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"Broadly Offensive"
Milla Janick
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09-25-2009 09:12
People who use "U" and "R" as words piss me off.
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Brenda Connolly
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09-25-2009 09:23
From: Imnotgoing Sideways
You'll HATE SL Answers. The whole thing is like a broken forum with a scoreboard. (^_^)y


That scoring BS is one of the major reasons why I won't go there.
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Patasha Marikh
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09-25-2009 09:25
Bugs that think! Frankly I find the idea of a brain bug offensive!
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Patasha
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09-25-2009 09:29
From: Deira Llanfair
But do they provide a particle effect? (I make no comment on the quality of their animation.)


Yep...

I bought it, not for that, and found some curious menu options in there.

I only assume the male version has the same options.
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Marianne McCann
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09-25-2009 09:29
Has anyone seem my 10' pole? I may have left it in a locked thread...
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Katheryne Helendale
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09-25-2009 09:32
From: Scylla Rhiadra
Sadly, too often true.

I find lots of things offensive, but I won't bother listing them because there's no point in inflicting my personal prejudices -- which I KNOW to be prejudices -- on everyone else.

It's an interesting question, but ultimately one that doesn't get us very far, because what is "offensive" is too subjective.

I think we need to move away from the idea of "offensive," and examine behaviours and such not by whether we like them or not, but rather on the basis of the harm that they may or may not do. That can be difficult to determine for sure, but it is at least more objective than this nebulous idea of "offensiveness."
One poster agrees.
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Katheryne Helendale
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09-25-2009 09:36
From: Deira Llanfair
Hard to find something that almost everyone would consider offensive. I've not yet come across anyone who thought that urinating on someone was an ok think to do....but, maybe if they were on fire and there was nothing else available? Who knows? Could be a cultural norm somewhere.
Ummmm... There are whole groups of people who find that sort of thing a major sexual stimulant... :eek:
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Deira Llanfair
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09-25-2009 09:38
I just need to say that I really, really _do_ find that hair twiddling animation most offensive. It makes an avatar look like they have head lice and every time I see it, I start feeling itchy - in a not very nice way. :eek:
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Katheryne Helendale
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09-25-2009 09:44
From: Deira Llanfair
I just need to say that I really, really _do_ find that hair twiddling animation most offensive. It makes an avatar look like they have head lice and every time I see it, I start feeling itchy - in a not very nice way. :eek:
How about that one where the avatar appears to be doubling over with constipation pains? I swear, every time I see that, I want to offer the poor thing some Ex-Lax!
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Deira Llanfair
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09-25-2009 09:46
From: Katheryne Helendale
Ummmm... There are whole groups of people who find that sort of thing a major sexual stimulant... :eek:


For the first one who would care to introduce themself to me, I will undertake to make them a free urinating animation, in any position they would like to define and built to fit their chosen avatar shape.

Any takers?

*waiting patiently*

Just IM me - I'll announce the lucky recipient later.
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Deira Llanfair
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09-25-2009 09:49
From: Katheryne Helendale
How about that one where the avatar appears to be doubling over with constipation pains? I swear, every time I see that, I want to offer the poor thing some Ex-Lax!


That one is pretty gruesome too - depends a bit on the accompanying sound though - otherwise it just looks like another SL "feature" that has to be lived with.
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sable Valentine
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09-25-2009 10:10
From: Deira Llanfair
I just need to say that I really, really _do_ find that hair twiddling animation most offensive. It makes an avatar look like they have head lice and every time I see it, I start feeling itchy - in a not very nice way. :eek:


I agree with this and some of the standing animations (not the model pose ones) that looks like a bad imitation of Top Model poses.

Remember the stretching and yawning animation that was very popular last year. :eek:
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Handy Skytower
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09-25-2009 10:23
From: Deira Llanfair
I find this scoring business broadly offensive - a narrow value judgement.

/me eeps again! Sorry was just being funny :) My topic, my scoring system? LOL

Handy
Argent Stonecutter
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09-25-2009 10:24
From: Deira Llanfair
For the first one who would care to introduce themself to me, I will undertake to make them a free urinating animation, in any position they would like to define and built to fit their chosen avatar shape.
I already got one in my four-legged akita avatar. Those japanese avatar makers are SO wacky.
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Handy Skytower
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09-25-2009 10:25
From: Marianne McCann
Has anyone seem my 10' pole? I may have left it in a locked thread...

/me laughs out loud and runs away

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09-25-2009 10:25
From: sable Valentine

Remember the stretching and yawning animation that was very popular last year. :eek:
I'm getting really tired of the "guy walks dramatically in circles" and "guy wipes poop from his foot" poses myself.
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Ceka Cianci
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09-25-2009 10:27
From: Argent Stonecutter
I'm getting really tired of the "guy walks dramatically in circles" and "guy wipes poop from his foot" poses myself.

that walking in circles one i see all the time..it's getting used way too much..
the pew pew one i never have seen yet..and i'm glad
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Handy Skytower
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09-25-2009 10:28
From: Katheryne Helendale
How about that one where the avatar appears to be doubling over with constipation pains? I swear, every time I see that, I want to offer the poor thing some Ex-Lax!


I don't think I know this one, but the one that seems to be randomly making me stick my head up my butt is very annoying! I swear it wasn't part of my AO in the store!

(actually this is like what used to happen in 2007 all over again, is it just me or does this latest upgrade seem like a giant step backward?)

Handy
Jig Chippewa
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Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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09-25-2009 10:40
From: Handy Skytower
Given the use of this term "broadly offensive" in another thread here I'm curious what others definition of "broadly offensive" might be.
Handy


Boadly offensive in reality is like what you stated. But it's always tuned to the perceiver rather than the communicator. I have been called "highly offensive" in my reality and even "broadly offensive" but, strangely, I have never felt on those occasions that I was being so. It's a question of audience, of course. Offending a crowd of university students at Sussex Uni. who are out for a rave is very difficult indeed. Offending an audience in Fargo, N.Dakota who are into the snowplough season is relatively child's play. It's all subjective and, most importantly, depends upon the "cultural intelligence" and convictions of the audience. I mean, people may simply not understand the point you may be trying to get across. Never underestimate the stupidity of your target audience.

So, SL has decided that as long as people use their world, they must be prepared to follow the tenets of an imaginary Leave It To Beaver "Main Street" for PG. For Mature, look no further than a pleasant modern day sitcom. For Adult, you can go with Robert Mapplethorpe on speed and no one cares.

If you are English this whole system can be completely baffling and out-of-touch with reality. But, hey, SL isnt beamed out of London, or Rome, or Paris. It's beamed out of California, where apparantly it's Sin City (that always wears a very thick and rubbery condom). Ooops! should I have said that?
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Deira Llanfair
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09-25-2009 12:08
From: Argent Stonecutter
I already got one in my four-legged akita avatar. Those japanese avatar makers are SO wacky.



Yeah, my pony does its excretion function too - but I'm very careful where I drop it!
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Handy Skytower
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09-25-2009 12:43
From: Deira Llanfair
Yeah, my pony does its excretion function too - but I'm very careful where I drop it!

Ohhhh someone point the way to these? I want one!

Handy
Marianne McCann
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09-25-2009 14:13
From: Handy Skytower
Ohhhh someone point the way to these? I want one!


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"If you find children offensive, you're gonna have trouble in this world :)" - Prospero Linden
Abigail Merlin
Child av on the lose
Join date: 25 Mar 2007
Posts: 777
09-25-2009 14:38
/me gives mari her spare 10ft pole
I think you will need it in several treads out there now or to come in the next weeks
Dick McMinnar
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Join date: 27 Aug 2008
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09-25-2009 17:20
From: Deira Llanfair
For the first one who would care to introduce themself to me, I will undertake to make them a free urinating animation, in any position they would like to define and built to fit their chosen avatar shape.

Any takers?

*waiting patiently*

Just IM me - I'll announce the lucky recipient later.

/me raises his hand.

When can we meet for the anim tailoring?
Can you make it a two-person set? So I can add it to my hugger?
Dick McMinnar
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09-25-2009 17:22
From: Handy Skytower
I don't think I know this one, but the one that seems to be randomly making me stick my head up my butt is very annoying! I swear it wasn't part of my AO in the store!

(actually this is like what used to happen in 2007 all over again, is it just me or does this latest upgrade seem like a giant step backward?)

Handy

/me rubs his hands in glee seeing that Handy's placed the anim he gave him into his AO.
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