Alazarin Mondrian

I don't find women with weapons the least bit sexy. Then again, I'm not into weapons. I've never owned a gun in RL, never wanted to and don't like the company of gun fetishists. If I had my way I'd put all the gun owners on an island and leave them there until they killed each other.

Whoah.... slow down there Ceera! *Don't Panic!* As far as the multiple alpha layer bit goes the alpha layer itself has 5 parts: upper, lower, head, eye and hair. You can add and remove alpha masks from each part so it's quite easy to have an layer that hides lower legs, hands and head to work with a digigrade avvie with prim paws and head. It took me a while to work my way through all the outfits and avvies on my main account. By the time I finished that one I had a collection of templates that I then distributed around my alts which sped things up no end. That and it gave me an opportunity to weed out outfits that had really gone past their sell-by date.

Hello Perriwen. Yes invisiprims are finito. I had to spend a week replacing the invisiprims with alpha layers for all my avvies, outfits, alts, etc. It's not as hard as it might seem. 1] Wear a copy of the relevant alpha layer. 2] Locate the invisiprim on your attachment. 3] Remove the invisiprim script. 4] Remove the invisiprim texture, set the texture to 'blank' and 100% transparency. 5] Resize the insiprim to 0.01 X 0.01 X 0.01 6] Voilá. Wash, rinse, repeat. I'll send you a collection of alpha layers & alpha layer textures when I'm in-world. Be sure to pass them around to your friends.

HotRodJohnny Gears wrote: Should Second Life merge with your First Life? Ja, it's all in der new roolz: You avatar must be ein mini-me of your first-life payer. So you either have ze mini-me or an appointment mit Herr Doktor Frankenstein to make hyu look jus' like your avatar. So vot vill it be? Ze mini-me or take a number and vait hyur turn to see Herr Doktor Frankenstein? Hyu might have to vait a while, he's very busy today.

My gosh! I never knew. And there was me presuming that after Our Lady of Perpetual Silence disappeared from my doorstep that that would be the end of things. But no! A band of intrepid sleuths have uncovered an entire network of Brokli-clone Movie Stars all across the grid. What neafarious plot lies behind these silent unmoving damsels? If anyone can find out I'm sure it's these courageous ladies who've followed the trail so far.

Chelsea Malibu wrote: Why did you first log into Second Life? Curiosity. Stayed because I fell through the looking-glass and never looked back.

Ceka Cianci wrote: ...but while facebook and whatever that otherone was called..myspace were taking off..they sat on it..maybe it was that the grid wasn't ready for that kind of influx or something? i just remember back then everyone wondering when the grid was gonna explode when we hit 30k LOL now it seems like thats their direction.. did they just not recognise they had the potential to join that train or were they just not ready for that train? They weren't ready. I remember the 1.7 update [late 2005 IIRC] that turned SL into 'Grey Life' for the best part of a week. It just so happened that it coincided with a major rave review in some major US magazine and n00bs were raining out the sky at every welcome area the next day. Very few of them stayed on. Sadly the back-end hardware wasn't up to the job. Which is a shame. It's improved vastly over the years with concurrency levels [yeah, everyone whines about them being low] that people could only have dreamed of and would have probably killed the grid stone-dead back then. At least it's still here and evolving. Which has to be a good thing.

Dogboat Taurog wrote: Apple now has more cash to spend than the United States government. All built on Foxconn sweatshop slave labour. Way to go. Not. Whatever happened to workers' rights?

Deej, are you sure you're not seeing your feed because you've inadvertently looged into the SL website. I've checked with one of my alts on 2 different browsers. One, which is logged in, shows all the tabs [Feed, About, Picks, Groups, Notes]. The other, which isn't logged in, only shows the SL part of the 'About' tab and witholds the first life info. Or maybe I've misunderstood your problem.

Keli Kyrie wrote: Do you play SL or does it play you... ...In Soviet Russia Second Life plays you. :smileyhappy:

Try the Northstar or Rocket City Fur Meet malls. Last time I looked Mutation Industries had vendors at both locations.

Kelinda wrote: So it seems to me women out number men 8-10 to 1 in Second Life. Is this because most of SL is about shopping and homemaking? Are the boys off playing War Games? Whoah.... talk about lazy stereotypes. I'm a regular sorta guy, can't stand war games and [as a performing musician in SL] have to spend a bit of time shopping around for new outfits for my main and alt avatars [the other 'band' members, hangers-on, etc.]. I also spend a fair bit of time indulging my inner lego-freak. One thing I've noticed about the 'War Games' thing, and maybe some of you folks could help me here, is the gun thing. OK, I did live in the US for 5 years as a teenager long, long ago but since then have been back in bad old Yurp. So I can't claim to have much firsthand knowledge of US culture. One thing I repeatedly ran into after joining SL were people yarfing on about their gun collections, etc., etc. Is that a 'normal' US male thing or was I just unlucky to blunder into a crowd of psychopaths? FWIW, I've never owned a gun nor wanted to. My only experience of guns was in the army cadets at school. I couldn't hit a stationary taget on the rifle range and was more interested in being a radio operator.

amarock Amat wrote: The rest of the world, are not fighting 3 wars, are not playing superman to nearly all world natrual disasters, being the UN cops around the world. 1] You want WW III, be my guest. No-one else wanted those wars. 2] Believe it or not other nations do actually get involved in disaster relief. 3] Let the UN be the global policeman. That's not the job of any one nation.

@ Dresden: Your critique of the obvious failing of 'trickle down' economics is correct. Keynsianist approaches work better. Give the people at the bottom of the heap money to spend and it will immediately go into economic activity to buy goods and services thus stimulating the economy and increasing employment.

Mayalily wrote: I think the debt ceiling will be raised. I don't see any other choice? There are other options. Three actually but they seem to be anathema to Americans: 1] Raise taxes especially on the upper income brackets. 2] Raise corporate taxes. 3] Cut the military budget. A 25% cut over the next 10 years would be a good starting point. The US military budget is way out of proportion to average military expenditure in the rest of the world.

CaptianMidget Parnass wrote: .... It makes them look worst than it makes you look. @Cordelia Rodas: Remeber that part. No matter how much this other person attempts to throw sh*t at you it reflects far worse on them than you. Mute them, file your AR's, hold your head up and walk on.

leyna wrote: I'm curious as to what kind of instrument(s) and music you play? 1] Guitar & Keyboards. 2] Prog-Rock with Space Rock overtones.... or vice-versa depending on your POV.

My favourite music vernue is, unsurprisingly, my own. I rebuild it whenever I get bored and can perform there whenever I want without having to resort to the gig-hustle drahma. Bliss!

AmyNevilly wrote: I wonder if anyone could tell me what is the best way to increase visitors to your land in second life? :matte-motes-smitten: I think the obvious answer is to keep on asking leading questions in threads you've created in oder to draw peoples' attention to the traffic-increasing service you advertise in your signature. But, hey, what do I know?

Luc Starsider wrote: In what way are they broken, and are other invisiprims also not working correctly? - Luc - At first the invisiprims appear solid then the invisiprim *and* the prim attachment [leg, foot, paw, etc...] turn invisible. I've also noticed that animated textures in attached prims also seem to be broken in 2.74. I have aminated textures in some of my attachements and in 2.74 they have stopped moving :-(((

I have *alot* of avvies that make use of Beatfox Xevious' open-source invisiprim and every single one of them is broken in viewer 2.74 :-((( Does anyone know of a solution other than rolling back to the previous viewer?

IMVU vs SL: we're talking apples and oranges here. On the surface they seem similar but a closer examination shows that they're very very different. As for advertising budget, IMHO LL doesn't want people flooding in Habbo Hotel / IMVU style for one simple reason: the grid and asset servers would probably melt under the strain. Those of you who are old enough will remember the bad old days of grid-wide stress testing and concurrency peaks. The grid would slow down / lag badly / crash / etc. Disclaimer: I've never logged into IMVU. That said, I really want SL to succeed because it's a platform for the imagination in the way that other MMO's and such like can only dream of. Hopefully LL will solve their concurrency ceiling issues. Once that happens then they can safely motor ahead with all the advertising they can throw around. I suspect that one issue that keeps SL concurreny numbers low is the rquirement for high-end graphics and powerful computers to even have a passable experience in SL. This is another issue that really needs to be addressed. I know all the arguments about realtime rendering, etc., etc. No doubt they're all true. Here's a thought that just ocurred to me: split the rendering load between the client and server. Long-term objects [for examples' sake anything over 1 day old] are rendered on LL's servers. Short-term objects are rendered on the clients' computer. Any techies out there able to explain if such an idea would work [or not] and, if so, how and why?

Mickey Vandeverre wrote: I don't get it. Oh wait....I do get it. You ask a question.....then your business partner answers it. You've done this in several threads, and you're playing people just to display your honking ads and advertise in forum. Well spotted, Mickey.

I recieved an identical missive of joy from Ms Dorah. It would seem that she's quite busy. Strangely I don't recall ever meeting her even though she claims to be pleased to have met me. Spam Spam Spam :-(

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