MoiselleErin Teardrop

I suppose this picture won't help much either.

Don't take anything from someone you do not know. I mean unless you know the person and know what they are giving you, it is best to just reject the INV offer. What I don't get though is if someone has copybotted crap, don't they normally just lose it at some point? I had that happen to me once, I was never banned or suspended over it.I think what someone gave me was a hair or outfit that had been copybotted though so that might be different.

Some I hate RL or SL - I have always hated the word "rezz". It just sounds stupid, like "urban" talk. I need a synonym for this one A forgotten expression but people used to say "Life's a b^tch" and inevidably, some smart alec would feel the need to add - "then you marry one then you die". Thank god that one is dead with the 90's. I hate "really, seriously". And also, "I know right", "why so serious". "The best (whatever) ever. - Like in all eternity, never has one exceeded it. "ain't no thang" - Another horrid 90's expression. Some words I hate: Complicated - I blame Fb for inventing that word Cognitive - the school systems favorite word to describe bad kids. Tempting/hard to resist - said sometimes in food commercials, I hate food commercials, they are gross. Viral - describing the latest stupid videos on youtube. Delight - sounds like some housewife sitting around eating junk food. Blog - to me it sounds like a way to describe chunky vomit. Just look at - I was at the gas station the other day and some thuggish kid was probably stealing and he was telling the clerk, "No I don't steal... Just look, I am wearing a cross" Well sodomize me with a 2 liter, someone who wears a cross is certainly righteous Keep in mind that every stupid overused cliche ever invented is FB's fault. Yes I know FB wasn't around a decade or more ago but it is STILL their fault.

HEY we have that same popcorn machine in our break room at work. And anyways - a lot of the women in SL are men claiming to be lesbians anyways

Our brave huntress kitty protecting a beast about 5 times her size.

Funny what Amethyst said. SL itself is one big photoshop (textures) I think the problem with seeing a nice outfit sometimes is it might be hard to tell how many prims make it up and the outfit might look good in the pose even but then you get to moving around and it looks like crap. Prims aside, how hard could it really be to make an outfit look as good as the pic, I mean SL outfits are photoshopped and often alpha-layered anyways when creating clothing textures. The store thought had a revolving block with 4 different outfits shown one on each side. I mean if the creator wasn't gonna sell the outfit i saw, retexturing sides of a block is not at all hard, any new builder can do that, let alone a pro. On the other hand - at least now I can go to the MP and have a good idea of what to buy It was this top with distressed capri jeans

Crap, so I am at a clothing store and I see this revolving display and one of the outfits - I must have. Of course, that outfit is no where to be found in the store. It is not even a big store. I notice this in RL also - they sometimes have a display or photo of a super cute outfit but they don't actually HAVE the damned thing. I know in RL they run out but this is not an issue in SL. The store in question - the owner never answers IM's or notecards so no avail there. Do companies just do this to send you on a hunt and hope you will buy other crap in the process?

The avatars are working hard to find ways to override this.

I logged in for a bit a few minutes ago to tell a friend about my amazing revelation and i learned something else - Bear with me here... OK, have you ever logged in to your home and conveniently, the place is not availabe? That happend to me today. The place i got dumped off was some dance. So that answers the question "What do avatars do when we are logged off". They are out partying! See usually during the log-in screen, your avatar is sent a warning to get back home and act all innocent. Sometimes they do not get the warning and you catch them at a party. So conveniently, the region unavailability is YOUR avatar pretending "home" is not available. yes, i do believe this is the truth behind what goes on when we log out.

I finally figured it out. Here are two scenarios first about the avatar - It has to do with the avatar's midsection mostly. If it has sculpt abs - that means they are thin, rippled and hard. If it has mesh abs, that means it was out of shape and got injured to the point of herniation and they had to go in and use mesh to fix the area. Inuuries are commonplace when an avatar does a faulty animation. One unknown building tool out there is called rupture. That is what happens to require mesh. However, it happens so fast that you would need 30 FPS or higher to see it and it is easy to miss. Avatar physics do not work with sculpt abs. They are too firm. They do work with mesh though since mesh abs are so fragile. Another difference is - a sculpt prim is an antique piece of crap built by hand that your grandmother insists on keeping cause "it might be worth money". But if you disagree or throw this sculpt away, you will not mesh well with her after that. Well, that is my SL techincal know-how on that subject. Please ask me if you need an explanation about any of the other wonders of SL.

I know what your problem probably is - when you create animations, EVERY joint needs to be set off just a bit. The best thing to do is - Open your animation program (I used Qavimator), offset every joint just a tiny bit on one of the dimentions, save that file as something like "Moved joints" or whatever, then when you create real aminations, open it and edit that to the actual animations. See, if you do not do this, whatever joints were not altered will have a priority of zero and upon using the animation, those joints will default to the LL movements. This is why if you create something like say a handstand and the avatar's legs get wadded up at the hips Or maybe it's head goes upside down. Also, with the subtil adjustments of the "moved joints" file, it is not gonna be noticeable during the real animation. Even if it is, well at least you now know how to fix the inverted head or weirdly positioned legs etc. ALSO with animations in general - once you learn about the "priority" thing I outlined above - do not forget during animation creation, try to set the limbs movelements as similar to human ones as possible. Like maybe have the arms or legs in a position of balance so the animation looks realistic and not stiff. Unless you WANT stiff. Well like I once had a cartwheel one, she would lean to the side a bit to start and during which, move the arms and legs spreading to rool sideway instead of just throwing them out and doing a 360. Recovery was similar

If your account sits idle for months or years, would you even remember what you had? Or would you really care? I heard the reason they don't delete accounts is cause the number of accounts looks good for potential investors. I think the number of accounts VS the time people spend in SL averages to 12 minutes a month per account. I think it takes us addicts longer than 12 minutes just to get situated each day we come in. Rezz, dress, read notices, blah blah blah..

This is peculiar cause I ran into a similar thread on another forum where someone with great advantages in what we do likes to step in and remind the rest of us that we are basically losers. Ok so suppose some or even a lot of folks in SL are "ugly" or have no life or socially awkward. SL might be the only means they have of "getting laid" or lving SOME kind of life they cannot have in the real world. Does this mean they should be deprived of what little exposure to their dreams that SL might offer? In RL - I am NOT handicap, I have the ability to live a normal life. I have friends, family, and once in a while an actual date with someone. Does this give me the right to go up to someone who is bed-ridden and say, "You are using a VR to try to experience things cause you are a loser". There was a time when i felt "people in SL are losers" but i came to realize that what if i got in a car wreck and SL was my ONLY option to do anything remotely close to living a life? Some people probably ARE in that situation. If someone is out of shape or ugly, yes they could fix it but that does not mean they will be able to heal the emotional scars from abuse they suffered that will ruin their self esteem for life.

I think with tiers, you can pay them in advance.Even if but a couple days. I mean you don't have to wait until the last minute. I am not being smart ass here, I am just saying cause some folks might be under the impression that you have to wait until the end of the lease to pay again. Well say like you pay a week at a time. You have 4 days left, you pay a week's rent, it will then stretch it out to 11 days.

thank you Nyll for that info! Wow, there was all kinds of crap hidden in there from old programs I tried to rid but had issues

Yeah true about equipment costs with hobbies. On the plus side with SL, at least the old viewers still work. I have a friend who thinks I should buy a new computer but I am not about to drop $1,000 that I clearly do not have in order to play an online game "better". I mean what if the majority of the problems are still there? I would not be able to eat for a few months but at least I would be able to see crap in a game that is 5,000 meters away and get 45 FPS. Yeah, bye bye food. NOT

They know everything? Here are two stories about that - When I got my car insurance, the company knew the cars at my house just by the address. Anyways I bought a policy. YET a few weeks later they wanted proof that I had lived here over a year. I pointed that out - I said how come they knew what kind of cars we had yet didn't know how long I lived here. Car wreck - my room mate had got in a car wreck. Police took report and she had to file an insurance claim. Anyways we get a letter from the motor vehicle department saying they needed proof she had insurance when she got in the wreck. Of course she did. Shouldn't the G.D. motor vehicle dept already know this? So one of a few things - Either they do know a lot but only use that info when it benefits them but then play stupid when it would benefit YOU. Or, maybe they don't know as much as they act like but tell everyone they do, kind of like telling a kid that santa is watching. I honestly thing the only time they know things is when it helps them. I mean otherwise why would they want proof of crap?

If nothing else, just when you are there and about to say or do something you would not want anyone else knowing about, get rid of anything that is not yours.

hmm, well, from what I could gather of that - he doesn't like paying for land in SL? Is that what that garble was about? OK lets assume it was... Paying for SL land or whatever is NO worse than people paying astronomical prices for cable TV which has programming that sucks. Yet people have no problems paying for TV where they have shows about pawn shops, storage sheds, politicians complaining, reruns from the 90's, and cartoons that have NOTHING but cheezy sexual references that would entertain only a 10 year old who still thinks anatomical words are hilarious

So people who check his profile and even bother to look at the RL tab will see your photo. They have NO clue who you are. All they see is a photo of a random woman with the word "**bleep**" below it. Your mutual acquaintances are not going to stop talking to you just cause he acts like a little kid about things. I don't know if you two were part of some clique or what not. It is not likely that LL will do anything (they never do unless it is a violation that hurts them or makes them look bad). However, you have nothing to worry about. Not like there is gonna be a youtube video going viral where someone says, "Now this lady in SL, she is a **bleep**..." People like to air their dirty laundry all the time on the web just to act like children. They think "Oh I want the whole word to know" but the whole world doesn't give a crap, especially about some insecure man who got dumped by his pixelated girlfriend. he is making himself look bad if anything

Not everyone can afford to run out and upgrade or buy a new computer each time LL decides to bog SL down with more BS that it doesn't really need. That is why SL will never be very popular except for a very few who get hooked on it. Imagine some newbie coming in, things are gray for a bit, movements are jerky, and things just freeze or the camera is jerky. YEAH they are going to want to stick around to enjoy this aggrivation. The more they "upgrade" the viewers, the more people SL shuts out. Sure people can use old viewers (like I do) but the average Joe who has little clue what SL is isn't gonna know about V1 or V2 and probably won't care. Prospective players see videos of SL and the motions are fluid, FPS of 30 or higher, and it looks fascinating. So they get in and their computer cannot quite handle it so their view of SL looks like something that came out of a horse's ass. That will make the first AND last time they log in. Meanwhile LL is wondering why most new users don't stick around. "how can we get people to stay?" Well, quit "upgrading" to even more cumbersome viewers might be a start. OH and time to strike a nerve like I am good at doing - they say a lot of people in SL cannot work cause they are crippled or whatever. Yet they can afford to buy computers that run SL at high graphics and get 30 FPS or better. How DO they afford this?

if someone told me that someone on the forum said something bad about me, my question would have been - "What else is new?"

The reason companies are so interested in data is cause they are wanting more of people's money, so the big CEO's of the world can get risher. Yet at the same time, the economies of the world are crumbling to bits. So, people might want or need things but if their respective jobs are not paying, where will the money come from for good folks to buy stuff? Also with this "new job growth", they tend to say that about several fields to get naive kids to go to college for it (making the college more rich). What ends up happening then is the market gets flooded with graduates with this new degree and then the jobs can pay a pittance cause they have huge selections. They used to talk about the growth of I.T. jobs but then that got flooded. When I got my I.T. degree a few years ago and started looking for jobs I ran into two problems - one, their qualification list was as long as one's arm. The real problem though was - I would call to follow up about my resume and they would say, "We have had 300 resumes for the one position we are trying to fill and have not been able to go thru them all". So things always seem to come full circle. 90% of young women are studying nursing cause that is in high demand supposedly. Those young women will soon find out they are competing at a ration of 300 applicants to each job (or something similar) so now they want to re-hash the whole "computers are the way to go". In almost 40 years on this planet, I have seen the same crap over and over. Also with data collection and they supposedly know everything all the way down to the shape of your face (cause those cameras out there) yet you go to take care of something with the government and they want proof of everything. Can't they just scan your ID and have this huge database handy with up to the minute info? On one side they know everything about you but on the other side they need proof of everything (cause they don't "know") so which story is a lie?

Thing is - if I buy an outfit, I feel obligated to wear it at least a few times. First time is fun, it is like, "new outfit" Second time is like, "Well OK still new" but after that, it is just another outfit in the closet. Well like I have this black shirt with diagonal ruffles on the front, I paired it with these kinda short black dress shorts, tan pantyhose, and these 3 inch heel wedge sandals. I look in the mirror and was like, "Erin, you are a hot looking b*tch!" I think the best time for fashion are the days when it is warm but not overly hot. I mean days when you could wear jeans or shorts, long or short sleeve and feel comfy. What I need now is a few cardigans to kind of "Autumnize" my summer apparel. My legs are my best feature and I love showing them off. Cardigans seem to be in fashion lately. Problem is, high waist jeans and shorts are comiong back also. You know, "Mom" jeans and shorts. They call them that cause they were popular in the early 90's and the teens of that era are now moms. I still have some outfits in my closet that i carefully selected and have not worn them once yet. Sad thing is - they are from last summer's shopping. Not that i don't like them, just never got around to wearing them.

Christ of Christs. yes SL can be addictive. When I was first on, I would spend every waking moment on here that I wasn't working. I mean at first you get so caught up in everything - the shopping, chatting, customizing your avatar, doing teh sects, maybe fixing up your home, I mean your avatar could become like an imaginary friend. My little Erin, who happens to be sitting on my desk and drinking my pepsi, agrees. So yeah trust me, a lot of us know what SL addiction is. Eventually the novelty wears off tho. I think what causes one to re-think how much time they spend in SL is when they start noticing it causing RL problems. Say like you lose your job on count of bad attendance, or maybe miss important meetings, or you are sitting there playing at night and "just a few more minutes" lasts until the sun rises.