Blush Bravin

I was one of those who kept my Maitreya HUD attached nearly all the time. But after reading that HUDs can cause texture lag issues, I decided to test performance with and without my favorite HUDs attached, and indeed my system performed much better without the HUDs (Mait and Catwa). Another wonderful feature from Firestorm is the Favorite Wearables box where I keep all my HUDs ready for attaching. It's wonderful!!! Being a mega shopper who is constantly trying demos, thus wanting to attach and detach huds often, using this feature has greatly improved my power shopping trips.

It's also very easily available from the avatar menu under the avatar health options. It's a great feature!! And as far as I know, only available in the Firestorm viewer.

There's still a lot of clothing out there with the old auto-hide scripts that didn't reset when the clothing was removed. You're probably running into those. I can't remember how long the old system was out before it was updated but it wasn't very long.

My goal with my main, Debi, is to keep her inventory below 20k. So I don't keep ANY original boxes with her. Honestly, even with Blush, I don't like to keep anything in inventory that can easily be redelivered. I just hate a large inventory. In all the time I've been wearing my Maitreya body on both Debi and Blush, which has been since the first day the body was released, I've only needed to get a redelivery once between them. That's over three years. Honestly, if someone needs to get a redelivery that often they really need to troubleshoot what's going on and find a solution. And as I've said numerous times, there are a lot of us who are willing to help in the Maitreya Lara Friends group.

All true, but this happens because you have the body attached to the same place as something else, typically avatar center. Rather than just relogging it's better to see what is attaching to the same spot and if possible move it to another spot or if it's something like an attached pet that can't be moved and work correctly, then moving the body to another spot that is rarely used. This will prevent it from happening again. It's never a nice thing to have someone message you and tell you the body you think you are wearing is missing. If you don't want to move things, and are using the Firestorm viewer, rather than relogging I'd suggest using the refresh attachments option. This is just one reason a HUD may seem to not be working. But there are others as well.

The first Psycho was released in June of 1960. I was a kid, but I remember my parents talking about how shocking that movie was. We look at that movie today and think it's run of the mill .. not shocking at all. Speed up to the first Freddy Krueger movie, November 9, 1984, there is no comparison in the nature of the graphic violence between those two eras. But like you say that was 40 years ago. But you are correct in that they've always been around but to a much lesser degree in both quantity and severity.

I said when I was young. You don't know how old I am. lol Yes, they have been around but we didn't see them advertised much on TV. And they have gotten worse in the past twenty years. Maybe thirty years. When you are as old as I am time passes much too quickly.

So, like any troubleshooting, start with the quick fix and work your up from there. Make a change and follow the problem. If it goes away and doesn't come back your done! Added a bit to your response so I could agree with it.

Fortunate for you then. Working in the MLF group, troubleshooting problems, I hear this complaint a lot with it being a frequent one for some. So frequent in fact, that they are ready to stop wearing the body all together. Fortunately, finding the problem isn't difficult. The fix is typically something really simple and then they don't have to deal with it ever again. Of course, if relogging is what someone prefers then by all means do so. I'm just suggesting that if it's really bothering someone then there are permanent solutions that will prevent it happening again.

Unfortunately, this is too often suggested as the solution when there are much better ways to fix the problem. Why keep relogging when you can find the problem and put into effect the solution so you don't keep running into the problem?

There are things you can do to fix even that without a relog. But it takes careful diagnosis to determine the problem and solution.

When I was growing up movies associated with Halloween were almost always rather benign ghost stories. Granted I'm old! In the last 20 years or so most of the movies associated with Halloween in the USA have become those with demonic overtones or slasher movies. We still have the odd Halloween tale that is suitable for young children fortunately. I'm more put off by TV commercials starting in late September for the new movie releases. This year though is an election year so we are also being bombarded with political ads, which are more irritating than any of the Halloween movies. IMO. So being bombarded with all this and the blood and gore that is oftentimes associated with Halloween in SL as well, tends to make me even more reactive to it. Do I think that my opinion on Halloween should affect anyone else? Absolutely not, but I think we have every right to voice the fact that there are aspects of Halloween that we don't particularly like.

No need to keep the original box. The redelivery terminal at Maitreya is very dependable. Also, it's very likely that you don't actually need a redelivery as the hud very rarely breaks. It's more likely another issue causing your hud to appear as though it's not working. May I suggest you join the Maitreya Lara Friends group. I am a moderator for the group. We are there to help everyone with their Maitreya body.

Noticeable house size differences now.

As long as we're speculating, why not get crazy? How about this? Finish off that little continent and create a whole new sea around the whole area.

SSP 1 could connect directly to sailable water at Danu. Direct access to Blake Sea can be blocked though at Terric and Montbard regions, so a channel to Blake Sea would be needed to guarantee access to BS. But it certainly looks doable.

I tend to make the majority of my purchases in-world as well, but since 90% of my sales come from the marketplace, I tend to think that the added cost of tier isn't worth keeping an in-world presence.

I much prefer Deborah, not thinking it sounds stuffy at all but classy.

My RL name is Deborah. Most of my friends and colleagues from my teaching days call me Deborah. My close family members still call me Debi. I'm in Texas. It can happen even in the US.

I loved my E2V vendor system. I had to switch when they closed up shop. I'm mostly satisfied with the new system, but still wish E2V was here as it is my favorite vendor system by far. I'm not in favor of the lab getting into direct competition with any content creators, so that would preclude them making an in-world vendor system IMO. However, I do wish they made redelivery possible on the Marketplace. I know a merchant can initiate a redelivery, but customers should have the ability to request a redelivery on their own. I think if that feature ever becomes available for the marketplace, I'd close up my in-world shop and stop using a vendor system at all, in favor of going straight marketplace.

With the large amounts of abandoned mainland parcels in the interior areas (landlocked with no access to roads or waterways), are there any plans for renovating those areas to make them more appealing to possible land purchasers? Many of those areas are plagued by large expanses of granite textures that do not scale well. Has the lab considered updating textures?

Casual Saturday

Look at what type of occult practices are depicted during Halloween and I think the connection and why it's not my preference is rather obvious.

Never said I was afraid of the occult. I do not wish to be a participant in anything having to do with the occult. My choice. synonyms: the supernatural, the paranormal, supernaturalism, magic, black magic, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, wizardry, the black arts, occultism, diabolism, devil worship, devilry, voodoo, hoodoo, white magic, witchery, mysticism