Cabbage Acanthus

(insert polite applause here) Well done. Now this I like. My time was not wasted reading this entertainment. Tell us, how many did you get?

Is it an actual garmet, an inventory item or is it part of the "skin" of your avatar? I think all of the skins that you get when you sign up have underwear painted on them. A good way to check is to open your inventory, and enter "worn" in the search bar at the top of the inventory. This will show all of the items currently worn by your avie. If there is some underwear present, then you can select it there and remove it. If there is no underwear being worn and you still see it on the avie, then it is part of your avatar's skin and you will need to get your hands on a underwear free skin somewhere. There are a lot of freebie skins out there that are completey nekkid so that won't be too hard to find. Of course, most retail skins are underwear free.

I want to be sympathetic. I honestly do. But sorry, nope. Knowing how to perform the basic functions of running a business here is a pre-requisite for running said business. That knowledge comes with study and experience, both here and RL. There is no getting around that. If you want to run a successful business, then do your freaking homework and stop expecting others to run up and beg for the opportunity to hold your hand. While it has been years since I was less than thirty days old here, I have always been able to find the information that I required to accomplish any project that I wished to undertake here. When I've been stumped (which still happens) I have found that if I ask a reasonably phrased, clearly defined question I get an answer from a helpful fellow resident in startlingly short order. While I do chafe at LL pawning off it's customer support on the goodwill of the residents here, the answers forum is a boon to those who can ask a proper question (one would think that isn't too much to ask but apparently it is beyond some folks). I participate on those forums and from what I've seen, quality advice there in plenty for the asking. I would be happy to mentor you though. I will charge you what I charge people RL for my time and services. IM me inworld for a quote and scope of work. If you chafe at having to pay a professional for their time, then I recommend you be content with the wealth of knowledge that is being offered to you for free.

I am always willing to help someone out, both RL and SL but as far as actively donating my time on this earth to do so... not anymore. I have found that most people who are actually worthwhile have already found their own solution to whatever problem that they have and those that take advantage of volunteers are doing just that, taking advantage of someone's goodwill. Now classes are a little different and perhaps more worthwhile that other sorts of voluenteering since that is assisting someone in their own efforts.

Oh, I have faith in only a few things... Our favorite spammer hitting these boards with a regularity that many fiber suppliments would envy is one of them. We will all be splashed with another movement of the true soon enough I'm sure. I do have to wonder if our dear friend (actually I've started to like him in a Andy Kaufman sort of way) applied the same effort and ability to any other worthwhile endeavor how far ahead he would be in the long run.

There are loads of reasons why SL will never be "mainstream". This isn't really an activity that will be embraced by masses. Those of us who love it, love it but we are now and will always be a niche market. The type of griefing that you speak of is the sort of thing that results from the "disposable" alt accounts that LL allows here. As long as people can make dozens of anonymous free accounts, this will happen. Most of them congregate in large public sandboxes and other such places and are relatively easily avoided. Once someone leaves the sandboxes and the welcome areas such harassment becomes less common. Sadly, some abandoned parcels can be used by griefers due to the build and autoreturn settings. If your "land" is near one of these, then you are pretty much out of luck and all you can do is AR (or file a ticket if that is an option). LL will eventually get around to helping you out...eventually.

Darrius Gothly wrote: Little, I think you have a fairly astute observation of one of the core purposes of Second Life, social interaction. Clubs, Art Shows, amazing and wonderous Sim builds, Live Music, Charity Events .. the list goes on and on. The opportunitues exist everywhere and the tools to socialize on a level completely unattainable in other common Internet Technologies are a powerful part of the Second Life experience. (As a personal example, using other technologies I have spent hours chatting with someone about a broad range of personal and enjoyable topics, but until Second Life I had never spent that time DANCING with them as well.) But the fact that Facebook (for example) is based on a "Social Networking" paradigm does not make it the same as the social activities or interests that occur in Second Life. There are massive differences in how the two socialization machines work .. differences based not just on superficial or easily altered behaviors either. I'll start with the upper-level and most visible attribute of both platforms, Member Presentation. In Facebook, members of the site are required to fill out a profile that specifically requests their true and accurate details. Without getting into the privacy battle currently waging in and around Facebook, it's important to realize that the information they request / require is expected to be true and specific to who you are both online and offline. In short, the Member Presentation that Facebook expects you to provide is the same type of presentation you show to people you pass in the Mall, the store, at Church and even at family reunions. In short, they expect you to provide them details of the "Real You". Second Life however is almost completely on the opposite end of that scale. The Profile that new Second Life Residents are provided is short on real-life details (and those are completely optional without any "penalty") and very long on fantasy and imagination. It is designed to provide the member an opportunity to create a Presentation that is fantastical, inventive and (if desired) has absolutely no correlation or even distant resemblance to the "Real You". The next glaring difference between Facebook and Second Life can be seen in the "Circles" we create on both. On Facebook, the "Circle" ... the primary (and for many only) group of people that we connect with consists of our family members and friends from real-life. We socialize over the relatives we have in common, the jobs and other real-life events we have in common ... in short we share observations and conversations about those things we encounter when we turn off the computer and walk back to "Reality". On Second Life, the Circles we create and enjoy are based on an entirely different commonality. Furries hang with other Furries, Fashionistas with Fashionistas, RPG'ers team up and socialize with other RPG'ers. The commonalities that build, reaffirm and give our Circles relevance to us are based on personal preferences, but mostly they are based on our non-Reality desires and interests. They are based on preferences and dreams inside our heads that no one in our real-lives shares .. and often don't even know exist. (I mean really, how would YOUR boss react if you told him/her "I love dressing up in blue fur and wearing a long flowing tail"?) Another personal example: I have two RL kids that also are Residents here in Second Life (ages 30 and 26). The only In-World Groups we share are those we've created just for family stuff (land management etc.). But when we get together and shoot the breeze about Second Life, I only recognize the names of their friends from the past stories, they only recognize the names of my friends from what I've told them before. The commonalities we have are precious few. In fact, I have never once "bumped into" one of my kids on Second Life because we really just do not have anything in common in this fantasy world. My fantasies, my world as I've constructed it, is almost intentionally vastly different from the real-life world we all three share. Yes, Facebook and many of the other wildly popular Social Networking systems out there are enticing, attracting money in gobs and gobs ... and a lot of thinkers have (and still do) point at the "Socialization" similarity between them and Second Life and exclaim them to be "the same" because of those. But to me ... calling them the same is tantamount to calling a Porsche and a Garbage Truck the same because they both have wheels. QFT

As others have already said, what you saw is indeed against the rules here in SL. AR the site. Also, AR the individuals that propositioned you with clips from your IM or chat log separately if it happens again. We are a pretty much freewheeling bunch of people (well as much as they will let us be these days) but we do have limits and that is one of them.

SL is a fantastic place to play and have fun and mess around a bit. But sadly, it will be nothing more than an idle passtime until they "get serious" about supporting their existing customer base. As to why you are paying for premium, only you can answer that. There are benifits to a premium membership that you may find useful but I have been quite happy without mine for quite some time now. I scaled back my investment and presence here in SL to virtually nil. Now, this is only an idle pursuit, a place to mess about and have a bit of fun. Now my endeavors here only require the level of support and consistency that I can reasonably expect to receive from LL. I was intrigued, and still am, by the possibilites of something like SL but the realities of RL SL and LL are such that those possibilites will forever remain just that, unrealized dreams that will never become manifest. The first hundred people (or thousand) who found their dreams and hard work undone here by poor customer service and all the other issues that LL has I have sympathy for. Anyone who follows them down that primrose path now is just someone who didn't do their homework and is now suffering the consequenses of their own lack of preparation. I am grateful for their efforts, because without their quixotic nature I would nave nothing to enjoy here but in the end, once they bounce off of that windmill, one really has to ask them what else could they reasonably expect to happen? I recommend changing your expectations as to what you can expect from LL and SL instead of trying to get the level of suppor that you believe that you deserve. You aren't going to get it. This is a great place for what it is. Stop trying to make it something that it isn't and just enjoy your time here. You will be much happier in the long run, trust me.

April Fool's day (which is today, April first) is a custom in many countries where people play tricks and pranks, mostly based on false reports and the like. For example, someone might circulate a fictitious statement allegedly from LL stating that all new accounts are being banned because "noobs" are "stealing crap". A good tip is the use of wording. I seriously doubt that anyone from LL would make an official statement with the words, peeples, noobs, or crap in it. If you were the one trying to do a good April Fool's hoax, try to do your homework first and find out who would be making policy decisions these days and try to make it a bit more polished. If you had, for example, tried to start a rumor that everyone's adult verification was going to be suspended soon once a new age verification system was going to roll out and add some totally annoying, but remotely plausible new requirement (video depositions, notarized statements, notes from your mom.. etc) you might have been onto something.

If it is just the location of the hud on your screen and not the attachment point that is the issue, you can just right click the hud, select "edit" and move it around the screen to a location more to your liking.

Vocaloid wrote: (snip) I hope Ahern continues to be G/PG friendly as possible to all adults, child avies, and teens alike. Ahern... continues to be G/PG friendly... ... ... heh. If it really bugs you, then AR it and include the a cut and paste of the local and IM chat logs for good measure. My advice is if that sort of thing offends you, leave Ahern and places like that. They have always been what they are. I enjoyed them back before the TG merger but don't hang around them these days for obvious reasons that really don't need to be repeated for the thousandth time. If it really bugs you, then AR it.

By all means, report the threats along with copies of the chat logs to SL. As others have said, don't stop there. RL death threats fall under RL law enforcement. Make copies of the threats and communicate them to your local police. Never discount your instincts. If you feel that this is cause for concern, then get help RL from the RL police.

Is this happening everywhere in SL or just in that one spot? Sometimes really bad lag or other sim / server issues can cause this sort of thing. I would try rezzing something that you wouldn't mind getting "stuck" on a sim (something not terribly laggy or otherwise "annoying" and that you wouldn't mind "losing") on a few other sims to see if the problem is universal or just in that one sim.

Peewee Musytari wrote: Knowl Paine wrote: I would try to discover why the Resident is doing what they are doing. This ^^ A calm conversation can often solve more than running round in circles with each other. What?!?! Why are you two being all mature and reasonable and stuff? This is SL for goodness sake! Get with the flipping program. yeah... I sort of jumped over that important first step in my recommendation.

I think that what might be happening is that the set buoyancy might be having a little delay once the object is spawned, since the object is already physical there might be a little downward acceleration before the target script runs that first pass. Maybe... You might want to change the target script so that the llBuoyancy is run when the script is initialized (put it under the state_entry event handler) instead of having it run on rez. That way when you take the target object into inventory after the script is loaded, it already has its buoyancy set so when the target spawner rezzes it is "weightless" from the get go and is not dependant on the on_rez event to set it. A touch of lag in the sim might delay that event just enough to get just a scooch of downward velocity on your target. Worth a shot maybe.

AR report, eject, and ban. Repeat. AR's are very unpredictable and inconsistant but eventually they do work. The key is to not just say what the person did, attach copies of the IM's to the AR. The underage ban script (avatar age, not the actual age of the player) can help since most griefer alts are made and immediately used. Is your site a large public venue or is a site frequented by smaller group of regulars? If it is the latter, setting access restrictions to the group of regulars (you might have to form that group) for a short time might be helpful as well.

Void Singer wrote: Cabbage Acanthus wrote: Yep, that does not sound too surprising. [...] it seems very suprising to me, since in the 6+ years I've been here I've been ejected from exactly 1 place (not including automated security systems) I am NOT suggesting OP is to blame, but rather that OP just found a nest of drama invested people.... it happens... best bet is once you realize that's what they're about, ignore and avoid them.... SL is a huge place, and there's much better to be had than that sort of behavior. I haven't been bounced from too many places during my time here but I have heard of such situations from friends and acquaintences almost since day one. Posts like this aren't uncommon in the forums. This sort of thing happens. In my personal experience, the one time that I did get banned from a place that I actually cared about, I was able to contact the actual parcel owner and discuss the situation with them and get reinstated with little trouble. I usually just leave a club, venue, whatever, never to return once I see a problem like this happening so the situation doesn't develop to the ban stage. I recommend that the OP do the same. The OP has said that it was "places" not a place. If this is happening often this early in their time in SL then it is quite possible that the OP is, perhaps unknowingly, breaking some "taboo" here in SL and instead of getting a friendly bit of advice, the club "security" (always primed for a scrap) just slams them with a griping out and a ban instead of helping a newbie out. That could very well not be the case and the OP just landed in a nest of twerps (it could really go either way) OP, if you do not wish to discuss the issue publicly, feel free to either IM me in world, or send me a private message here with the details and I will let you know if you made a faux-pas or if they were just being jerks.

Odds are that LL couldn't care less if you wandered onto a "runway" here in SL. An individual sim or parcel owner might ban you over something like that, but an individual sim or parcel owner can and do ban people for all sorts of silly reasons down to and including the fact that they don't like someone's shirt. However, that guy's abusive and obscene language is reportable to LL. Oh, posting the individual's information is against forum guidelines so you should probably edit your post to remove his name. Abuse of the AR system, known as "AR griefing" can and does happen. This, however, does not sound like AR griefing. The AR griefers would make false or misleading reports based on things that LL takes seriously. (blocking a pretend runway isn't one of those things) As others have said, mute, report (if you feel like it), and move on. Oh, if it was an airport / flight role playing sim and you were blocking one of the runways, then that was perhaps a little inappropriate as well. However, that does not allow people in that sim to break the TOS and address you in such an abusive and obscenity laden manner. They should have just informed you politely that you were messing with their RP (role playing) and perhaps eject or ban you (just from that area, not all of SL) if you did not stop.

Sorry, but no, there is no direct exchange between the two. Is there a way you can "cash out" of farmville and convert those credits over to RL money? If so that would be the only way. Convert the farmville money to RL cash and then use the RL cash to buy SL money.

I'm sure that others have covered this well already but "SL Police" groups are usually griefers in matching jerseys. They have no "official" powers. A parcel or sim owner might let them "work" their land, but for the most part you can feel free to ignore them, or report them if they try to tell you that they are SL sanctioned.

Hi Faithless! (waves happily) Glad to see you about. Wow... I'm glad that I dumped my land and downgraded my account to free awhile back. What a mess!

Hi Nia, Yep, that does not sound too surprising. Sorry to hear about your "welcome" to SL. The great thing about SL is that it is a user created environment. The downside is... it's a user created environment. If some jerk wants to open a club or some other venue and be rude to guests, then there is little stopping them. If they want to appoint their friends as some sort of clique of enforcers... then they can. Every nest of jerks you will find here, you will find several really cool places with loads of really nice, welcoming people. If you still want to give SL a try after your unpleasant experience, then I encourage you to keep looking. The saying "Birds of a feather flock together." is perhaps nowhere more relevant than here in SL. "Nice" folks tend to hang around each other and "nasty" people do the same. Of course the definition of nice and nasty can vary depending on one's point of view. SL is like any other niche community and we have our unwritten rules and codes of conduct and whatnot. You said that places (plural) had run you off. It is possible that you were somehow breaking one of these rules that nobody told you about and instead of recognizing that you were new and giving you some "slack" and being tolerant and perhaps informing you of what you did or said, they just snapped at you and threw you out. Did you say or do anything before each of these places ejected you? Perhaps if you told us we could tell you if you had in fact "done something wrong" or as I suspect, they were just being jerks.

Tammy Armundsen wrote: "So you think turning someone in to LL that readily admits they are underage in RL and is on an adult account makes someone a "self-righteous intolerant hypocrite"? Really?" Okay, make that "self-righteous intolerant vigilante." Are you actually saying that it is wrong for someone to AR an underage person who is in a mature or adult sim? Seriously? Please clarify your position. What is your stance regarding underage individuals being present in adult areas. Should we encourage that? Should we turn a blind eye? How do you justify your position?

Question: You state that you now have a very high end graphics card. You also say that you used to be able to access SL with no problems. Is the new graphics card part of a new computer or did you buy a high end graphics card and install it in a computer that you already owned (the one that used to play SL) From what I am reading, I suspect you upgraded your graphics card recently? If so, did you upgrade your power supply as well? New high end graphics cards can consume a lot of power and if you are still using the power supply that came with your computer when you bought it, you might be overloading it. What computer and graphics card do you have and what power supply are you using to run the works? Good luck with your troubleshooting. It can be quite vexing when something isn't working right.