Kascha Matova

George Orellana wrote: Thank you Lexie glad to see that Lindens are looking at the forums, good job. Just be aware that as my post above from a few weeks ago mentions, the CSS style is not working right under IE 9 compatibilty mode, the layout gets distorted, and this was at least true at the time I wrote that. I have not rechecked this recently as I have been working on a Linux machine. Would be nice someone tested this again and post here the results. Still true George. The line with the main destinations like Forums, SecondLife, Community Feedback, etc. is still tucked under the tabs at the top so only the bottom of the text is visible, though still clickable. And I still have problems with selecting text in quoted messages... Firefox 4 works perfectly however.

Dresden Ceriano wrote: Dilbert Dilweg wrote: Lol I have never once seen my bandwidth get weak on any cable system I used because people came home to use the service.. That is a silly myth While I haven't had any problems with it, it most certainly is not a myth. It's well documented that this is one of the advantages of DSL over Cable. I only have to assume most of my neighbors aren't using the internet very much. Goddess forbid they'd all be using it as much as I do, because I'm sure I would be having the same issues as Kascha. I consider myself very lucky. ...Dres Ya. The issue is that Time Warner is not leading any packs when it comes to scruples really, as can be evidenced by simple Google searches regarding Time Warner Cable and RoadRunner Cable. There are tons of people complaining about this same thing with this same RR Turbo package I have. I was on a site earlier where there were over 300 complaints in my general area on the page referring to the same thing, and there was a huge outage with TWC in the city just a few short months ago. There is a definite problem with infrastructure going on and they are not delivering the speeds they advertise anything near consistently. It doesn't help of course that Verizon is not in this area, and although AT&T is, they do not offer U-Verse here yet. Which means if you don't have DirecTV or Dish in my zip code, you are using TWC for TV, and most likely for internet as well making demands on the pipes here as high as they can possibly get. So every day, it's literally a night and day difference. 12-18Mbps with the sun up, 4-5Mbps at best from 6pm-midnight. Paying for 15Mbps. And that's rated on Speedtest.net going to the closest server they have available to my location.

Dilbert Dilweg wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: Dilbert Dilweg wrote: @ leliel Lol I am only playin around.. Don't mind me lol; Wasn't Comcast flirting with capped services a couple years ago? Not sure if they finalized it or went thru with it Just glad I am not in that boat Why not go with Cable Internet? I guess not available in your area? Cable is only worth it when nobody is home. Anywhere in the area. It's shared bandwidth, and since most people are home using the internet at the same time their neighbors are surfing and watching cable TV, the bandwidth rate plummets. Lol I have never once seen my bandwidth get weak on any cable system I used because people came home to use the service.. That is a silly myth Is it? That's not the first choice of words I'd use to describe something that I'm currently experiencing in reality, and not for the first time, with this cable company, or cable in general. Nor has it been described that way by any of the other people who have accepted it as a fact of shared bandwidth distribution combined with over subscription that outpaces infrastructure and stated as much in print or to me in person countles times over the years I've been working in the computer industry. You might want to revisit your concept of 'myth'. It's not that difficult to Google the subject and find articles from professionals in a position to not have to guess that explain the reality of the situation thoroughly.

Alazarin Mondrian wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: ...If you haven't heard, for those in the states on AT&T home DSL services, starting in May, your bandwidth will be capped at 150GB/mo for DSL only and 250GB/mo for U-Verse (voice, internet & TV) services... 150 or 250 GB/month?!?!?! Most ISP's in the UK consider themselves generous if they allow users 40GB of heavily throttled bandwidth per month. At least your ISP's recognise that people actually use their internet connections. Here people are expected to pay for but not use their internet connection. Granted that is a higher limit than in many other places, but I think some are missing the point here. This was a cap-free service. There is a bit of a system shock , as well as a big difference when something you choose to limit yourself becomes something someone else is going to impose their limits on whether you like it or not. I don't like people forcing their limitations on me when everything is free. I certainly don't like it when I'm paying them.

Dana Hickman wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: I look at how much stuff gets transferred in a session and I simply can't imagine it would be that small an amount. I guess it really would take an enormous amount of additional services to get to 150GB with your figures. I used to LIVE on SL constantly (sometimes up to like 10hrs a day at one point.. Shopping! Dancing! Music!), as well as places like youtube and whatnot. Fortunately I don't have capped internet (I'm on Charter), but unless one is downloading and saving lots of full-length HD videos to your harddrive then there's almost no chance one could accidentally move over 150gigs of data. That cap really only affects those who are serial torrent freaks, literally spending all day trading huge amounts of data. Hmmm? Huh? Uhh huh... Ugh...sorry. I just got finished (finally) watching Black Swan and I'm still floating on the magnificence of it, and your gorgeous dancing avie is not exactly helping me make my descent from the clouds. :womanhappy: The more I think about it, the more I believe you are right. If I had to guess what my heaviest demands would be it would probably be game installs bought in downloadable format, music purchases and recording, streaming music, and stuff like that. I'm not really a Youtube junkie although I do watch music and other videos from time to time and I still do manage to spend most of my time in First Life. I probably have nothing to worry about, but as Ishtara said, the reality of the internet will change, so only The Goddess knows what bandwidth demands the future will hold. Maybe by the year 3000 FIOS will make it to one more house in my state, for a total of three. And that third house will be mine. Or at least it'll be the house I haunt. That still counts doesn't it? Congratulations! FIOS is available in your urn!

Darrius Gothly wrote: FWIW: I ran Verizon DSL side-by-side with Time-Warner Cable for just over 3 years. The entire household used the cable connection, while I dedicated the DSL to my work computer. During the course of that testing, access speeds and up-time were significantly worse for DSL than for cable. Even though total bandwidth (owing to 8+ computers using it nearly full-time) was much higher on cable, the DSL ran slower than cable for straight web page retrievals .. constantly. No to mention I could count on DSL going down frequently while cable would only go down rarely. (Usually when the cretin up the block tried to steal cable TV and "pinned" the main trunk.) If you have access to cable, I strongly suggest you go that way. Then get Vonage for your phone service (or go with the cable companies offering) and pick up their TV packages too. Overall you will get higher bandwidth, reliability, and no caps. (today .. *gulps*) PS: My experience above is only with Time-Warner. Comcast cable has a decidedly poorer reputation IMHO. PPS: The Verizon DSL plus one phone line cost about 55% of the entire cable bill .. and the cable bill included internet, phone and deluxe TV (but no premium channels like HBO etc.) The DSL I have re-ordered is the same thing I had a month ago, but with no phone service attached. I am on Vonage right now actually so I don't even need a landline account, and I would have dumped it long ago if the rep from AT&T I talked to had told me the truth, which is that I did NOT actually have to accept 3Mbps on DSL only, because the 6Mbps I had was available DSL-only. I don't know about Verizon, because I don't live in either of the two apartments in my state (sarcasm = not so much) where Verizon actually lists itself as available. But AT&T almost never went down in 5+ years of operation, was of course never subject to community usage increases so bandwidth never swung wildly up and down, and according to Speedtest, literally ripped the doors off of the Roadrunner figures I am getting. In fact, if I had seen the numbers on DSL that I am seeing now on TWC, I would have lived on the AT&T support lines. I had one amazing blast of cable superiority last night late, where it registered 18Mbps for two of three consecutive tests. 20 minutes later it was back down to 4.5Mbps. No can do, unless my monthly charge is going to do the same thing! This is actually not the first time I've had RoadRunner either. I had it a couple of years ago, and just like now, I dumped it and went back to DSL for the same reasons. I just forgot that I had, and I needed connectivity on move week. Not 3 weeks later like AT&T was telling me. I won't go through cable for TV. I am an avid football fan like my brothers are (my one tomboyish vice - well that and motorcycles) and if I were to let go of DirecTV and Sunday Ticket my family might actually disown me. Or just never come over. Wait, what's that cancellation hotline number again?

PeterCanessa Oh wrote: Actually, yes, I have figures for you, as I'm having to use pay-as-you-go broadband at the moment so every Mb costs. The news is, generally, better than you'll be expecting. First, a lpt of broadand companies cap monthly usage to 1GB for 'basic' users - that really is only for face-twits and emailers. The next 'normal' step is 3GB and that's pretty much adequate for most internet users, but not really if you're streaming pron, er, YouTube, etc. In practice few people would ever break a 5GB/month cap, including watching a few videos online. ... Trouble is, it all depends. Some months I have a couple of GB of software updates to download, sometimes none at all. SL specifics: Most of the traffic between SL and your computer is texture downloads, in the other direction it's movements and clicks (so tiny). Textures and other downloaded data are of course cached so if you're sitting at home (where everything has already rezzed) almost the only thing SL has to send you is timing information, animation updates (when your AO changes, for instance), info about anyone walking past/objects changing and chat. If I'm doing that my bandwidth ticks over at around 50-70kbps (roughly dial-up speed) and in a 5 hour session I'll use about 60 - 70MB on average. Doing that every day is roughly 2GB/month. Treat this as the minimum you need to use SL. ... Trouble is, it all depends. You've just been shopping and changing clothes/skin/etc. That means LOTS of new textures, object-information, sculpts, etc. that SL had to download each time you TP'd to a different sim. That can easily quadruple your usage, but you're not likely to do that every day unless you're a serious explorer. (Or committed shopper, I suppose). In practice though, 8GB/month would almost certainly be your upper limit for SL. So - say 5GB for video-streaming and 8GB for SL = 13GB. You're almost certainly safe with a 10th of the cap AT&T are introducing :-) [i am building web sites and database, uploading and downloading those, using SL about 5 hours/day, using these fora for another 2 or 3 (they take a ridiculous amount of bandwidth because of all the 'pretties') but not using YouTube or other streaming. When I'm in SL I'm mostly visiting the same 4 or 5 sims except when I'm sailing. When I am I go through a lot of sims but there is comparatively little in them. I had a 5GB/month limit but found it a bit too tight, so now I'm on 7. It limits my web use a bit, but if something didn't I'd never get anything done in SL ^^] Does that help? Really?? /EXHALE Yes it does help! I look at how much stuff gets transferred in a session and I simply can't imagine it would be that small an amount. I guess it really would take an enormous amount of additional services to get to 150GB with your figures. Although I do listen to streaming music, including stations like Deepmix Moscow Radio that play music in 45 minute to 1 hour blocks with one file per block, and those files are averaging around 60-80MB each. I guess the only way to know for sure is to operate as normal and see what happens. Maybe it costs $10 to find out it will be a problem, but that's not fatal I guess. I guess my real problem with caps is that it penalizes the user for stuff that is not their fault. Everyone else has to pay for the heaviest 2% of users - subsidizing their accounts. Caps also penalize users for things like junk mail. I've got 16 different e-mail addresses between work, home business, and personal and they all get bombarded with junk. With caps, even junk messages are legitimate messages, because they cost just as much to receive. I hate that. Thanks for this breakdown of your finding though. At least I have that to say maybe I could end up way off on this and with nothing to worry about! :womanhappy:

Dilbert Dilweg wrote: @ leliel Lol I am only playin around.. Don't mind me lol; Wasn't Comcast flirting with capped services a couple years ago? Not sure if they finalized it or went thru with it Just glad I am not in that boat Why not go with Cable Internet? I guess not available in your area? Comcast is already capped at 250GB/mo. The only ones who aren't capped is Time Warner Cable with their RoadRunner service. RoadRunner is garbage. I have it now, after having just left AT&T less than a month ago because I moved and they were going to take 3 weeks to activate my DSL when they didn't even have to come to my house. I'm paying $46/mo to TWC for supposedly up to 15Mbps bandwidth. To date, I have never Speedtested over 10, and I average around 4.5-5. Downloading Singularity viewer the other night, I was getting 43Kbps. Dialup speed. Cable is only worth it when nobody is home. Anywhere in the area. It's shared bandwidth, and since most people are home using the internet at the same time their neighbors are surfing and watching cable TV, the bandwidth rate plummets. So I come back to AT&T, and am welcomed with this.

Keli Kyrie wrote: I have not got a notice about this!!!! If I had I would be very upset too! Do you have a link to this information? ETA: Found it. Now I am Mad!!!!!!!! Broadband Usage FAQs Are there any usage limits for my broadband service? Yes. As of May 2, 2011, AT&T's residential DSL High Speed Internet plans will have a usage allowance of 150 Gigabytes ("GB") per month, and its residential U-verse High Speed Internet plans will have a usage allowance of 250 Gigabytes ("GB") per month. The usage allowance is the amount of data you can send and receive each month. Ya, you see? This is guano. Only more so and said with a far angrier tone. I have to correct one thing I misstated though, which is that the overage charge is $10 per 50GB over, and takes effect after three warnings. AT&T will be notifying users as they apprroach certain pre-determined milestone percentages of their total allotment. How nice of them. I think it's 60%, 75% and 90% before the over limit warning comes in. For those who think you'd have to download a lot of stuff to get to that limit, consider what I said earlier. AT&T's own internal guidelines instruct their staff that the 150GB limit is roughly equivalent to 60 hours of X-Box Live gaming. Gaming, in other words, that more often than not will not have to download much of anything once level maps come down - a far cry from the Niagra Falls like onslaught to be expected with every new point of view in SL, and that doesn't even take streaming music or text into consideration. Oh, and voice users? LOL (bittersweet endgame that it is for SLVoice via AT&T) So, for relatively simplistic X-Box gaming without near constant 3D geometry to download plus the rest, you'd be looking at 12 five hour gaming sessions a month. And then your bandwidth is tapped out. Without a single additional e-mail message sent or delivered all month. This is seriously enough for me to dump my 6Mbps connection with AT&T and move down to 3Mbps. I'm already paying $48/mo. for what I have and this pretty much guarantees I just got a hike to $58/mo. I don't see where I should reward AT&T for this, so I might have to go down to $19.95 or $29.95 a month and then it'll take me 300GB/mo usage to get back to what they're trying to charge me.

First a little disclaimer : If you haven't heard, for those in the states on AT&T home DSL services, starting in May, your bandwidth will be capped at 150GB/mo for DSL only and 250GB/mo for U-Verse (voice, internet & TV) services. For the DSL only accounts there will be a $10 charge for I believe every 1 or 2 GB overage. Obviously if you are not in the States or not on AT&T this is not an issue for you. But if you are, as I am, you may feel that a sudden switch from no cap at all, to a cap that was described to me a few minutes ago as "sufficient for 60 hours of X-Box Live play" is in a word, troubling. When I am on SL even now after a year and half away from constant play, and starting after 9pm even, I can still rack up 3-5 hours in world in one sitting without much trouble. In fact, I can and have been doing this within the boundaries of maybe 3 locations this week as I shopped and modernized my looks and tried out different viewers. You of course realize then that even if SL only generated the same bandwidth load as X-Box gaming, that represents less than half a month worth of bandwidth. And that doesn't include anything else I would be doing with my connectivity, such as uploading/downloading design files for web projects, remote access to work servers, Youtube, or even streaming from Shoutcast. It is in fact, a comically insufficient amount of bandwidth for anyone but the most rudimentary Facebook checking, e-mail checking, casually browsing users. I would love to be disagreed with on that last opinion, so if you disagree, please give me what for. Loudly if at all possible. Also, and this was the impetus for the thread, is there any way to find out or guesstimate what the average bandwidth usage figures could be for an SL session over n hours of usage? Has anyone attempted to monitor such a thing before and if so, what have you found? Thanks :womanmad: <---- (mad at AT&T not you!)

Monti Messmer wrote: Like it or not that is the future. Please leave that silly comments about overpriced whatever.... No one watches porn if you ask friends but they make billions each year ! This wouldn´t only be for the iPhone, the mobile market is getting bigger than the PC market. No matter which manufacturer, a small version of SL could run on the newest mobiles. There was a software to connect to a running SL on your PC, bit like one here allready said. Render on a server or in the "cloud". And when Apple decides to deny entry for the program to the App Store due to their usual preoccupation with owning their customers entire brainwave process? What then? A SecondLife app will never see the light of day in the App Store. Too much to see that is out of Apple's control.

leliel Mirihi wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: And why wouldn't there be people on this thread with problems? That's what it's here for. If it's sunshine lollipops and rainbows for others with V2 then why would those people be here is a better question. LL is all grown up. They'll do just fine without the Mental Militia intervention. While I'm not disagreeing with what you said I would like to point out that Yoki Enoch's comment and general stance seems to be that absolutely nothing works in v2, at all, no exceptions. That seems like a bit of an exaggeration to me, don't you think? There's a difference between criticism, constructive or otherwise, and no so politely saying v2 came out of the rear end of some animal and that its developers are mentally handicapped. I've seen plenty of people saying the later, and I think those kinds of comments are what v2 supporters are trying to fight against. But some times innocent criticism gets caught in the cross fire. I guess you could call them casualties of war. I can see where you are coming from; believe me I can. But there are realities about "opinions" that neatly remove any need for consternation on the part of anybody for whom such opinions fall short of libel. There is no onus on opinions that requires they be based in any part on reality, nor are they immune to containing at times, gross exaggerations. I'm sure you've heard it discussed somewhere how ridiculously boring the average fight would sound if it wasn't exaggerated. These problems are real to the speakers. That is the only requirement. If they also appear all-encompassing they are within their rights to refer to them as such, and it should surprise nobody because that's what problems look like from the inside, when encountered alone. For those fortunate enough to have a higher point of view, where is the disservice being done? Where is the trouble sorting fact from fiction? Is it that hard for anyone who has been on the forums for more than a week to figure out what they're going to hear in a thread with such a title? I've no problem avoiding threads feeding the absurd "But how do I know I'm sexually harrassing a real female without voice?!?!" witchhunts that I'm so thoroughly sick of. It's not algebraic - it's common sense. If you don't want to hear it, then click here = false. But you're right. There is a difference between constructive criticism and ripping the viewer and all involved with it a new one. What there isn't however, is a place for those who in this thread and others, have complained out of the other side of their mouths about being censored, to demand that either one type of criticism or the other be silenced because they don't agree with it or it doesn't represent their personal experience. Nor is there any discernable danger of personal loss or damage that would make such demands understandable. For those with such concerns about the catastrophic injury being unjustifiably caused to LL by a few frustrated posters, rest assured that the second LL feels a need to recognize that damage, and finds its position untenable, there will be plenty of official looking men with white wigs and briefcases coming round to put down any rabid troublemakers.

Opensource Obscure wrote: Yoki Enoch wrote: Most other viewers are far better at handling pretty much anything that Viewer 2.x handles or doesn't handle. This is simply false. Users who have issues should be be aware of such misleading and imprecise suggestions. Current version 2.6 and 2.0 of the official Viewer are so different that such a comment about "Viewer 2.x" doesn't make any sense and only shows bias against the new interface. It seems that the author doesn't bother to follow development of Viewer 2.x. Such a comment doesn't mention that 1.x viewers lack a number of features (shared media, multi-wearables, location bar, favorites and others) - this is holding back Second Life's development. Such a comment doesn't take into account how the underlying code has been refactored. We users don't see this, but ask Phoenix and Imprudence developer teams why they're building 2.x - based alternative viewers. 2.x - based viewers aren't perfect and can be improved. They have a future. 1.x viewer aren't perfect either (anyone using Phoenix and losing stuff from Inventory?...) but they don't have a future. Enjoy your obsolete, feature-lacking viewers while you can and keep blaming Viewer 2. Having something to blame other than our choices doesn't resolve bugs, but can be rewarding and satisfying. Users who have issues would be far better served by keeping in mind the fact that their issues are not imagined, driven by anti-LL agendas or subject to approval by those in the forums who seem to be less able to handle product criticism than the company employees who come here. Where does such audacity come from? Your opinion is "false". "I'm writing to say I'm having horrendous problems". "No, because it works fine for me". What's the problem here? Did you code the 2.x viewer personally? I'm having a ton of problems with it too - not just from LL's version, but every viewer I've tried based on v2 code. I also have a machine that has not had a problem running anything else at 60 fps, have a great wired broadband solution and would recognize if I didn't because I'm paid at work to do just that. I have no bias against LL - if I do then spending a few thousand dollars in SL over the course of the last 4 years and living with the plethora of performance issues and questionable design priorities that have contributed to them is a curious way to show my discontent, wouldn't you say? No. The fact is, there are problems with usability on V2 for enough people that there should be no dismay if one more steps up to talk about his or her own. And why wouldn't there be people on this thread with problems? That's what it's here for. If it's sunshine lollipops and rainbows for others with V2 then why would those people be here is a better question. LL is all grown up. They'll do just fine without the Mental Militia intervention.

For me, version 2 has been a very exhausting and frustrating waste of time. It hasn't mattered which viewer I've used : Firestorm (latest) -> Better than SL 2.5.x-2.6.x. Which don't set the bar high. Endless cloud rather than rezzing me. Everything takes WAY too long to rez. Interface is better than SL, but less intuitive than 1.x viewers. Kirstens (latest) -> Almost the exact same experience as Firestorm, except that what does finally rez looks better when it finishes. SL 2.6.x -> No. Oh HELL no. NEVER finishes rezzing the environment. Endless cloud. Non-intuitive interface. Less features than any of the others. A complete non-starter for me. SL 2.4.x -> Was only on it long enough to get forced onto 2.5. Can't even speak about it with insight, but the one time I was in-world with it it seemed to be faster than later versions. This is annoying for me because I love some of the new additions with version 2, specifically and especially the allowance for multiple tattoo layers, which ends the whole tattoos, or cleavage enhancers, or makeup, or a hairbase, but never more than one dance. And it's not my machine or connection either. Every version 1.x viewer runs as smoothly as liquid. I have been bouncing between Ascent and Phoenix, settling on Ascent, and tried Singularity today because it's an improved Ascent and I misunderstood what they meant about multiple attachments being in the code, thinking that included multiple clothing and tattoo layers. Guess not. But these viewers make SL possible again. I tried for 4 hours last night just to get my avie to finish rezzing on log-in, between the viewers I mentioned above, and I could never do it until I went back to Ascent. SL 2.6.x actually bounced my router for crying out loud. Twice! Sorry, done with them all until this code is stabilized. :smileysad:

I don't see what the fuss is about orbiting. The rest ya, but being orbited is hilarious. Sent to the moon! I even laughed harder when I accidentally orbited myself after fooling with the buttons on some gadget I had that made me look like a pretzel with a head first, and then orbited me. My first attempts at scripting were so I could alter the camera angle to zoom in on my own face while simultaneously forcing my own mouth and eyes wide open and my tongue out, and playing an entirely inappropriate song back to myself. Something Simpsons-esque like "Afternoon Delight", because it's exactly what I'd hear at that moment if life was laughing at me instead of with me. When it was finished, I could send my friends to space too. Can't be selfish. Then I'd figure out how to send the orbited avie a freeze frame of their own dismayed expression, like they do on amusement park roller coasters. Not that I just went around orbiting people. I never orbited anyone who didn't...deserve it. It was usually weirdos bugging me for sexual favors. The rest of everyone's concerns I agree with vehemently! :womanvery-happy:

Daisy Picnic wrote: Hi kascha, this should not be happenning. I happily sail boats a few years old, I suspect you have an AO or someting attached that is disrupting the phsics of the boat, if this happens when you sit on the boat. Hehe - I feel so silly now. I could have sworn I turned off my AO all those times trying to figure out what was wrong. This time, after your post, I tried again and was able to run all of my boats, including my jetski and hovercraft, with no issues. Well, except for attempting to rez the different parts of my Velociter in the wrong order and then running the rebuild script, which had boat parts all over the channel flopping around ad nauseum, with me still attached to one of them. Gotta work on that! :womantongue: As an added bonus, my script reducing efforts as a result of conversations on another thread here have resulted in me being able to cross sim bondaries on the water with little or no trouble. As in no boating off to Limbo anymore. Not even at close to full speed on my jetski. Thanks for letting me know what the problem wasn't so I could better investigate what it was :womanwink:

Here I am at my favorite place in all of SL - Ethereal Teal. Although the top is probably a bit more revealing than what I run around in in RL (without anything under it that is), the overall outfit is pretty consistent with what I like to wear for those in between periods where sweats or whatever are not enough and dresses, etc. are too much.

@ Willow : It's funny, but I had almost the exact same conversation while at Cigar Boats last night. The only differences were that no sechs toy equipment was mentioned, the guy was not a noob, and rather than asking to be my bf he was on and on about wanting me to let him kiss me. He was even supposedly Spanish like your guy. I was below in a yacht, which of course means I was in the bedroom. He appeared behind me at some point on the only stairs back to the deck, talking about how lucky he was to have found a woman with a body like mine in the bedroom of such a nice boat, and that he made a commitment to taking advantage of it that was becoming firmer with every glance at me. Ewww. If this had been RL I would have been REALLY freaked out and trapped in there. But I was still nice and being gracious/acting flattered. Then he asked me where I was from, and after I told him "The U.S.", he asks me if I'm from my state, and names it off. I'm like how do you know that and he tells me it's intuition, as well as how I was dressed (wearing bell-bottom jeans with teddy bears on them, sandals, and a white tank top undershirt), and that I'm interested in boats. I'm like, "there are a few more places in America where people have seen boats. Why am I not from Florida? I heard some women hang around over there too." No reply. After some more small talk and attempting to butter me up is when we started the "let me give you a welcome back kiss" / "Naw" endless loop. But then, I finished the convo in the most gracious way possible. It's a technique you may have heard of : "Crash To Windows" :smileyvery-happy: If only that worked in RL!

Shockwave Yareach wrote: When I entered SL 1/2 a decade ago, it was a wild and free world where you could do anything and be anything. Freedom to be as silly and crazy as you wanted was the order of the day. Then came some common sense rules. I was good with that, since a small guiding touch wasn't out of line. But then came the iron fist of the mighty armies of King M and the horrors he put into the world. You were no longer allowed to have certain fun in your own homes -- you'd all have to move. You were no longer owners of the land -- never mind that contract, reciept and years of advertisements. Fun? Not in Second Life! They decided that it wasn't a game and they were going to turn the grid into ANYTHING that wasn't fun, just to prove to someone (who I wonder) that SL wasn't a game. Thus, they squelched the fun and the only reason for SL's existance right out of it. Mainland is now a desolate wasteland of empty parcels. Beats me what that's costing them, but it has to be a lot. Now when someone comes onto me in a club I have to worry if the person is underaged in RL and setting me up for a jail stay. Now when I walk around I hit ban line after banline after banline because people are too afraid to leave their parcels open for anyone to wander into anymore. And where used to be inventive and novel builds, now are nothing but storebought cookie cutter buildings, same as the ones in the next parcel. All that's left for me in SL is my group of friends in our private islands where we don't have to worry about the kiddies or Linden good-taste-cops. But as they give up and quit, I have less and less reason to log in myself. One day, there will be too few left for me to bother anymore. And then I won't bother... So then SL has become simply another RL, complete with mistrust, deviousness, paranoia, conniving, mundane monotony, and strain, both emotional and mental. Mission Accomplished. For someone.

I don't know about you all with your zany ideas, but I want to be a Card Guard! :womanvery-happy:

I wonder if this will solve my boot problem, where no matter who the manufacturer is, and while wearing the shoe base, the second part of the boot that covers the calf is always too small for my calves and tends to leave a jagged top line where my skin alternately shows through. And also, when I stand a certain way, like where either foot is on its toes with the heel off the floor, there ends up being what looks like a mouth right where my leg meets my foot. It makes it look like my foot has been partially severed. Eww.

valerie Inshan wrote: Lol Tem, you mean something kind of like that? Aiiiieeee! Val you do of course realize that we can't "unsee" this? :smileysad:

Darrius Gothly wrote: (pssst .. if you people keep giving her real useful answers .. it's gonna totally ruin my nefarious plot to ransom her feet back to her.) Eh? And erm...how much is yer wee plot worth to ye? I've a mind to buy myself a nice new island. Nothing fancy, and just "so" big. Big as the bloody SL Mainland that is! Methinks the word of the day might be as much "solidarity" as any other. What say ye? Or could it be "stoolie"? :womanvery-happy:

Anjolique wrote: Well for some reason I do not have feet anymore and I have done everything to look for them and have gone all the way back to old body that was given to me at first, but nothing. I need help sighs. I'm afraid I have to nominate this thread title and the above post as "The Most Adorable Thread Title and Post Ever". I just want to give Anjolique a huge hug. /hug I remember my first week something important like feet would vanish and I thought they'd been kidnapped by Evil or something worse, awww! :womantongue: Yes Anjolique if you don't straighten yourself out by right-clicking yourself, clicking Appearance, and then simply clicking okay to sort of re-draw yourself (works for me a lot), you may be still wearing a portion of your shoes that is designed to make the default feet invisible so they don't stick out when the shoes are on. You can either do as others have suggested, which is to detach all or remove all clothing and then put it back on, or to locate that specific item, you can try clicking the inventory tab that says "Worn Items" or whatever find your shoe folders, and detach just the specific "shoe-base" item that shows as worn. If you are on an older viewer, you can type "worn" into the inventory search box and it will do the same thing, which is filter the inventory down to show only what you're wearing. Hope this helps!

/raucous laughter :smileyvery-happy: Okay. I like the vacant lot idea. It has possibilities. Of course, my other plan was to simply wait around until the FedEx truck starts up in front of my office building and simply toss her into the back while the guy drives off with an address label reading "Here, There And Everywhere". Ha! Good luck mister! Possession is 9/10 of the law! Enjoy your new nightmare adoring child! Absolutely no problems anymore with failed tps and no kickouts either, thank you. Actually, they all went way down when I switched to Ascent though, so I don't know how much to credit the script reduction with, but I can say that there is no long hesitation with any of the tps either since last night. You know what I mean, where it starts and then hangs, then goes through 20 seconds later. Not any more! /Loves it