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Madelaine McMasters

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    Complete?
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    Different court. Not Unseelie, not Seelie, Disunseelie. Gardens invite weeds and I like to keep my peeps with me.
  3. 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
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    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?
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    ...shoots you, sets your corpse on fire, then shoots the ashes* *It really is that easy to get my attention
  7. 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.
  9. Madelaine McMasters
    ...perks.
  10. Madelaine McMasters
    ...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?
  13. 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.
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    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.
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    Good moaning, Sid.
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    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.
  17. Madelaine McMasters
    Oooh, a world bifurcated into live chatting augmentationists and dead typing immersionists. This isn't the end I was expecting.
  18. Madelaine McMasters
    Hey!!! …sets you on fire.
  19. Madelaine McMasters
    And now everybody knows our sorrow can't be trusted. Whatever will we do? Just don't die today, okay? I don't want to do another news flash.
  20. Madelaine McMasters
    Aha! I'm not sorry for mine.
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    I am similarly ambivalent. Still, according to reputable news organizations, she will be missed. Are we walking back our "sorrys"? ;-).
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    Don't forget people, Silent's birthday is tomorrow.
  24. Madelaine McMasters
    Okay, now two of us can be sorry. She will be missed. You? Too soon to tell. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAMMY!
  25. Madelaine McMasters
    I love that, Lindal! I built an ultralight biplane in my early SL days. The pilot lays on the lower wing, casually reading a book. The book's title is "Learn to Fly".
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