Recent content by Da5id Weatherwax

I'd escaped for so many years.. but the gacha discussion on the official forums finally got Prok to target me. Epic meltdown when I laughed at her instead of rising to the bait, earned her a 5-day ban. Now the dumbass is seeking out places where I've played music in the past and ranting at...

I agree. If they'd positioned Sansar as "SL2" I think they'd have got more traction on it but they didn't - they wanted Sansar to be entirely separate from all the "scuzzy stuff" that happens in SL and, by trying to make that happen, they killed it before it got properly started.

There is absolutely no substitute for getting the white balance on your camera right for RL digital photography. I'm going to date myself horribly here but back in the early 80s I was engineering boss for the student TV station at my college. Our campus - and studio - was literally a hundred...

And that, right there, is something that will never happen. LL are too committed to maintaining compatibility with content already in the world for them ever to do an engine-level rework of SL. It is, and always will be, a complete non-starter.

should have updated sooner - oh well, it's done now....

even many years back anything with a fore/aft rig worked *close enough* to realistic to be fun, the occasional square-rigger not so much but I understand there have been improvements in both over the years (and let's face it, even among RL sailors there's precious few of us that actually know...

no mod? no purchase. end of story. It's just not worth the hassle. The only no-mod items I own were gifts. No-mod in inventory because of the item having no-mod contents is fine, but no-mod on the item itself means it gets none of my cash, ever. If that means I have a restricted wardrobe well...

Awww, and here I was already contemplating the hideousness of the avatar and the sheer unadulterated trollage of its various scripted appendages for an alt named "Cockwomble Trump"

At its most basic, in RL sailing, setting a sail comes down to only one thing. If the sail is smooth and not flapping anywhere, it's working right. You just let out the sheet until you see the sail start to flap, then haul it in until it just stops. If it's hauled in too far too much of its...

The Euro is a bit of a strange beast amongst currencies. When first introduced it was to a bunch of allied but separately managed economies and was treated, mistakenly, like those economies would continue to function exactly as they had before, just measuring their financial numbers using...

Nah, they'll land on the National Mall in Washington. The lizard people have worked out where their kids are hiding and came to take the GOP home.

The fixed term parliaments act was always a bit of a misnomer. What it was supposed to do was take the "strategic election" largely out of the PMs hands - and as Bojo is finding out, that it has mostly done. Not completely, by any means, but mostly. But if governments can't quit on a whim any...

Tusk has already tweeted that he's recommending acceptance of the UKs request, and most analysis is that the EU will accept that. Now, this is important... If the EU just says "yes", the existing wording of law kicks in without any more action in parliament and the extension is to January. If...

At this point it's "a maze of twisty passages all alike" Personally I think they are all going to get eaten by a grue.

If the upcoming rules about offshoring wealth bother anyone, that says to me that either they are cheating on their taxes or it's crooked money anyway. And, frankly, if they want to get that kind of money out of our country then all I can do is hope that the door does hit them in the ass on the...