RSS SL

1. New Chapter for Mainland

   Stipends are "discretionary income" because you get to choose how you want to spend it. That's exactly the same as tier is one category of "discretionary spending." The fact that they're denominated in different currencies isn't even interesting to those of us who use non-USD currency for most daily spending. (In fact for some the L$ is easier than their "native" currencies to convert to tier-paying USD.) Nobody is required to spend their stipend on tier, and nobody is required to spend it on other stuff instead. It would be crazy misleading not to treat it as directly offsetting subscription cost just because some children never learned to wait for that extra marshmallow.

2. New Chapter for Mainland

   Yeah, I can push it that high sometimes. but not consistently and not because the hardware isn’t capable. SL hits a practical ceiling. A lot of the workload,is still heavily CPU bound and doesn’t scale well with modern GPUs. Increasing draw distance isn’t a linear cost either as it multiplies how much data the viewer has to process and keep in memory. So even on high end systems you reach a point of diminishing returns where performance drops off quickly. Either your frame rate falls as the CPU gets overwhelmed or your GPU runs into memory limits trying to keep everything loaded. That’s why very high draw distances are possible in short bursts or lighter areas, but not something even my rendering workstation can handle in busy regions. At that point, the limit isn’t really my hardware, it’s how efficiently the platform can use it, which has been an ever increasing problem i've noticed the older SL gets.

3. How Does Your SL Look Today?

   You forget, dude. Midnoot wouldn’t be caught dead in antiquity showrooms. Michelangelo and da Vinci are too ancient & dusty for him & makes him feel old.

4. Hiring modeller, not for custom

   Send a hello for me in worldd

5. How Does Your SL Look Today?

   I decided to break in my new Ao Dai and parasol by taking a stroll around the Belli commercial districts to see how things were progressing in the ones that have been open for a while. I was actually reasonably impressed. There are still a few stores with only scant offerings for sale (and lots of "Coming soon" signs on the walls), but they nearly all looked like something. It wasn't always a something I particularly liked, aesthetically speaking, but people have obviously been putting some effort in to make these look nice, and professional. The region my own store is in, in particular, looks like a reasonably up-market shopping district now. Now, we need to find a way to bring the punters in to shop.