Marianne Little

I got a message from him, he says his account manager has contacted me. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. It was fair enough that the landlord replied within 24 hours. I can't complain. Yep, the land is going to be set for sale. Well, I haven't lost any rent. I would have bought Mainland, if it wasn't for that effing VAT and taxes. There are never any guarantee that I can keep land, when I rent on Mainland or on an estate. Only purchases from LL can I be sure to keep "forever". (As long as Second Life exists and I pay tier to LL) So a bit sad, but it is not the end of the world. Lots of places to rent, but I was very lucky there with that location.

Ah, I am worried that this is not going to end well. It is a kiosk in his office, to browse or pay. I can not pay there either. I find the parcels that's available for rent. They have boxes with CasparLet scripts inside, but the same empty when I click them. I was going to see if I could rent. Not that I would, but I wanted to see if it was payment options in them. Maybe he's not going to rent out anymore, and will sell it. It is no notices in the group, and while I am thinking about it, I do not think I have missed a notecard. I have usually got a warning that I have so-and so long time left to rent. Anyways, I have picked up my no copy things and are just waiting to see what happens.

It's possible that I have missed something. I am bombarded with group messages and notecards about weekend sales every time I log in. It's groups I have paid for, so I can not quit them. But it is really annoying, it is only spam. But I hope he is reading my IM. I will look in the rentals group.

I am paying rent to a box made by CasperLet rental system. When I click "pay" I used to get up the options pay one week, 2 weeks, etc. But now when I click pay, these options are gone in the "pay resident" window. I contacted the landlord to let him know about my trouble. It is only 8 hours left, and I hope I am not evicted after the time is up. I asked the landlord to pay him directly, but have not heard back. Edit: I have tried both Firestorm and the LL Official viewer. Same result.

My inventory:

The worst thing for me, is when the item is listed as modify because it has a resizer script or a texture change script. But it can not be tinted or textured, or if it is a rezzable object in many parts, I can not unlink parts, or link the item in a linkset. In my book, that is the biggest sin. It is a warped way of thinking about an item as modify.

Well, true. But it is so many other things in SL that can go wrong. There is simply no way people can be prevented from it. And still, I have deleted things over and over again in SL, and use some colorful words wen I do it. Because I have to mod the house a tiny bit more... change the wall color, find a new floor texture, tint the wood shutters darker, and so on. And I forget to lock the house, or terrace, or swimming pool again... I have finally learnt to write down the exact coordinates of my house in a notecard. When I delete the house again, as I am wont to do, I pull it out from trash and type in the coordinates, and it snap in place.

40, 50, 60 colors may seem like a good deal, but there are so few of those that I like. Fatpacks are only worth it when they are on sale. Using the best colors in the fatpack only is a mean thing to do. Maybe Blueberry could do that and sell and earn a ton of money when it was less competition. Blueberry could set the price as high as she wanted, people still bought it. Now people has more stores to select from. I have not shopped much Blueberry the last years, I have bought some Saturday sale packs. Much of the Blueberry clothers are in the same style. Low waist jeans, small tops, deep plunging cleavage, open cardigans. Seen it already, have a full inventory of it.

It is already mentioned that Dust Bunny's older sets is still looking perfect. I have to agree. The Pasta Love set is my favorite.

I have Bazar's different place settings, and they rez food too. I think I have almost all, here is an example:

Yes, Lucas Lameth's Tomato soup & grilled cheese set is one of my favorites. And I have a lot of Kraftwork's stuff. Fridge fillers, pantry modules, kitchen clutter, buffets, wine cabinets, all sorts of food.

I read many years ago, that creators had this argument: "If I sell modify, people are going to buy only the white shirt and tint it in any color." Personally, I think it is silly. Especially with dark colors, going from white to dark colors like maroon, dark green, ash, navy. And especially when tinting a white garment black. Shading and highlight disappear, the textile (like knit pattern) is impossible to see, it is like wearing a black garbage sack. But they had a point, there would be stringy persons doing this, and not care about how it looks. I would like mod permissions so I can tweak the colors. That is something totally different. It does not matter that a fatpack has 40 colors when 38 of them are awful. Creators seem to think they are so clever by offering all those colors, but I do not think so... It would be so much better if I could add a little drop of grey, so the colors could be less harsh. My idea of medium blue is probably not what the creator think is medium blue. I would rather start with light blue and add a small amount of blue, until it was enough. I can see no reason to sell modify, now when creators sell per body and not per color. Now they sell all colors/patterns included, but only for one body. Before, they sold single colors, but with all the bodies for that color with it.

Mutresse has started with LaraX sizes. Mutresse has a Rayna swimsuit that is sadly only Lara... yet... but I keep watching and hope it get updated to LaraX. I would buy this to full price again, just to have it in LaraX. No dental floss in the groin, or in the butt. It is enough coverage... and perfect. I will not post the image here and trick people into believing it is a LaraX size... But you can see it in the link. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Mutresse-Rayna-Swimsuit-30-Colors-for-MaitreyaPetiteRebornLegacyPerkyKupra/23753711

This is the real deal? There is no way a scammer can fake a name? A potential scammer would have to use a name like SidddeanMunro or some other spelling?

To have a pool that looks terraformed in the ground, I had to raise the ground. First I used prims under the house, these prims are 1.1 m tall. That would give me a pool depth of 1.10 m when I build a frame around the pool and lower it in. But with 2 steps up, I got a pool depth of 1.80 m. (1.10 + 35 + 35 = 180 m) Can you see me in the pool? The water reach the top of my head. I think the garden looks well. I used some shapes they are meant to be used as floating islands. I used them to edge the garden against the empty water. They hang out a bit, but the center is still on the parcel. It is void water, so no one can sail or swim there, so I am not blocking for anyone. This looks better than the single edge I had before, I think. I have been looking at the HPMD land shapes, but they are so expensive. I found a "poor man's substitute" on the Marketplace. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Floating-Islands-4-models/23119152 The rock part was very green by default, but the textures is included in the pack. Really a fantastic service from the seller, and so cheap compared to HPMD and Skye. I downloaded the textures from SL and managed to tweak the rock part to a more brown one. The HPMD land forms is looking better, but for an amateur like me, it wasn't so horrible. I might make new textures, so I can practice.

Thank you, the regions in SL that does not allow terraforming (Like Horizons) can be annoying to work with, but it is just to build up, up with mesh. 😃

Is it only me who find all the last names available, not only these, childish and anime-ish?

Well, I have to be a -1 out of 10, since I do not have a problem with strangers pestering me with IM's. Maybe I am smelly, or have greasy hair.

It's worth grabbing it even if you aren't currently in a boat or stilt. I am using the floating dock on my Mainland property. I switched the ladder for a pool ladder with climb up animation, and changed the textures to match my other decks.

And you have a gift by the front door for us! 💓

Well, I just came back from your Tortuga with a friend, and we agree that you are amazing! Do you have more than one house? I think that the more different people that decorate, the more unique styles we get.

Whoa, @Charlotte Bartlett your Zanzibar Hideaway went from 88 Li to 66 Li! 22 Li is not bad. Another store: Jura Waterfront cottage, from 72 Li to 57 Li. We can not take for granted a loss in double digits. The Cucumber house from Onsu is 153 Li and lost 0 Li. The Onsu Downtown skybox with enviroment, went from 97 Li to 92 Li. Without enviroment, 93 Li to 92 Li. It is not possible to set physics to "none" since a building need physics, and set up invisible walls with openings for doors will be a big job and add Li as well. It is many rooms. For the Cucumber house, the server number is 153, same as the Li number, so it's not going to be lower than 153 anyway.

Mm, it is moments like this when I am so happy to NOT be a SL merchant. If I was a seller of smaller Li non-worn items, I would face the critics and reply to them: "Thank you for notifying me, I have repaid your money". And call it a better solution than spending hours and hours of work for items that cost maybe 100L. The loss of 100L would be better than all that work, and I could then correct the Li number in the ad. Check the expensive items first and foremost. I do not know if LL will relist the stuff swiftly after the Li is corrected, LL has to know the workload is massive for the merchants. LL should not make it worse for them, but.... 🙄

Was this the Magicae house? It was a bit hard for me to count the Li since it is in more than one part - due to the maximum prims a linkset can have. But I could see the Li went down, and it was a lot.

Low Li items will show no difference if the download weight goes from 1.4 to 1.1. It is still 1 Li land impact. It is not necessary to change the description in the sales ad. But I am very sure that a boxwood urn had 1.4 download weight before this change from LL. I had it sized max up, and had not linked it since it would increase Li in a linkset. Now it is larger and more impressive, because I can stretch it until download weight is 1.4 again. In other cases, when an item has just a tiny bit lower download, it is a benefit to link it. Let us say the download weight is 0.8 before this change from LL. 0.8 + 0.8 = 1.6, the combined download weight is 1.6, and I have gained nothing. 1.6 is rounded up to 2. What if the 0.8 download weight objects have 0.7 now? 0.7 + 0.7 = 1.4, and two 1 Li items have a combined download weight of 1.4. It is rounded down to 1 Li. The example here is for mesh objects that has a server value of 0.5 when we look at "More info" in advanced edit. Lots of decorative small items have this value. Physics cost is a third thing that decide what happens with Li, but I do not go into it now... I don't have time to write so much. I just link to this post in the Linden Homes forum. It is often discussed how to link items so we can get optimal use of 371 Li. I apologize for eventual mistakes and bad explaining, English isn't my #1 language.