Blush Bravin

Because I move so often, yes, I've had this experience. But I've learned the hard way that if I'll just wait a reasonable time between trying, I don't get the same house again and again. That happens to me when I take about an hour or two to go through my tries, but if I space it out to more like 5 tries during a 16 hour period I do get different houses. Does that mean I'll want any of those five different spots, not necessarily, in fact more often then not, it'll take a whole week to find a super good spot because I'm super picky. But it's just a fact of SLife.

LOL, I've had a Linden Home for many years starting way back before Belli began. I'm not going to tell you how often I move, cause that's just plain embarrassing. So, I think just because a lot of people already have homes doesn't mean their still not shopping for a new location.

You look fine, though you could be in your late teens, which most females have reached their full adult height be then. But he looks like a giant to me. Of course I really can't tell without some reference material in the background. But since you said your height I'm using that as reference.

This thread will NOT work if people don't stay on topic. Maybe I'm just asking for too much?

So if you think the avatar looks like: a child (17 or younger) then react with a like, for an adult (18 and over) use thanks, and use confused if you can't tell based on physical appearance alone. Please don't respond to individual posts with written comments just use the reaction icons.

Quartz made a suggestion in that other monster thread, that has since been locked, that if we wanted to post pics to open a new thread. I thought it was an interesting idea at the time, and since it's been said in the recent announcements and FAQ that it's up to the community to determine if their avatars look of age or not, I thought it would be fun to have a thread that asks the question, ' Does this avatar look like a child, adult, or can't tell based on physical appearance alone. I also think such a thread could go horribly wrong in a very few posts. But perhaps with some careful parameters in place that could be avoided. So my idea is for people to post a full length pic and a close up pic of their avatar without any explanation or comments added to the post. And that the only way of "voting or commenting" on the appearance would be to use the reaction icons. So if you think the avatar looks like: a child (17 or younger) then react with a like, for an adult (18 and over) use thanks, and use confused if you can't tell based on physical appearance alone. Please don't respond to individual posts with written comments just use the reaction icons. If you think my idea is stupid of course you can laugh at this post or give me a sad face or whatever to this initial post, but please don't react that way to anyone posting their pics. So that people joining the thread without reading the OP won't be confused about the topic of the thread please copy and paste the statement in bold above to your post below your pics. I'm going to start the post with my own pics as an example. I hope this works and can be a fun way to get a pulse on how the community sees our avatars without it becoming a dump on people thread needing a quick lock. So here goes.

Which one looks like Tom Selleck? Why? I think it's obvious.

So using the Maitreya FlatX for prepubescent females is basically the same as using a Senra male body as in the example offered in the FAQ? Well, just second thought that. The camel toe makes a difference, I think.

From the updated FAQ it appears to me they've used the male body with the female head from the Senra avatars for a female child. I hadn't even thought about doing that. I think using the male Senra body for a prepubescent female works really well. It doesn't appear that the modesty layer has actually been sculpted into the mesh but that the undies have been painted onto the skin. And I'm very relieved with their answer about how to react to situations when child avatars come across nudity in moderate regions.

Sure there are. Never said there weren't, but gravity is gravity. It's inevitable. And when I say more sag, I don't mean like sag to the waist. I mean more sag than you have in your mid teens.

Yep, I agree. It's certainly possible, though I think by 50 no matter how small your chest might be you're gonna see more sag. Ah, I really didn't have any idea it was a promo photo. To me it looks very much like they took the same body shape, minus boob size, and just shortened the avatar to indicate age, which I think is completely erroneous. Just my opinion.

Retired art teacher here. I do know the difference.

Hate the idea of anyone using 2k textures for BOM. IMO 2k textures are best for large surfaces like terrain or where extreme sharpness is required like mirrors. We already have more than enough detail on our skins using 1024s.

Your examples of teen and adult are simply post pubescent females who could be anywhere from 13 to mid 20s. Your fit but 50 could easily be one of the newer "more realistic" Barbie's with a deflated boob job, excluding the face. Your example of a child looks like a female who is about to enter puberty, possibly has entered the first stages of puberty. I don't really see a young child though.

Which could also be said for anyone removing a BOM based modesty panel!

All you have to do is double click on another skin in your inventory to REMOVE that skin. So in essence it's still removeable.

I live confused. SL or RL! lol

Since this limitation has been in effect for as long as I can remember there being Linden Homes, which was way before Belli even came into existence. I doubt that the number of available homes has any correlation to the limitation on how many claims can be made in one day. But I do understand the frustration. I remember how hard it was back when I wanted a loft home in the old Linden Homes. It's so much easier now with all the house styles available within a theme available on every parcel in that themed area.

I really think a discussion on the ramifications and subsequent behaviors in survivors of CA belongs in another thread.

My RL son wondered off in a ToysRUs when he was three. We couldn't find him for a few minutes. The store went on lock down and doors locked. After that we used a mommy to child chain, leash, whatever. I learned my lesson that day. Draw your own conclusions on my viewpoint if seeing people RPing normal family bahavior in SL!!!!!

Seeing a leash on clothed avatars is not a problem. But when one clothed avatar is pulling a crawling naked avatar behind them that's an issue!!! Even still, I didn't AR the persons involved. I don't care. I just look the other way and keep doing my shopping. But now if I see this kind of behavior in front of a child avatar I might, MIGHT, think twice about filing an AR.

I don't think what I or anyone else thinks is necessarily important, but with that said, I really hope they don't require any chest covering for any avatar presenting as under the age of 5 or so. In no case do I think males should have to wear any kind of chest covering. Personally, I wish our culture wasn't so boob obsessed so that females could be as liberated as males and not have to wear silly chest coverings. Covering the genitals regardless of gender, to me, is all that's necessary. Kind of think I'll get push back on that, but that's okay too.

I do love the music scene in SL, and typically if I'm logged in I'm either shopping, building, or at a music venue. I have a few musicians I follow, but if they are performing at a venue in an adult region I don't go. I just get tired of the blatant sexual nudity and behavior. So I do check what the rating of the regions are before teleporting. That also goes for shopping. Most of the time if the region is rated adult I'm more likely to skip the shop. To make this a bit more on topic. My behavior when it comes to adult rated regions is the same type of behavior those presenting as child avatars will need to use. While I'm not required to change my avatar to go to an adult region, I just prefer not to go there, so I keep an eye out for where I'm going to end up. The funny thing is that I love raunchy humor, and have been told that oftentimes I sound like Betty White. But in truth I'm a bit straight laced. I apologize, this is probably more off topic than on. I'll restrain myself.

Come to think of it, a few, very few times the naked avatars I've seen were females being pulled around on a chain, so in those cases the nudity would seem to be very intentional.

Still catching up, I'm only on page 194 but feel the need to comment. You will almost never find me in adult land anymore, but I have lived and owned land in Zindra a few times. Each time I moved away it was due to neighbors who were constantly in my face with their behavior, which is why they were in Zindra. I never said anything to them of course, because it was MY problem. Honestly in my twenty years in SL I've been to a nude beach twice. The first time because my then partner teleported me there. I didn't stay long. I prefer to take part in naked activities in the privacy of my own home. Now more to the subject. Even though I do not frequent adult regions I still see naked peeps rather frequently. I see them shopping in moderate regions. I see them shopping events even in general regions. When I see naked peeps shopping I don't focus on them to see if their just trying on stuff or if being naked is actually their preference. I really don't care. I haven't seen naked peeps doing anything sexual since I left Zindra. I'm wondering if "just" being topless in the Blake, or anywhere else, really qualifies as being nude honestly. I don't think topless is the same as nude. But I don't know how others see that.