Hugsy Penguin

I'm participating because this doesn't look like a "OMG I need a 'research' paper. Yo, I need ur help plz. How old r u? How long u play THIS GAME? kthxbye" but rather something legitimate. Plus, it's sciencey (<-- made up word) and therefore interesting.

Follow up: I don't know who did it, but the offending object has been removed.

Thanks! :matte-motes-grin: I didn't know that existed. Unless I missed it, I don't see that linked on their web site. :matte-motes-confused: Oh well, now I know.

I've never seen a web forum for Phoenix/Firestorm. The web site for support would be this: http://www.phoenixviewer.com/support.php If you want interactive help, the in-world group called Phoenix/Firestorm Viewer Support is the only place, I think, to get it.

I think and hope that you're right. I don't think LL makes the gifts less than perfect on purpose, but it's good that they do. They're good enough to make people curious and seek out more, but not so good to compete with residents to any meaningful extent.

I didn't see this posted about yet so I thought I'd post a review of the new premium gift: Take to The Skies of Second Life in Your Airplane, Second Life’s Newest Premium-Only Gift. Overall, on a scale from 1 to 5, I give it a 3.5. Pros: Looks great. Even though it's a no modify mesh, the texture is changeable. It has different “sit” animations. You can sit in the cockpit or sit or lay on the wing. My favorite is to hang from the tail. Seats up to 10. Simple usage. It has “sit” setup for the left-click action so you don't need to right-click sit. Also, no start-up commands. Just jump in and it starts up and you're ready to fly. Beginner mode flying takes a minimal amount of effort/practice to get used to. It handles ok – not the best, but ok. The propeller actually spins (as opposed to a spinning texture) and has a wobble effect. I like the subtle trailing smoke. You can configure what happens when you press the up and down arrow keys. For example, when you press the up arrow key you can make the plane nose-up (because up means go up) or you can make the plane nose-down (because that's what happens in real airplanes when you push the controls forward). Cons: Bug: When crossing a sim border, it repeats the last control input. For example, if you were flying south and then turned to the right to go west, when you cross the next border, the plane will kick to the right. I've seen this before with other aircraft but not all aircraft do this. I'm not a fan of “analog” throttle control especially when it's output to chat. You press and hold page up (or down) and it spams chat with the new throttle setting. I prefer to press page up once and it goes up by 10% or whatever. Perhaps I just need more practice, but advanced mode flying was too difficult for general flying around. It might be useful if you're trying crazy aerobatics. When you sit in the plane, it gives you basic instructions on how to fly it. It doesn't tell you that you can now click the body of the plane for options. Experienced vehicle users might try it anyway, but new users may not ever realize there are options. It has a good sound but there's only one sound. Whether you're idle or full-throttle, it sounds the same. Bug: Rez the plane and it's orange. Change texture to Original. I assume this was supposed to take it back to the original orange. Instead, it changes to green. No big deal really but a bit odd. About the scale: 1 to 5 Scale: 1=horrible, the worst, unusable 2=bad, not the worst, some redeeming qualities, definitely not good though 3=neutral, undecided 4=good, not perfect, some downers, definitely not bad though 5=perfect or near perfect, the best Why I gave it a 3.5: Anything over a 3 means that I like it and I definitely do like this airplane. It's certainly not a 5 though. It's not quite a 4 either. To me, things rated at a 4 may not be perfect but they're good enough for day to day use. The sim border crossing bug and “analog” throttle annoy me too much to want to use it on a more regular basis so it gets the middle between 3 and 4.

16 wrote: on lands that have this kinds of things on and autoreturn = 0 then just build it out like put a house and some treeson the parcel over the top of it so you cant see the rubbish + build it out to the max prims so no one can rez anything on there after most absent landowners are pretty good about this i find. when if they ever return to SL I've done that LOL. In this case, the object is large (10m probably) and in the air. It would be challenging to cover it up with something nice and fits the theme of the area.

Jadeclaw Denfu wrote: No, it isn't. The rotational center is exactly here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Miata/234/160/40 It is on a land named Songbird's Beach and is privately owned. Also, the land owner appears to be what I can an absentee land owner (owns land but never logs in to check on it). She hasn't logged in since August 2. The adjacent land owner, however, has the land for sale and logged in two days ago. I've made an appeal to her.

Are you talking about the smaller image in the top left corner? If so, try this: 1. Scroll up and click My Settings. 2. Click the Avatars tab. 3. Click From Uploaded Images. 4. Pick one or click My Images page. You should be able to add images there and then go back and pick one.

Here's my prediction: "I will pay L$5,000,000 for the forums to reveal their college transcripts and passport application."

Darrius Gothly wrote: (LOOOONG way back in time story .. but it fits) I was about 4 years old. My dad and uncle were baby-sitting me while my mom had her first "girls night out" in .. well .. four years. Needless to say they tried everything to keep me entertained, and eventually hit on a game that involved shooting a small toy truck from a rubber-band launcher down a marked race track. The one that managed to shoot the truck furthest .. won. My uncle was quite the Macho Man and wagered that he could huff-n-puff and blow the truck further than I could shoot it. So I took the bet. (I was like four! Of COURSE I took the bet!) At any rate, he starts hyperventilating .. inhales the whole county's worth of oxygen .. and BLOWS!! And at that precise moment the electricity in our neighborhood went out. (I think someone drove into a power pole.) Well needless to say, at the ripe old age of four years old .. I knew EXACTLY why. My uncle had "blown out the lights!" It took mom about a half-hour trying to understand the story in between our hysterical laughter to explain what happened. Now that's a coincidence! :smileyvery-happy:

koto Nizna wrote: That's one of the reason why i always delete my payment info everytime i'm done buying L$ hehe. Since i'm not a premium member i dont need to have my credit card always ready to purchase plus it also helps me control my online spending. That sounds like a good idea.

Dilbert Dilweg wrote: Would like to have seen the shocked look on your face lol Me too! This is probably the closest smiley I can find: :matte-motes-shocked:

Phil Deakins wrote: I like that lol It reminded me of when I was new to the web back in the 90s. My brother, who preceded me onto the web, wanted me to write a shopping cart and, to explain what a shopping cart is, he took me through a purchase on a shopping (TV) channel's website where he'd bought stuff in the past. For the demo he selected an expensive piece of jewellery that he didn't actually want - a few hundred quid - expensive for that source. He clicked the Checkout button to show me the checkout part. But it didn't show the checkout part. Instead, because he'd previously used his credit card to buy from there, it simply charged it and he'd bought the piece of jewellery. His face was a real picture - dropped jaw and wide eyes lol. Fortunately, the company cancelled the order when he phoned them. That was an Oops! :smileyvery-happy: Glad everthing worked out. :smileyhappy:

I was curious about something and wanted to see how much it would cost me to purchase L$60,000. I was already logged in-world so I hit the Buy button and entered the amout. It would cost US$242. Then I hit the cancel button. Then, a moment later I heard the coin-drop sound that gets made when money gets deposited into your account. My gut tighted and my mouth gaped open. “Oh no! I didn't want to buy that! Did I not hit cancel!?” is what I thought. I stared at my L$ amount but it wasn't a huge number. Then it hit me and I just had to chuckle. Right at that moment is when LL paid my stipend. Right after I clicked the cancel button. Phew! That was either an amazing coincidence or my Lindex query triggered the stipend. Either way, thanks LL. You got me!

Oh I see. The spinning box. I didn't look at it closely. That ain't no flower LOL! I sent a report too. In the meantime, since it's over the land of two residents, you can try contacting them. Either should be able to return it.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: I thought firestorm had its own forums on its own website... Their own web site? Yes: http://www.phoenixviewer.com/ Their own web forum? Not that I've ever seen. They have a web site, a wiki, a jira, and in-world support groups (http://www.phoenixviewer.com/support.php).

I just flew around the Miata region at ground level and didn't see any hard core pornography. It's mostly for sale or rent. Perhaps it's been taken care of?

Knowl Paine wrote: Are you sure that the Batman boxes, belong to the Home owner? It does look like an attack. ^^This. Land owner is one person, two months old, with full permissions to build (and so on), and no auto-return set. Cube owner is another person whose account is 12 days old.

If you hurry, you might be able catch the haunted houses that are still out. Burn2 is going on until November 4th: http://burn2.org/ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/84/9/24 MadPea has some interesting stuff: http://madpeagames.com/ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hoshi%20Island/68/161/49 ETA: I just noticed in group chat that Carneval is opening at Noon Wednesday and there will be a party. Resting Place by Pulse Games is quite good: http://pulsegamessl.blogspot.com/ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pulse/214/54/29 If you like “hunting” for free stuff: https://www.google.com/search?q=second+life+hunts I like to seek out amusement parks sometimes. I just use the in-world search to find. Check out paintings by Van Gogh recreated in SL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Arles/170/24/29 Check out the International Spaceflight Museum. It's cool: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/50/80/24 Star Trek fan? http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Eridani/133/78/36 Disneyland fan? http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bracket/254/126/27

Perrie Juran wrote: Someone mentioned stopping people from seeing 'prims' that are on your parcel. I searched each of the four pages for the word "prim". I see I'm the first person to use that word. I did so because I was trying to explain that private estate owners pretty much have complete privacy - they can even stop you from seeing the prims they have rezzed (by way of keeping you out of their sim entirely). I wasn't suggesting that this was (or should be) a parcel feature.

Solar Legion wrote: You've got some pretty faulty information there Hugsy: There is no such setting to block the visibility of prims on a parcel. You can disable the rendering of avatars to those outside the parcel ... but you cannot disable the rendering of prims using the land settings. I didn't say there was a setting. I said "On private estates, owners can restrict access". I was talking about the same as you when you said at the end of your post "Anyone who wants more privacy than that ... can go buy a sim and utterly lock it down." Solar Legion wrote: What has been talked about is altering the server code to distinguish between users who have full access to the parcel and users who only have pass through access and then using that distinction to determine parcel presences prior to sending any data. What's being talked about is preventing people outside the ban line volume from seeing the avatar/chat when that option is enabled. This is not impossible. Those who actually have access to the code can determine whether you simply need to check Z-coords in some conditionals or if a lag-inducing convoluted mess needs to be added. If the latter is the case, it's time to clean up the code anyway. Either way, stopping avatar/chat data from being sent to another avatar is not rocket science. Solar Legion wrote: Gee - you want more lag Hugsy? Yes. I always order extra MSG with my Chinese food. LOL

The only way I'd teleport into SL is if I could teleport back out. For me, it would be a place to visit but definately not a place to live a lifetime.

Jadeclaw Denfu wrote: Since Owner and creator are different users, it begs the question, why does someone possibly pays money for a griefer device, just to make other peoples experience on SL miserable. When it comes to griefer devices, there's no guarantee that the account listed as the Creator actually created the device. It's very possible that the "creator" account gave away a full perm object which was later reworked into a greifer device. Always AR the **owner** and not the creator.

If you're on a Windows PC, call up the picture and then press the print screen button (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_screen). You should now be able to paste (Ctrl-V) into a paint program or a word processor like MS Office or Open Office.