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  1. Look at you, Ceka! Getting all nuanced and psychological instead of just running over him on your motorcycle! It's a side of you I'd never seen, and I like it. :-) And Hi, by the way.
  2. I have seen other resurrections of the thread (here and elsewhere) but never posted to any because I hadn't seen the original. I should've; I was registered in 2009 and pretty active in 2010, maybe even very active. Somehow I didn't get in on it. So thank you, Mo, for throwing it out here one more time. New forum, new look, whatever: I do believe it's my time to add my name to the long and honored list of idiots who have posted to this thread (or a thread of the same title elsewhere).
  3. He was. I could tell, I'm psychic that way. 'Course, he didn't lurk a lot, because he was really busy taking pictures for the Feed, of him looking all suave and stuff with some gorgeouso lady while he boldly explored new worlds.
  4. It isn't really to do with social justice—well, actually it is but not in the way we usually think of that in North America—but it's very much to do with feminism and women. It's only a couple of paragraphs, but it's very good. The French officer is a guy, by the way, as is his correspondent. In any case it can be introduced with a minimum of background so yes: it could be instructive, I think. As for your question: we all wish. If Snugs and I were the team assigned to keeping Maddy out of trouble she'd be Snugs, I'd be Shrugs. Because that's about what I'd do when someone came around yelling "Maddy did ......" Nobody can keep Maddy out of trouble. Maddy IS trouble. She's nefarious, Scylla. Right through to the bone. Cute, though.
  5. I do believe this is the first time I have seen a thread that within itself contained relevant posts by Maddy, Snugs, Scylla, and Laskya. I like it! Scylla, it's lovely to see your name again (no offense, Laskya, it's just Scylla's the one I knew first). This will probably bore the hell out of everyone else, but since you mentioned finishing your PhD (I congratulate you) in chicklit—KIDDING! PUT THAT DOWN!—I've been heavily promoting a fairly new book I brought home recently. It's a novel, set mostly in the Middle East. Starts in Iraq after the end of Desert Storm (that was the war about Kuwait); ends in fairly modern times still mostly in and around Iraq. There's a passage in which a couple of fairly central characters are talking. One, a French officer, talks of women and feminism in one of the most powerfully moving things I've read in quite a while. I re-read it several times. The book can be tough: Iraq in the last twenty years has not had a happy time and some very ugly things happen, but I whole-heartedly recommend reading it. You'll know the passage when you see it. "The Girl in Green", Derek B. Miller.
  6. Smiling. On my very first look on the very first day the new SL Forum comes online who do I see kicking the doors open but you. I cannot tell you what a pleasure that was. It was nice to see right here in these two pages so many other names: Maureen, Pamela, Treasure, Perrie, Luga(I can't attempt the rest) and the ones I missed because I was in a rush. I like that the forum software grabbed a representative fragment of one of my old saved images to do my avatar badge. I know I've been absent from the SL Forum, from inworld, and from the Feed (no excuse for that) but I will improve (I'm like wine in that regard I hope). It's almost over but I'll wish you a lovely Pi Day anyway. It was absolutely lovely to see you, just as it always is.
  7. Prokofy Neva wrote: Always discouraging new people, right Alwin? Sure, there are, but they are filled with biased and sometimes nasty oldbies with ideas about how things should be done. I could see a real advantage for a college that gave customized courses in what people actually need for their businesses instead of all the hippy theory of the open source cult that comes with the free courses. ? Business? The OP asked about building and scripting. Both of those are part of the curriculum with NCI, Builder's Brewery, The Ivory Tower of Primitives, and more. Have been for years and bless all of them for their contribution. No bias of note, yes oldbies (duh), no nasty. Christian, from your post I get the impression you are asking because you are yourself capable of instructing and are not wanting to be a student.. Either way, I"m sure if you contact any of the organizations I mention they will be happy to oblige.
  8. Chrismaky wrote: Nooooo, lol. My original post didn't come across as well worded as I wanted it to be. I will never say do away with the ability to create your own stuff because I love that concept. But my first response to you was what I was trying to say. Oh, really? Perhaps you should re-state your position, then. Your OP was quite strident, and later you doubled down in a post telling us we needed to learn new things and expand our knowledge. To that I say, learning new things is wonderful and I've enjoyed doing that all my life. I've learned many new things in my time in Second Life. About art, music, literature, even history (my favorite subject). But I don't NEED to. I've developed many fondnesses and friendships over the years here, for both people and places. I can be perfectly happy among them if I never learn another thing, to be honest. Here's what you said: "It is 2016 and SL is still loaded with a lot of terrible looking high prim non-mesh items, especially in its marketplace. Now I am a bit biased because I'm a hardcore mesh addict and I like to have my items, objects, clothes and myself look nice. But a lot of people it seems still prefer (and alot of designers continue to make) non-mesh stuff. Why? Mesh is more realistic, better looking, resizeable, and is much lower in prim/land cost. Do you think there should be a push to make SL 100% mesh?" Amusingly enough, though you later denied even thinking about clothes, it's listed third of four in your little list, there. So yeah, you WERE including clothing. You should consider going all the way back and withdrawing most of what you said in your OP, leaving the perfectly legitimate statements that (in your opinion) mesh objects are far more attractive than prim objects, and asking the question you asked at the end. If you had done so, my response would have been that I disagreed with your sweeping statement, although there's little doubt that done right mesh is capable of some really lovely stuff. I wear very little mesh clothing because it doesn't fit my shape well. Female tops only come close my bust size in XS, but they're so small everywhere else I have to alpha my entire upper body to wear. Male tops actually fit pretty well, and I have a few nice men's sweaters in mesh, but the selections are limited. Don't bother telling me the proper avatar dimensions for all the mesh sizes are defined (to a point)—I don't WANT to alter my shape. It means something to me. It looks like this on purpose. So I would vote 'no'.
  9. Does it get boring around here? Yes. Does it have to be that way? No. I personally like threads where we get a bit silly, because I'm like, you know, frivolous. But I'll step into a serious conversation if it interests me. The problem isn't LL, it's not even the mods. It's the Forumites. A discussion is only as good as the people who engage in it (and we have had plenty of worthwhile discussions here, as Pamela suggested). You have something to say, say it. If it gets interest, it will get replies. ps: I accidentally posted this as a reply to Pamela; I had to delete that one. I meant to reply the thread and to the OP.
  10. Madelaine McMasters wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: We younger folks don't understand the word 'cats' in that context, Rhonda Here's your context, Phil... Dillon has imagined I'm the one in the striped top and glasses @2:01. Never mind that the recording is from 12 years before I was born and that I look more like Waldo (than Wenda) in a striped top. Oh really. Imagined, huh? I shall leave it to the other posters here. Yay or nay: is the be-spectacled blonde in the striped top Maddy's doppleganger or is she not? She does a little 'rawwrr' along with the claw gesture: very stimulating. ;-) And btw I love that song, and just about every other Coasters song I've ever heard. Great group.
  11. I am mildly fascinated by qwaszigarble's posting history. Joined yesterday at 8:41 PM Linden time. Five posts, of which only the OP remains.
  12. Celestiall Nightfire wrote: SosiaalinenKokeilu wrote: Just forcing people into experiences without their consent, and giving them no way to leave them. Hmm... Using the Firestorm viewer is an option. Problem solved. ; ) *chuckling* *waves* Using Second Life at all is, I believe, an option. I dunno about other operating systems but on my Windows PC I can always click on the red box with the big 'X' in the upper right and be gone.
  13. Always funny to me when Yahoo gets in the big fnancial news, something they of ciourse do quite often these days. When I worked in Santa Clara I commuted from home by train. I took the bus from the train station to where I worked in the mornings, but most afternoons I walked from work back to the train station. My route took me through a bunch of Silicon Valley's heavy hitters: Intel, HP, Applied Materials (who you've never heard of but were by a huge margin at the top of the heap in the business my company was in). One of my best 'short-cuts' was the big angle I could take through a certain business complex whose parking lots were arranged so I could walk almost an unbroken diagonal heading for the train staition, essentially angling acroos two square blocks. Not sure of the name. Orchard Parkway, or something like that. Entrance was on Kifer, a few blocks west of Lawrence Expressway. It went almost all the way back to the Central Expressway at the other side. Anyway, Yahoo's first (I think) really professional location, once they moved out of the garage, was in an office in a corner of that complex. Cars parked in front usually had the "Do you Yahoo?' license plate frames. Couple of times I walked past, they were all out on the lawns in front with canopies set up, eating appatizers and drinking beer and wine because they'd just landed an account or opened another office or something. My, how they've grown. :-) ETA: It's called Central Technolohgy Park, and it does in fact extend all the way from Kifer to the Central Expressway. Affymetrix now occupies the space Yahoo once inhabited, but it looks like they have the whole building; Yahoo was just usiing the southernmost rectangle. That happened when I was still there; I'd forgotten that. Yahoo by the time I left was in a their own purpose-built just for them humungous multi-story complex over by Lockheed, at the edge of Moffett Fielld.
  14. Kelli May wrote: We get to find out what happens when an irresistible moron meets an immovable tw*t. If I didn't have a personal reason to keep the signature I use, I'd use that quote as my new one. Just realized we've both had our signatures for a long time (you probably longer than me) and both have to do with rocks. I like that. :-)
  15. I realize it's Saturday (Sunday, even, in half of Asia) but there's the chance here to make this the Friday thread of all time. Now that Steph and bebejee are engaged in conflict, we should all just step quietly away and let the two of them snipe on. An all-out, no slur spared steel-cage death match of arrogance, ignorance, and entitlement.
  16. You would have way too much fun tweaking that thing, Maddy. And that's really the whole point, something the author of that article missed altogether. A quote: "Needless to say, this wasn’t programmed into the chat robot. Rather, the trolls on Twitter exploited her, as one would expect them to do, and ruined it for everybody." "Trolls' who 'ruined it for everybody'? NO! It was just some dumbass Microsoft PR guy becoming yet another victim of the "Oh, cool. I'll go on Twitter so my (fans/backers/constituents/interested people/whatever) can message me directly. It'l be great!", and of course it winds up being like Doctor Oz or hundreds of other people. In most of those cases, the person going 'live' on Twitter failed to consider the fact that there existed a whole bunch of Twitter users who disliked the person, and who would relish the chance to say so IN PERSON, as it were. The Microsoft PR guy must have failed to consider that there were a whole bunch of Twitter users who knew a great deal about the algorithms driving most 'chatbots' (as we call them in SL) and would delight in exploiting that knowledge to the max to manipulate their stupid Twitterbot. These were not trolls and they did not ruin 'it' for anybody. It was a hellaciously dumb idea. I bet there were code monkeys all over Microsoft screaming, "NO, NO! Do NOT do this!".
  17. Madelaine McMasters wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: You can drop a Rawr just by way of rebuttal, to show how fierce you are. I like when you Rawr. ;-) Just to be clear, I imagine you wearing bibs and an updo as you sashay down the walk. At first I thought, "Sashay? Dang, I thought my walk ani was fairly mild compared to some I've seen", but then I put it together with the bibs and updo and realized you were talking about the rehearsal. Maddy and I were both 'members of the wedding' at a mutual friend's wedding recently. I was a bridesmaid, she was the PASTOR, if you can imagine that. In fact, she did a very nice if completely unorthodox (not Unorthodox Jewish, unorthodox period) service in which she probably didn't painfully offend anyone (she may be disappointed in her effort in that regard). At the rehearsal I had my hair in a favorite sorta updo and was wearing bib overalls. The sashay was the 'Bridesmaid's Walk'. We went up (and at the end of the service back down) the aisle one at a time, slowly. The built-in walk was the most outrageous sashay you ever saw in your life. It's a good thing that all our gowns for the real service were mesh; if we'd have been wearing flexi formals the guests at aisle-side would have suffered eye injuries!
  18. Madelaine McMasters wrote: Rhonda Huntress wrote: BDSM in 500 words or less ... Two hundred thirty five, ignoring the introductory paragraph. I applaud your efficiency. Regarding Disneyland. My one childhood day there was made immensely more enjoyable by my parents, who wound me into a lather of anticipation over it. Standing in line was made bearable by observing the people ahead of us and making up silly stories to match their look and demeanor. What I remember most about that day (and my entire childhood) is not the rides, but Mom and Dad. I own a go-kart in RL. It's not the sort of thing a grown women is expected to drive down the road in my neighborhood. That's half the reason I do it. My shy neighbor has been in ill-health for years. When I zoomed into her driveway, stopped at her feet and offered her the wheel, she demurred. I became insistent. She acquiesed. When she returned from her short spin down the road, she was giddy. So was I. She recently asked (to my great surprise) if there was a kind of go-kart she could take to the market. I offered my Miata, she demurred. She doesn't drive stick, so we struck a compromise. She now admits that riding in the snow with the top down is more enjoyable than she expected. That makes me happy, and I can hope that when she remembers these experiences, she remembers me. I like "forcing" people to do things I believe they'll enjoy, and I like winding them up in anticipation. It can take effort, but it's worth it. If this is as close to being Mistress Madelaine as I ever get in RL, that's just fine. ;-). (And there we go Rhonda, 500 on the nose.) That's also as close as you get to being "Mistress Madelaine" in SL, at least as far as I've ever seen, and It's just fine with me, too. Quite fine, in fact. For some reason reading that post had me smiling inside and out. You can drop a Rawr just by way of rebuttal, to show how fierce you are. I like when you Rawr. ;-)
  19. I just wanted to jump in quickly to say I've been following this thread since the beginning and while I've enjoyed everyone's response (especially Freya's) to the self righteous prig of an OP, I must say the whole tone of the thread has improved mightily ever since Message #76. :-)
  20. Perrie Juran wrote: Rhonda Huntress wrote: You know, we all start off as female, then some diviate to various degrees. Yeah, I guess I'm deviant. You GUESS? You're a Martian, of course you're deviant! It's in whatever passes for genes on the Angry Red Planet.
  21. Madelaine McMasters wrote: steph Arnott wrote: "Unless you are an Indonesian fruit bat, though, it probably won't happen naturally" thats the first one The other two are a hormone inbalance. Hardly evidence. That hormone imbalance occurs naturally, if infrequently. It can also be induced, often unintentionally. Hormones do not create the mammary structures, they affect them and their development. Even "fully male" males have those structures, underdeveloped and dormant, but there. Environmental conditions can effect hormonal imbalance during development. The use of chlorine to make industrial organic chemicals has led to the unintended side effect of lacing our enviroment with xenoestrogenic compounds. Those compounds can have deleterious effects on humans, including retarding male and accelerating female development. While many cultures stick only male and female tags on people, Mother Nature does not observe our cultures. Because she never learned to copy perfectly, she churns out every conceivable mix of physical bits and self images, with widely varying probability. Those born without a socially acceptable mix are often cast off to the edges of society or worse. We like things to be simple, to be black or white. That doesn't make them so. How many examples of non gender conforming humans would be required to get past being "hardly evidence"? The problem with nipples isn't in their biology, it's in our culture. You have, as has been shown many times, way more patience with people on this forum than I do.
  22. Snugs McMasters wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Rhonda Huntress wrote: overlord. Overlady! No, nobody will believe that. Overgirl? I need a cape! How quickly you forget... Thank you, Snugs. I wasn't here to do it myself in a timely fashion (last time I saw this it was directed at me). Good to know you are keeping track of things. :-) However, were such a cape to be used.....would it have a logo/symbol? Never mind the color, that's a done deal. Lavender, or something else in the Purples. But plain, or decorated? Collar? No, that's to vampiric. Hmm.
  23. Perrie Juran wrote: And you also reminded me of the Martian and the Cat. https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/The-resident-who-provided-the-previous-content-if-any-has/m-p/1951241 I'd completely forgotten about that one, and I even had a couple of very tangential posts in it! You and Maddy are both right, though: Janelle Darkstone was/is brilliant. She could make you burst out laughing either with the written word or with her fabulous imagery. I'm not anything like an Internet cosmopolitan; the only forum I ever joined was this one (I later added one more, but wasn't really anything like active there until maybe three years ago) so this statement may not carry much weight (sing it, Paul!) but I have never seen anyone on this forum to equal her combination of brilliant artistry and fall-down humor. I don't know if she could cajole actual humans to acquire the facial expressions and body language she used in the avatars that were part of her stories, but if she could I'd purely love to see a movie she wrote and directed. She could certainly create a graphic movie, let alone a graphic novel, that would be a massive hit. She was constantly funny and constantly expressive. When she changed her avatar it was an event! at least for me (speaking of which I like the Carnivorous Clover, Maddy). One of her last was the mini-skirted tank-topped babe with her thumb out to hitchhike, a big-ass 18 wheeler coming her way in the middle distance. A volume of story in an instant of image. And her constantly changing and constantly funny forum signatures, one of which I still use whenever I can do so appropriately. "Of course you can have a cookie! Now get in the van." Disclaimer: I am not now nor have I ever been in love with Janelle Darkstone. But damn, she is amazing.
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