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1. forum meetups in sl

   I am hoping that the mods clean up this repellent mess (with apologies from us). I am sure there will be other "contributions," possibly with the intent of having the thread locked, so it is likely best at this point to drop it.

2. Gaming Laptop Recommendation

   Bruh just stop lol . I have 16 gb vram and that doesn't stop mainland from turning my 4000+ series (TI) card , and 4.0+ghz processor into a borderline useless console from 2007 with sub 30 fps of it's over 128 draw distance ( haven't tried any less than that because what kind of monster enjoys being unable to even see where they're going ? Enjoys having the world suddenly pop in on them and have to wait while the massive amount of textures come piling in that makes even some of the better end PCs beg for mercy, etc ? But I'm guessing your bench mark is just " can I stand in a square with 12 avatars or less, with draw distance on 64 or less meters without exploding ?" . Sure , that's possible , but that's barely SL in my opinion . And once you actually start going to active clubs with OVER 12 avatars , toy basically have to start lowering the imposter count if you wanna maintain high fps . I get more fps during clubbing than when exploring mainland though ( with the same graphics settings ) , so that's a lesser issue . It's expecting people to realize that it's mandatory to optimize their graphics accordingly , rather than just being able to use the presets , where it gets tricky . It took me years of experimenting with graphics settings to fully understand what I need to lower or raise and when . And most people who fell for your trap recommendations of low end PCs are probably not gonna find that sweet spot any time soon, become frustrated that they have to settle for absolute trash levels of low settings , and yeet right out of SL.

3. How Does Your SL Look Today?

   Evelyn at Warehouse 21

4. Is there a way to mod the Second Life client to have the old interface?

   I guess you can call it situational awareness of sorts.

5. SecondLife Addiction and Thoughts

   There's no way, maybe also no, not sure how to call it, 'demandable need/right to know', in a world like SL, to prevent people from lying, if they want to, but I wonder if there couldn't be at least some way of preventing a situation like Doudi's, where one part felt deceived, wronged, having wasted time, etc., because of someone's actual vs. their SL avatar's, hm, I'll call it 'surface gender', wording is difficult..., and the other part didn't really want to deceive/harm/wrong/'got to look down on' them/... but kinda sorta didn't find the right time to elegantly explain/retreat or feared too much to hurt the person and their friendship, if the other part did mind a different than the assumed/portrayed gender... If there was a profile option, like a separate 'rl gender' tab, where the profile owner could choose to tick either any currently recognized gender/orientation tab, or 'dont want to tell', people who do mind could check out that tab, and pass on those they wouldn't want romance with, or friendship, or pass on them for specific things, like, idk, for example, an rl woman could still be "bff" with an rl guy presenting as female, but not talk to them about "women's stuff" (if that's the problem), etc. And those who really don't mind the ambiguity anyway, or even prefer it, wouldn't need to click that tab. Again, of course, that wouldn't help against purposeful 'deceivers', the only help against that is indeed assuming anyone could be anyone and anything, and if you really care, ask to take it to rl for 'proof' if a relationship (wether romantic, platonic, or else) seems to develop to the point that you do care, for whatever reason. Of course, 'bots' and related stuff make 'proof' more complicated from year to year... by this point, we've all seen a video or two with pretty young ladies that fooled their audience for quite a while, and suddenly are older aunties, or uncles, when the filters glitch. It's all complicated and awkward, though, in any case, and I'm happy that, personally, I don't really care, in my SL.