tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post5759244371284256357..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: light a candle, lay flowers at the doorEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-91526178590934953582010-08-08T19:35:27.219-07:002010-08-08T19:35:27.219-07:00I really can't either, but I keep trying. It&#...I really can't either, but I keep trying. It's completely against everything I've done in SL to date, which makes it difficult beyond belief.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-52748082880054258292010-08-08T19:28:15.381-07:002010-08-08T19:28:15.381-07:00All I can say is that you guys are brave. XD I jus...All I can say is that you guys are brave. XD I just can't bring myself to do the switch.Serenity Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11911695658722261308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-28766292368220636752010-08-08T00:45:23.489-07:002010-08-08T00:45:23.489-07:00Aaaaack.
Well, I can transfer them back to a diff...Aaaaack.<br /><br />Well, I can transfer them back to a different part of C drive...I don't <i>have</i> a lot of other options.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-77418335221065833322010-08-08T00:42:44.196-07:002010-08-08T00:42:44.196-07:00That may actually kill the memory stick in the lon...That may actually kill the memory stick in the long term, due to the frequency of write cycles in a cache. <br /><br />You might want to pick up a second memory stick and back up the novels onto that periodically, so if the original dies, you still at least have the novels. <br /><br />(interesting idea, though...)Sphynx Soleilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384124029613452884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-36598505253602716772010-08-07T16:55:34.098-07:002010-08-07T16:55:34.098-07:00Makes sense.
I don't specifically have other ...Makes sense.<br /><br />I don't specifically have other drives on this box, especially not since the hard drive fried and I got the temp veryverysmall HD...but I did slap together a cache folder and made up four sub-folders on the one external drive I have.<br /><br />Down side: it's a temp drive. It goes away if I disconnect that memory stick. Up side: I rarely, rarely disconnect it, as that's holding both parts of the novels-in-progress I'm slooowly working on.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-60262497162980038762010-08-07T15:52:29.105-07:002010-08-07T15:52:29.105-07:00Why non-C drives specifically?
Heh! :) Because th...<i><b>Why non-C drives specifically?</b></i><br /><br />Heh! :) Because the SL viewer is on C: - putting the cache on a different drive (well, assuming you have two physical drives) splits the drive activity between the viewer (which is pretty hoggy to begin with) and the separate cache location. Each drive only doing half the work. <br /><br />I don't remember if I have 2 drives on the new box, at this point I just do it out of habit, and the machine is fast enough it doesn't make as much of a difference as it did on the older slower boxen.Sphynx Soleilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384124029613452884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-25595578818310789042010-08-07T14:05:25.719-07:002010-08-07T14:05:25.719-07:00Why non-C drives specifically?
But I thought this...Why non-C drives specifically?<br /><br />But I thought this was good enough incentive (plus, I have four different clients on my system currently) to do the separate-cache thing, so we'll see how it goes.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-78161310415332562682010-08-07T05:17:31.364-07:002010-08-07T05:17:31.364-07:00See, that's something I really NEED to be proa...<b><i>See, that's something I really NEED to be proactive on: I don't always set up separate caches.</i></b><br /><br />I set up a folder on a non-C drive, named it, "SL Caches", then made subfolders for each viewer cache. I point each viewer to their respective subfolder AFTER I make the folders manually (I don't like tiny windows...really I don't) and yea, has saved me a LOT of hassle. <br /><br />The rest? Could easily be 2.x issues, but the one or two times I've logged in with a 2.x client I haven't seen that, so... *shrugs* <br /><br />I run Emerald pretty exclusively these days - speedy texture loading, less crashy for me, both are win-win.Sphynx Soleilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384124029613452884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-51864745099648145902010-08-06T20:23:15.125-07:002010-08-06T20:23:15.125-07:00Miss Poindexter,
For the second point, yes, both ...Miss Poindexter,<br /><br />For the second point, yes, both versions have had standard key movements for a while. But, whereas 1.x browsers require the closing of the local chat bar <i>to</i> move by the keys, 2.x doesn't. That's actually an improvement in their favor.<br /><br />For the first, 2.0 (and then (2.1) is the <i>only</i> browsr that's "flashed backwards" to outfits I'd worn weeks--or entire months--previous. It's odd, unsettling, and I don't understand why it happens.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-79664321565214094332010-08-06T20:00:24.634-07:002010-08-06T20:00:24.634-07:00A couple of notes:
(1) I have tried (and switched...A couple of notes:<br /><br />(1) I have tried (and switched between) any number of third-party clients, including Nicholaz, Cool Viewer (both Boy Lane and Henri Beauchamp's versions), Imprudence, Emerald, and various other official, beta, and third-party clients. I've never experienced ending up in a different avatar and/or outfit than I was in when I logged off with any of them.<br /><br />On the other hand, a few weeks ago, without changing clients at all, I found that while my last (baked) outfit still appeared on me when I logged in, the inventory system believed I was naked. Indeed, as soon as I added one item of clothing, the rest disappeared. Other people reported related issues that night, leading me to believe that some sort of server glitch was in play.<br /><br />(2) SL 1.x has supported both WASD and the arrow keys for as long as I can remember. Personally, I've always used the arrow keys. I gather Fawkes prefers WASD. Either way, this isn't something 2.x has changed, to my knowledge.Samantha Poindexterhttp://samanthapoindexter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-76768205059862372922010-08-06T18:26:39.491-07:002010-08-06T18:26:39.491-07:00Mr. Dagger,
It's more of a game convention, h...Mr. Dagger,<br /><br />It's more of a game convention, honestly; as Fawkes pointed out, nearly all gamers fall into two types: mouse jockeys, and keyboard jockeys. (I apparently am neither, because I move somewhat independently between both styles, and in SL, I use the camera control HUD). The W-A-S-D movement style is generally for the keyboard group, the one that opens up Preferences with Ctrl-P, f'rinstance, over Edit > Preferences (as an example). <br /><br />I don't know if there's an option to remap keys in SL; I <i>do</i> know you can remap keys in other games, so if W-A-S-D bothered you, or you weren't ambilateral, you do have the option to pick other keys, so you could set it up as I for forward, J for left strafe, K for backing up, and L for right strafe, f'rinstance.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-40833082104130079332010-08-06T18:23:15.213-07:002010-08-06T18:23:15.213-07:00Miss Jameson,
There is no Intellectual Delight, b...Miss Jameson,<br /><br />There is no Intellectual Delight, but amusingly enough, there are:<br /><br />* INADAZE Delight (born 10/28/2007, no info on profile)<br /><br />* Inbed Delight (born 10/28/2007, no info on profile)<br /><br />* infinite Delight (born 10/30/2007, no info on profile, and I'm wondering if these are all the same person)<br /><br />* Innocent Delight (born 1/1/2008, no info)<br /><br />* insane Delight (born 10/24/2007, no info)<br /><br />* Intense Delight (born 10/26/2007)<br /><br />and<br /><br />* International Delight (born 11/5/2007)<br /><br />Wau. Lots of people had fun with that name.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-35396295932433460132010-08-06T18:09:51.196-07:002010-08-06T18:09:51.196-07:00Sphynx,
See, that's something I really NEED t...Sphynx,<br /><br />See, that's something I really NEED to be proactive on: I don't always set up separate caches. What kills me, though, is--every time I log into 2.0 (or now, 2.1), it does something RIGHT off the bat that makes me crazy. When I first logged in, it blasted my eardrums with multiple media. Next log-in? I couldn't build. Log-in after that? I was flipped back to an outfit I hadn't worn on the grid since October 2009. Time after that? I was flipped back to an outfit (and skin, hair, shoes and eyes) that I'd worn two weeks back.<br /><br />It's infuriating.<br /><br />Also, yes--most other games, from Runes of Magic to WoW, use W-A-S-D or some minimal variant to move forward, turn, backwards--whatever. I think the 2.0 group threw that in to make it more "consistent" with other virtual spaces.<br /><br />I have no verification on whether opening Edit Appearance caused that level of lag on 2.0, because I never did it. I also don't know if it's due to not being older-system compatible (because it's clearly not). I just noticed it because it was so odd, and because Fawkes was asking me, for about twenty minutes, to open the Edit Appearance screen every couple minutes or so. And <i>every</i> time, it would cause that sudden, inescapable lag.<br /><br />As far as the toasts and chiclets thing, I have no idea--the "toasts" are what they call the little window popups that tell you when friends are online, when people say things, when you get notices--and, when you minimize those, they're called chiclets, because they're little squares of content on the lower taskbar. Where did they get these names? Noooo clue.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-20710222408410283462010-08-06T13:44:07.569-07:002010-08-06T13:44:07.569-07:00WASD? I've always used the arrow keys. Is that...WASD? I've always used the arrow keys. Is that a left-hand convention, Miss Emilly?<br /><br />I've never used the HUD-ish camera or movement controls. I confess to occasionally clicking my avatar to swivel it, but mainly I use the left and right arrows (and shift left and right if I want to walk sideways without turning - is that strafeing?)<br /><br />Otherwise I dislike 2.x for most of the same reasons, and simply can not WAIT *cough* for the next iteration - you know, after the Lab listens *cough again* to all our feedback.<br /><br />-iDIcterus Daggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05540131959894781663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-15175418336846678942010-08-06T10:11:18.170-07:002010-08-06T10:11:18.170-07:00Miss Delight did not want you to confuse her with ...Miss Delight did not want you to confuse her with her (non-identical) twin, Miss Intellectual Delight.Rhianon Jamesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13627163137265856251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-6708311425644422972010-08-06T08:40:26.393-07:002010-08-06T08:40:26.393-07:00...Which should be how I looked when last on the g...<i><b>...Which should be how I looked when last on the grid, regardless of which client I'm using.<br /><br />Strike one.<br /><br />Fawkes says this is an issue with using multiple clients. He says there's nothing that can be done about it. There is also some confusion as to whether this has happened before--he says it has, with other third-party viewers; I say it hasn't...</b></i><br /><br />Newp, it's not a multiple client issue. Hasn't been a problem for me, old machine OR new. I have separate cache deposits for each client though. <br /><br /><i><b>...I don't want system folders to the top by default; in fact, I don't want system folders to the top...</b></i><br /><br />Now that I don't mind - I put system folders at the top in 1.x clients already. <br /><br /><i><b>...move as I'd move in virtually any other video game, using W, A, S and D keys....</b></i><br /><br />You can do that in SL? Not that I play any other video games where I'd USE that, but still... didn't know. <br /><br /><i><b>...Which, by the way, is the only thing in Second Life I've yet found that kicks up my nausea, graphics-wise--that sort of jittery camera motion...</b></i><br /><br />Yea, me too... I never EVER travel in "mouselook" mode - or do much of anything in it - as a result. <br /><br /><i><b>...I like the precision the camera controls offer me. He tells me SL is the only game that has a separate camera control menu.</b></i><br /><br />It's probably the only game where photography can be more of a profession as a result, rather than "Oh hai, check out this gnarly scene!"<br /><br /><i><b>...He says it's because nearly every game out there uses these controls, or at least an easily grasped local variant....</b></i><br /><br />Oh, so THAT is the problem! The designers think it's a glorified video game! No wonder the 2.x client is so asstastic. <br /><br /><i><b>...I pull open the Editing Shape window, and suddenly, it's like we're at a heavily scripted club with sixty-five dancers and everything animated and tossing particles--I mean, an insane and sudden amount of lag from nowhere....</b></i><br /><br />I don't remember it doing that on my old box? It might be a 2.x problem. I haven't noticed a lag increase on the new box either, even minorly. (Though that lag-on-teleport-in/out bug is REALLY goddamn annoying...) <br /><br /><i><b>...I loathe the new structure but I did notice something profound is missing from my profile--the "My Notes" section. It's gone. "You never could edit that," Fawkes says. I beg to differ.</b></i><br /><br />Yes, you could. And you can tell him I said so. I was always dumping notes in my own profile notes page. <br /><br />*blinks* <br /><br />"Toasts"? "Chiclets"? What WERE those designers smoking?!Sphynx Soleilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384124029613452884noreply@blogger.com