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Beth Macbain

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  1. That looks absolutely gorgeous and I want to visit when it's ready for public viewing!!
  2. I've created a few new alts for various things in the past few months. I've been in SL for more than a dozen years. The new user experience leaves me baffled. Getting through the walk/run/jump/fly area is fine (except waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too big) but what the hell am I supposed to do after that? I get this HUD thing attached to me that I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do with, I don't know where to go, I don't know what I'm supposed to be learning, can't figure out where the hell I am, and am generally lost by the entire experience. Everything is so freaking huge. It's like it's built for giants. What am I supposed to be looking for? There are user created areas new residents get shuffled off to? Where? How? That is apparently easily overlooked because not a single one of my new accounts ever made it to any of those places. I get some message about able to leave the island through a portal in the center of the square, but... where the hell is the square? I've never found it. Am I already in the middle of it? I've not spent a lot of time looking but since I really don't know what I'm looking for, it's just frustrating. If I were brand spanking new, I think I'd probably log out after bumbling around for a few minutes and never look back. How do I change clothes?? What are these things in my inventory?? Where is my inventory?? What is an inventory?? I don't know what the solution is. In order for a brand new avatar to succeed (stay) they have to be really determined, and I'm not sure all that many are when faced with such frustration right up front. I see them all standing around wondering what's supposed to happen next. I'm not noob-friendly (I'm too impatient) so I don't engage with any of them to see what they think or what questions they have, but there are always a handful of shiny new peeps just standing there and I fear every one of them is a lost opportunity or lost revenue for LL. There just has to be a better way.
  3. Oh @roseelvira ... HUGE HUGS. If anyone can pull through this I know it’s you and your mister. Don’t forget to do some self care, too. You gotta take care of yourself, sweet lady. We are here if you need us. ❤️
  4. This is the set I was talking about. I love it.
  5. When I say "mine", I mean ones I bought... I don't make anything but trouble! I have some in the Chintzy Lady, the Victorian brothel on Abrus, from DRD that I really like. I'm at working right now so I can't link you to them but DRD really has some great things.
  6. Sorry, can't help you with that. All my chairs are dirty chairs.
  7. I'm certain your entries were so much better. 🙄
  8. I wish I could wrap @Cindy Evanierin a big 'ol hug. Everyone else, too, for that matter. Hugs are good. I'm head-achy today. I don't have a headache yet but it's right there just waiting to blossom into a full on bucket of misery. I've preemptively taken some Tylenol but it's not eased that building pressure. I'll try some Sudafed next. I feel like this has been a really fricking long week. Does anyone else feel that way? Is it just the dread of having my blessed extra hour of sleep ripped away from me this weekend? I would really love a cranio-facial massage right now.
  9. Ridiculous to you. Perhaps you have some fetishes or kinks that you can share with us so we can judge?
  10. Because she knows damn good and well that no one is talking about residents being able to use their native language when it happens to use a non-Latin alphabet and is trying to move the goal posts because she got called out on her ageist "okay, boomer" crap.
  11. Er... what native language is this? 💥🐣 ᵗĤᶤŜ 𝔩ㄖ𝕠Ҝ𝓢 𝔞мⒶ𝔷𝕚𝐍ﻮ𝓵𝐲 ⓢ𝐭𝐮𝓹ᶤD. 🎯☯ Is that Arabic? Mandarin? Oh, I know... it's Farsi, isn't it? No, not that either? It's all Greek to me... except it isn't Greek. Pashtu?
  12. Drunker than a bicycle. I'm not right now, but that’s how I’ve always described extreme states of intoxication. I don’t know where it came from but I bet I was drunker than a bicycle at the time.
  13. If you were shuffling your feet and unable to make eye contact with me when you said that, I’m taking it to mean you wanna make out with me. 😘
  14. @Elena Core I sincerely apologize. It wasn't my intent to mock you. I made an admittedly bad pun, as most puns are, about the shortening of a word that I don't like. You are far from the only person who shortens Bellisseria. I generally don't like the shortening of any words. I had absolutely no idea that English was not your native language - and that is a compliment to your ability to speak (and write) it. Half of the named regions on Bellisseria are puns, and some of them are quite vulgar, yet I've not heard anyone take offense to any of those. I truly doubt anyone would take offense to a region called Swam Pass. It's almost as if... nah, no one here would deliberately look to find offense in my words just because they don't like me... would they? There is literally nothing scatological about summer butt sweat.
  15. Whaaaaaaaaaaa? Holy crap, that's amazing and wonderful and I had no idea that functionality existed! YAY!!! Gold star for you today!!
  16. They are to me, yes. I hope you have a truly lovely evening, Nika.
  17. Perhaps it's not so much the ageism that's bothering me as it is the dismissing of entire segments of society I'm seeing. Whether it's the "okay, boomer" thing or the "okay, Becky" thing... I really effing hate it. It's not okay to dismiss anyone because of their age, their race, their gender, their ethnicity, their religion... all the things a person can do nothing about. I know every generation has done the dismissive, unaffected thing in one form or another, and I know I've been guilty of it myself. It's ugly and I'm sick of seeing it on the forums. I'm going to start reporting it as the targeted hate that it is, regardless of who it is directed at. ...stomps her foot in a fit of pique... I forced myself to stop saying "whatever" when my elderly father started saying it. He really thought that saying "whatever" meant "I don't mind. You pick where we go for dinner!" but I guess he heard it so often on TV that he started using it. It sounded ridiculous coming from him and I realized it must've sounded just as ridiculous coming from me. And those of you who say things like "okay, boomer" and "okay, Becky" sound just as ridiculous. Disagree with people if you want to disagree with them, but at least disagree with some actual substance. ...harrumphs...
  18. Lil has it right. I really dislike the shortening of Bellisseria to the informal word for stomach. I think Bellisseria deserves better with all the work Patch and the rest of the LDPW have put into it. It wasn't a slam on your use of the English language which is far better than my use of whatever your native language is since I speak nothing other than English and a smattering of vulgar French words!
  19. Is a belli pond similar to swamp ass? Or is it closer to boob sweat?
  20. I thought this thread got the lock.
  21. Anyone else curious? Especially since these forums are incredibly PG13? I just really want to see the Forum Filth, okay... and join in... where is it???
  22. Also, @Strawberry Linden's new resident tutorials don't get near enough exposure and/or credit. They should be playing at the end of the hallway after new residents learn how to walk, jump, and fly. The information is much more helpful for anyone who joined SL because they saw one of these ads and the gorgeous avatars and are trying to figure out what they're supposed to be doing.
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