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    You're definitely doing it wrong -- we may need remedial work here so that you unforget how to buy clothing. I've seen some of your outfits -- we just need to get into trim again. I can't speak to Kali's practices, but I've been clothes shopping with Maddy. She'll find one item she likes, buy the fatpack so she can mix-and-match with any of the six other garments she owns, and call it a day. Ask her about her RL pumps collection. It's truly heartbreaking.
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    This is more serious than I thought. Drastic measures are in order. Including, of course, a pre-retreat shopping expedition.
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    Can you think of a more virtuous use of RLV? It's for their own good!
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    Thank you, Cinn, that is very generous! Can the doors be locked from the outside?
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    It's pretty clear to me that we need to have a forum dress-up party, like an intervention, where we sit Maddy and Kali down (and maybe Lil, whose views on this SHOCKED me) and force them to try on different outfits. We have responsibilities here. And SOME of us are letting down the side.
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    This is Phil we're talking about. He uses roods.
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    Barbarian.
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    I was wondering when you'd show up . . . 🙂 Thank you for this.
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    Absolutely. As you can see in my pic above, I'm still running a library/archive. I've often thought, as a former maker of "books," that two things might be developed further (maybe using LSL?) to make reading and information retrieval exciting and functional in SL. The first is HTML on a prim, which I've never seen used really well. (Other than for YouTube and such.) And the second is HUD-based book systems, like the old Intellibooks. If these could be made more interactive, with dynamic page content, you could do some really cool things.
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    No, I'd agree that it would be unfair to "fault" them -- it was, as I recall, a time of radical and likely very necessary retrenchment. I think I might argue that they found themselves in that situation to begin with in some measure because of poor decisions in the first place -- M's focus on business and "enterprise" versions of SL being maybe one? But it was, it has to be said, terra incognita for everyone. There'd never been anything remotely like SL before, and even social media generally was still in its infancy and didn't provide a great deal in the way of example or guidance. The lessons of the pandemic -- and I'm not even yet quite sure what those are -- do seem to me underline the difficulties inherent in almost any kind of "virtual" teaching, including Zoom. I was only really peripherally involved in teaching in SL -- I did a few guest "lectures" here or there -- but I was, like everyone else in the profession, full-on engaged with the move to online classrooms in 2020/21. It was, I think, not an encouraging experience for anyone I knew. And I've read nothing to suggest that anyone developed a good formula for it. In terms of pedagogy (as opposed to the financial side of the equation), I don't know that we're much further ahead now in understanding how to make remote, online, and virtual leaning work well than we were in 2009.
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    Absolutely.
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    That doesn't surprise me -- she was very political, as well as very focused on her own interests. And although she taught LIS, she was in some ways more comfortable in media studies. She was certainly a mainstay for the SLLU. I'm very pleased to hear that! JJ was (maybe even still is?) on my friends list, but I doubt we spoke more than twice. Very helpful and friendly though! I've often wondered if one could quantify the damage that inflicted, not just in terms of immediately lost revenue for educational / NPO regions, but in terms of recruitment and retention, not to mention what you might call cultural "legitimacy." From where I stood, although I didn't have any sort of "official" affiliation, it had an almost immediate, and very dramatically bad, impact.
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    i really like that camera setting, Rowan.
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    Yes, but we're very fond of him. Most of the time. Well, sometimes . . . 😏
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    I remember that. And JJ Drinkwater's one at Caledon. At one point, SL was crammed to gills with libraries. One of the reasons I chose to open a "bookstore" rather than a library (my books were mostly L$1 each, as a token payment) was because I didn't want to seem to be pretending to be a librarian in a virtual world that was swarming with real ones. I had a lovely friend whom I think you knew, Rolig -- Teachergirl Razor -- who also set up the libraries at Berlin and on my own SLLU sim. I knew her in RL: she was one of the people who brought me to SL in the first place. She retired about 5 years ago, and very sadly, died in January. I renamed the SLLU library after her.
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    /me facepalms Phil, you have people in this thread who are telling you that they DO use this as the norm -- and don't have significant issues with it. And you seem to be determined to tell us that we do. Which is . . . I mean, WHY? And I've known you waaaaay too long. You NEVER just "leave it at that." Never once in the more than 13 years that I've known you.
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    I think the stairs you have in that pic are an Apple Fall townhouse that I own, and have used many, many times for pics and stuff. It is cramped, but it's also in a sense supposed to be cramped: it's a slightly run-down Victorian terrace house. Like you, I've never had major issues navigating inside, and I don't even have my camera position fixed. I usually just wheel in my view a bit -- it takes a half second, and voila. I wonder if the default camera view that is scripted into the Legacy body is supposed, in part, to deal with this issue? It's much lower.
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    Phil's bathroom?
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    I've already told you I do, Phil. I don't have missionary zeal about it, but I own virtually nothing that isn't mod precisely so that I can scale it down.
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    It is. There are height guides at the entrance. I have gone there many times and never had issues.
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    Well, there's another factor that dictates how tall one's avatar is, and that's simple aesthetics. I know that there are women who really like tall, thin avatars, sometimes (to my eye and, I suspect, objectively) exaggerated. And that's fine -- just as there are women who like the extremely curvy bodies of a Kupra. And I don't think we should be dictating to anyone that their avatars must be "proportional" or "realistic" in height. I, on the other hand, do like a realistic look. I like my arms proportional to my torso, and my legs not supermodel long: it's just the look I like. And I'm not going to permit the default sizing of most things in SL to dictate to me that I should change that. Pace @Phil Deakins, I don't see any reason why tall should be the default in SL, and "realistic" or "short" not. It would be interesting to get a sense of the distributions of heights among women in particular these days: creators are still mostly making things for ultra tall avatars, but is that in fact warranted anymore? It is at least possible that the balance has shifted over the years, and that a majority, or at least a very sizable minority, of women are using shorter avatars -- in which case, it might be time rethink that default sizing for houses, vehicles, decorative objects, etc. As for Phil's suggestion that the camera necessitates oversized rooms, I invariably shrink any structures I use (where possible) to something proportional to my height. In fact, I use the standard height for interior doors -- about 2.02 m. -- to gauge the correct size for my buildings. And honestly the camera thing just isn't that big a deal. I may find my camera lost behind a wall a little more often than in a larger room, but not dramatically. And it takes all of about 1 or 2 seconds to adjust it when that happens. So, it's really not much of an inhibiting factor for me. And I'd rather do that than feel that I am living in a school gymnasium.
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    Yikes. Yes. Academia is almost paperless now. At least, my corner of it. So much so that I've decided to pitch the old filing cabinet I have. On the other hand, no amount of badgering about the usefulness of eBooks will ever convince me not to buy mine in hard copy. I'll do light reading on a tablet or eReader, sometimes, but for anything I need to concentrate upon, I need bound paper. And it just feels . . . right.
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    Well, at least he'll get some data from us "loudmouths." 😏
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    I have colleagues who would agree, but most of those are teetering on the brink of, or long past standard retirement age. It used to be that, if you wanted to read a copy of a thesis, you had to order a hard copy, which was pricey and annoying. I did this for my own MA, back in the late 90s. It was expensive, poorly bound (in cardboard) and badly printed. Now, almost all theses are available online in digitized form. Or, you can take the view that this resurgence of interest in SL is a good sign. It hearkens back a little to the "good old days," when SL was viewed as sufficiently important to merit serious academic study. I don't have the sense at all that this researcher is likely to "skew" SL. On the contrary, I'm actually rather excited and pleased by his overall approach, which seems to me quite well suited to what SL does and is.
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