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  1. Madelaine McMasters
    During my grad school days, I went out to a bar with friends. We didn't realize it was a LGBTQ hangout. I ended up sitting at the bar next to a trans woman (or CD/TV, I'm not sure). She was warm, intelligent, and hilarious. She analyzed my skin tone, and recommended an appropriate palette of colors for both makeup and wardrobe. She looked at my body type and recommended clothing styles to make me look taller, slimmer, and more professional/in command. She gave me dating tips. She was enjoying a femininity I'd always taken for granted. She fought for what I was given at birth. I walked away from that encounter with a shifted perspective. Those people in the forums who've admitted to presenting differently here in SL are no less attractive in their SL persona than anyone else. @Katherine Heartsongis a sufficiently heartfelt woman to me. I take people here at face value. If their RL presentation is different, and the intent behind their SL presentation is acceptable, I'll respect the face they show me. I am not the only one in SL that contains multitudes.
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    Curiously, my parents are from that same era. Dad was born in 1920, Mom in 1928. Mom was one of 14 kids. The 10 girls were divided into two crews, the house crew (4) and the barn crew (6). Mom was a barn girl doing barn stuff, like welding back parts that fell off things, digging (by hand and with machines), and taking cows (on which she placed huge pretty bows) to date bulls. You get the idea. Dad grew up with his widowed grandfather. He cooked, washed and repaired clothing, fixed anything that broke around the house, and did whatever was necessary to make sure grandpa could focus on his job, which put food (which Dad shopped for) on the table for both of them. Dad went off to the Navy at age 16, Mom moved to the city when she was 18. Each then took roles more associated with their genders. By the time they finally figured out how to have a kid, in 1970, they'd pretty much erased any hint of gender specific roles. Because I was a little terror, they ended up home schooling me. I weld, sew, garden, cook, shop, fix whatever breaks. I wear pretty sundresses with steel toed work boots, because that's both practical (a flowy sundress is almost a wheel barrow) and comfy. I do this all with zero consideration for society's expectations for my gender. I did glam up during my adolescence and early adulthood, wearing high heels, trying lipstick, and marrying a boy. That didn't stick. I was raised in a world where who I am isn't determined by how I look or act so much as what I do. To paraphrase Whitman, I contain multitudes, I do everything.
  3. Madelaine McMasters
    I might have encountered my first real peeve. When LL erases evidence of their incompetence. I dearly hope this isn't part of a larger trend. As we head into a global recession, I can convince myself I'm seeing signs of worry inside LL.
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    I see a small plasma discharge off the top of the power pole just before the swooping effect. That's St. Elmo's fire.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo's_fire Plasma is conductive, so it will warp the electromagnetic field lines in the area. That might have produced enough potential for the discharge to follow a field line for few seconds. Ball lighthing is another rare and poorly understood phenomena, but this is not that. Let's just add this to the "What the hell was that? It's so cool!" list. To "mention" someone, no space after the @. Just start typing the name and an auto complete pull down will appear.
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    Most of the stuff in my inventory is named “Object”. I’d welcome someone sorting all that out.
  6. Madelaine McMasters
    Lia! I just noticed your return after an eight year absence. Welcome back!
  7. Madelaine McMasters
    Welcome to my world, Pheeby!
  8. Madelaine McMasters
    This is why I imagine I'm driving a huge front end loader when that happens. I still have to wait, but now it's entertaining.
  9. Madelaine McMasters
    Mining SL residents for RL marketing value by breaching privacy would vaporize the company in one news cycle.
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    Complete?
  11. Madelaine McMasters
    Different court. Not Unseelie, not Seelie, Disunseelie. Gardens invite weeds and I like to keep my peeps with me.
  12. Madelaine McMasters
    …sets you on fire, mixes your ashes with root beer to make the sweetest of modeling clays, sculpts a miniature you, brings you back to life, and offers you a home in her purse
  13. Madelaine McMasters
    I have an M1 Pro 16" MacBook Pro. It will wind up the fans when running SL. I would not extrapolate from this to the M1/M2 models, as those chips have a much lower thermal design power. Still, they put a fan in the M1/M2 MacBook pro for a reason. Improvements in SL Viewer design would be expected to wring more performance out the computer, so this isn't a concern that will go away over time.
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    Conformal coatings are designed to protect printed circuit boards from environmental damage, so I wouldn't worry about them being conductive. I use them on electronic devices I keep outside, like the stereo amplifier in my gazebo. The problem I see is keeping the coating away from connectors, PCB ground rings around mounting screw holes, heat transfer surfaces, etc. You mentioned "next spill". What happened during the last one?
  15. Madelaine McMasters
    ...shoots you, sets your corpse on fire, then shoots the ashes* *It really is that easy to get my attention
  16. Madelaine McMasters
    Private property in SL is treated like private property in RL. In RL, I have the right to determine who is allowed in my home. If I wish to restrict access to only people wearing a single shoe on their left foot, that is my right. If someone enters my home wearing both shoes, I have the right reject them, even if they then remove the right shoe. Such rules might seem silly, but they are legal. You may feel abused, but you have no legal right to enter another's home or use their property in RL or SL.
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    SL scripted game systems are the property of their creators. Many of those game systems involve external services that are not under LL jurisdiction. Within SL, those creators have the same right to control access to their game systems as they have to control access to their properties.
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    ...perks.
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    ...sets you on fire
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    I wasn't aware there was a government within SL that one could lead. Where did you find it?
  22. Madelaine McMasters
    Snap, Sis! I glanced at the "Unread Content" listing just a few moments ago and saw exactly that. You beat me to posting it.
  23. Madelaine McMasters
    It would be nice if IK could fix self collision problems with current animations and wonderful if it could fix collisions between avatars. For keyboardists like me, upper body mo-cap is a non-starter. I can see some limited use for facial expression capture. I might use it sparingly, but it would have to be something I could toggle on and off with a keystroke command. I might also want an "interposer" of some kind that, rather than animating my SL face directly from my RL facial expressions, passed through some library based filtering of expressions intended to mimic my real face. People won't want facial ticks or responses to RL distractions to animate their gorgeous and graceful SL faces. Imagine how off-putting eye tracking would be if you emote "/me gazes longingly into your eyes" while they're actually darting all about the SL viewer UI.
  24. Madelaine McMasters
    Good moaning, Sid.
  25. Madelaine McMasters
    I'm not terribly worried either. Voice bifurcated the crowd long ago. I think face animation, if it uses the web camera built into computers, tablets and phones, might be nice... if there's a quick way to switch it in and out.
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