Drake1 Nightfire

And they just posted about how well the MP search feature is working, yet i cant get it to keep the "Age: Newest First" setting to stay. I hit next page and it goes back to "Relevance."

Are we using the same SL? "the most welcoming diverse space" with tons of sims that wont let you in unless you meet their strict criteria, people who rage over the slightest thing, people who have "mess with such and such and i will hunt you down" in their profiles, and a million other hateful things? I want to live in your LS where its all bubblegum and cotton candy.

You say that like its intentional...

And yet, you and everyone else who uses SL agreed to follow US and California laws as applicable. Japans laws have nothing to do with SL.

Ah yes, lets dig that tired ol dead horse up to beat on some more...

More like 275L/USD

On this note, can anyone tell me why LL didn't charge my CC on file directly for my premium membership? I got a "warning" email about it. On topic, this sucks. Raising exchange fees is wrong. You want more people to join and stay, dont charge them more to do so. The economy sucks enough without having to pay more and more for the luxury of using SL.

There were about 2 billion people on the planet in the early part of last century, we have quadrupled the population in 100 years. I think that has more to do with the garbage issue than anything else. Disposable diapers hit the mass market in 1961. That is not my generation. I was born 12 years later. Don't blame our generations on things that our parents and grandparents made popular.

But still also no.. You do NOT have to voice to have SLex.. You do NOT have to do anything you dont want to. Voice is not the expected default. The only constant expected things in SL are: rolling restarts, Sim crossing issues, MP issues, griefers at sandboxes, and LL saying "All is well."

This thread, the threads about merchants not selling with Mod rights, is it ok to play as a different gender than you are, and many many other threads are ALL beating dead horses. All of them. Everyone knows you are not forced to use voice, merchants can sell their items however they want, and you can be whatever you want in SL. No one here said that female avs who dont voice are all men.

I have two 12,000 BTU air conditioners that i picked up on trash day in my city.. They needed the filters cleaned. $500 a piece for free. People will throw away things that can be fixed for pennies. I have a stacked component stereo system that just needed a new belt for the record player. with 4 foot tall Bose speakers because they thought they wouldn't work with a new system..

Just because many people use voice does not mean you are forced to. If people in laces you go to refuse to respond to your typed messages, go elsewhere. They are the problem. As a content creator, 90% of the time i am in SL i am working in various other programs as well. Voice gives me the ability to converse with people while i work. I dont have to watch the screen, type out a response and wait for a reply. I do have my name tagged in the settings to play a sound when its typed so i can respond to those that type. There are many ways we can all converse in SL without people demanding you use one method or another. There is also a little button on my headset cord to activate and deactivate my microphone, so you dont hear my kids or anything else going on in the background.

And... After telling us "voice haters" how "optional" it is, you then spam us with the tired old "if you don't voice it's because you're a man" voice-spammer meme. THIS is one of the reasons we hate voice, the way you "It's optional and we enjoy it" types KEEP TRYING TO CONVINCE US WE NEED TO USE IT. Interesting how your mind automatically went to her saying that if you dont voice with a female av you are a man, when she said nothing of the sort. She said "if your voice doesn't match your av." I have recently been wearing Viking garb, tattoos, hair and beard. Doesn't mean i should have a Norse accent. Or be able to speak it fluently. No one is trying to convince you to use voice. If the people you are around get bent that you have a male voice in a female av, that's their problem not yours. I was making clothing at a sandbox in my female alt and was approached by some newb on voice asking if i wanted to go somewhere private. I popped on voice and said "sure babe, your place or mine?" He lost his mind. I laughed my butt off at his closemindedness. TL:DR You do you, Boo. And don't read into things so much.

Fun fact, that was originally said by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Try working through this troubleshooting page.. https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_voice

Newsflash, no one is saying you have to use voice. No one official anyway. Everything else is just an opinion. Use voice, dont use voice. Use a voice mod, dont use a voice mod. Quit, don’t quit. Noodles, don’t noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There’s a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. In simpler terms. You do you, boo. No one cares if you do or do not use voice.

I filed one this morning..

Whats funny is the Grid Status page says there are no issues. LL needs to get their act together.

I try extremely hard to converse with the typers in a group as well as voice people. Why kills me is when someone falls asleep with their mic on.. I really dont need to hear your snoring and sleep noises.. You can, find a sim or group that caters to your RL area. I was in one that was just people from the Boston area. It was fun, but got boring as we all talked about the same news, weather and goings on. I would much rather talk with people from around the world and hear about their news and country. If i want a date, i will hit the local pub.

And yet, this thread rapidly turned into an Anti-voice thread. Personally, I don't care if you do or do not use voice. Every time these type of threads pop up it turns into a cr@pshow of negativity.

You could contact the creator and ask if they would sell you the one color..

Ok, that caught me. I was not expecting that, very funny! SLFlix and Chill! Awesome pictures!

How, exactly, are you going to add the correct Normal and specular map to an item that is mod without the textures to make the normal and spec maps? For instance a dress that has a tight weave texture but no normal map on it. How do you add your own normal map that would line up with the dresses textures? Perhaps it has lace on the edging, a little silk on the cuffs. Several fabrics on one texture. Normal and specular maps have to be made with the texture or they wont work.

Except by the ToS you do not have the ability to change what a creator has said, by the perms set, that you can not. The DMCA also says a creator of digital media as rights to say what can be done with their creation. No, they are arguing that a creator has the right to set the perms how they wish. According to the ToS that you agreed to. The sad part is this is all an argument between a customers wants and a creators rights. Wants do not supersede rights.

The DMCA applies to the UK as well. You also agreed to follow US law as it applies to SL when you agreed to the ToS. If you want to argue laws you should really know what you are talking about when you try. How about this, The SL ToS says what creators can set their items perms to. You complaining about it, hell hundreds of users complaining about it doesn't outweigh the creators rights. Ability does not equate to rights here, they have the RIGHT to sell their items how they wish. If you dont like that, buy from someone else. Getting your panties in a twist because someone doesn't sell their creations how you want them to is the absolute in arrogance. "YOU wont change your items for me!!!!" What's next. You gonna whine about what someone wears? Their mesh body choice? hair color? Where does it stop? When does it go back to, "Your world, Your imagination." Don't tell creators what to do with their imaginations.