/sl/ - Second Life

>>28496

>why aren't there more of us?

That's exactly why: there aren't more of us because there aren't more of us. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy; people simply drift away when there's nothing for them to do and nobody to do it with. I know I haven't been on SL in any serious sense for the better part of two years, and most of the reason is just because it's much easier to get what I'm after RPwise elsewhere. The effort involved in getting decent RP in SL is just more than it's worth, and finding anything more than isolated individuals (like, say, a group, or an entire sim) is kind of like waiting for two stars to collide: sure, it happens, but it's unspeakably rare, and it takes a long damn time. I'd rather spend that time and effort elsewhere, where results are much more guaranteed.

>>28502

Where do you usually go?

>>28508

F-List for ERP, pretty much literally anywhere else for normal RP. Mostly in the context of actual RPGs anymore, often leaning on my various similarly nerdy friends. It's really depressing how easy it is to find people who care about characters and stories anywhere but SL.

>>28498

>>28502

Leave it to sex role-players to be totally fucking clueless on why SL breaks down on a cyclical basis. This has all happened before and it will all happen again.

There's a few variables at play, life is one. People's priorities shift, their free time, and how they choose to spend that free time. Our society rewards instant gratification, which is why every cycle this problem gets worse. Old internet greybeards know how to cope with this better, which is why IRC was so popular, and MUDs too.

it's real fucking simple, though. To have any functional group in these things you need social alphas, you need the tastemakers. The people who establish the cliques and set a standard for behavior. Without any pack alphas, the betas just laze about, unsure of what to do and eventually leave. You need those core personalities to establish territory and create a level of conflict to encourage interesting dynamics to form.

Unfortunatey, the sim owners are rarely the kind to have both the money & the alpha mindset necessary to manage the packs and cliques. That's how the drama always gets out of hand, when conflict resolution needs to happen the group admins are almost always too passive. They *think* it's being impartial, but it's really cowardice.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter who you side with in a conflict as long as decisive action is made and you choose someone who benefits the social atmosphere you want to cultivate in your group.

Without doms / alphas to make the decisive calls to do whatever it takes to instill a cohesive social atmosphere, people will fucking leave because the effort threshold exceeds what the betas are looking for. So the Betas that remain are people with literally nothing better to do and no Will to Power. Whenever they get busy, or find a new pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>28637

>Will to Power

>literally bringing Nietzsche into your clueless /r9k/ wannabe alpha male ramble

There are not enough laughing whores to fill the .jpg I need for this.

>>26972

i can see the logic in your statements.

for me though alot of these guys have way to much shit on them. I'm somewhat of a minimalist.

All Good:

>>26529

>>26536

>>26425

Everyone and everything else needs work.

>>27821

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

>>26876

All cows need power armor.

>>27852

https://youtu.be/gyift2r6u9k

>>27767

that's kind of hot tho

>>28102

they literally just said

>nomod apologists

go look at that post

and tell me

if its targetting penny specifically as you so claim

sure someone may have a hate boner but seems like you got a victim boner harder

>>28115

Everyone gets a boner!

>>28115

I think they were just commenting that the posts I called nomod apologists had a hate boner for penny

>>28121

I think that's a pretty safe assumption, but you know what they say about assumptions.

>>28117

Sweet boners!

>>28123

They make an ass out of u and mptions?

>>31411

It.. Literally uses the LL skin template.

I think a majority of all of the major mesh human bodies use the LL skin template.

>>31412

that's true. Slink and Belleza also uses LL skin template

>>31413

Only things different are hands and feet, which have their own included shadow maps, because they're sliiightly different.

>>31412

Maitreya is slightly different at the feet and hands though. If you look closely a lot of skins on Maitreya will have fucked up toes or fingers.

>>27483

Porn posters look dumb anyway Arty

>>27483

No, just images on the marketplace.

>>27483

Yes, it's fucking gay and dumb.

>>27483

Yes, please do. The Lindens will thank you.

She's ugly, but I want those pants

Any idea where I can find those?

>>27800

I'm not into axe hands.

>>27800

>>20831

>>27771

the we love roleplay event has a gift from every participating store

>>27780

Right, thanks for the reminder. Been meaning to check that one out but I almost forgot.

Apparently the Arcade will have gifts too. I hate gachas, but free gifts are nice.

Always do abranimations, it's free.

Madpea has a paid one, but I think I'll wait to try it

>>27784

There's a lot of free ones, it's all about if the items are actually decent or not. Thanks! I recall Abranimations being fun little gadgets.

>>32744

Just basic Kemono. What I have now works but generally the hands and wrists will clip with things in some animations, especially when wearing things with long sleeves.

>>32751

Krankhaus sleeves?

>>32755

Yes, actually.

>>32756

That may be the issue there. Some of Krankhaus' clothes add a lot of thickness to your arms, something AOs don't deal well with unless the animations are specifically made for those shapes.

Try seeing how you look nekkid. If you clip then it's your AO, if not then it's your clothes.

>>32760

Damn. I can't find any good shirts for this avatar, what a pain in the ass. Well, if nothing else i've found some new animations to make it less apparent.

>>27661

i haven't looked at in in a while and i'm not even sure of the name anymore but there was a popular zombie survival SIM that had animated mesh npc zombies i remember looking acceptable. but again, i am forgiving of graphics. thank you, 2600, thank you.

>>27662

If you're happy with NPCs look barely a step above System Shock but move like a Chuck-E-Cheez animatronic (assuming they're not just a static model that moves around on a path) that's fine, but let's not pretend they're anything more than that.

As for the interactivity side of things, the two most interactive sims I've seen in SL were "Doomed Shio" and "The Well". Pretty sure both predated mesh, let alone experience tools, and both were still way more interactive than LL's "Horizons" game that launched this week.

>>27663

Horizons was merely a land cashgrab; The "experience" is secondary to the 30-50k/1024m lots barons are buying up like crazy

>>27623

I've had a Second Life account for almost a decade but I've used it less than a dozen times because it is little more than a glorified chat room.

I guess my expectations were too high.

>>30972

There just aren't enough people interested in trying to do more with it.

>>27530

>implying casual pixelbump and social chats isn't also fine

>>27492

whos the fox? i want to fuck it

>>27591

fideicide resident

new lewd thread when

>>27296

contact starkastarka

>>27727

Hey dude. How's it hanging? Looks like you're out on a pretty sweet vacay

bodacious

who here has successfully AR'd someone? what's the bare minimum evidence they need to act?

>>28312

me every time a troll fucker trys to screw with me

>>27076

Any inventory management perks?

>>27078

No, unfortunately.

Firestorm

>>27084

Do any viewers have inventory management perks?

>>27036

>>27037

Did you know that in Firestorm, you can hold Ctrl/Shift(/Alt?) and use your scroll wheel to adjust the default height, angle, and distance of your camera? (So that when you reset your camera, it goes to that position.)

>>26591

Sometimes I wonder if people just forgot to bake a normal map from the high poly and just uploaded it straight instead.

Then I remember how dumb 99% of SL's population is, and I get sad again.

>>26602

Normal map?

It's already high poly that's how I uploaded it

>>26413

Dog dick holes are at the tip of the point, not the center. That's the point of the point.

>>26628

Yaaaah...

>>26631

I know, the dick came with two versions. I prefer the one in the pic.

>>26623

modified body from kichaza, bad av but it still gives pawjobs just fine.

>>26642

I wouldn't mind getting an avatar like that

>>26631

Found the literal dog fucker.

Any decent male mesh bods? Also, I know how to rip textures from my generic LL body, but how would I apply them to a male mesh bod?

>>26548

Slink is nice and my current favorite. Adam is alright too, but a bit boxy in the chest. TMP is really pretty but a massive pain to use.

To apply your LL skin to a mesh body, rip the head/body/legs texture, upload it, then put it into an Omega applier. Obviously you'll need the relay for whichever body you use.

Here's the dev applier: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Omega-System-Dev-Kit/6070969 You just gotta put in the UUIDs into the script, then you should be good to go.

>>26549

Thank you ever so much!

>>26549

Are there any modify permission enabled male mesh bodies?

>>26574

I believe the Niramyth mesh body is moddable. It's a big, muscular mesh manbody made by the same guy who makes those popular werewolf and minotaur avatars.