Tari Landar

I have decided this is the most fascinating, interesting and important thread on the entire forums...forever and ever more... Y'all are stuck with me....I'm not sorry, and hubby thanks you If you don't hate me now...you will by the time I'm finished

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I refuse You cannot make me I'll keep going forever Or until I fall asleep Which will be never So...

And now for some textual humor... Why is naked pronounced naked but baked is pronounced baked instead of baked... If WATERMELON exists why doesn't EARTHMELON, FIREMELON and AIRMELON?? The ELEMELONS How do you tell the sex of an ant? Drop it in water. If it sinks: Girl Ant If it floats.... An anteater walks into a bar and says he'd like a drink. “Okay”, says the bartender, “How about a beer?” The anteater says, “Nooooooooo!” “Then how about a gin and tonic?” “Nooooooooo!” "A martini?” “Nooooooooo!” Finally the bartender gets fed-up and says, "Hey buddy, if you don't mind me asking, why the long no's??” Why is no one ever the right amount of whelmed? Did you all hear about the two cellphone towers that got married? Ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was amazing! Before I tell anymore... I want to say a few small words to the people who have liked my jokes. In On An It No To I'm moving all my wall mounted storage to a shed at the far end of my yard. It's shelf isolating I came home drunk last night and didn't want to wake anyone up, so I strapped pancakes to my feet and crêped upstairs. I've been invited to a fancy dress party with a Tuperware theme. I can hardly contain myself. Just paid for my friend's rhinoplasty operation.. Well, it's no skin off my nose. Me-Hey, look in the water, there's a bloodstained oar Gary- That's foreboding Me-Damnit Gary, I know what they're for, stop patronizing me. Hubby- *reading the menu* Anything pop out at you? Me- Babe, I don't think it's that kind of book A local TV weatherman is reacting angrily after being fired for giving too many gloomy, frosty weather forecasts lately... No more mist and ice guy

I'm back home, did you miss me? It's ok, I didn't either. Anyhoo, back to stupid puns, jokes and bad memes.... (oh and if these are already in this thread....umm..I claim ignorance...and yes I totally stole all these memes...lock me up sheriff) I'm gonna need to separate these into different posts lmao...

Oh my, I've actually been pronouncing your name right this whole time. I rarely ever get names right carry on...I'm just gonna sit over here amused at myself 😄

I have no personal horse in this race...because I have a last name, love my last name, am not premium, and even if I were, would not change my last name....but... Those saying the fee is justifiable...are wrong. There is no actual reason to dissuade people from changing their names as frequently as they so wish. LL made sure of this by making it so that account names themselves no longer need to be a personally identifiable piece of information, but rather UUID (as should have been the case in all things LSL and sl, form the beginning). Most people are saying this dissuasion is related directly to there being a finite number of names. But, the reality is, by default, there isn't actually a finite number of names, LL is choosing to (we assume, we don't actually know this, and can't) make there be a finite number of names at any given point. Those saying it would create more work for LL if people changed their names as frequently as they wish are also way off track. It not only should not, it would not and could not, assuming they have people that know what they're doing with programming at the helm, and we are told to assume precisely that..so we shall. So let's call the fee what it is, LL's greed. Greed isn't always a bad thing, businesses are designed to make money, that is the bottom line of every business, they need to make money. They will, in fact, make a lot MORE money on this if people do choose to change their names frequently, which I am guessing someone at the helm has suggested, thereby increasing what most would consider a reasonable fee for something like this, to unreasonable. We may not know exact numbers for a while of people willing to pay these fees for a name change, but let's not pretend those numbers are going to be small. We all know people will throw their money at whatever they want, when they want, whether or not others think it reasonable (and I'm not judging people that do...so, don't go there, lol...your money, do what you want with it). I can't really understand this whole defense of the cost. I can think of much better ways in which LL could gain volumes more in revenue if they actually lowered the cost...but that would be reasonable, and this is LL, lmao. Good on them for finally making good on something they claimed took years to program (it didn't, some of us aren't idiots....). Good on them for finally listening (only took a decade, but...something's better than nothing, right?). Good on those who will take advantage of this new addition, thereby adding to LL's revenue pool (really, good on you, LL very likely needs it else this would likely still be sitting on the pretend backburner with "soon" attached, or wild exaggerations of how long it takes to write, test and implement code......shut up Tari...) I really do give them kudos for finally doing this, but as is typical, it wasn't really done to the best of their ability, or even with the most financial gain in mind, let alone the most clout with current and future residents remaining intact( ie..they listened...yay..we like LL again...). They did it, finally, and that's worthy of some amount of praise...albeit with a lot of caveats, lol.

You're very welcome, I quite like her. I also agree it's an awesome fun tune to. Sometimes I think people need songs like that, tell it like it is, but without all the doom and gloom we attach to our negatives.

Laws man..laws... lmao (I don't laugh at your plight, just.....I feel ya) We have a house older than dirt, a HUGE tree out front where literally all of our plmbing runs out to the sewers, and a "city" with a really bad infrastructure.....tie all of that together and you have a royal mess sometimes. I can't even begin to tell you how many plumbing problems we have had over the years. Nearly all of them happen when A-places and plumbers are closed, B-I don't have the money to fix it, C-both. (it's almost always C, btw), and also when someone needs more frequent access to the bathroom for some reason.... In our case, it's almost always been a problem caused by roots and old pipes, old everything really. I've become an expert at nearly all plumbing problems at this point, and I have more tools, gadgets, bits and pieces related to plumbing than I' ever imagined I would, for which I am both grateful and not, lol. I'm glad you got your plumbing problems solved, they can be such a pain.

Today was a good day for me, in fact, the last few days have been a bit better. My friend I had mentioned before is doing remarkably well, and I'm so proud of her for getting past some really weird, totally unnecessary and painful obstacles recently. I know, stupid, but...it makes me feel good when I can hear happy in her voice, even if the reason for it is probably...I lost my train of thought on the word I was going to use there (damnit self), but I guess insignificant to others would be fitting, It's just....nice. Long road to travel, but one worthwhile in the end. I'm happy about being a travel companion on at least some parts of her journey. I get an immense amount of happiness from others' happiness, and that's pretty cool in my world. I'm still sick, still having weirdly stupid days on that front, but not getting worse, and I'm focusing on the not getting worse part because that's more progress than I have seen since December..something I hadn't realized until it was pointed out to me.... it's the little things, right? Also, currently listening to this, not a new song by any stretch of the imagination, but, it's a good one I think, has a tremendous amount of context and value, and frankly, I think more people in the world need to be told some of these things, if only to help themselves feel a wee bit better about their own station in life..whatever that may be. Maybe not, but I think it's kinda uplifting, and it has a catchy tune which gets stuck in my head sometimes, lol. I also got my niece to sing this when she was really little, and she still sings it just as adorably today as she did as a tot...even thought she's a slightly bigger tot now. She's kind of my mini me, she looks, acts, and sounds exactly like I did as a little (and she drives my mom bonkers in the process just like me too, so..win-win for me). I got to hear her sing it again today to me over the phone, and it made me smile, especially in the middle when she said " I toldchu, I can't DO THAT (insert her sister's name here), I'm tryin' sing to aunt(insert my name here)....ask me again I'm gone bop you" (by the by, bopping is not a reference to hauling off and smacking someone in our family...only we know what it really means). She's my 'lil smart-mouthed, sassy, little too attitude-y, intelligent, and far too grown up for a kid still in elementary school mini-me. I laugh mostly because now my mom is raising another one of me all over again....bwaahaaaaa. Anyway..the song....

You might be hard pressed to find someone willing to buy that just so they can texture it for you, since you can't share the assets with anyone else, even on a model so they can then texture it inworld to test. You may still find someone but you'll have to pay them to both purchase the item and do the work to texture it, and of course the upload fees. That's going to be even more costly if you want exclusive right to the texture they create, so I would keep that in mind when deciding how much you're willing to pay for the work. There are some groups inworld for people looking for texture artists I do believe, I used to be in a couple, it might be worth pursuing there. Or you might simply ask for assistance with creating things like seams and shadows, or check youtube tutorials for that, because you might surprise yourself at your own skills Give it a try, you just never know what you're capable of

Free money, roughly about $10k would do. Then I could randomly hand it out just...for because.... It's ok, we all know I'm weird.

When the weather permits, we mow our lawn everyday in the spring, just a lil off the top, til it gets down to a decent maintenance level...because my yard grows like a wild friggen forest, especially after all that rain, and snow and everything else winter and early spring has served up. It's actually kinda necessary for us, not so much everyone around us, which is just odd lol. Well, my son does the mowing, I do the whackin'....and by that I mean weeds and overgrowth...weirdos (or, neighbors, we all live in the gutter together, I know). In the summer it's a weekly or twice weekly if needed thing, same with fall. Though we use a powered mower, the boy wants to get the reel mower from the farm and bring it here, he's fascinated with it (and he uses it to mow about an acre of the family land already) However, my very next door neighbor who, bless her heart (in a good way), has some issues, mows her lawn twice a day, every day, without fail, late spring, all summer, and all fall. Clearly, the grass does not need this, but she does. No one around here minds, well, not really. We're all so used to it, lol. If it weren't for her really weird quirky (it's relatively recent, only the last two years) way with the mowing, no one would even know there were any issues at all. She's actually quite sweet and this is her only actual quirk, she's probably closer to normal than the lot of us

It was stuck in my head, so..because I'm an awesome person..gna get it stuck in yours too...you're welcome Oh, and I fixed it...a bit ♪ ♫ Two Four AM and I'm still awake, writing singing a song If I get it all down on paper this post, its no longer Inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd 'Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud And I know that you'll use them, however you want to 'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable, And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table No one can find the rewind button now Sing it if you understand. And breathe, just breathe Whoa breathe, just breathe ♫ ♪ I'm really just waiting for meds to knock me back out, that's not actually the song that's stuck in my head now. The song that's in my head is one I used to sing with my dad when I was really little, for whatever reason I loved this song (and I'm not a huge country fan now, though I don't hate it, despite growing up in and around country music festivals), lmao. I wore my Hoyt Axton record I had with this down, and not just once, he had to buy me four. Still, seems appropriate...no?

Am I allowed to tell someone eff them and the horse they rode in on, or is this still considered polite society and such actions therefore frowned upon? If the latter, I'm gonna have to put in my two weeks for polite society. Bunch of frick fracken ducking bullspit I don't feel better, I demand a refund Of what I don't know, but I demand one anyway....I hear demanding ***** is in.

That right there, is your problem and precisely why you won't get any support here, or most places inworld. It IS about me, it is about countless others you're not thinking about. It is about past issues as well. It will help dictate how, when, where and who will get help in the future. Stop making it about you. Now I'm done because I will get super bitchy from here on out. You will not get my support or the support of anyone I know that's for damn sure, because this whole I'm thinking of the little guy has now been proven to be a load of horse poop. Good day.

That didn't answer even one of my questions...like I said, skirting around the questions won't get you support. They may not be fun questions to answer, but if you want backing, if you want support for the idea, you have to address all concerns, not just some. Give LL, and the rest of the community a reason to support you, they just might. Keep skirting things and people will start to assume, rightly or wrongly, you're in this for your own gain alone. I mean, that's just reality, when you ask people for support or help, they're going to have questions. Stop promoting yourself and answer people and people will stop assuming you're just in this for your own benefit (that sounds bitchy, but it's not, you keep doing it and I'm not sure that's the best approach to puff out your own chest and give yourself accolades while asking for help, lol) Why does this crisis warrant financial relief, when NO OTHER one ever has, and you, personally (or even others), have never once asked for financial relief for others during other past crisis? The type of crisis is irrelevant, the financial hit remains the same, in countless prior situations...none of which were worthy enough for you, or anyone else, to petition LL for relief. LL has never offered such either, again, because it's never been warranted. This situation, *****ty as it is, also won't likely fit the bill for LL financial relief, unless you give them some concrete evidence that it's warranted and won't harm their bottom line. You're not doing that, you're trying to pull at heartstrings that are likely already stretched super thing...so you need a new approach to this. Bringing awareness of issues is important, a good gesture, but none of that awareness came with a cry for relief for those financially suffering due to a crisis. That's what I am addressing. You're ignoring all the people who are saying "no, people are making MORE money now, because of an influx" and pretending that influx isn't coming with financial compensation for some people, I'm guessing because it fits your narrative better to pretend that very real fact doesn't exist (that's not judgmental of me, just what I'm seeing when I take words at their face value, as typed). Can't ask people to help those suffering financially when the numbers don't match the ask. So..why now, why you, why them....why not before, why not others, why not for other reasons? These will help steer people on the fence about offering you support, imo, better than stating the obvious like..people are hurting financially...because people already know those things. You need to address the things people don't know. Someone else can probably say all of this way better than me. I'm too grumpy and probably just going to keep coming off as a judgmental ahole.

I think you're ignoring some points that are just as important as your points. Personally, I can understand why you, anyone, would want this relief. I just don't think you've actually thought it through entirely, which is why I believe it needs wiped off the table. Again, where was the cry for relief when other creators, other merchants, other artists, other people...when they hit on hard times? You said you see no problem in your ask for relief now, but you haven't actually addressed the questions I asked (or others asked, even if in a roundabout way) about others suffering with no relief even offered, let alone actually given. You do realize that many, many more people have suffered financial losses in sl, that affected their real lives and real income as well, in the past, than are suffering now, right? People who have to reduce inworld costs in order to make profit, regardless of the amount of profit, do actually have options. The MP is a very profitable option right now, despite the commission fee being charged. It is, in fact, the option many of us have had to choose, for as long as that option has existed (and before that, when we had to use xstreet boxes, we had options for limiting the cost of needing somewhere to rez those as well). We DO have options, and you're pretending we do not. Are they the most ideal options at all times? Of course they're not, just like closing up shop entirely is not the most ideal option. But many have had to make this choice. My other question to you, which I didn't ask directly, but I will now is... Why does THIS crisis, and the people it is affecting now, carry more importance for you than past crises other people have suffered, thereby warranting a larger handout, a larger hand up? I have seen people in sl go through some pretty *****ty stuff, people who had, or have, profit margins of all sizes. I have never seen you once step in and ask for relief for those people. So, to ask another question which goes hand in hand here...why is it now fair to make such an ask, but was never fair enough for you to care in the past, for others, including people you are now calling your own customers who rely on your works? Saying "sorry you had troubles" isn't an answer I would deem worthy here, and as kind as some might think that to be, it doesn't really address the questions and won't appease my curiosity on the "why now" part. I'm not arguing for arguments sake, I really want to know "why now", when a whole bunch of people have already told you they're not seeing this mass destruction and widespread loss of income you are saying you're seeing. I want you to see there is another side to this, aside from your own, regardless of whence from your intentions were born. You can't ignore these past instances of lost income for others because they're in the past. If you want anyone to support the idea that relief is a good idea now, you need to address why it was never a good idea in the past and why you didn't care now. That is, I believe, a huge part of why you're getting such a lack of support. You won't address the ginormous elephant in the middle of the room. I won't back ANY idea for relief now, if people can't tell me why it's more important now, but was never worth their time in the past. LL has never stepped in to financially help people who are suffering through a crisis before, regardless of how many people, the enormity of the crisis, the financial burden placed on the people..or any other component. So, again, to summarize.....why now...why you...why them...but now before, not others, not for those reasons? Can't address those, I'm afraid your idea will be lost before it even makes it to paper. (and you haven't actually addressed these questions at all, you're skirting around them with half answers)

I did that years ago.....I have yet to ask anyone for a handout, including other people in sl, and LL. No one has ever offered to pay my fees for land, uploads, basic maintenance. I can't imagine myself ever asking anyone to either. I had a lot more typed here but it was really, really bitchy, so I'll try again without being so bitchy. As much as it sucks for this to be affecting people, even in sl, and their income, meager as it may be to some.....you are going to be hard pressed to find too many people that are going to have a lot of sympathy. Many of us have cut sl expenses (and greatly reduced sl income), because rl is more important, for a myriad of reasons. No one has ever so much as offered assistance to us in the past, and regardless of how widespread this issue really is, I'm not certain you'll find many people that find relief for the rest of you now is fair. To be a bit bitchy because..some common sense needs bitchiness now and then..where was your cry for a handout for me when I was hospitalized, or when my child was, and I had to eliminate my inworld store entirely? Where was your offer of relief for me when I simply had to stop creating, stop uploading, stop working, because the resources necessary for such is too great? Where is your cry for help for me now that I cannot create the way I would like, because I have to rely heavily on the works of others (which I value, respect and believe are worth their weight in gold) and they're too far out of my range of affordable? Replace that me, and my situation, with any number of other situations, and any number of other people...and you will see precisely why you'll be hard pressed to get anyone to back this idea. You weren't there to care about other creators during their own rough times...but you want them to be there to back you up now...... Do you see the problem in this suggestion? Many a creator have come and gone in sl, many a shop owner, many, many, many people who have had to reduce sl income (or eliminate it entirely) for rl reasons completely out of their control, and varying quite widely. It sucks when it happens..but that's life, and sometimes life e'ffn sucks. A virtual world is an option, not a necessity, even if you rely on it for rl income. I know the feeling, sl paid my rl expenses (all of them) for the better part of 4+ years. I had to make choices, just like countless other people. Now, more people are having to make choices, some of them hard. Sl is still always an option, not a necessity. I do personally have some sympathy, because I know those choices are hard...but I will not back the idea that fees should be reduced or waived for some, not all, or that this crisis is any worse than the myriad of other crisis countless real, actual people have had over the 16+ years sl has existed that have had to greatly reduce their ability to profit from sl. That's just, asinine.

Today is a weird kinda day. My friend is feeling a bit better (and ty, folks, really), after reconnecting with a couple of other friends in sl, one in particular, which I am thrilled about. Since our rl contact is limited to phone calls and discord, and we don't tend to hang out in the same places (or at the same times) in sl, I'm glad she's found a couple connections again to help her. We're both ill atm anyway, so even without this virus, our rl contact would be limited. Though I'm still perplexed at why she hangs out where she does, I've been there, the company is not that stellar, and a pretty big portion of the staff are more cliquey and jerkish than the guests. I'm not a huge people gathering place kinda person, for lots of reasons. I loathe most clubs because..gestures...and spankers...and, stupid people. So my understanding of why she'd want to hang out there is limited only to knowing that her need to be around people, without being around people, is stronger than her desire to be liked by people, so she deals with people being colossal failures of social cognition (or douchecanoes of epic proportion if you want to be all Tari about it) simply to have company, bad as it may be (and that much I get). It's the choice of venue that perplexes me, lol. And that's the last of my bashing the place, without actually bashing the place, because at least one poster here actually works there, and those folks happen to fall into the category of not being a-holes (and without saying names, I shall thank you for her, because she won't, lol, so thank you). So, on that, we are headed in the proper direction. I'm grateful there are people in the world that understand this too, because without them, it would be tremendously difficult to help steer her in the right direction when she struggles to do so herself....Also....I've got the whole mama bear thing, and the need to protect those I care about is quite strong, even when they don't want he protection, or need it, lol. Another good note, my new furnace is going in today, so I will finally have heat in my house again, real heat, just in time for it to get warm again outside, or as we like to call it Sprummallter..that wonderful time of year when you get all four seasons in a single week, or, like now...a single day. The back yard is also mostly drained, just a mud pit atm, the crock and pump are in place (and electrical done outside, new GFI and all that, which I did a couple days ago). We just need to finish putting pipe in the rest of the yard so it will stop looking like 40 days and nights of flood back there every single time it rains. I like having lakefront property, but I don't need the lake that close, a little distance is good for our relationship, thanks. I still feel like complete and utter crap though. It isn't the virus, it's really not that severe consistently (though even if it were there is literally nothing to be done about it beyond what I'm already doing). I just have no immune system to speak of, so even a simple cold turns into a much bigger ordeal than it needs to be. I'm rather fed up with it to be honest and it's making me cranky, especially at other people and their asshatery, and making my GAFs fly out the window faster than I'd like them to. This is also part of why I am not logging in much, or going near people if I do, because my fingers will speak faster than the filters in my brain can say ....nope, don't do it. I will, without a doubt, offend someone, and I won't feel bad about doing so.

Please do It's been a saying in my family for as long as I can remember, and it goes back more generations than I know (which I learned as an adult, though I'd heard it said a million times as a kid). My kids and I use it all the time, so frequently it has rubbed off on many people lol. It's one of my favorite sayings ever.

Hell yes I would..... If I were a male in rl...or t'wer my av a male version of myself..you know, minus the girly bits, add some male bits... Hell yes I would... I love me...even when I don't like me, I love me. No one else on this planet, other than hubby, would probably say they'd ever date my av, or me (and I am 100 and a million % okay with that, lmao...I wouldn't date the world either ) but me...yup, so would. I'm awesome, I'm hilarious, I'm down to earth, I'm low maintenance, I make adorable and amazing humans (pixel and real), I can build, do light scripting, texture my way out of a paper bag and then some. I love to adventure, I love to wander, I love to cause mischief and explore. I'm human myself-which means I do human things, like have feelings and mood swings and bad moments and flaws and imperfections, I don't just have issues, I have subscriptions.. my av is pretty cute too even if not a replica of my rl self...I'm also honest to a fault, even about my own self. Also, not conceited, just truthful, and don' give a rat's left nut what anyone else says about it I'd so date me.

None of these are new, some I probably posted here a million times already...don't care 😛