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  1. Da5id Weatherwax
    You could always go Potterverse and call yourself mad-eye grins/ducks/runs
  2. Da5id Weatherwax
    You're not even free there.. Maddy or Maddie? It's almost as bad as Kathy or Cathy. I know my cousins mother-in-law is Maddy, because that's how it's spelled on all her album covers LOL
  3. Da5id Weatherwax
    I'm an AMATEUR (letterpress) printer and setting a line of type with a glaring spelling mistake would make me twitch possibly hard enough to drop the stick and pie the whole job. Even if I knew it was intentional.
  4. Da5id Weatherwax
    you could always just imagine how their face would look if they actually tried to pronounce it. Personally I have my own interpretations for the "chatspeak" shortcuts, many of which derive from my ancient experience on IRC... For example I always read A/S/L as A/s/oLe - and as a self-description, not a question
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    If you will allow me to say so, that is an exquisite image. Not for the hardware or the pose, or the implications. But for the eyes. They speak entire volumes. ETA that I must beg to contradict you. Subtlety is not quite right. I think the word I would choose is finesse.
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    A gentleman - even a somewhat dominant gentleman - never assumes
  7. Da5id Weatherwax
    You offering? If so you'll have to wait until I at least get the bedroom finished and furnished (or the room behind the secret door in the wine cellar if you're into that stuff)
  8. Da5id Weatherwax
    cast an eye over the IM. Has it caught my interest? Somebody talking about music or about the project they can see me working on usually will, most other polite messages have a reasonable chance of doing. A "Hey, check out .... " or anything crass will not. That usually gets a reply. If the conversation continues, whether or not I cut it short will depend on both its content and the profile/presentation of the person I'm talking to. Case in point. Working on my house/workshop build I get "Hi - are you building that?" My reply "Yep, but it's nowhere near done yet." Sadly, my visitor was not actually interested in the build. Av lands right next to me in my personal space with a "Fancy taking a break?" He's naked, complete with boner. This is Zindra after all. It does, however, save me the time of checking his profile "LOL, not going to happen. Firstly I'm straight, second I'm not up for a casual hookup right now." and I get back to working on the build. Visitor backs off out of my personal space, thus avoiding being promptly ejected from the land. Continues to try and flirt but not so obnoxiously he's annoying and is politely but firmly rebuffed every time. Takes the hint and moves off of his own volition before he becomes annoying.
  9. Da5id Weatherwax
    Too many variables for a definitive answer, but as a first troubleshooting step in your position I would do the following: check audio quality in other apps. Can she make clear voice calls on discord, skype or teams? If not, probable headset issue or audio system issue. I would personally doubt this as vox-chat from her alt is fine but check it anyway to be certain. Do a completely clean uninstall/reinstall of the viewer, clearing all preference folders out of %AppData% before reinstalling to make sure both her main and her alt are running on brand-new default settings. Check for any difference between their chat quality before changing any setting. If there's a difference at this point I'm out of ideas - but there really really shouldn't be. now have her setup her sound preferences the way she wants, leave her alts alone. See if the difference recurs. If it does revert those settings one by one until the issue is fixed.
  10. Da5id Weatherwax
    I can assure you that given the choice between being forced to eat a tide pod and grounding on Barney's Bump on a falling spring tide, in full and embarrassing view of all their club-mates, most skippers would opt for the tide pod. They'd recover from that faster.
  11. Da5id Weatherwax
    In a certain location on the northwest coast of England there is an island connected to the mainland by a causeway, so it looks from above like a really skinny forearm wearing a BIG mitten the "thumb" of that mitten faces the deepwater channel to a small shipbuilding town and, on the other side of that channel another much larger (and longer) island. The channel twists and turns a bit so the sandbanks along its edge shift a lot. One in particular, though, while it's never in precisely the position marked on the charts remains pretty constant. It's known locally as "Barney's Bump" It's a couple hundred yards off the tip of that "thumb" and the windows of the sailing club bar have a fine panoramic view of it. It never shows itself above water except on the lowest of low tides but we all know it's there... Woe betide the skipper who grounds on it, particularly on a falling tide. Whether anything is ever actually said (in his/her presence) or not, they'll spend the next few hours enduring the accusing glares of their crew because every single soul upon that boat need only look across at the windows a couple hundred yards away and be 100% certain that behind them is EVERYBODY ELSE supping their beers and making snide remarks about "some people's" lack of seamanship... The hilarity and mirth is even more pointed when it snags a tourist...
  12. Da5id Weatherwax
    I love Second Life for its people. At least, the non-irritating ones anyway But also because through all the COVID lockdowns and completely shut-down RL entertainment scene a few of you showed up to hear me stream at one venue or another and kept the sense of my identity as a performing musician from being crushed under all the RL problems. I'm not alone in that, I've heard the same from several other folks who perform live music or DJ in SL, so thank you.
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    Oh you get that in RL too.. Those of us capable of handling a vessel under sail alone take a certain wicked pleasure in sneering down our noses at the folks who can't handle their craft without an engine It's completely equal opportunity, though. We give our fellow sailors an even harder time when they F it up
  14. Da5id Weatherwax
    That's correct. no-mod does nothing to stop ripping. Whether it encourages it obviously depends on the mindset of the user but the bottom line is if it is loaded into your PC memory to display on-screen there is no way at all to prevent objects or meshes from being ripped by a user that is so inclined, it's in the local PC memory and the user has full admin access to that. yeah, right. delete if rezzed. That ones a joke. If you own a parcel, set it to no-script. rez whatever you like in spite of the scripts. Or find a noscript parcel where you can rez... and you don't need to rez it to rip it, just wearing it is enough for it to be in your PCs memory and available to the right tools. (you'll note that I'm deliberately NOT mentioning any details on HOW - they aint hard to find but I won't give details or instructions) An example of a perfectly legit activity impeded by such scripts - my body is mod-perm but includes a delete-on-rez script. I turned off scripts in my workshop parcel so I could rez it to unlink and delete the tat layers which I dont use to reduce my av complexity. True. And for this it's effective. However the increased profits to the vendor for selling multiple colour variants individually looks to me like it might be easily overmatched by the number of users who, like myself, find "no-mod" a serious disincentive to buy at all.
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    Ah, the silly lengths that some creators go to, thinking it will somehow prevent their products being ripped off or prevent some miscreant out there dropping a copy of their scripts into their own object and make it work with the creator's HUD (or into the miscreant's HUD and make it work with the creator's objects or whatever other supposed "nightmare" scenario they have in mind) What you have there, my friend, is buggy overparanoid DRM-like code. It's an extension of the mistaken idea of "protection" that made folks sell things no-mod but with a resizer script. I say "DRM-like" because for anyone with enough skill to reverse engineer enough of the scripts protocols for the "DRM" to matter (and that kind of clean reverse engineering is NOT cracking the code or infringing the original IP - it's an explicit exemption under DMCA and while companies have tried to sue over others making "compatible products" they've failed more often than they've won) those reverse engineers have got enough skill to write clean reimplementations of the scripts anyway.
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    Ok, drifting a bit OT here but the thought of a scheme like that makes me smile when I think of all the MP sellers staring at every items tags like they were trying to min/max their skill tree with limited XP in a MMO
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    Heaven forbid that it give us anything resembling pointers... Why, some of us positively depraved coders might even start producing recognizable data structures.....
  18. Da5id Weatherwax
    peeve: Lack of indirection in LSL.
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    could be useful if it works. To work, a couple of conditions must be met. The tags need to mean the same thing to everyone. I know adult subjects are over-cited in this kind of discussion but they do provide readily accessible examples. There's activities in that area that some residents will consider basically "vanilla" but others will cover their virtual eyes and shriek "Perverts!" - that's fine, we're all different, but without a common definition understood by all a tag conveys no information - it is worthless. This would mean the tags would need some level of curation to be useful, and that's something LL would have to do - which would be an ongoing cost in personnel time that I do not think they'd be prepared to absorb. If that were to happen would you be prepared to take a fee increase across the board to cover it? I wouldn't, it's nonessential functionality. The other thing that would be required for it to work is that the users would have to be disciplined enough in their tag use to not overtag "to get more search hits" and render the tagging system more noise than signal. The examples of MP and current parcel descriptions inworld would seem to be a pretty convincing argument that we (collectively) are not that disciplined in our descriptions.
  20. Da5id Weatherwax
    If warning you before you go there would be acceptable rather than completely hiding it or preventing you from going there I can see a relatively low-cost way LL could implement it. We have "favorites" in our landmarks already. Re-use that code to create a "watchlist" as well - and before you TP to any sim where one of your watchlist landmarks resides you are warned "Your destination is in the same region as a landmark on your watchlist. Are you sure you want to teleport?"
  21. Da5id Weatherwax
    Labelling or tagging or a more detailed rating system etc... The problem there is where do you draw the line? There's almost NOTHING where you can say with certainty that not a single resident would "want to know in advance might be happening here" At the moment, in SL, while the rules might differ from place to place, from region-rating to region-rating, the principle is that "Everything not forbidden is allowed" and LL's restrictions are broad and general - leaving it up to individual parcel owners to add additional more specific ones if they should feel it necessary or desirable to create the kind of space they want. At this level the slope is gentle and not too slippery yet. Do you really want the creators of these spaces to have to wrack their brains listing everything that might happen on their land in fear of being reported for allowing somebody to (for a ridiculous example) roleplay as a warthog in their place when their labels and tags don't include "warthog roleplay" - because that's where it's going if we have to start whitelisting activities that can happen rather than blacklisting ones that can't. Even without taking it to that extreme, you will face the problem of overlabelling. Suppose you operated an adult-themed place where consensual hookups and pixel-bumping were allowed. Obviously you'd list that. Now, you don't mind if a couple in your place get a little kinky during their hookup. You've set some limits - specifying a few kinks that you really don't want to see - but mostly your attitude is that if a couple (or threesome or even more) want to have consensual erotic fun on your land you're fine with it. If you don't list the kinky stuff in your tags somebody will report you for not having them there sure as sunrise. If you do list them then folks will mentally label you a kink venue and that will be ALL you get. Or you can ban anything kinky at all and lose visitors because you're too strait-laced. The ONLY way this works at all is with the light touch LL try to have now, and for all of us to simply be aware that "if there's no explicit rule saying it mustn't happen here, then it might - even if only rarely." IF they tried to implement anything more restrictive than we have now it would be a nightmare.
  22. Da5id Weatherwax
    Everybody has "peeves". Getting them out here - preferably with a little humour" attached - is infinitely preferable to letting them stew until they congeal into gripes or worse, which are too serious for this thread to be any help at all. *For the folks peeved by eye floaters that is, of course, aqueous humour.
  23. Da5id Weatherwax
    I think the biggest reason that LL "Can't clean up SL" - not and have SL survive anyway - is that there is no consensus among residents what situations or behaviours should be left alone and what should be "cleaned up". There are very limited categories which LL, by virtue of the law they operate under, must act against when they become aware of it. Outside those categories what's allowed is up to the parcel owner, provided it falls within the region rating system. This has both benefits and detriments to the average resident, of course. With very few exceptions it's possible to find somewhere - or even quite a lot of somewheres - where however you want to behave or present yourself is considered ok. That comes with a corollary that it's a matter of caveat visitor - if you don't like what is considered ok there it's on you to leave, not try and change the place. There are things that will earn an instant permaban from any parcel I control that other folks are perfectly ok with in their spaces. Their place, their rules, I just wont be visiting them there even if we get on fine when meeting elsewhere on the grid. One of the greatest things about SL is the opportunity it presents to be free from "gratuitous judgement" by the folks who think THEIR moral compass, their code of ethics or honour, is the only valid one and spend inordinate amounts of their RL time trying to impose it on others. In SL, you'll find places where THEY are on the banlist and you're not. If SL loses this it will wither. And if LL try to "clean it up" then either they will fail or SL will lose that extreme diversity - not just of avatars and personae but of social models too.
  24. Da5id Weatherwax
    Easy on the GAS there, buddy (for the non-musicians - GAS == "Gear Acquisition Syndrome" we've all got it to a greater or lesser extent)
  25. Da5id Weatherwax
    You are SO due for a hairball. Probably in your shoe waiting for you to put it on in the morning. Sent to meowNet. They WILL find you.
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