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Selene Gregoire

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  1. 28 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

    Is this an either/or question?  I pick SL.

    For me, the differences no longer exist. I've watched SL become more and more like RL for well over 15 years. Should have been expected since SL is populated by humans. Some of us had hope it wouldn't happen. Silly us. So unless something drastic happens by the end of the year and some changes are made in SL (LOL) I might as well pick RL. At least I won't be alone all the time in RL. Just most of the time.

    And of course NOW my eyes are finally adjusting to the smaller screen size of my laptop (since my main desktop died and backup is way out of date on Win10) so that maybe I can actually see what I'm doing IF my laptop  can actually run SL. I've never even installed a viewer on it. lol

    Sucks to be me. xD

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  2. Renaming the thread to "How to turn Second Life into a crappy MMORPG" would be more accurate. The two are not compatible. Do you really want SL to be another The Sims? Do you really want to make your avatar go to the bathroom to relieve itself, bathe, eat and sleep? All those things we have to do in RL but wish we didn't so we'd have more time for the things we need and want to do.

    Why am I even bothering. No one is going to hear, much less actually listen. No one ever does.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    I don't need to ask anyone. People here made claims without evidence. They are the ones who need to show that what they claimed is true. I haven't claimed anything one way or the other, so I don't need to make enquiries.

    Are you calling me a liar? Because if you are, you are most sadly mistaken.

     

    2 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    He's the one who gave Emerald, and its successors, a bad name, which hasn't yet been outgrown.

    If you know this why are you punishing everyone else for the actions of one?

     

    I think I'm going to go back to just reading the forum and shaking my head because, frankly, humans are a bad joke.

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Wili Clip said:

    When they can not find time or resources to implement latest communication technology that other social media platforms use I don't see LL changing or duplicating their whole infrastructure to implement something that just makes things more complex and harder to understand for average consumer.

    Oh I get it now. It's ok for you to do it but not anyone else.

    There is a huge difference between ignorance and stupidity. Most people are neither.

  5. Just now, FairreLilette said:

    I was thinking perhaps you were denied because you were 60 and immunocompromised?  That does sound a bit strange as you are the first I've heard of this.  I know people in my building who might be immunocompromised from diabetes and have received the vaccine.

    I've heard Medi-Caid sucks.  We do need a health care overhaul here undoubtedly.    I don't know what else to say.  

    I'm over 60, like I said. People who are immunocompromised are supposed to be some of the first ones after essential personnel, along with being a senior citizen. Those two things should have put me in that group. For whatever reason, it didn't happen. So, as usual, I'm screwed and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

    There is a world wide shortage of vaccines.
    Be lucky that the US has the resources and production capacity to roll out their program so quickly.  Of course that doesn't mean everybody can apply in the first rounds. It will take a few months before everyone who likes to can have the first jab.
    The US passed Europe by a lot already in the percentage of people vaccinated. Your current president and administration does care.

    We have to be patient.

    I got my first jab and now have to wait until end of may for the second one.
    Praying that it will be available by then, because AstraZeneca is playing dirty games with the EU.
    And my first shot was AstraZeneca.

     

     

    I was flat out told I do not qualify. Meaning, I won't get the vaccine until everyone else has gotten it when I am at high risk. My doc told me I should qualify but when I signed up I was told NO,  you do not qualify for vaccination. 

    Current admin doesn't even know I exist.

    I've been patient for 50 years, how much longer do I need to be patient?

    Not mad at you Sid and I'm not meaning to take it out on you or anyone else. It's just so damned frustrating to be treated like I haven't mattered my whole life.

    I've pretty much given up on getting any kind of decent  medical care in the US.

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  7. 29 minutes ago, FairreLilette said:

    They may be afraid you could die from it.  I have been vaccinated in a two-step process with the Pfizer one and received a card with the batch number on it.  The first one I thought might be a placebo because with the second one I am fighting tiredness and other mild to moderate symptoms.  I just feel totally lousy to tell you the truth with the second one.  So, it's not completely innocuous.  My doctor knows and said that means "it's working".  I hope so cuz I don't feel so good at all but no fever nor like I'm going to die or anything.  I have decreased appetite too but still eat about half portions or so post 2nd dose of Covid vaccine.  

    I've had the Pneumo-Vax vaccine several times now since I had pneumonia as a kid and that vaccine has worked wonders for me and kept me feeling great.  I don't know why, with Covid's main horrid side effect - pneumonia, doctors and others aren't considering giving out the Pneumo-Vax vaccine?

    I've been taking vitamin-C supplement (fresh) and eating oranges.  Vitamin-C helps the absorption of iron and it helps me fight the fatigue somewhat.  

     

    lol No. They aren't "afraid I could die from the vaccine".  This is Medicaid. The same Medicaid that has denied treatment for the very thing that compromised my immune system. This is what health care looks like in the US.

  8. On 3/23/2021 at 7:14 AM, LittleMe Jewell said:

    Every day, multiple times a day, since early March, I've been checking 4 different locations for any new available appointments.  Then last week, a sort-of-close (20-25 minutes away) Fire Station announced it was going to start doing vaccine clinics.  Of course all appointments were immediately booked up before I even heard about it. They said they would post the schedule for this week once they determined days & hours.  I monitored the website all last Friday evening, and all day Saturday, Sunday, and yesterday.  No signup schedule was posted by the time I went to bed last night - roughly 10:30 pm.  I checked as soon as I got logged in this morning - approx. 7:30 am and the schedule for this week was finally posted --- and ALL appointments for Tue-Sat were already booked.

    I'm honestly getting sick & tired of having to constantly go out to tons of different web sites to try and find an appointment.  I'm just about to the point of saying "f*** it, I'll come check again in a month or two".

     

    At least you qualify. Apparently over 60 compromised immune systems don't. So I have already said eff it. Why bother? No one gives a damn if I live or die. They only care if they live. FTW does not  mean For The Win.

  9. 42 minutes ago, Chaser Zaks said:

    While I will back Wili in regards to hacks, as people who hack into servers have various motives. Maybe it is for money, maybe they want to cause as much chaos as possible. I know there are people who hack into servers and just wipe everything, maybe after they take a copy of the database for themself.

    However, something is fishy (no pun intended, or maybe pun intended. Yes pun intended.) about all this. Something smells of subtle advertising, considering how active Wili has been on the forums lately, and then suddenly this thread gets necro bumped. Could be a coincidence, but feels suspicious to me.

    You aren't the only one. And now he's trying to dig up dirt on other posters. Real classy guy.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Sid Nagy said:

    Hey, meet Sid Nagy. Always on the LL browser.
    I tried about 15 minutes the FS one, but no, nope.

    Why would I trust my login and password to a third party.
    Wasn't there that emerald thingy in the past?

     

    Remember Fractured Crystal? Yeah, he's the one and only one responsible for the DDoS attack on that website.

  11. 3 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    Your memory is good :) - except that IE was the most used browser at the time ;)

    I do have a preference for the originals as standards, and I am very down on the idea that 'my <whatever it is> is used by a lot of people that I know, therefore it is the most used one in the world. I have yet to be presented with evidence that Firestorm is used by more people than all the others put together. I see (biased) statements, but I don't see evidence.

    Like I said ask Jessica Lyon for the info. As head of the whole FS team she is the one who receives that info from Linden Lab. LL doesn't give that info out to just anyone same as they don't publish a lot of the info they used to publish.

  12. 15 minutes ago, Wili Clip said:

    By all means you don't have to believe anything that you read on forum by anyone and that is what I am also saying. I myself don't create an opinion on people from what I read about them. But from their interactions with me and how they are with me. Usually I can see fast if I can trust someone or if someone is not worthy of my trust. And from forums you'll never be able to really know someone. 

    But if you really want to get to know me you can join our community and see me how I do things on a daily basis, who I am. You can interact with me.. I am almost always in SL and part of the community. I am an open book. Transparent and I answer all questions that someone asks me.

    If you choose to doubt me that is your free will and you can do anything you want. I am not a politician and not into popularity contests. I am the way I am and because of my work and because I do my work in spirit of reciprocity and fairness to people (who come in touch with me), they like me and like doing business with me, while there are some people who don't like me but they also don't know me or they have issues with being negative, impatient, hating, intolerant to those who are different. But that is not my problem if someone is on overall a negative and hateful person.

    \O.. O/ 

     

    Sorry, no, not falling for it. I've been around too long  and seen too much. I know a snake oil salesman when I see one.

     

    im-not-falling-for-that-again-109170.jpg

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  13. 2 hours ago, wesleytron said:

    Is it different in the way that Google+ was like, totally different to Facebook? Google+ had "circles" while Facebook has "friends"

    Or in the way McDowell's is nothing like McDonald's? McDonald’s has the golden arches, McDowell’s has the golden arcs. McDonald’s has the Big Mac, but McDowell’s has the Big Mick. Totally different.

    mcdowells-restaurant-comingtoamerica-700

     

     

    Aren't they still in court over the names? I think it was Mickey D's that filed suit against McDowell's.

  14. 3 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    Yes, 3rd party viewers do add things to the LL viewer, and re-arrange things too. We know that. As for the percentages, I'd still like to see LL's figures. I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm saying that I don't accept your figure.

    But that's beside the point. The way for the OP to cover as many users as possible with the pic dimensions is to use the standard viewer's dimensions - that's the LL viewer. 3rd party viewers should handle the ratio ok, but I don't think the standard viewer will handle non-standard ratios, and a lot of people use the standard viewer. That's my opinion, anyway.

    *thwaps you on the  nose with two fingers* Behave!

    The figures we used to get came directly from LL. As for what that figure might be now you'd need to ask Jessi since LL isn't going to provide those figures to anyone else (that isn't on a TPV dev team, not the support team). You might find the most recent figures somewhere on the FS blog. Jess does post that kind of info usually.

    All SL photogs should use LL's standard ratios for profile pics. There's good reason for it if they'd just do the research.

  15. It would behoove LL to listen to residents since many of us have been in SL far longer than they have been employees. Obviously, there are exceptions like Strawberry but she wasn't hired for a position with any real authority. Meaning, she can convey but she can't  make them listen. 

    Want to know what happens when companies don't listen to their customers? Ask US Airways,  W. T. Grant and Blockbuster.

    Do you believe it can be salvaged? - Page 12 — The Sims Forums

    Yes, that is my post. 

  16. 1 minute ago, Coffee Pancake said:

    As a sometime TPV developer, there are many occasions where we find ourselves with an idea for a viewer feature and have to consider how it fits in the rules set by Linden Lab. Getting them to sign off on anything is impossible.

    As Oz would put it, If you have to ask...

    (no, the answer is no, always no)

    I'll back Coffee on this. Every word of it. Except the developer part. I didn't do that. But yes, I saw this happen so many times over the years. Barely managed to get them to accept the media filter, of all things.

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  17. 7 minutes ago, Wili Clip said:

    Lots of people asked me about it 

    So? People should be asking you hard questions. Your answers are what give people the information they need for an informed decision.

     

    7 minutes ago, Wili Clip said:

    and we are all still waiting.

    Doesn't mean the others are waiting with you. Many of them are just waiting to see LL say no.

    One of the first rules of entrepreneurship is know your audience. When are you going to start studying yours?

  18. 4 hours ago, Shnucks Swashbuckler said:

    Thanks for the comment Phil. 

    So what are the standard LL picks dimentions for photos ? and I shall try this on Firestorm . 

    Cheers 

     

     

    The links have already been posted. Second post in the thread I think. Not scrolling up to look.

  19. 4 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    I understand what you mean but, imo, the norm is the LL viewer. It's the one that all the other full viewers make modifications to. No full 3rd party viewer is its own creation. They are merely modified LL viewers. Unless I'm mistaken, which is certainly possible, I don't think the other viewers are allowed to totally replace parts of the original viewer so, if Firestorm can't handle the LL viewer's ratio, then I believe it is doing wrong.

    Someone 'assumed' that most people use Firestorm, but I can't accept that. I'd like to see LL's figures on it. I could accept that more people use 3rd party viewers than the LL viewer but that's different.

    So my opinion is, cater for the standard viewer - the LL viewer - because all modified LL viewers should be able to do what the standard viewer does.

    They do and the TPVs have many more features the LL viewer doesn't have. 

    The majority of residents do use FS as their "normal" viewer. I've seen the figures in the past. At one point, the figure was close to 70% as I recall. FS has increased in popularity over the years.

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