[How many people have a Second or Third Avatar? and Why?]

I have one main and six alts, mostly used as characters in photo stories.  Occasionally I go undercover on an alt to explore places through a different set of eyes.

Sometimes I go

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[Ban Lines]

Is it out of the question to put, like, a ski jump ramp thingy at the end of the runway?

( Could solve the ban line problem as well as making air travel that much more terrifying. )

[There's just cats... as far as the eye can see!]

[Anyone 20-25?]

zomg yah, that's, like, as old as my mom!  Or something.

[Friends who...]

"I’d always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself—people like to see that." — Chris Rock

If they aren't learning, it's time to stop teaching.  Maybe it's time to remove some of those people?

[Friends who...]

I love doing those things in particular because it's practice.  If I had no reason to fire up the photoshop and actually practice my amateur skills, I'd never get any better.  :smileywink:

I guess the next question is do you have a hard time saying "No."?

[Friends who...]

I wish.  I would love friends who would send an IM to ask for help or to ask if I wanted to join them someplace.  'Talking for the sake of talking' is ... extremely boring, in my opinion.

Good IM's:

• "Hey, we're down at suchandsuch club and listening to a really good live guitarist.  Wanna come?'
• "Oh, hey, can you do a profile pic for me sometime?"
• "Can you tell me where you found that hair in that one pic?"

Bad IM's:

• "Hi."
• "How r u?"
• "Wut r u doing?"
• "How was ur day?"
• "Why do u have me on ignore?"

[Child av = RL criminal? Please help me understand.]

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JustZoie wrote:

Having been around the Family RP Community for a number of years, I've seen people like this as well, the basic issue is that a lot of people are so completely obsessed by sex, so much in fact that everything they do is somehow motivated by or tainted by sex, and they have gotten to the point where not only do they think that this is normal but they actually believe that everyone else is wired the same way.  In their minds, avatars are built for sex and so if you are building a child av, then obviously (in their twisted view of the world) it must be illegal and abusive purposes. 

When you have such a limited mindset that sees all of SL as nothing but one giant red-light district it is easy to understand why they view kids as criminals--they simply can not see past their own motivations.

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Quoted for truth -- 'We see the world not as it is, but as we are.'

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[Any good PVP Combat SIMS?]

I would LOVE to see a paraRP combat sim -- I'd get all kinds of kills while everyone else was busy standing around typing.

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( My alts really do talk about me behind my back. )

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( Hushing up for a moment or two so Dillon can continue her picture story. )

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( Good night everyone, will try harder tomorrow. )

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( If I had half a brain I'd stockpile these instead of releasing them as they're finished. )

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Ansiri wrote:

Wow, that is really fun picture story. You don't happen to have your own thread for those? Maybe also one where everyone could put their own storypictures if have some specific storytheme.

 

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That's the thing, everyone can add their own stories and pictures (and some forumites often do).  :smileytongue:

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I was driving my tank around the old teen grid lately, having upgraded my equipment from the 'Brokli Bot Incidents' of 2011 when I happened across a strange metallic object on the side of the road, much like described above.

Dark and foreboding, this massive device sat there embedded in the ground, most likely monitoring all nearby activity and certainly up to no good.

Opening my hatch and risking a closer look, I determined that the object was named "Utility - Network Node" and under control of an organization called '.Network Maintenance branch' under the command of a man named Jack Mondegreen... a devious general of a most evil, corrupt organization if I had ever heard of one.

Now, from previous experience, much like the Brokli Movie Star bots that infested the mainland roads and highways before, such devices would be invulnerable to direct assault from conventional weapons, most likely including tank guns as well.

...but that didn't stop me from trying.

...To Be Continued.

[Firestorm question]

In Firestorm, ctrl + alt + D to get the Advanced menu item if you don't already have it.

Advanced > Show Develop Menu.

Then Develop > Avatar > Animation Speed.

 

EDIT: and as for why?  One example is I know of one person who uses it in her machinima to match her dance animations to the tempo of the music.  :smileywink:

[Why are there theft detectors in stores?]

I'll suggest that maybe, possibly, some people think those panels are there solely for advertising purposes?  In this day and age I think it's safe to assume some blissful ignorance on the part of the younger generation.

[Suffering from "The Blurries"]

I do that quite often, Googling "second life + issue du jour", read from the top five or so hits and choose the answer that seems the most reasonable ( OMG turn ur meshmaxconcurrent to 500!!!11one! ).  Is there any wonder we're all lost?

[Suffering from "The Blurries"]

How utterly helpful, Monty.

I had this happen the other day, and knowing SL I knew there was a 99.9% chance it wasn't my computer or my configuration.  I just waited it out and it was fine.  But I wonder what a new user will do?  Just now I clicked on the Knowledge Base tab, typed in "yellow pyramid" and got exactly zero help.

Something like this can affect anyone, anywhere.  Why aren't these lovely, helpful responses located someplace, with helpful, common sense search terms so the average newbie user can find it?  Better yet, why can't we get a no-nonsense, LL-approved question and answer and straight dope on each and every setting and checkbox in preferences?

[What is the cap limit on IM's]

Thank you, Tari and Rolig.  :heart:

[What is the cap limit on IM's]

Another thing I've been unclear on and it seems a good time to ask.

If you have IM to email enabled and you usually get a mix of IMs, inventory offers, group updates and such, once you hit 25 items you're still capped even though you are getting some of those messages in email?  I've seen people who claim the email option somehow nullifies the limit, which after reading the wiki entry here doesn't exactly specify that.

[Suffering from "The Blurries"]

In Firestorm: right-click yourself, Appearance, Tex Refresh.  For other people, try right-click, More, More, Tex Refresh.  Seems to fix the blurries right up.