Pussycat Catnap

Jadeclaw Denfu wrote: I do warn against the dumb security orbs, that simply kick out everything regardless of the height above ground, I consequently AR those, if I get kicked out of free air - 100%.(Harassment > Impeding movement) AR for not violating the TOS? Assuming the orb is limited to within its owner's land - there's no TOS violation. Annoying or not, if someone owns the lot, they can do what they desire in it. It can be a nuissance, but they're not "TOS wrong" for booting everything -within- the land they own. If they start spamming people outside the land they own, that is another issue which is ARable. But within their own land, they can toss out anyone they desire with or without warning.

The most effective strategy I ever had for hiding my sky home back in the day when there was a mainland (...) was to just build an "attractive nuissance" at ground. I put up a nice gazebo, a teahouse, and some plants. Only one person ever came by the sky home uninvited - while dozens a day stopped into the garden. Hiding by being out in the open with something else - distraction - is very effective.

Recently converted myself and now up to 2 alts to mesh feet. But my avatar has been wearing prim feet for a long time - as a furry and a neko. Now my mesh feet are human, which is new for me. Slink mesh feet had a good color matching tool, which is what finally got me to switch. The built in feet are horrid. Not just the texture, but they're also not 'tall' enough. If you adjust foot size it just stretches them out length wise, doing nothing to height or width - and that starts to look really weird the moment you get above a setting of 0. Not hard to do... But I do see a -LOT- of people who run around bare foot and use the default feet. Since the nerves in a woman's feet connect to a part of the brain right next to the 'orgasmic zones' but the nerves in a man's feet do not... I suppose we can think of this 'foot prioritization' what we will...

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by merchants paying their 'fair share' of tiers. Most of them that I know have land in SL they use for the creation of their products as well as homes too. Why should they be required to pay any more than anyone else? That is a shrinking number. More and more of them are pulling out their inworld shops and going MP only - at which point they contribute nothing into the economy, and only take out. As each one does so, it becomes harder and harder for the places that used to rent them land to stay in business. Those are the places people enjoy going to to do... stuff... any old kind of stuff. Used to be a circle: Visit place and want stuff to show off or use there --- Pay merchant for stuff --- merchant pays place for land to have shop --- place used money to fund tier to provide place for people to visit --- people visit that place and want stuff to show off or use there. Now a vital step in that circle is going away in pieces every day... the part where the merchant sets up a shop. So now the money just goes: Buy L$s --- shop with L$s, or pay someone you emply in SL who then shops with L$ --- merchant cashes out L$ for RL$s. And land, which has the places we all go to, to do... stuff... has no revenue model left other than 'rent homes' which is also under attack thank to linden homes. Only a very select few can survive under this model. People with an extremely dedicated theme and a hardcore userbase that is willing to foot the bill for them. Like Berlin 1920s. But the number of places like this is small, and shrinking - and if you don't already have such a place, there's now very little means of footing the bill for the year or two it would take to build up such a community. As for land barons? They are the places... Traditionally they provided the entire underpinning of the whole thing. Money went into them which they used to pay tier to keep this entire world from vanishing as it is now doing. And the people who live on freebies or camping and so on. They provide the community, and keep brands visible by using freebies and visiting shops, and they don't exactly cash out those lindens they get from camping or SL jobs, they spend them - they keep the economy flowing. They don't take out, they don't put in - they are fish in the sea, keeping it flowing. And for the year and a half figure - it used to be something the lindens mentioned often back when they were vocal.

I completely missed that your Hippiestock event was this Friday. Opened the Feeds today and saw a million posts about it and thought "wait, that just happened?" /sigh...

If you open the map and type in 'adult' into the location box, you will see a series of places appear on the map that are 'user / community hubs' for that kind of content. Someone in those places will be able to direct you to what you seek.

Do you mean just very animated? I like Random Kitten for that. Or do you mean something else?

Teagan Tobias wrote: For a coder to say they can't do last names is lazy or stupid on there part, its a computer, just code it. And yes I have done and worked with coders. I agree. And Rodvick said the coders told him they could not do it. I imagine what that really was "it would take us too much time away from playing MineCraft at work to put that specific discussion idea together, and to find another similar solution would mean not surfing pron during the afternoon hours, so... no can do." All they really need to do is make field 2 editable again during login, and tell everyone who has the name 'resident' "tough cookies" and then put in a flag to hide "resident" anytime it pops up anywhere. - Perfect? No. People with Sally90210 would be unhappy (unless they wanted that). But better than status quo? Sure. A partial solution can be better than no solution. But again, it means having to work, rather than dial it in while poseballing on alts in Zindra during office hours.

Last year around this time Rodvick promised they would bring them back, and then came back and said 'sorry no can do' claiming the coders said it was impossible... Lots of drama ensued. Call me highly skeptical on that impossibility.

What is popular changes over time. Just look at fashion, music, cars, politicians, and well - everything else in life. People move on. So its only natural that a sim that was the place to be 3 weeks ago is not today. Let alone for one x years ago. I keep an object in my shop that shows current number of folks online, and its had a pretty constant set of numbers for the past few years. It goes up and down by time of day quite a bit, but is overall fairly constant. People haven't gone away, they've just moved around. That said we are facing a decline in the overall number of sims. But its not as steep as some believe. It -IS- noteworthy though. Thanks to marketplace there is no longer any way to fund a sim. Merchants now need only extract from the SL economy, and no longer pay in their fair share in land ownership or land rental. More and more of them are choosing to stop paying in what is now a voluntary contribution. As they make this choice, sims that needed them to stay afloat dry up. As for how long people stay in SL, on average a year and a half. As for the massive signups that never really join, see my recent blog entry on spam bots and having a community with no 'are you human' checks on the signup process... I would wager 99% of all SL registrations are bots, and the 1% that are real people actually do go all the way in and play this MMO.

I would mostly do it right away. But if you're mad about something, emotional, or otherwise not rational - wait a few hours until you calm down or you will find your ARs not getting much response. I file a lot of ARs, but most of them are over technical things or visible griefing of locations (things like obscene particle spam floating all over the sky for example). I only rarely file them when in a dispute - and these do tend to be the least responded to ones. First the lindens officially will not resolve disputes between residents. So unless there is a TOS violation that is clear cut, don't bother. Second when arguing with people, no matter how right one thinks one is, its usually the most emotional time, and even if actually right your AR wording stands a good chance of sounding like 'crazy angry person' and getting tossed aside. - You can see in the forums quite often people who come in with emotional rants complaining about an AR they filed or something that happened. Their emotionally charged writing is pretty much -why- their ARs have gone unresolved. If you don't sound calm and rational, the Linden investigating is not likely to believe you, or may even think you were the actual instigator. My most common person AR is one someone says something racist or gay bashing or sexist, and its right there in the chat log. I'll just AR that instantly without comment and move on my way - not getting involved, so there isn't any 'me' to fuddle up the AR. The linden who sees it can just look at the chat log and make a decision. But if you wait too long, you've kind of given up the ground on the issue.

There are some active flickr groups for African avatars, and it'd be great to have even more people posting into them. Plus, it can give you inspiration and sources for more skins. Ethnicity in Second Life - Not African specific. Secondlife Black Lover's place - Can be a bit NSFW. Second Life Ebony - Only NSFW if you turn filters off. Black Second Life - This one is 'SFW'. Beleza Negra no Second Life* - This one is 'SFW'. Second Life® | BLACK BEAUTY | PG - This one is 'SFW'. SL Chocolate - mostly SFW, but not fully. The big thing to watch for in skin shopping is a sort of gray or sandy cast to the skin - that means the skin was modified from a caucasian one, and it won't look as realistic as one that was originally created in deeper browns. Also ask yourself if you will be using something like 'lolas tangos' - popular props these days (starting to see them in a lot of image galleries), they narrow choices down a LOT when not caucasian.

Look for the group House of Prayer - they seem to be a broad spectrum Christian group, with a lot of regular gatherings.

Check with the Avenity shop. Let them know about it, and where it all came from. It -is- possible they put it out, but not likely. AnthroXtacy has bundled about 20-30 of its old furry avatars into a free or maybe 1-10L bundle pack (I forget) - so this sort of thing is not unheard of. But those ones are NOT fullperm, you have to go to [AX] to get them. Most creators who make their stuff free, don't just give it away fullperm.

Some were using the buy back option as a way to game tier. Personally I think that such tier gaming was legit, but I can see them using it as a reason to remove the automatic buy back. The notion being something like this: I have 4096m of land, next to me is a plot that is 2048m of land. I have 512m of tier left. I abandon my lot, buy the 2048, slice out the 512m I want, abandon the rest, and then buy my own lot back. Happy me. - But LLs wants me to have to pay for having had 6144m of land - even if I only have the excess for 1 second. That's my theory at least. Good to know about this, because I am in this exact situation, but with a different amount on the land totals, and was getting ready to abandon one lot in order to grab the other and slice out the part I wanted... Now I'll just pass on that extra land. It IS however good to see that they plan to flip auto-return on after a week. That will help reduce squatting, griefing, and clutter.

Try: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Elysium-Carley-deep-dark-B/4287884 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/LS-PEPITA-Skin-BUNDLE-Pack/2693732 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PF-Kumi-Espresso-FATPACK/4143190 Pepita below:

Perrie Juran wrote: You could log in. Occasionally TP's would work. Occasionally you could change clothes. But for th emost part you were stuck where stuck where you were. A good portion of SL users never go anywhere anyway - and may have not even noticed this.

Xiara Carter wrote: OMFG thank you sooooo much, been trying to fix this all day EVERYTIME you clear out your settings you will have to redo this one, and find it wherever your viewer hides it. It really should be in preferences... I've added my section on it as a direct link off of my getting started blog (formerly the reference was there so I could post it in threads like this, but I didn't make it a link). I suggest either saving a screenshot of your prefered settings, or a bookmark to some blog or article that has them... Its a pain in the butt to have to do this one over again so often.

Newest update of the viewer - weird issue where textures keep reloading. I can sit in one spot with camera all the way down, and the textures around me load fully, then go blurry again, then load, and repeat - forever... Turning off/on http- no effect. Turning off/on texture compression, no effect. Same with toggling windlight... Weird... Second Life 3.4.4 (268864) Jan 9 2013 15:49:53 (Second Life Release) Release Notes CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400S CPU @ 2.50GHz (2500 MHz) Memory: 4096 MB OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 Darwin 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 6750M OpenGL Engine OpenGL Version: 2.1 ATI-1.0.29 libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0 Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000 Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Voice Server Version: Not Connected Built with GCC version 40201 Doesn't seem to fix, no matter what I do with settings. Have deleted settings and cache folders, for a full reinstall - to no effect. Anyone else seeing anything like this? With JIIRAs gone, where do we report things like this now?

The media prim issue is even worse though. If you want to play a video at a social gathering or in a shop or exhibit, people have to zoom in on your web prim and keep it clicked on to hear it and to keep it from 'stopping' if it is streaming (youtube videos will stop streaming once you click anything but that face of the prim). Your experience just sounds like that venue did poor parcel slicing - putting their little XXX skybox into the same parcel as their shop... which I gather was not a XXX-shop by your reaction to what happened.

If you only have one specific video you want to play, and not a playlist, shared media can take the embed link (rather than the normal Youttube video link), and this will load the video in "fullscreen" onto the prim, without any of the other webpage stuff along the sides. - Makes for a nicer presentation than the normal shared media. Shared media has a major flaw though, the volume is set by the distance between the prim and your camera. Parcel media on the other hand, plays at a constant volume across the parcel, even if you can't see a prim with the video playing, you will hear it.

Most of the older noobish skins are only different in the area of shadows and highlights. Getting a skin from 2009 or so is another way to solve this issue - and unless scantily clad you might not otherwise notice

Phil Deakins wrote: I just had a thought. It may be good to have a seperate RL-sized furniture section. I recommend all furniture makers build for the smallest scale they want to support, and then resize up to whatever they expect to mostly sell at. Until you hit 64m tall avatars you can always scale up - but you can't scale something down below 0.01m, and its pretty common to find some 327 prim giant sized item: lawn chair, hair, necklace, spaceship, that somewhere in there has a single hidden 0.01m side on one lone prim... I've actually gotten pretty good at finding that prim, but some builders really challenge me. Its actually very easy to resize to precise scale too. I just toss in a linkset resize script that works through chat - one that lets me tell it an exact number to multiply the current size by, and poof - everything gets bigger or smaller by that exact amount. (handy when taking a series of furry avatars - say 3 meeroos all in different colors, and making them all 83.72% of the size the builder made them. ). Such a linkset resizer just happens to be the one the lindens wrote in the LSL wiki on linksets, which I give as a freebie. But every such project first begins by finding that one pesky prim with a single side at 0.01m and scaling that single side up by the amount I plan to scale everything else down.

107 prim shopping bag... WOW. I'd question that, except I've been shopping in the last year, and yeah - some merchants are getting a little too intense with their packaging... Usually those intense shopping bags are meant to be worn and clicked. But I have gotten some that you have to rez and it makes me wonder... I have insane amounts of land, with enough free prims to rez that. But a lot of people don't... Personally I'm of the opinion that unless you're selling boxes, and maybe even if you are, if you can't get your shopping bag down to 1 prim you're dong it wrong. If you're making even people that own land look for a sandbox to get their goods - that's not good policy. Then again, if you've got a setup that prevents me from opening up and using the thin I bought while still in your shop, you've lost some of my respect, and maybe the next impulse buy. If I have to go home or to some poor victim's land (OPer) to open it up, that gives me just enough time to rethink clicking on that item over there to the left that looked interesting...

Dillon Levenque wrote: 2. You can't really call it racing in a hovercraft. Racing involves vehicles with four wheels (overlooking the tiny minority who consider two-wheeled vehicles worthy of racing) like this: You might want to take that image into Photoshop and cut off the top half... Hovercars though... darn. I've got too many of my own vehicles to want to use someone else's.