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    Oh hell yes! -- Pet Delights!

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    I tasted biscuits for the first time today. As in not the ones you get in the UK but the US ones that look like scones.

    They are nothing like scones!

    Soooooo delicious. I had half with cajun gravy, the other half with honey. Crispy and crumbly on the outside, soft and absorbing of the gravy in the middle. My word to be 61 and tasting something new and unexpected. 

    Marvellous.

     

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    Oh hell yes! -- Pet Delights!

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    I found a full bottle of Baileys in my fridge I'd forgotten I'd bought last Sunday. 

    Cheers! 

    I played instant games on the UK's national lottery website and actually logged out £8 better off than I logged in. 

    After a bear of a week with my brother repeatedly managing to block the toilet today was a blockage free day and I actually managed to find time to read the weekly local newspaper.

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    Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.

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    On 2/14/2024 at 1:25 PM, Extrude Ragu said:

    I find LL does engage, just not really on the forums

    https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_kphtklo9degke40dpk7nr6cclc@group.calendar.google.com

    The Content Creation User Group is a good place to go if you want to talk to LL viewer developers, whilst the Simulator User Group is a good place to raise script concerns.

    I have been daily driving Firestorm PBR Alpha and yes it definitely has FPS issues. But I personally haven't had FPS issues in the LL default viewer or Alchemy Beta. Since the Firestorm build is in alpha, I think this is to be expected though. I'm waiting to see Firestorm PBR Viewer reach at least beta before I start criticising it, because alpha in software generally means it's still under heavy development and likely to change a lot.

    I agree, the user groups are/have been great places with which to interact with the more approachable Linden people, but I've found any Lindens who dare to get too close to the residents suddenly get the virtual bullet. :/ 

    That's kind of a pet peeve in itself. 

    Mainland Land Rights and Neighbors

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    On 2/16/2024 at 9:39 PM, WaitsThomasBatriani said:

    I may already know the answer to this, but I thought I would ask anyway. I just purchased a couple of parcels on the Mainland and we put up a nice build (in my opinion) pier; boat; house, etc. - all public. My neighbor is a real estate renter and just put up huge walls all along our property line. There is nothing on his/her land so, to me, it is a attack on my parcels. I see no other reason for it. Everyone has a right to do as they please on their land - I get it - but this seems mean spirited for the sake of it. Do I have any recourse with the Lindens?

    I'm late to the thread and already you know that you could only really have a case to report to Linden Lab if someone really appeared to be attacking you personally or spoiling your enjoyment of Second Life.

    I just wanted you to know that this thread made me smile as I remembered a lot of the times when I used to own mainland. I LOVE mainland, but a lot of people really hate it because it is "the wild west". 

    I can remember when Queck was the easternmost region that had been built on the mainland and I was the first person to purchase a parcel of land on it, only for someone to purchase the adjacent property and build an absolute tip complete with burning tyres and something resembling a steaming fly-infested pile of sh1t. Their fun in Second Life was obviously to try and wind up those of us who had built a cute little house with a white picket fence (not quite what I built there, but it was a bit twee and lovely). It didn't bother me as I didn't stand on my parcel of land looking out at their's. 

    Prior to that I had land on a more well-established region in Second Life. It was next to waterland and had been quite an expensive plot, but the person who purchased the land that became vacant to mine thought it would be a good idea to make a graveyard. It looked bizarre but again it was their choice, their world, their imagination. 

    My ex-partner loved to encase his parcels of land with high walls for privacy, and did not actually realise his neighbours would find that objectionable until one took "revenge" by rezzing a whole bunch of warships on his side of the wall. It was a total misunderstanding, and my partner, having learned that high walls were an antisocial thing moved up into the sky where he always seemed much happier and was harassed less. 

    Did I say, I LOVE the mainland? Really do. Always have. Always will. It's quirky like its inhabitants.

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    why having or beeing an alt is consider bad?

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    2 hours ago, Gabriel Isodo said:

    I don't understand why on second life beeing an alt is something considered bad. We can have 2 3 or 10 accounts. What is the problem?

     

    6 minutes ago, Alycia Blaylock said:

    What's with all this prejudice against alts? It's not like a anyone chooses to be an alt. We can't help if we were born after someone's main account was born. It's not like we choose to be 2nd class citizens of Second Life. Do you think we enjoy being treated like nothing more than a bank account our primary can ignore for months or years and then even decide to kill us, not because we did anything wrong, but just because they're bored with us. We usually have to live off old freebie skin and clothes, while you primaries get all the fun and lindens. Maybe you think being LGBTQ is hard? Try being an alt for a while, and see how you like it.

    I don't even have my own room in Persephone's house anymore. ☹️ I have to share a room with a dog. 

    Has anyone mentioned bots yet? These are the alts I most feel sorry for. When they no longer are being used they just all get piled up in a corner somewhere to gather dust. All those lovely imaginative names going to waste. I could just cry.

     

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    Why is Flying so difficult in Second Life

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    Posted · Edited by Marigold Devin

    On 2/9/2024 at 6:32 PM, Impresario Beaumont said:

    I've taken up flying in Second Life and find it a wonderful way of exploring the SL world. It is quite enjoyable when one restrict one's area of interest to Bellisseria and doesn't descend below 100m above ground. At that height one appears to avoid ban lines and since one travels at 15m/sec (or thereabout), one has no problem with surveillance orbs that allow incursions of 15 secs or less.

    Flying across  other mainland continents is quite another matter. It appears that even at 400m above ground, SL's property rights fanatics on as little as 1024 parcels have the ability to send you back to your home parcel if one of your wings as much as touches their sovereign land. Is there no way to avoid this fate? Are there no SL TOS provisions that prevent unreasonable ejections?

     

    I know it's not the answer you will be wanting to hear, but you just have to embrace rather than fight this "quirk" of Second Life. We are lucky to be able to fly over people's privately-owned land at all, especially as everyone who owns or rents land is allowed to build up to 4000m. The best you can do  - and this is quite a lot of fun really - is make a note of where there are security orbs and ban lines and navigate the next journey around them. Think of it more like a maze than being just sky. 

    I have in the past managed some decent flying time with friends in small aircrafts, but I know they have made many a failed journey prior to that.

    And remember, one person's unreasonable ejection is another's unreasonable invasion of their Second Life home area!

    The creator of Linden Lab would somehow like us all to live in harmony.

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    Should Shop&Hop compete with Relay For Life?

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    On 2/4/2024 at 10:51 AM, Qie Niangao said:

    There's only so much calendar, so if the Lab is in the very popular business of promoting these regular Shop&Hop events, it's probably inevitable that they'll overlap with the American Cancer Society-benefitting Relay For Life events, also very popular.

    It was only very accidental that I even heard about the current "SL Living Expo" RFL event (Feb 2-16) and I was surprised not to really see promotions for it, but that could be just a "me" thing: I've had more than my usual distractions recently. On the other hand, I couldn't escape the Valentine Shop&Hop (Feb 1-19) on the Linden blog and elsewhere, so maybe there was some breakdown in SL Living Expo promotion?

    Maybe this happens with all Shop&Hop events, especially if RFL holds holiday-adjacent events. It just seems to spread a little thin the attentions of shoppers and merchants.

    They overlap but I don't think they compete as such. Those who love to shop will dip in and out of both no doubt. Some might favour one, others will favour the other, and I think there are enough residents to keep both events really quite busy. I think too that vendors can be appearing at both places, with pop-up shops/stalls. 

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