Fmeh Tagore

What/where is "Belli"? I'd like to see it 😊

'Belli' not found.

Actually, you might notice it, since small speakers generally have a lot of treble, and treble is where these sorts of things are the most noticeable. The bass range isn't affected at all when it comes to low bitrate audio. And yes, it's annoying when DJs talk over a song you want to hear--unless it's at the beginning of a song and is just a tiny phrase or blurb at the beginning of the intro, or if they rewind it when they're done talking so you can hear the whole thing. I usually have a special track I play (usually the Airwolf theme) when I want to talk, or sometimes I'll play a silent track when I'm talking. And yes, hosts that spam gestures are seriously annoying. I'm alright with hosts occasionally asking people to tip the DJ, or DJs occasionally asking people to tip the hosts, but when they're begging for L$ themselves, it's really tacky and annoying. I do get annoyed with some clubs that require their DJs to constantly ask (like at almost every break) people to tip the hosts and donate to the clubs--I choose not to work at those places. Same with the clubs that want people to continually insert ads into the music playlist.

My biggest two pet peeves in Second Life regarding DJs are ones revolving around audio quality--I don't talk about it in Second Life itself because it would be incredibly rude, it's the equivalent of telling someone they're bad at singing: Streams that have a bitrate of 64kbps. Come on now, if you have enough bandwidth that you can get on Second Life, you can almost assuredly handle streaming at at least 128kbps (I generally stream at 192kbps). Do people really not notice how bad 64kbps sounds? Pretty much everything above 10khz in frequency is essentially missing (for reference, a compact disc goes up to 20khz), and the frequencies that are left sound like listening to hold music on a cellphone. Swish swish. The other irritant is when people who don't know what they're doing decide to tinker with compression settings in Sam Broadcaster (Sam Broadcaster with stock settings already sound bad enough, it's why I use Virtual DJ) so there's no such thing as a silent moment, so silence sounds like loud white noise, making everything sound worse than an FM radio station that isn't coming in all the way. And nobody says anything, including myself. Generally, I just leave when people's streams sound like that. I'll make up some excuse as to why I have to go.

I'm glad there was an answer in Firestorm. Thanks for showing the setting, Chic Aeon, that was really helpful. My avatar complexity is at 39,587. I don't change my avatar's appearance, generally. Every 15 minutes or so it would tell me "look, people can see you now" and then 15 minutes later "not everyone can see you", then "everyone can see you", then "not everyone can see you" over and over and over again when I haven't changed anything. It's a stupid notification as far as I'm concerned. I get why it exists, but it would have been nice if it was easier to turn off. Again, thanks Chic Aeon for the fix for the problem, it was very helpful.

Good to know for the future.

I went premium and sent in a support ticket.

I'm going to try just changing to just "Fmeh", and then see if it will let me reset it. Nope, same problem. At least I'm "Fmeh" now though.

No, I'm just trying to reset it back to my username, which is Fmeh Tagore.

It's been over two years since I changed my display name. As others have shown though, it's supposed to allow me to reset it back to my username at any time.

Unfortunately it's still happening today.

Alright thanks. I hope it works by the time I start DJing again.

When I click OK, it leaves me with this window, permanently. Any ideas on what's going on?

I'll agree with that, yes. The whole game should be GMT. Consistency is the main thing though.

Does anyone know why they chose to make notifications GMT? It's such a strange thing to do as far as I'm concerned.

I've been on SL for 12 years, and a frustration I've always had is that group notifications are always in GMT, yet everything else is PST. On another forum, people are telling me that their notifications come in as PST--if that's the case, then there's something wrong with my account that has been messed up for the entire 12 years. Are notifications supposed to be in GMT? Thanks, --Kizz

Thank you so much

What is this selection thing called, where if you hover around its outside it snaps to designated points, and how do I get it back? It's disappearing for my mother over and over again, and the only thing I've known how to do to fix it is to get on her computer with TeamViewer and basically delete her SL preferences, then do all her preferences over again by hand. Yeah, I've gotten a nice pattern formed in re-doing her preferences, I've got it down to 5 minutes now, but still, I'm getting tired of having to do that. What is this option called, and how do I get it back? Thanks.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Good to know. Thanks for the info. I wish I could look at that JIRA. It is definitely *quite* the bug, it makes using SL horrible. I had hoped they'd release another RC or beta version of that series since that came out.

I already said: "I was stupid enough to have clicked "willing to update to release candidates" in the viewer." But yes.

I finally gave up and downgraded. The last place I went, all but 2 avatars were jellybabies. Utterly horrible. This is much better. I certainly hope they fix this issue before it goes into the main viewer.

This version sucks. You can have avatar complexity set for no limit, and no matter what, if you zoom in on an avatar, they turn into a jellybaby. You can't zoom into ANY avatar except your own. You can't look at any details... it just sucks. Really, there needs to be an update for it. I was stupid enough to have clicked "willing to update to release candidates" in the viewer. I'll be downgrading in a couple days if there's *still* not an upgrade to this garbage. I can't believe this is considered a release candidate. If this makes it to the main viewer, why would anyone use the official LL viewer anymore?

Well, well said, truly fantastic response. Thanks for that. I have nothing to counter anything you've said.

LOL Well, learning Blender or paying for Maya is not really a reasonable thing to require for a world that's supposed to be something anyone can create in. People with no 3d modeling skills at all could actually create things in SL--now anything they create is looked at like a joke because LL didn't bother to add more options in the viewer itself to create more types of prims. That's what should have happened, but they took the pathetic lazy route. Sculpties shouldn't ever have happened either--they should have simply put more options in the viewer itself. And stop doing the hyperbole stuff by saying "20 years old", don't be ridiculous. And if one requires the skills to make content on professional platforms in order to make content in a world that's supposed to be for EVERYONE to be able to create content in, it's sort of lost touch with what the online world/environment was created for in the first place. If it requires those skills, why go on SL when you could make content for other games that have better engines and actually have real online gameplay? You also strawmanned my argument: I never talked even a single time about people creating their own game engines. I talked about people working with existing complex game engines, like games that use the Hammer editor. I guess you didn't know my reference so you made things up instead. And if you're not willing to read a page and a half of text, which was all my post was unless you're using a very low resolution on your screen, that's your problem, it means you're a lazy reader, yet act like others are lazy for not wanting to learn how to use Blender or Maya just to make content for an online world that's supposed to be about creating things. You're reminding me of Linux fanboys who claim that it's "easy" to type 20 word commands to do simple things that should have a visual interface. Why can't LL make a NEW avatar engine (or whatever avatar engine they're going to have in Sansar) that lets people do a lot of things with sliders, and then if people aren't satisfied with that, they can have other options? There are plenty of great 3D games that give you an insane amount of options for your avatar without having to purchase products that don't give you any options other than that purchase. Claiming that going out and buying things to change your avatar instead of being able to move sliders to customize it yourself is as stupid as Apple claiming their pro lines are "upgradable" because when you first buy them, you can ask for a better built-in video card. That's not an upgrade, that's spending more money to get something you can't change. Try having a fat avatar. Go for it. Tell me about all the options for that. If you actually think SL hasn't went downhill (in participation, in good places to go, in places to hang out) since late 2012, I have a bridge to sell you. The Narrows Bridge here in Tacoma is going for a good price, that'll be 500 bitcoins please. There's a significant correlation between the time mesh got introduced to SL, and people's participation in creating things and people doing things in SL dwindling. Just because you can find nice items doesn't mean the platform hasn't went downhill in participation and places to go. If it wasn't people not feeling they could create anything reasonable, what do you attribute to SL going downhill so much? Or are you going to be like I was in the mid 90s with the Amiga, thinking it was still a great computer platform even when it was so apparent it was not anymore.