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  1. 6 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    Crashing and Lag, same ol, same ol. I didn't pay it much mind because when I crash it is usually a one time thing and when I lag I usually know why and it isn't that.

    Next time I'm in, I'll check my number of outfits, but . . . I'm sure I've had over 200 outfits forever.

    Basically, almost any new clothing I buy gets turned almost immediately into an outfit so that I don't simply forget that I own it.

  2. 16 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    Read somewhere the other day that over 200 outfits starts causing problems. Think I might be getting close to that

    What sort of problems?

    I haven't counted, but I'd bet I have well over 500 or so outfits.

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  3. 16 minutes ago, Nalates Urriah said:

    Fair enough. Catznip is great for working with inventory. I do OCCASIONALLY use it.While I would like folders, not so much that I would add Catznip as one of my daily use viewers.

    It doesn't need to be used daily. Just create the top level folders you want in it: they will appear in FS, and are fully functional. In fact, you can create subfolders within those in FS: I do so all the time. It's only the top level folders you can't create in FS.

    PS. I use BD for this rather than Catznip because I do use that viewer pretty frequently.

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  4. 12 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    Maybe someone in a previous class took the time to give a lesson and teach them about directory structures and you just assumed they all knew it because it is easy once someone has been properly taught and practiced the lesson to the point it became second nature. Also dependent on whether there is an adequate search function like for most e-mail programs. The one in SL is not nearly so robust.

    I teach about 150 students a year. Most years about 60% of those are first years straight out of high school. Some are local, some come from far away. Their backgrounds are enormously diverse.

    None of them are perplexed by folders and directories..

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  5. 27 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

    Maybe..it's too hard for some older folks, so therefore those folks assume millennials will never figure it out?

    All because those folks can't remember "add" vs. "wear"?

    Yeah, maybe? This isn't, as they say, rocket science.

    The vast majority of students I teach are Gen Z. The LMS system we use at school employs a folder and directory structure. I have yet to have a student email me in panic because they couldn't find "Resources > Assignment Rubrics > Essay Topics."

    PS. If they did email me, they'd have to navigate email software that uses (wait for it!) folders.

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  6. 59 minutes ago, CossetteAlarie said:

    Do you have a group or something, don't want to miss your exhibit. I bought several at your recent show and put them on display in a garden parcel. They are so good and resilient, the weather hasn't seemed to bother them.

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hwang/248/50/73

     

    Wow, Cossette, thank you!!! What a really wonderful thing to read this was!

    I don't have a group. I probably should, but I'm not that organized! My next showing is scheduled at the Kondor Art Center for May 12, and will be built around the themes of Beckett's Waiting for Godot; this pic will be one of the ones on display there. There will be a performance of parts of the play at the opening as well!

    I generally advertise my shows in my signature, but I'll make a note to send you an invite!

    Also, I may just sneak into your garden at some point . . . JUST to make sure that the pics aren't being spoiled by rain, of course!

    And again, thank you! ❤️

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  7. Just now, Sid Nagy said:

    You take to much honor.
    The Moles and a Linden had to clean up the mess several times already.

    Yeah, I know. I was just joking.

    I think it was the back and forth at the end there that signed the thread's death letter.

    Still, it would be lovely to think of myself as a sort of Queen of Death! One little kiss . . . it won't hurt, I promise, and then it will be all over . . .

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  8. It's too bad so much of the discussion here is missing the point of the OP.

    It's not about whether someone gets left out of a coterie. It's certainly not about crapping on people who've put a lot of work into organizing fun events for residents -- no one would or could deny that the BBB does that. And it's not about someone who hasn't done the work wanting to "get in" -- the OP has contributed a huge amount to the community: she has an enormously impressive resume of work done that benefits SL.

    The issues being highlighted by the OP here are systemic, and relate to how LL chooses to engage with community leaders -- and who it decides, for its own corporate reasons, to ignore or even hamper.

    As much as I hate to suggest there is a sort of FIC dynamic at work here (it's a concept I've ridiculed generally in other contexts), it is absolutely clear to me, after having done a little digging around, that LL has managed all of this rather poorly, and has decided that there is a pretty select group of community leaders, creators, and so forth that it will listen to and employ for projects like this -- that it "favours" in other words.

    I am sure that this is not malicious or deliberately nasty: LL is a business, not a democracy, and it chooses, I'm sure, approaches that seem most efficient for its own corporate purposes. But it's also very poor community relations, and it's evidently causing damage.

    Kudos, genuinely, to the BBB for all of the great work it does. But the lack of transparency and openness, as well as an apparently very real tendency of LL to not merely ignore, but maybe actually impede "competing" creators and community leaders, is obviously a problem. And it's possible to find that problematic without hating on the BBB or even LL itself.

    It's a system that needs to be rethought.

    To be clear, I have no horse in this race, as I live on the Mainland rather than Belli. Nor am I in-world friends with anyone here involved. I don't have "insights" that aren't available to anyone who does a bit of reading and listening, and I can't vouch for the veracity of everything that has been said on either side

    But this would be a much more productive and fruitful discussion if it stopped focusing on personalities and motives, and started to examine instead exactly how things are being run by LL and the BBB. In other words, how can the system be made better and more inclusive.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

    I'm not into that kind of thing(s), but I like how your bosom hangs down realistically instead of defying gravity! 

    Breast deformers for the win!

    Actually, I'm wearing a regular Maitreya here: ordinarily I'm in Petite or Perky, and have smaller boobs. But yes, even wearing those, if I'm not wearing a bra, I'm wearing a breast deformer.

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  10. 54 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

    I absolutely loathe suburban life. My goal is to get *away* from that in the real world. No way would I want it here.

    Hard agree.

    54 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

    Plussssss - I go through moods when it comes to my SL housing. I adore private islands since abandoning a plot on a whim and picking up a new one is so effortless with the company I'm with (plus I'm able to get credit for any remaining time applied to the new plot). I can move from a forested island to a beachfront in 5 minutes. Or, as is my preference these days, just rent a big ole plot in the sky and swap between "cabin nestled in the hills" and "underwater grotto" and "vaporwave neon woman cave penthouse" whenever I want without anyone complaining about it. And of course the biggest plus - due to some massive luck, every sim I pick always tends to be empty, even if all of the plots are taken. 1-4 people on them, at the most, but very often a big ole 0.

    My only peeve is when I get too attached to a sim/plot and settle in for too long, which is my current issue. I log in only to pay rent these days because my plot is TOO perfect to let it go for the temporary break from SL I reallyyyyy want to take. 😂

    I'm in a somewhat different position, in that I maintain my parcel for two of my groups: it serves as their "home." But I do have three platforms, one with a gallery, another for shooting pics, and a third for . . . well, maybe a future home.

    I currently rent an apartment in Voroznia. I like it a LOT, and the region is interesting, but it's laggy, not cheap, and I'm not really there very much. So I think I may lose it, and furnish a skybox on my own parcel. I have a really nice converted urban warehouse skybox, with a beautiful wrap-around: I really should just be using it as "home." It'd save me about L$2000 a month, for one thing.

    As for my parcel at ground level -- well, as I say, it's not entirely for "me," but I'm pretty happy with it, and I like being there.

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  11. 8 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

    Bellisseria is quite big but 99% is totally boring to explore IMHO.
    People are even excited when a railroad track can be found next to their back yard. Go figure.
    It is one big suburbia with here and there a landmark.

    It has an important purpose though: Cater people who want to live somewhere quietly and not to expensive. It gives you a nice house and relatively a lot of LI to decorate.
    It is far to big to even try to shape it into one community. Too many people from too many timezones with too many different expectations and use of Second Life. And now it even shows that there are group wars going on over shaping the communitie. \o/

    When Belli was first created, I thought it was a pretty cool idea, largely because of the efforts that were being made to nurture a "community" there. (I also thought the covenant was pretty good.)

    It seemed like it worked quite well at first? I do have the sense, though, that maybe "community" has become, to some degree, "clique"? That may be for no other reason, though, than that there are people willing to put the time and effort into it, and a larger body of people who aren't.

    The other element may be that LL is a bit too involved, and that real community is being somewhat restricted too much by corporate policy and initiatives, and most especially the desire to market it.

    But, really, this is just guesswork: I know very little about it. I go there occasionally, but, yeah, I find it rather dull. It's not even really a very nice place to bike around because it's all so very samey (and yes, I know that there are people who will protest that it isn't. YMMV. It certainly is not as varied as the Mainland which, yes, IS an eyesore sometimes, but contains cool surprises.)

    The other three reasons I chose mainland (other than wanting to maintain my current parcel on Heterocera Atoll):

    • I am unexcited by the themes.
    • The houses are too big for me, and can't be resized. I don't want to feel like a prepubescent in my own home.
    • It just "feels" too much like one of those slightly stifling housing developments where everything is regulated by an annoyingly conservative HOA.

    But I get the appeal. It's just not for me.

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  12. 29 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

    I'm glad to have more backstory for the current drama.

    Fair. I actually did just watch it. Exciting it's not, and there's a fair amount there I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about to really understand, but it's more compelling than I had thought.

    I am sorry that the BBB passport system is exclusive to Belli residents. I get why that should be the case from LL's perspective, but it's yet another instance of the Mainland being permitted to languish.

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  13. Just now, Ayashe Ninetails said:

    Okay yeah, that is the same video. I peeked at it when it dropped, but rather quickly unpeeked. I didn't watch much, but I got the general gist of what's going on. And yeah, there's a lot of background info and back history there that brings a lot more context to the current thing. I just couldn't bring myself to care, honestly. Astarion's fate and Will Smith spending $140 million to make a free zombie survival game nobody even knew about that bombed on release (!!!) and generated a bunch of meme reviews is more my speed. 😂

     

    Are we on the same topic now, or different? I watched the one I mentioned above days ago, but didn't see anything new (yet).

    Peeve: I'm easily confused!

    Yeah, same video.

    And yes, a bit zzzzzzzz I'm sure unless one is a card-carrying member of the Real Housewives of Belli group.

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  14. 46 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

    Well considering the name of a thread is close to having a copyright, question would be can the Lab really just change Scylla's topic name like that unless she is an employee in which case they could. Is there another potential there for Scylla actually being a deep cover mole?

    Or am I just pot stirring?

     

     

    Yes, you are! Thank you!! Woot!

    Actually, the renaming of the thread DID mildly peeve me for just a second or two. I mean, it's really unimportant in this instance, so I'm not actually hot and bothered about it -- but it seems to me that it's one thing to redact or censor someone's posts, and quite another to silently change the wording.

    However, as I say, not NEARLY important enough for really fun drama!

    (Would being a deep cover mole pay more than what I earn from just sh*tposting here? Cuz if so, let's talk!)

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