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Madelaine McMasters

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  1. Madelaine McMasters
    The hair worn by my little devil is the first purchase I ever made in SL, in April of 2008, two days after joining. The money for the hair was gifted to me by a stranger, who took me under her wing briefly. Though that person left SL a dozen years ago, her kindness and generosity sold me on SL, too. I have been trying to pay it forward ever since. I have only three decorations in my 35 LI skybox. Two of them were gifts from Scylla, who listens well enough to know that the cheap (to her) trinkets she drops will have great value to me. She also knows that if my skybox is filled with her treasured gifts, I can't rez things that will set her on fire, drown her in quicksand, or spin her around until she vomits. She's in this for herself, people. Humans have a long history of gifting as a means of establishing and maintaining connection. Anonymity can hamper that. Yep, it's hard to surprise with the expected.
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    You didn't miss it. Bree never mentioned anonymous gifting. I sorta inferred it because we already have a super simple way to do it explicitly.
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    It takes some effort to donate anonymously in RL. I don't see why SL should be any different. I don't think an anonymous gifting system would be gamed to launder money, because LL knows the identities of both parties of any financial transaction, for logical and legal reasons. I can see such a system being gamed for griefing, however. Having L$ fall from the skies can make people uncomfortable. Last holiday season, many of us, me included, were gifted things or L$ by an anonymous forum moose.Those gifts were accompanied by innocuous/humorous notes. Still (understandably), some people were uncomfortable. Imagine the angst one could cause by dropping L$1 on random people, with no explanation, or even a nefarious one. I can see the abuse reports piling up in LL's inbox. If I understood @Alwin Alcott correctly, any anonymous payment button would have to be matched by a "Refuse anonymous gifts" checkbox somewhere. I agree. I'd check mine.
  4. Madelaine McMasters
    …drowns you in a pool of Milk of Human Kindness, brings it to a boil to make “Cream of Scylla”, then burns it all to a crisp
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    What a load of BS! You’ve got working me over for donations down to a “fine art”, so my acts of kindness are not the least bit random. They’re programmed by you! To add insult to injury, I asked you to shut up about it and here you are blathering it all over the forums. Why oh why do I put up with you? Don’t say it, don’t you dare say it. Adorability is no damned excuse.
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    You’ve misspelled moron. It’s spelled gee oh oh eff. ETA: it just occurred to me. Goof off becomes… Gee! Oh? Oh! Eff off!
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    The spork of cones...
  8. Madelaine McMasters
    I think we all had a crush on Wildcat...
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    Here ya go...
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    Though I love KT Tunstall's cover of "Tangled Up In Blue, I still think Bob does it best...
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    Dillon's "little" music thread ended sometime in 2018, after more than seven years of sharing music across exactly 10,000 posts. LL's inability to imagine people like us resulted in that 10K post limit, causing the threads death. We kept it going for a little while longer by deleting older posts, but eventually that stopped working, too. Here's the last song posted to that thread... Dillon's last post to everyone in the thread, which approximately coincided with her leaving SL was... "I love you."
  15. Madelaine McMasters
    Mom’s go-to threat when she was really in a mood was… ”I brought you into this world, I can take you right back out.” I never had difficulty telling if the mood was angry or silly. Friends did.
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    I was thinking that, if actually eating your young was defensible, I'd give it a go on Mac. But, I'm both vegetarian and aware that I'm only here to discuss this today because it's not defensible. We're not actually related, but Mac did seem to fall from my tree... on his head, but still from my tree.
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    Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Qie! Quotes of interest: "That model was suggested by Bernhard Riemann and developed by Hermann von Helmholtz and Erwin Schrödinger — all giants in mathematics and physics — and proving one of them wrong is pretty much the dream of a scientist.” I highlighted a concept that is foreign to those who think science is groupthink. “We might be able to think of it normally but with an added dampening or weighing function that pulls long distances in, making them shorter. But we can’t prove it yet.” That sure sounds like the logarithmic behavior of our photosensors, though that's so well understood that they must mean something else on top of that.
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    Yep. My partner and I were fully cognizant of the screwy-ness our particular kink, had no explanation for it, and no expectation of finding one. We were simply happy to have found each other, so no explanations were necessary. We'd just look out at the rest of the world from our cozy perch and be thankful that, for our brief time together, we didn't have to fit into it. And, back to nibbling on our young, there actually is an explanation... https://www.bounty.com/baby-0-to-12-months/development/want-to-eat-your-babys-toes I can find potential, satisfying, explanations for a lot of kinky behavior, making screwy seem perfectly normal, or even supranormal.
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    I remember Mark Kingdon beaming with pride over increasing new user signups from 20K to 30K/day. At the same time, concurrency was falling. If you know you're not keeping the customers who try your product, it makes no sense to bring in more. It makes even less sense to be happy about it. Retention is indeed the hard problem. Improve that before drawing in more people to discover you haven't improved that.
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    In a metaphorical sense, I'll mostly agree. My recent, vanished partner was a near a perfect fit for my weird form of intimacy. Her joyful acceptance of that was the kind of spooning I wanted. I won't elevate that to "need" because I get along without it, but it comes pretty damn close.
  21. Madelaine McMasters
    I can be the outer spoon, not the inner one.
  22. Madelaine McMasters
    I didn't give birth to anyone, yet I've still got a kid. I can only imagine how painful childbirth is, but I KNOW how painful child rearing is. I got very excited yesterday when my tree guy informed me that he's got a new chipper that can handle 18" trunks. Mac will fit!
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    I love seeing others hugging and cuddling, and I love being the cuddler. But the cuddled one? Not even on my death bed. Nature can be so screwy.
  24. Madelaine McMasters
    No, TP direction compatibility is the sort of thing we knew to check before getting married. Having children wasn't. Oops.
  25. Madelaine McMasters
    ...gives you a flaming hug
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