Dillon Levenque

Theresa Tennyson wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: He starts the second or third paragraph with: "Robert Geraci: We are, at our core, religious. By this, I mean that I am comfortable naming our desire to claim the world as meaningful — to see the world as magical and as meaningful — religious. We are driven to find value and meaning in the world and we will persistently engage in that effort." I disagree. He may very well be religious at his core, and need to see the world as meaningful. I"m quite comfortable seeing the world as it makes itself known ot me. So are a whole lot of other people. That's what science is about. If people weren't seeking some sort of "meaning" (i.e. the underlying cause or significance of something) why would there be science at all? I think of science more in terms of finding out how stuff works than why stuff works. I realize there's a lot of overlap there.

He starts the second or third paragraph with: "Robert Geraci: We are, at our core, religious. By this, I mean that I am comfortable naming our desire to claim the world as meaningful — to see the world as magical and as meaningful — religious. We are driven to find value and meaning in the world and we will persistently engage in that effort." I disagree. He may very well be religious at his core, and need to see the world as meaningful. I"m quite comfortable seeing the world as it makes itself known ot me. So are a whole lot of other people. That's what science is about.

Treasure Ballinger wrote: It doesn't 'matter'. But...... it's the topic of this thread..... right? One of the possibilities being, celebrities in RL paying LL for use of their RL names in SL? You're riight, it would matter to a celebrity, or at least most of them. Famous names are a commodity, it seems. and that would explain the fees involved in 'owning' one in Second Life. I only meant to say that names here (not just here on this Forum but in SL itself) are only names.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: it's our selves that matters, not our names. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26634477 I've been called "Mad" by people who didn't know that was my name. ;-). There are always exceptions. I shouldn't have said that. Now you'll be thinking you're exceptional. Sorry, Snugs.

Ceka Cianci wrote: I used to mess around with it a few years ago..not a real lot i just never could really..i didn't like being told what to do hehehehe Someone ask me to put on a collar one time and i had no idea what it was gonna do..then they start draggin me around like a dog and i turned into a b!tch trying to get that thing off..Get this Freakin thing off me now!! so not much of a modeling career type person really lol Okay, that did crack me up. I mean, didn't the fool even LOOK at you? Would not have taken a whole lot of research to know that Ceka and Collar are not going to work out. How many times did you run over him?

Treasure Ballinger wrote: I think that's why for example, Yoko Ono is 'really' Yoko Ono'. If she's still in SL that is, but the RL Yoko Ono actually had the name. Funny, in a way. I suppose if there's a Yoko Ono in SL she might be also Yoko Ono in RL, but how much would that matter? You're Treasure Ballinger. I know who Treasure Ballinger is. And Pamela, and Amethyst, and Coby. I don't really know Malarwen yet, but I imagine I probably will, in time. We are each of us ourselves. In here we all recognize each other by the names we have, but it's our selves that matters, not our names.

irihapeti wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: If you can find something that ain't broke, I won't fix it. I dare ya. ;-). q; (: i fix a lot of unbroken things that seem broken but are not like i fixed my router the other day by smashing my keyboard when i got a big lag on my router. The router has been behave itself ever since ps i didnt actual smash it the keyboard. It just kinda jumped off the desk onto the floor all by itself seems like somehow. Is like they have a mind of their own sometimes. Which is pretty strange I think (: Somehow you all kept this topic sub rosa; I hadn't seen it since it was new. But your comment reminded me of a time many moons ago when I might have let my temper get the best of me while arguing with somthing not a digital twin, but still a digital entity. You have to have a bit of a USA-bent cultural database to get it, but I know from reading the things you post here that your particular DB is quite extensive, so I'm sure it's in there somewhere. After it happened I got called Jerry Lee a lot, as in, "Hasn't really worked right since you went all Jerry Lee on the keyboard".

Madelaine McMasters wrote: irihapeti wrote about a skillion adjustments she'd like to make to her avatar and mesh clothing, to make it all fit well. I'm beginning to see the wisdom of one of Void Singer's avatars. In one spikey stroke of genius, she obviated the need for any and all adjustments... And yet, stroke of genius notwithstanding, you torched her off as if she was nothing but yesterday's newspapers. By the way, Void (in spite of being a very nice person) tends not to come across as cuddly. That avatar doesn't do anything to change that. And Dr. De Santis: I won't speak for Maddy but I will give my opinion: I doubt she meant to cast aspersions on those who enjoy twisting and tweaking the pieces that make up Second Life.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: And Sequoia National Forest is, and I'm using this word quite correctly... awesome. I hope you Californ-i-a folks get some rain as well. Yeah. We used to camp each summer in a state park along what's called "The Avenue of the Giants": a two-lane road that goes for miles through old-growth redwood groves. It used to be the main north-south highway (US 101) on the coastal side of Northern California. They built a four-lane freeway that by-passed it. Lots of people were against it, because it required cutting down a hell of lot of old growth trees, but the end result is that people in a hurry can stay on the freeway and admire the trees at speed, while those who turn off and take the Avenue can putter along to their heart's content. We'd usually take the first Avenue turn-off. You don't really get into the trees until after you go through the little town of Miranda (we were coming from the south). Just north of Miranda the road goes straight into the center of a grove. You are suddenly right up against those awesome trees. I loved that. A dozen or more trips and it got me every time. There was a place just past the first turn with nice flat open space to park. There were ALWAYS cars parked there, facing north. ALWAYS. I just knew they'd come around that corner and had an OMG moment. Pull over, get out, and walk. The pic is just one that's representative of the Avenue of the Giants; I did not learn where it was taken. Doesn't really matter; miles and miles of that road look like this.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: Wow, you people have a lot of water. Minnesota license plates carry the slogan "Land of 10,000 Lakes". They actually have 11,842. Wisconsin has 15,074 lakes and our license plates say "America's Dairyland". California's diary production far exceeds Wisconsin's, so you're actually America's dairyland, although your license plates say "The Golden State" when it's a mix of green and, increasingly, brown. I think there must be a law that license plate slogans be wrong. We call that green and gold, actually. The original 'gold' in the description was driven by the incredible amount of gold the state produced from 1849 on, but we've seem to let it also mean the color of tall dry grass a month or two after the rains stop. I'll come around a turn and see a vista of rolling hills in, say, late May or early June. By then the live oaks have all refreshed with leaves as green as can be, and the grass is dry as toast and pale to downriight glossy yellow, depending. Someone from a place that gets a normal amount of precipitation would probably think, "Man. Kinda dry around here.". I think, "Wow, that's beautiful.". It's all about what you're used to. We sure could use just a bit more rain this year, though. Another one like the last couple and we'll be hurtin' for certain.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Callum Meriman wrote: All to protect a small handfull of two bit, backwater provinces in the USA. If any of you ever visit Rhinelander, WI... I had to go look that up (if for no other reason than it looks like a neat place to visit, in a different season). It's of course called Backwaters because it's on what's apparently called 'the backwaters' of the Wisconsin River. Once I was there in Google Maps I just kept following the river downstream, on and on. I was in Wisconsin a couple of times and wondered if I'd ever met that river. I had the zoom in fairly close. Wow, you people have a lot of water. For a Californian (especially right now, in the midst of one or our worse droughts ever), it was almost too much to take in. Water everywhere! As it turns out I never got to the Wisconsin; my southernmost visit had me turning west back toward Minnesota north of the junction with the Mississippi and my northernmost visit didn't get me far enough east. In California, as in most of the west, we tend to call the collection of springs and creeks and lesser rivers and such that come together to form the first parts of our rivers the headwaters. Apparently in Wisconsin they call it the backwaters. Probably a Wisconsin thing.

It's nice to see a concerned citizen doing her part to help. I can just picture the viewing room. "Jeez. Don't they ever do anything but dance/shoot zombies/fly/drive/skate/that other? Where's the subterfuge, the hidden agenda? Oh cool. Tari's on."

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Skill game regions may not be on the mainland. They must be on private sims that do no connect to a non skill game sim. However they may be connected to another private region that is a skill game sim. I think that "...may not be on the mainland..." was the clue I needed, so thanks. I've been seeing it all from a mainlander's point of view, and from there that restriction doesn't make sense. Having just now read up a bit on how Private Regions work and what they are, I get it completely. I've never paid any attention to the rules for and the workings of private regions, because owning one has never been in my plans. I just knew there was such a thing but had no idea of the way they worked.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: That would be like me sending teleport requests to my fireplace. The moment the victim arrived, they'd know I was the culprit in their attempted incineration. It would be so much better to torch them from behind. They'd never know it was me. Only a fool would announce her identity in the middle of a crime. ;-). How would you describe someone who announces her identity in advance of the crime? I have no words for that. You wanna take a stab at it? Cute, in a nefarious kinda way.

Snugs McMasters wrote: Careful, Dillon. She's fishing for compliments, and unlike you, she'll keep a runt or even claim the bait was a catch. Maybe I was fishing for bait, Snugs ;-).

Madelaine McMasters wrote: That would be like me sending teleport requests to my fireplace. The moment the victim arrived, they'd know I was the culprit in their attempted incineration. It would be so much better to torch them from behind. They'd never know it was me. Only a fool would announce her identity in the middle of a crime. ;-). How would you describe someone who announces her identity in advance of the crime?

I have only skimmed through all the flap threads (FLAP, I said) about this whole topic because games I have to pay to play really don't interest me any more in SL than they do in RL. But I did click the 'meet certain qualifications' link in the Linden blog post you linked. One item puzzles me. I own a region and would like it to be converted to a Skill Gaming Region. What do I need to do? Submit a support ticket and pay the applicable maintenance fee. Skill Gaming Regions will begin rolling out in late July, 2014. Once your region has been designated a Skill Gaming Region, you will need to become an approved operator if you would like to operate games of skill on that region. For more details, please review the Skill Gaming Policy and application. Note: Skill Gaming Regions cannot be located adjacent to non-Skill Gaming Regions. The bolded line. What does that mean, exactly? Are all skill gaming regions on one continent?

I saw something on the Feed that led me here originally. I could not forumulate nor find a really clever response, so I'll just settle for this. Sorry, Dres. Best I could do.

I got so confused by the way this discussion moved. I mean, what if someone got turned into a rabbit and raped in sl? What would the pregnancy test be? Would it be, "Bad news, and bad news. The human died, and you ARE pregnant."? The mind reels. It jigs occasionally too.

ConnieG Sorbet wrote: I think the whole 'inventory' system is full of bugs..... and needs an overall. Sick of things disappearing. I also think it's very complicated for newbies .... veterans have all the info in their minds over time so forget the simple things they learnt over time and aware of the changes especially if they are creators. I also think the original poster is a troll having a laugh... Not to get on a disagreement bandwagon but I really don't think that for the most part "veterans have all the info in their minds over time so forget the simple things they learnt over time...". A lot of what we learned we didn't learn 'over time' so much as all at once, by doing things like Perrie did: click on the question mark. Get on the internet and start looking. The Answers forum here is probably the biggest knowledge base at least in terms of individual posts, but it's by no means the only resource either official or unofficial. There is information galore. For me, anyway, I'd make sure I at least learn enough to do what I needed right then. Yes, I acquired more knowledge over time by reading posts about Inventory or just by trying things, but that's still my individual research. The forum is a great place to ask questions, but it works much, much better if the person asking has already spent some time trying to learn the anwer and simply been unable to find it. The questions from people who haven't bothered to look (and who continue to not bother looking, such as the OP here) get a bit tiresome.

Ceka Cianci wrote: honestly,the world needs to stop overlaping definitions of things.. addiction should fall under the physical where obsession should fall under something you are not addicted to physically.. is a stalker addicted to someone or are they obsessed with someone? is someone addicted to sports or are they obsessed with sports? Pick a lane webster! hehehe Interesting that you mentioned sports. I do believe there are people who may not be obsessed with/addicted to sports, but are definitely obsessed with/addicted to gambling on sports. I frequently listen to a sports-centric radio station and I remember a call from someone who wanted to 'stump the DJ' (or hosts in this case—it was a talk show). The caller said, "There are only two days each year when you can walk into a sports book (a place in which you can make bets on sporting events) and there are no professional or high level college games to bet on. What are the two days?". I of course had no idea. The two hosts of the talk show both knew instantly: the day before and the day after the major league baseball All Star game, which takes place each year on a Tuesday in July. The league schedules no games on either the Monday before or the Wednesday after. There are no college games of any kind since it's July. The professional football, basketball, and hockey leagues are all in their offseason. Apparently those two days are very difficult for hardcore sports gamblers. I presume, with the continuing increase in followers of the other form of football (the one everyone but the North Americans call football) that there will eventually be a wage-worthy event even during the All Star break. It won't be the English Premier League (the one that has the most traction in the US at the moment), though. I see their season starts in August and ends in May. ETA: More to your excellent point, which I just went right by without even thinking: I do see a difference in what the two words mean, and in what they imply. I'd call someone who spends a great deal of time and money betting on sports an addict. Might not be physically addicted like someone on heroin, might not get physically ill if prevented from having his/her chance at the bet, but addicted just the same. A fan who has (or even worse, wears*) a collection of his/her team's jerseys, who knows who everyone on the team is dating or married to, who knows what they like to do in their time off, who knows exactly someone's rebounds per game/on base percentage/yards after catch: that fan is obsessed. *That his/her thing is skewed for me when it comes to wearing team jerseys. I think any male over the age of about 13 who wears a team jersey (one with his athlete of choice's name on the back) looks like an idiot. Oddly enough, I think females of any age who wear team jerseys just look cute.

Today, as are most Tuesdays, is Server Maintenance Day. LL does rolling restarts of sims. Today's restarts began at 7:34 AM, according the grid status page . Your sim probably got re-started. Give it a few minutes and try again. edit: What Freya said.

Pamela Galli wrote: Not unlike Second Life was for many -- the old Second Life, in which people took clunky prims and made clunky things that seemed beautiful enough at the time. Well, beautiful to people in Second Life -- people outside of it ridiculed it for not looking like Myst. It looked more like it was built with Legos. Like Minecraft does. Within weeks of joining Second Life I discovered how fascinating it was to build these clunky things. It was a challenge to figure out how to make things look organic, but back then (2007) we accepted the limits of prim builds and filled in the rest with our imaginations. Pretty much like millions of avid Minecraft players do now. Those days are gone from Second Life. I think Linden Lab developers got tired of hearing the same insults about how clunky Second Life looked compared to other games, how dated it was. Some users complained about it too, but honestly, most of us thought Second Life looked just fine, if not downright glorious. I remember trying to see it through detractors' eyes, as ugly -- but could not. Now, of course, I can. Mesh changed how we see content, and much more. My earliest model furniture looks positively ludicrous next to my mesh creations. Even much of the sculpted stuff I was once proud of now looks pretty sad. What is sadder still, to me, is the change in my job description. In the past, when asked about my job, I had to give this too-long explanation of building virtual things I sold in a virtual store for real money, which always drew blank looks -- because it was unique, it didn't correspond to any other job description anyone had ever heard of. Now, however, I just say I am a 3D artist selling things in a virtual world. While I assemble things inworld, all of my building now takes place offline in the world's most complicated and inscrutable software, Blender. But even that creation model -- making mesh offline -- is outdated. The smart thing to do now, in terms of efficiency, is to skip over the part about creating and just find things on the internet to import into Second Life, textures and all. Whole stores full of this content have sprung up overnight -- many of them full perm stores supplying retail merchants. And since it takes hardly any time to upload, it is often dirt cheap. The creator has been replaced by the uploader. No surprise there. (Though when I predicted this outcome, many objected, saying, "They said the same about sculpts!", although there were never warehouses full of sculpts available for import into SL.) However, I started out making things for the same reason kids make Minecraft creations. They don't want to just have (or sell) things, they want to make things. And that is what I want, to make things. I never get tired of making things, but I think the same amount of time spent uploading would get very old. More lucrative but so boring. So making things is what I do and will continue to do, although it puts me -- and everyone who makes and sells things -- at a competitive disadvantage. I am just sorry that for most of Second Life users, creation within Second Life was once within their grasp and no longer is. People are simply not going to run out an learn offline 3D modeling. Yes, everyone can still build clunky, high LI stuff out of prims, but now that we see them through mesh-tinted glasses, those things don't look so good to us anymore. So why bother? The powers that be have decided that it is more important that Second Life look good than for it to be a clunky creation-oriented platform like Minecraft. I like making mesh, I am glad I was forced into dramatically updating my skills -- but it is not clear to me that what Second Life has gained outweighs what it has lost. In fact, I suspect it has not. Certainly there is no evidence that this massive remaking of Second Life (and its creators) has had the slightest effect on user retention. Hopefully if Microsoft does end up buying Minecraft for $2,000,000,000 it will not make the same mistake re: goose and golden egg. (replying to your post in general, to the bolded part specifically) I suspect you're right, and there are plenty on this forum who agree and have said so. It's hard to tell about the population in general. I mean, if you're just a consumer in SL as I mostly am, maybe it's okay to only get cool things by purchasing them. If I hadn't known I could build my own houses, would I have bothered? I don't know. I just remember how building things here, things that actually came out looking like I wanted them to look, was such a treat. When I finished my first house, an 1880's style frontier house: two rooms, a gabled roof, and a planked front porch that ran end-to-end and had a pillar supported roof of its own that angled slightly from the house's roof, I sent a pic of the yet to be textured build to Naz with an IM saying, "Congratulate me! I've built a house!". She IM'd congratulations and added, "It looks remarkably....houselike." I was undeterred. I haven't built anything in a long time, but it was part of my second life and still is. For someone who builds for the market it's no doubt a huge part of your second life. I still like what SL is, and what it's about. I don't know if the fun of creating inworld will disappear but it might. There are people on the blogs and on the forums who will dismiss any creation using prims simply because it uses prims. If a new person happens to hear enough of that garbage it would tend to dissuade that person from even starting to build. I mean, if you get this great idea for a whatever and go to all the trouble to create, shape, and texture it only to have everyone say, "Nah, it's crap. I mean, prims. Really?", you might not bother to even start. I think that would be SL's loss.

You say "...I set up this account..." which is rather confusing, but presumably you're talking about an account other than the one you posted with here, since the password is required to log in and post to this forum. As far as I know your only option is to contact Support directly: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-contact-customer-support/ta-p/739385

He can get into a lot more trouble watching a belly dancer than he can playing a casino game. But chances are he'll have way more fun with that. :-) Good on 'im. (I know, I was speaking Strine but at least that's in your neighborhood)