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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    Wow. Kudos to @Rat Luv and @Jaylinbridges for their investigative reporting! This explains . . . everything. Wow. Again. This is where LL wants to go, is it?
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    Wonderful shot.
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    As one does. On horseback. 😃 That's a very fashionable horse, Khadijah! Also, I'm enjoying your posts immensely. 🙂
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    One of them actually is Kyle's "photographic" alt, whom he uses to establish and hold his camera position when he's doing shots. The others are, I think, mesh figures of the sort you can buy on the MP. There are lots of ways you can do this, of course. I've been in shots with five or six other friends. I've done shots of myself and Laskya, both logged in at the same time. And I've had up to seven different "versions" of myself in a pic (with different mesh bodies, heads, outfits, etc.): in those cases, I merge multiple shots together. All six figures in this pic are "me," all shot individually on the same backdrop (using a saved camera position) and then stitched together. (I think this pic took, including additional shots for depth maps, glitches, etc., something like 25 individual photos).
  6. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, apparently moving my Queen's Bishop's pawn two squares is SUCH a terrifying move, that it had Kyle tearing out his hair. Men fear me, dontcha know. 😏 (And thank you!)
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    My half of a collaborative shot with my friend Kyle Racho. Disclaimer: he came up with the idea, made the poses, and set up the shot. My masterful contribution was to point and click. I think he did a wonderful job.
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    Ran across this in my reading last week. It resonated immediately in the context of SL. "Have you ever said no to one of the lords of creation? (Of course you have!) The result is a popular lecture for the next half hour from the angle of of psychoanalysis, with primary emphasis on that nice, handy word inhibitions. When that strategy comes to nothing, the man in his fine logical security concludes that you are either frigid or stupid. Usually both. The conclusion, which despite everything remains possible, that his nose perhaps does not appeal to you, has yet to be drawn." (Grete Ujhely, "A Call for Sexual Tolerance," Der Querschnitt, 1930) Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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    Gwin just carries this lovely pastel-coloured ambiance with her wherever she goes. Or, a sim's EEP automatically adjusts to her whenever she enters -- I'm not sure which.
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    lol, no, I'm sure you are not. I'd pay good money to watch you try, though. 🙃
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    This, and modify the payment structure for chips that is currently designed to encourage really large investments of Lindens to get "good value" for your chip purchases. Or, better still, either limit the amount you can spend per day, or make it entirely free.
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    I'm peeved that we aren't seeing more Seicher here.
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    How did you manage to take such a lovely, cute pic in such a dreary place???? /me applauds
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    @manoji Yachvili's newest installation at the Onceagain Art Gallery is called "Secret Garden." The lovely title somewhat belies the content of the exhibition, which is a frequently dystopian and rather grim view of our future in a world of climate change. It's beautifully done, sobering, and a little shocking in places -- and it features some of her own photographic art as well. I dropped by today and did two shots, one of which I've already posted in the the "Tastefully Nude" thread of the Adult forum. This is the second one. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Peaceful Mountains/63/179/2506
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    Yeah . . . 🙄
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    A friend of mine here, @Josephine Carissa , noticed that I've been doing a number of shots recently with a vintage look, and recommended a couple of outfits -- including this rather lovely one, which is a free gift from The Annex. This is what real friends do -- find you cool stuff to wear! So off I went to 1930s-40s New York at the Time Portal.
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    Really wonderful pic, Sabrina!
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    I don't need to like her. She makes her own choices -- and I might agree or disagree with what she believes, does, or says, but the point is that she has that right. Which is different from a characterization of her coming from a third party that denigrates her and, by wider application, other women. No matter, Sandor. I am sure you did not intend anything sexist by your language. Whether your edit was conscious or deliberate or not, I appreciate the much more value-neutral phrasing you have chosen. So, again, thank you.
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    You substituted "experienced" for another word that meant something rather different, and was honestly a bit misogynist. I'm not going to repeat the word. Suffice it to say that losing it made a difference in how this older woman was characterized.
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    Thank you for rephrasing this, Sandor. I can now "like" it in good conscience.
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    🙄
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    While James distracts Le Chiffre, I look around to ensure no one is watching as I attach a listening device to SocialCasino Linden's water bowl. Note 1: @Katherine Heartsong already took the cigarette girl role, so I was left with being the "Bond Girl." Grrrrr! Note 2: The casino is a nightmare for pics. The texture thrashing is terrible, suggesting lots of 1024 textures, and the lighting is nuts, with a rotating spot that wiped out my own point lights every time it swooped around in my direction.
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    Dahling, you need to think BIG.
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    I don't know the answer to this, but you're right that the amounts are out of line with SL expectations. Most of us are used to spending something between about L$250 and L$400 for a single colour garment or hair style. My rent over the years (separate from my bumped-up tier) has generally come in at about L$500 to L$600 per week. There are of course people who have different spending habits -- Maddy, for instance, buys much less clothing than I do, but almost always gets fatpacks when she does. But the cost of chips for this casino is completely anomalous. And I can't tell you for sure that that's either because LL is out of touch with its own economy, or because they are confident that SL "gamblers" will readily drop such large sums. Again, though, they've incentivized really large purchases by making them a more efficient way of buying chips -- and that tells me that they are steering people into paying out the upper end of those options.
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    Is that why you get more bang for your buck when you spend larger sums, Arielle? That's assisting "impulse control"?
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