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ChinRey wrote: ... So I looked around and saw him standing there wearing an OpenCollar and nothing else. Checked his profile: Lovely romantic picture of him and his partner, a longish text about love and fidelity and only one interest listed: Monogamy. ... He probably thinks fidelity is something to do with music recording and monogamy is a kind of tropical hardwood.

That kind of thing? (of course, there's the Joe Cocker version with its magnificent intro of bass and piano runs, but Ray has it for me. Brevity, soul of wit and such.)

Or eat it Yorkshire-style* with a slice of cheese. *I'm not from Yorkshire, but it's apparently a very Yorkshire thing. And even if it wasn't, they'd claim to have invented it anyway.

Shannon Danick wrote: A few years ago, I was one of the ones doing extremely well. Enough to afford a few new laptops a month, if I so wanted. But in the past 2 years, sales dropped off. I blame Mesh. Why? Because I am just not skilled enough nor have enough time and patience to sit on Blender all day and all night. Many want Mesh clothing now...not old school system clothing. So, I've been standing on my last leg of holding on for a year now. And I'm about to throw the towel in after 7 years. As the world turns, the world changes. Mesh clothes are hugely popular, and who can blame us for liking them? They allow a lot of things that just couldn't be done with system clothes and they can hide a lot of the low-definition default body. But things continue to change and now mesh bodies are making an impact. For some purposes (anything that fits skin-tight, like underwear, skinny jeans, leggings, latex, and hosiery), applier clothes on a mesh body look great. Anyone with the texturing skills to design classic avatar clothes should be able to get in on this market. I might be an edge case, but I've definitely spent more on applier clothes in the last few months than on mesh.

A lot of the details in that description are specific to the item you purchased and purchases from the Marketplace. A general description of how to unpack something would have to be a flowchart to cover all the possibilities (and merchants keep coming up with new ways of packaging/distributing). There are some good points in there, however - especially "Add" rather than "Wear" to avoid knocking off pieces of avatar.

Alwin Alcott wrote: paypal, covered by bank account and/or real credit card should work perfectly... it does for me for many years. Your bank has to be verified/controled and /or the credit card has to be real, no prepaid. I'll add that it doesn't have to be a credit card: a VISA or Mastercard debit card linked to a current account should also work. As long as it is authorised to draw directly from an account it should be fine.

This was hands down the hardest thing for me to figure out back in my newbie days, so I empathise with the confusion. If you want to rez something in-world (and not attached to your avatar) you have to drag it from inventory to the ground. Unlike almost every other action on items in inventory, there's no menu option for it. That's what confused me, and I guess other people too. I'll admit that for a short time, the only way I could work out to rez things was to wear them then drop them. :smileyembarrassed: To further confuse the issue, there are places where you can rez stuff, and places where you can't (oh, and places where it appears you can rez things, but autoreturn sends them back) . That's something else that's not obvious to a beginner.

Seconding Lumae for skin and Magika for hair. For skins I'd add Pink Fuel, WoW, and perhaps 7 Deadly Skins. I especially like Lumae's brow shape, mass of options and unfussy appliers. For hair I have D!va, Lelutka, Ploom, Besom, Entwined, elikatira (used to be ETD), Wasabi Pills and Emo-tions. I've never been a fan of Analog Dog, but so many people speak highly of them they deserve a mention. They all have their strengths and styles: D!va are whispy, delicate and elaborate, elikatira are usually smoother and more practical, but no less pretty. Emo-tions have a lot of edgy, alternative styles and some great fantasy looks, although their range is so huge they have plenty of realistic styles too.

cosplayjones wrote: sl can be useful to a lot of people for a lot of different reasons i am rational enough to agree, and can see the good. but i also see the bad. I don't think you are rational enough to decide which way a lift is going with three guesses. and there is something about sl that is of the antichrist. Please expand on this theory with details, I need a laugh. i honestly believe we are living in the end of times. the real world is falling apart - why not the virtuall world too? but i cannot claim to be some expert So why should we take any notice? in my last post, i said i had a dark dream, some of you mocked me, well i still beleive that We still believe we mocked you, too. i think that nelson shelter is still coming and it will be terror and ruin i cant convince any of you of my position. Correct i dont have any answers, Clearly but i do ask you to consider what the end might be like, while there is still time

"he turns up at a club she frequents" Go somewhere often enough and people will find you there. Especially if you join a VIP group or put it in a Pick. Even if you don't, simple deduction and persistence will pay off. As soon as Mr Stalker knows you are online, they can search <genre you like> events/clubs and visit the busiest twenty in under half an hour. All they have to do is get on the same sim and check radar. Didn't find you? He can try again another time; it's not like it cost him travel and tickets.

Free stuff in SL: All of the starter avatars (maligned as some of them are, they are there and totally free to use). Everything else in the Library, for what it's worth. The shape editor. I could include the rest of the avatar editor, but apart from the brow shape editor none of that is really used currently. Hundreds of free sandboxes where one can build for free (but not keep items rezzed for any length of time). The prim build tools. Mesh build is done outside the viewer, so the cost of tools are not part of SL and not down to LL. Same goes for texture, sound and animations - all built externally. If you want to test them, you can use the test grid for free. They only cost when you want to make them part of SL. All the free items on the Marketplace. Search by price of L$0, filter out Demos, shop. Some of it is junk, but I've had some great stuff over the years. Promotional items in the form of store gifts, group gifts, gifts for newbies, hunt gifts, and give-away events. You claim that "talented players don't give out good looking stuff for free". Incorrect. Promotional items are often of very high quality, designed to attract and keep new customers in a highly competitive market. Merchants who give away junk don't get return customers. Free L$ in some of the Linden Experiences. Subscriptions. OK, this isn't free, but it's much, much cheaper than it looks. A year's subscription paid in advance costs $72. For that, you get L$17,100 in gifts and stipend. Saved up and cashed out, that's about 90% of your subs handed back to you over the year. Subscriptions not your thing? If you want to spend real money (and if you don't want to, you don't have to) you can buy L$ on the exchange and rent land as others have mentioned. Obviously not free, but it's an option between 'totally free' and 'subscription only'. Finally, and most importantly... Almost everywhere you can visit is free. I've never found a single location with a cover charge. For all I know people might use the option, but in over nine years I've never seen it. Every club, hangout, gallery, RP location, theme park, race track and educational spot I've visited has been entirely free (but all appreciate tips and support).

Diamond843 wrote: Aww, well that does makes sense. I certainly wouldn't feel good if my actions got a whole sim in trouble. I'm really more respectful than that. Idk, I just do the best I can so offten, and I'm truly so respectful of others, this incident just rubbed me all the wrong way. It was just one person, and I should have let it go, but my pride... I just couldn't completely qualify their dislike for me. And that void fills with anger because I couldn't understand what I had done. I dont know where to go now. All day i've just stayed at my home. Afraid to go anywhere, and very honestly unwilling to redesign my avatar. I love my avatar, her smile and her presence. But idk, I may have to keep her to myself to avoid hurting the real me or anyone else. And so I really feel stalemated. My friend gave me the landmark to a free mesh avi in TMP. I guess I could at least go see what it looks like. Well boo-fricken-hoo. You really can go anywhere. Anywhere. You just have to step down from the mountain of privilege you've climbed and put on almost any avatar that doesn't look like a teenager. Or go somewhere that teenagers are welcome. Sitting on the fence can be uncomfortable. We get that. But unlike RL, you don't have to do that. Or, if you choose something borderline, there are places that cover your tastes. And if you judge it wrong, you don't get physically beaten or killed. Banned from a sim, or at worst kicked from SL, but never actually hurt. Step up to the plate and do what you want to do. If it goes wrong, accept your mistake and start again. Never sit at home and believe you have no option. Take control of your Second Life.

Oracul and Tuty's are very popular. Whether they are better is completely subjective. I prefer Oracul, if only for their value for money on single animations.

One problem is that "standard height, full sized" is pretty meaningless in RL, and entirely so in SL. There is no standard for height. For some reason, 5'3" is sometimes thrown around as a cut-off point. We're told that under 5'3" is too short. The average female adult height from the vast majority of South American and Asian countries, as well as Latin Americans in the USA, is at or under 5'3". Given that this takes in several of the most populous nations on Earth (China, India, Indonesia, Brazil) I'd go as far as to say that more than half the world population of adult women are 5'3" or under. For most women in the world 5' 3" is too tall!

Bribery! Create a quality* gift item. As well as featuring it in your store, supply it to quality freebie stores. Try to get it featured on a blog like Fab Free. Consider a 'free for newbies' gift. People remember the first stores they visit. Send samples to bloggers who deal in the products you make. Have your store/business as a stop on a hunt. *make sure it's representative of your best work, even if it's not a high value item in itself. Nothing gets me to a store like a good gift, but nothing keeps me away like a crap one. Pitch it as a gift or promo rather than a freebie.

If English is a barrier, have you tried the Foro en español or Forum francais?

That depends on what you want from it. LL are working on Project Sansar, which we are told is defnintely not the replacement for SL. However, once Sansar is up and running, SL could be closed if SL doesn't remain profitable. This, of course, doesn't change things all that much. Project Sansar is a long way from going live, as far as we can tell. Almost any business will close if it is unprofitable, and SL is just another business. Back to my opening point: if you want to drop in and see what SL is like these days, then what's the problem? If instead you plan to jump in, get a Premium Membership and buy your own region, then make sure it's money you can afford to lose (which really has always been the case).

Catznip might work. In the words of the developers: "While the current Catznip release will install on any version of XP and 2000, doing so is no longer supported and is in our experience disproportionally crash prone." So it's one you could try if you have to, but it doesn't exactly come with a hearty recommendation.

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” G. K. Chesteron

MishkaKatyusha wrote: its likely that given the context this "jira/jara" is a sub-community specific byword for a support ticket the fact that it uses the japanese phrase to refer to "godzilla" is very likely a sub-community specific injoke with relatively little signifigance JIRA is not a support ticket. A support ticket is a request for help through https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ JIRA is a proprietary piece of software used by LL (and other IT companies) to track bugs, accessed through https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa 'Jara' is a weird misspelling. eta: in this case, it would be the Firestorm JIRA, not the SL one.

Something that specific isn't likely to be available separately. Generic alphas tend to be things like the entire body of varying heights of foot-hider. If you don't think you are up to making your own alphas, think of the kinds of item that need a tummy alpha (perhaps a pregnancy belly?), and try to find a demo for that product. The alphas that come with demos are just as good as full-price ones.

Happy New Year, you surly brass-stud. Glad to see you posting again. eta: also, LL's appalling censorship protocols continue, preventing me from referring to you by the name they allow you to use. Genius.

Those aren't kids, they're fawns. Unless they're reindeer, in which case they're calves.

Further to what Dres wrote about editing shapes: the sliders that affect the facial features are those under Head, Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth and Chin, and to a lesser extent Body Fat from the Body heading. As there are more sliders under these headings than for the rest of the body, you want to preserve these and change the others. If your current shape is moddable, you can do this by altering the rest of the sliders. *** Make a copy first, if you can *** If you don't think you're up to creating a shape, find a moddable shape you like and copy down all the values from the Body, Torso and Legs sliders. You can then go into your old shape and change the values to match. Body Fat is the only slider that affects body and face, so if the values are wildly different you might have to compromise a little.

HenryCrawford wrote: Hi there! Or should I say: Good evening! First of all, what does FUBAR'd mean? Secondly, I would actually prefer if a product I am browsing to buy for has a demo for free (0 Linden cost) in case I wanna 'try before I buy'. Lots of products have demos, but unfortunately, not all of them do. Third of all, in regards to removing demos from the search results, why not have an option to remove 0-Linden cost items from the results or items which don't have a price tag? This would make searching or items just a little easier. I hope I didn't ruin anybody's holiday mood by ranting about SL Marketplace the way I did earlier...:mansurprised: F----d Up Beyond All Repair Removing (or selecting for) L$0 items is one of the things the current system can easily do: there's a 'filter by price' option below the category filter. Unfortunately, not all L$0 items are demos, and not all demos cost L$0. A demo tag, or alternatively a gift tag, would help show the difference.