Bree Giffen

Avatars at a welcome area in 2011. I just realized that I added myself in there.

Try installing a different viewer. Firestorm or the Linden viewer. It does sound like EEP but I've never seen a problem like described before.

Yay! I look like Tinkerbell! I don't know what is happening with that pic on the bottom left.

Any shade of gray produces a neutral light.

After all these threads on spinning

It seems like your ambient lighting was changed to blue which would tint your skin and everyone else blue. On the Linden viewer the menu is under world->environment->personal lighting.

Some people don't need a mesh avatar because of their play style in SL. A mesh avatar isn't useful if all you do is walk around looking at your avatar over the shoulder or if you are a builder interested in only building and selling things. If you love to shop for clothes and decorate your avatar then you'd probably be happy with a mesh avatar. If you interact with many people then they may want you to have a mesh avatar. It's entirely up to you.

Tell them you live in China and the great firewall blocks any friend requests from westerners. Tell her you never get any friend requests and when you get out of prison you will visit her. Tell him you don't want to accept his friendship because the last two people who friended you died in real life and you don't want it to happen to him. Tell them you always flip a coin to decide if you want them as a friend. Pretend to flip a coin and tell them it didn't work out.

You can ride next to the train tracks or by the linden roads. The residents tend to build with respect to these travel ways and it can make an interesting trip. I have also tried cutting across the mainland by picking a starting point and an end point several regions away. Its fun going through backyards and avoiding all sorts of barriers along the way.

On the PC, I used Photoshop until it became a subscription service and switched to Clip Studio Paint which is more an art program than a photo editor. I mostly use Procreate on an IPad which feels just like pencil on paper if you add a textured screen protector.

The power supply is too small. You need maybe a 750W supply. It’s a good setup but excessive for SL. If you or other people in your house will use it for other types of gaming then it will be useful. I’ve always been a little leery of using an SSD with SL. An SSD has a finite number of read/writes which means it degrades faster if you constantly access the drive. SL constantly accesses the drive. With a regular game you pull all the assets from a game and then it stops because the level is loaded. With SL, you are constantly loading and unloading textures between your drive and the cloud. I have my OS and SL on an HDD and I have few games on an SSD.

Make sure your keyboard, mouse, joysticks, whatever are not being pushed or pressed by anything. It could also be something you are wearing in SL. Try switching to a default avatar and see if you can move normally.

I'm all anxious to see what this "Z" kneeling animation looks like!!! It must be amazing. Someone please take a picture and post it.

😲 Janet that gif is 99.9% awesome.

It seems like a troll trying to get a response. I’d just send an abuse report and the Lindens will look into it. Then just block them and go on with life.

What is your main reason for being in Second Life? What are you using it for? What is making you stay? And don't you get bored of it? My main reason right now is for shopping and decorating my avatars. I'm the type who spends hours at the beginning of a game creating my character. New avatar content every day makes the customization nearly endless. I don't get bored of SL because it's not the only thing that I play and it provides a facet of play that is not available anywhere else to such a degree of complexity. I have also explored many facets of SL over the years from building, animating, store owning, working for others, homes, sailing etc. How does SL extend your real life (reality). What do you do in SL that you couldn't do in RL? You learn stuff in SL that can be learned in RL but at a different risk level. I learned entrepreneurship. More than just learning how to spell that too. I learned that you can be very proud of something you made and feel that it is the most amazing thing ever but when you put it on sale it might not sell like hotcakes as you expected. I learned that it takes a long time to build up your momentum and it takes a lot of effort to get things done. Advertising and promotion is also important although it feels narcissistic. There are also a lot of social things that I can do as well. There are people from all over the world to chat with. It's very satisfying to talk with someone across the ponds and just ask them basic things about their life. It's like getting information from a person on the street and not filtered by governments and news organizations. To do that in RL you'd have to be a world traveler and speak many languages. How would you like to see Second Life being upgraded so that it would let you do even more things? Over the years I've suggested many things on the forum on improving SL. My most recent one is to make SL mobile display only avatars and make it a game of decoration and socialization. I also suggested we have a Nexus where everyone appears in one place every time we log in to force people together (in a good way) and make them socialize.

I was playing again with the Artbreeder site and remixed an SL avatar. I decided to go to Everypixel and have the neural network evaluate my image. It came back with a 6.3% chance of my image being awesome. Wonderful. https://www.everypixel.com/aesthetics https://www.artbreeder.com/

Yours turned out really well. It made your avatar smile! 😁 I wonder why it doesn't do that for everyone. Maybe it's random.

I was trying to do another one and it started asking me to subscribe. I think it is two attempts per email address.

In SL, the animated images might be scripted prims and not gifs. But if you are going to a place with those kinds of moving images you are likely to see non-moving images, avatars, and furniture that your parents might find questionable. I'd get a privacy screen for your monitor. If your parents see the screen from an angle it will appear all black.