Pussycat Catnap

I listen to music based on the message in the lyrics. Not the singer and sometimes not even the music style. So for me the question is just not relevant. For me, something like this is perfection: - and if you're looking at vocals, what's key here is that it's a duet. So much of Jamaican music features two singers who swap between each other. In this case you have a generation gap as well - so each speaks from very different experiences. (the song is Koffee's newest hit, and this is Buju joining her in a remix, so she has most of the airtime in this one.)

Racist snowflakes get triggered out of their safe spaces very easily It would have been interesting to see if the responses would have been different if the OP had asked for more variety in choices without referring to skin tone. I suspect the outrage would not have existed. There might still have been some "they do it that way because of this" responses, but the tone would have almost certainly been more polite...

Tesla customers in the UK will literally get paid by the government for solar energy they generate for their own homes:

The most common flaws of a system head are the lines around the nose / upper lip and the 'dead eyes glaring stare' of female heads. - You can use a skin or makeup to conceal the nose lines. It's less visible in darker skins so I was able to go a while without switching when I had a dark African tone from Angle Rock. - You can sometimes dial away the 'eyes glaring at you' look, but it's rare to succeed here. It might help to use prim eyes with an unusual texture and some built in added animation to them. As others note - you really just want to not give up on mesh heads yet. Spend hours sitting on a posestand with an alt next you. Have the alt use the system head, and a copy of your shape and some freebie skin that looks close to you (maybe even the demo of your skin). Stand them side by side so you can see them in the same monitor and... Demo about 103 different heads and go to town with the dials...

Yeah basically the 'competition' for Ryn will be if they do another Asian head to open up variety within there. I managed to tweak the look pretty far away from base with my own avatar - but every head has it's limits. So... give us a second one, maybe based around someone from Vietnam or Thailand next time. Lelutka used to be the brand I was the most critical of. Before their evolution line all of their heads looked extremely similar to each other. But with the evolution line they not only really opened up their potential - they also ticked off all my checkboxes technology wise with a lightweight mesh, natively BOM, well done 'ear hiding' option for non-humans, simple HUD, and smaller script impact.

And we've come full circle. I find my best bet is to dig through those parts of my inventory that I set aside under labels like "OLD" and "What is this old junk" and "noobish old stuff"... 😉 And look for a premesh tattoo layer hairbase, and use that. Preferably one made for the specific style of hair - curls, straights, dreads, braided, etc. If only I hadn't lost one of those boxes of 'old junk' I made that had some no-copy things in it... I think I had a pile of hairbases in there also... all of which would be perfect in today's BOM era. What I have found with 'mesh hair bases' is that one tiny spot where it floats above the head always manages to sneak into my screenshots... and once I see it the ONLY THING I can look at when I look at that image is that one little spot where the hair is floating... ☢️

If you're open to new head purchases, I highly recommend demoing the ones at Lelutka. Ryn literally looks like someone I used to know in my 20s living in Korea. Actually looks like 2 or 3 of my old friends... With the INO skin, she looks a little like one of my relatives. I feel that right now Lelutka is doing for heads what a long time back Angel Rock did for skins. Used to be in SL non-white skins were just white skins tinted darker - the features and shading always looked "off" as a result (one blogger years ago described it as ashy, but Angel Rock themselves tended to be very ashy in the early days). Then Angel Rock made 'from the ground up' African skins that looked like 'SL versions of real people'. They did that also with one Asian and one Latina skin - but those were a long time ago, before mesh, and probably not around anymore... Now several brands make their non-white skins more 'natively' and so look genuinely like people from that ethnic group, but it used to be a rare thing. For mesh heads... every brand looks basically like an Caucasian head (LAQ has an exception I think... but mostly because it 'fades out detail to smooth points'). And people use the 'smooth' or 'young' versions to 'shape dial away' to that area where people with enough fat in their cheeks all kinda look similar... and then a skin to make it seem another ethnicity... But Lelutka seems to now be making heads that are 'actually based on real people's features' for both Asian and African looks. Not many yet (one of each), and then the shape dials have enough response to them to make it different (more for the African head that you can dial all the way over to 'sorta Caucasian' or 'sorta Latina' - Ryn, the Asian female head, is a little more set in her look). If you're still comparing between Genus and 'something else' - try a few more something elses. I mentioned LAQ too... I forget which head, but one of them got me to an almost Asian look when I demo'd it with an alt a few months back.

Yeah I always use my own shapes and a set of proportion sticks because... "professional" shape makers seem to have the anatomy skills of a 5-year old. And I've taught kindergarten classes so... I do realize I'm being unkind to the kids in the comparison... 😉 so called 'thicc' bodies in SL are usually racially charged parodies... this body... rides the line. With the right shape dials you can make realistic 'thicc' looks, but you can also go into 'sploitation flic' territory. That noted... no one has ever actually made a body that could do the realistic look before - so this is a leap forward in serving a community rightly.

Switched brands of mesh head yesterday. lelutka Ryn (in it's default, Ryn looks like a blend of a couple of RL friends I had in my 20s living in Korea), heavily shaped to move the look from North-East Asian to a sort of 'Afro-Asian-Neko' (once I had the eyes to 'realistically right' I went in and added '10' to a couple dials to go into 'anime neko' territory). RL me is a quarter Asian so, wanted to sneak that into my avatar look.

The body does look like, with the numbers on the legs and butt dialed down enough - it's around the 'realistic space' before SKING and after Freya. With enough work, you can dial it to a look found in some ethnic groups - whereas SKING is the 'exploitation flick' parody of people with that body form, and Freya / Hourglass are just hints in that direction. I see 'mainstream' as a polite way to refer to bias. 😉 Then again I get why many designers didn't go for SKING given what it represents. Sadly this body is new - and many won't go for it just because of workload. If it had come out around the same time as Maitreya and Freya and Slink et all, then I'd see motive in any lack of support for it. But now, to support this would probably mean picking something else to not support... which I would be for, as so many other bodies are 'more of the same'. But I don't see that as happening widescale.

Did they update the demo - it only had one body size, which I was unable to 'dial down enough' for what I was seeking.

When they don't say BOM very obviously I assume it lacks BOM, because BOM is the new thing and as you count the months backwards the amount of BOM items out there very rapidly diminishes... Even shops that have heavily gone in for BOM, if they've been around for more than a year - will likely have most of their products as pre-BOM items. And only a few brands are 'back converting' things (even though all you have to do for this is save the texture to a skin file instead of put it's UUID into an applier). ... To me, Sasha there looks decided northern European. But then... the hair could be distracting me. The jawline / chin / cheekbones though seem very Caucasian - and other than the cheek shadows that's all in the shape dials and head used for the advert.

They do offer this skin (in the middle, called 'Haku' for Genus, but the product images were made with Lelutka so... no idea what it will look like on Genus: I would recommend Lelutka over Genus or Catwa for anyone who hasn't bought into a line yet. Lelutka EVO is pure BOM and very lightweight, and they're now making heads that are of distinctly different ethnic groups rather than "here's something round and puffy cheeked enough you can dial it out to look kinda like something vaguely this or that" as everyone else does. 😉 Of course I'm also a 'day one convert' to Lelutka so... my bias is still super fresh... It Girls has one more 'Asian' skin, Saori; seen here on a Caucasian Lelutka head: I demo'd that one a bit but didn't manage to get a look I liked with it. Yeah. Google image search Thailand, the Phiilipines and Myanmar. Then Google image Search Korea and Japan. Then Google Image search China - but for China, realize that it's huge and multi-ethnic and most images will only show you 'Han Chinese', who themselves have more variation than they think (Both Mandarin and Cantonese people are Han Chinese - but saying they're alike is like saying French and English are the same).

Actually yes. INO from It Girls (click this to go to the flickr post from It Girls announcing it): That's the light tone for it. It comes in 7 tones, and the darkest of those, 'cafe' - is basically an African tone with Asian features: - which I got today and did some exaggeration to the eyes for my Neko look. Both of these images are done with the Lelutka 'Ryn' head. So I was also trying to see how far I could take that head away from it's original look... I'm purposefully trying to mix 3 things here: African, Asian, and non-human. I wanted to hint a bit of Asian features into Pussycat since RL multi-racial me is significantly Asian. so for the second image - just realize that the tones range from the first to the second. It Girls has a skin called 'Ryn', for the 'Ryn Lelutka head'; for lighter tones: (click this to go to the flickr post from It Girls announcing it): As for Genus, I thought It Girls had an Asian skin for Genus, but the item that I thought was that is shown on a Lelutka head on It Girl's flicker page (with a note that it's also available for Genus).

Minor thread necro, since it's a little less than a month. But lelutka has two really good Asian heads now. One female and one male: I got Ryn on an alt, and am demoing it on a very different looking alt right now to see how far from that base look I can get and still look clearly Asian. Seems to be holding up well. Also just found out than in the full purchase, there's a head where I can make the ears 100% vanish, so plan to demo ALL their female heads now for Pussycat as these are a LOT less 'GPU and script' heavy than what I currently use. /Side rant for my all the Nekos out there: People should really highlight that in their demo and advert images - that if the head can be used for a non human (ability to do unusual ears, eyes, teeth, or something else) - it's something some of us are constantly searching for... and to only find out AFTER I buy is why I didn't buy for so long...

Never confuse a youtuber or instagram influencer for a 'noob'. They always come into anything with an agenda. Not necessarily bad or good - but an agenda designed to drive up their own audience - and that will shape how they approach what they do. These are people playing a persona for an audience - and that drives their responses. If you're lucky you end up on the good side of it, if not you get roasted by them. But that is not a 'noob'. It's as real as 'reality TV'.

This whole group chat bug is becomming my new big pet peeve... Every one of my alts has access to a different set of random groups... most of them 'lack' chat access to any group they own... Leaving and rejoining a group fixed it for some, but not others. It's really getting on my nerves.

Remember when nude white women started showing up at Portland protests that were supposed to be about black lives... ... yep.

With a lot of those 'old SL default things' if you can set a texture for them, put in the 'default transparency texture' - it will help hide a LOT of junk. Very often when I buy some product there's some stupid box prim inside my body as a result of it that has a 1024x1024 texture applied to it. After 90-million of those are attached, you can lag into a block of solid ice while not actually appearing to have anything on... so if they're mod... I also replace those with the 'default transparency texture'...

It's scatter shot for me. Some of my alts can see what I post to my own groups, some cannot. I can't see anything I post. Some of my alts can read groups, some can read none, some can read some. I seem to be able to read chat from one group - but not any others. I've tried checking across multiple viewers.

It's not 1848... Suggesting people go vote is no longer and should not be seen as a 'political statement' in most of the world...

Today I noticed all my groups seemed unusually silent... Started to get suspicious so I logged in an alt and sat them side by side using my own land group to spam myself and found that not only did I not see my own messages, my alt didn't see most of them either, and vice versa. Across both Catznip and Firestorm so far. I can send my alt IMs back and forth, and local chat - but not groups. Is this the new thing today, or just me?

It's a sidetrack... but... if you look at the furry body parts out there - you will see they are often as feature rich as the human parts, but with more simple, elegant, and less laggy solutions. These people could do the human parts, without loss in quality, in fact likely improvement in quality, and do it with less work needed... because a lot of the bloat in the human parts is not because they want some feature, but because they don't know how to do it the right way. On the one hand you have a set of people passionate about 'gaming graphics' who have been in and around 3D models made for real time online use for a very long time - the furry parts crowd. On the other hand you have people who went to some classes on using Blender who, outside of SL, can't tell a horse apart from a car - the human parts crowd. It's been a sore point with me for years that the furry makers have no interest in taking over the human body part side of things... we'd all have such better toys to use if they did, and they'd have 'easy money' because the human stuff has fewer complications so would be easier to churn out the parts for... Anyway... to drift back to topic... one other competitor offering a demo for some anime heads could easily own that market segment... The current person operating there doesn't offer demos because they don't need to because people have no choice but to buy from them.