Marigold Devin
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7 minutes ago, Eddy Vortex said:
Just wait until @SarahKB7 Koskinen hears what we call trousers on this side of the pond.
... and mind your fanny means something totally different there too I expect!
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6 hours ago, Bagnu said:
I have a trick for this, when making them sunny side up. I crack the eggs into the oil when it's room temp, or just barely warm. The eggs are cooked before the oil can get too hot, and the eggs don't burn on the bottom.
The Linga Longa cafe in Skegness used to have a little trick they did when frying their eggs. They would crack them into individual metal pie cases, and as they tipped them onto the griddle, the pie case became a lid and held the heat in the upper side of the egg, so the white would cook beautifully, and the yolk would be half and half.
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6 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I assume at least the "fish and chips" is good!
And I've heard good things about the "British Breakfast" (however, I'm a vegetarian so not for me), and various "tea" options.
You can get some really good vegetarian English breakfasts these days, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans, hash browns, eggs, and vegetarian sausages, fried bread, toast and marge, cuppa tea.
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6 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I don't disagree, but there's a HUGE difference between "light, fluffy" scrambled eggs, and "greasy, limp, burned" scrambled eggs.
With most other foods, it could be intuitive that it turns out differently (like steaks: good rare steak = tender). It was not intuitive with me that I was missing out on "good" eggs just because my mom was not a good cook. Same with vegetables: always overcooked, so I didn't know what well-cooked veggies "tasted like". I suppose she would have made a good British cook.
..Is joke!
Your mom sounds like mine. My brother says this about her:
"Our mother would put seven vegetables into the pressure cooker for 10 minutes too long and out would come a bar of soap."
Meaning, the vegetables would overcook in the pressure cooker and create this slimy mushy mess.
I make the best scrambled eggs in the world. In a stainless steel frying pan with a heavy copper bottom, butter stops them from sticking and a splash of milk and salt and white pepper just finishes them off nicely. Sometimes I like them soft and lightly cooked. At other times I leave them to become just slightly rubbery in texture, depending on my mood. And chopped spring onions on top are just divine.
It's the little things
Edited to add: Never been a fan of non-stick coated pans, and as we had pet birds for a lot of years, these would have been toxic for them, and it made me wonder what we also would be breathing in had we used them.
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20 hours ago, TechLawProf said:
So, my methodology here is qualitative rather than quantitative. I just want to understand how people think about their digital identities/goods and what kind of deprivation it would be if they lost them. That's why I haven't asked these questions in the form of an empirical survey in order to derive statistics or the like. Moreover, to be transparent, my research on SL will comprise only a portion of my research. The rest will be boring stuff like property theory and caselaw.
I change my passwords frequently and would not like to lose my avatar through someone else just taking her, but if the plug was pulled and Second Life suddenly no longer existed, apart from missing some of the people (but others I am in contact with via other means), it would not be devastating to me. I do not create or run a business in Second Life, it is purely for recreation, and because I weaned myself off being logged in for most of the time many years ago, Second Life takes up only a tiny part of my life now.
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I like knowing which type of region I am on - bluesteel or whatever - and I like looking at the Linden homes available without having to be logged in or a premium member. I think that's a good idea from LL's point of view, as it might sway people to take up premium membership (again) if the choice of homes available is clear to all.
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On 9/26/2023 at 10:51 PM, TechLawProf said:
I'm currently researching for an article related to digital identities. I'd like to better understand how people interact with Second Life and what community norms are around avatars.
If anyone regularly participates in Second Life and has a good handle on the platform and community norms, I'd love to talk to you.
In addition, I'll post some questions to this forum for anyone to answer:
- How long have you participated in Second Life?
- How many hours per week (on average) do you participate in SL?
- How much time have you invested in your avatar?
- Do you make your real identity known, or do you remain pseudonymous?
- What is the worst thing a person can do in SL?
Thank you,
TLP
Hi,
Firstly,
I guess I qualify as a "veteran" in Second Life terms, with a rezz date of November 2007.
I'm sure from interviewing veterans you'll find everyone has a different idea of what are "community norms", and you will not get a true picture just from picking up the forum users who happen to be oldbies. Also, if you log in and teleport around, you will find oldbies appear to be in the minority, but that's possibly far from a true picture too, they just have their own very established parts of the grid, some on mainland, others on private regions.
I'll happily answer your questions here on the forums.
1. From November 2007, but after 2012 I took several long breaks.
2. Currently I probably only log into Second Life for a maximum of 4 hours a week.
3. I am a "wash and go" type of person, and have not updated my actual avatar's shape, skin, or eyes, since 2012. I am a "classic" avatar and do not have the time or patience to "upgrade" to mesh.
4. There are a handful of people who know my real life identity, and I know their's, and there are about 200 people in real life who know I have this avatar name.
5. The worst thing a person can do in Second Life is be a catfish, or to ruin the enjoyment of other people's legal roleplay.
I hope you like your Second Life and, like myself, learn something new every day.
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Exploring mainland.
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34 minutes ago, Polenth Yue said:
Here are the two ghost graves in Belli.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Phinney/232/81/25
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Residentia/53/74/23Many thanks! I do recall seeing avatars a few years ago that only had (???)(???) above their heads. This kind of explains that now.
How sweet of Patch to place memorials to them.
Had a dig in my archives, found this screenshot from 2017.
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7 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:
It loops about 3 times then stops
How frustrating. And yet to those in the know it's probably a simple fix. Doubly frustrating. No way of booting it in safe mode?
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24 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I am reminded when there were "ghost-like" avatar "remnants" somehow in initial Bellisseria. (It was due to some type of bug, IIRC.) Lindens / Moles investigated even. I also remember some type of "memorial" was created in at least one place.
Pictures or it didn't happen
This kind of stuff makes my mouth water.
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Peeve: Having to sit in my own home, with all the windows and doors closed, and earplugs and ear defenders utilised, because there is so much neighbourhood noise currently. It really is off the scale. We have not even been warned that there would be disruptive and noisy works going on at the nearby block of flats.
Scaffolders are obviously people who were never allowed to have a drum kit when they were children! Grrrhhh!!!
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On 9/25/2023 at 11:55 PM, Ceka Cianci said:
It tries to start up..
The fans first spin and light up and the fans on the graphics card spin as well.. then the motherboard lights kick on.. then the dvd drive buzzes for a split second like and that's where it stops. I'm wondering if it's the dvd drive or whatever is next in linein the bootup..I could swear the dvd player had a longer starup than just a short buzz like that.
/me thinks
So you have got power at least, and then it fails to complete the boot-up process. And does it just stick at that point, or close itself down and go into a perpetual loop of rebooting?
You do get to know how your machinery is supposed to sound, and if it's getting stuck communicating with the DVD drive, you could disconnect it altogether if you knew what to do inside. I wouldn't. I'd be "getting a little man in" at this point (in my case, sending my device back in for a full service - but that's what my set up is currently).
Hopefully someone a bit more technically-minded can offer some more useful suggestions - maybe start a new thread?
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22 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Putting aside the "account deletion" aspect, idea: "100 Ways to Die in the West" mode. Similar to "Oregon Trail" mode.
- "You have died of dysentery"
- "You were attacked by a squad of rogue Bots"
- "Your lovers found out about your Alts and have murdered you"
- "You have died in a battle of Wits"
- "You have fallen from Orbit and died"
- "Your wardrobe malfunction has caused you to die from embarassment"
And when we die, a gravestone pops up in place of our avatar, with cause of death on it to warn other people to take better care of their SLives.
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23 hours ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:
You want realism?
[Insert diabolical laughter]
Forget about ball pits for men in stores where their ladies are shopping, or untangling the knots in your hair or stepping in dog poo.
Airways and circulation. Make sure there's enough oxygen in the air and enough ventilation to expell CO₂, or your avatar goes horizontal. Also, make sure their heart keeps pumping, requiring a continuous supply of oxygen and nutrients through eating and drinking. The rest is just details.
And how about hardcore mode? Is your avatar dying from asphyxia, dehydration, malutrition or various kinds of shock? Boom, your account gets deleted.
Did we all have a Tamagotchi? How upset were we when it "died"?
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On 9/25/2023 at 10:18 PM, BilliJo Aldrin said:
The lack of bathrooms in sl is terrible. If I have to go, a lot of times i just squat behind a potted palm. But if you can't rezz a puddle, did you really go?
Laughing at this has actually given me RL hiccups! Oh my word, is it bad that I want to buy this HUD and go round "tinkling" all over the place?
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5 hours ago, Rabid Cheetah said:
I actually DID have a bus stop at one of my roadside parcels. Nothing came by. I also had a beach trailer in Belli that had not a bus stop, but a stop for a water taxi -- including a clickable rezzer for the water taxi.
Thanks for that, that's just brilliant.
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58 minutes ago, Ardy Lay said:
Oh! Oh! A friend of mine made a trebuchet that picked those up in her parcel and tossed them back to a location they recognized. One day when I visited, I got to watch her use it on a stack of nine of those damned things.
That sounds like fun!
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Just now, Love Zhaoying said:
Bonus: We already years ago had automated trolleys, etc. in SL that run people over, RL is finally catching up!
I can remember all of Ms OToole's vehicles piling up on a 4-lane end.
All driverless too - way ahead of their time.
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1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Here's a thread for ideas that could make Second Life activities seem "more realistic" and also provide some other benefit.
An example: "Partner/Men's Waiting Areas" at Shopping Locations (like at RL Shopping Malls)
Is your already-crowded and congested shopping destination made even worse, by men who tag along with their women partners for shopping?
Provide a "bench" or other seating area, for partners/men to wait while your core demographic is shopping!
This way, the men don't "get in the way" or have to follow their partner into the shopping area itself.
Bonus: If the man is good at "camming", he can still follow your shopping, so you can discuss your potential choices while you shop.
OK. Realism in Second Life.
Put a bus service schedule up and bus stops all around the mainland, then just don't have enough buses or drivers to service them.
:D
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15 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:
I'll give that a try when I get home.
I have a feeling I won't get off that easy though. Hehehe
It might work. Check all the plugs are tight in the back. Check it's not just the socket (try plugging a lamp into the same socket).
Good luck!
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2 hours ago, Bagnu said:
I agree. Apparently, in the older days, the forums were MUCH wilder though, from what I've heard
They were indigestion inducing at times.
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Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.
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I know what you mean, but I've got used to my local shop being called a store, and they do seem to store a heck of a lot in both the shop itself and the store room at the back. It's like a magic shop in the way I can stand just inside the door, click my heels and close my eyes, think of something I want, and it will appear on the shelf, from toilet seats to chickpeas, ice cream to elastic bands. It is a veritable emporium of wonderment.