Dillon Levenque
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LaskyaClaren wrote:Well, I don't think thatSuper Villainsare ever very credible when they try to make such claims.
Good call.
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:That is so in line with what I've experienced in the times I've been one of the (possibly intoxicated) dancers in RL.Or a blissful dancer in SL?;-).
Aye, that too.
That's the thing about experiences. Once you've had them, they're part of you. They are an element in your narrative. In that particular instance, a very positive and treasured element of mine.
Hiya :-)
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irihapeti wrote:he then said that is different with the pub crowd. He said that when we play covers, we play a lot of stuff from our youth and from the ages before also, mixed in with more modern stuffwhen a 30s-40s-50s+ is dancing (a little bit intoxicated sometimes) to a song from their youth then they arent dancing as a 30-40s-50s+. They are dancing as a teenager. They are transported back in time. In their minds and memories. They are young again, for those moments. We see this every weekend, in 1000s of faces, on 1000s of nights for over the 10 years now that we have been playing the pubs+SL is a bit like this as well I think. Sometimes we connect with others of our own age as ourselves, and other times we dontwhen we dont then we are dancing (a little bit intoxicated) as our younger selfs once more. In our minds and memories, for those moments
That is so in line with what I've experienced in the times I've been one of the (possibly intoxicated) dancers in RL. When a live band is playing, in earnest, tunes of my youth I (and my usual dancing partner, my spouse) are dancing in our youth. I mean we don't think of it that way when it's happening but in truth that is exactly what is taking place.
I was already well aware of the fact that it takes place in SL; I've sensed that about myself almost all along. But I'd never really tied that effect to similar RL experience 'til just now. Thank you for including that thought.
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LaskyaClaren wrote:Sy Beck wrote:LaskyaClaren wrote:It's obviously "Let's Bait Laskya Week" on the SL Forums. ;-)Pep has taught you all too well."SAFE
SPACESSIMS FOR LASKYA!"Thank you, Sy.At LAST. The respect and consideration that I deserve!*sniff*Laskya, there will never be a safe place for you as long as you're on Maddy's
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*cough* You're not questioning the mod process, are you, KM?
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Kelli May wrote:Rhonda Huntress wrote:Kelli May wrote:Amethyst Jetaime wrote:I agree about gift cards. However some debit cards do work because they are branded ( Visa or MasterCards etc ) AND the bank that issues them makes immediate payment. Mine works like that. My bank will pay up to a certain amount, just like a credit card, even if I don't have money in my account. Of course they come after me then and charge me a hefty overdraw fee LOL, so I'm sure the money is in the account.
ditto on that. Everything I've ever paid to LL (tier, subs and L$ purchases) has been via debit card for over nine years.If your debit card can also be run as a credit card (like I have to do at a lot of gas pumps) you will not have any problems. Most cards work this way but there are a few that are different. It's all up to the bank that issues the card.In other words, if you hand your debit card to the waitress and she brings you back a slip to sign, your debit card will work with LL.Not to say you're wrong (as far as sign-for-it debit cards working for SL), but if I hand my debit card to a waitress, she's overwhelmingly likely to put it in a portable EPoS and hand it back for me to authorise it by PIN. In the UK at least, signing to authorise card transactions is extremely rare.Kelli, those are rarely seen in the US. We are pretty much the last country in the world to move to EMV for credit cards and restaurants will be the last group to adopt them, because of tipping. Moving to EMV is going to cost restaurants a lot, since their whole payment structure will have to change, OR they'll have to buy wifi tablets with EMV card readers.
I saw an article recently that a major NY restaurant group was going to start charging a gratuity and discontinue tipping entirely; I bet it's because of EMV.
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Monti Messmer wrote:Did alot of different jobs on SL, enjoyed them all. Now i am only creating and maintaining my self made things....and exotic dancer :matte-motes-sunglasses-3:Monti
Please tell me you were known as "The Full Monti" (or if not, please don't tell me).
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Velk Kerang wrote:
Ya I saw it and? I mean they can put any numbers up all day long and that don't mean nothing or garontee it's accurate especially given the amounts of alts the game has. SOE used to try and do that same thing with SWG back in the day to atempt to reflect the NGE wasn't a bombing hudge failure and it didn't make the world servers any less empty when you logged in game. So no I don't put alot of stock in web page stats sorry. lmao
Oh well, then. I mean if the SOE used to do that with the SWG to claim the NGE wasn't a hudge failure, than lmao. I mean come on. What was I thinking?
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Did you not look at this earlier post: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/Why-is-SL-so-empty/m-p/2967187/highlight/true#M215252 ? Maximum daily concurrence in Jan 2013 looks to have been about 65.000. By December of that year, after fluctuating to as low as about 55,000, it was right around 60,000. These days it's about 50,000.
Yes, it is declining and unless LL does something useful, such as working on helping new users (or by taking advantage of the massive number of current residents to accomplish the same thing) it will probably continue to decline. But all this talk about how there've been massive losses in population is just so much talk.
The numbers are right there.
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Root Beer is a very good thing. One of the best tasting root beers we beleive is still being made.
It's called Sudz.
Hint: There are a few products that come close to what you will have in Heaven. This is one of them.
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Drake1 Nightfire wrote:Madelaine McMasters wrote:Drake1 Nightfire wrote:Madelaine McMasters wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:MidnightDawn Sapphire wrote:
No, you are what we call a "Sweety Pie". A really nice person with a heart of gold.
Good grief! Really. I have not words for this.You're just trying to make up for offering me warm root-beer./me kneels and hands Maddy a large root beer slushie. "For you , my Queen. It seems our enemy has sent his winged freaks to SL finally. Do you wish me to send out the Legions from Zindra to crush and convert them? We have a new batch of... Escorts.. that are very eager to get started."Ahem, Drake? You're kneeling on my hem (and I just bet you're waiting for me to take a step).Oh, and would ya send those "escorts" by me for personal inspection before they go crushing and converting? I'm a very hands on kinda queen.And finally, you gotta show Dil how to make a root-beer slushie. She's from Cali and may have been carousing with wine snobs.Yes. my Queen. The escorts shal be sent to you in pairs starting this evening.Hold up... I gotta share my secret recipe?!?!? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get root beer to freeze down here?/me stalks off grumbling.... Share my secrets.. With Dil?!?! Not fair. I did all the hard work.. found a secret passage to the 242 layer, made a pact with the ice lord there, now i have to share that info? G** D****T!!!Oh noes! Here I was thinking I could just like Google it. Damn it.
Well, I guess it's time to consider calling in a few favors; I too have my contacts in the um, well you know. There.
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:MidnightDawn Sapphire wrote:
No, you are what we call a "Sweety Pie". A really nice person with a heart of gold.
Good grief! Really. I have not words for this.You're just trying to make up for offering me warm root-beer.I did not offer you a warm root beer. I explained that I only had gotten enough ice to chill half the bottles in the case, the other half was at room tempurature, and asked you which you preferred.
And by the way, I'm from California. Cali is a friend of mine, but I don't know anything about that name referencing a place. And if you actually know something about wine, like maybe you had your first* (small) glass of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild at the ripe old age of 15 (true story; I think my dad paid something like $30 for the bottle at the place he ordered his wine, a super-high price at the time) that may make you familiar with the difference between a good wine and a bad one, or even in this case a great wine and a good one, but it doesn't make you a snob.
I can make a killer root beer float but you were correct (and one for three isn't too bad) about the slushie.Never heard of it. I see a visit to Google in my very near future.
*First and only, as it turns out. I've been treated to a lot of pretty nice Bordeaux's, but never anything to match that.
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MidnightDawn Sapphire wrote:
No, you are what we call a "Sweety Pie". A really nice person with a heart of gold.
Good grief! Really. I have not words for this.
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Theresa Tennyson wrote:
I think of many of the commentators in religious threads here as "Sunday-school athiests" but I doubt some of them even made itthatfar.That's a helluva good line, if you'll pardon my language. :-)
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JediTron wrote:BUSTED Troll here's why if it was a COPYRIGHT infrigement delete the sonic avatars if you're seriously trying to troll the damn moderators need to do their job and shut people like you up. Otherwise remove the rules simple fact don't make rules you won't uphold it makes you a JOKE!
Wow. What a massively unpleasant and uninformed person you are. Linden Lab makes the rules. The people on this and other forums are just residents of SL, like you.They neither make nor enforce anything other than their own personal rules.
I do have to say (and I've never said this to anyone before) I don't think you're a good fit here (meaning Second Life). It's obvious to even the most casual observer that you're a poor fit for this forum, since you are so vehement with your comments but at the same time so clearly lacking in understanding.
But beyond that, I don't think you'll do well in Second Life. I think you should go somewhere else.
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Now that I've stopped laughing, I do actually have a suggestion for merchants (although I suspect I'm preaching to the choir with the group of same in this thread).
I purchased a gift on MP. My friend never received the item. After we waited a few days I contacted the merchant (can't remember by which method but it was the one requested) and explained what happened, including transaction numbers, item number/description, and recipient's name. I included a comment that the recipient was well acquainted with SL and had checked all the likely places. Next day or so, my friend logged in and IM'd me to say she'd gotten the gift. So everything was taken care of properly.
However, I really would have appreciated an IM from the merchant telling me that. Just a one-liner—"Gift Re-delivered"—would have been fine. I know it's an extra step and I know there's no real need for it, but feedback does make a difference in how I feel about a merchant.
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Dresden wrote:Madelaine McMasters wrote:Oooh, Angels!I've never met an angel. I offer a free soul cleansing service here in SL, so they'd have no reason to visit me.I get all the li'l devils instead. They stand in my fireplace, mocking me as their sins burn away, until their souls are clean enough to be presentable in public again. Here they are...
If your good deeds are as effective and rewarding as mine, you have my deepest sympathy.
Oh, there I am... six down and four over. I'm afraid I'm in need of more insineration, for reasons I cannot discuss in mixed company....Dres (Thankfully, you gave no guarantees.)Cool, you're right next to My Favorite Martian! :-)
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Madelaine McMasters wrote:Perrie Juran wrote:Madelaine McMasters wrote:irihapeti wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:Heart Brimmer wrote:No.
I was going to type 'aye' because I agreed with your post, but then realized in this context it was a bad choice.Instead, I'll also say:No.so yes to the no yes(:Ditto!Can I third your motion and bring it up for a vote?Oooooooh, I didn't know Martians could make those motions.... swoons.Well, they appear to be somewhat arithmetically challenged. The Martian was actually fifth, not third. Heart, me, irihapeti, you, Martian.
Edited to correct spelling irihapeti's name incorrectly even though it was right there in the quoted part to look at. Wish I'd noticed that before Perrie 'archived'. Sorry, E. I hope my original spelling isn't some horrible Maori insult.
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Heart Brimmer wrote:No.
I was going to type 'aye' because I agreed with your post, but then realized in this context it was a bad choice.
Instead, I'll also say: No.
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Kwakkelde Kwak wrote:Dillon Levenque wrote:It isn't a violation of SL ToS. It's a potential violation of civil law, but the legal owner has to start that process.
Did you read the ToS? In that case you must have missed the part Bree quoted.Well, you're obviously quite right about account names, but I took that section to be in reference to account names (avatar names) only. I gathered from the OP that this was a store or brand name, not the product creator's account name.
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Ssmiles wrote:Thanks for the replies everyone. That's kind of what I thought. It's pretty blatent and their's is a pretty popular store with a lot of traffic.I am kind of surprised LL hasn't stepped in. It's also a little irritating that so many SL designers go out of their way to create a name of their own rather than using someone else's and this place is in such blatent violation.Anyway, thanks again for the responses.
Read the last paragraph of Qie's post again. LL won't step in unless the actual owner of the trademark and/or proper name takes action. It isn't a violation of SL ToS. It's a potential violation of civil law, but the legal owner has to start that process.
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Well, since it's been pulled back from the depths of time, I'll take advantage of it. Somehow I missed it the first time around but reading the posts was fun. Quinn :-). Also Ishtara and some others we don't see any more.
I noticed a couple people had mentioned William Gibson, but not my nominee: "Idoru". It's actually the second in a trilogy but as is the case with all his stuff, works as a standalone just fine. Also like all his stuff it is complex and has multiple plot lines criss-crossing each other. One of the two main threads centers on a young girl (around 14) who is deeply involved in an online virtual world which eventually becomes central to the outcome of the story. Really, really good.
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Thank you Tari! That was fun. I doubt my message will ever get read but I loved writing it, and I do hope if nothing else the New Horizons team at least will take some satisfaction from seeing the number of messages clogging up their Inbox. ;-)
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Nyll Bergbahn wrote:For those who don't already know, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will reach its closest approach to Pluto in a few minutes time, the last of the nine 'classical' planets to be visited by such a mission. Already, we have seen some fantastic images of Pluto and Charon. Check them out atI have only seen Pluto a couple of times through large telescopes, once when it was still inside Neptune's orbit in the late 1990s and again a couple of years later when passing outside once again. Although just a small faint dot indistinguishable from background stars requiring a very detailed star map to locate, it was good to be able to complete my observing list of all the planets, the rest being very easy to find and see.It doesn't feel like 10 years since I put my name down to be included on the CD inside the spacecraft but it was indeed 2005.I'm pretty sure Madelaine has her name on it too and probably Dillon and Celestial as well. Anyone else? Give it a wave as we fly by!
Thanks for the thought, but while I'd imagine you're right about Maddy and Celestiall, I am not among the worthies like you and Coby. I always find out about this stuff after the fact, I guess. Looking forward to the images, though, like everyone else.
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Second Life "Experiences": WOOT!!!!!!!
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It has to be so hard being you, but yet you still do it. Admirable.