[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

6 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I’ve dated some gorgeous guys with terrible personalities, so now I am pretty leery when they “hit me up”. 

I have to be leery of all guys. I learned (the hard way again) to not place so much trust and faith into others. Too many of them will eff you over every chance they get.

[A Derail Thread]

3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I figured, just wanted you to see. FYI, it is Uma Thurman. The movie was quirky, but good.

I recognized her.  That's how I knew the thumbs were fake and not Brachydactyly. She isn't related to the 4 cases that have been reported, all in the same family.

Other half loves the Kill Bill movies. I'm tired of seeing them. 

[A Derail Thread]

3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

What about hers? (From “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”). It gave her hitchhiking superpowers.

 

I've never even heard of it and those thumbs are obviously fake. That isn't what double jointed/hitchhiker's thumb means.

[Here's a Rant]

24 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Someone RL recently said I’m shallow. I had previously said they “weren’t my type”. An eye-opener.

That's not being shallow, imo. That is following a "gut instinct".  I had to learn the hard way how to listen to those feelings and act accordingly.  Life is so much less stressful now and a lot less chaotic without those people constantly tossing monkey wrenches into the works. Had I done so when I was young, I would have saved myself a lot of pain and suffering.

[A Derail Thread]

4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

No, but it curves back towards me.

But it does not point AT you. It can't. Not even hitchhiker's thumb bends that far back. Ninety degrees is about as far as a hitchhiker's thumb will go.

https://www.healthline.com/health/hitchhikers-thumb

And yes, I did hitch around the US in the late 70s, early 80s. I don't have hitchhiker's thumb. 

 

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

There was a time, several decades ago, when all I cared about was if the guy was good looking or not. 

Since then, I've grown to understand that I don't want to be that shallow of a person.

5 Traits That Separate Shallow People from Deep Ones

[Here's a Rant]

Testing. 1 2 3 ... Nope, my Lakota keyboard didn't somehow activate itself.

[A Derail Thread]

14 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Now, raise the thumb, and it will curve backwards towards you!

Mine doesn't bend that far back. Are you double jointed or something?

[A Derail Thread]

21 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I’d take a picture of my hand to show you how it does work, but technically a thumb ain’t a finner.

So you can read between the lines! \o/ 

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

22 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Now if I only had a foolproof way to flatten a warped record. Came from Japan “opened” but too warped to play one disk.

I'm so sorry. Warped can't be fixed. Heat is what warped it to begin with. And since ovens can vary in temperature differences I would never recommend that method.  Your best bet would be to use a flat surface and place a heavy flat object on the record for oh say a few.... months. Or weeks. Depending on how warped.

 

[Here's a Rant]

7 minutes ago, janetosilio said:

Are we talking about Second Life being more and more sexual or something else? 

The only one moving goals posts is you. I have not changed anything I have said. Only worded it slightly differently in the hope that those who are judging people solely on their appearance alone (real or avatar) would actually see that kind of behavior is a bad reflection on them. 

But who am I to argue if people want to lead such shallow, dull, lonely lives.

[Here's a Rant]

5 minutes ago, AyelaNewLife said:

Intentionally refusing to even consider any perspective other than your own is being wilfully blind.

That is exactly what I meant.

If you are implying that I'm the one being willfully blind, you could not be more incorrect. If I misunderstood your intent, I apologize for the misunderstanding. I do not and will not apologize for being accepting of others regardless of how they look on the outside. Real or avatar.

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

We should include the thread that was started not long ago to showcase system avatars. I'm looking for it but not finding it. When I do find it I'll edit this post with the link.

 

Found it.

 

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

12 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Isn’t there a trick to fix the broken grooves? 

If it's just scratched, depending on how bad, it can be "fixed". Broken, however, can never be fixed.

I use this stuff on my helmet face shields, too, since the 70s. 

https://www.ebay.com/p/Vinyl-Scratch-Remover-Remove-Scratches-From-Records-LPS/5009452999?iid=350159190934

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

8 minutes ago, Ren Toxx said:

Unless we wore the blingiest, clickiest pre-sculpt boots we could find, over twin Ruths. Then we’d both be fugly and traceable. Just sayin’

I still have the boots but I deleted all the bling scripts. Whatever shall I do? 

[Here's a Rant]

10 minutes ago, janetosilio said:

No, that’s not what this is. It’s a discussion and I’m disagreeing with you. I’m asking you for something tangible because you made a pretty strong assertion and one I entirely disagree with.

If you’re interpreting what you see as fact and can’t quantify it....it’s no longer a fact. It’s a forum and you’re entitled to go out on a limb with your opinions from time to time. You can also expect someone to come along and cut that limb right off.

So we’re agreeing to disagree?

You haven't cut anything off. Nothing has changed for me. I will never agree that it is desirable to associate with people who are so shallow as to be majorly concerned with being one of the "beautiful people" in a virtual world.

You can disagree all you want. It won't change what I know to be true. Just because you refuse to see it, does not mean it does not exist. Being willfully blind is just that. Being willfully blind.

[Bed with sleep animations under a blanket]

13 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:

I think that to work properly for all (or at least most) avatars, a blanket on a bed would have to be rigged and worn. I've never seen any creator do this.

With as may people LL has hired that previously worked for EA, you'd think LL would... well... probably best to not go there. Someone might get the widdle feewings hurted and report me. Again.

[A Derail Thread]

10 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I was taught, if you point a finger at someone, there are four others pointing back at you.

Incorrect. There are 3 fingers pointing back at you. Thumbs don't work that way. 

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

12 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I’d date you, and I’m a gay/bi.

Aww. That's sweet. Thank you.

The only problem is you'd be dating my avatar and not me.

The other problem is, I'm neither gay nor bi. But I'd still date you, not your avatar. Because I can see you are a kind and caring person on the inside, regardless of what you look like on the outside. Real or avatar. 

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

10 minutes ago, Ren Toxx said:

Yes.

...

Ooops, sorry, I talked to you. I shouldn’t have, not with that ugly system av.

So I guess now I should be ashamed as well, right? 😜

We should go hide ourselves in the deepest, darkest cave we can find. Will Carlsbad Caverns do? It's roomy enough we'd hardly ever bump into each other.

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

Would someone please turn off the stereo or change the record? I think its broken. It keeps skipping and saying the same thing over and over.

[A Derail Thread]

48 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

My mother always told me it's not polite to point.

There was a time (and still is) when children were taught to point with their lips or chin because it is considered rude to point with a finger, hand or arm.

[Does the way your avatar look affect forming bonds?]

Just thought everyone would like to see my old system avatar that I used for modeling a few years ago. It's sooooooo ugly.

 

 

And this is the ugly system avatar I used for modeling in InWorldz.

 

 

They're so ugly I should be ashamed, right?

[What are some of your pet peeves?]

12 minutes ago, kali Wylder said:

embarrassing how long it took me to recognize trolling here....

smh

Don't be. It can be very difficult to spot at times. 

[Here's a Rant]

8 minutes ago, janetosilio said:

How are you quantifying that? 

The point I was making was: No it’s not, it’s about the same and I gave examples of how it’s the same. The point about the prim boobs was SL has been sexual since there were only prims, not whether you wore them or not.

Can you give any kind of quantifiable evidence that SL is becoming more and more sexual?

It's called observation and no I didn't bother to write anything down. Why would I? Anticipation of having this particular conversation? pffft

Why not just accept that some of us know what we see and can interpret it correctly. Or is it too much to ask to accept that others can see what you don't?