Theresa Tennyson

It dropped so low -- in my Regard -- I heard it hit the Ground -- And go to pieces on the Stones At bottom of my Mind -- Yet blamed the Fate that flung it -- less Than I denounced Myself, For entertaining Plated Wares Upon My Silver Shelf -- --------- Emily Dickinson

Interesting definition: https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/scum

Most new technologies/systems drop into a social role that was being supported by another, earlier one. Once they become established, they generally don't eliminate the older one but they make huge changes to the balance of the economy. When cars started becoming popular they didn't make horses extinct. When photography was invented it didn't mean the end of artistic painting. What they did was completely change their roles, from the primary means of transportation/graphic representation to a niche application. Before Bakes-on-Mesh, appliers were the only way of getting a texture onto a mesh body or head. Afterwards, appliers were reduced to a niche application. There are certain things they're useful for and anyone who thought they weren't was an idiot. (Go ahead and read the threads; you'll find me, who was one of the biggest proponents of Bakes-on-Mesh, suggesting their use for clothing layers.) For putting skin diffuse textures on a body? You can argue that they weren't ideal. For putting freckles on top of those textures? Sucked like a tornado in a trailer park. Which means that after BOM was introduced, appliers were much, much, much less important than they were before. If you're trying to state that's not true I'd be fascinated to hear your arguments.

Theresa Tennyson smiles. Of course there was.

That's kind of like saying, "One type of petrochemical [gasoline] not being used anymore has no real bearing on the oil industry." And who exactly was it who was predicting the "death of appliers" in the first place?

It's interesting that you didn't mention the words "skin applier" once.

It kind of... um... was? They're still used for makeup on some heads but as far as skins go they're pretty much history as far as I can tell. There's no such thing as a "Reborn skin applier."

If you're talking about me, I never said that the alpha cuts would go away, only that they could. Personally, I basically never (intentionally) use alpha cut huds even if the body is set up for them. Now tell us how many onion layers the Maitreya and Reborn bodies now have in their default configurations.

"Nobody I know voted for Nixon."

Misread something, sorry...

How about, "The people (both of them, basically) who are pushing back hardest against LaraX are the same ones who were pushing back hardest against Bakes-on-Mesh, and look how that worked out?" Oh, and "almost a month?" It's been eighteen Earth days. Is the weather nice on your planet?

I once had a friend who was... Let's just say we were at a mutual friend's house and their mother offered J some coffee. J's reply? "I wouldn't pollute my body that way." Interestingly enough, J frequently complained about how other people were rude to her. Might have been a reason for that...

Then don't talk about it anymore.

That's one of the "release candidate" viewers that's being tested by being sent to random users (apparently including you.) Note that there are changes to how animesh characters/attachments are being handled; bento hands might have gotten caught up in that: https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.6.17.6935629493.html Try downloading and installing the "default" viewer that shows up on the big orange button on the download page. If the problem goes away you've discovered a bug.

Are you saying that people who are faced with the possibility of changes to their usual procedures either ignore them or work themselves into incoherent balls of fury about them rather than taking time to understand them?

It might be Bento hand animations that aren't getting loaded by the observing viewer. It would be similar to how some avatars get "starfish hands." That would be a reason that it would be body-dependent as well, because different bodies animate hands in different ways.

Save Sticks are modifiable; their name literally includes the phrase "(rez to rename)".

I'm assuming everyone is starting from their Maitreya -->5.3 shapes. I've used a lot of mesh bodies and Maitreya's original pelvis is a rather odd shape - it's quite flat up and down and the widest point is way down at your crotch. If you remember Thomas Dolby playing a woman like a cello in the "She Blinded Me With Science" video? If it was a Maitreya-wearing woman he'd be playing a banjo. Your original Maitreya shapes were made, consciously or unconsciously, to work around this. Maitreya doesn't necessarily want people to change bodies today, they don't want users to change brands in the future. People aren't wearing Maitreya Lara 4.0 or 5.0 either (not even to mention Lara 1.0) - they're wearing 4.1 or 5.3. There are a few things about LaraX that I'd liked changed and that shouldn't be too disruptive. I'm annoyed that they're still using the "add-on" klunkyness for BOM body smoothers instead of having them integrated in the body/main hud, and the fact that the body responds to auto-alpha commands meant for a different alpha layout is a flat-out mistake. And yeah, the dimples... They were there in the old body and I wasn't super-thrilled with them then, but now, well... yeah. Personally I'm just happy that the Petite system is now an actual body instead of the Rube Goldberg kludge that meant I had to detach and reattach the add-on if I didn't want the "skinny girl wearing cantaloupes that stick out of her clothes" when the alpha system failed upon changing outfits.

Legacy was a new body; LaraX is a free update to a well-supported body a tremendous number of people already have. And if you remember, Legacy was yammering about their "deformers" that would supposedly allow you to use older clothes when it was launched. Meanwhile, it's been less than 24 hours since LaraX has been available.

Just like nobody listened to that lady who told us BOM would be a complete failure and it would be years and an extra L$3000 before any body makers adopted it. Try to find a new skin that doesn't use EVO-X mapping. They've been scarce for a while. Lelutka introduced EVO-X in March, 2021. I literally have food in the back of my kitchen cabinets that has been around longer.

So, you want clothing makers to try to sell clothes for a body that doesn't exist yet? There are probably plenty of things that are ready to be released now that the body's in the wild.

Short answer - no. A mesh clothing maker will assume that everyone who now has a Lara body will also have access to a Lara X body. If they rig their new tank top for a Lara X body, it will be a market of many bodies and few clothes. If they maintain the old rigging they'll be in competition with eight years worth of tank tops and lose the custom of those who want something for the new body.

And Somebody Else is paying for the places you're going to. Not you.

What is it with Capital Letters? Why do people just Randomly Capitalize things? It seems like it's a Lot Of Work. I mean, I'd Understand if it was someone who was a Native German Speaker, because They Capitalize All Nouns, but if you Speak English, you'd be Going Out of Your Way to keep hitting the Shift Key. It's a Pain in the Butt - I Know this because I have to Do it to Write This Post. jUST cURIOUS...

And appliers, too. Because nobody's going to use BOM, right?