Tolya Ugajin

I'll bet your parents were constantly fighting over the thermostat! Слишком жарко! لا ، إنه بارد جدا! (I seriously hope Google translate got that correct!)

Just gives her the "You don't seriously think I'm stupid enough not to have figured that out" look.

Well, try this: 1: Change your password by randomly typing gobbledysnook into the box. Make sure the save button is off. 2: Send a "goodbye, cruel world" notecard to everyone you know, and to every group you have posting rights to. Immediately unfriend them all and leave the groups to avoid the "bye, Felicia" replies. 2: Find a dolcett place (if there are any still around), and have yourself be the funeral feast for your own funeral. I'll outmorbid anyone 😛 3: Log off, delete all your SL file directories and browsers. 4: It would now be far harder to recover your SL life than to create a new one, so you'd be as dead as you could get.

Seriously, LL, your content blocker should be revised if it's removing parts of words like that.

If that's the case, I'd like X-Ray vision and a universal translator that turns gobbleydee***** into the Queen's English.

I'm feeling morbid today, so I came up with this as perhaps the first post I ever created. Perhaps it will get some ghosts to come out of the woodwork to write an obituary for former avatars, or it could just be a fun exercise for folks to talk about their lives in SL and what they'd want to be remembered for. Besides, reading obituaries is a sure sign we're getting old. Tolya Ugajin, age 84, passed to his reward Friday, succumbing to his long and noble battle with sexual addiction. This cantankerous curmudgeon had withdrawn to a hermit's life since turning 50, only occasionally venturing into public to buy adult magazines and proclaim "DOOM UPON US ALL! THE BORG ARE NIGH!" in the public square. He is survived by his wife, Huney, assuming she is still alive, as she has been seen even less frequently over the last 34 years. They had no children that Mr. Ugajin was aware of. Mr. Ugajin was best knows for his House of Ugajin library, art gallery, and den of debauchery and depravity. Rumour has it Prok is interred there in the ruins, beneath where the pink Saint Andrews cross used to stand. He was also known for hosting the biggest balls on SL. Funeral arrangements have been made for next Tuesday. He will be laid to rest in an abandoned field on Zindra. AC/DC has been hired to play for the remembrance gathering afterwards, which will be held at the Beaux Arts Gallery, Xaara. Guests are asked to make a donation to the Hillary For President 2020 committee.

Shoulda checked the attic and the closet 😛 Besides, too many dust bunnies under your bed.

For the same reason I go to McDonalds despite the service seldom being friendly. I didn't nothing they do is good enough. I said they constantly fail to follow through as promised.

awww shucks

No lie, there is a MrStarman character who created at least a hundred different alts, all with the same MrStarman name (and maybe others I never saw) who would go about spamming adult, mostly BDSM/babygirl groups, to find "girls who were submissive when younger" (or some such dreck). Very creepy. Once an alt, say MrStarman2glt, had been banned from enough such groups, he'd create MrStarman3glt. I banned at least 20 of his alts.

That's an interesting method, and could work given a few particulars: 1: The RL person you suspect is alting is foolish enough to get to know you on both alts well enough for you to suspect them. I'm not really sure how anyone could be stupid enough to do that, but then, I am constantly amazed at how stupid humans can be. AND 2: A: The person happens to constantly keep both accounts logged in at the same - which seems rather tiresome to do, OR 2: B: The person happens to log one account off and then shortly thereafter log the other account on, and do so repeatedly. Of course, it's also quite possible that, with SL having hundreds of thousands of active accounts and tens of thousands logged in at any given time, you'll just end up suspecting someone due to random coincidence and a strong streak of paranoia. Your method would also be easy to circumvent by the simple expedient of always leaving one account logged in and idle somewhere, like a cheap rental home or a sandbox. May I suggest an alternate approach? If the possibility of a given set of avatars being alts bothers you enough to use an online tracker and stare at it waiting to hope you catch them, then just mute them all and proceed with enjoying your SL. I can't think of anything more tedious.

That you know of (/me laughs diabolically) "is that one should judge each avatar by their actions, individually, rather than make preemptive and possibly inaccurate judgements about what you think they are "likely" to do (as opposed to what they've already actually done)." Sagacious advice as always.

Can I cash mine in at your store? I could use some new furniture

Trying to identify an alt is a fool's errand. Short of them doing something really stupid (or telling you) there is no way to be sure one way or another. Take people at face value and don't trust anyone too much or too quickly - the jackinapes will reveal themselves eventually. How many alts is too many? One, if you are use it to deceive people or cheat on someone you supposedly are in a relationship with.

My father, who taught me that a real man shoulders his responsibilities and tries to make the most of what life/God has dealt him, is friendly to strangers but ready to defend himself and those he cares for if need be, and does most of his complaining while drinking. Oh yes, he also taught me to curse like a pirate and appreciate really awful jokes. Mr. Piddington, one of my high school teachers, who taught me that being smart is cool, that intelligent people inevitably have more fun than stupid people, and that the opinions of cretins who resent smart people are not worth fretting over. Oh yes, and who helped me get my SAT score high enough that I could choose any college I wanted. My good friend Craig from when I was a boy, from whom I learned that bad life choices start early, that once you've made them you cannot unmake them, and that it's better to stay off drugs and stop vandalizing other people's property before you get caught, than after. Oh, and that while manufacturing LSD and growing pot may be easy and profitable, it brings far more trouble than it's worth in the long run. My recently retired boss of 20 years, who taught me to appreciate wine and cigars, and how to best manipulate and exploit underlings with empty promises but fat expense accounts, as well as the fine art of CYA.

Second life, like first life, is exactly what you decide to make of it. If you want it to be about sex, then that's what it is. If you want it to be about creating, then that's what it is. If you want it to be about the search for true love, then that's what it is. For me, it's a home away from home where I can hang out with my fiance, whom I met in SL, and a few close friends, usually playing Hand and Foot, but occasionally it's about venturing out into public and confirming that I my misanthropy is well founded.

You should talk to a tax accountant or attorney in the nation and state/province you are in. Relying on free legal or tax advice, which is what you are asking for here, is not a good idea.

worker fatality

I concur. I used to enjoy building with nothing but plain old prims and whatever the heck "convex hull" was all about. I stopped building anything myself after sculpties became widely available - too much work and too easy to buy what others make.

Meh, in my 12 years, I haven't noticed much essential change, and not much difference between the "generations". Mesh, bento, etc. are nothing more than new styles of clothing for the paper dolls we make online. SL is really about people, not technology. The people are still mostly drama, the teenage boys are still obvious, the clubs are still mostly lame, "mainland" is still a mess, SL Secrets is still a bunch of nasty useless ***** (I was helpful and self-censored), and most of the problems people whine about are still mostly self inflicted. I guess the biggest change is how much it costs to build a good avatar compared to everyone else (I never updated Tolya to mesh), along with no longer running into Brazillians asking random female avatars "du u like teh buttseks?" I did get bento balls (because, as those who know me from the old days know, I'm serious about having awesome balls) and my reaction was "seriously, someone felt the need to create this?".

I don't pay much attention to what LL says, because they seldom follow through and rarely do so well. Will there be any changes to the benefits sim owners get?

I'm open to sharing my jaded and jaundiced viewpoints and experiences with SL. IM me in world and the next time I log in as Tolya I'll respond.

The other example is how the democratic assembly led their city-state into a war they had little chance of winning and then ran the war by committee, thus guaranteeing defeat. If the person I am speaking with continues to engage in fruitful dialogue, I also go into how the continual accrual of power by the democratic portion of the Roman government (the various Assemblies) at the expense of the more traditional republican Senate eventually led to the collapse of the Republic. History rules.

It is with great honor and joy that I derail my fellow Badger. Socrates is one of the two examples I use of why pure democracy is a horrible form of government and why the Founders of the US created a republic instead. The pure democracy of Athens, after all, democratically decided to murder one of the most influential thinkers in history simply because they didn't like what he had to say. Of course, that was after they democratically chose to create an empire based on force, democratically started the disastrous war with Sparta, and democratically executed generals that fell out of favor.

Lol thank you SL for saving the virgin eyes of the readers of this forum. Now, let's see if your content filter can handle an old George Carlin line: "On TV, you can ***** your finger, but you can't finger your *****"