[Would you get a Neuralink implant so you could play SL hands-free?]

You couldn't pay me enough to let any corporation implant anything in me.

Wearables, though? That's more interesting.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

4 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Honestly, if they just made some real effort to police and enforce their own ToS properly, much of this would be solved. A half day spent on in-world search of groups and parcels/regions would pretty quickly suggest some targets for action.

 

4 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

if they just made some real effort

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

5 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Yeah. And that's exactly why the focus should NOT be upon establishing "rules" for how people represent.

You know, I'm sure, that I agree with you about those who represent as "childish" women at clubs and such: whether or not they are engaging in actual a*e play or not, they are appealing to a cultural tendency to infantilize women, and find such infantilization "sexy" and appealing.

But flagging people on the basis of what they wear, how large their breasts are, etc., is a terribly blunt instrument, and it will, in practice, inevitably end up hurting women more than it hurts men.

My avatar is short by SL standards, at 180cm (my RL height). And I have small breasts -- again, by SL standards.

Do I need someone telling me that I need to be taller and have larger boobs?

 

2 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Just don't forget, "you'd be prettier if you smiled", while you're at it..

You post too fast and ruin all the fun. I was actually going to say that!

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

3 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

I think we're definitely moving in that direction, based upon what I'm seeing here, and on social media. Oberwager's post is (unintentionally) going to exacerbate that, as people cast about for an "easy" solution to a perplexing problem. One such easy solution is banning child avatars. 

That will change nothing.

Yes. This.

I'm not going to mention them 'cause it'll just be deleted, but that 100% mirrors real world hot topic issues- people faced with a complex problem immediately go to easy solutions that they personally like, despite the solution coming with unintended consequences if they even have any effect at all.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

7 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I would vote for Scylla. Queen of Second Life.

 

4 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Too much work.

Unless it involves nothing more than reclining on a couch being hand-fed peeled grapes, of course.

I imagine we'd have to start acknowledging International Women's Day or something. That does sound exhausting.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

3 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It's almost as though the urge to police women's bodies has this sort of irresistible appeal . . .

What's the alternative, let you make your own decisions?

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Well, this kind of discussion has been happening for a while, and the current clime has certainly amplified it.

I sincerely hope that the tenor of those discussions does not mirror the ones LL must now be having.

The analogy, I'll admit, is not an exact one one, but it's a little as though someone had decided that the best way to deal with the prevalence of Dolcett, snuff p*rn, and r*pe play was to start banning or policing female avatars.

Whatever do you mean? I've checked my notes and according to them, some old dude in a suit making decisions about female bodies has always worked perfectly fine and with no issues whatsoever.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

4 minutes ago, Conifer Dada said:

But 1 metre on the avatar height adjustment sliders does not correspond with a I metre prim. Not on the LL standard viewer, anyway. 

Yeah, but you can still rez out a cube next to yourself and get a general idea, because a 1 meter cube will be 1 meter.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

33 minutes ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

People in SL can be taller than in SL, because: status, power, strength. This drove most avatars in SL to evolve as taller beings than they are IRL. As a consequence, houses are bigger in SL, furniture is bugger, Land Impacts are higher. All because some people want to be bigger than others. All in all, I would say, 1 meter IRL corresponds to 1.25 m in SL.

Everything being bigger makes everything bigger, it doesn't make a meter not a meter anymore.

Several years ago I worked with the facilities department in the Reebok world headquarters. Most of the visitors there were pro Basketball players. Your standard 80 inch tall door was not going to work for those guys in most places. We didn't suddenly say that Reebok inches were different than the rest of the world's inches- we just added more inches.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

1 minute ago, Wincil said:

Well it's not exactly 1:1 

Yes it is.

A meter is a fixed distance that we know exists. It's not a made up SL only word. It's not like "Linden Dollars" to "US dollars", or they'd be called "SL units" or "SL meters", not simply "meters".

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

1 minute ago, Wincil said:

Well the issue is that avatar height does not scale up to real life.

How do you figure?

1 meter is 1 meter.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

Just now, Sid Nagy said:

There is an investigation going on.
There are no conclusions yet, so we can add nothing to the discussion.

Neither can he, apparently.

[Official Statement from Oberwolf Linden]

Official Statement from Brad Oberwager's best PR people.

A whole lot of words to say almost nothing.

[Consistent teleport failures- only in one location]

Nope, wasn't that. However, interestingly, totally purging every trace of every viewer from my system and reinstalling seems to have alleviated the issue...

[Consistent teleport failures- only in one location]

3 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Why would a DNS issue affect only 1 account? Just wondering!

I assume @Paul Hexem meant he logs into multiple accounts from the same PC with the same network settings, and only one account has issues.

Actually I haven't seriously tried any of my other accounts, so there's a chance it could be that.

[Governance and Democracy in Second Life]

22 hours ago, animats said:

People have to show up to make it work. That's a big reason it hasn't caught on in SL.

 

21 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

wish I knew what their secret sauce was.

If you ever figure it out let me know. Gotta figure out how to get my Arma 3 group off life support.

[Consistent teleport failures- only in one location]

So, I've been back and forth with LL a lot and they're stumped on this one, as am I.

Anyone have any guesses what would cause disconnects after teleporting into a location? Only one account struggles with the location, other people do not. Other locations are fine.

And it's not a typical teleport failure, either. The teleport looks like it's completed and I can chat with people via IM (but not local) but can't move around or interact with anything, until eventually disconnected.

[2024 Faster fps without spending money (: "NOT FOR LAPTOPS"]

[What If Alts....]

14 hours ago, Luna Bliss said:

Yeah best to just name people you perceive as very dissimilar, and not insinuating one or the others is good or bad.

Now nobody's gonna believe I'm your alt.

[38 attachment points are not enough]

16 minutes ago, AyelaNewLife said:

This gives big "don't buy from corporations" energy.

Now that you say it, that's not bad advice. At least in SL.

[38 attachment points are not enough]

3 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:

There are very few "no mod" creators out there and like the OP mentioned, so many creators making each item of an outfit with its own attachment point.

Should be letting those merchants know they're screwing up your ability to attach their stuff, I think.

[How 'binding' are user-made ToS/licenses]

As previously noted, minimum/maximum price requirements can be ignored.

The rest is probably on the level.

[38 attachment points are not enough]

I've always been of the mind that if you're using up that many attachment points, you're the reason for lag.

Or at the very least, you're doing something very, very wrong- even if it's as simple as supporting too many "no mod" merchants.

[What's the buzz, tell me what's a-happening?]

The buzz is if you post the buzz your post will be removed.

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

4 hours ago, PheebyKatz said:

If it's b0rked, and you can get me there, I can fix it. As long as it's not some onboard computer module or something, they make those impossible to fix without sending them off somewhere.

If you just want it all supercharged and murdered out, that might take a bit. I'll need lots of bologna sandwiches and kool-aid.

Also, scripts. If you want custom scripting for a bike, HMU inworld sometime, and we can talk.

It's the new(ish) Rebel DCT. Changing the bars on that means disconnecting all those DCT computer controls and running new wires and cables, plus bleeding the entire brake system. It's a job that I'm not sure I have the tools, time, or space for.

As for scripts... I'm somewhat confident I could do my own. Tracking down sounds and animations though...