The little things around Second Life you like?

I was thinking of one of the things I think was funny, but it is just a little thing, so I decided to make this thread.

Okay, have you ever seen anyone dance while in Edit Appearance mode? Their legs only move and it looks like a river dance. I find it funny.

So what little, sometimes unnoticed, things do you like around Second Life?

Hmmm.... there's plenty that I enjoy about SL......but if I were to be posting about the 'little things' I notice....it's going to be about the things that drive me nuts. LOL Like hair.....if I notice someone with hair that needs some adjusting.....that makes me crazy.....I wanna fix it soooooo bad LOL.

But, actually...ok.....I got one......I love the sounds on my island.......the waves rolling in and the bird/cricket sounds. A lot of times when I'm sitting at my desk, I can't tell if I'm hearing the birds in SL or the ones outside because right now in FL there's a lot of Spring activity going on right outside my window. It's kind of cool.

I also LOVE the windchimes I found to hang on the porch of my little beach shack. I grew up loving the sound of windchimes because of where I spent my summers as a kid. My dad had a great collection hanging on our porch. His faves were the metal tube chimes that sound almost like bells.....and the bamboo tybe chimes. I just so happened to find BOTH those types with sound effects in SL. Thay are soooo cool.

I like friendly snails.


And curious whales.

Oh that curious whales shot is SO CUTE!!!!

I like little surprises tucked away in unlikely places.

Recently I wanted to go visit an infohub just to watch the zoo. At Bear Dream Lodge infohub it's a zoo all right, but there is also this incredible microscope built by AM Radio just inside the door. It is surrounded by specimens, an equally remarkable dragonfly, etc. The builds are tiny and I would have missed them if I hadn't been just camming around lazily.

They are among the most detailed builds I've ever seen.

I've said it before, but probably the most fascinating thing I've seen was in a bar I walked into. There was a lizard getting it on with a tiger and they were doing on the bar. I was pretty new at the time and found it fascinating

I dislike most of the little things in sl

Pep (and when they let real kids in here as well as the simpering role players it will get even worse)

I like the way the avatar body turns, banks and tilts when you fly, unlike every other virtual world I've tried. It make the flying seem much more real to me. Also the camera being attached to our bodies so it goes up and down when we walk instead of moving along like a movie camera on a dolly. It surprises me that other virtual worlds don't pick up on this.

Yep, Linden Lab were years ahead of their time with the avatars. I like how the avatars feet adjust to the surface they're stood upon.

I think there's only the recent GTA IV that's managed to do better.


SL's sky and water is very good, but hardly a little thing.

My favourite simple little thing that still always gets at me is how two avatars can look at each other.

In Kaneva when the avatars stop, they stop. Completely. Our breathing and posture changes are a very nice touch.

yes mine either sink into it or bend at strange angles, that is funny....

But I love it when we forget to click out of dance and turn on our AO's and our heads do that linda blair thing... Priceless

also, character show look at... love it.

Avatars breathing. That, in the normal condition, and then, what some animators have done, enhancing the breathing during exertion. Avatar mouths -- realistic teeth and tongues. These are not your ordinary cartoons!

Subtle sounds. Horses in the corral whinnying, or clip-cloppping along the road past the house. The chimes of my tall clock downstairs, when I'm in bed, preparing to log off.

Moonlight. Shifting wind, continually changing speed.

The intricate detail some very skilled builders achieve in little objects with the tiniest of prims.

Yes, little things, and subtle, but also the unbelievable variety of the whole gigantic grid and all its content when millions of little things are brought together.

The wind in my ears. Before I learned to set media, SL was a lovely windy world. I sometimes leave my music off to listen to it. It is one of the features that keeps me very nostalgic and happy.

Thanks for this... I have had it muted for more then a year now.

Nostalgic is the perfect word for what happened when I turned it back on.