Jump to content

Persephone Emerald

Resident
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,136

  • Joined

  • Days Won

    9

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Persephone Emerald

  1. Persephone Emerald
    Women over 40 can still have babies. My Mom had me when she was 42. (Most just prefer to have them when they're younger.) Men over 40 may have kids already too, so they might not be wanting more.
  2. Persephone Emerald
    It was a cartoon, cat on one end, dog on the other.
  3. Persephone Emerald
    I think they would look to see if we were actually picking on someone unfairly, but most of the time, we're not.
  4. Persephone Emerald
    Yes, there is! 😀
  5. Persephone Emerald
    Those ice cream cone pictures? Yeah, no. 😂
  6. Persephone Emerald
    Dog-years don't equate to human years in a straight correlation. The first year brings a wolf to what is socially equivalent to being a teenager among humans. For dogs (essentially domesticated wolves), the first year brings them to physical maturity, when they could get pregnant and have their first litter, which is also equivalent for a human teenager being able to get pregnant and have a child. Teenagers are physically mature, but not yet socially mature. After the first year in a dog's or wolf's life, then we could compare their expected lifespan to a human lifespan more directly, for instance 10 years for a dog vs. 80 years for a human. Avatar lifespan might be similar. Do we mature faster in the first year of our avatar's life? Do we go through a prime when we're more active, settle down in our middle years, and then become either wise or senile in our old age? If 1 year in SL is equivalent to 4 years in RL, then I'd be 52, which sounds about right. 😄
  7. Persephone Emerald
    If the majority of forum members were laughing at my posts, I'm sure I'd feel bad too. I might even ask for my thread to be deleted. Luckily, I don't think I've said anything yet to warrent such a response.
  8. Persephone Emerald
    I don't think we're allowed to discuss anything but "First World Problems" on this forum.
  9. Persephone Emerald
    Remember when the waterway between the Chalets and Newbrook didn't exist yet? The first few regions there didn't have water in them initially either.
  10. Persephone Emerald
    I disagree. Sometimes one just wants to change their name.
  11. Persephone Emerald
    So last names still so status, either for being a SL oldbie or having enough money to buy fake status. 😄
  12. Persephone Emerald
    Only oldbies know which are the really old last names or which ones came in at different times.
  13. Persephone Emerald
    Ah yes, gamifying of the forums is definitely what we need. Otherwise the forums will die. 😄
  14. Persephone Emerald
    I missed that.
  15. Persephone Emerald
    A laugh emoji isn't intended to be a scorn laugh. It only seems so from context. Linden Lab isn't responsible for how we choose to use the communication tools we have at hand. We have only 4 reaction emojis built into the system. If we didn't have the laugh one, how would we laugh at people's jokes? On the other hand, we can always post one of the many emojis from text or add a picture or gif to express derision if we wanted to do so.
  16. Persephone Emerald
    Waking up at 2 am & spending 2 hours here on the forums with all these amusing and clever people, with all the feels.
  17. Persephone Emerald
    This is true even without autism. People are complicated, and trying to figure out what they really meant or feel is even harder without visual and tone clues.
  18. Persephone Emerald
    Peeve: When one person is forever attacking others and another is forever feeling like the victim, you know this isn't going to go well. The children's birthday party imagery was great though. Kudos on that! 🪅 🦇 (I couldn't find the right kind of bat emoji.)
  19. Persephone Emerald
    That's probably where the expression, "getting a little long in the tooth" comes from.
  20. Persephone Emerald
    Examples don't have to be about touchy RL issues. Can you find an example that relates to SL?
  21. Persephone Emerald
    Sometimes how a person expresses their ideas can change people's minds. They may bring up good points. On the other hand, if they repeatedly overreact or say ridiculous things, then even if their original idea seemed to have some merit, we might stop supporting it in a discussion.
  22. Persephone Emerald
    Here's another example of why I might leave a laugh emoji. It's called a call-back by comedians. I'm sure Theresa understands that I'm not leaving a scorn laugh, but others who don't follow this forum closely might not understand why I think this is funny.
  23. Persephone Emerald
    ^ Thank you, for once again expressing what probably many of us were thinking so succinctly and eloquently. My past experience with people on this forum does color my opinion of them and thus how I initially want to react to their posts, but I try to respond to what they're actually saying and give them credit for a well expressed idea, sometimes even if I don't entirely agree with it Case in point: Damn it, Zali, I want to leave a laugh emoji because this is so funny, but I don't want you or others to think it's a scorn laugh. You hit the nail on the head, saying what I also think but with your usual sarcastic spice that I would never have the guts to use here. When someone expresses a thought that I think is stupid, of course I'm gonna want to leave a laugh or confusion emoji, but if I think doing so might hurt their feelings or look like I'm picking on them, I might just not respond instead. If multiple people react with laughter or derision to a post, it might just be because they all think it's a stupid idea.
  24. Persephone Emerald
    I have to disagree. Some of it is definitely in my boobs too.
  25. Persephone Emerald
    People will sometimes react in a childish or overly reactive way. Telling them that they're over-reacting or acting childishly seldom changes their behavior. I think the best we can hope for in a public forum is that other people see their behavior and take note of it. I've had someone go back and put confused emojis on a bunch of my posts that had nothing to do with the post they actually took exception to. That kind of behavior just shows that they're being over-reactive and childish. It doesn't actually render a verdict on anything I posted. Within certain limitations, none of us are obligated on this forum to contribute to a polite, fair and thoughtful discussion. If someone wanted to post nothing but 💩 emojis, they could probably do that, but then they'd look like a toddler, rather than an adult.
×
×
  • Create New...