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1 hour ago, Arielle Popstar said:
Not the point of the thread though. The discussion is about the new rules and justifications for banning accounts from the platform, not about venue owners kicking certain avatars from their event. Where it could be problematic is if the owner/manager follows it up with an AR that might then be used by Governance for further action using any of these Bingo! excuses. So any and all AR's for LGBQT's are to likely to result in permanent suspensions.
Associating p*dophilia with the broader LGBTQ+ community has been a tried and true strategy of homophobes and transphobes since at least the 1970s.
The vast majority of child molesters are straight. Let's not feed this kind of deliberate distortion please.
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9 hours ago, Stephanie Misfit said:
BTW I notice they have removed Second Life from that site.
Interesting, because that does seemingly suggest that dropping SL is in part at least a business decision, rather than a more personal one that (one would have thought) would impact upon the entire operation?
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9 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I hear this guy named "Warren Peace" writes BIG books, they probably hurt when thrown.
In the late 17th century, one of the most popular writers of prose fiction was the French author Madeleine de Scudéry, who wrote huge stories (not quite "novels" in the modern sense, but close) that filled anywhere from 6 to 10 thick bound volumes: her Artamène supposedly is over 2 million words long. She was much translated into English.
She was particularly popular among women -- these were sort of pseudo-historical romance novels, set in exotic, far-off lands. Not quite bodice-rippers, but with lots of heavy breathing implied.
I've actually always fancied that her popularity among women readers was owing at least in part to the convenience they must have offered as projectiles.
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2 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Peeve: We can't ban the Internet!!1!!
They're trying, though. And in some places, coming close to succeeding.
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6 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Peeve - But bonus: Certain types are AFRAID of books!
(Even when they are not on fire!)
Sorry if that SOUNDED political, but really - it was about different points of view.
I mean, seriously - who could POSSIBLY be afraid of books?
LOL!!!
Too much danger of getting political here, but in practice, historically and present day -- a great many people.
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3 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:
A library full of heavy books and you have to look for something???
Books are too valuable!
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3 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:
That's the fun of it, at least in my case. It doesn't have to. Just knowing it's getting any reaction is enough for me!
/me looks for something heavy I can throw
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7 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said:
New trick unlocked.
But dahling . . . it didn't work!
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So, last night and again today I visited the upcoming exhibition of a friend of mine, Aggie Rowlands.
Aggie is an amazing artist; she specializes in impromptu, "live" portraiture. No poses, and no postprocessing: her images are captured in real time as she wanders around SL, and they appear on her canvasses as they appeared in her viewer. That's not to say, of course, that these are merely "lucky" shots: she's masterful at managing EEP, camera and in-viewer settings and filters to produce the effects that she wants. And she's sooooo good at capturing character in a face.
This is a kind of photography which I am simply no good at. I'm full of admiration for her work.
This shot provides a small sample of her stuff, much of which is photographically more ingenious than what you can see here -- but for some reason, I found myself lingering over these particular shots . . . 😏
Her show (appropriately entitled "Mugshot") opens Tuesday at the Event Space in Sospiri. I highly recommend it -- and not just because there happen to be two pics of me there . . .
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44 minutes ago, Stephanie Misfit said:
That's a particular dating strategy some guys use, to neg you like that, and try to undermine your confidence, making you an easier target. The good thing is, that once you can recognise negging, it is easy to give those guys a wide berth.
Ah. Now, it hadn't struck me as negging, but I suppose you might be right. Mostly his conversation was funny and fun, though, and I was quite happily playing along . . . until we hit this point.
There are a couple of skits on the old Mitchell and Webb show about negging that are simultaneously sort of funny, and really actually quite upsetting to watch.
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1 hour ago, ValKalAstra said:
Okay, that's just uncanny. Who was drawing secret portraits of me?! Good find.
Well, I'm glad that you see it too, and that I'm not just totally imagining the resemblance, because it hit me immediately!
Of course, she's nothing without the glasses.
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9 minutes ago, Stephanie Misfit said:
Red flag, gaslighter. Steer clear of that person.
The really odd thing is that he said this while he was very clearly flirting with me.
"You're doing it wrong" I nearly said.
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Stumbled across a pic of Nina @ValKalAstra online! Except someone forgot to add the glasses.
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I'd like to suggest some additions to the banned list.
"orb"
"alt"
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"PBR"
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1 minute ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:
Similarly, who do we credit for this beautiful shot? My vote goes to the photographer, Nima Sarikhani (linking instead of posting to respect the photographer's copyright).
Wow. What an image!
1 minute ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:Why can't I take photos like this in real life???????????
Because you don't live on an Arctic ice flow?
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1 hour ago, Bagnu said:
Since we removed Castle Deathsex we have almost no vistors.
lol
I'm sorry, and seriously not being disrespectful! I get it.
But you have to admit, that is a really funny sentence.
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35 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:
Wonder what he thinks about photographers who start from a blank slate up in the sky and create their scenes from scratch by mixing/matching and editing scenery, props, furniture, particles, and sky effects? Just asking for a friend.
Which is what I do for about 95% of my pics -- I almost invariably create my own backdrops, for a number of reasons. I use a mix of commercial items (some full-perm) and prim/mesh building blocks, often with textures I've created myself.
I asked him if his sim credits the creators of the trees, grass, structures, etc., that it employs.
Oh, a final irony? His Flickr profile pic uses AI enhancement.
35 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:To be fair, I would gladly acknowledge every single creator featured in any of my photos (and occasionally did), but the description would wind up a mile long given how much I tend to use, and considering how Flickr moderation is these days, I stopped crediting altogether.
Yeah, exactly. Where would one stop? I'll almost always post a SLURL if it's appropriate, and on rarer occasions, the maker of a garment or something that is particularly central to the scene or that I'm especially impressed by, but this could be an endless process, and one that, as you say, Flickr might well take exception to.
35 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:That said, many, many photographers already do credit outfit/accessory designers and sim owners, so it's not like we don't already realize this is a collaborative effort. I'm well aware that my creativity builds on the creativity of others. Not really much different to how it works in the real world, unless he expects that wildlife photographers start making giraffes or they aren't legit, or some nonsense.
Well, my fallback on the question of creative credit is always something like a photo by Ansel Adams. This church is of course centrally part of this picture -- but the brilliance of the photograph is all Adams.
He does tell us where it is (Bodega, CA), but would we expect him to credit the architect or grounds crew too?
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7 minutes ago, Istelathis said:
It is one of the reasons why I don't really connect with others so much anymore, people just can't live and let live, they always have to be trying to control one another. It is a shame, there is an entire gorgeous world out there, that will never be good enough for them because it is not under their control. I kind of miss the 90s when most of us did not take ourselves, or others as seriously
I'm sorry to hear that, Stella -- you're a really sweet, smart, and enormously funny person, and I'm very grateful that you're here, and that I've "connected" with you at some level. We would all be the poorer for it if you decided not to be here with us. I can't help feeling that you're depriving the broader world of your company. It could use your wit and good humour.
Mostly, I'm able to ignore the ones who are controlling and obnoxious. It's far more economical and healthy to focus on the nice people!
And, just to be clear -- this sim owner's comments weren't directed at me (although I responded to him on Flickr, and he immediately accused me of "trolling" and shut me out from further responses). I am just really tired of this kind of attitude. It displays a lack of understanding, and an even more disturbing lack of generosity.
Thank you for your kind words, though!
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10 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:
Challenge him to try himself if he thinks it is so easy. I know I can't take a good picture if my life depended on it, using the same spot that my partner uses to create a picture she won't even acknowledge as being artistic and yet loads better then my feeble attempts. Having an eye or smidgeon of creativity is essential and not all of us have it.
Well, indeed. I've spent the better part of 5 or 6 years working on my photography skills, and I am, genuinely, very far from feeling that I've arrived at the kind of expertise and creativity that I would like to possess.
And there are so many kinds of creativity, which we shouldn't be defining (I think) merely on the basis of how "good" the output is. Creativity is still creativity, even if you are not acknowledged as an "artist."
And it's all good, and valuable, and lovely to see.
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SERIOUS peeve.
People who think that the beauty, creativity, and meanings generated by SL photography are really solely to be attributed to the sim designers and mesh creators who produced the subjects of those photographs. Like the idiot who, upon finding out I was a photographer, responded with "Oh, so you take pictures of other people's creative work?"
This appeared on a Flickr page associated with a region that is a particular favourite of some photographers (but not, for what it's worth, of me):
"The creators of such sims had more contribution to the quality of their image then the blogger had. Reading comments like 'oh what beautiful details' makes us vomit. They only made the screen capture, not the sim design."
His central point, that photographers should include the SLURL of the places where they take pics, I agree with. I almost invariably do.
Reducing the hard creative work of photographers to "screen captures," however, makes me want to scream. (I'm too genteel to vomit, unlike this sim owner.)
Anyway, I'm about to get myself banned from a certain sim.
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Technically not a "meme," but certainly SL-oriented and kinda funny.
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2 hours ago, Luna Bliss said:
Pet Peeve: People who call you a narcissist when you simply disagree with their idea and think it's ridiculous!🤣
Yeah. We have the bad habit, sometimes, of generalizing or even armchair psychologizing perspectives here, rather than addressing the substance of what has been said. So and so has "issues," or is too "woke" or is obviously a reactionary, or whatever.
We all do it; I've certainly been guilty.
But even if we're correct in our assumptions (and, really, how can we know from this distance?), it does little good to articulate them. Demonstrating that a perspective is incorrect because it doesn't make sense is a great deal more useful, and ultimately effective, than dismissing something because we distrust the origin or motivations behind them.
We all could be better, I think.
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Just now, Ceka Cianci said:
It's feeling more like fast food than dining out anymore.
There's a lot of truth to that.
That said, I did find a couple of really lovely things today that have me genuinely a little excited. Although one of those was at an event rather than a sale.
But there is a sort of "routine" element to sitting down with my coffee on a Saturday morning, and working my way through Seraphim. It does start to feel like "work."
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Lab Gab April 2024 - Comments? Discussion?
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There is no connection between a*eplay and the majority of things listed on that bingo card. Arguing that new rules against a*eplay are the thin edge of a wedge that will be used also to attack the LGBTQ+ community (but not apparently cishet sexuality) implies a connection that doesn't exist.
It's also utter nonsense; nothing that has been said suggests any of these other things are targets.