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    A Derail Thread

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    5 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    And here I thought I was the only one to ever call you Silly Dilly. :$

    I'm not sure, there have been a few people who used Dilly. One who I hadn't seen in years dropped by a club I was visiting the other night and yelled "Dilly Doll!", which I had not heard in a long time (her now-absent friend used to call me that). You might be the only one who used the rhyme, though :-).

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    A Derail Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque

    1 hour ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    wolf-toungue.jpg

    Oh.

    I was just about to declare my complete ignorance in front of everybody and ask you flat out :-). Thanks for the picture; I'd never have gotten it just from the textual clues. 

    ETA: I probably should have looked a little closer at your avatar, speaking of pictures. That mighta helped.

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    A Derail Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque

    3 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

    Yes I know.... necro! 

     

    But I just could not let it go. Had you searched for Waiting for THE Man you would have found it.

    This one was posted up in 2014. There are others but I didn't look at them. Just grabbed the first one I saw.

     

     

    Oops. Did I just derail the derailed derail thread for derailed derail threads?O.o

    I love that you took the time to look for the song (although I can't imagine why you waded through my wall of text) but I wasn't looking for the Underground's version; that, as you saw, is readily available. What I wanted on youtube is the live version by Prague's favorites, The Plastic People of the Universe. That's the one I wanted to play here.

    ETA: Never noticed that about "The" v "My"; I always called it by the lyric and must not have paid much attention to what it said on the album cover.

    Thanks so much for the ever-so-appropriate derail :-).

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    ̶W̶H̶O̶ ̶W̶I̶L̶L̶ ̶A̶W̶A̶R̶D̶ ̶M̶E̶ ̶M̶Y̶ ̶2̶̶̶0̶̶̶0̶̶̶t̶̶̶h̶̶̶ ̶3̶0̶0̶T̶H̶ ̶R̶E̶P̶U̶T̶A̶T̶I̶O̶N̶ ̶P̶O̶I̶N̶T̶?̶?̶ I WANT TO THANK ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE . . .

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    resolving ambiguity

    37 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:

    It's heartening that Maddy has finally forsworn false modesty, so there may be hope for us all.

    As she's pointed out many times, it's not exactly false modesty. It's a conversational tactic and one that can be seen (and used) as either a defensive maneuver or an assault preparation. In Maddy's case it can also just be a way to keep an interesting conversation going, and in that respect it is something a lot of knowledgeable people learn to do. As for conceit: I wouldn't call it that although I can see Phil's point. It's just that she really does know how smart she is and she's not usually bashful about it. Most people tolerate it because she's so cute.

    Even if she doesn't really forswear the tactic I do think there's still hope for us all, especially if we can count on an occasional intervention from Snugs.

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    ̶W̶H̶O̶ ̶W̶I̶L̶L̶ ̶A̶W̶A̶R̶D̶ ̶M̶E̶ ̶M̶Y̶ ̶2̶̶̶0̶̶̶0̶̶̶t̶̶̶h̶̶̶ ̶3̶0̶0̶T̶H̶ ̶R̶E̶P̶U̶T̶A̶T̶I̶O̶N̶ ̶P̶O̶I̶N̶T̶?̶?̶ I WANT TO THANK ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE . . .

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    1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    Ok. Explanation please!

    (I need all of the intel I can get on Maddy.)

    It was a long time ago; I thought you were still here. Maybe it happened shortly after you'd been pulled away. It's not a long story, but the fun Maddy and the rest of us had stringing it out afterwards could fill volumes. For instance: this guy right here? He was a Dave. Maddy was terribly proud.

     

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    What are you doing today!? :D

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    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque

    3 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Dream?

    With all your hand waving and yelling, it sounded more like a nightmare.

    You didn't tell me it was an automatic. I've never owned an automatic, so I think I can be excused for jamming the brake pedal to the floor while trying to shift from neutral to hyperdrive.

    You can't be excused for yelling at me for hitting the back of your seat when you DID jam on the brakes. Wasn't my fault!

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    Share Your Embarrassing SL Moments - The Confessions Thread

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    My whole SLife is one long embarrassing moment, or it would be if I was easily embarrassed. Seriously; I screw things up on a regular basis. It's hard to pick a top ten, let alone just one.

    Here's the best one in the last 24 hours. I bought a statue I'd been eyeing for some time and got it nicely placed in my yard. I took a quick snap of it to send to a friend. Later I actually looked at the snapshot and noticed my leg was 'inside' the statue (I'd been standing close in the picture). Huh, I said. I know what's wrong! So I edited and sure enough, Physical was not checked. Fixed it.

    Then I stood back and watched as my statue slowly (and rather majestically) toppled over and ended up face-down in the grass. Clearly, there is a lot more to Physical than just the property that prevents me from walking through walls (except during lag-walks). Oh well.

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    I Am Not Your Manic Pixel Dream Girl

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    I probably use two 'voices' when I'm here, or any other time I'm 'talking to myself': one voice takes pains to be serious and maybe even a bit formal, one is casual. Because I love the sight of my own words so much I checked my profile for a couple of recent examples.

    Serious: "I recently started getting back inworld pretty regularly after being almost entirely absent for about five years. I kept in touch with some friends via one method or another, and I kept in touch with SL mostly via forums. But I just couldn't seem to take the time to get inworld. It took a spell in the hospital to bring me back. Not that a near-death experience gave me a Second Life vision or anything; I wasn't in serious condition..."

    Casual: "Took me a long time to get past Clover's kitty pictures up there; I kind of got fixated on this one. I think if you can look at this without smiling or having an 'aww' moment or whatever you want to call it, you might not be mammalian."

    I wouldn't use things like 'kind of got fixated' or 'aww' or even 'whatever' when I'm being serious. Also, when I'm casual I indulge my habit of leaving prepositions off sentence starts, as in "Took me a long time..." instead of "It took me a long time...".

    When I'm inworld I go with short sentences or at least single-sentence comments, just as several people have already described. In an active multi-person chat scene like the Atomic Palace on a Saturday night (shameless plug for a friend's place) you have to be brief or the conversation will pass you by. Also I swear a lot; can't do that here.

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    Just Ignore and let this one die

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    14 minutes ago, Clover Jinx said:

    *adjusts tinfoil hat*

    cleverly disguised research paper survey spread out over multiple posts?

    Oh. Took me a minute. I guess it could be, but to me that seems like a stretch. The subjects are so odd for a survey.

    The hat's real cute on you, though :-).

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    Community

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    30 minutes ago, Sylvannas Zulaman said:

    I feel like this thread turned into a spam fest of random screenshots without a specific purpose.

    Turned into? I think that is/was its sole purpose. The rest of us are just interrupting.

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    What are you doing today!? :D

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    On 10/6/2018 at 7:41 AM, Snugs McMasters said:

    Yet forums don't give you enough time to pretend to be smart enough to avoid being annoyed by asshats?

    I agree, none of them are asshats... and they seem to be pretending to be smarter than you.

    ETA: Lordy, where are my manners? I like most of you!

    Snugs, it's good to see you! You've been so quiet we were worried Maddy had...you know...done something.

    What Keeps You Coming Back To SL?

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    I recently started getting back inworld pretty regularly after being almost entirely absent for about five years. I kept in touch with some friends via one method or another, and I kept in touch with SL mostly via forums. But I just couldn't seem to take the time to get inworld.

    It took a spell in the hospital to bring me back. Not that a near-death experience gave me a Second Life vision or anything; I wasn't in serious condition (except maybe for a couple of days there right at the start). I just spent a lot of time thinking and SL was in those thoughts, probably because I wanted to get in touch with someone there to let people know I hadn't disappeared (I had neither phone nor laptop for several weeks). In any case, all that thinking brought me to the conclusion that I needed to get back to being an inworld person.

    Now that I have been back for a bit I think I can identify the real draw for me. It's the people. I've had a lot of fun redoing my house and stuff, and attempting to recreate myself in a mesh body (WIP), but I have the most fun just talking to people. I could communicate when I wasn't inworld, but it was always some kind of message exchange. It wasn't conversation. It wasn't spontaneous. Communicating inworld has the same intensity as talking face to face in RL (for me, at least).

    Plus you get conversations you can't get in RL. The other day I decided to take my ancient, way pre-mesh Lotus 7 for a spin since I live alongside a Linden road. I managed to get past the first sim crossing, and then looked up to see a gigantic 4WD pickup truck coming straight at me. It swerved, and I swerved, and we both lightly crashed into stuff on our respective sides of the road, and finally we stopped, just short of a head-on collision. I backed up to give her (I could see now that a female was driving the gigantitruck) more room to get by, she gingerly drove past me, and we both roared off in opposite directions trying not to hit anything else. In RL I'd have been all ticked off; blaming her although we were both at fault, and mumbling. But in SL I could talk, since I'd grabbed her profile back at the Incident. Once I got to an intersection I stopped and IM'd her: "It's a good thing we are both SUCH good drivers!", and pretty soon she came back with a LOL, saying, "I know, I know! I just try to keep this thing pointed straight!". We talked a bit and then went our separate ways, smiling.

    Can't do that in RL.

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    Just Ignore and let this one die

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    9 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    I found 26 tape measures in the drawer! I don't know why I've taken to putting the damn things "where they belong", because they surely don't belong there.

    My mind is going.

    Even going with the family tradition idea of always having one handy, unless you live in the Biltmore* that seems like a lot of measuring tapes.

    If YOUR mind is going, who the hell am I going to turn to for help as MINE withers away?

     

    *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gilded_Age_mansions#/media/File:Biltmore_Estate.jpg

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    Who are you? We want to know

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    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque

    21 hours ago, Morgana Hilra said:

    I am shy at first, and I am also quiet and withdrawn til I get to know ppl. 

    Based on a recent (possibly deeply flawed) scientific study we conducted right here in this forum, you're in good company. A whole bunch of us, including yours truly, scored rather high on the introvert side of things and many could apply exactly what you said there to themselves. It's open to speculation whether SL tends to attract introverts, but that particular study has yet to be done.

    In any case, welcome to the forums :-).

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    What are you doing today!? :D

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    Posted · Edited by Dillon Levenque
    pronoun identification

    I'm here a couple of hours earlier than usual. I was awake, barely, when a mild earthquake got my attention. That's common enough around here that I have CalTech's seismology lab as a Favorite, but of course I have to get up and turn the computer on to actually look. I'd figured somewhere above 3.0; it was slightly stronger than that. The location is along the San Andreas Fault. If you Google Map Tres Pinos you'll see it's on Highway 25, which parallels the fault from Hollister until it ends (the highway, not the fault) at Highway 198.

    ETA: We're about 25 linear miles away from the epicenter. In Tres Pinos or Hollister 3.9 might have been strong enough to rattle a little, maybe even knock a few things off shelves. Here it was enough to be noticed but not worrisome.

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