Dillon Levenque

You have to use your own judgement, Jessi. When I was new here I instinctively kept my RL self to myself and when asked, "How old are you?" by complete strangers would always answer, "In SL, 29 and holding.". If asked where I was from I'd answer, "West Coast, US.". I felt right from my first day in Second Life that RL details had nothing whatever to do with our avatars, later on when I found myself asked those kinds of questions I considered the people asking to be out of line. I learned as I progressed that my instinctive response matched the opinions of most of the people I met; that asking for RL info was considered gauche in the extreme. That's not to say that I haven't shared a lot of RL info with people as I've come to know them (and vice versa) but nobody asked. It's just that we get to know people and after a year or two talking to someone on a regular basis, you get into a comfortable enough place that you can share things you'd not share with just anyone. If in doubt: keep it to yourself. I consider the default condition for SL is that RL info is private. It should NEVER be asked for, and it should only be given voluntarily.

Perrie Juran wrote: So is ranting ** complaining trolling about these pictures childlike or childish behaviour? fify. And 'ish' in answer to the question. ;-)

Perrie, with grownups it's important to distinguish between childlike behavior and childish behavior (as Maddy would tell you). The first is fine, the second not so much. More dancing. Not sure whether this is childlike or childish (it is kind of showoffish). Also the guy couldn't tango his way out of a wet paper bag, but at least he doesn't trip her or anything. :-)

Talk much? ;-)

Ceka Cianci wrote: Ya it seems to be down.. Even my SuperPremiumExcalibur#Account isn't getting in..So it's pretty down.. ETA: Oh wait no,it just took a little longer than 30 seconds to get it..Whew for a second there i was worried. You should consider moving up to SuperPremiumExcaliburPLATINUM. Yes, it's a bit pricey but well worth it IMO. You not only get login capabliity even during unscheduled maintenance—and isn't that nice? "Sorry, the sim is down. Oh. It's YOU, Ms. Cianci. Welcome."—but going Platinum adds Ban Line & Orb Imperviousness so you can go anywhere anytime and perv to your heart's content, plus you are assigned your own personal Linden concierge/PA who you can call upon 24/7 to deal with any issues or unpleasantness you find. ;-)

My mistake. We put a different meaning to the holiday altogether in my country, so I was just going with what I'd heard and read elsewhere about Remembrance Day. I like the British/Euro version of the holiday better, even if it does not include civilians.

Kelli May wrote: If you think greetings would be difficult, try a conversation with more than one person. There's very little to show just who is speaking in chat, other than the name attached to the speech. It's possible, using RLV, to remove the ability to view names (they are replaced by generic descriptors like "somebody", "an avatar" or "some person"). Trying to keep track of who said what is almost impossible and nothing like reality. Yes, of course, you're right. In my initial response I was only thinking of a two-person encounter. I'd totally overlooked the fact that most of the time there are more than two people present and in SL there's really no other way for us to know who said what.

Qie Niangao wrote: [...] I know the option is there to hide names above heads but I for one would like to go out and explore SL and no AV other than a friend would know who I was. This is much less fun than one might think, or at least that's my experience of the version of role-play where we pretend not to know the other person's name until introduced. That approach makes for more realistic dialog, I suppose, when everybody is playing along and the situation is highly structured. But more generally... well, I tried to follow that rule for a while, with random people I met anywhere on the grid, and not only did I seem willfully stupid, but worse, it ended up seeming downright rude to the other person. Unless you have some special plan for how to make this work, you'll be seen as conspicuously anti-social, simply by not greeting others by name before being introduced. We could try to figure out why it works that way. I might guess that it's due to needing artificial social cues (e.g., pre-knowledge of names) in an environment where so many of the natural cues are degraded or absent. Of the surveys, studies, and explorations of SL that I've seen advertised here, I've not seen that particular subject addressed. That at least would be an interesting study. It might just turn out that the name thing means nothing; we connect or do not connect based on what we say. In SL, visual cues count but we're all so good looking they really don't mattter.

LlazarusLlong wrote: Is it a good time now to remember the start of World War I a century ago? In which more horses were killed than women. And considerably more men died. Not sure what you meant about the start of WWI. The Archduke's assassination? The usually accepted start is Summer of 1914, but what has that to do with anything in this thread? There is already a day set aside to commemerate the end of WWI. In the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth nations (as in France & Belgium) it's called Remembrance Day, and is considered a day to remember all who perished in that conflict—not just the young men who died in their millions on both sides, but the civilians who died in their millons as well. I would think someone who chose that namesake (what's the matter, did someone already have the single-L version?) would have understood that, considering yiour namesake was a participant in the conflict. ETA a syllable

ColonelObvious wrote: No, Scylla only promotes very specific things that may or may not fit her own personal agenda, although she accuses others of doing or not doing the same thing. I guess you have to be a feminist to understand. Wow, out of what woodwork did you just crawl? I've seen less than a dozen posts from you, all made LONG afer Scylla pretty much vanished from this forum, yet you seem to think you know all about her. That kind of thing usually only happens when someone who doesn't have the guts to post under her/his original SL name alts up. Is there a different explanation in your case? ps: don't bother trying to suggest you were here earlier as a Captain: the same question applies to that alt.

Ceka Cianci wrote: (((Oops hit reply to thread when i meant reply@Jerilynn Lemon)) A 512x512x512 for example would take up a whole sim.. My holodeck spehere i believe was 1024 which you really only want to rez when your sim is not touching other sims.. It was nice being away from other sims.. that is my sim way down there below the sphere and the dotted line in the water is how many sims my sphere would take up.. my sim in the center ,so a total of 9 sim spaces for one prim.. hehehe It was waaaaay cool inside!! \o/ This is what it was like on the inside with that scene put in.. or you could put any in you can think of.. a lot of sim surrounds use megas also or used to.. This is just one of the cool uses for them.. And who else could pull off wearing a schoolgirl sailor suit while wielding a 100 cm katana in the middle of a world-destroying firestorm? It's good you keep your pictures. Gives new arrivals a goal. They'll never meet it, of course. But at least they'll have a direction. ;-)

I am trying not to get too over-optimistic about this sudden explosion of space projects worldwide (I do realize they've been in the making for some time but it seems they're all being launched at once). I'm so used to thinking of space exploration in terms of NASA only. I grew up when the only two countries with anything like a meaningful space program were mine (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, our sworn enemies. We each had a space program but the momentum was not provided so much by the quest for knowledge as it was the desire to outdo the other. It did result in the Lunar landing, a night and day I'll never forget. I grew up devouring Science Fiction. I was entranced that we were actually there, that humans were sitting on a world (worldlet, if you prefer) looking back at Earth. I stayed up all night, on the couch in the living room with the TV on, waiting for them to come out of the capsule and step on the surface (I've seen more video of the Mission Control center than you can possibly imagine). At the time, it seemed we were finally on our way. Maybe in my lifetime The Stars My Destination would be a mission, rather than a book at the library. Unfortunately (from my perspective) things slowed down just when they should have accelerated. It probably didn't help that the Us versus Them impetus ran out of steam as the USSR lost its sattelite nations, one by one, and began to come apart. They fell out of the competition so we stopped trying, or at least it seemed that way. Lucky for me, the rest of the world kept pushing. Cassini-Huygens was according to Wikipedia a joint project of NASA and sixteen European countries. The Huygens lander was designed in France and assembled by NASA, for example. When it landed successfully on the surface of Titan in 2005 it became the first craft ever to land on an object in the outer Solar System (I'm sure it must have been mentioned at the time but Cassini-Huygens left Earth via a Titan missile, coincidentally enough). Now we have things happening all over, from all over. I find that very encouraging. We've got that Big Front Yard. We need only get out there and look.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Ohjiro Watanabe wrote: Not sure I would want to be on the top of that big boy I've often joked that I don't want to die a slow fading death, but would rather be hit by a meteoroid. Worry not, Maddy. It's out there, feeling the miniscule tugs of gravity (and possibly some other yet undefined parapsychological force) that alter its course from time to time. Your friends, who you've taken such great pains to set afire—many times, in some cases—are all, in our spare time, concentrating on that little irregularly shaped, slowly rotating, chunk of mixed metals. When the time is right, it will descend in all its evanescent beauty through the atmosphere and find you. Think of it as our gift. :-) edited to nudge a comma a bit to the left

We keep forgetting that SL has a learning curve. Nobody can steal your stuff. Your stuff is a digital record on a server somewhere. The record might get screwed up (I'm pretty sure at least one or two SL residents have had things suddenly disappear from inventory) but it can't be stolen. Sure you can build a skyscraper but you might need more prims to build it than your 512 provides. If you don't know what I meant there don't worry. It's Land Impact now anyway, not prims. I just used that because I remember back in my early days thinking it would be cool to have a place to live, and I was at a club where someone was talking about apartments for rent next door. I asked about renting one and was queried, "How many prims are you looking for?" I don't remember how I answered but I had no idea what he meant, which told me I clearly wasn't ready to rent an apartment. Your Linden Home gives you a place to call home without even having to figure out all there is to making a house. I were you, I'd just stay there for a few days/weeks/months (all depends on how much time you have for SL) and get comfortable in the world before worrying about making your own place. Either way, good luck.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Coby Foden wrote: Naturally this is due to honour your awesome co-achievement! Both of you can print this and stick it near your computer displays. :matte-motes-smile: I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible. I couldn't have reached this great height without stacking you all up in a pyramid and scaling you like the mountain goat. Oh, thank you. It was such an honor to be part of your pyramid and just get stepped on llike common dirt as you scrambled to the top. Actually it was cool being in the Pyramid of Peace and I think I was a level above you anyway ;-). Coby, I love the trophy. I"ve never met Phll, but with the pose you've captured Maddy completely. ETA Quoted Post

/me waves. Nice opener ;-). Regarding humor (or humour, if you must) the old guy must have missed the 'Colbert Report' episode.

One if buy land, two if buy sea. Sorry, couldn't resist. The house you got with your premium membership is called a Linden Home and includes 512 sq meters of land. Being premium, you are entitled to 512 sm free of tier (monthly fee). If you wish to 'own' more mainland in addition to the 512 you already have, you will need to pay tier on the additional land. Owning land is, unfortunately, a very complicated project. There's a lot to learn; you'll need to read all the wiki stuff you can. All Linden Homes are on Moderate sims, so no, you can't have one in an Adult sim. What you CAN do is give up your Linden Home and then purchase a (tier-free) 512 in an Adult sim and buy or build your own house. As I said, read up on it first. Edit: Syo got her post in while I was still typing, so mine is redundant. I think I'll leave it anyway, simply because you can never have too much information about land in SL.

TDD123 wrote: How about this one ? I quit. I quit. I quit. I quit. I quit. I quit. I quit. Quam ob causam? Ergo! Well okay then. Be that way. ;-)

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: Ah yes, but do you know why 'mad as hatters'? Why specifically hatters? No looking it up on the web - that'd be cheating Darn, did see this yesterday but I'd always assumed that is was nothing more than a reference to the character in "Through the Looking Glass". It doesn't make any sense, of course—because the one hatter was mad does not indicate the entire class of hatters is prone to madness—but it's a fun thing to say. :-) I don't need to look this up. Felt making once involved the use of mercury. Hat makers use felt. Mercury causes brain damage. When I was young, someone posited that the Roman Empire fell because Romans were poisoned by the lead used in the construction of their cookware and eating utensils. I think that theory has been debunked. The Roman Empire, as with everything before and after it, fell because of... "kids these days!". ;-). I just googled the topic (as if I would take YOUR word for anything) and thank you very much. I always like knowing the reasons certain expressions come to be and I've now learned one I thought I already knew. I share your opinion on the Roman Empire. I started to write an explanation but realized everyone would assume I was just trying to write a parable that compares to modern life. If you don't work as hard to keep it as you did to get it, it won't last.

TDD123 wrote: I give up. You win. No really, don't give up. It's way more fun continuing the contest. :-)

Phil Deakins wrote: Ah yes, but do you know why 'mad as hatters'? Why specifically hatters? No looking it up on the web - that'd be cheating Darn, did see this yesterday but I'd always assumed that is was nothing more than a reference to the character in "Through the Looking Glass". It doesn't make any sense, of course—because the one hatter was mad does not indicate the entire class of hatters is prone to madness—but it's a fun thing to say. :-)

I've read all the posts in this thread, examined each very carefully on its own merits and on its relevance to the topic, and I have come to the following conclusion: You are all............mad as hatters. No offense intended.

:-). A woman of parts, as they say. Or do they? I know I've seen 'a man of parts' used many times; not so sure about the expression being phrased around a woman. Carole is definitely one to make even a man of parts suddenly decide it's a good time to take inventory. I'm with you, Perrie. She gave the mix something it lacks in her absence. Was fun reading her posts in the recently necroed thread that has been commented about elsewhere.

Thank you, Perrie, and the same to you and to all our fellow USAers. Thanksgiving has long since become one of my two favorite holidays. The other's Independence Day and that's also USA centric, but that doesn't necessarily make me an ultra-nationalist or anything. I just like the days. On the 4th of July we get to shoot off a whole bunch of fireworks (and maybe at least a little bit remember what this place is supposed to be all about) and who doesn't like fireworks? Thanksgiving is so much about family and friends. I've been lucky enough to have had years and years of participating in wonderful gatherings with great food (all of which was prepared by just about everyone there, each to his/her own specialty), a lot of really nice Chardonnays along with the occasional Sauvignon Blanc, and the company of family and close friends. I wouldn't trade that for.....anything, I guess. I wouldn't trade that. ps: I knew I'd forget to mention it. I didn't look at the youtube clip but I did get a kick out of seeing it. That had to be one of the best episodes ever of WKRP. O, the humanity! I'll go watch it now. :-) Happy Thanksgiving!

Madelaine McMasters wrote: And before Snugs chimes in... Yes, I see the irony of trying to be the most fearsome woman around while decrying the use of fear to motivate people. Rawr As long as Carole F. is around, your best possible place is a somewhat distant second ;-).