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    Lines that annoy you most

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    11 minutes ago, KanryDrago said:

    LittleMe by the way has been kind to me, she hasnt yet pointed out my line to her of "Would you care to see some art?" when I first immed her ;)

    I once received an entirely serious "Would you like to check out my collection of Blues music?"

    I was new, and accepted.

    His "collection" was housed in his bedroom.

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    What I like about Thanksgiving

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    Posted · Edited by Scylla Rhiadra

    [redacted]

    It can be pretty easy to fail to recognize that sometimes one's laughably Hollywoodish stereotypes can mask and distort someone else's essential beliefs and identity.

    I am redacting this, not because of self-censorship or "political correctness," but merely because I don't like insulting people, even accidentally, and I want to acknowledge when that happens.

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    The Fabulous Forum Electro-Disco Dance Party

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    41 minutes ago, Ivanova Shostakovich said:

    Ā  Ā I had hoped to see a date for the party mentionedĀ in the title. What better way to see all our dances in real time, where any of us can press CTRL-S to resync the animation(s) whenever we want. Such power at our fingertips! Mwahahahahah!

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    Well, someone should maybe organize something like that!

    Actually, I have very happy memories of an expedition I and a small group of friends took to Sine Wave Island a very long time ago. We spent the better part of a couple of hours, I think, hopping from pose stand to pose stand. It was a hoot.

    The Fabulous Forum Electro-Disco Dance Party

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    6 hours ago, Dillon Levenque said:

    Oh, for crying out loud.830205456_DilDances.thumb.png.b6db39bbdc858e842a0bdc90ba7a13f3.png

    Does this also count for the Home & Garden thread? It's my front yard. Thanks to all the people driving by who shouted encouragement like, "Get over yourself!". Buncha creeps.

    I'll dance to anything but if you want my best there's only one way to go.

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    Dillon, you rock! Literally!

    And you definitely get BONUS MARKS for turning your front yard into a dance platform!

    (On another note, I'm embarrassed to admit that I always kind of thought this tune was the Beatles. Oops.)

    The Fabulous Forum Electro-Disco Dance Party

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    7 hours ago, Skell Dagger said:

    I just found another one that I've been looking for, for bloody AGES! A dance inspired by Uptown Funk. This video is me and a fellow Catwa CSR sync'd up at A&M Mocap Animations.

    And, of course, the music:

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    I am in awe.

    Seriously. I sat here watching your avatars dancing to this in nearly perfect time, twice, a big stupid grin on my face.

    I'm feeling a bit amateurish about this whole dancing thing now. Time to up my game! (I'm realizing that i don't link dances enough, and I am not sufficiently judicious in my choice!)

    That was just a complete delight to watch. Thank you. šŸ™‚

    The Fabulous Forum Electro-Disco Dance Party

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    2 hours ago, Dillon Levenque said:

    There's at least am eighty percent chance that the last time I danced one of my animations (as opposed to someone's chim/HUD) it was Akeyo's NINA2_Dance. I bought it years ago and love it. A couple months ago I visited the main store to see what was new; I spent most of an afternoon trying every dance they had. NINA2 (which is still available there) still rules, for me.

    Thanks Dillon!

    (But you don't get full credit until you post a pic of yourself dancing it!!!)

    The Fabulous Forum Electro-Disco Dance Party

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    11 minutes ago, Skell Dagger said:

    Like you, I adore dancing in SL. I have a ridiculous number of dances (favourite stores include Humanoid, Abranimations, Akeyo, and 3FX). But the ones I'm enjoying right now are those bundled with my Vista 'Gerard' AO. And the reason I love them so much is because they animate my face beautifully. I sit here grinning and watching as Skell closes his eyes and really feels that beat.

    This is a one-minute video, so a gif of it would take forever to load. This one is - I think - the dances labelled 21 and 22 in the AO, blending into each other. It starts a bit 'handy' (I tend to prefer shuffle dances with a lot of fast, fancy footwork: 'Passion of Shuffle' from 3FX is a favourite of mine) but then it goes into a solid groove, and I sit there watching one happy avatar just lost in his music :)

    And this was the music playing when I recorded that video:

    OMG, I played the music while watching your video, and it's PERFECT. You're even on beat!!!! That was absolutely wonderful!!!!

    (I was doing a couples dance with an old friend at Fogbound a few weeks ago, and he kept insisting on stopping and restarting the animation every time it went off beat! That may be taking it a bit too far . . .)

    15 minutes ago, Skell Dagger said:

    favourite stores include Humanoid, Abranimations, Akeyo, and 3FX

    I know Abranimations -- it's been around for ever, I guess. But I don't know the others! Thanks!! I'll check them out. I really need some new dances.

    Reasons not to start a "Happy Thanksgiving" thread

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    Posted · Edited by Scylla Rhiadra

    9 minutes ago, Luna Bliss said:

    I feel like I need to defend SL and the forum against this white supremacistĀ lurking among us! Ā lolĀ  I know this is silly.

    I don't think it, or we, need defending, though. It's not as though white supremacy is running amok here.

    There's a reason, too, why we have taken to referring to those who support the aims of indigenous peoples as "allies." The term implies that we are here to help: we support them in their efforts for self-determination and empowerment. And the key phrase here is self-determination and empowerment: it comes from them, because they are the only ones who have the perspective necessary to know what constitutes an appropriately supportive response.

    So, we need to not be White Saviours. History has already produced waaaaay too much of that. Let those who know what matters for them determine how we can help.

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    Reasons not to start a "Happy Thanksgiving" thread

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    Just now, Luna Bliss said:

    Well Scylla, I really was gonna let it slide (you can see from my earlier posts on the thread), but when I started to see the balance tip in favor of us white folk and our determination to have our gdamm holiday, well......thar she blows...:)

    You know, an awful lot of the slightly hysterical moaning about "political correctness" that comes from the right is built upon fabricating narratives that imagine left wing outrage where, mostly, there just isn't. The argument that "it's time to stop the War on Christmas" is an excellent example.

    There probably aren't too many people here who associate with more radical progressives and left-wingers than I do. I work alongside honest-to-god, card-carrying Marxists, for god's sake, and I know NO one who wants to "ban" Christmas, or Thanksgiving, or Easter, or Remembrance Day, or any of those. They may not observe them themselves, but that's hardly a "war."

    So, when you respond to Phorumities, what you are doing is playing along with the script: you're providing a convenient example of exactly what they think is, apparently, happening EVERYWHERE. And it's not.

    I don't think, in general, that your own views, as you've stated them here, are particularly unreasonable. If you say something that someone tells you they find offensive, sure, apologize and move along. Whatever.

    But why turn what should be simple courtesy, consideration, and common sense into a conflagration?

    Don't. Play. The Game.

    Walk away, Luna.

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    The Fabulous Forum Electro-Disco Dance Party

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    Posted · Edited by Scylla Rhiadra
    Adding music

    Ok, so I like dancing, a lot.

    I like dancing in RL, although I don't get to do it as often as I used to, but I also very much like dancing in SL. My virtual dancing obsession began when I was a noob, and didn't have an AO yet. I hated watching my avi stand around looking dorkish and restless, but I discovered that I could dance instead. I had a few pretty basic dances someone had given me, and I used them pretty much all the time I wasn't actually walking or flying. I danced while I talked to people. I danced while I looked at things. I danced in public squares, in art galleries, and on roofs. (The latter is a bit of a story in itself maybe.)

    Obviously, I'm not the only one: dancing is HUGE in SL. I'm not sure why it is so pleasing (and for me, calming) to watch your avatar engage in a preordained series of graceful and elegant contortions on screen. Maybe it has something to do with the way in which proprioception -- the sense we have that we "occupy" our own bodies -- is extended into the virtual realm too. (The posthumanist theorist Katherine Hayles has noted that video game players attest to this sense all of the time; she should have spoken to us.)

    Anyhooooooo . . . I like dancing, but i haven't bought a new dance in, like, 8 years, and so I'd love to hear (and see) what your favourite SL dance is! Tell us what YOU like to dance, and post a picture of it! (If you can do a GIF, even better!) And maybe tell us what you were listening to while you were dancing it!

    So, here's my current favourite dance, the imaginatively entitled "1-VARACDAN0" that came bundled in my AO. I need better dances: HELP ME, PEOPLE!

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    Dance-1.png

    And here's what I was listening to while dancing it:

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    How does your avatar look today ?

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    Posted

    5 hours ago, DemeraraGirl said:

    You look gourgeous with this head, better than the classic version. It looks more natural in my opinion.

    Thank you so much!

    I think I agree. As nice as the "Classic" head is (can something that's still in Beta really be a "classic" already???), this one seems less severe looking, and more responsive, at least to the particular things I was trying to do.

    I wish it were a bit less "young" looking, but I may play around with some new skins and see if I can't find one that brings a slightly more "mature" look to the head.

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    To all Genus head users:

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    1 minute ago, Laika Ravikumar said:

    I have no idea what I am doing wrong with the Genus head. I canā€™t get the neck right no matter what I do. Obviously I am missing something as it seems everyone else I see is doing a great job. Itā€™s not that I donā€™t like my Catwa because I do lol but am frustrated at my stupidity.Ā 

    I'm not sure what your specific issue is, but one thing I've noticed is that the "Neck Fix" attachment, far from helping, actually completely screws up the neck/head join unless you manually colour it in the HUD. And even then, it doesn't actually look as good as the natural join between the Nataly head and Skinnery body skins I'm using.

    But maybe that's not the issue you're having?

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