Cinnamon Mistwood

/me pops the popcorn While there will be people who go to the extreme for the drama of virtual goods, I believe most won't notice. Premium members who pay a monthly fee to SL keep this "free" virtual world open for those who don't pay or can't pay or won't pay. If not for land owners, sim owners, tier payers, and membership payers SL would not be what it is. Consumers of virtual goods like bodies, clothes, houses would not be enough to keep SL afloat. So whine if you want to about not getting in to a sale, but there will be people who will pay for the privilege and those people will add to what SL can offer in return.

Yes, you can buy yourself a 512 plot. You will have a prim allowance to put stuff on it and no extra monthly fee except your normal premium membership fee.

I doubt it will become a drama fest, but I have some popcorn waiting if needed. 10% reserved for premium members doesnt seem high enough to be noticed by very many people. Hair Fair, The Arcade, Collabor88, even the first day of SLBirthday events will still have hundreds of avatars trying repeatedly to TP in or walk constantly into a sim border wall hoping to break through. Even being premium, I will just wait a few days for the crowds to disperse.

Whew! Thank you all for the tutorial. I have new respect for creators of clothes and mesh bodies. I popped inworld and tried the underwear on the underwear layer, I probably should have done that to begin with, much less showed through on several of the options I had and one pair didn't show through at all. @Rhonda Huntress I think I understand it all except maybe the lace. I would have to watch someone creating a lace to see how they make the texture so part is opaque and part is 100% transparent. @Chase01 I have a bit more experimenting to do, thanks! I will figure it out before I turn my attention to Bento. @Madelaine McMasters Thanks! I missed it, too. @Talligurl I like dark beer

@Rhonda Huntress I haven't even gotten to my question about what the masking option is. The other day I was trying on shirts and hairs and couldn't get the right combination of alphas and masking. I was just getting more and more frustrated as my long hair had a clear halo around it and there were my nipples peaking out right through the shirt no matter what I did. I cursed the stupid shirt, I cursed the stupid hair, I cursed my ignorance of how it all worked. Then I chose a short hair and went on with life.

Oooooooooh - so they ARE separate and just close to the skin. I will try some different layers and see if underwear still shows through. I want to keep my freckles.

@Talligurl I have never had a tattoo show through either. I use the tattoo layer for freckles. Are these layers painted on the skin or or are they separate and just very close to the skin? Maybe the clothing layer I am using for lingerie sticks out farther than the tattoo layer? On the system body everything was painted on and whatever you put on last was on top. Have you ever tried to put a tattoo on the clothing layer? I'll have to try it out next time I'm inworld - put my freckles on the clothing layer and see if they show over some tight fitting mesh clothes. @Teagan Tobias I'm nearly 7 years in and still have stuff to learn. That is one of the things I like about SL - things change and I get to learn a new skill. ETA Not nearly 7 years, but 7 years in. My Rez Day was yesterday!

@Skell Dagger Woohoo! I love when guys post and I love unique avatars... *cough* @Tem Haalan still waiting *taps foot*

I am not a noob, but I can't figure out appliers for mesh bodies. I thought the idea of an applier was that it was sort of painted on your skin - not something that lays over the top like mesh clothes. I have bought several panties and bras that are appliers. I wear a pair of pants and no skin is showing through - a perfect fit! Yay! I use the applier to put some underwear underneath and the underwear show through the pants. If my skin doesn't show, why do painted on underwear show through? I assume the appliers for mesh bodies are not actually painted on like I thought they were, but add dimension that pokes through clothes. What am I missing? Can I find the painted on style for mesh bodies somewhere? This is only an issue because I spend a lot of time in G land and sometimes my clothes don't rez properly. I want the modesty coverage. If it matters, I use the Lara body.

I have often wondered at the hair-blowing-in-the wind hairstyles and whether people walk around with their hair blowing around, but I do like the sense of movement it adds to photos.

You guys and your fancy hors d'oeuvres and mixed drinks. I brought beer and fries to share. (I get the dark beer)

@Rya Nitely I agree. I will be less inclined to Like posts knowing everyone else can see what I am doing. Not saying I won't use the feature, but I will think twice.

You may not get many replies in the Forum Feedback section of the forums. In the People Forum try Roleplay or Your Avatar In the Commerce Forum try Wanted There are some very knowledgeable and helpful people here.

I personally try to keep my draw weight under 50,000 and usually have my slider for others around 80,000. Occasionally I will turn it up just to see what interesting avatars are around me and then turn it back down. The downfalls on my draw weight are women's hair and shoes. When storing new hair in inventory I put the draw weight in the description. I take a low draw weight as a challenge because I have a slightly older computer that i would prefer not to fry. I did see an avatar several months ago with a draw weight over 1,500,000. I turned off jelly dolls out of curiosity and it was just a normal looking female avatar wearing a dress with medium length mesh hair.

You want her, she wants him... It's the oldest story around. Quinn, I first met you nearly 6 1/2 years ago. You are nothing if not consistent. No one ever has to wonder where they stand with you. You are upfront and honest about what you want. What you see is what you get and you persevere when the odds seem long. Not everyone can say that. That's all the positive stuff I can come up with for now, so - I wish you the best with your new love and if it ends, I wish you the best of luck with your next love. Don't let anyone chase you off. Cinn

Hi Quinn, I hope you can find your friend with benefits. You've been searching a long time.

Hawt and powerful! Psshht everyone looks perfect in SL. No makeup needed.

*waves to Lexxi*

Yeah, but.... Do we censor people because someone else might not be able to control themselves? "sensible limits on behavior" Where someone else decides what is sensible? You just took 5 years off my life and caused about 100 gray hairs to sprout out of my head. "Tools for holding people accountable for their actions" I can get behind something like this, but people have to be willing to use the tools "we may not quite grasp what it's like to be either a transgressor or a victim" I'll give you this one. While I am a softie in relation to people getting picked on, some people refuse to play any other part. I hate the idea of leaving these people to their fates, but I am not sure it is possible to convince them to see their situations differently. I am a believer in corralling alternative facts and people that flat out lie/slander. What do you then do with extreme biased news or alternative medicine or antiscience news? I have no answer other than more education. I am not convinced that market forces will sort it all out. PS This thread has the potential to get locked so IBTL

Moderation is a difficult idea for me. I understand that some moderation is needed in any environment, but there is a line between picking out actual abuse and feeling abused because of a differing of opinion. Teaching people to recognize when someone is trolling for emotional response and then giving them tools to deal with it might be a better idea than just reporting and having posts deleted because a person doesn't like what another says. We cannot really control what other people do, but we can learn to control our own responses to the bait set out. I recommend completely ignoring the bait. Just pretend the person never typed out their response. The virtual eye roll is a favorite of mine and works well with ignoring. You can also just repeat the same response over and over until the troll gets bored. "OK" "OK" "OK" "OK" "OK" "OK" "OK" "OK" These techniques only work when it is a person behind the trolling. When bots get involved, the best bet is probably finding a moderator.

Are you wearing or adding the item to yourself and then trying to drop it? Or dragging the item from your inventory and dropping it on yourself? Have you tried dragging the item directly from your inventory to a spot on the ground? The error message seems to imply that you have worn or attached the jeep to yourself somehow.

/me skips over the cream and sugar and runs for the double espresso!

If you want a simple answer, go to the Answers section of the forum. If you want discussion and opinion, stay here in the discussion section of the forums. You chose to post here, so you chose discussion. You just might get opinions that differ from yours. Oh, the horror. How dare other people give opinions that aren't what I want to hear. Please look to the top of the page and choose Answers next time you just want that.

You already roasted me, but it took 2 times to finish the job. There are plenty of new victims friends to keep the home fires burning now. You are welcome to set up a skybox on my land (General rating because I am a prude). I have more prims than I know what to do with.