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A part of it's reviewphobia. No, I'm serious, I can't think of anything better to call it. I've seen several big merchants quit the marketplace and switch to inworld sales only because they got a few bad reviews. Sadly I can't name any of them here, but one even has an angry sign at their shop that explains it.

Uncle Phil's Double Lindenwood Prim Burger. Though Ruth would be a fine fast food mascot too.

For me, examples I've done are mainly optimization: Removed layers that I don't use. Unliked various foot positions to be worn separately. Removed scripts. Basically everything I can so I put as little unnecessary load on the sim and other players as possible. Yes, it's very niche, but on the other hand, you'll appreciate it subconsciously!

Still though, in real life people have no difficulty understanding "you're free to tweak everything you buy to your heart's content, but if you do and then break it, the warranty is void". And on SL you always have redeliveries and copies. I don't want to imagine the average resident being unable to grasp that concept.

I can kind of get that, but wouldn't just having two versions be an easy solution? One mod that you don't support, and one no mod that you do... surely customers would understand that!

This is one of those topics I think about a lot when I'm on SL. Why are so few mesh bodies modify-enabled? I've seen it excused as creators being misinformed about copybotting, but that can't really be the case anymore unless they're... well, unless you give them very, very little credit when it comes to mental acuity. Slink, once upon a time, told me that it was to reduce load on customer support, but that doesn't sound like much of an argument either since you could have a modify and a non-modify version. For clothing, one can kind of make an argument that the creators earn more money selling no mod since every color has to be paid for, or some "they'll make it look WRONG!" style of originalist take. But for bodies, you only buy one version, and you can wear all kinds of "wrong"-looking skins of them anyway. So what's the deal with no mod bodies? Out of the relatively popular (human) ones, it's basically only Belleza and eBody that checked the modify checkbox, and the former only relatively recently! I've absolutely racked my poor brain trying to figure out what logic leads to that decision! And yes, I'm aware that this thread won't change any body creator's minds, but it's one of those things that's vaguely interesting to discuss regardless.

Sorry, v7 is just what I named my optimized version. Meaning everything irrelevant delinked from it. Really, the way it should come from the box... but oh well, maybe one day. But wait, this still uses the old linden ARC calculations? Then what's the point? It'll never represent actual costs, and the render time is irrelevant too since it prioritizes whoever's closest to your camera.

This, however, is only one metric! I feel obligated to hop in to defend the Belleza here so I will - the body is moddable now. This means that it can be polished up a little, into, for example: Whereas the Kupra is not moddable, and is thus stuck at... Sure, belly still as more faces, but I'd like to present these "holy crap, the triangle count!" pictures as evidence that faces aren't everything. Not that you didn't know - I just need to add this so nobody accidentally assumes that it's an overall optimization list. On a sidenote, I wonder what an "good" ARC is according to this new tool? I find myself at 86 to be roughly middle of the pack in most locations, but the fact that I see people between ~50 and ~200 makes me wonder!

Personally I've never found the "this and that part of you are really weird" to be offensive. It's not like it's commentary on obviously chosen details like boob size or overall length. If someone's downright strangely shaped (like shoulder width at 100 and looking incredibly wrong) I just tell them. So far nobody's been offended!

While I might kind of agree, the 16th birthday theme was "the (implicitly American) 50s" which was insanely niche already. Even if not for the American slant to it, I was about -30 years old at that time and have zero connection to any 50s stuff. At least Steampunk is a mildly popular aesthetic! And then there was that "crystal" non-theme.

I don't really see a significant difference between it and any other bento equipment. They all move more or less as such members do.

Second Life not having any crypto or NFT scams baked into it is exactly why it's going to outlast all of the competitors. Pyramid schemes can't last, but a world built on - at least to some extent - genuine interest can.

Two incorrect assumptions here. Generic medicines are highly regulated and effectively the same as the brand-name ones, despite being a fraction of the price. And the "dollar store makeup" here is rather like high end makeup that's been heavily discounted to make way for new releases. A more accurate way to phrase the question, then: "Do you prefer paying more for the same results?" The answer is no.

Well, being that this thread is just pure speculation, I'd imagine they got outcompeted. There's ZAF for furries, "The P" for realistic humans, and Kyrpa for more stylized male-bitted forms, all bento or animesh and with more features.

Even the Lindens wouldn't be able to implement this unless they recoded basically the entire way the client and server interact. But look on the bright side; satisfying ones curiosity with harmless camming usually prevents people from flying up to see what's there.

Flexi details in hair are good.

Jinglepaw is just so preposterously silly that I'm almost tempted. Otherwise, seasonal last names for $50 or whatever it was seems... a little too frivolous.

Hello person, I'm not sure who you are but I'm glad you're still here anyway!

Ultimately I'd just have to use my mouth a lot more. Hips talking and all that.

Not quite! The reason the auto alpha scripts on Belleza stop working is because they rely on link number (bad scripting practice!). If someone felt like it they could make a new one for the "stripped" belleza and those would still work.

Certainly, holding back progress to please businesses is always a bad idea. A few ways this could be done... 1) LL releases a new mesh avatar that can wear clothes for say, Maitreya. 2) People will still want to switch bodies for whatever reason anyway, because all those clothes still exist, it's just that users now get a good starter. Alternatively... 1) LL releases a new mesh avatar with a totally new and improved system to it. 2) Clothing developers now have a fresh new body guaranteed to be popular that they can make clothes for. 3) Body developers can make a shinier version of the New LL Body and offer it as an upgrade, because we know the LL one isn't going to be perfect, and some users just prefer brandname goods. 3.5) People can still wear their old bodies too if they want. It's not like those clothes disappear! 4) Everyone wins! If anything at all, letting the few existing brands hold SL hostage because "otherwise their business will be ruined" seems like a thoroughly terrible idea. There are always improvements to be made, and businesses will adapt.

There are plenty of clubs with events in the european timeframe. The problem is less timezones and more that there's no real way to find a new club except getting lucky with search. Which I suspect you'd still need to do with in-world timezones too, because lots of people party at night...

I figure they want relatively plain winners, because most of SL appreciates plainness. Just look at any of the promotional photos, like most of the "pic of the day" blog. Putting too much effort in instead of just going for "simple and decent" might be the wrong approach for official contests.

No risk of them buying/incorporating SL. They want a squeaky clean environment where people unfortunate enough to have been born without any lower bodies can socialize, doing things like sharing their personal details with megacorporations. The "squeaky clean" is the sticking part, since SL's servers run pretty hot and sticky. That's why they'd sooner prefer we don't exist at all.

Yep, assuming that it was on the product before the contest, it seems like a pretty obvious violation that should be reported, to me.