Persephone Emerald

It would be interesting to see a dynamic bar graph of the most popular mesh bodies from the first ones to the present. Since we don't have that, here's a collection of pie charts over time. (I'm bumping this older thread for comparison purposes and because it was only 6 pages long.) From Salt & Pepper, 2019: Blueberry, May 2023:

Friends don't let friends buy unsupported mesh bodies.

With Maitreya Petite or Flat, you also get both an add-on and a full body (if you also have the Maitreya body).

I like the 2-story with the upstairs deck. I think it has a separate room downstairs that could be a bathroom.

Creating YouTube or blog content is not easy. Just take pictures for your own enjoyment and share a few here on the forum.

Bellisseria essentially pays for itself (or would except for the themes that have thousands of unoccupied homes). I think it was M. Linden who decided to sell all that coastal land? Quick profit over long-term vision? I think LL is capable of seeing what kinds of land are most popular, but their resources for developing existing land are apparently limited, users seldom abandon coastal property once they get it, and it would hurt customer relations to try to force people off land they've bought and are paying tier for.

That's messed up. You should be able to display whatever art you wish inside of your house (aside from images forbidden by the TOS). If my neighbor can have dead bodies and zombies inside his house, you should be able to have some guy in a jail cell. I don't care who it is. You're house is your virtual castle...or dungeon, for some folks.

You don't suck at everything. You certainly don't suck at explaining your situation and how you feel. If you did, nobody would be responding to your post. If you get hit on in SL, it's probably because your avatar is attractive and you're easy to talk with. These are good things. Maybe you just need to practice telling guys that you're not interested? Or you could use a Tiny or Dinkie avatar, so people won't think of your avatar in a sexual way. I mostly want to emphasize that you are not the problem. Everyone of us gets down sometimes. I think most of us have RL problems and limitations. This is partly why we're drawn to SL, either as an escape from RL or because we can't get out in RL to do things we'd like to do. I hope you explore your options in SL and find some places and activities that bring you a little happiness and friendship.

I hope they make a SL "After Dark" section of the Welcome Hub to advertise the Adult sexy side of SL and have teleport links there to adult sims and stores.

For me, building in SL isn't about making something good enough to sell. Sometimes I've sold stuff, but it's really about taking an idea from my mind to a 3-dimensional object in SL. I have sometimes shown newer users how to make simple prim objects, because seeing how prims can be manipulated is fun when they can make an object and then interact with it. A box seems pretty boring at first, but when you can make it hollow and cut an opening in one side, or copy it and turn it into a hollow pyramid, then you can make your own little house. A hollow sphere with a semi transparent texture can become an avatar hamster ball or flyable bubble. Make spheres physical and give them different kinds of physics parameters to see how they act when you drop them. They can bounce or roll down sloped land. Push them off a high platform, then teleport down to the ground to watch them roll or bounce. If you're feeling irritated with people or the world, you can get free avatar mannequins on MP and catapult pumpkins at them. You can get target mannequins that explode too. When I was annoyed with a boyfriend for being involved in Bloodlines, I put a vampire cape & fangs on a mannequin and then shot pumpkins at it. I also shrunk down a mannequin, put a squeaky collision sound in it and made it physical to make a squeeky dog toy. If you want to learn how to build for fun, go to Builders Brewery and see what kinds of classes and free materials they have. They have plenty of sandbox space, and there will be other people to talk with and make friends with. Happy Hippo is another good building group which focuses on prim building, rather than mesh.

Maybe SL needs internet cafes, where people can have their avatars just sit around while they chat in groups, IMs or on Discord? That could be the ultimate meta of recreating inworld what they're doing in RL anyway.

Ok, now I know why I was dreaming about vampires and being a vampire. I was trying to get the others to stop killing people.

Yes, you can have and use adult furniture in Belli, just not out in your yard. A quick cam around will show plenty of BDSM items inside Belli houses and skyboxes. The rules for adult content are the same as in other Moderate regions, except that we can't advertise it or run a business in Belli.

Maybe a New Orleans French Quarter theme would be good for Adult regions? I'd be very surprised if LL does more than finish off the unfinished parts of Zendra though.

If you use Firestorm, someone in the support group might be able to help. There are a couple of weird ways that ghost prims might be created. One is by torturing and slicing a prim until it suddenly seems to disappear. I did that once. It wouldn't show up as invisible, but did show as an object in Area Search. I couldn't grab it to delete it. Someone from the Firestorm group came over to help me find it & eventually I was able to return it to myself from the Objects on Parcel window (or something like that). I've also had exactly the same problem you describe on my land and never could get rid of it. Maybe you can put an object like a vase or shrub there?

I've been in SL for about 14 years. There are days when I love it, but also days like today when it seems boring and pointless. I went to look at the new Linden Home regions. I'm glad the Moles added a nice shoreline, but once I've seen it I'm bored again. I went to a couple stores to look at sale items, and quickly got bored with that too. The only thing that didn't feel boring was giving advice to a lady who wanted to know where to find LaraX clothes. I guess helping someone else makes me feel like I did something worthwhile. Sometimes I get in "the zone" if I'm building, decorating or cleaning out inventory, but alot of the time I can be bored in SL as well.

Sometimes we need to take a break from SL & do stuff in RL for a while. There's nothing wrong with you if it doesn't feel like you're having fun. If you don't like creating stuff, do you like listening to music? I find trying on some items from inventory while listening to music, deleting & sorting to be relaxing. I'm guess I'm weird, but I like that better than going to SL clubs.

They have the store name on them, so I doubt they were supposed to be small or transparent.

Peeve: Bad Demos. No HUD in this one, so no way to see different colors. Balls attaching in weird places. (I assume the creator expected me to attach the demo to my hand.)

Sex clubs would have to be in an Adult region. Residential only already exists in Belleseria. I doubt the Moles want to go around checking if a parcel is purely residential or commercial. Normal people sometimes want to have a residence above their shop, whether that's an upper story or in a skybox. They might also want their shop in the sky and nothing on the ground.

What if Mainland 2.0 were made entirely of 1024 m, 2048 m and 4096 m parcels, and these required Plus, Premium or Premium Plus accounts. What if one could pick either an empty parcel or one with a limited set of buildings that don't count against your Land Impact (as in Bellisseria)? Would folks prefer themed neighborhoods with buildings included or empty parcels where we can use our own buildings?

I'd love to see a link to that comment if you or someone else has it. It's true that nudity is permitted on Moderate regions and that Bellisseria is Moderate. Nude beaches, strip clubs, and "sky-clad" rituals are all permitted in Moderate regions, unless the region owner says otherwise.

I have not heard of either of these bodies. Omega applies are also not used much anymore now that the major bodies use BOM (Bakes On Mesh). The Belleza Venus, Isis, Freya and Jake bodies are still Omega compatible with a free script, as far as I know, but hardly anyone is selling Omega appliers now and I read on the forum that the Omega shop is gone now. If you're used to using system layers on a system body, BOM works the same way on a BOM enabled mesh body. What kind and shape of body do you want? There are some good inexpensive or almost free options that I'm sure have better support than the ones you listed.

There is room for a small pool, but I don't think we're supposed to have nudity outside in our yards. It seems like it should be ok with parcel privacy on, but I haven't heard a clear answer about that. I'd like to be able to get an even tan while sunbathing on my upstairs deck or on a pool foatie. I think you can warn people that your home is protected, especially if the sign is on your property and facing inward toward the fence. 😁

Maybe so they can use Slink hands and feet? 🤣