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  1. Cinos Field
    In the places I usually hang out it's more or less a fun thing to point out rez issues, as publicly as possible. ("Hey, your tail appears to be rather erect" or "So a part of your butt seems to be missing") but I've never actually had a stranger do it. I think I'd just refresh my attachments and go "thanks" with as little enthusiasm as possible.
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    You could keep saying that, or you could accept that it's not possible, and in case they are actually tracking that it's by an object in the sim or on your avatar. Doing the latter would allow you to actually fix the problem, which changing your legacy name won't.
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    Ouch. My condolences.
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    A lot or merchants delist and relist their items if you give them a bad review, which is technically against the ToS - but they're never punished for it. One of the big mesh body creators, for example, is infamous for doing that. So it keeps happening!
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    I wonder how different the statistics would be with more furries included. I'd imagine the Regalia line of bodies would be more common, though for some reason I am seeing a lot of Legacy too. I've not seen a single Inithium user on the fluffier side of SL, which is surprising. If anyone cares at all I'm using the Maitreya for my skinsona. I would wager a guess that it's entirely due to Belleza's glacial update pace. They universally lag behind on new features, usually by years. For example, the BoM on those bodies is basically a hack, rather than any kind of redesign that'd make the old applier layers optional. (which makes the bodies almost as heavy as the legacy, when they could be far better with just one simple update!) Took them equally long to implement bento hands.
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    While I certainly don't agree with no mod items at all - and refuse to buy them except in some edge cases - there is this thing with a user modifying an item to look better than the original. It might result in them getting a lot of questions. For example, I have some hair from one of the big names that I retextured, because I liked the mesh, but hated the textures, so I fixed it. I get people asking me about where it's from since they inspected and couldn't find it in the store. It might be that the creators also get asked about it, and they might be tired of it. That's just about the only genuine reason I can think of. The "work of art" thing stops applying once it's mass-produced, IMO; if random SL meshes are art then so is a meal at McDonalds.
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    No such thing as an unspoofable ID. *Especially* not with an open source client.
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    I've always seen 100 linden as kind of the standard tip. Tip jars I've used usually default to 25, 50, 100, 250 or thereabouts, and that's largely the average range of what I see people give, too.
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    Well, one surefire sign is advocating for violently overthrowing a democracy in order to install a dictator. As for what they lose? Well, merely their platforms, that's all I can personally do.
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    It would be, if it happened. Which it didn't. The people who called for a violent insurrection are the ones who got deplatformed.
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    It's a good thing we're not really doing that in this thread. The only people getting labeled as fascists or white nationalists are the ones espousing fascist or white nationalist propaganda.
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    Sure, it could do wrong. Probably often does. But these riots were based on something that was thoroughly investigated, and of which no proof was found, to the point the case got repeatedly dismissed, because the lawyers had to admit that they had no proof in court. That is, they were based on pure fantasy. And the riots happened after the election had widely been confirmed to be legitimate, something that said rioters did not want to accept.
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    Rioting against institutionalized murder is quite a bit different to rioting against democracy. That's something I've learned talking with Americans in general, but it's a little hard for us to really understand how quite a few of their police departments are. A lot of the BLM riots were sparked by police gunning down unarmed black men, or in at least one case, outright executing them after they were already incapacitated. That's the kind of stuff the summer's riots were against. Even if someone might disagree on if that's how those events went down (I don't, but in case you do) that's how they were *widely reported*. It's hard for us as Europeans to imagine, I know, because it doesn't happen here. But it's also why the BLM protests here fizzled out; there was nothing to really keep them going, because while we certainly have institutional racism, it's nowhere near the levels that fuel this in the US. The other side, in contrast, rioted because they didn't want to believe the results of an election even after it went to court, repeatedly, and got confirmed the same number of times.
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    Luckily for us, most of Europe still remembers what it was like the last time fascists were allowed to gain power, having either suffered from it or lived directly under their rule. Most of our laws reflect that. For America, it's an entirely new experience, so they as a country lack the same kind of cultural immune response. Yet, luckily again, it seems cooler heads will prevail even then, given how it's shaping up.
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    Being in any specific private groups is hardly a right, and certainly not on the same level as "being regarded as a human being" or "being allowed to live" which are typically what fascists seek to deprive selected groups of people of. And so they're removed from social groups to stop them from propagating those ideologies. Sure, someone's allowed to have those opinions. But expressing them in public and trying to put them into practice? Well, there's the bit about "where my rights begin", again.
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    Their rights end where mine begin, as the saying goes. Fascism is always about taking away someone else's rights, and as such we can't really allow it.
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    I've been doing my part in getting fascist sympathizers thrown out of all the communities I'm part of. I'd expect the Lindens will handle any larger groups, but I do rather doubt that they'd be planning any RL violence on this platform. Or if they are, they're even dumber than usual. There's no real encryption or privacy.
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    It's generally too awkward for me to decline friend requests. So I tend to accept and then remove later if I decide we don't really know each other well enough yet.
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    Something exciting on this topic I saw the other day was hair where the top part was unrigged, but the ponytail was rigged. I think it was from No.Match, but it seems like a great idea. It was blended pretty seamlessly too and allowed for actually adjusting the part that doesn't fit on my head. Might be an idea for a prospective hairmaker to focus on.
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    The problems with the Legacy mainly boil down to two things: how render-heavy it is, and how incredibly awful the HUD is. Regarding point 1, the body's almost 8 times as polygon-heavy as the Maitreya, which means you will cause lower FPS for others around you, or at least, those with older computers. I wore it a few times for private encounters, and we had two wait almost five minutes for me to fully render to my poor friend. Meanwhile, the usual bodies I use were nearly instant. Regarding point 2, well, the HUD is just beyond the pale. Especially the "advanced materials hud", which is so slow I can go make a cup of coffee between clicking it and it responding, even in relatively lag-free sims. The main one isn't a lot better, since it works through their servers, which are not fast. To say the very least. It'll also not work if those servers ever go down. On a sidenote, it also comes with about one megabyte of undeletable scripts inside it, which is roughly 960kb more than any competent scripter needs for a body.
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    I always pick the long lunch. Knowing the kind of job they do, at least I'd personally appreciate a slightly longer break more.
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    Cinos is a really old thing I came up with. I like ice and snow, and the finnish word for "drift" (as in snow drift) is Kinos... But I wanted it to sound more English, and English has a lot of Cs, right? I wasn't terribly good at English back then. Now I have an MA in it, but kept the name as a kind of relic. As for the last name, Field, my choices when signing up were all terrible. So I picked the best of a poor lot, as boring as it is.
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    Yep, teleport crash every few sims. It's been like this roughly since the cloud uplift. I'm sure they'll get around to fixing it eventually...
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    It is rather true that beyond the "major" creators (I hope you like suburban-mom-chic!) there's little clothing for the main Legacy... But for the free "classic" one, which was the topic here? I've not seen a single clothier support it.
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    If you dig too deep you might fall right through the cloud. Careful.
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