Pussycat Catnap

Jake is on v2 by the way. Check to see if your Jake has an update. I gather it's also long overdue for an update also... Jake v2 came out while Nixon was still in office...

The default animations of SL though - tend to look very unnatural to many of us. Even if I wanted a static mostly still look, they're not what I would go for. And they actually fail to hold the head or hands still. My suggestion is to go to a high quality pose and AO/Animation shop and demo stacks of animations until you find the poses / subtle animations you like - buy those 1 by 1, and put them into an AO-HUD.

As an observer of the bodies... Slink has a feature that ends up being a flaw. It has the male bits built in. - But they are small and non-functional. So... they're only good for display on an 'M' rated nude hangout where you want to look less endowed than the other guys - that's usually not a goal of most men. I think I measured it once as a 2-incher... now many guys get bigger when they get erect, but that's a LOT of growth room needed and the shape is not that which you tend to see on a guy that 'expands'... I imagine that, if it did have the ability to 'get to performance position' in almost all SL animations it would fail to enter... the animations we have for 'adult action' tend to assume a male of about 8-12 inches... what you might call "professional men"... Bigger than most guys... I sized an alt with a bento bit to 7 inches, and he looked more than doubly endowed than the slink body did... - The use case of this look is... missing... And then there's always the risk that, because it's always there, your alpha setting will show it while you're sitting there in an office hour with a linden on a G-rated region... These days guys either - don't do adult stuff so don't get a body that has such a part... or do do adult stuff so get a body that doesn't have such a part so they can buy one 'third party' that has all the 'utility' they need... Maybe that wasn't the first thing on most guy's minds when slink was a thing... but it's the first thing I noticed when I saw guys with that body - "how will I make use of him in SL when that isn't working..." I'm very particular about the animations so even though I prefer a LOT of motion, I still find myself discarding half the animations in any pre-gathered collection, and then buying 1 here, 1 there, and that 1 over there from other sets by my preferred animation shop (BodyLanguage) until I've got all the ones I want... and then doing it all over again a year or so later when I feel the need for a change. BodyLanguage does have some very still animations... but I'm at a loss to specifically name them as they're the ones I end up clicking next on.

Taking these 3. Is my understanding of this correct? The first item has a texture on face 0 The second item has a texture that is used on two faces, 0 and 1 The third items re-used a texture on 6 faces; 0 through 5 - all sharing a common texture with each other. Which means that third item is well optimized.

I find it a bit small. All a matter of perspective. Note that hip width, muscle, body fat, and saddlebags will also effect how it looks. I think a few other dials also. Hip length - a longer length can actually make it look smaller. Because when your hip length is too short - a problem I see in most SL 'off the shelf' shapes - it's compressing what should be a long arc into a shorter compacted curve - making that curve more prominent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhai_Empire If you try to study Songhai you will see that because of it's total collapse it's a bit like studying the Maya or Troy. What is known is a mix of myth / legend, propaganda, and archeology. The 'Wakada-ization' of Songhai will likely erode over time as Archeologist unravel more of the myths to get to the truth inside. But it's a vital part of Africa's story anyway - because it was the lynchpin that turned a trickle of bandits on the fringes capturing people and selling them abroad as slaves, or minor wars and debts being resolved through indentured servitude just as was the case in Europe, pre-Columbian America, and Asia... turned those things into a massive tide of human suffering unlike anything ever before seen in human history - and matched in horrific nature only by the 'Indian Wars'. Songhai was the breech in the wall, the crack in the dam - and once it's broke, the flood rushed through. But it's a lot harder to study it than Ethiopia... and since it's on the other side of the continent a bit harder to use Ethiopia's records, if any exist on this subject; to study it...

So... if this is to be a thread that also talks of culture, issues, and spirituality... Imma throw another grenade into the room... The oldest existing unbroken line of a Jewish community: Ethiopia's Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel - some things to note there. Ethiopia was founded during the lifetime of the Biblical King Solomon. It was founded, at that point, as a Jewish Empire ruled by, according to Ethiopians, Solomon's firstborn but out-of-wedlock son. It was during this time that the 'Ark of the Covenant' vanished, and Jews of Israel claim to parts unknown without a trace. The founding story of Ethiopia however, is that it was stolen by Solomon's own inner circle of Rabbis who fled with it to find Menelik on the road back to Ethiopia after his visit to his father, and give it to him to bring to Ethiopia. Their reasons being that Solomon had abandoned the faith. That last part - is actually agreed upon by Israeli Jews as well - it's even in the old Testament. Solomon is killed by his other song for turning to 'paganism', but the Ark is not found once the second, legitimate son, takes control. Modern Ethiopia will even tell you where it is. You can see a picture of the building it's in if you google this. The Vatacan agrees with the Ethiopians which might also explain why Italy made two attempts to invade Ethiopia a century ago (almost succeeding the second time - but also creating the reason Rastas wear dreadlocks - in solidarity with Ethiopian Emperor's Selassie's elite guard that kept their hair unkempt so the Italians could find them and behead them - but as such fail to find the Emperor). This is also why the Rasta community tends to be hostile to Catholics, and while Rastas swear to pacifism their "non rasta allies" have murdered Catholics found in Jamaica in a poorly misguided claim of 'solidarity'... Back to the story as it pertains to Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ethiopia From the 4th century to 1632 there was an Ethiopian kingdom that was officially Jewish. If you know Jewish history you will often be told that at this point in history the Jews were a people without a homeland wandering in persecution in Europe - this is because the 'northern Jewish' population was long cut off from the African side, and even in modern times does not fully recognize the African Jews thanks to inheriting the attitudes of the Europeans that were persecuting them with regards to people outside of Europe... At the end of WWII, the Jewish people sought a homeland, failing to realize that one was already there only a few hundred miles south of Israel. While it is happening that Ethiopian Jews are being recognized now as Jewish by European Jews - it's been a slow process with a lot of tensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Jews_in_Israel - But that's a story outside of Africa... so I'll leave that link there to look it up for the curious Though for most of it's history - Ethiopia has been a multi-religious and tolerant nation. Adopting Christianity from the Apostle Simon and later influenced by the Coptic Christians of Egypt, and then accepting Islam when that arrived to become a tri-religious empire from that point forth - though in modern times Christianity is at the 'top' of that arraignment (Selassie came to power when a coup replaced his predecessor because that emperor turned to Islam). This history is key to dispelling a number of myths non-Africans have about the place. - There's a common perception that Christianity was brought to Africa by Europeans and this is even used to justify Colonialism and slavery both - but Christianity actually held in an African nation before it even arrived in Rome - and spread forth into parts of Africa from there. - There's a common perception that the 'religions of the book' cannot ever live in peace. And while Ethiopia did have a number of periods where one religion persecuted another - in particular during one period where the Ethiopian Emperor converted away from Ethiopian Orthodox to Catholicism in the 1622; most of the period was of co-existence. - There's a common perception that African has no 'history' - it was all oral among primitive people - yet in truth even in conquered nations there is a lot of written history. Most of it destroyed - so at best people can find history in old slave ports that trace the names of those sent away - finding a link if they can find a record between themselves and the ancestor that first arrived in the Diaspora... But in Ethiopia written history goes back all the way to biblical times. Granted much of it has the same politicized nature of all history around the world, but it is still a record, and it will tell you something of the nations and people around them as well - albeit from their perspective. - There's a common perception that Jews wandered the world without any home or power for nearly 2000 years - yet all through that same time period Jewish people where in power in a golden age of Ethiopian influence and prestige. If you want to know African history at a deep level, beyond modern glamourizations - getting access to Ethiopian sources is a solid place to go. If you want another place to study to dispel myths about historic Africa, look up the Songhai Empire. It's basically the historical 'Wakanda'... Its collapse after being conquered by Arabs is where the tale of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade begins.

Racism If you want to be 'polite' you could claim it was just Imperialism or Colonialism... but that's really the same thing now isn't it... Wikipedia claims that the corrected Gall-Peters projection map is used in the UK school system. Is this true (I imagine it was not true when most people here went to school - but was it true in 2019 when... school as a concept last existed...)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection In the USA, unless you are currently in the Boston public school system, your chances of having ever seen this truth are slim...

Yep. Back in 2009 my first plot had a greenlane (a road without the road prims). The project to 'finally finish all the roads' happened later that year (or maybe early 2010) and they put the road a few meter above the height of the ground were I was add then raised the ground on the "protected" part of the land - putting a 'land wall' on my edge because I was already at max height... Eventually I had to move. When I dropped by a few years later - I noticed that at some point some other linden had come by and fixed things.

After they get all the 'core 8' done... I would love if theme 9 and 10 were a mini-version of 'the top 3 themes' packed together - but on G land, and A land, and with at least a 2-region but sailable / driveable gap between them and 'M rated' bellisseria. That's my big ask. Basically a 'half Horizons' but with Bellisseria's covenant and locked to prefabs.

I suspect because the inventory list is likely just a reference pointer. It's a list of references to entries in the SL database and your access permissions thereof. It's likely not the actual objects. It's probably just an array of variables. You need to instantiate an instance of a given entry in that array in order to have that bundle of variable 'exist' and be available to functions that that call on it and examine it. (I should be calling this an 'object' but SL users think of an 'object' as an object... but in code it means basically a bundle of concepts that are somewhat 'logically self contained' - and I'm stating this very poorly because I'm trying to make it layperson comprehensible). If I am right; until you rez it... it doesn't actually "exist" - it's just a block of data on what will exist once rezzed. The rezzed item is an 'instance' (active copy) of that 'block of data'. A permission like 'no-copy' just means you can only rez one instance - and once rezzed it's removed from your list because it's now in a different list, and listed as yours to control or 'remove from the list for that region and put into your list of things you can rez'. I'm phrasing all of this with 'if I am right' because while this is how these things would work in normal computer programming, SL is wonky and old and predates a lot of modern concepts - so much of what SL does is just... wrong and inefficient... and without knowing the internals of SL, I can't make the same assumptions about it I would be able to make about almost anything else in the modern world...

Different people wanted their name to always be listed on a given thread - so they had to start a new one so it would show as "their" thread...

Ebbe also said lastnames couldn't be brought back - and in the very same post he said it, if I remember right, he said how it could happen... Ebbe wasn't an engineer - so I always felt that somebody in engineering told him 'impossible' for any task that would take more than 5 minutes of developer time, and he believed them. He may have been a nice guy compared to his predecessor, and well intentioned towards us - but he also had the savvy of a Dilbert Pointy Haired boss and it always seemed like somebody had another layer of wool over his eyes... That said... the Cloud migration feels like one of those "soon™" things...

Yeah it's not a concern for most people, but it gets me every time. There is one rental I managed to not lose this way - but I should have, they gave me an extension - and some months later I left when they started remaking the design of the regions and then eventually went out of business (they rented somewhere between 10-20 regions without having a solid business plan outside of "people will rent these spots" - too bad because they had exactly the theme I wanted. Basically think of the 'Eden' estate regions but without the ban on Nekos). If you're a tad forgetful of these things, or if your SL email goes to a giant spam box because 999 out of every 1000 emails are just telling you that DJ SpamsALot has 10 minutes left in the set... then you'd be in my boat and wishing there was an auto-payment system for these things...

I'm not making this crap up. This is legit what I get 90% of the time. I get those from time to time. Often when I do I open their profile and find something rather different, or not much there at all. Sometimes I respond, start a conversation, and never hear from them again. Sometimes I'm just busy. It sucks, but it happens... Very often it feels like a dude fishing for a hookup. Somewhat different for me than many here is I have particular interests and presentation in SL - being a non-white nude neko avatar - and it can be 'awkward' to hang out with some people who's "kink" or lack thereof is radically incompatible. The feeling of being judged or being there to be their visual entertainment. But: What I actually get a lot of is people that IM me and tell me all the things they think about me or my profile - but nothing about them so I just... don't know what to respond back with. As in... past your "Waves and smiles! I read your profile and..." what I get is an essay about me - and not the common interests statement that I wish I could get... The only thing that I get more than this is: "XYZ Resident wants to be your friend... here is a complete lack of any message beyond that... yes / no"

You can find some very good themed land, and some absolute nightmare estate land with horrid land lords. Just like - you can get amazing mainland and some very bad blighted spots (and none of us here are debating on that topic. Just on costs). But in terms of cost, yes - the right rental can be cheaper. What's been an issue for me has been than everytime I do this I eventually forget or am unable to log in at some key point and don't make the payment - and find my land has been taken back and rented out to someone else. If there was a way to automate it, I might have considered estate land more seriously. Though at present I am good with the locations I currently have. If you can be sure to remember to pay the rental box, it's not a bad option. A big bonus for premium is you can set it to automated payment and forget it - this can also be a downside. Explore the grid and you can find a lot of venues that seem to be paid for by people that have not logged in for years but who's accounts are not old enough to be those extremely rare 'lifetime free premium' accounts.

I think... that I read somewhere... (as in, I'm not sure) that if you have a negative number in the "Land Available" value, that in some number of hours, your land will be auto-abandoned on you. I've never tested this... I think it can also negatively impact your account, which is why I've decided to avoid testing it. I have had negative values for very short periods of time when swapping land around between groups or trading it to friends... but I've always tried to keep these as short as possible - like working urgently to get the value back up to 0 or above.

I don't listen to music for the music, but for the lyrics. If a song isn't political or spiritual or both it usually fails to capture my interest. Which is also nearly true about everything else in life as well: for me there is politics, spirituality, and non-existence. And so I'm less savvy in various styles and beats, and more in topical genres.

You can structure the 'tier donation anyway you want. You just need to make sure the number here under "Land Available" is >= 0 : Here you can see my group is using two accounts to get it's total: (2048+512)*1.1 = 2816 (the 1.1 reflects the 10% group bonus) And you do the donation on Land Use Fees Page ( https://secondlife.com/my/account/landfees.php?lang=en-US ) As you can see, I also have '1024' still listed under 'Available Square Meters' - that's because I used that bit to get a Linden Home. Check these three places and make sure your own numbers add up right. The first two images are panels in my land group.

It's actually not. Riddim is more of a simplification term. If you listen to music with an 'untrained ear' and think you're hearing the common rhythm in songs - you're probably hearing the riddim between two extremely similar songs. If the songs are pretty different but someone tells you they have the same rhythm... - there's your difference much of the time. A lot of less musically adept people, like me for example... think we're hearing a rhythm when we are actually hearing a riddim (which by definition has the rhythm)... But we fail to hear the same rhythm between two songs that beyond that are different. Two songs with the same riddim are going to be at least 80-90% musically identical... and we lay people look foolish when we reveal that we can't hear the 'rhythm' beyond this level... 🙂