Spanki Moulliez

I joined SL in October 2007, with a friend from RL who had been in world once before but never got very far with it. We were the original noobs lol, after leaving the Welcome Island where you had to speak to the parrot and bounce a ball and so on, we were off into the grid with no clue what we were doing. But it was so much fun and I love those memories. Back then there was obviously no mesh, but no sculpties or anything else either. So hair was system, clothes were just baked layers, so were shoes! Or made from prims. We spent ages creating our shapes and look, freebie shopping, camping! 12L$ for dancing for 1 hour, and more than likely I would crash before the hour was up as my PC was below recommended specs back then. And exploring, we had no idea about people's houses being private, we just wandered everywhere. Then we discovered clubs, the first one I really remember was Dogglounge (sp?) which played house music and we two noobs stood up on the roof listening to the music and looking down at all the cool avatars down below wondering how they looked so much better than us! Later we discovered about buying skins, AOs, hair you could attach. As time passed and I met people I learned more and more about creating my look, building in SL (it was still all with prims at that point) and I started getting into SL photography. My pictures were so basic back then but it really fired up my creativity and gave me another interest outside of shopping and clubbing. I discovered the SL gay community after some months which was a bit of a revelation, even more when I realised you were allowed to partner or marry your BF. That was before equal marriage was legalised in the UK where I live and so that was a pretty special thing for me about SL. Before that I could only marry my 'BF' playing SIMS lol. I started to work in SL and had many jobs as a dancer, host, club manager and so on. The earliest clubs I remember working at were Bangers, Zeus, Just Be, and Tainted Boys which was my longest SL job lasting 18 months. In total I worked in SL various places for 5 years before retiring from the club scene and it was huge fun. I made friends back then who I still see regularly now and that's so cool. When I joined SL I really had no expectations and I could not have imagined making friendships that would last a decade or more. SL opened my world up to all kinds of different music, as well as live performances. My love of vocal trance grew through these experiences and that's how I discovered Q Lounge Trance club, which is like my home from home in SL and some of the best people and times of my Slife have been spent there. I always said that when things went wrong for me that I wouldn't just quit this account and start over like some people do. The twelve years I have spent in SL have all been as Spanki and I pretty much grew up over that time, in world and out, learning about people from all over the world and learning about myself too. SL has definitely enriched my RL as well as my virtual life and influenced who I am today. What I love most about being a resident is seeing the creativity in SL! I love exploring beautiful builds created by others, and making photography and following other photographer streams. And I love to dance and listen to music. It's so cool when there's a great song and everyone is into it and you feel that energy and you just fly and forget all your troubles for a while. I love shopping still (of course lol) and I loveeeeeeeeee my Teegle Pet horse. I also got myself a second generation linden home recently and I am really enjoying that. Decorating the house and garden, and riding all around the neighbourhood which is very nicely landscaped. And of course, most important are my friends. SL is wonderful and having one or two special people to share it with is... wonderful-ler, lol.

Hello, I hope someone can help with an ongoing issue I have been having. When I explore around SL, if I go to a place that has prim grass/flowers etc, (as attached picture) the grass is lagging my computer to around 2-4 FPS. I literally only have this problem when I am walking through grass or flowers, otherwise I have very good FPS of between 30-50. The 2-4 FPS makes it impossible to move or explore, and also my stream/sounds crackle loudly and only relogging will fix it. This has been happening to me for a few months but lately it's gotten much worse, and I'm very sad about this as my hobby is photography and some of the prettiest places in SL use the prim grass/flowers and I am able to visit them less and less because of this issue. The issue is the same for both Phoenix and V2 which I downloaded today out of desperation to see if the different viewer would help (using different locations for my cache files for V2 and Phoenix). I use mid settings in preferences, switching to low prefs didn't help.I have tried derendering glow, turning off particles. Nothing helps. I am running an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT (set midway between performance and quality, reducing quality doesn't help either) with Windows Vista 32-bit, 4.00GB Memory (RAM). My drivers are updated. Can anyone suggest what might be causing this/solutions? I'm out of ideas. Thank you.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but the way I understand it is, if you PM with someone, and then that someone shares your PM's with a bunch of people in SL, or on the forums here, or even listens in on conversations and does the same, that's against ToS. But, if you were to say something to someone in PM that broke the ToS and they 'shared' it with LL by the way of an AR, that isn't breaking the ToS, because that is between the person making the AR and LL. The whole thing is kept pretty anonymous and even the person who reported you will not be told the outcome by LL. You have to respect the ToS even in PM's. So I would say no, if they banned you because of a conversation or whatever you had in PM, it isn't void.