Robin Kiyori
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18 minutes ago, Eddy Vortex said:
I just remembered another one: when group chats were stable and everyone's texts went through smoothly.
When was this glorious time?
No really. I want to know for when time machines happen
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People typing in local chat. Mostplaces are dead silent now.
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In a perfect, non captialist hellscape, nobody would be forced into having to work on holidays. There would be benfical, truly volentary (and not that crap "its totes optimal but well find a way to fire you or ensure you will have that onebad check away from homelessness volenteering) spots for those that don't want to celebrate so the wheels can keep turning.
But we don't currently live in that world so we have this awful catch 22 situation of needing support. But customer service is often the most overworked and needing of holidays.
My empathy is with both the workers and the customers in this situation. People need to have support when things go wrong because currently lesuire time and avtivties are in short supply and very needed. But the staff also need breaks and holidays.
Paid holiday overtime without strings attached if you don't take it might be the best approach.
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1 minute ago, Gatogateau said:
Effing hell, this. It is 2 am where I am. I'm not tired, but I'm also not functioning as awake. The stupid loop. I'll wake up too late, and feel off all morning and afternoon. Repeat. Stupid bodies.
Peeve: I had a bad, pretty darn bad, thing happen on Nov. 18th and it feels like FOREVER that I've been dealing with it, but I look at the calendar and it isn't even two WEEKS yet. ffs. Did I mention insomnia?
Its 7am and I still feel wide awake. Offers the kitty some sympathy cupcakes. And I have an apoinment in the real space at 2pm.
And urgh double yes! Time is both lightening and turtlefast thanks to the world's everything. I hope things get less sucky for you.
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Peeve: Insomnia at night leading to oversleeping and thus getting stuck in a loop.
My inability to find a low prim house that isn't literally just one room masqarding as a house.
Houses that are completely unlinked meaning you can't resize it all at once without sone sigficant amount of clicking. Or thinking you got everything only to miss half a dozen tiny details.
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[Confused Non binary noises]
But why would derrndering all male assumed avatars make things faster?
Why just men.
How do you even know?? Espically with men that use maityrea +flat chestof choice.
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2 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
True - I always keep some sort of candy on hand when I'm with my mom.
While I was 'somewhat' making like of the 'chocolate being essential' topic, besides the diabetic aspect, there have been studies that show that chocolate really can help with mental health. And most days, I'll take all the help I can get.
Completely understandable, explains why at my most depressive I can consume almost all cholcate like some terrifying edlrich god feeding on souls.
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On 11/18/2020 at 3:52 PM, LittleMe Jewell said:
To be fair, chocolate really IS essential - at least to my mental health.
It's essential for my Dad, he is a diabetic and a choclate bar can sometimes be the difference between life or diabetic coma.
Peeve:
My body, excuse you body but it's rude to scareme with a cough and ear aches during covid time. Please cease and desist.
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I have had brushes with death, from being a sickly baby to motorists who don't understand how zebra crossings and traffic lights work. To struggling with sucidal thoughts?
I have also lost dear friends in sl and family in rl. The very first death in my inner family even occured just a few days after i had joined sl on my first long deleted account.
I don't really have much to really make a will with. Being a disabled millennial who graduated from a tech just as the big golbal housing market crash means I have no real savings.
But I am going to furtherwork on documents on alerting those i love online and canceling the few subscription sevices i have.My biggest worry is that when I die, Will my family respect my wishes and bury me under my real name and gender. Or continue to misgender me dven to the grave.
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I think it might help to better understand why some people get passionate about appropriation by using analogies.
First off, There's "this thing is apart of a relgious/spiritual practice or other significant marker that has to be earned, and not a costume." as a type of appropriation.
For this type, You (General you.) would squint if someone claimed to be a priest, a doctor or active army officer without the proper qualification being earned correct? It's much the same with those tattoos. It's something that has to be earned first. Likewise with the feathered headdresses/war bonnets of many Native American tribes and so on and so forth. It's not that they can't be appreciated. It's that they have a set way of being earned and to not earn is to spit in the face of the culture and people who did earn it.
Pretty reasonable right? in Sl there's the murkiness of Roleplay but that's a different kettle of fish.
The second type's when something isn't a part of a closed/scared thing. But there's stigma attached for those from the culture. For these types it's not that nobody but X can wear/use it. It's that there's a genuine and understandable anger and frustration that when they practise or wear them. They're mocked, barred from opportunities/employment because it's deemed "unprofessional" or face harassment, even violence for it. But when someone outside of that culture wears/does it. Suddenly everything is hunky-dory and they're praised for their trendsetting style or quietness.
It's like when you get bullied for a hobby or fashion style until it suddenly becomes popular and the same people that mocked you are now "isn't this the coolest"? but up to eleven in the obnoxiousness. We can agree that sucks right?
The crux of it isn't that people want all things to remain in boxes and cultures can never mix ever.
It's that people should learn to respect boundaries and not give people ***** for their appearance and then turn around and copy it (But often worse.)
That said, I do have ...some issues with how some folks. (usually outside of those cultures) Use cultural apportion not for it's attended use as a "Can you please just x" and instead warp it into a bludgeoning weapon to silence nuanced discussion and wind up causing more harm then good.
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My dog max doing what he does best, sleeping.
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1 hour ago, Rat Luv said:
If the texture makes you sick, have you tried parma ham or prosciutto? The slices are thin and not injected with that white water that bubbles out when you cook bacon. They're a bit nicer than bacon IMO.
I haven't but I might have to try.
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7 hours ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:
More choice = more good, sometimes.
There are many reasons related to human psychology to reduce choice. Look up "analysis paralysis" and "beauty in simplicity (in design)" for example. LL has used these to reduce the complexity of the signup process in many ways for new accounts.
But I think the main reason for the overall tone of responses in this particular thread (not seen as much in other threads with similar subjects) is the opening line.
"I chose non-binary and was given a light-skinned/white avatar."
Like, excuse me? Light-skinned/white people can't be non-binary? Or is it the skin color in general that's the issue? They did follow that up with "okay, it's fine" but then made the whole thread about how it's neither okay nor fine.
That totally comes off as playing the victim and/or what some people call SJW issues.
No..? That's not what I got from op at all and I am a light skinned/white non binary. They just described what they did so any curious could either:
A: replicaite it. Sometimes thins turn out diffently if there's a randomised element so repettiin can help.
B: correct op politely.
Also choice paralysis is hardly going to kick in the moment other options for skintones are added? Like... that's a reach. Much like your whole post really. I am not seeing what you seem to see. Because I don't see the issue in letting people choose a starting avatar or having a selection of skin options.
It won't make it too complex. Trust me, many mmos and other virtual places have managed just fine with selections.
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Pet peeve:
The fact that I can't eat bacon because of werid texture/maybe allergy issues that make me start to choke on the tasty but bad for robins food. ;;
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2 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I'm a little confused as to why so many people seem to be taking exception to what is really, surely, a pretty innocuous idea.
I don't really think this is a "social justice" issue or anything like that -- but surely it is in LL's best interest to make new users feel as comfortable and welcome as possible? And making at least a small selection of avatars representing different ethnicities available at the beginning of the process is a pretty logical place to start, isn't it? I know, as a woman, I feel more "welcome" when I'm given options that are inclusive and speak to me as a woman. It's not that I'm "offended" if such options aren't immediately available -- it's just, as I say, more welcoming. People like to know that they, and their identity, have been considered and accounted for, rather than it being simply assumed that "white male" is the norm from which everything else is a special deviation.
I haven't created a new account in years, so I have no idea what it looks like now -- maybe it is different for first time users? In any case, even if the OP is under a mistaken impression, I'm not sure why all of the angst is necessary.
I have to agree with you Scylla. The amount of hostility from some of the folks posting here is pretty bizzare and unessarcy. It's much more logical for there to be a selection and tutorial on how to change further then what op described right?
Some of the reactions of afew posters are just..
You (general you not directed to Scylla) all do know that not everything related to folks wanting more choice for the start, even for alts isn't "playing the victim" or "sjws runing everything!!!!" Right?
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I am greatful for my friends, they are excellent people.
For my dog max, the living serotonin dispenser. He is such a sweet, affectionate pooch and nothing cheers me uplike he does by simply placing his head on my knee or laying next to me.
For my bed which is warm and cosy.
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20 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
The city council in Boulder Colorado, had to put in special restrictions for ages 18-24, because they kept having huge gatherings without anyone wearing masks. Based on various news articles, many other college areas across the US are having similar problems.
It is NOT just the "old biddies" refusing to wear masks and causing problems for everyone else.
Jewell, You sorta missed my point I'm well aware of how it's not just older people.
My furstration was the lack of awareness in those older people who bemoan the younger generations, While outright making the situation worse for everyone by ignoring rules. About a pandemic that could kill not just my father, but other family members.
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Oh boy do I?
I'm frustrated and annoyed at how I and others like me are Shielding, doing what we can, even as isolation slowly makes my mental health go further down the toilet.
Only for old biddies to refuse to wear a mask, and then whine about "kids these days are making this whole thing worse."
BISH YOU'RE LITERALLY UNMASKED IN A PLACE THAT IT IS MANDATORY TO WEAR ONE, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A MIDDLE DONKEY LET ALONE A HIGH HORSE. I hate that my dad, a Diabetic and there for high risk has to keep working at his security job at a hospital because of a *****ing clerical error. I hate how the people at the top care more about profit then the people sick and dying.
I hate that I gotta deal with this loneliness because some morons can't even be bothered to do the bare minimum.
But yeah, sure Jan, It's the kids that are the problem.
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My pet peeve today is myself.
I wish I could launch myself into the sun so i can dtop being a burden on everyone
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Love is an interesting subject and I find the greek forms of love especially fascinating as someone who is asexual and doesn't need sexual intmancy in order to be head over heels with someone due to still experiencing Romantic attraction. My love language tends to be on the affrimation side and the physical. I am a big cuddler, I vocalise my love and my partners tend to be the few people that never exausght me in that soical energy manner.
I think it makes sense that love is displayed differently not just by inviduals but who they dhow it to.
Also I found that love is stored in the kitty and puppy.
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While one friend from rl has a sl account I don't know her sl name.
Aside from that I try to keep the two separate due to here being where I can present and be non binary in peace.
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On 8/26/2020 at 11:04 AM, Theresa Tennyson said:
Tell us about a body that works how you described and has widespread support.
Avatar 2.0, Regulia, Kemono of the top of my head. Exteremly popular with the furry community.
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2 hours ago, Luna Bliss said:
I've mentioned before practicing Reiki in SL (a healing technique where discussion of problems often occurs). It's not uncommon for people to make fun of Reiki. If I was encountering people on the forum making fun of my Reiki practice I can easily imagine defending it by saying something like "people coming to me for help feel human again after our sessions" as a way to try and prove that what I'm doing is actually a good thing, even if my client never said those actual words to me. Using that expression would not mean I thought they were subhuman -- instead I would mean that I believed they felt whole again after recovering something that had been missing in their lives (a sense of well-being...the peace that comes from expressing repressed pain or resolving a problem). The expression 'feeling human again' is the recovery of an experience that was missing in one's life--for example, people use the expression after finally taking a long-awaited shower -- "phew, I feel human again".
The media really does a number on people's perception of themselves via the way in which they portray sexuality -- according to them it appears sexuality is only for "the perfect people". Disabled people are rarely portrayed as sexual. It's not easy to overcome the internalization of strong beliefs in society, not for the disabled person themselves or those viewing the disabled person. It is simply a fact that many disabled people have a very difficult time overcoming this socialization so that they feel as whole as any other sexual person who is not disabled, so why would Pearl be to blame for assuming one of her clients does indeed hold these feelings about their perceived inadequacy?
If I thought Pearl was trashing disabled people or considering them to actually be less than human I'd be all over her believe me!
See, this is exactly my point. As well as a common thread with you Luna. I get you too are disabled. But just as I don't speak for all of us in the disabilty community. Neithet do you. Pearl eventually got the message and stopped.
But you kept going even when she confessed. Still going even now.
Please realise that you need to listen and empathise with those who are hurt by that language. I know you're capable of it.People have explained why "I make [marginalised group] feel human again" is hurtful even if it isn't intended that way, multpile times.
Accept that as Pearl has.
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22 hours ago, Luna Bliss said:
What I have noticed, going way back, is when people are ganging up on Pearl and finding fault with her in numerous ways, some have employed the word 'whore' in these exchanges whereas in others exchanges 'sex worker' or 'prostitute' is more likely used.
This makes me wonder....how do people really feel about this occupation? Do they genuinely feel it's acceptable and only use the more derogatory form of the word to accomplish their goal of trashing another (knowing it's viewed negatively by society), or do they really feel this is a bad occupation?
I have no issue with Sex work, I think that people who view it as lesser or hurl slurs and abuse at sex workers are disgusting and advocate in the first life for decriminalization of sex work and those who choose it as a viable option for employment. (Note, "what about trafficking-" people, That I said CHOOSE. Victims cannot choose or consent.)
I have no issue with Pearl as a person, I have even defended her at one point.
What I do take offense to. Is the attitude towards Disabled people and the non apologies. Even after admitting she has no disabled clients. It hurt to be devalued, it hurt worse to see that instead of mine and many other disabled speaking out. people where more focused on defending Pearl's feelings then the people she caused harm to with her words and actions. Saying that we where ganging up on her or no different from anti-sex work people. (It's an extra salt in the wound because many rl sex workers are disabled.)
When one person outright left the forms because of it (and other reasons) I think those with disabilities are allowed to feel bitter. Espically when the biggest voices in defending her actions and downplaying are hurt are so called Defenders of the oppressed.
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My Beli home is now my current main home after flipflopping around mainland. I like that I don't have to worry about the actual house part in my decorating.
I don't have allot of spare cash, so it's just this for now and a very cheap rp aparment in a sim I go to.
As for what I use it for. Mainly destressing, decoration experiments and casual alone time. Or chill with my partners.
Nowif onlytherewas a fairy/fantasy theme. 👀