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  1. Marigold Devin
    Ohhh that is intriguing. You were like a partial presence? I was having a conversation about these recently ... Patch Linden even did some memorials to some (???.???) named avatars! I want to know more about this funny little bug. I thought it had been fixed, but obviously not.
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    Exploring a couple of days ago. Someone had decorated their Linden home beautifully. I didn't go indoors, just sat on the decking with their very vocal kitty cat for a while.
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    That would surely be chosen as the Second Life picture of the day if it were submitted to their Flickr page. It's gorgeous.
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    🍿🍿🍿🦀🦀🦀
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    I miss the smell and taste of proper coffee. I have the memory of it strangely enough and absolutely crave it. I've never known anything quite like this before and it certainly wasn't one of the things on my bucket list! Hope your son's sense of taste and smell is fully back. To little girls all boys smell bad (or did from what I can remember), although teenage boys ... ugh, I won't go there. Socks. Boys of all ages seem to smell of feet! And it's not always coming from their feet. I have the memory of that too. My brother - aged 65 - still does that thing of ditching food. He's disabled and I give him food in the kitchen or living room, but somehow he manages to migrate some things up to his room. How and why do they do this? Do they want to attract rodents? Tee hee
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    My peeve today is also the thing I have learned today. A new word. Cacosmia. And I have this. Apparently it is something people can get post-covid, and that is why I have got it. I had no sense of smell then little sense of smell after having covid several weeks ago. I can taste maybe as third as well as I used to be able to and just enjoy food mostly for the sensation of salt and sweet or texturally. But there has just been this foul smell wherever I've gone (and I am sooooo incredibly fussy about personal hygiene, and where I sit), and it turns out to be cacosmia which, for those who like myself did not know about this, in the Merriam Webster dictionary, is defined as follows: cacosmia noun ca·cos·mia kə-ˈkäs-mē-ə ka- -ˈkäz- : a hallucination of a disagreeable odor "A hallucination"! So I am imagining I can smell something like faeces or something burning wherever I go! I checked all the electrical appliances in my house yesterday thinking I had an electrical wire burning somewhere. T.M.I. Peeve peeve peeve
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    Do you clear our the calling cards from your inventory too? There is another nostalgia museum. Sometimes I check out the landmarks of places I used to go too. Most often I find "region unavailable" if it was a private region and it has been removed from the grid, or there will be a vast grassy empty space if it was mainland. I liked to visit Tyrafoon (mainland) often, because in 2008 it was a large shopping mall mainly with a playground and it had a nice atmosphere, then it became another barren wasteland, and the last time I looked someone had bought at least part of it and had developed it into something else. Strange to me how a place can be just existing on a server somewhere, yet looks and feels real and changes how I feel about it. A bit like the stories I would read by Enid Blyton about The Enchanged Wood, when the land at the top of the Faraway Tree would change. Maybe Second Life is a bit like that to me.
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    That's such a smashing photo, it actually brings tears to my real life eyes. Just cartoon representations of us, and yet you captured a moment there, and I know that you have great memories attached this photo, as much as if it had been taken in real life.
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    I gave you the laugh response because of how awful we did look wayyy back in the beginning, when to change our appearance meant using sliders for everything including hair, and nose and ears, and ended up looking quite bizarre. Some of my builds were cringeworthy, but making a one prim forest back in the day seemed cutting edge. I totally agree that it was simpler to help out a new resident. I would not know where to begin these days, so leave it to the current experts over at the newest Welcome Hub.
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    Thinking about this gives me butterflies in my stomach (real life). Last night I had a conversation with someone from my real life past, cleared up some misunderstandings, and it felt so good. I suppose I'd like to go through the back of the wardrobe to when I lived at Quincentival with my then partner and mentor. We had the kind of relationship where if we were in real life we would have talked with our hands and our feet! Our real life personal issues marred our Second Life enjoyment, and for various reasons there were too many misunderstandings, but for sure my happiest times were when I lived with him in Quincentival, in our lovely big house with the cinema room where we would meet up either just before he set off for his real life work, or when he would come "home" to me afterwards. We had some fun/funny adventures, but some ridiculous disagreements, and there is absolutely no going back. Ever. Not to that place or time or person. We are, I am sure, both very different people now, just like the person I was speaking to from my real life past last night. Too much water has passed under too many bridges and too many bridges have been burnt.
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    Is there anyone that doesn't get the lack/low frame rate in SL? I mean, if all the Linden Lab employees and some of the residents have the best possible devices, they will think it's in our imagination, and LL won't do anything to fix it. The lag has mostly amused me, especially when I used to continue walking through walls or into the next sim and beyond until I inevitably crashed. Back in those days (2008) it had to be because I was using Windows Vista. Had to be (??!)
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    I'd certainly never go premium with Youtube or Planet Rock or anywhere else for that matter. It's £6.99 here, and £3.99 there, and who the heck can just afford to go chucking money away like that anyway, and who the heck has got time to keep up with it all too? (That's a mystery to me.) The only thing I do pay a subscription for (apart from the broadband service) is Readly, which is all-you-can-eat magazines and newspapers, with such a massive choice, but I signed up for this because magazines and newspapers were my main impulse buy. I couldn't go into a shop without chucking a load in my basket, and again, who the heck has the time to read as much as I was buying - not me! When the adverts come on Youtube, I turn the volume down, nip into Readly, nip back to Youtube. It works for me.
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    Glad it's not just me that feels that way.
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    I really don't know, but as it's one of my favourite go to places on the internet, and I am something of a dinosaur (understatement), you're probably more typical than I am. I don't do discord or WhatsApp which are probably much more trendy.
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    And I think sometimes we're all a little bit too close in here, like nearest and dearest family, so every now and then there are clashes. Time outs are good, put perspective on issues. I take them regularly but have been using the ignore feature in lieu of me having to go do another time out.
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    Courtesy of Viz
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    Oh, wow, I these are definitely my favourite so far.
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    SL won't make the ignore feature a two way block like Facebook does. That would fix it.
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    In my home area they use the bins to climb on top of to get into buildings. Or they just set fire to them.
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    I KNOW!!!! It's hilarious.
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    At last I found what used to be my favourite hair, haven't worn it for more than a decade (and even typing that makes me feel really weird). I loved the way it "felt" when I wore it, the way it swished around my body even just with the slightest movement caused by my AO. Wasn't even aware back then how it cut right into my avatar's body. It had lots of colour options too.
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    Really? Two pages??? Crikey, even I haven't got that many ignored users. Peeve: People who can give it out, but can't take it themselves.
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    FIFY _____ And to keep it on topic with a photo of what my avatar looks like today, in a sandbox trying on some very retro hair that I'd been trying to find in my chaotic inventory for ages for another thread.
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