Dillon Levenque

It says so right on the group! On a much less trivial note, I agree with the comment you made on this page concerning older people vs. their offspring as regards medical care (I guess this is only US relevant; other countries have other systems). That trend bugs me too, always has. It's why I've never supported AARP and still don't, even though I'm now of an age to benefit from their tireless lobbying for more, more, more. What about our kids? And their kids? Wow that was off-topic. On topic: I do not see the forum as more negative (not sure whether I've already posted that or not). Quite the opposite. I came to the forum not long after the original RA had been replaced. I know virtually nothing of RA days, but I've been an inhabitant ever since. This iteration is by leaps and bounds more relaxed, more civilized, and more FUN than any I've experienced before. I hope it stays that way.

Nice parenthetical. He most certainly wore thin, and pretty quickly.

Don't blame me for this; it's your fault for saying that word.

So why does it look correct when you type it but when I do the same it looks like this: ;-)? And don't tell me it's because you're special; I already knew that. ETA: Hmm. That time it looked right, even after saving! Does it have to do with punctuation after? ? Why yes, Dil. So it does! :-). Never mind, everyone. I figured it out ;-).

No, sorry. I mistyped: by 'text emojis' I meant emoticons—the actual typed characters rather than a true image.

As usual, I seem to have missed the 'new emoji' memo. Surely there must have been a notice or at least a thread—can you or anyone point me to one? I've been kind of ignoring the fact that about half of the emoji's lately look to me like small empty black and white squares. I use Chrome mostly, btw. I'd also like to get my text emoji's back. The smile :-) works okay but the wink, in which I type semicolon/dash/close parentheses, turns into a small (poorly executed) black and white sketch, thusly: ?

Really, the best way to do that is to rez a prim and have at it. Select an option and see what happens to your cube, sphere, or what have you. Play with the numbers. Experiment. I imagine the ones who became famous for torturing prims did just that. So did most of us, I imagine, but no doubt THEY made notes so that they could repeat effects when useful. It never occurred to me to change a prim's shape to add a tweak and then change it back, for instance.

Fascinating. Like Phil, I had always thought 'torturing' prims meant using methods not available in the Edit tool. Gabriele's linked 2005 article has changed my mind. The torturers weren't using special tools; they were using the existing tools in special ways, ways that nobody had thought of. That kind of creativity impresses the hell out of me. What a great derail!

If that's the one they used for the marketplace, it's worth what they paid for it.

Wow, I should get all you guys to teach ME. I may be uneducated but you know from all my forum posts that I'm unfailingly polite and respectful. :-)

I have close to zero personal experience doing the things you mentioned, but I can't resist adding my usual piece of advice on questions like this. Google (or your preferred search engine) is your friend. The pic is just the top of the page I just got with that extremely dumb-looking query. The whole page was nothing but links on the same subject. There were links to YT there, also, if you like those. Personally I much prefer text when I'm trying to learn something. ps: Look for the links with the most recent dates; SL's ways of doing things change.

One of my father's many favorite expressions had to do with that. On road trips if one of us kids said anything about needing to go to the bathroom he'd say in an faked exasperated tone, "Why didn't you go while you were in the water?" The fact we hadn't been anywhere near any water (unless we were on our way home from the beach) never stopped him.

Wow. If I'd known you could do that I'd have been more polite.

Christmas in California looks pretty much the same as it does other places (in the US, anyway). Wreaths, candy canes, and a whole lot of lights are all you need. Snow is entirely optional. This picture was taken near Lake Tahoe where they do have snow and plenty of it, but at lower elevations the scene is much the same.

Exactly the same as my viewpoint. Gachas aren't my cup of tea but that's true of many things; I'm not suggesting banning them. Just move them into a separate section in the MP because they are manifestly different from the rest of the MP.

I believe the popcorn and drink are consumed separately, Tari. I've never had popcorn with vodka, but I know it goes well with root beer.

Huh. Maybe I can find someone who can help me with that.

Since I happened to mention my cottage in this thread recently I thought I'd share a pic now that I've had a chance to work on the yard a bit. I planted my big poplar tree, got the flower beds planted with roses, and made a pretty good start on the side yard: a mini-orchard, a rough stone driveway, and other things. Lots more to do there. The cottage is (of course) a pre-fab, from Culprit by Eku Zhong. In the left background you can see a large outcrop of the famous Corsican Granite with its startlingly regular striations.

The 10,000L$ having been mentioned THREE times (instead of just saying 'prize' the second and third times) seems odd, especially after looking at other entries from the OP. Advertising?

Well, if it's open season on Arlo songs, here's my favorite. Played this in an impromptu trio (might have been some intoxicants). I was harmony but the kid that sang it was terrific; he really wailed. :-)

Oh, you're right. I must not have been reading clearly enough. I'll edit my post to point out the real culprit. ?

Blame Rolig Kitty. Now I'll have this in my head all day. Where's my guitar?

Is there a Jira? Seems to me this is a big enough deal to warrant it. The massive infusion of gacha items on MP really is a pain. I don't want gachas; I want things from the creator/store so that I have a way to get questions answered or to know who to shop often if it's something I really like.

I don't follow the news all that closely but if there had been some kind of major internet outage here in the US I'd have heard about it. I personally have had no trouble logging in the past few days from sunny foggy coastal California.

When I saw Patch had posted today I was SO hoping it meant this interminable back-and-forth was getting the Lock. Alas, no.