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  1. I took a look at the applications and the hard requirement to use the official viewer would prevent me from being one because....Linux. IMHO, LL should have never abandoned the official Linux viewer and upgraded their build system to do 64-bit. Yes I know, there aren't a lot of Linux users in SL, but they are mostly very skilled at dealing with tech issues and solving problems that residents have trouble with.

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  2. On 3/17/2022 at 10:18 AM, Sam1 Bellisserian said:

    Well, if you keep in mind that 50% of the female avatars are male it might make it easier.

    Really? This old chestnut?  It wasn't true back in 06 and it is even less true now.

    On 3/17/2022 at 12:01 PM, Orwar said:

       I doubt it's anywhere near 50%. But yeah, let's perpetuate the old 'womenz on the Internets are a lie'-paranoia. 

    Agreed.  While there are some male-identified people with female avatars, the vast majority of female avatars are operated by women, including those who are female identified.

    On 3/18/2022 at 12:28 PM, Sid Nagy said:

    When in SL I don't socialize very active, but I will never start a conversation with someone who spends obviously all their time to optimize their avatars.
     

    I find your thoughts on this interesting, though I am saddened that you would never start a conversation with an avatar like mine.

     

    10 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

     

    Ha ha ha, I have thought of this song quite often in SL as an ode to avatar narcissism.

    Oh Lindens, it is hard to be humble, when my avatar is perfect in every way

    I can't wait to log in to SL, because my avatar gets better lookin each day.

    To know me is to love me, I must be a heck of an avatar.

    Oh Lindens it is hard to be humble, but I'm doing the best that I can.

     

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  3. On 7/21/2021 at 12:36 PM, Janet Voxel said:

     

    Another thing is: There’s so many creators now, they’re making the same thing. When times were good, I used to joke around “How many leggings and rompers do I need?” Well it’s still like that, plus creators are making the same styled clothing too. 

    Let’s be real though. SL has always drawn its fashion from online stores like Fashion Nova, Shein, etc. For those that don’t know, they’re cheap online knock off stores, where you can get a haul for $50. If you went on one of those sites right now, I guarantee you’ll see something that is at an event.

    Also summer kind of sucks for shopping. It’s mostly going to be bikinis, shorts and tshirts…rompers. Which goes back to, how many outfits like that do you need? Autumn and Winter the items get a little better, because the clothing gets more diverse.

     

    I sometimes say that certain retailers in SL are basically the same store because their items are so similar.  One ruffled top with detached sleeves from one creator and a very similar or the exact same top from another.  To put it more directly, several retailers are trying to be Blueberry....Scandalize...I'm lookin at you.

    And as for the fast fashion stores, many SL avatars look like the models on those fast fashion websites.  The tans, the hair, the makeup, the accessories.

     

    As for how many bikini's, rompers, and flirty dresses summer dresses with ruffles I need?   All of them.

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  4. Imagine the Grumpy Cat "Good"  meme image here.  Hallelujah, there IS a Goddess!

    I've been wanting them gone for seven years!  Seven!  As I've said many times:  "Gacha is Satan, not Satin and we want Satin, not Satan. Hail Satin!"

    Or as I said on my un-updated in ages blog:

    Think about it, while you can trade your gacha items, how many turns of the wheel do you have to do to get what you want? And how much would that thing have cost you if you had just bought it in a store? When I want something, I want what I want when I want it, which is usually...NOW. I don't want to have to put 1500L$ into a machine to get something I'd only pay 350 for. I don't want to have to wait for a trade so that I "might" get what I really want. I want it now. Not later, now, and at a fair price....now. I don't want to have to go to a lag heavy region and wait for a machine, I just want to go in, and get what I want...perhaps even WHILE shopping on marketplace at the same time. Yes, I'm one of those people who have actually paid full price for items that were in Lucky Chairs...because I didn't want to have to wait.

  5. Sadly, though I like the fantasy landscaping, the homes themselves seem a little bland to me.  I don't know, I think they need "something more fantasy" to make them more Rivendellish.  They're not bad by any means, just need some oomph.  Maybe it's the interiors.

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  6. On 4/10/2021 at 6:32 PM, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:

    Pleased to announce today (10th April 2021) that I've successfully travelled non-stop from Sansara continent to Satori continent by sea.

    Total time taken from Osmium to Pounce: 1 hour and 42 minutes.

    And without a working SL World Map too.... :)

     

    EDIT:  Have repeated the same trip from Osmium to Pounce again, but by helicopter this time,  it took only 33 minutes!

     

    Did a trip from Melville Deep in Bellisseria to Rathais myself in my Bandit 170 myself.  It's going through the Stilt regions that slows you down, you have to slow down there for the narrower channels and turns.  Once you're into the BIG "Magellan Passage" waterway in the Chalet regions, you can speed up.

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  7. On 8/29/2018 at 1:05 PM, Gingir Ghoststar said:

    And there is a choice of about 4 homes, there are no changing seasons. No roads. No community there. I am aware we can get those kinds of places on private estates but they tend to blink out of existence due to this or that. I'd love to see a place that LL forms a community government for. That is active. Holidays, seasons, events. That has building guidelines, ect. That has a HOA of sorts. I think there is a draw for that. The newer Adult rated towns had the right idea, but without putting a community in place they are empty, stagnated even. But what do I know? People in RL don't pay to live in beautifully manicured neighborhoods with HOAs, rules on what their homes can look like, what can be in their yards, how high their fences are ect ect right? 

    I am finding this post VERY interesting and relevant considering the 2nd Anniversary of Bellisseria and the fact that Gingir is VERY active in the Bellisserian community.  Bellisseria very much fulfilled a need of certain segments of the SL userbase and that is a good thing.

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  8. About the closest you can get to Satori from Bellisseria by boating is the water regions around Rathais at the southwest tip.  And you're pretty much stuck there with all the orbs and lack of navigable passages around the rest of Satori.  So no reaching the Blake Sea by water from Bellisseria....yet.  Unless they add extra water regions around Satori.

    Navigating through the Stilt areas up to the Chalet ones would be easier if the map worked properly.

    If they want to Residents to be able to reach the inland waters of Sansara (and Heterocera) they'd need to add water regions up from the Bellisseria-Sansara connection.  Up west/northwest up to Abbots or Keltham.  And on the southeast/east side up to around Blooberry Tam.

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  9. Don't forget Miriel Enfield's jewelry and eyes.  I miss Donna Flora's "Milan" fashion sensibilities, she passed away from Cancer IIRC.  S!mone's and Nicky Ree's gowns.  Luminosity's casuals.

    I don't delete, deletion is heresy, so I still have all my old Ivalde, Icing and Ingenue items...as well as everything else.  Inventory should always increase, never decrease, such is the way of things in SL.

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, Fauve Aeon said:

    I pretty much define ‘active’ as ‘still actually logs in and does something in SL’, Many fashion bloggers are basically platform dwellers who occasionally visit the backdrop places. And yes, I did know VV1 has that thing, and an offhand remark here and there by a few forum posters here kind of also inferred/implied that it has been some time since they had actually logged in so that just made me wonder about people in general.

    I login at least a few days every week.  I log into SL more often than I read and post in these forums.  My photostudio is at ground level, and when I take pics there it is usually before or after socializing and doing things.  As for VVO/SLU, I think most of the posters there do login, it's a minority that doesn't.

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  11. On 9/19/2019 at 2:36 PM, Aethelwine said:

    I have an Ise-Tan by them which is cute and fun, but no cruise control puts me off using them for prolonged expeditions.

    For this new area, the Mudkippers by Arton Rotaru will take a lot of beating, small, cruise control and work just as well in the water as they do on land, they go up slopes like no other vehicle I have tried. No problems at all with sim crossing in them, I toured Corsica in one a few weeks ago with no problem and spent at least an hour on Tuesday exploring the paths and waterways of the new area with one without any problem.

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/aR-Mudskipper-6x6-AATV-Off-Road-Vehicle/3313846

     

    Thanks for the heads up, after messing around in one I agree that it's a great vehicle for the Camper regions.

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  12. On 6/27/2019 at 10:19 AM, CoffeeDujour said:

    I would certainly sign a petition to rename the continent something shorter, like perhaps "Thisland" or "Myland" or "Yourgrave"

    Ah, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! 😉

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=znxFrgql5dc

    When I first heard of it I spelled it Bellissaria, notice the "a", like the island continent south-east of Alphatia on the D&D world of Mystara.  All I have to do now is remember that SL Bellisseria has an "e".

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  13. 1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    I'm seeing a lot of what are obviously supposed to be fashion shots on Flickr. I wonder if it has to some degree taken up the slack?

    Yes, I think so.

     

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    Whaaaaaat?????? OMG. For prim and system clothing and hair?????? How is that even possible? 😮

    Easy! I was an uniformed clueless newbie consumer with the shopping monkey on my back.  So I had the hardest time finding things that fit my taste, which was more classic than most, and then I had to buy MORE stuff when I found the actual good stuff instead of the less-good stuff I had found first.  Shapes and skins were my biggest expenditures early on.  1000L$ or more for a single skin  in a single shade, in a single brow color with a single makeup.  Shoes what, 300L$ for a single pair in a single color at least from a top tier creator like Fally?  Maybe 400L$ for a single dress in a single color from Dazzle?  Heck, 1300 or so might get you an entire fatpack of a dozen colors now.  250 to 300L$ for a single hair pack of maybe 2 colors.  Even eyes could cost a bit, but then I found Miriel Enfield and her reasonably priced eyes.  And then there were things like jewelry, an AO (I think I only picked up a couple of those...I found Luth Brodie), poses for any posestand.  It added up fast.

     

     

    1 hour ago, Sasy Scarborough said:

    Very easy, I spent 7K L's  just at SL16B then went regular shopping after. What CronoCloud spent then would not even come close to what she probably spent that first year and years since. I do that much at Hair Fair and then still shop for other things during. Different needs, budgets etc. I bought lindens once when I was new the 30USD buy, I likened it to buying a Sims expansion pack, if I didn't like it enough to stay eh expansion packs aren't always great, 13 years later it was the best investment ever :)

    I'm actually not that big of a spender these days by fashionista standards, averaging maybe 6000 -9000L$ a month.  Thank goodness I don't do subscription MMO's anymore.  I don't even WANT to know how much I spent that first 6 months, probably more than I spend an entire year these days. Especially since I don't blog anymore and therefore don't buy some new skin brand I've heard about just to review it.  Though frankly we could use more independent review voices in SL fashion.

     

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    Also looking back at prices then and now, people balk at prices for things now and us oldbies laugh. A house for 400L are you kidding they were 4K cheapest, a head 5K etc skins alone for a fatpack started at 2ish and went up to 12K. A gown was sometimes 1200L if not more, exclusives that Crono mentioned earlier I saw people buy 25K jeans at one RFL clothing fair. A simple system layer slip dress was 400L shoes were 2K a pop by some brands regular shoes with feet in them started around the 500L mark and got higher and higher. Now it is very inexpensive to do SL lavishly

    Skin fatpacks... 3 to 4 thousand a pop, 3 to 4 skins each of one shade and one brow color but with 4 different makeups. if you were lucky a single skin from a designer trying to be affordable was maybe 900?  A fatpack of all the shades?  Empty your wallet.   Course then Eloh released her skin templates and half the grid started releasing their own skins, which caused downward pressure on skin prices.

    Some fancy  shmancy gown? 1000L$ or more.  LE stuff?  More money.  Some shoe designers used the prims+invizprim to sculpts+alpha transition to raise prices and also the transition to shoes with built in feet.  Thankfully I didn't do those much, hoping SOMEONE would do feet that you just added shoes on to.  And most of us oldbies know about the prices of Stiletto Moody shoes, which I didn't buy because I didn't much like the styles let alone the wince-inducing prices.

    In some ways mesh era items are more reasonably priced, especially if you catch them discounted.

     

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    p.s @Scylla Rhiadra I have thought this three times today alone...love your hair in your profile pic

    Oh yeah, it reminds me of Truth Panny or one of those Argrace hairs.

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  14. 8 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    I have a friend who recently entered, more or less on a lark, into the "Miss SL Universe" pageant, or some such nonsense. One reason she got out was her realization that her fellow contestants were taking it waaaaaaaaay too seriously.

    A friend does the pageant scene, suggested I join up as well, but....the pageant girls take it VERRRRRY seriously.  Also the time commitment is whack!  You can be cut from the show for missing a scheduled event/rehearsal/whatever even if it conflicts with RL work.

     

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    I too would be surprised if fashion shows were not a thing anymore. God knows there are enough fashion bloggers.

    Ha ha ha, everyone and their KittyCat is a fashion blogger these days.  Fashion shows are still rare because designers figured out they were annoying to do, attend (lag), and schedule and they weren't effective as other marketing in SL.

     

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    If anything has killed it, it might simply be that SL fashion these days is remarkably homogeneous and . . . well, bland. I mean, seriously, how many cute little cocktail dresses with thigh high stilettos does a girl need?

     

    How many cute little cocktail dresses do I need?  All of them.  Though yes, it is a bit homogeneous, in part due to templates.

     

    5 minutes ago, Beth Macbain said:

    Literally thousands. I need new ones daily. Well, maybe not need, but want. I rarely wear things twice. My need for new cocktail dresses is endless. 😋

    Like I said, how many do I need?  All of them.  I wear them a lot for socializing, so I need a lot of them.  Mine are usually a touch longer than most, preferring lower thigh to knee length.  I don't have in-world income so I have limits on the number of cute cocktail dresses I can buy.  CC sadface.

     

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    A shape! A skin! Clothes! And AO! And most importantly... XCITE GENITALS! I had no flipping idea how to even walk, much less fit something like those old xcite nips and hoo-has. She gave me a bunch of lindens (like L$1000... hahahahahaha) and took me shopping and told me exactly what to buy and then laughed as I got frustrated trying to make things fit and wear things before I had any idea what was happening.

    I had to figure it out myself.  It took me a few days before I found the 2006 era fashion blogs like Second Style and Linden Lifestyles, that helped.  I spent slightly over 170 US$ in my first couple of weeks in SL getting my avatar up to the appearance standards of 2006 fashionistas.

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  15. While I'm an oldbie (13 years on July 19th of this year), I'm not one of the OLDBIE oldbies.  I was one of the post May 2006 people who came in after LL created free accounts.  I had heard about SL before then, but not knowing how well SL would run on the PC (not very well), and being involved in MMO's I didn't want to pay for another subscription.  I joined when a tech vodcast I followed....vodcasts being what we now would call youtube channels, announced they were doing a meetup in the "next big thing" in SL and that accounts were now free.

    zOMG Stipends!  That was an actual SL t-shirt made during the stipends controversy of 2006, when it went from the Blessed 500L$ of the Oldbie Elite, to 400L$ and then the 300L$ of the newbie masses. 😉  This was LONG before I actually went premium.

    And if I remember correctly didn't ratings affect Dwell as well?  Dwell was a thing where LL would slightly subsidize land owners with L$ depending on how many visitors they had, it was meant to reward land owners who had content that attracted users.  And of course it was gamed, it was one reason why camping chairs existed, IIRC.

    IIRC I got my first L$ from either a camping chair or a money tree before I came to the conclusion that it was a waste of time I'd be better off hitting the buy L$ button..which I have done many many times.  Also camping chairs and money trees.  A camping chair is set up by a land owner, it gave you L$ depending on how long you sat on it, or danced on it or whatever. Miniscule amounts but if you used one for hours every day it added up.  Money trees were trees set up by landowners, often designers.  If you clicked on it, it would give you a random amount of L$, depending on how much it had in it.  Nice people would donate into them to help out newbies with a little L$.  (they were often restricted to newbies)

    There were only 15 group slots...for everyone.  FIFTEEN!

    Skirt shapes were a thing.  Because the design of the system skirt was bonkers, it made you hippy.  I mean EXTREMELY hippy.  So everyone who wore system skirts had a shape specifically for wearing with system skirts. With prim skirts you usually wore your regular shape.  Also glitch pants were a thing, they matched the color/texture of your skirt because of how skirts worked so it looked more normal.  And only the jacket layer reached the pants layer, if you wore the shirt with pants you'd have a bare midriff, which is why some designers used the jacket layer to create a belt layer.

    Makeup was baked into skins, so if a skin maker wanted to have a dozen different lipsticks on say their "Grazia" skin, they had to release a dozen skins.  And don't get me started on eyebrows.

    Inviziprims, because of how...."limited" the default foot was (and still is), shoe designers used inviziprims to hide parts of it in their shoes, these were eventually replaced with sculpty shoes with alpha's and so forth.  The "bug" that allowed inviziprims to work was fixed, which is why the feet of avatars wearing old shoes look funny.

    Fashion shows were a thing...like the ones they have at RL fashion week. Runways, and SL fashion press.  REALLY!  And there were model agencies that actually had work!

    There was no such thing as "official bloggers", except maybe for a couple of designers relationship with Willow Zander, bloggers were somewhat more independent of creators back then.

    Who's Willow?  She's the one Willow Packs were named for.  What's a Willow Pack?  What we called "fatpacks" back then, they were named for Willow because she shopped a LOT, and she was basically the Strawberry Singh of her day.

    Limited Edition items were a thing.  This is where the designer only created a certain number of an item and then only put so many boxes out to purchase.  The Dazzle LE's were highly desirable because while Dazzle was a popular retailer amongst female avatars, not everyone would have the Limited Edition item.

    There was an SL Big Brother event where a bunch of avatars were put into what some of us called "The Habitrail", IIRC residents voted who would be kicked out.

    The Starax wand, it was hugely expensive for the time L$10000+, but it was a high-status item to own.  It rezzed things basically, VERY cool things. Sadly, I don't own one.

     

     

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  16. 1 hour ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    That isn't where I was trying to going or even close to what I was trying to show. I've said that a few times already. 

    Obviously there wouldn't be an inworld economy if it weren't for the residents. People can go on arguing about who pays LL more than who instead of looking at the bigger picture and I'll just move on again.

    That's not the point you were trying to make?  Then why did you say this:

     

    On 6/13/2019 at 6:03 PM, Selene Gregoire said:

    The social aspect is just an offshoot product that doesnt' really bring in that much income for LL. Land and creators are the sources for most of LL's income.

    This sentence is why people got riled up at you. It is one of the most head-explodey statements I've ever seen anyone say about the SL economy. The money the land owners and creators get comes FROM the "social aspect".  As I said, SL is an almost entirely trickle-up economy.  It's the "social aspect" that pays the bills filtered through land barons and creators. Now maybe you're a loner who lives in a sandbox, but you have to realize that in modern SL, the "social aspect" is what is paying the bills for LL either directly or indirectly.  Heck, even Land Baron Desmond Shang of Caledon has said he's basically a middle-man.

    And getting back to alts, people sometimes create alts just for becoming involved in OTHER parts of the social aspect that they aren't normally involved in.  Don't denigrate the importance of the "social aspect". 

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