Harper Held

The power dynamic is inverted so I can't imagine it's a problem for a black person to use a white avatar. As a white person I've never been able to feel comfortable wearing a black skin (usually purchase mistakes of one sort or another) mostly because of the risk of offending people for the wrong reasons. But if I was black, considering white skins -it would be a complete non-issue.

[cries in Genus babyface]

You're saying because mesh is the current hotness prim building is dead. That's like saying because most people drive automobiles riding horses is dead -equestrians would beg to differ, just as prim builders do.

I still make things in-world and I occasionally see people around me throwing prims around too. Hell no it's not commercially viable and can't hold a candle to mesh -but "dead" is an overstatement. It's even recieving the odd upgrades from time to time (eg materials).

What miss? A friend of mine are under one right now tryin to figure out WTF it is (I thought it was a gimmick thing and I was right 😛 )

SL circa 2005 was creepy as *****, on multiple levels. Apparently there was a small artistic and non-commercial thing going on (?) but I didn't see any of that. All I saw was tacky-ass malls from sea to shining sea and creepy tech-bro libertarian 'sell everything that isn't nailed down' attitudes everywhere I looked.. ...and my mentor getting stalked pretty much put the nail in the coffin for me, that and rl circumstances (computer died and I was in no rush to come back to this. ) Han is my 2nd account, and you'll notice it's from 2008 (or you won't notice, idgaf). Even then I would wander around for a couple weeks doing this or that on an alt (Han was for banking) and eventually getting bored ...until 2010, when everything clicked. So that's my old days...and they were ugly. People still did the "stand around in IM" thing people complain about now. Builds were mostly prims and sculpties and the sculpties in particular have NOT aged well. There are things I miss from then and miss them profoundly such as their being a level playing field in the realm of building things in-world. But that ship's sailed and done is done and some of the changes have trickled down to we prim builders (materials) and I wouldn't give those up for love or money. The sense of things being open and a unique sense of amused by the absurdity mixed with wonder and creativity that has not survived the mesh era. The people? Well the good ones from back then are still around and as far as the ones who aren't...not counting the deceased...? There's a reason why the people from one's past didn't make it to the present. I'm old IRL and I spend an unhealthy amount of time and energy lost in the past -places I went to, memories of times I had, people who have gone...at the end of the day that is unhealthy, at least when done in excess. "These are the good old days" or at least they're the days we should be spending most of our time in.

It feels like lately it's a crapshoot if I'll be mesh, prims or either one after a TP. I've gotten in the habit that if anything's off I simply relog (unless there's a conversation I'm trying to keep track of for some reason).

...any day now.

Most mashups are 100% cringe. But the ones that aren't are pure, pure gold:

instead, I showed 😛 (barely, I'm only half there 😮 )

Second Life? Clearly our best days are behind us. It's self-evident!

For style points, you ought to be able to set the land to a group you and your alt share -set the alt's home point, and then remove the group from the land. Your alt will still have that set as their home point (though won't be able to rez etc) but stalker types won't see the group when they do "about:land". I haven't tried this in a couple of years, but it worked then...

DON'T. Seriously -people will only find something else to complain about. Instead, take it as a litmus test; someone who complains about your height is probably someone who has nothing good to bring to your virtual life. .

The only reactions I've gotten have been positive -and those were when I was cruising around on my 2005 account. I've never noticed anyone being intimidated by me because of my age. Dismissive, yes, intimidated, no.

Funny, my guess woulda been Paris Hilton 😝

Fwiw I haven't posted any of my attempts yet -I've been fighting this for a couple of days and I'm bouncing between using a 7 deadly skins shape I hate or wearing some messed up abomination of my own editing. 🤢🤮🤮 So no photos until I have things sorted out.

I'm sure this is a personal problem, but it annoys the crap out of me how difficult it is to make your face the way you want it today. I mean it's always been hit or miss, but now you have to fight the idiosyncrasies of whatever mesh head you're wearing as well. Apparently, I'll be looking like garbage for The Duration. 🤬🤬💢👿

I've always used my home sim as a torture test for graphics cards; but under the latest version of Firestorm I'm regularly getting 60fps even with ALM turned on. The previous version I was getting 30 or so (more or less) without ALM. This is on a 2022 "gaming" desktop. I'm not sure what they're doing these days but whatever it is, my hats' off to them!

Never! I've worked very hard to look like a couple of actresses (at different times obv) but it never comes off well. So not only have I never accidentally looked like one but I've never deliberately looked like one either!

I was having this conversation inworld; it seems (from where I sit) that Maitreya is the standard more or less, but my friends were saying good things about the Legacy body, and that it has a decent amount of clothing available for it. I'm switching from Tonic (RIP) to Maitreya and considering Legacy when I have funds. I haven't begun looking into it yet, though.

Heh -back when I was a kid avatar I would whip out some seriously obnoxious gestures ("let's do the fork in the garbage disposal!", /those_sweeties which was a kid throwing a very very loud tantrum) and just repeat them over and over again whenever troublemakers would come around. Fond memories...

You tell me. I was born in the 1960s and I plop down $WAYTOOMANYBUCKS on SL, additionally this is an elective activity. This isn't a job where you gotta just suck it up and get on with it. Given that combination you bet your sweet bonnie that I want to curate my experience as far as possible. That includes having my posts private from obvious trolls/jagholes/rwnj/stalkers etc. SL and the forums here aren't set up that way -and I can live with that. However, I can definitely empathize with the desire for two-way blocks (read as well as write).

I don't think it would have been any skin off her back side to keep the marketplace open with a huge disclaimer that all purchases were final and unsupported; but sometimes you just gotta get the fck outta dodge, you know? That's the closest to reasonable that "the public" can be disappointed in not getting. Sure, as an open source fan for 25 plus years I'm disappointed to not see the model on github or something; but she was never under any obligation to do anything of the sort. As I said above, keeping an MP presence is about the most I'd ask for -but even that isn't required required at the end of the day. Mean-spirited implies malice and that's clearly not what was going on in the situation. Other folks have taken you to task over that so I won't. In b4 someone says slink is still on the mp (I honestly haven't kept up -I'm not a slink fan)