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5 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:

I wonder how many times Selene tried to zoom and checked her camera constraints 🤔

   

[Your Second Life experience in a picture]

30 minutes ago, Cindy Evanier said:

Any excuse, not even going to explain my choice

I can't stop watching and he's not even wearing a thong. 

 

He's also wearing black shorts under the gold lame.... 

[sorry about that for my SL's #1 priority vehicle manufacturer group]

34 minutes ago, jaja2939 said:

Hi I'm apologized for geting banned from GEMC for Trolling. because I'm just asking the question about the detroit milestone for the too many listens errore question about the detroit milestone for the too many listens error could everyone help IM to beck to unban me from the Group? everyone? using Hi, I have a question before these word

You really think you'll be able to drag a bunch of strangers into your drama. Maybe when you've matured enough to deserve the support. Maybe.

[Hosting website for $L]

2 hours ago, Steronum said:

Hi, I provide hosting for websites, including professional email. Can I advertise and rent these services on Second Life if the price is in L$?

The best thing for you to do is file a support ticket with all the pertinent information about your business and ask LL your questions. Asking here you'll get 100 different answers from 10 different people (not a typo) and none of them will be 100% accurate. Get your info from The Source, not the residents.

[A New LEA? How Can LL Best Support the Arts in Second Life?]

1 hour ago, clivesteel said:

If this is true...and LL really is withdrawing LEA funding...I say...

GOOD RIDDANCE 👍

The LEA charlatans and poseurs have NEVER given one damn about the SL dispossessed...the homeless sandbox dwellers...the civil rights advocates, fighting a mounting tide of nazi filth on these forums...the residents who turned to griefing because insane 'creators' jacked up their prices by 50%+ in their greed-fuelled fantasies of wealth and stardom (huh huh, Beavis...mesh...meshhhh...sounds like huh huh...'poo willy brain'...huh huh huh...)

No, DAMN you 'artists' and your worthless garbage...how does it feel, now the boot's on the other foot, SLIME..?? Enjoying yr discomfort SOOOO much. The chickens have well and truly come home to roost...

As I said to Torley Linden in 2014 (when ALL of you VEGHEADS were griefing...we see you), art is a commodity that soothes the inadequate. You artists are the enemy of noobs. The disgusting vision of SL you've thrust upon us has stifled all genuine creativity, communication and compassion. Bury your galleries yourselves...we'll not partake in the clean-up effort.

We've gone without grants since day one. Now, damn you for complaining about receiving the same treatment. This is what you wanted instead of socialism. 

What the hell?

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

1 minute ago, KanryDrago said:

I did say "decent" mesh bodies

 

2 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:

Nothing wrong with making them decent(er).

 

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

We already have "standard mesh bodies" from SL. Nothing wrong with making them decent(er). When you get down to the nitty gritty, it's all a form of mesh; terrain, prims, sculpts... the whole works is mesh in one form or another.

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

increasingly I'm seeing clothing that is made only for Maitreya Lara.

I'm seeing the opposite. lol I'm seeing more and more creators who are creating for the top 4 or 5 (maybe 3?) than just Maitreya. And I have the Lara on this account. My others have the Ebody, which I've discovered some of the clothes made for Lara will fit the Ebody. While I won't say the quality of the Ebody is quite on par with the Lara, they are pretty damn close, imo. I do wish more creators would produce for the Ebody.

I do agree with what you've said. I was hoping someone would pick up on it. People don't seem to take that sort of thing from me very kindly no matter how carefully I word it.

They went down that road once with Anshe. Hopefully they learned their lesson from it and won't repeat that mistake. Thankfully, the Anshe dollar never made it out of the starting gate.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

Just now, Amina Sopwith said:

It's not supposed to make sense in translation.
 

That's the whole point.

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It's just a collection of Latin words that, when read out, read a funny poem in English. Forte is pronounced "fortee" (like "forty" but with the stress on the second syllable).

And according to the Catholic priest that taught Latin at my high school it's pronounced fore-tay. He was not happy when one of the best Latin students he'd had in along time switched back to Art at midterm. At least, according to him I was.

[SL's First Protest ~ Ancestor of the Tila Protest]

Yay for Yadni!

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

41 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:

Caesar ad sum iam forte

Brutus et dederat,

Caesar sic in omnibus

Brutus sic in at.

Bravo! Magnifico! Glorioso!

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 Caesar might have, perhaps, I am now,

Brutus and given;

Caesar was thus in all the

White is in at.

They'll never see it coming and never know what hit them.

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

56 minutes ago, Drayke Newall said:

megaprims that were created through work arounds or 'hacks'

We had so called megaprims back in the day. Then LL took them away so creators gave them back. Then LL woke up and gave them back. My point being we had megas to being with and LL saw fit to place restrictions on size and after LL saw the demand, they removed the size constraints (or increased them).

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

Even if LL were to update and improve the avatars and the avatar system, that wouldn't necessarily mean creators would have to stop making heads and bodies or complete bodies (using the LL avatar as a base and/or import). No reason anyone with a bit of imagination couldn't continue creating and selling them. A little oneupmanship between LL and creators won't kill the grid. It might even help it to grow, which is the ultimate goal. Growth and sustainability.

[A New LEA? How Can LL Best Support the Arts in Second Life?]

18 minutes ago, Zeta Vandyke said:

Content wise, as long as we don't break TOS, we are very much in control.

But I agree to a level, and do think we should see LL cares. What we are discussing is,

Even content wise LL is still very much in control. And once again they choose to be hands off about it.

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Well, some people prefer "total" freedom above "leadership" involvement.

There are many ways to be involved that do not require "leadership" and "total freedom" is just begging for trouble. That is how some people are.

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if sponsoring art is the way they should show this care.

The way? Why should LL limit themselves to just one way? Being involved with the community via only one means is not being involved with the community. It's paying lip service. If LL is truly trying to clean their act and reputation up, paying lip service to their current and prospective customers is not the way to do it.

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[A New LEA? How Can LL Best Support the Arts in Second Life?]

39 minutes ago, Zeta Vandyke said:

We are in control.

LL is in control. They just choose to be hands off about it when they should be hands on. 

How many residents see LL as something lurking in the background and how many see LL as involved in the community? 

LL needs to be involved in the community (and proactive) and something like Endowment for the Arts is one way of doing that.

SL residents need to see that LL cares. Every. Single. Day.

[Bug in billing information (Tilia) voluntary info.]

We all have truths. Are mine the same as yours? Is truth unchanging law?

[SL's First Protest ~ Ancestor of the Tila Protest]

Just now, Lindal Kidd said:

Am not!  You're too fast.

Let's fight!

     

 

Bang! Bang! You're dead! I quit!

[SL's First Protest ~ Ancestor of the Tila Protest]

2 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Pretty much any of the freebie stores.  Much of the clothing there is the old layer-style type.

You're too slow. 

[SL's First Protest ~ Ancestor of the Tila Protest]

40 minutes ago, Fait said:

I want some oldbie clothes just for fun.  Where can I get some?

Any freebie store in SL.

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

8 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

it created an enormously important industry in Second Life

Did it? Or did it drive many creators to stop creating because the market for prim creations vanished due to mesh?

We can do the "what if" thing all day long but it won't accomplish anything.

And if I'm not making any sense... sorry. I should have shut down and hour ago.

[Secondlife declining player base]

4 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

Aww, you have to use your imagination!

Whose world and imagination is this anyway? Yours or mine? Or his? Or hers? Or theirs?  

[Why is Second Life so laggy now compared to the past?]

9 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Right, exactly.

So . . . that's obviously a good thing for me: it's that much less that I would have spent on my two avatars.

But . . . not so good for the SL economy. Or for LL. And, arguably, in the long run, for anyone using the platform: the SL economy is the machine that makes everything work.

 

8 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

Yes. As I've just said in another thread , it's too late. What's done is done.

 

Hey now, the question was asked, I gave the answer. Not my fault LL never had any foresight and ignored their customer base for over 10 years. I'm just stating the obvious.

ETA: And now I'm sitting here giggling because I'm stating the obvious. D'oh  

[Secondlife declining player base]

I have a little difficulty remembering things I never saw. 🐘

[Second Life Virtual World and Social Media]

1 hour ago, Parhelion Palou said:

How would you advertise Earth to potential alien vacationers?