Marianne Little

Magika has bangs, (3 styles) hairclips and a crown as gifts. Group is free. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magika/143/124/21 Magika does not have a Halloween gift, only several discounted hairs. They are still too expensive to be called cheap. 300 - 280 L. They are fatpacks, so you can say it is a somewhat low price, if not cheap. Group members used to get a discount on all hairs, I could not see it on all the other hairs at full price.

DURA group gift hair. Group is free to join. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dura Dura/81/167/27 The hairbases have all the colors of the Dura hairs, and hairbases for EvoX too. Edit to add: The 2 gifts named "hair pieces" is only the front and hat is not included. This was very interesting. Most people use only a hairbase under a baseball cap or other hats. But with these hairs, you can move and edit them so you have long bangs in front. The hair pieces are not rigged. The right hair is a full hairstyle.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VALHAL/218/166/23 ⬆️This is the huge room with group gift hairs. It is also a new halloween hair, in addition to the "office" hair. Those who does not have EvoX heads, like the free Genus head, do not need to join a group to get all the free hairbases for universal UV. Buy the box for 0 L.

The No match group is worth 50 L to join. There are so many group gifts, and some of them are fatpacks too.

It is a wrinkle aging layer in the folder. It is a tattoo you add. It is light, medium and dark, pick the one closest to the skin tone. It is not very deep wrinkles, but it gives the face a little more mature look.

I do not want this dating option, but if Linden Lab think they can make money of it and/or attract new users - they will act like Linden Lab, and implement it. I bet LL will think that if some old residents leave, but SL get more new residents, it is profit. Huge fanfare, exiting news, big announcement, SL now let you find RL love, blah, blah, blah. Linden Lab will think that even if we complain and threaten to leave, most of us will stay. I would grumble over it, but stay. LL should give the "RL-seekers" a different color for the username and profile, making it really easy to spot them and know who to avoid.

I do not think I have seen that in any profile, but lots of versions of the opposite - not interested in RL.

No one would get to ask me that more than once before they are muted. Click, jerk-b-gone. Would I want to hear more question after question, when I have no interest in them? Is that a person to have on my friends list? I am not offended that some random person ask if I have something to hide. They are literally nothing to me. It is not different from the nagging about voice. Or the annoying ASL? that was common in 2008. Or begging for money. If I teleport in some store and get an IM asking for money, I don't bother to discuss or reply. I do not bother to ask why, berate them, or call them pathetic. Mute.

My first reaction was "Hell, no" but then I thought if other people want to use SL to meet people in RL, okay? Their SL, their imagination. @Love Zhaoyingmentioned that the mobile SL could make a difference in the number of people who want to meet others in RL. I can see that as a possibility. The problem would be if entitled people would twist this to mean that SL is a RL date service, and start to harass people who do not opt in. But that is what "mute" is for. I already mute those who start digging for RL information. The question "Why don't you have RL pictures and location in your profile" would be an instant way of knowing who to mute. It would not affect me in any way, unless Linden Lab made RL location mandatory. I can not see that coming.

That... is accurate, at least some days in the week for me. 🤣

A good blog that you should at least skim through: https://modemworld.me/ Category: Transcripts gives you a lot of information. https://modemworld.me/category/linden-lab/transcripts/ It is a lot of SL covered here, in addition to transcripts of Lab Gab meetings and information about new developments, it is Art in Second Life, Exploring Second Life and Events.

I prefer the cheapest option. A lot of texture options in a pack are not used, unless it is some challenge - wear a strange color.

I have something to add to #3: I am sure I spend an average time on 30 min-1 hour per week on only trying to sort my inventory. Or looking through it to find something I vaguely remember and open things I have forgot I had. This is a part of putting together fashion looks et cetera. When I am in the mood to take pictures, my avatar is what I take pictures of most of the time. The rest is of the pictures is of my virtual home. I also have alts to pose with me. I am spending a lot of time posing us, I need total control over their appearance and the look of the finished image. The time spent in SL when I take pictures is increased dramatically. So that is time spent on my avatar. And my sidekicks, my alts. They get updates to be looking good too.

Very lovely!

- 16 years 1 month. - It is impossible to reply, some times I can be here 10 hours/day, some times 2 hours/week. Some months I have had a break from SL and not logged in. - I invest a lot of time in SL, but not all of it goes on changing my avatar. I buy new hair and clothes, mostly. I am always tempted to buy more than I need in weekly sales, events and Black Friday. I follow some blogs for news about fashion and sales. The time I spend on that, count as time invested? I have a way too big number of avatar apparel and acessories I have not worn. (Do not ask how much, I have over 100 K in my inventory) I take pictures in SL and I change my virtual land with new buildings and new landscaping. - No one knows my name and date of birth. I can share stuff like location(Country), age (not in detail), interests and such information. - There are some who try to hack accounts. Malicious links that the gullible can log in with their SL password. I have not experienced it myself. ---------------------------- I recommend you to look up land prices and Premium prices. I rent from another resident, who has in turn bought land from Linden Lab, and pay tier to them. Land is a very big source of income for Linden Lab. To have a place in SL to set as home is important for so many of us. It gives us a place to log in, to be undisturbed when changing clothes and unpacking stuff. We can set security so we do not get unwanted visitors. And we can use our creativity on the builds and landscaping, and invite friends over. I do not consider myself as a big spender. I see Second Life as entertainment, and when I have SL, I do not spend money on subscriptions like Disney+, rent movies and things like that. I would hate to lose my account, even if I know it is possible that SL can close suddenly. It is not primary the money, since I know that I would have spent the same on other entertainment. It is the emotional loss, and I would miss spending time on SL.

This is a double posting, but I think I can get away with it since the other post was in another forum part and discussed editing and frames. I am still not sure about frames. I like the thin wood one (The first picture).

It would be fun to try green screen again, so if you have time to write about I would absolutely try it. 💓 Thank you for posting Photopea. I did not know about that editor.

I think shoulder deformer fix the shoulders. I tested it and they look more like Legacy shoulders. I have a Legacy Body too. The wider shoulders on Maitreya, the more prominent high shoulders. I am so tired of waiting for Lara X. I thought it should be something like two weeks, since Velour posted skins for it so early. It will be interesting to compare things like shoulders. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Shoulder-Kit/18492659 It is an old deformer, I have not tested all the new ones. It's even a freebie one. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Shoulder-deformer/23762200?page=4

I like projected lights a lot. Some times, especially in fashion outfit of the day looks, I use a black EEP where only lights are visible. But for the blue skin, I used an EEP setting from Battlescars. I think the sun color was blue, and when I think back, a peach or orange color would be better. To calm down the blue. I wish I could learn green screen better, but I think it is difficult in the free program Krita. I could take a picture against green and edit in a sky or other background after, but a bad done green screen is just awful. When it is hints of the green left.

I like to get free stuff. I am addicted to vignettes, so that pack of free textures vignette types was perfect. I have to go through a lot of things I don't like in Rawpixel, it reminds me of the SL Marketplace.

https://www.rawpixel.com/search/frame?page=1&sort=curated&topic_group=_topics I got some free frames from the site over. And textured vignettes from here. I share them in case you want to try them out. https://designbundles.net/free-design-resources/add-ons/free-30-vignette-photo-overlays I am not 100% sure if I like it or not. On one hand I think it is fun to try something new, on the other hand, is it too much?

I think I have very bad eyesight, so brush strokes, I can't see them, hehe. (Edit: I think it was a textured vignette. I am addicted to vignettes.) I am not sure what makes them. English isn't my language either, but I saw the baseboard was straight when I tilted the image. (I had to google to find the word baseboard) 😁 And I liked the way it looks straight. I am not a fan of those who post every single image angled. It is overused. It's possible to see it bigger here (the dance) Dangerous Dance | Pose [piXit] Dramatic Moves - Power Games … | Flickr @ValKalAstra

I have one or two open group slots. I can join free groups, and if it isn't very expensive, I can join and still leave. I do not bother with Premium any more, so it limits the number of groups. I am really happy that COCO, Apple Fall and Nutmeg are free. 🥰

It's DOUX - Ryancita Hairstyle. When looking at the poster, it show only straight hair without the scarf. I believe the scarf is only in the deluxe option.

My inventory expolded when Happy Weekend and The Saturday Sale started. I did not think, I teleported around and bought stuff. I haven't worn much of it. This is all Blueberry clothing. Today, I am doing my best to ignore Blueberry. I have enough jeans to wear the rest of my SLife. I love Nederlandse Bergen since it allows to rez. I could never sit so well on the bench without a posestand. Do you know of locations that allow to rez?