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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    5 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

    The kind of "line" I won't cross again is, for example, being "required" to take drugs for the other person's pleasure.

    That's a stupid and dangerous requirement that likely violates the law.

    I have met submissives that required (or even demanded) treatment I would not (as a matter of interest) or could not (as a matter of morality) give. I've also met dominants that were abused by their submissives.

    Like Seicher, my life would certainly be easier if I were different. But, we are who we are and we make the best with what we're given. I've been given a hell of a lot.

     

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    8 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
    31 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Well, my life would have been easier if enjoyment of intimacy didn't require kink.

    As the "other person", I have been quite put out when my partner REQUIRED "kink".  It felt..selfish?  

    But perhaps I was the selfish one for not agreeing to their terms. 

    These things are touchy, and quite personal.

    I didn't understand myself well (or at all) when I got married. Kink didn't sink the boat, not wanting kids did.

    Though I have requirements, that needn't be selfish. My last partner required my requirement, and was patient as I eased into the control she needed me to take. I didn't perceive her as selfish, I perceived her as amazing... and out of her damned mind.

    I don't see this as different than straight people requiring partners of the opposite gender. I simply have a much smaller pool to fish from.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    1 hour ago, Seicher Rae said:

    Peeved so hard today: That I am not lesbian. I think my life would be easier. I'm not even bi! I'm not ished out by woman on woman but... ok Years ago, thanks to SL, I learned I am the WORST lesbian EV-ER. Then I realized, no, I'm just the laziest. I cannot in PG explain that more. But I wish I could bat for the other team.

    Well, my life would have been easier if enjoyment of intimacy didn't require kink. Batting for a team requires batting, right? I did round the bases during my marriage, but advancing on walks probably doesn't count.

    Mostly I'm too lazy (or scared to death) to pursue that particular dream. Thankfully, there are lots of other things that interest me.

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    Stupid topic not about trees but about songs and stuff

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    1 hour ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:

    Fu..... I wish I was half as good as that on Hammered Dulcimer.

    Heck, I'd settle for just being able to mic it up "just right" and sufficiently confident to play it on a performance stream...

    Ooooh, streaming/broadcasting is a challenge. Da5id.

    Whatever confidence I lack over playing my bodhran in public can be replaced by pizza given to the band... or the audience.

    Stupid topic not about trees but about songs and stuff

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    2 minutes ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:

    The radio theater company I was a member of would recreate the classics. We'd do Fibber McGee, we'd do Dick Tracy, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow.. We'd do Christmas Carol every year. Did a pretty good recreation of "War of the Worlds" on its anniversary too :)

    I grew up listening to "Old Time Radio Drama" on Wisconsin Public Radio. The show was cancelled in 2020, largely because the material was looking both dated and insensitive. I was a member of a local community theater for years. At our after parties, we'd sometimes do little radio sketches that members had written, or impromptu lampoons of scenes from the play we'd just wrapped. Neil Simon would have filed a lawsuit if he'd seen what we did with "Barefoot in the Park".

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    Latest MacOS will not allow Firestorm to run

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    Posted · Edited by Madelaine McMasters
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    49 minutes ago, Pamus Bing said:

    I have one of the latest macbook laptops, it just blockes me from dowloading Firestorm. This is certainly the first and very last Apple computer I will ever touch. they are so limited the mouse has no speed at all. Any one have any idea hoe to block apple from blocking FS viewer

    You can adjust trackpad tracking speed in the "Trackpad" pane of "System Preferences" (2nd from the top in the menu). The same setting is available (via the "Mouse" pane) for Apple's mouse, should you use one with your MacBook.

    Apple's security provisions to require an extra permission step, as explained in the link I provided, and Rowan re-provided.

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    SL new user retention, expectation and usability

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    11 minutes ago, EliseAnne85 said:

    The majority of people I know spend a ton of money on their phone and don't have devices that would run SL.  

    This is a demographic shift that works against SL. Laptop/desktop sales are in a decline that's projected to continue for years, while most humans have smartphones capable of running at least some form of SL competition.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    19 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
    20 hours ago, Da5id Weatherwax said:

    When I lived in the USA I had maples on my land. Depending on how good the previous summer had been, each spring it was 60-80 gallons of sap to boil down for each gallon of maple syrup.  Maples are also kind enough to drop plenty of hot-and-clean burning firewood each year too so they took care of cooking it down as well :)

    I think it is @Madelaine McMasterswho talks about the sap occasionally. And no, I don't mean "the ladies" (you know which ones).

    For many years, I'd go maple sugaring with friends. Their sugar shack could process up to a thousand gallons of syrup in a season, from 40,000 gallons of sap. After collecting sap into a tank-sleigh pulled through the snowy forest stand by mules, we'd get all toasty around the wood fired evaporator while eating potluck.

    It's a fun way to spend a crisp late winter day, even if you are prone to sugarfooting*.

     

     

    *Accidentally spilling sap into the top of your boot, because you're too proud to admit you're not strong enough to carry two full buckets to the sleigh, like the boys.

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    Discrimination rules to be added to TOS?

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    25 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    Right, not a true force but a virtual one wherein an avatar is "forced" to change their location relative to the virtual position they held before.

    The legal definitions of force and space are physical. There is no physicality in SL, so there is no force, no space, no location, no position.

    Every place you think you have visited in SL is actually a service of delivering data to your computer from a database in LL's rented AWS servers. The LL Terms of SERVICE explain our rights to access this service and to control access to those portions of the service we rent with intent to display our private intellectual property (and that property we license from others). On the flip side of your argument, I can imagine that preventing users from controlling access to their private intellectual property might constitute compelled speech.

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