Fred Beckhusen/Ferd Frederix^✦✔ @Ferdzee

Thank you @FerdFrederix !! I have a certain troll friend who brings the special magic!!

Thank you Fred. I am on a ups that is connected to the server via a usb cable that monitors and shuts down windows via software. Strawberry perl informed me it was not the latest version and that if I uninstalled it, that dreamgrid would install the latest version. I uninstalled it, but it did not reinstall strawberry perl. So as a result of that, I am reinstalling 5.51 again, in the hopes overwriting will force an install of strawberry perl this time.

Marianna's complaint was not that Lone stole her texture (she admitted that the dance floor she saw was a different texture but similar) but that he had stolen her idea of an arcane texture on a floor and used it on the dance floor for the social the day of the event. None of which was true. The picture in my original post was from the Gala I had at my club on Luxor 6 months ago, a club I built long before the idea of having a social on WTG was even born. My whole point in posting this picture was to show that I had been using arcane textures on all kinds of surfaces for years, and the idea did not come from anything she had created. Lone got caught in someone's terribly wrong assumption.

The texture above I purchased from Bigstock back in 2014 or earlier (my earliest use of it) when you could still buy single images. It came royalty free and I could do anything I liked with it, including using it on an item I sell, as long as I did not resell or distribute the texture by itself. I don't sell any of my textures. The only item I sell that includes it is a rune circle that has a menu to select multiple textures, so it is not the primary part of the build, and it is not a fast-moving item since I only sell one or two a year maybe. But now if someone wants this texture, it is only available through Dreamstime or any of the Shutterstock companies that operate on a subscription-only basis.

I'm not even sure what you're responding to there Fred. Equal could be said about the Trump MAGA nutcases, as they do exactly the same. Putin quite clearly isn't a communist, even if he once was, he is now far more of a right-wing authoritarian who has quite a lot of support from the Russian extreme right, as well as from gobshites like Trump.

From your comment, I would also guess that, at least from what you've written, that you don't have much of a clue what communism is either. Wikipedia has an article that serves as a useful introduction.

*To be clear, lest some suspect that I am, or that I advocate communism, I do not, and certainly not in the way that is was implemented in the Soviet Union, or its satellites. But neither do I endorse the fascism that is slowly, but seemingly inexorably creeping up on us on both sides of the Atlantic.

This is about choice always should be. Be careful not to let the govt get that sort power to determine what goes into your body.

Who decides if they are legit sources?

Never had the vaccine, had covid for like 6 hours and a bit tired for a week after, no long covid for me either. Have never had it again. Yet I hear of people who have had the vaccine and boosters coming down with Covid several times. It may not be the vaccines protecting you at all could just be your natural immune system working.

Well now. You expect facts to persuade people who think, "I'd rather my child be dead than autistic?" Not going to happen.

Thanks Fred. I managed to get DreamGrid to run after I turned off all my security. If I didn't MS Defender would just delete the start.exe file from the Dreamgrid package.

What is a collider? is it just a massive invisiprim rezzed at a certain height? Forgive my ignorance, but I'd like to know as I too experience quite a few visitors who think it's okay to fly in a no fly region. Most of my region builds are built specifically to be viewed 'first person shooter' style walking and it's a bit galling, to say the least to have visitors think they've truly seen the region when all they have done is rather cursorily flown over it, missing most of what there is to see.

Many of us work tremendously hard to create rich, immersive environments where we have built with a particular way of seeing it in mind. Flying over this kind of creation is to miss what the artist intended the viewer to see.

You know that escaped me, we even have kill walls on one of our regions, I could use one of those over their heads!! Thanks Fred/Ferd you're the bestest of the best!