Selene Gregoire
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7 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:
I cannot express how pleased I am that you have interlocutors. We need more of them today. We seem to be overrun by snipers and worrywarts instead. 😏
I was laughing hard enough I hit the stupid like icon twice instead of the laugh.
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6 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I have been known to use multiple exclamation points, but only (she hastened to add) in rare and very colloquial contexts invariably associated with one-on-one conversations. My interlocutors usually seem to be forgiving. At least, none have yet stomped away in disgust.
(Yet.)
/me stomps away in dis gust
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35 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
...sets loose a swarm of locusts, trained to boop noses.
mmm... fried locust... tasty.
http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/honey-spiced-locusts/
https://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Grasshoppers
Oh and chocolate covered ants are to die for.
http://www.chefdepot.net/chocolateants.htm
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12 minutes ago, eyeye Afterthought said:
Typical man - I was wondering how you go about stealing a woman's periods (please steal my girlfriend's) and realised you meant full stops.
No punctuation needed.
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11 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Yes, “us!”
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20 minutes ago, Eva Knoller said:
Give me an emoji or something!
Your wish is my command.
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Punctuation is one of the most important aspects of written English, and yet it is one that is taken the most lightly. It is, in fact, this feature of writing that gives meaning to the written words… much like pauses and changes in tones of the voice when speaking. An error in punctuation can convey a completely different meaning to the one that is intended.
For example:
Your book, John.
Your book, John?
Although the words are same here, the two sentences mean completely different things because of the period (or full stop) and the question mark.
The same goes here:
Don’t stop.
Don’t, stop.
The comma after the don’t has made all the difference in the meaning of the words.
Another example of how punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence:
He was bitten by a dog which hurt him.
He was bitten by a dog, which hurt him.
The first sentence means the dog hurt him. The second sentence means the bite hurts him. It’s the comma after the dog that has completely changed the meaning of the sentence.
A classic example that is generally given when teaching punctuation is the best that can be. It’s this –
Take the sentence A woman without her man is nothing. Now see the difference punctuation makes:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
See how punctuation has made the same sentence mean two exactly opposite things?
It’s very important to know all the punctuation marks, their meanings, and when to use them in order to produce a good piece of writing – and more importantly, to convey the correct message.
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4 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Leave us apex predators alone!
Why you boop me nose? Wolves are apex, too.
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5 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:
That is sublime.
It also makes her a target.
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1 hour ago, janetosilio said:
we’ll we've all seen to catch a predator.
Sorry nope, not we. Reality tv is not my cuppa.
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5 hours ago, BelindaN said:
So is "right master" a thing? I thought it was bad English.
As opposed to "left master"?
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5 hours ago, Rolig Loon said:
Hooray (minus the charged overtones, but agreeing with the sentiment 100%).
*mutters something about charging into the fray...
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I'm not going to change using correct punctuation at all times. I don't care what others think it makes me sound like. They're hearing what they want to hear, not what is reality. If you change your behavior to please someone else, you're doing it for all the wrong reasons. Change because you need to make the change to become a better person. That is the only legitimate reason.
Don't like it? Maybe you should go back to high school and retake the English I, English II, English III and English IV courses that you apparently failed to comprehend.
Or you can continue to be a twit while I move on.
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25 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:
I have not heard the "right master" line in years! All I get are guys trying to submit to me
No one wants to talk. No one wants to dance. They just want me to spit on them while they kiss my boots.
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Sorry, I didn't intend to make it a whine for attention. Just an observation.
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On 8/30/2019 at 12:25 PM, Matty Luminos said:
@Tess Falworth your picture is beautiful but it illustrates exactly what I mean about the shoulder looking like extruded plasticine. Not merely the lack of definition but the shape itself is anatomically wrong.
It looks like it's boneless. Like the tentacles on a Twilek's head.
Looking at it more constructively, it looks like the crease of the armpit goes up too high and curves outwards too much. There's just not enough bulk on top of the shoulder and on the outside of it. And the collarbones seem to be too short.
Imma gonna play with sliders, see if there's any combination that improves it.
Funny in an odd way but that looks exactly like what happens to women with adhesive capsulitis in the shoulder. I lost all use of my arm and the pain is excruciating. Recovery is slow and if you go the doctor route, you'll be doped up for months, years even. I had better results with accupressure and massages, recovered 99% of the use of my arm but I still have to be careful. What caused it for me? I sleep on my left side mostly.
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On 8/29/2019 at 7:23 PM, Elora Lunasea said:
Maitreya has not had an update in many years. Many.
Lara 4.0 to 4.1 update was 2017. I don't think 2 years is that many.
https://sl-maitreya.blogspot.com/2017/04/maitreya-mesh-body-lara-update-v41.html
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18 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:
I have never tried to make my av look like anyone in particular, least of all my RL self. I do take some small pride in having gradually tweaked my appearance to be pleasing to my own eye, which is really the only one I care about. I spent many years getting my classic appearance "perfect," and would have gladly kept myself looking that way after I converted to a mesh body. Since that was unlikely, I started all over again. After three years of poking, I think my mesh av is now "perfect" again -- just a different perfect. I still don't look like anyone in particular, but I like whoever I am. Mostly, I like looking better than I did when I was less than half my RL age today. I have never heard a snotty comment about my appearance, but I am poised to ignore it completely if I do.
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4 hours ago, Alyona Su said:
Perhaps, though she could have actually *mentioned* this. Either way, there is nothing there of value for experienced SL users, it's written for newer SL users and amazingly ambiguous at best.
Wrong. It was written for everyone to use. I was on the team when the wiki was made. From the demise of Emerald all the way through the first few years of FS.
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4 hours ago, Alyona Su said:
Not using Firestorm. (And I do find it annoying that Firestorm users presume it's the only viewer people use. - not you, specifically, but generally).
FS wiki isn't just for FS. It has valuable info for everyone regardless of the viewer they use.
I never just assume someone is using FS. I just provide info. Deal with it. Or die from it.
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14 minutes ago, Amina Sopwith said:
No, never heard of it. Not exactly the same reasons as RL, surely...controlling and customising an av in SL isn't the same as using your face and body to create a certain aesthetic, especially if you're doing something like a bikini shoot in a ski resort.
So what do you do when hit by lag? I'd like to know, would be good to have a way of thwarting sudden baldness, walking on the spot and all the rest of it.
For many of the same reasons, yes, but, not all. Other than your avatar being pixels and you don't have to bathe it or exercise it, you still have to create that "certain aesthetic" and know how to create it.
Most of the ladies in the beginner classes I took (which I didn't need) had no idea what to do, much less how to do it. My CWS graduating class had fewer drop outs than any of the others (or so I was told) because someone (I wonder who) took the initiative to "tutor" those who were struggling.
What you do about lag depends on the situation. If you are trying to hit a mark and lag hits, you just do the best you can and stop where the lag lets you, do your poses and then move on to the next mark. It's really no different from a dancer on stage in RL going down. You recover as gracefully as you can and keep going. Even if it is on live tv, like what happened to me as a child. Somehow, according to others, I managed to make the fall look as if it were part of the choreography. But that was only due to the way I landed and it frikkin hurt. But you have to keep going unless you are so severely injured you can't. Ask Gelsey Kirkland about that. Or read her book Dancing on My Grave.
The point is, there is a lot to learn about modeling in SL just as there is a lot to learn about it in RL. You can't just jump in and expect to succeed without knowing what to do.
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In SL, I dress no differently than I do in RL. If I am building, I dress casually.
Where I go and what I will be doing is what dictates what I wear and how much I dress up or dress down.
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...sets you all on fire
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1 hour ago, Alyona Su said:
As for textures, I am referring to the entire room of 100 vendor images, ALL are rezzed nicely, yet there are 9 or 10 that are still solid gray or still defocussed and "salt-and-peppered" throughout the entire area. Are they not all coming from the same SL Servers? Are they not all coming through the same networking connection and gear that I use? I believe it is a lot more likely they are using highest-possible resolution for their advert images when a compressed 512 pixel version will do (to put a simplified point to it).
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Though I can't say I care to know there's a spider in there somewhere, it is a source of protein. For those who don't eat meat or enough of the right meats to provide their bodies with the required types of protein.