BilliJo Aldrin
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1 minute ago, Tari Landar said:
That's where it comes full circle, they get lindens out of the games, offerings, whatever-and landowners get whatever it is THEY deem is worth their effort. It doens't really matter if everyone else thinks it is worth a landowner's effort, they aren't paying for folks to "farm lindens"
I could keep telling people for months, years, ad nauseam....that landowners ARE indeed getting something out of it(or they wouldn't do it) and that players CAN make such efforts lucrative, if they so choose....not so sure anyone believes it. But I'm pretty sure the xbox one my kid got for his birthday in august and the games I've gotten him since then, all with funds paid for by such games, is proof enough for me, that one CAN make money off it, and it hasn't hurt the sl economy for us(players) to so so, because we've been doing it since 2007 and we've yet to see that effect, regardless of influxes of new games, landowners, or players.
Your kid plays second life? And who
cares if people log in just to make free Lindens, I don't.
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yes but how do they get lindens out of it? Most places don't bother paying for camping any more
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On 6/11/2015 at 2:41 AM, MissTeriMahn said:Kascha Matova wrote:ZoeTick wrote:Alwin Alcott wrote:i won't say it's a open invitation, but going afk on a sexbed is a bit ... ehm ...dumb.. there is no privacy on sl, everybody who sees it can join. Simply log off if you can't keep an eye on your avi.Reported for insensitivity to those SL participants who are actually unable to speak.I suggest you choose your words more carefully. There are plenty of synonyms for stupid which are not gratuitously offensive, like idiotic, moronic, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, foolish, slow, simpleminded, vacuous, vapid, imbecilic, obtuse, doltish, thick, dim, half-witted, daft, dozy, cretinous, all of which you might wish to use to describe the OP's "friend" without insulting the vocally impaired.Wow. That's a whole lot of stuff there. While we're on the subject of foreknowledge or preconsideration of the background of other forum members, perhaps a look at the definition of the word "dumb" right underneath the version you've chosen to highlight is in order. Particular attention shoud be paid to the region in which this definition is a longstanding commonality.Considering the number of words used in other regions which have completely different meanings and intensities in America that are almost never accounted for, I would hope that this tendency to demand such nitpicking lest ye be tattled on is an exception rather than a rule. I can think of a word used in Britain to describe a "jerk" which is typically, again in Britain, used by a man talking to another man which if used in America in the presence of a woman will have her and many around hopping mad. I doubt I have to spell it out, but when the average English guy gets checked on that faux pas the reaction that I've gotten many times was for that very same word to be directed AT ME in the very American definition of itself.And, as alluded to earlier, I am in those instances indeed hopping mad.dumbdəm/adjectiveadjective:dumb; comparative adjective:dumber; superlative adjective:dumbest
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1.offensive(of a person) unable to speak, most typically because of congenital deafness."he was born deaf, dumb, and blind"synonyms:,,,,at a loss for words;Moreinformal"she stood dumb while he shouted"
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(of animals) unable to speak as a natural state and thus regarded as helpless or deserving pity.
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temporarily unable or unwilling to speak."she stood dumb while he poured out a stream of abuse"synonyms:,,,,at a loss for words;Moreinformal"she stood dumb while he shouted"
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resulting in or expressed by speechlessness."they stared in dumb amazement"synonyms:,,,,at a loss for words;Moreinformal"she stood dumb while he shouted"
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And what makes you think that the 50% of forum participants who are not North American would not be insulted by the use of an inappropriate and minority-abusive pejorative?
You might also want to ask the wonderful Treasure and her friends here in SL what the North American element of VirtualAbility think of such language.
Teri
((Or do you think that the rest of the world doesn't matter?))
At least he didn't say they were retarded
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1 hour ago, Theresa Tennyson said:
And then you'll complain about the bots. Or, under this plan, the people sitting around not doing anything but trying to "earn" a handful of Lindens.
Yes if it has high traffic because they have 20 bots parked on a platform, its really not a popular club, so I'll leave.
Not sure what your snide comment about people sitting around doing nothing has to do with anything.
I suppose they could all be "working" at afk sex places, but I don't visit those anyway.
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So anyway, if i want to visit a popular blues club, I'll search blues club, then visit the one with the most traffic.
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2 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:
That'd be why, yeah. The top one's the older search system that Hybrid and Phoenix layouts for Firestorm uses and only offers the ability to sort the results by name or by traffic.
The bottom screenshot is still Firestorm but using the websearch dialog. That's accessed through enabling the newer viewer system location and search bars at the top (not pictured as I don't use them myself and only popped them up long enough to get to the websearch). The websearch defaults to the raw factored results (Relevance) instead of the much older format.
It will still list traffic for you but as you can see it really doesn't factor in much anymore. Its essentially been reduced to a statistical metric.
What is the relevance to a search for blues clubs besides the fact that its a blues club?
What other factors are considered in the web based search?
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6 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:
Which of the following does your search dialog look like Billi? One's the older version while the other is the web based. One defaults to a presorted display while the other shows you the results as the system itself factors them.
The top one. I go to clubs for the social aspect, so I'm interested in the largest traffic numbers.
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I just checked, I drove my car onto abandoned land this morning, nothing has changed.
The parcel has "object entry" checked for group, but objects you are riding/flying/driving can still enter as always.
The OP's property in question probably isn't what it seems to be. If he provides a slurl, I'd be happy to check it out.
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1 hour ago, Solar Legion said:
I am not sure which viewer you use nor how you have it set to handle search but the newer web page based search system ignores traffic when sorting and displaying results while the older version you often see in TPVs such as Firestorm, Singularity and even CoolVL Viewer as an option will automatically take the results the system generates and sort by traffic despite the actual search algorithm itself ignoring the amount of traffic.
In short they're saying it because it is true and the deviation is due to your personal preference where viewer and search dialog is concerned.
To be a bit more clear: While you can set the web page based search to sort by traffic that particular metric is ignored for the default and arguably more used sorting method, relevance.
I use Firestorm, so i use the in browser search function. When I look for a place to visit, say a Blues club, I'll type in "blues Club" and the results will be listed with the largest traffic number on top. I'm not sure how else they can be ordered, but if you can rank them by the least number of annoying flashing, moving rotating prims I'd use that criterion.
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5 hours ago, Drake1 Nightfire said:
I'm sorry, but i can't see how this could possibly be a benefit to SL. People joining with the sole purpose of farming as any $L as possible just to cash them out without spending a dime can only hurt SL. If everyone who played the farming for $L games did nothing but cash out, why would the host of such games keep them going? Traffic is no longer a valid reason as it has no bearing on search anymore. And if they aren't buying things at the landowners store or their renters stores, why spend the $L?
I personally feel anyone $L farming should not be allowed to cash out. Or their should be a minimum spent wither inworld or on the MP before you can. And not a pittance either.
Everyone keeps saying traffic has no bearing on search anymore but any time I search something, the highest traffic places show up on top, and that includes places with the same 20 avis logged in 24/7/365.
The pennies that a few "impoverished" Venezuelans with computers probably better than mine could cash out from playing free games will have no effect on LL's economy.
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Must be a new setting LL uses on abandoned land. The other day I tried rolling a beach ball down the hill off of my property onto abandoned land, but it was blocked.. "no object entry allowed"
If its abandoned land, unlike protected land, you never had any automatic right of passage.
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Great, now I'll have to compete with Venezuelan hookers offering their services for pennies an hour.
Unless I'm mistaken isn't Venezuela another one of those socialist utopias so many Americans dream about?
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4 hours ago, MRSCANDIREDBONE said:
and there is no maitreya pants in pack all it shows is different sizes and applier for panties part
You wear the pants and use the maitreya hud to hide the parts of your body that poke through.
I doubt few people uses standard sized mesh any more, except if they still use the system body.
People buy clothes that are fitmesh for the mesh body they have.
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I'm not sure how you can owe back rent. You pay week to week, you don't pay they reclaim the land. I can see giving a day or two grace but it seems like they let you slide for a while hoping you'd catch up.
Now you rented from them again, and they got the money they claim you owe.
One of the big companies doesn't have the option to state your intention to abandon land on their rent boxes. One time I got notices for several weeks after I had imed the company saying i was letting the property go AND abandoned the land.
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Wrong place to post this, but i'll im you :))))
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2 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:
And that's fine, but there's an important grey area: On balance, will pets and breedables - now nearly "jellyfish simple" - get laggier as they adopt Animesh? And so is a pretty big LI necessary to constrain that?
hmm animesh will be laggier than what we have now?
I guess my original comment was valid after all.
I expect apologies from everyone that attacked me over it
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45 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:
If its opencollar you can use the runaway to ditch an owner.
Touch the collar - access then runaway depending on what version collar it is
Sometimes an owner will remove the "runaway" option from a collar before giving it to a new sub. Open collar collars are fully customizable. She either needs to turn off RLV and relog, or log in with a viewer that doesn't support RLV. Then she can remove the collar and throw it in here trash and delete it.
Of course, I've also heard there are some hardcore versions that will never come off regardless of what you do, but is probably just a myth.
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On 10/21/2017 at 8:45 AM, Solar Legion said:
There is no need to go out and buy an entire replacement card unless the one you have is woefully out of date. There are aftermarket cooler options you could purchase to replace the dead fan.
well, the card is a nvidea 705, not the greatest but that's what was offered with the low end Dell I bought. I was just happy it wasn't an integrated card like in all my previous computers.
I'd like to buy a 1060, but I'm leery of upsetting the elves when i have to open the box to replace the card.
And I have a makeshift cooler option, I have two external fans directed into the vent holes of the box.
That along with lowering my SL settings was enough to prevent my computer from going to sleep while running SL to prevent the card from self destructing.
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8 hours ago, Nova Convair said:
Why are you posting here? You will not see it anyways. And no reason to read your posts since you write about stuff you'll never get to know. Too funny.
Of course I'll see it. How will I be able to derender it if I can't see it? I'll go, oh cute, a dancing elephant.. derendered... next
As for why I'm posting here , I was offering my opinion on second life's next big thing.
If you like, you can mute me so you'll never ever have to read any of my posts again. I'm sure we'll both be happier if you do.
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1 hour ago, Phil Deakins said:
That's your initial statement.
And that's the reason you come across "lag black holes".
Ii's just your problem and not a general problem. If you'd said something like, "something else to cause lag for me (until I get my fan fixed)", you wouldn't now be in this 'discussion'.
Regardless of if i replace my graphics card or not, I derender any superfluous moving object where ever i go. Animesh dancing elephants and flying snakes will defo fall into that category.
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4 minutes ago, Phil Deakins said:
That's your initial statement.
And that's the reason you come across "lag black holes".
Ii's just your problem and not a general problem. If you'd said something like, "something else to cause lag for me (until I get my fan fixed)", you wouldn't now be in this 'discussion'.
I guess I need to stop replying before I get another one of those warning.
*shrugs*
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3 minutes ago, Theresa Tennyson said:
Interesting - how exactly does "broken and unrepaired" not equal "crappy", and how will your experience have any meaning to people with unbroken computers?
Oh, and now I remember exactly when your computer broke - right after you said jellying avatars was stupid and useless...
I also said mesh was a passing phase and refused to get a mesh avatar until i got tired of my partner looking so much better than me.
My opinions might change, but not the fact that I'm right
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1 minute ago, Theresa Tennyson said:
The things you derender are the things that animated mesh is meant to replace.
Well, why wouldn't I derender the replacement then too.
Ooooo a cool dancing elephant... derendered
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5 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:
If basic texture shifting (the most common type of floor 'motion') is causing you to lag then there really is a problem and it has nothing to do with SL.
On the other hand pretending that all laptops will have a hard time with SL showcases a wholly different problem.
Fighting in General Discussion? Well it cannot have anything at all to do with the tone of some posts now can it?
That out of the way ...
This seems to happen every time a new feature or function is added to SL; Someone will invariably come along and complain about it before finding out what impact (if any) it will have on their experience. It does not seem to matter if it is an optional function/feature (Voice, Atmospheric Shaders, Shadow rendering, ALM and all other features/functions that can be turned on/off at the user's discretion) or one being added to the back end/non-optional (Physics engine updates, Sculpts, Mesh, Flexible Prims and any other feature/function where the only way to not use it is to either not log in or not purchase/use content made with it).
There is a reason Linden Lab has Project Viewers these days, if you re not going to take the time to find out how a particular project is going to affect you then in all reality you have no data to go on when trying to make claims concerning performance impact.
When I go to a club, I drop my draw distance to 32, derender anything that moves, especially those rotating spotlights, and jelly everyone I'm not interacting with. I already have my frame rate throttled at 20.
Its not because I have a crappy computer, its because the fan on my graphics card died and I've not gotten around to getting a new card.
I love every new innovation that makes second life look and run better, i doubt this includes animesh
I admit my first reaction to this animesh was "oh great more lag inducing fluff".
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Would an influx of users who joins primarily to earn money by doing services hurts SL's economy, or stimulate it?
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Its fantastic that you can make enough money here to cash out, and its nice you use it as an "extra's fund" for rl purchases.