like your boobs and booty curves back in at post. Work the angles so it looks all artsy. Use a vignette! Try a popular freebie font to sign the work. Fresh, Cool Perfection. 💯 Note: not poking at any one person who may do (m)any of these because it’s so common to see them scattered about...but if you do these, might want to reconsider some choices?

Is this similar to what happened with the old-style face lights and glow-infused twinkly lit crowns etc? That some of us returned to many having ALM on when we didn’t and got called out for being no better than walking lit up holiday tree? 🎄🎄🎄 GOOD TIMES! ...but most of us listened and quickly ‘got better’ too. 😉

Impossibru! Ain’t nobody got time for that or trying them all on or quickly remembering which were ‘the good everyday ones’. THIS! @MrsSerenthank you, must check them out! That’s so fun.

Same. peeve: (really more of a worry but also wit anoyance) Cat suddenly has taken to yowling mournfully and randomly for no discernible reason. Kitty-boo, what’s wrong wif you?

To SL in general. To myself and to you.

😍I love this so much, holy shizzoop! 😍

Of course? I rarely just front! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5752460/

Why not both?

Dining elegantly, late and yawning. sleep!

Bloviated ranting and vague orations. *CLAPS*