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1. I have to repair the viewer everytime i log in

   Oh? But it worked before without this? Thanks ill try to find the right one then

2. Funniest Things You Saw in Second Life

   Some of the massive 12 foot tall hyper body builder avatars (male and female) so bulked and huge their heads look like tiny pinheads make me laugh every time I see them. Never been a fan of muscled bodies (toned yes, rippling muscles no) in RL and this wild over-exaggeration you can do in SL is a gigglefest to me.

3. Funniest Things You Saw in Second Life

   So avatars made themselves taller because furniture was too tall, because the houses were too big, because the 3rd person camera position was too high. But if the avatars made themselves too tall, wouldn't that result in their camera positions becoming too high again and the whole cycle starting all over? I agree that the default camera position is too high and may definitely have contributed to avatars being too tall. But I'm pretty sure there's a very significant 'I want to be bigger than you' component in there too--mostly with manly men and an abundance of fashion models. What also keeps amazing me is that shop owners make their stores look like jumbo jet hangars and their product vendors as big as garage doors. And then there's the repetitiveness of these vendors, both in looks and placcement. It's not improving the shopping experience whatsoever. I have to cam around like there's no tomorrow, cursing myself regularly for 'losing' a particular vendor and having to spend up to minutes to find it again, often having to resort to area search.

4. Commercial Bellisseria

   Let's not get carried away Philistinism, by definition, is a hostility toward the aesthetic and the intellectual. However, for that charge to stick, two things must be true: The work must actually possess aesthetic or intellectual merit. The critic must be rejecting it because of that merit (or out of a preference for the "crass" and material). If the "art" in question is just a collection of derivative, uninspired, narcissistic, "art" as cosplay, then the critic isn't a Philistine, they're just an honest to goodness critic. At the very least they might just be a discerning consumer. Calling someone a Philistine just because they think your output doesn't constitute "art" takes quite a lot of hubris. Which I'm not against by the way, because at least that might be classed as "performance art" in its own right 😀

5. Commercial Bellisseria

   Nope. First off, there are only currently 16 galleries across 21 commercial sims. That's fine. Not even one per region on average. Plus, I don't want to "apply" for anything given the track record LL has for "selecting" whose suitable or not. I've applied repeatedly to shop & hops and been told, paraphrasing, "You're gallery MP presence sucks" versus "You have no system to coordinate in-world inventory vs MP inventory LL" in an endless chicken-egg cycle of not being able to meet some unspoken requirements. LL isn't quite as bad as the cliquely gate-keepers of the major events, but without complete transparency and accountability, the process for selecting would be unfair even due to unconscious biases (not unlike the real art world I've been part of for 44 years). Additionally, you've seen how contentious the debate is here about what constitutes what "art" is .. you really want anyone sololy judging what to exhibit? Finally, I don't want to share my space with anyone I don't want to. My gallery is a solo show, and not intended (unless I want) to be a multi-artists space. My art is abstract (doesn't fit with many other genres/aesthetics), sold only once (I have yet to find any other artist/photographer doing that in SL), and I want to market in a space I specifically design and want to show in. I pay my P+ and I can try to get a commercial store. If I get one, I can sell whatever I want (within the ToS and specific Belli commercial convenant). I'm not complaining about anything anyone's selling... even the gahca folks. So can we please put this art debate to bed? (Note: If you mean in addition to my own store .. a true museum type gallery .. then that's fine. Maybe there should be one arts or performing centre and cafe in every region. Even cooler? No sales... just a LM to your own gallery space if your art is chosen to be displayed. That idea I could get behind, even though I'd probably not apply.)