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Bitsy Buccaneer

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  1. When I see poor reviews on MP, I ALWAYS look to see how the creator responded in the comments. Not everyone does this of course, but it can be a way to show good customer service on your part and that counts for a lot with some of us.

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Kyrah Abattoir said:

    Yeah but i can't really do that with a design that someone else came up with, that wouldn't be cool.

    Oh sorry, forgot about that part. Can you figure out ways to do something in a similar vein but different enough? Obviously easier for items with RL counterparts rather than purely imagined themes.

  3. 16 hours ago, Kyrah Abattoir said:

    I'm starting to wonder if i should just re-create the things I buy with prims (or my own meshs) and texture them with reusable textures instead.

    If you did, and put them on sale, others would have more options for their own parcels. If they were on MP, you could use the description area to sell the benefits of this way of texturing things, attention to LODs, etc. A bit of stealth education via consumerism.

  4. Two quick mock ups, based on one of Lil's suggestions

    The hands alone work better than I expected. I think it's my preference. The one with two heads needs shading and better eyes/mouth of course. Looks too much like a snog here, so more side-by-side/less overlap of the heads. But moving them apart will make it harder to fit into the round Like format.

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  5. 25 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    Left over right or right over left?

    If you can figure out how to type legibly with the first two fingers on your left hand intertwined with your first two fingers on your right, post a video so we can put it on social media and be the next viral challenge.

  6. 11 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

    Except me.  My fingers hurt like crazy today.  Between triggering fingers and arthritis, there are some days when even the thought of crossing my fingers is painful.

    Mine are better since I stopped working. Somewhere along the way I got in the habit of conveying support, good wishes, and hope to a friend about really important things like surgery and equal marriage legislation in the state where he lives by telling him "crossing all crossable body parts". Of course it's impossible to type like that, so I sort of guess he knows not to take me too literally. He's a very literal sort of chap though. For lesser things, it's just fingers, but not literally because how else would we type to each other? (Anyone who wants to contradict me on this is required to type their reply with their 1st and 2nd fingers crossed on each hand :) )

    I hope yours give you some relief soon Rolig x

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  7. 18 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:

    by the time it arrived this morning it was also missing satsumas, couscous, frozen carrots and something else. 

    that's really rough Cindy, will you have enough to manage on? do you have people who can pick some things up for you?

    when i had surgery, friends were willing to help but each of them went silent after the 2nd time so i'm going to wait before asking for any favours.

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  8. On 3/4/2020 at 2:05 PM, Cindy Evanier said:

    Please do.  My regular online shopping delivery for tomorrow has already cancelled my baked beans and tuna from my order because of the panic buyers 

    It was frozen stuff and peanut butter for me. It's seriously messed up my food for the week 😧

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  9. "Changing room" can also be a good search string to find somewhere you can rez your box (put it on the ground) to open it. There are still a few around I think. They tend to be quieter than sandboxes.

    Welcome to Second Life. It's beyond confusing at first, but worth sticking with. You can do or be or make anything you, or someone else, can imagine.

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  10. 8 hours ago, VonWulfen said:

    Does anyone know of any group gifts that would fit the bill? Having spent the evening at the Home & Garden exhibition I have a significant shopping list for tomorrow. It would be very fine indeed to be able to soothe ones financial conscience with a few 'Yes you should not have spent so much, but you did get this for free.' :)

    Have you found your way to Noctis yet? Her inworld store is a Victorian delight, with over stuffed rooms that continue across the period street. She's had group gifts in the past, don't know about now, and often takes part in the Historical Hunts (Steam in March, Silk Road in June and Renaissance in September). Had a look for you and she isn't on the blog for the current one though :(  You might find something else you can use, not all gifts are pictured. https://historicalhunts.blogspot.com/

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  11. 4 hours ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

    When you ask "wouldn't the bad people get even worse" and the answer is "yes," it usually follows (implicates) that "it shouldn't be done then." (See all the posts above.)

    That's why I responded the way I did, and it's the same response I would give here when you say "if yes, then we should think/talk about it."

    Unless you mean something else by "the implications of that answer." What do you think it implies?

    My post above was that imo it would be interesting and worthwhile to talk about it. I've made a start on considering it from different angles, such as I can manage, but am far from drawing any prescriptive conclusions. My rule of thumb for life overall is that informed discussion and consideration is generally a good thing, although the state of the internet and some media is certainly complicating matters. That may very well be where my opinion on this ends up, with nothing more definitive than a suggestion for an informed and considered decision.

    If the answer had been no, then one avenue for possible discussion would be a dead end. Which is useful to know before getting to far down the road.

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  12. 20 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

    Your question has a lot of implications (to me it sounded rhetorical), but to answer it directly: Yes.

    Thank you.

    My question wasn't rhetorical. I genuinely didn't know the answer and wanted more information.

    I think a conversation about the "implications" of that answer would be interesting and worth having, if only to consider some possible unintended outcomes and give the OP or anyone else a more complete and informed position to make their decisions from. But not today if I'm going to get shot down for even trying to get some facts right.

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  13. On 3/2/2020 at 11:00 AM, Da5id Weatherwax said:

    At the (equally unlikely) other extreme where there is no texturing in the diffuse apart from the weave but there are features which are normal mapped, since you're loading the normal map anyway if (and again, only if) you can get away with a "default blank and tint" for the diffuse and just normal map the weave then that will be the more efficient option.
     

    The ones I'm noticing this with don't seem to be using the normal map to simulate any fabric qualities other than shine, and I think some may have been baking the shine into the diffuse.

    So I appreciate learning more about normals but I still have strong preferences for including the weave in the diffuse rather than relying on ALM for something so basic to most fabrics.

    That's just me though, so it hardly matters.

  14. 54 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

    The same argument can be made for teaching hacking techniques in the real world, but it still happens. (Even my school has a bunch of projects with the direct goal of writing viruses and malicious programs that break other running programs on the computer.)

    Knowledge isn't evil. The griefers are held accountable for their actions. That's all there is to it.

    I asked a question. I haven't made an argument.

    I would just like to know if this might increase the skills of griefers and other bad actors in SL.

    It is knowledge. Surely I'm allowed to further my own.

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  15. 14 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    Firefox supposedly has an option built in - I haven't tested this because I don't have Firefox installed at work.  On the address bar in Firefox, type 'about:config' and press enter.  Click the box to promise that you'll be careful.  Type "image.animation" into the search box.  Double click 'image.animation_mode' and change the Value from 'normal' to 'none' to turn them off entirely - or set it to 'once' to allow a single play.

    Thank you thank you thank you thank you Lil x x x x x x x x x x x

    Your instructions were perfect, very clear and easy to follow. That promise to be careful box would have given me long pause otherwise.

    I set it for once and so far so good. If it's enough then I'll be protected but still able to understand the gifs, so a most welcome solution.

    Thank you so much for your help ❤️

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  16. 2 hours ago, Dakota Linden said:

    Your browser may have an option for disabling or blocking those images. If your web browser does not have an option for disabling those images, you can try an ad blocker that offers the option for creating your own filters, or something like Grease Monkey that can set up filters to block those images. 

    Thanks Dakota, I'll look into that.

    (10 minutes later 🙃)

    I can't figure it out via Ghostery. Probably best to try again when I'm fresh. In the meantime, any suggestions from the collective wisdom of the forums will be welcome.

  17. 1 hour ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    Is it all gifs or just the "flashy" ones?

    Flashy ones can set off seizures. Fortunately Lexxi got the No one taken off before I saw it, if that was rapid it probably would have been bad for me. (Already thanked Lexxi in that thread, but thank you again.) And fortunately there aren't too many of those used here. Though that tiny-pixel graphic about concurrency data is like someone designed a trigger test for me.

    Any repetitive movement makes it difficult to impossible for me to focus on text enough to read, so I have to position it off of the screen or try to shield it with my hands. Picture gifs tend to give me more time to get them off screen unless there are particular elements in it like straight lines.

    Speed of movement, quick repeats vs longer ones, size and percentage of the picture moving factor in. The forums here are more difficult for me than other internet spaces because gifs are often large and take up a fair bit of the screen. Some of them are very bouncy and rapid too.

    My visual memory of images associated with you is that they tend to be small. If you're asking in reference to your own habits, you're not someone I associate with gifs that are difficult for me.

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