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second life rant
a brief Second Life rant
I get so tired of people who just act so helpless all the time and want you to spoonfeed them everything. They are in a store group chat and they obviously shop at the store and yet "can you send me a tp?" (TP is teleport, they are asking someone to send them a link to the store or a landmark to get there, instead of looking for a landmark in their inventory, looking through their teleport history or using search to find the store, or looking through group notices OR looking at the gruop profile, clicking on the group owner's profiel and finding the link in their profile). Or the person's account is years old, they talk about how they are a shopaholic in their profile or they do things like photography or like to decorate or sometimes even build and then act like they dont' knw how to do anything AT ALL .
I get there are things like bakes on mesh that can seem a little tricky but then people act like they don't know how to use an applier. "oooh I've never changed my skin..." but surely that person has used a HUD of some kind to change the pattern of their clothes or an AO or something.
I've even had people claim they don't know how to use search.
Or "Can someone send me the latest" No it's in the fucking notices, get it like everyone else did and go back and look in the notices.
Although I had a friend who said she couldn't seen notices because apparently there is a Firestorm skin that doesn't show group notices? or at least attachments or something. And once I spent a half hour trying to help someone use an applier and got more and more frustrated until I realized that this person had somehow never learned how to open a box (!??!) despite claiming to be in SL almost daily for months and had been shopping various places. And hitting up all the freebie places but apparently one of the basic steps to living in SL alluded them and it still took me way to long to explain how to rez a box, open it, take into inventory, find the folder, and then wear the items , use the HUD.
I now try to spend my time just helping people figure out Bakes on Mesh because I think it's easy and people at least have figured out how to work a mesh body to some degree in order to get to the point of trying to do Bakes on Mesh. I've found most people and notecards make it seem way more complicated than it is.
I get so tired of people who just act so helpless all the time and want you to spoonfeed them everything. They are in a store group chat and they obviously shop at the store and yet "can you send me a tp?" (TP is teleport, they are asking someone to send them a link to the store or a landmark to get there, instead of looking for a landmark in their inventory, looking through their teleport history or using search to find the store, or looking through group notices OR looking at the gruop profile, clicking on the group owner's profiel and finding the link in their profile). Or the person's account is years old, they talk about how they are a shopaholic in their profile or they do things like photography or like to decorate or sometimes even build and then act like they dont' knw how to do anything AT ALL .
I get there are things like bakes on mesh that can seem a little tricky but then people act like they don't know how to use an applier. "oooh I've never changed my skin..." but surely that person has used a HUD of some kind to change the pattern of their clothes or an AO or something.
I've even had people claim they don't know how to use search.
Or "Can someone send me the latest
Although I had a friend who said she couldn't seen notices because apparently there is a Firestorm skin that doesn't show group notices? or at least attachments or something. And once I spent a half hour trying to help someone use an applier and got more and more frustrated until I realized that this person had somehow never learned how to open a box (!??!) despite claiming to be in SL almost daily for months and had been shopping various places. And hitting up all the freebie places but apparently one of the basic steps to living in SL alluded them and it still took me way to long to explain how to rez a box, open it, take into inventory, find the folder, and then wear the items , use the HUD.
I now try to spend my time just helping people figure out Bakes on Mesh because I think it's easy and people at least have figured out how to work a mesh body to some degree in order to get to the point of trying to do Bakes on Mesh. I've found most people and notecards make it seem way more complicated than it is.