Pussycat Catnap

Yeah that one has been on my "maybe" list. I need to look at it closer and see if it doesn't look too 'antique'. I don't need one of those 87 LI 'sex stoves' after all. The [DDD] ones with no animations work for me. (It might be nice to have some cooking anims... but I can settle... I had a kitchen with a whole animation pack for 3 years, and I used them maybe 3 times...) Mostly this is a 'background piece' that makes an SL home feel more like a home and less like a 'this is where you log out' spot.

Ponder what program that is. I've been struggling for a long time to figure out making some textures I've wanted to put on my outfits... and spinning my wheels... I'd love it if I knew of something that could help me out like this.

$40,000L ($19.5L/m) On the west coast of the continent touching Blake Sea - there is protected water access all the way up into and throughout Blake Sea. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chloris/49/243/23

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Guittarez/186/28/64 $17,000L ($14.8L/m) Nearby land is selling for $17.6L/m

Progressive Think Tank: Who/what/if anything should be the global world order? As Angela Merkel notes the world is now on it's own, with the US no longer reliable. If true, who or what should be the force working for global stability? If anything? http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/28/politics/angela-merkel-donald-trump-g7/index.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/angela-merkel-europe-trump-tensions-article-1.3202595 8:00pm @ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Keroo/230/24/4086

So... I'm looking for recommendations for a low land impact kitchen and 'office desk' My current kitchen comes in at 4LI, but is designed for a corner and I've fitted it against a straight wall. By contrast the 4 seater table there is 1LI - but I'm looking for style suggestions and this one is not exactly a match to my style preferences I'd prefer something smaller with 1-2 seats. My current desk + desk chair comes in at 7 LI. And I bought a 'fire' for my fireplace, but I find that if I get more than a few scant meters from it, it vanishes. It's 1LI, but very low LOD. Looking for ideas:

Don't try to extract a 'standard' from a famously bad example of how to do things... I believe the term for that is a straw man argument.

Quite frankly every customer pays a companies budget. When you're in a smaller firm, you have marketing people who's very job is determine what customers want. In the past I've run the analytics for a company - and sat with marketers all day long going over reports of how people engaged with the product online and off - to figure out what was needed next. I don't know where this mythical world of companies that can get by with ignoring customers is... it frankly isn't even here in SL.

I am routinely sitting in meetings at work where the conversation is roughly like this: "Customer X wants new feature Y, here is budget Z to go make it. How many engineers might you need to get it done? We're scheduling a call with customer X, manager A, and you next Tuesday to over this."

For most of SL's history they have had a dream of who their customer should be that was not at all who their customer was. If you imagine who their customer "should be" as they likely saw it... a lot of this doesn't look short sighted, rather it looks like they keep getting sidetracked down the path of unnecessary stuff their ideal customer had no interest in. The problem is that that ideal customer is a very rare creature... and has largely moved on to investing in or watching demos of people who like to wear an octopus on their head... which is another market in search of a customer... At this point in time Linden Lab has largely been on the path of making the actual product its real customers want, for the last few years. The question remains though; if they are even aware of this. This project hints that they are... hopefully...

The water lilies are from "Botanical" - by Kriss Lehmann. The ducks are from "TLC" - by Lautlos

What I have found is that they will usually deny the request to sell to you, but instead put it up for auction. So before you submit the ticket, make sure you have enough $L on your account to be able to buy the lot if it was being sold by the most expensive land baron operating in that part of mainland. That person, if the parcel has a nice cut and location to it, is likely to get into a bidding war with you in the auction and then sell it for their usual rate, higher, or even refuse to sell and just put it in reserve (but if they do this a conversation with most of them will get them to sell it to you). Sometimes you get lucky and they don't bid on your auction - but be ready for them to do so.

Bodies: Lena Lush & Perky, SalinA (6 different bodies), Fusion Heads: Mayreal, Mel Imako - Those are the copy/mod choices I know of. Mayreal comes copy/no-mod, but has a box in the contents, and inside of that box is an unscripted copy/mod copy of the 'with ears' version of the head. Mel Imako is full-perms. As far as I know, fusion is the only male body that is copy/mod. I find fusion looks too 'rough' - but that might just be bad demo skins.

From the front: And the back: Cammed back: The center room: Living room: My bedroom:

I am currently decorating my new home on the Blue Lagoon Naturist estate. Can't show too many pictures because most of them are not 'G'. But here's an exterior view: I'm presently retexturing this - it uses a lot of baked shadows, so every single angle is a new 1024x1024 texture. It has hundreds of textures that are 99% identical to the human eye, but completely different files to the computer... Not sure my new result will look as good, but it will stop texture thrashing... I've been living in skyboxes for the past few years. Living at ground, in a place with all windows, is going to be 'different'. I'll try to get some 'G' shots of the interior later.

Shortly after SL started it was a place to go online and hook up for some animated sexting and listening that music that went out of style 30 years ago. SL is largely still a place to go online and hook up for some animated sexting and listening that music that went out of style 30 years ago. I don't see anything having changed. It's only us freaks that do anything but animated sexting that are having to figure out what else there is to do every now and then. And we've always been a tiny minority of SL.

A single fatpack from any major brand pays half my monthly rental fee. My mainland is another story. I own about 16,000m of mainland. I think I pay about 60-80 / month on that. I'm an SL nudist, and I can easily outspend that on outfits... outfits that don't even include actual clothes... Decorating an SL home has a lot of one time costs. But even an extensively "animated" bed for a sex-freak... is less than 2 fatpacks at a monthly event... - and once you have your furniture all bought, it only gets replaced every so often... Like when that other neighbor has better sex-poses than you...

Anytime you set LOD to 4 or above, you are essentially turning OFF graphics optimization in Second Life. That means that things will look better even at distance, but ALSO that things you cannot even fully see will take up resources on your graphics card, slow you down, and even heat up your graphics card and CPU. If you ever experience a moment in SL where you start seeing flickering triangles of black or white, and then suddenly crash... that was because of something like this being set to high for your situation, your system getting overwhelmed, and then giving up. Even if you never experience that catastrophic failure... you are forcing that little card to work harder than it was designed to, and possibly shortening it's lifespan. Reasons like this are why I set my: LOD: 2.75 Mesh2MaxConcurrentRequests: 8 or lower Complexity Maximum: 80,000

I will also say that you should play with shapes outside your normal dial range and see what happens. Dial the bosom down and up all the way, and see how far you can go before it looks weird. Do the same with hips, leg and torso muscle, hand and foot size. Try out some very 'bouncy' avatar physics with the bosom big and small, and some very 'constrained / clothed' physics as well. - Look at not just your bosom when you do this, but your sternum, ribcage, and tummy as well. Some bodies are so bad these other parts bounce as well. - Likewise, dial up the physics butt sliders, for a bouncy bottom... and then flip around and look at your front side. If your 'goods' are bouncing down there... that's a problem. At least one major body has that problem.

May 23rd Progressive Think Tank: How will the loss of Net Neutrality impact us? With the loss of Net Neutrality in the USA, how will this impact the internet both within the USA and abroad? Will outside forces limit the harm, or offer little shelter? Is this a 'doomsday event' for the internet or just a 'very bad thing'? 8:15pm @ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Keroo/230/24/4086

There's an exception to every rule. But my general rule is the same as yours. And as you note - 36 cents. At that point the exception is easier. But that seller still had to wait more than a year or two for me to jump... If they'd had a demo, I'd have bought that thing a LONG time ago, and then probably kept buying stuff from them. Instead my 'shopper loyalty' went elsewhere, and they got exactly one sale out of me, years after the fact...

I strongly recommend Mayreal: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/MAYREAL-Bento-Mesh-Head-Nadia-PROMO-PRICE/11023066 For $1500, it's a lot cheaper than the competition. And when I demo'd it, it was also better. It's basic form is very close to the default SL head, so you will still look mostly like 'you' when you put it on, and can then just tweak in some perfections. It is both Omega, and includes a copy/mod version for customization.

That depends on the brand. Some brands don't need to be tweaked because they used a mesh form that looks closer to the original SL default head, but without the flaws we've all grown used to seeing. Look at Mel Imako and Mayreal's heads. Maybe some others too I have yet to find. The same shape anyone has been using since 2003, will be usable on those, but just look a little better.

Bento animations make sense... But a Bento shape is a total scam of an advertisement. It is like saying "Now selling Candy with sugar added." Anything bento can be shaped by the normal shape dials where it can be shaped at all by a shape file... this is just a marketing scam.

This is giving me flashbacks to my first week in SL when I 'camped' on a 'sex chair' for several hours to get a 'genital texture map' that was worn on the underwear layer... I think I spent half a day there. A day later I realized the same item was for sale nearby, and the US$ to L$ translation was about $0.10... Never camped on stuff again after that... I'd spend that $1 getting one of those demos on MP that costs $1 for... something random... and likely not even pay attention. Because $1 is less than 1 cent...