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    Oh Em Gee! Totally Unofficial Thankful and Grateful Thread! Share your smiles Yes! SL SMILES!

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Madelaine McMasters

    9 minutes ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:

    Thats a REAL interesting take on Queen Mab's habit of turning folks to stone and arranging them in her garden :)

     

    (it is usually a bad idea to peeve the queen of the unseelie court)

    Different court. Not Unseelie, not Seelie, Disunseelie.

    Gardens invite weeds and I like to keep my peeps with me.

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    Oh Em Gee! Totally Unofficial Thankful and Grateful Thread! Share your smiles Yes! SL SMILES!

    in General Discussion Forum

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    On 9/18/2022 at 8:28 PM, Robin Kiyori said:

    I am very greatful fot lovely fourm users that are supportive and sweet to all.

    I've been on some rather dark and troubled spots lately. But the fourms users have a unquie way of making things bright. [Or firey in certain maddy ways]  💛💜🤍🖤

    …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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    MacBook Air M1/M2 - do they throttle on SecondLife?

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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 Coating

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

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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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    Second Life Puppetry

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Madelaine McMasters

    20 minutes ago, Seicher Rae said:

    ETA: I think "coterie" and "similar avatars" is redundant... so shoot me.

    ...shoots you, sets your corpse on fire, then shoots the ashes*

     

     

    *It really is that easy to get my attention

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    Abuso total de autoridad y bulling extremo

    in Abuse and Griefing

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    Just now, victoriaSinMas said:

    Y los usuarios no podemos hacer nada cuando se comete un abuso? No se puede denunciar de ninguna manera?

    And we users can't do anything when an abuse is committed? Can't be sued in any way?

     

    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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    Second Life Puppetry

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    Posted · Edited by Madelaine McMasters

    4 hours ago, Henri Beauchamp said:

    I am worried: it just divides the already small user base into more sub-communities... Voice is an impairment for non English *speakers* like me and a huge turn off for role-players who cannot care less about the gender, age or any physical characteristic of the RL person behind the avatar, but on the contrary want their imagination to stay in control.

    This said, I am not too worried either since I already predicted (see point 2 of this post) that the ”avatar expressiveness” stuff (which is only part of what can be done with the puppetry feature) will end up as a one of those gadget features of SL very few people are using (anyone here using voice morphing ?... Or path-finding ?)...

    However, I can see more opportunities and applications than just the real time capture via a webcam for the puppetry feature, as it is coded... There are also potential and interesting ”side benefits”, such as reusing the IK code with/for current SL animations... So, the work done is not totally useless, even if the initial goal (avatar expressiveness based on RL user facial expressions) will become more and more evanescent as the initial hype fades away.

    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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    Second Life Puppetry

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    Posted · Edited by Madelaine McMasters

    8 minutes ago, animats said:

    I'm not worried. Second Life is the size of Los Angeles but the number of people in it is 100x less. There's more than enough room for people doing different things.

    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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    Second Life Puppetry

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Madelaine McMasters

    7 minutes ago, animats said:

    A few social points:

    • Being rigged for voice and body tracking makes you much more alive in SL. Anyone with a full rig makes everyone around them look dead.
    • This raises the bar for performers of all kinds, from leaders of meetings to escorts. If you want to be looked at, you're going to have to have at least face and upper body tracking. And, of course, voice.

    It's a whole new world, and it's going to be fun.

    (Please don't botch the job, LL.)

    Oooh, a world bifurcated into live chatting augmentationists and dead typing immersionists.

    This isn't the end I was expecting.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

    in General Discussion Forum

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    1 minute ago, Sammy Huntsman said:

    And about the queen thing, I may be sympathetic towards others feelings about her. But I am absolutely ambivalent to her passing. I mean yeah she is my queen, but I never met her,  I have never said tikkity boo to her. So I am not really affected by her passing, I mean her passing isn't gonna ruin my day, I am not gonna mope cause Lizzy died.

    I am similarly ambivalent. Still, according to reputable news organizations, she will be missed.

    Are we walking back our "sorrys"?

    ;-).

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