Persephone Emerald

Actually, we can copy and paste some notecards and scripts. We can upload some textures and photos. And we can make and save our own meshes. Most items, however, can not be taken out of SL or copied to another platform.

Absolutely. This is one of the weird but amazing aspects of SL for me. I think it's kind of like playing a roleplay character, in that we allow different aspects of our personality to be expressed through different avatars or characters. At first they might seem like they're just a fictional character we've created, but after awhile we realize that this alternate character allows us to express feelings and behavior we might usually repress. It's pretty common for people in SL to express a different gender with an alt. I don't really identify with my male alt, but I found it interesting to feel a different personality come through my female alt for whom I'd invented a traumatic backstory. She speaks her mind and doesn't care if anyone thinks she's weird or crazy. She's also a survivor who's been able to reinvent herself the way she wants to be, rather than how I originally created her to be.

I agree it can be irritating when companies put on a Pride or Black History event one time each year, then ignore those people the rest of the year. The last company I worked for had hardly any black employees, so their Black History treats seemed kind of tone-deaf, with red kool-aid, banana pudding, and ? (I don't remember if they had fried chicken too.) On the other hand, I enjoy hearing about black history and culture on NPR. There was a interesting show on this morning about a black lonely hearts magazine in 1937. The black journalists on the show read some of the letters from men looking for a wife, and one of the ladies picked which one she thought sounded the most promising. They were discussing the shift in black culture when many black people had moved to northern cities, created communities there, and were thinking about their life opportunities, love and dating in a more modern way than their parents had done. Actually educating people has to be more than just mentioning the few famous black people from history who always get mentioned. I think real history should also be about understanding the lives of everyday people, their challenges, but also their successes and joys.

This brings up an interesting idea, though probably too controversial for this forum. Is being black or a "person of color" about more than just skin color? Your avatar could be any color, but that doesn't change who you are inside. I obviously don't stop being white just because I'm wearing a purple or teal skin in SL, so an avatar's skin color isn't what makes them part of a racial identity.

What would be a good sign to put on your T-shirt or property in SL? For instance, on your property a funny sign might say, "Derender neighbor's build for a better environment ->" A T-shirt might say, "It's not lag. I just like walking into people 😁 "

I'm copying Frigga's picture from the furniture thread because I think this rabbit enclosure is cute for pet rabbits. I like the bee hives too.

Somebody should sell signs like this. Ima gonna make a new thread for this idea. 💡 😁

I agree with Phil. The main avatar is the one a person mainly uses, though it could also be the one a person identifies with most as being themself. I usually call my main avatar my "primary avatar", which also implies by connotation that it's the first avatar I created. Tasha was the 2nd avatar I created, but I don't use her as often as Alycia or spend nearly as much money on her, so I think it could be confusing to call either of these my secondary avatar. They're both alternates to my primary avatar, but I refer to Alycia as my favorite alt.

My experience has been the same. On the other hand, I had pretty big parcels, used border walls myself, and I might have more patience for annoying neighbors. It helps too when one spends much of one's time inside a big, open skybox.

I saw these outfits at the Velour Mall.

I've been curious about how residents are responding to the new regions, so for the last couple of days I keep checking the current availability numbers. Rather than people leaving the Ranch regions to try the new shiny or either of these 2048 m regions reaching a saturation point where nobody else wants to pay for a Premium Plus account, both themes continue to fill up pretty quickly. I guess those few people who complained on the forum that they wanted bigger Linden Homes represent a bigger portion of SL residents than I expected. People do seem to be abandoning 1024 m homes in order to move to the 2048 m ones, but this trend seems to me to be a good one financially for Linden Lab.

No. Linden Lab will not get involved in these kinds of disputes between residents. If you have the Firestorm viewer, the easiest way to resolve this problem would be to derender your neighbor's wall so you can't see it. As long as what they put up in on their land is not hanging over your property line and not breaking any SL rules, such as content inappropriate for the region or hogging region resources by spewing replicating prims, you can't do much about it. You can send them a polite note asking for the border wall to be transparent on your side, but you can't force them to be a good neighbor. Putting up an even bigger and uglier wall on your side, would most likely only escalate the conflict, so I don't recommend this.

My alts have smaller inventories, reflective of their uses and how often I use them. Because I've limited them to their own clothing styles and color preferences, it's easier to manage those inventories than it is to manage my primary account's inventory.

Strawberry Linden was and still is Strawberry Singh. Abnor Mole has admitted publically that he plays Magellan Linden. All the Moles have regular resident accounts too.

Tonight 1. Stilt Homes on Water - 0 available 2. Stilt Homes on Pier - 0 available 3. Ranch (2048) - 3 available 4. Mediterranean (2048) - 101 available 5. Victorians (1024) - 165 available 6. Sakura (1024) - 279 available 7. Stilt Homes on Land - 319 available 8. Newbrooks (1024) - 404 available 9. Traditionals (1024) - 428 available 10. Houseboats (1024) - 445 available * I probably had the wrong # for available Houseboats in my previous post. That looks like the land impact # instead.

Hanging out in the Welcome Hub regions is definitely a thing to do when you're bored. I'd like LL to add a surfing and sailing region next to the sandbox one, because surfing 🌊 🏄‍♂️ in SL is really fun.

I avoid drama by being polite and generally minding my own business, no matter which avatar I'm using. I don't seek it out by pretending to be someone else with friends or enemies. If I'm on as Tasha or my guy alt, I purposely have hardly any friends, because I don't want to be bothered by them. Alycia shares some of the friends I'm closest with and they know she's my in-character alt. I prefer to not talk about my real life when I'm in SL as Alycia, but most of my friends still address me as my RL self when I'm her. I try to steer them away from doing that by having Alycia talk about Persephone in the third person. Each of my female avatars has her own personality, interests, style and color preferences for clothing. My guy alt doesn't really have a personality or interests, because I just don't have that much of my consciousness that I can project as masculine. I think it's easier for me to project being a wolf-dog than it is for me to project being male. 😄

For all the alts in SL

I admit I don't hang out in other online forums anymore, but I think SL forumites must be some of the most charmingly weird group of people.

I don't know, but you can try the demos, and I believe one of the forum members uses that combination. As Rowen said, though, Piggu is not well supported for clothing. On the other hand, I don't think there is any male fatter body that is. A female avatar has a few choices for a heavier mesh body, but I think the best you can get for a well-supported male body is probably a slightly overweight "Dad-bod" with Belleza Jake.

Good Luck and a heads up. People asking for participants for their thesis work on the forums usually get alot of flack here. Also, very few SL users actually use these forums, so it's wise to consider other inworld options for recruiting participants.

Akeruka has a good chubby male head that is EvoX compatible.

Even when the new Victorian Homes are completed and available, the total number won't be that large. If there are a few hundred available for any theme, I think this may be a comfortable amount for Linden Lab. Rather than reworking existing regions to retrofit them for 2048m parcels, I think LL might want to create a new 2048m theme - *after* they release those Victorians and the new Stilt Homes. Right now people who had multiple alts in 1024 m theme homes, have likely given up some of those to get a 2048 m home instead. This is good for Linden Lab, since one Premium Plus account gives them more money than 2 Premium accounts. It remains to be seen at what point 2048 m regions would have a few hundred empty houses, but I'm sure LL doesn't want to get stuck with thousands of empty 2048 m parcels, like they have now with the old Linden Homes, the Log Homes, the Chalets, and Fantassaria. I think they're going to be very careful moving forward not to over-build.

😳 This is where a Mole might suggest talking this conversation to private messages. That doesn't make it better, but it prevents the thread from bring locked.

I'm just gonna say it before the lock. Not wanting child avatars around does not mean someone is a pervert. It just makes them a grouchy old meany.