['Twas the night before Second Life Christmas]

Hmm. It's only 11:45 here but maybe I should uncork a bottle.

You know, just to let it breathe a little.

[Five word Story Game]

whom even the mightiest tremble

[Just Ignore and let this one die]

3 hours ago, Clover Jinx said:

Thank you Dillon!!!

Aww. I love the picture :-). It is really unlikely I'll be able to show up today, although I did sneak on yesterday and found a not-too-unsuitable Christmas outfit just in case. My best to you both.

[Lines that annoy you most]

7 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:

had a funny one today.. it didn't annoy me.  It made me laugh but worth sharing in case anyone else gets a giggle

Him: hii
Me: (Cindy Evanier): hi
Him: i am male 21
Me: ok
Him: u
Me: I am male too
Him: ohhh
Him left chat range.
Him left the region.

I would have thought the line annoying you most right about now was the one waiting to get in to see "Aquaman".

[Five word Story Game]

"What about the lime?" asked

[Where are all my friends? Come on in and lets get comfy by the fire!]

Happy Winter Solstice to everyone, especially me :-). This is my favorite day of my least favorite part of the year: that part in which there are more hours of darkness than of light.

An especially Happy Solstice to Clover and Rhonda.

[Five word Story Game]

chirping "Nose up or down?"

[Five word Story Game]

who had never flown before

[What do YOU do in Second Life?]

11 hours ago, HivieHivie said:

To put it simply, NO. 

Second Life has been the most addictive thing I've ever played

Plus I'm just curious as well since I see people who've been here for like 10 years and I'm just like 'woah what have you been doing for the past decade?'.

Based on the bolded sentence you're already past asking.

You're hooked :-). Doomed, like the rest of us. Somehow we can't let it go. Even if we stay away for years at a time, we keep in touch, we come back. Your problem won't be finding something to do, it will just be finding time to do a few of the things you want to do because there is always something new.

[It is time for Linden Labs to put in two factor authentication]

7 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

What possible advantage to "bad foreign actors" could SL offer over starting with an end-to-end encrypted communications app such as Signal?

SLEX.

[Is there any way to find out when a user's last login date was?]

Well, this is unusual. This thread jumped from October of 2011 to today and nobody batted an eye; it just kept on trucking as if nothing had happened.

Where's Drake with his Necromancer tarot card?

[Five word Story Game]

with a bobby pin. Suddenly

[Five word Story Game]

are for emergency use only

[Just Ignore and let this one die]

2 hours ago, Clover Jinx said:

Person with issue - I've been SL for 11 years don't you think I know all the tricks by now

There is so much wrong with that sentence that I don't even know where to start.

[Where are all my friends? Come on in and lets get comfy by the fire!]

Again with this? Sheesh. 

At least this one's close to freezing over.

[Five word Story Game]

penguins, lamenting their long lost

[Five word Story Game]

during the last minute shopping

[Is height Synonymous with age?]

It is still an issue but from my perspective less of one than it was back when this thread originated. Even then the trends away from max height avatars was under way, though. It's (in my view) considerably more common now to see avatars approaching RL height norms. See Cindy's post farther up this page and Scylla's thread from a yesterday:  

Why did the software decide to add a snippet of my picture from a post well down in that thread to my saved URL of the OP?

[How to deal with bullies and pushers, etc..]

Yikes. From frying pan to fire right there.

[Five word Story Game]

((Fiddle dee dee, this post was overtaken by events! Move along, please.))

[What's a Good, Functional Height for a Female Avatar?]

49 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Thanks Dillon! Is that 1.85 metres, as measured with a prim? Or as indicated in the viewer?

It's both, if I understand you correctly. My prim height measuring widget says 1.85, the very same number returned by the Shape Editor. I'd thought those used to vary, but maybe that got fixed while I was wandering. I have only done a rough check. I can walk through a 1.9 meter prim without the top of my head (quite) showing, so I'm fairly confident the numbers are correct.

The friend I mentioned is Naz Fride; she is my height or a tiny bit less now, but she was much taller before. This fuzzy pic is almost seven years old and you can see how much taller she was (and I was taller then than I am now). The liberties she appears to be taking with me are purely a result of the height difference, by the way.

[What's a Good, Functional Height for a Female Avatar?]

I don't get in here (this category) often but as it happens this is a subject I've spent a little time with. I'm 1.85 meters, or just a touch over 6 feet. I am certainly not tall, but I do find that I'm actually taller than a few women I see and not much shorter than most. A good friend who used to tower over me is now possibly a smidgen shorter than I am. I think it might be a trend and aside from the issues with buildings, furniture, vehicles, etc. (bless the 'ADJUST' feature) a welcome one.

[Is there a way to rebind my alt key?]

When is an alt not an alt? 

I read this title and took 'alt' to mean, well, alt. You know, those other personalities some of us have. I took 'key' to mean UUID. I saw 'unbinding' and thought, "Wow, what deep level programming concept is this person speaking of so casually as if we all knew what it meant?"

Imagine my disappointment upon reading the second sentence (didn't know what PTT stood for, so the first only whetted my interest) and figuring out you meant the Alt key.

I guess this might be one instance where case matters :-).

[Five word Story Game]

and told lies about the

[Five word Story Game]

*spits out medicine* MOAR SUGAR!