Why Don't You Sign Into SL Any Longer (And What Would Bring You Back)?

[Aribeth Zelin]

I do miss there being more whimsy in SL, you'd think, with mesh, there would be more, not less - but the economy is nowhere near the economy of '04-'06. I'd wager if SL ever wants to go back to being a world instead of a doll house, they need to either give everyone a little bit of land, or lower the price of having some.

If I could afford a sim for non-commercial [or commercial for that matter], I'd love to just make something fun to explore and do things in. I can't.

But my 64x64 chunk of mainland is being worked on - more now that I really can't get more supplies for rl work, and well, no cons likely this year at this point, in which to sell them.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Social anxiety can actually be crippling and I figure everyone got tired of having me around anyway.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

BoM, which is a bit confusing at first (ok, it still is) solves that problem. It lets you use system skins like you used in the past. You need a mesh head that supports it, which a lot do now. The popular female mesh body Maitreya Lara recently added full BoM support for the body, so that has caused a surge in BoM adoption.

I spent a week trying to get BOM right for me, and while it's a wonderful idea it's also complex to work with (to me anyway). And expensive for someone who is in world maybe once a week like me. I guess the essential question I always ask is "Why?". Most of my old SL friends have either died or quit except for SLU vets, and I rarely even see them online any more. The whole place feels like a ghost town and I'm not motivated enough to meet new ghosts.

Add in the usual complaints I've always had about idiots and immature dumbasses and I'm just happier not looking under the rock.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

So.... after 16 years of playing cat girls, foxes, and asorted other anything but mes..... my spouse and I are working on making younger versions of ourselves and are discussing what level of young we want to start with, since the first 10 years of our marriage and the first 20 years we knew each other were... unconventional and filled with all sorts of not normal BS.

And well, I'm hoping it might help me with some of my personal issues to go back to before some of them were as bad.


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