Bitsy Buccaneer
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11 hours ago, Ferba Ferraris said:241/5000It is LL's obligation to offer security on its platform, whether in the market or in SL. We pay to have security, and it is no small feat.
We shouldn't have that concern, as we are busy making sales, buying and reselling the items.You shouldn't have this concern, but the situation is what it is.
Bigger solutions like hacking reduction/prevention will take time to implement. In the meantime, your habits are allowing people to steal real life money from the Lindens. Can you at least recognise that?
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12 hours ago, Alternate Monday said:
Don't gaslight me. We know what you meant. Stick with it.
Can you take a moment to listen to yourself there?
You're claiming to know better than I do what I meant.
Do you see the problem with that?
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1 hour ago, Alternate Monday said:
What stop guards? LL does not have any stop guards to deter thieves.
In the bit you quoted from me:
1 hour ago, Bitsy Buccaneer said:Passing stolen money from account to account leaves a trail LL can follow. With money laundering being a RL concern, they have to have robust, legally required procedures to watch out for it.
Money trail. Passing stolen money from account to account. They have to, legal requirements to prevent/reduce money laundering. The gacha scam is a way of breaking that trail. You're all being used to facilitate it.
I'm talking about one aspect of this, not the whole picture. I'm not accusing or haranguing either. I brought up an overlooked aspect of the situation and have attempted to clarify readers' misunderstandings of it. And my word, you lot are quick to misunderstand it.
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2 hours ago, FairreLilette said:
Okay, what two tinies want to attempt to do in SL is their business. What two cardboard boxes attempt to do in SL is their business. However, you said in their imagination.
Well, imagination is one thing...tiny avatars another.
Some tinies cannot even do the basic sit animations and need a special animation for a sit - mostly tinies and titchies. The words tiny and tinies et al can be kind of confusing too.
[long diversion]
Fairre, I think you've gotten so caught up in your lectures about the distinctions between species that you're sort of missing the point. You've made pretty specific statements about tinies being asexual and contradicted someone pointing out that this wasn't a universal. Now you're framing it as attempts because of needing special animations. Truth is, it doesn't matter if they're not rigged to get jiggy - animations are only one way of going about it
It's grand you don't have experience with that. But trust those who do when we say that visual depictions are an option not a requirement. Words can be very powerful indeed.
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3 hours ago, OxfordLennox said:
I don't know what does that mean. Does anyone list their items for being stolen? We just put their items to sell. I'd rather to have my items back instead of lindens to tell the truth.
If expensive gachas weren't on offer on MP, then this vector would no longer be available for the thieves. Passing stolen money from account to account leaves a trail LL can follow. With money laundering being a RL concern, they have to have robust, legally required procedures to watch out for it.
Whether you intend to or not, by listing expensive gachas all of you are providing a way for the thieves to get around these stop guards.
7 hours ago, MarquisdeSadeJustine said:Are you hinting, with that comment that we should be concern that it’s coming out of LL’s personal pockets?? Its their business, there are avenues that are faulty... fix the problem.
I asked questions. I think who is losing out through this is an important aspect to consider for both practical and ethical reasons. It's your choice whether you do or not.
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2 hours ago, Fauve Aeon said:
You caught me.
.....Lots of people don’t speak emoji well anyway though and think the scorn laugh is ‘cool’ and I’d hate to deprive them of the ability with a wider selection. /s
I just see the scorn laugh as them getting their own flavour of entertainment out of it
. Some laugh at jokes, some laugh scornfully. It's theirs, not mine. For all they might want to make me feel bad, life's too short to give distant people on the internet that sort of power over my emotions.
🎶 too ra loo roll too ra loo roll yay
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39 minutes ago, FairreLilette said:
Of course.
So you'll stop saying that it's impossible for Tinies to engage in sexual activity then?
Really hard to tell from your reverie.
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Maybe the creator would make a custom version for you? It shouldn't be difficult technically. Worth asking IMO.
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12 hours ago, sashaspooky said:
I believe, though could be wrong, that LL is just paying us out of pocket and refunding the lost Lindens to the account owner as well. Until LL decides to examine the dashboards of the people involved with this fraud, there is very little they can do to trace the stolen items back to the original hacker.... So unless LL accesses the accounts of the missing alts, there will just be a case of missing money.
Is this being taken into consideration at all by those who are continuing to list items for the hackers to steal?
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12 hours ago, FairreLilette said:
Well, I've never been spoken to in a sexual way from a tiny in IM, not even once because sexual activity is not even possible.
Tinies have been (used to be at least) one of the most creative and imaginative communities in SL. And anything is possible with imagination.
If Tinies fell in love and wanted to, they could.
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3 hours ago, LunaThyme said:
I actually got 2 free texture organizers, and neither of them had any instructions at all, that's why I had to ask here! Now I have so many textures I can use - which have given me loads of inspiration for stuff I can have a go at building... I can't wait to get started! 😁
Do you know about Builders Brewery yet? They have classes and lots of freebies for building. Helping Haven is good too.
My favourite stores for textures are Timeless Textures, USC, and Texture Me True. They all have good groups and great owners.
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4 hours ago, LunaThyme said:
Now why didn't I think of trying that?😊
If you're new and have gotten used to appearance-related HUDs and appliers then it's only natural to use those as your model when trying to figure out a texture organiser.
Chances are a free texture organiser on MP predates clothing HUDS and skin appliers too, and its instructions may reflect an older set of habits and knowledge.
Welcome to Second Life. It's confusing but worth the effort. Glad you're building too, it's magic
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Is LL able to recover the money they're refunding all of you somehow? Or is it just coming out of their pockets now?
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Or was that just a region restart?
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10 hours ago, CoffeeDujour said:
... and probably on fire too.
well of course. Maddy lives here.
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6 hours ago, Cindy Evanier said:
The front of the house may be rendered next week
Blasted lag.
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6 hours ago, Gadget Portal said:
That feels like a really narrow definition of troll.
Give us yours then.
My usage is probably broader than you realise.
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.... like I really don't belong here any more. The exuberant ramshackle creativity that was once our world has been driven into hidden corners, I'm not motivated by the overwhelming push towards a fantasy "realism", and my stamina is too poor to finish building projects. Maybe it's time.
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13 hours ago, Beth Macbain said:
Raves? I really feel like those were after us, or maybe I'm just an older Xer.
Underground raves were 80s and 90s, with ties to the psychedelic and disco cultures of the 60s and 70s, and further back to 50s-60s youth culture and 50s modern jazz. I think the U.S. underground scene was centered around a few locales. The U.K. being so much smaller, it was easier to get to one if you wanted to go, or know someone who did, or to just have heard about it. The big mass raves of the 2000's drew both X and millenials. Fatboy Slim is technically baby boom, born on the cusp of X. Aphex Twin is definitely X.
(sorry for geeking out. i just get a bit over excited about influence and continuity in art and culture)
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4 hours ago, Gadget Portal said:
Why not?!
Most will of course, but anyone who can switch from "they're paying attention to me, I win" to "they're ignoring me/banned me, I win" is fooling themselves first of all. Sparking conversation amongst people who come to social media to socialise isn't a skilled feat of social engineering. It's just putting yourself in a position to claim credit for something people are going to do anyway.
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The forum's ability to talk about ANYTHING is impressive. Trolls really shouldn't take credit when they gift us with new opportunities
Reverse image search showed this pic in lots of places but the names weren't suggestive of anything and I couldn't muster the interest to investigate further. My guess is it was posted by a bot. Why though?
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44 minutes ago, Jameson2001 said:
You Gen Xers were silently cool trying to deal with bridging the divide between analog and digital worlds, and Boomer parents still clinging to their landline phones, rolodex cards, dewey decimal system, and record albums.
Trying to deal with bridging the divide?? We're talking about buying a CD player instead of a tape player when it broke and using a word processor instead of a typewriter, and then a pretty basic computer. Parents were just parents, some embraced tech more quickly than others but it wasn't a big deal, just a bit more of a learning curve. Mostly it all just sort of happened and incremently. Probably the hardest bit was learning how to program the blasted VCR
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14 hours ago, Jameson2001 said:
Plus you look really cool and hip with the Xer and Millennial crowd!
Xers don't do cool. We're the ones bouncing around singing Covid Eileen.
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6 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
It is possible that you would see that if I was near you. Anytime I'm popping around potentially crowded events, I drop my 'maximum complexity' slider all the way down to 20,000. So anyone around me that is higher than 20,000 would possibly get that message.
Then, since I'm quite forgetful about my settings, it may stay at 20,000 for quite some time until suddenly I notice that almost everyone around me is a colored blob. Sometimes that can take a while.
This is me as well. The minimum is just the easiest to slide it down to.
I've gotten that message too when my complexity is low but over 20k and I just laugh and know there's a kindred spirit on the region.
Avatars do more than anything else to get my computer fan spinning hard. My current neurological problems are such that this affects me badly and I need to shut down sooner. So apologies if I'm annoying anyone by triggering that message but I really do need to take care of myself and this is the best way for now.
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For mesh making, what is most important: triangle count, land impact or complexity count?
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Do some tests of your own. Make test versions with different triangle counts and compare them on the beta grid. It should help you start to get a feel for where you can safely reduce triangles and where you need to have some extra. Make them count.
Also use wireframe view (Shift-CTRL-R) to look at the density of triangles. You want to be able to see through your object in wire frame. Look at other people's too.
Ask yourself how much geometry a detail needs or if it can be achieved through the texture.
The ideal number of tris is as few as you can manage without too big a hit to quality. It's a balancing act, often with a lot of compromises, and more of an art than an exactly science. Hence, test versions, trial and error and lots of practicing. You're asking good questions, but the answers can vary depending on what the item is and how it's used. What else might it be worn with or used around?