Tari Landar

Until I find them.. this will do

Lovely pics everyone. I'll add when I find mine. Not sure which drive I put them all on. I don't think there is anything at all wrong with having a look you enjoy. I also don't think there is anything at all wrong with not liking what others do. The whole frowny face thing makes me a little sad sometimes. Maybe it shouldn't, but, it does. I don't like seeing people frown all the time. Especially in the case of some very lovely avatars. I think the frowny, pouty faces kinda take away from their beauty. Not to say they aren't pretty, but.. yeah, just my opinion. I'm sure people don't like the way I look either. Que sera sera.. I have a very specal smiley I used to use all the time. I made a few of them, to match different ground textures. I mostly put them out on friends' land, but also random places(only ones with auto-return so I wouldn't be littering people's land permanently, of course). It's an alpha texture with the words "tari was here" and a smiley face with it's tongue hanging out. hand drawn by my son This thread reminded me of it. I haven't used those things in a couple years now. I should drag them back out. I only once got a not so happy msg from someone wondering wth it was. But even that was cleared up pretty fast. Most people just laughed, smiled, or asked me to make them one, lol. They were pretty good at spreading smiles. Just cute lil random graffiti on the ground that looked like a child made it with a stick or something... Good times, good times.

You know, I'm not typically a fan of mesh avs, for all kinds of reasons. This av...is really beautiful and well done, imo. I like it. There are a couple things I would probably opt for, assuming they were available. One would be little to no makeup at all. I hate it in rl. I was actually going to get a brand new skin, sans makeup, but, alas, rl it knows me too well. Medical junk isn't nearly as fun as sl toys, lol. But, I still plan on getting one anyway, eventually. Her makeup isn't too overdone, or whatever you want to call it, which is what made me think of that, lol. The other thing I'd change is the mouth. I couldn't tell from that video what sort of options the mouth would have, other than lipstick. Like can you make it turn a bit more upwards and not down, stuff like that. I guess it's too early to make that kind of judgment call, or maybe it's in the link I didn't read. I'll go back and read it, cuz I am fascinated lol. But the mouth looks a bit sad, and I don't like the sad look. I never have. All in all, I am impressed. Of course it doesn't take much to impress me. I'm having one hell of a time with mesh and trying to figure it out. There's probably a reason why blind folks like me don't create content like that, and take weeks to make any other content. Sometimes I have a hard enough time with the stuff I make as it is, and mesh is just throwing me under the bus left and right. Sorry, been fighting with my meshes again-mini-rant over. I really like this av and would love to have one like it once it's made available. It's really pretty and so well made. I know, I said I'm easily impressed, and I really am. But the things people can do, and do..uh..do, in sl, it just amazes me. To make something awesome out of nothing at all. Sigh. Ok, I'll stop blubbering and go read the page. My hat is off to this creator, stunning work. If nothing else, seeing other creators' work just pushes me towards learning more, trying more and pushing my own limits to see what I can manage. Even if what I make never makes it's way to sl...like about 85% of what i create, lmao.

There is one thing that doesn't confuse me. That would be the top IS system clothes, or as some people seem to prefer to put it, non-prim. I believe that's what the OP is trying, among other things, to show. They've created a mesh av that can wear system clothes and skins. I don't know if it also wears mesh clothes. I know if you make the sliders go way up, the boobs look huge, lol. It wasn't so much the size, more the fact that those boobs actually have sides. Like a square, or hexagon would. NOt even remotely round-ish. I've seen pictures, untouched ones, with people who have massive non-prim and prim boobs. They didn't have sides on them like that. That's why I was wondering if it was just a rendernig thing. Like it looks like that on this persons screen because of how their system is rendering, or if the boobs are actually made that way, being mesh. I'm guessing it's just the way it's beind rendered though. I can't imagine anyone would intentionally make boobs like that. Then again,might be a nifty niche market, oddly shaped boobs....hmmmm... I don't like the shapes either, but that's just a personal preference. For me, I shy away from the ginormous boobs that can feed a third world country, huge asses that could crush same said country and hips that could easily welcome in that very same country. People that use those settings do tend to have the most tiny waists too, which makes them ungodly uneven, more than they already are. But, if they like it, go for it. I take a whatever tickles your pickle approach. It takes all sorts to make the world go 'round. It seems people in general, both in sl and rl seem to have some very interesting opinions on what is and is not the ideal body. I've noticed, a lot, I rarely agree with them, lol. So I'm quite used to others having ideals that confuse me, or make me chuckle.

This is probably going to be a stupid and weird question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. The breasts on those avs look a bit funny, boxy and jagged a bit. Is that just how they're rendering on your system, so showing up in the pic too? As in they just don't look perfectly smooth on your screen but might look perfectly smooth on another person's system with different(maybe better?) graphics. Or are they actually built or made to look that, unsmooth, like a lot of not quite finished yet products. I'm not judging the design or anything, I swear, I'm just asking cuz I'm curious. I think it would be awesome to have av mesh that was as smooth as possible and behaved a bit better than what we have now. Course I'd prefer it came directly from the lab, so everyone started out with a better behaving, and looking av mesh to begin with. But I'm all for new creations too. And if creators can make a human mesh we can wear that's smooth and better behaving that was still compatible with the stuff and clothes we've already made or bought, that would be even more awesome. I've seen sculpt and mesh prim breasts before and not all of them look so good. Sometimes I can't tell if it's how they were made, or just how they happen to be rendering to the person looking at, or photographing them. Since two different systems can easily render things differently based on all kinds of different settings and options. Heck even on different days my system can render something perfectly fine, or not. I think my system has a mood disorder tho Did any of that make sense?

Ayva Meili wrote: I am trying to rez anything and I keep getting this message... 13:38] Second Life: Unable to create item that has caused problems on this region. Does anyone know how to stop that? I can rez at other regions tho. Won't let me rez anything at all. Thanks for any help. That parcel owner has rezzing turned off most likely, or turned on only for a specific group. The land owner could turn rezzing on, but it's most likely off for good reason. You can't rez just anywhere in sl, only the places people allow you to, and your own land if you have any. That particular error message is not one I have seen before though. It's usually worded differently.

Staralien wrote: In any case, it is the premium members that help support Second Life (I am sure they have other ways of bringing in income as well, they would have to I would think) and without premium members, there may not be a Second Life for everyone else to log into. I think it is amazing that they continue to offer the service for free to the majority of users, and yet so many seem so unappreciative, are qucik to put LL down for the least little thing, and act like the "world" is owed to them. The fact that they continue to make improvements should be proof enough that they do indeed care about this virtual world we all enjoy. As long as I am able, I will always be a premium member, not for what LL can do for me, but for what I can do for LL in my small way. Ll has made more money off me while not being a premium member than they'd ever make off me if I did pay premium. I know I am not alone. In fact I know there are a lot more like me, who aren't premium, and pay a crap ton more than a lot of people who are premium. You don't need to pay a premium membership to, basically, pay your dues, or pay for your use of the service. Premium members are not the glue that binds, nor are they the reason there is a second life for us all to enjoy, far from it. Second life would not cease to exist if more people stopped paying premium memberships. As those fees really are a drop in the bucket compared to the profits the lab gets elsewhere.

I am goin' out on a limb here with my thoughts. I think the original post we saw from this name was indeed made by the account owner's partner, my best guess its her boyfriend. The pronouns used in the first prob. post are telling. It would fit that this person would want to see chat logs but was unable to, even if logged into the account he was spying on. Now, I think the actual account owner is the person writing this post. That would be a woman, Im guessing, since the word he was used in a reply. So without thinking, she gave her partner access to her account, a super bad and insanely dumb idea, and he did exactly what you'd expect an immature person with jealousy issues to do. He logged on her account, but couldn't see nearly as much as he wanted to. So he posted here to ask how. Why? I have no clue, that was a pretty stupid question, lol. Now it seems she is back on her account, but her partner, while spying on her, changed her information. If this is even remotely accurate, OP, call linden lab like, immediately. But I do wonder how you were able to log into the forums without your password, if he did change it. Even if it's not, if someone has gotten into your account, even with your permission, and changed things I would still call. Then again it might be the pain meds talking and you might want to ignore my wild imagination, lmao.

Sephina Frostbite wrote: I have the SL viewer. Firestorm doesn't work for me. It never loads my avi an to be honest I have been playing to sl viewer for so long I am intimidated with all those buttons. Silly I know. Not silly at all. Everyone has their preferences. I have the opposite problem, the sl viewers don't treat me very nicely, lol.

Orca Flotta wrote: If you have a nc giver and ppl clicker it, the nc will pop up on their screen automagically. A lot of people keep this disabled. I think all viewers have the option, but I'm not 100% on that.. I always keep it disabled and have done it that way for a long time. It can be terribly annoying to have multiple textures, notecards and such sent to you and have them pop open right away. I prefer manually opening them as needed. Of course I'm usually multi-tasking while inworld too, so that probably plays a role for me, lol.

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Just experimented with Firestorm in world. If you have your preferences set to have the received folder in your regular inventory, Search will search it too. If you have it set up in the separate window below your inventory it doesn't. Oh, good to know, thank you. I never really paid attention to being able to have them separate, lol. I have them in the same window, just easier for me.

I have a question about the search part of your post. I'm wondering if the viewer you're using has an effect on that? When I search my inventory, it searches ALL folders, including received items folder. I'm using Firestorm. Are you using a different viewer by chance? Maybe someone else can confirm or deny that.

Pamela Galli wrote: Melita Magic wrote: On the general idea of the topic: I would never wish to be on a reality Tv show. The entire industry is built around schadenfreude. One can only assume either they are being paid or have a chance of scoring big. They're always being paid Even the shows 16 and pregnant and teen mom that mtv has and proclaims are there to empower the youth of today and inform them of the trials and tribulations of teen parenting...pay those people and they glamorize every little aspect of it. They do little to nothing to inform and in fact do the exact opposite. That's exactly why I said this catfish show, will do the same. It's how they present it. It's the entire reason they have it. It's not there to be informative. No reality tv is, lol. It's intended purpose is entertainment. That's exactly what most will get out of it, even if it wasn't the creator's intent. Few people want an informative show these days, especially from a network like mtv, lol. They're not watching it so they can learn something. Not to mention most of the audience for that network probably is pretty young. Their demographic is not the over 40 crowd, or even the over 30 crowd.

Laetizia Coronet wrote: There's always people you would like to avoid, and being a relative noobie on the forums (despite my 6+ years in SL) I thought the "ignore" button would help. But does it actually do anything? I don't know if it actually does anything, I've never used it. I've seen people say they use it, just not sure how functional it really is. But, I have to ask, because I'm curious, why can't you just overlook the people you want to ignore? I'm not judging, I swear, it's an honest curiosity. I know there's some people on the forums I'm not all that fond of. I see their name, I keep scrolling. Sometimes I'll reply to something they say, if it's a conversation or topic I'm actually interested in. But if I really want to ignore someone, I do. It's probably a lot easier to rely on your own internal ignore than a feature on a website anyway. But, take my opinion with a grain of salt because I also don't use the mute option inworld. It's easier for me to just pretend people don't exist, lol.

Pamela Galli wrote: The thing is, if there are no suspicious obstacles to meeting in RL, people will just meet in RL without the assistance from a TV show. I see this show as a warning to everyone looking for love on the Internet: perfectly nice people do lie. It could be a warning, true, but that's not it's intended purpose, imo, and I doubt it actually is one to much of anyone. Mtv doesn't do stuff like this show to warn people, or to show much of anything other than drama. If it's not drama related, it's not real enough for them, lol. I don't blame them, real doesn't give them ratings. The show would tank if it only had success stories on it. Maybe not on some other network, but def. on Mtv. Warnings are a good thing, and people should be cautious, I def. agree with that 100%. People aren't as careful with their lives as they should be, imo. Just doubt this show serves that purpose. I could easily see this show having the opposite effect, though. Givine people something to laugh about and whatnot, and believe couldn't possibly be the norm. That's how a lot of shows on that network are, lol. But I don't think perfectly nice people lie, lol. There is a reason why people wouldn't offer the whole life story all at once, but I don't necessarily consider that lying. Perfectly nice people also don't throw their entire life story at you the moment you meet. I never see much point in lying though. So, just a difference of opinion I guess. I could prob. go on all day about that, and prob. shouldn't, since it has nothing to do with the topic, lol.

Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. There doesn't always seem to be rhyme or reason behind either. I am sure there is, I just don't know what it is LL has never been consistant on any large scale. They've also never been fully inconsistant on any large scale. Clear as mud, ain't it? I say report what you feel is worthy of reporting, do whatever you can to fix whatever problems you can, without making them worse of course, and hope for the best. That's what I do. Not always successfully, but I try.

Pamela Galli wrote: A pretty large percentage of married couples met online, but this show is not about "how we met". It is specifically about people who have an online relationship, and one wants to take it to RL, but there seem to be a number of obstacles to doing that. Pretty suspicious obstacles if you ask me, but love puts ppl in denial I suppose. That's kinda part of my point, the bolded I mean. This show wouldn't be one that would show the people who didn't have obstacles people found odd, or suspicious. It wouldn't show a couple who wasn't in denial. It wouldn't likely get them nearly as many ratings to show success stories as it does non success stories. Not that they wouldn't ever show any, I'm sure some might crop up in here and there, They wouldn't be the norm though. Not just this show either, but this type of thing pops up all the time. Shows, websites, magazine articles, books, all that kinda stuff. You don't see nearly as many happy warm gooey feeling stories as you see the it all went to hell when we tried to work it out in rl, kinds. They're just not nearly as interesting to people I guess. I kinda like both. I can't help but laugh and think about the failed stories, though I also sometimes feel sorry for the people involved. I'm a lover, not a fighter, I have way too much empathy for my own good. I too can spot the, that was never going to work out anyway, stories. We've all heard them, we;ve all seen them. But then I like thinking about the non failed ones too. Because those make my lil heart go pitter pat, and I love that feeling. I know it well. It speaks to me, on a personal level, I guess, lol. I'd much rather see more of the good kind. But it won't happen, because they aren't as popular with the general public, I don't think. Theyre not as juicey, they're not as interesting and they're certainly not as funny, usually. So us happily ever after folks get a bad rap too, because shows like this and media in general, tend to give people the impression that what we've got is rarely possible. It is possible, but it takes way more work to make something like we've got come to fruition than it does to get yourself in a failed online to real world relationship. That one's pretty easy to accomplish it seems. I know, I talk way too much, to often say very little, lol

Eta: Sorry jo, I musta hit the wrong reply button, wasn't directed just to you, lol. I'd love to see more of the happy ending stories on things like this too, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon. Kinda funny, because who doesn't love a happy ending? No, I don't mean THAT happy ending Happy doesn't sell nearly as well as unhappy. That's the bottom line. Hubby and I met online years ago. Not in sl, but in an online game. I have no issues shouting from the rooftops how happy we truly are, how blessed, how absolutely in love I am with this man, how he's changed my life and the lives of my kiddos. But I wouldn't want to go on tv to do it. It's just not appealing to me. I also have kiddos to consider, and a family, as does he. Not so sure I'd want to trump their right to not feel all weird-like because someone wanted to know if the cyber nookie was really that stupendous we couldn't keep our virtual hands out of each other's virtual pants. Because those shows, the people who write about online relationships taken offline and such, don't really care about the warm gooey feelings true love brings. No, I don't mean THAT warm gooey, either Gutterminds... They don't much care about the man living thousands of miles away taking on the responsibility of father to your children when theirs walked away. They don't want to know about the woman there to comfort you as you try to make heads or tails of why the person you thought loved you more than anything could possibly cheat on you. They don't want to know about the friends for years holding back true feelings so as to not hurt one another, but deep inside knowing it was fate and always meant to be. They don't want to know about the chance meetings in a crowded webspace, virtual eyes meet and virtual hearts practically beating out of your virtual chests. They don't want to hear about the couples who meet, stay friends for years before ever meeting offline, falling in love, creating a family, and being together until their dying days. They don't want the feel good stories. They want the dirty, the kinky, the weird, the (to them) abnormal, the relationships that don't work out, the liars, the cheaters, they want to know about the cybersex, they want to know how you manage pulling it off..and I do mean off.. and so on and so forth. They want to know all about the things everyone else warns you about when you tell them you met someone...online. Those things create ratings, and profit. Happy stuff, not so much. Stupid, imo. Drama sells! There are people who care about the happily ever afters, the prince charming finds his princess, the true love meant to be and other such stories, though. They just aren't the ones in charge of making these shows, books, websites and stuff. I find people like that all the time in sl. Not nearly as often outside of sl, but they are still there. I'd probably find more of them if I spent more time out of sl looking, lol. Most people who, like me, found their happily ever after, may be willing to shout it from the rooftops. It doesn't mean they're willing to let someone basically put them on trial in front of the world to do it, though. All kinds of reasons why, I'm sure.

No problems here for me. All messages going through just fine and sales are actually a bit above where I'd expected them to be.(a welcome surprise, lol) I think you may be remembering the Valentine's day fiasco so many merchants fell victim to. It was absolutely awful for a lot of people and cost plenty of us a ton of money and lost revenue. I'm sure someone else can provide a link for that information. I don't have access to my saved links from it, I'm not on my pc atm, just taking a break from grading my kids' tests on their pc. Hopefully it's just a coincidence for you and nothing sketchy going on.

My crash rate is nearly non-existant now. Which is pretty cool for me, since there was a time it was much, much worse, lol. I had a pretty crappy machine at that time though. So the fault sat, mostly, with me and my crappy machine and just as crappy DSL service at the time. Now I have a different machine. Not a gaming machine or anything super fancy, but it serves my purpose. So much better than my old machine did. For a few years I couldn't see water correctly, let alone glow and anything else. That might sound like a wonderful thing to some people, but for me it wasn't. Then again for some time I didn't really know what I was missing either, lol. When I initially got a graphics card for my old machine and got my first glimpse at what linden water really looked like, it was like.. Yeah, I was amazed. I don't necessarily think lag has gotten so much worse for everyone or even most people, but I do believe the lag has shifted. By that I mean things that didn't once cause someone problems like crashes, slow rez times and stuff like that, are now causing problems. Where other things that many are having problems with, aren't causing the other folks issues. Does that make sense? It probably doesn't outside of my head. I'm not real sure how to explain that I guess. I know a couple of people with really good connections and really great machines who seem to have issues with mesh and lag. I actually thought I would have issues with it too, but for the most part I don't. Unless I get around multiple people with poorly made mesh-that can slow me down to a slow crawl through half frozen molasses. Those people having issues with mesh now, never had any of my old issues and never could understand why i'd complain about lag. Now they understand why that lag was such a pain in my butt. Their lag monsters are just different than mine were. I've helped other people tweak settings here and there to better manage their lag problems, but I'm definitely no expert. I read other residents posts here and elsewhere too that are also really helpful. There's a lot linden lab needs to do to fix the problems that exist. I'm certainly not the last person to say that. Sl has it's flaws no doubt and if they keep adding features or changes without fixing some of the existing problems, those flaws will only compound. Which might be what some are seeing now and why they are now having problems when before everything was smooth sailing. I'm not a fan girl by any definition but I have seen improvements over the years. So I have to give them credit there. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be fixing the problems or that I think the problems others have or will have are minor. I know what a pain it is to deal with lag at every turn. I dealt with it for a few years, so I have sympathy for people who try to optimize and still fight the lag. But there really are a lot of people out there who COULD do more to optimize, but don't, or don't know how. Until ll actually fixes some of the existing problems, we do have to try to fix what we can ourselves-and at the same time, keep on them to get improvements.

Here you go..typical for here since I live in the snowbelt lol.

Oooo, it's never a good idea for me to open these threads. I could post a million pics (though most aren't all that good ) Ok, I'll share my/our bedtime(the pg version) First..it's bath time.. Then it's story time After that, what else..but cuddle time We do own a bed...but rarely use it(in fact it's not even rezzed on our land.. or a house for that matter. So, this is as close to bedtime as you get(since none of the other bedtime pics on here are pg ). We don't really care where we fall asleep, or how, so long as we're together. Unless for some reason hubby isn't on with me when I log off for the night, it usually looks something like this.. Wow I just realized how old some of these pics are, lol. I was too lazy to plug the other drive in and get newer ones off it.

TDD123 wrote: WHAT ?! :robotsurprised: DON"T BE A *BLEEP*ing *CENSORED* and go out there snowball fight them !!! AAARRRRRGGGHHHH !!! WOMAN !!! /me let's his shoulders hang. Hey, I was out there earlier Actually I do play in the snow with them, a lot. In fact we used the snow in our Science lesson this morning, lol.

ROFLMAO!!!! I have kids... theyv'e taught me well In fact, I'm only on here because they've gone off the deep end and decided that playing in a blizzard is fun. I'll take the warm house any day over that.

TDD123 wrote: /me looks slowly from his gun towards Tari and lifts an eyebrow. "You better start running when I find out I'm popping marshmellows and get hugged by Monti. There'll be hell to pay ... " :robotmad: Whooo...me? I'm reeeeeeally good at hide and seek...just sayin