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I find your comment very interesting. First, because you are generalizing, as most in this thread have, to what DJs are and are not. Sure, I agree with your statement that 99.3% of the music shared in 3Dx is not created by the individual that delivers it. There has been exceptions to this. I, myself have "mashed" a few songs, creating a new "dish" (using your waiters to cooks reference) and even creating my own music track to underlie when I voice. Know your facts before you brand an entire population as one thing.
 
Second, again you generalize in stating that a DJ isn't creative. Yes, there are people out there that just toss music into a list without much thought or creativity, but there are many others that take the time, hours if not days to formulate a well crafted list of music, based on a theme, and in some cases, create graphics and posts to coincide with the event, as well as possible reflections in their room to add to the ambiance. That doesn't include the possible voicing, engaging those in the room to keep the energy flowing, insuring that anyone in attendance will not only enjoy the room, but enjoy the community that they are experiencing in that moment.
 
Delivering music to such a varied group of people takes more than just pushing song after song in a playlist, so to everyone's merit, small pieces of their comments in this thread are valid. But come on, how much can we take a topic, that most of us agree is not relevant to what someone labels themselves, and just enjoy the experience that comes from it?
 
On a personal note, I really don't care if people come to Absolute and think I am just a "waiter". I enjoy what I do for my own reasons. I am not here to change your perceptions of definitions in the English language. I am here to share hard rock and metal. I am here to educate about music. I am here to hopefully entice you to enjoy the community and the experience, when it is all said and done.
 
So... be and let be, for fracks sake.
Stop trying to put people in boxes or toss labels onto them.
 
I am going to "be" over here, being the best version of me, doing what I love, regardless of your labels.

And again, and again we are, with our new build )) another variation of a summer forest ) with some forest ) lake ) river... and a tree house ))
 
 
 
 
 

First of all, I think it would be best to prioritize clothes for men. Please make them look different. 
 
That being said, we could use more formal attires for women other than dresses:
 

This is a sensitive topic and it's very difficult to come out with a viewpoint on it without being accused of being exploitative or simply cold and unfeeling.  I'm going to attempt to give a fairly unbiased viewpoint based upon my experiences.  These experiences are both from my career as well as being in online communities for the past 20 years.
 
I would like to be clear that I am not making any judgement whatsoever regarding the facts of this situation that has brought this thread to the forefront again.
 
A point was made earlier that perhaps things had changed for the better in the past 4 years and such announcements would be more welcome, perhaps even responsible.
 
The internet has not changed for the better in 4 years.  People that choose to social engineer or simply have different variations of Munchausen by Internet have not lessened their activities.  Over the past 20 years I have seen more than my share of fake deaths, and manipulated false claims.  They are not always done with malicious intent.  Some are, yes, but most are simple game situations that grew to an unmanageable level.  A lie that became too big and needed to end. 
 
A notable example that I had experience with involved an individual who became quite respected and had many friends.  Over the course of a year this individual slowly cultivated a narrative in which she spun a tale in which she became increasingly worried about cyber security.  Due to my career she often would ask me about "Blue Pill" (an older virtual rootkit that essentially can intercept every activity on a person's computer) and slowly began to state that she believed she was being "watched".  This narrative was repeated to many different people in the same community and spread out for months.  It escalated to her being "left" notes that assured her that nefarious individuals had access to her computer.  Eventually she moved this up to saying the notes were stating to her "keep an eye on your cat", in reference to her beloved cat.  She lived alone.  She would constantly ask me the likelihood that someone could know all of this.  Eventually her cat was murdered and a month later she supposedly died as well, under suspicious circumstances.  This was "confirmed" by another "friend" of hers that for some reason had access to her computer after she passed and decided to send along messages to her online friends and communities regarding the sad developments.  This warranted the administrators to make a call to law enforcement (both local and federal) and ultimately it was determined (and admitted to) that this person was actually several people, including the "informing" friend as well as other individuals.  It was quite intricate and went on for months and months.  Ultimately, she admitted she was lonely and started it all out of boredom and never meant it to go that far.  But she needed to "see it through and end it".
 
(I could give another example of an online husband and wife where the wife was supposedly diagnosed with a very rare brain cancer and didn't expect to live 3 months.  Yet 7 years later the person is still around.  When I asked the hubby how his wife was, he looked puzzled as hell at my question.  Then when I reminded him of the cancer she was very sick with he said "ohhh yes that.  misdiagnosis.  she's fine now.")
 
That example was more the exception than the rule.  Most of the time fake deaths that I encountered were nowhere near as intricately involved, but usually had something to do with a bad breakup (and wanting the other person to feel bad), or trying to boost another avi's (run by the same person) popularity.  Some simply just needed to "kill" off their avi's and move on and wanted to see the love given.
 
Even if the intent isn't malicious, and is based upon some insecurity or mental illness, those actions hurt the individuals that grieve.  And like Twiggy said, 99.999% of the time the standard user can never truly verify what is and isn't true.  You just can't.  In my example above, that person had multiple people "verify" what had happened.  It turned out all those people were the same person.  Sometimes it's groups of people in on it.
 
If all this sounds paranoid to you, i'm envious...lol.  There are some very dark corners of the web (try 4chan and 8chan) in which this stuff is just minor.  There is far worse out there than this.  
 
But for every true passing, there are probably an equal number if not more that are faked.  Even the true ones, I *felt* to be true as I had known them for years.  I think the truth is that more real deaths occur silently by people just vanishing from their internet worlds.  Nobody knowing and nobody there to pass it along.
 
Again, these are just my thoughts based upon experience and are no judgement whatsoever on Shovelhead and his passing.  I simply don't know and don't think anyone should expend unreasonable resources to attempt to find out.
 
However, I would hate to see fake death announcements become a thing that would lessen the memories of those truly fallen (like perhaps Shovelhead), and my opinion is that if the door is left open, that is what will happen.  It's sadly just the way the internet is.  It doesn't always have to be malicious, but sometimes it is.

I don't have any horse in this race, and at the end of the day, for the most part, whatever happens on this forum I don't really care.   While I stated my opinion is that "Death Announcements" shouldn't have a place (if I am given a choice) based on my experiences, ultimately whatever is decided upon by whoever is fine by me.  I do me, you do you.
 
I'd just like to address the above quote briefly, and Vaughan_Rarius, please don't think i'm singling you out.  You're just the latest individual that has mentioned it, and it deserves clarification, so those that continue to debate on this subject (and I won't be one of them) can do so without any misconception.
 
As with many quotes and actions in history, they need to be looked at within their context of the time, and their purpose.  Setting aside the fact that there are many 3dx users that are not from the United States, and do not have any such protections as our Constitution and the First Amendment.....or their Constitutions may be different, the author of the quote, James Madison isn't speaking about the absolute right to say whatever we want, whenever we want.
 
Most Americans miss (or choose to ignore) the fact that the First Amendment refers to our right to not have our free speech taken away by Governmental Law.  It also makes protections for our Press that they also not be limited by any governmental law or restriction passed which infringe upon them doing their jobs.  
 
We Americans tend to have just taken this quote in time's context and the First Amendment as we understand it and apply it to our very own Facebook and Internet heavy lives.  But this view of censorship as spoken about by James Madison (who, btw, was very much suspicious of all governmental interventions....therefore you can see the context of his quote and the time) does not refer to our absolute right to say whatever we want.  Private places like Facebook and internet forums such as these are not covered by the First Amendment.  They are private entities that have the right to "censor" as much as they want about anything you say.  If they want to set a filter and delete every 3rd, 5th, 9th word a person writes, they can do this.  It would be stupid to, lol....and nobody would be here, but they can.  If they wish to delete all discussions on politics, religion, gun control, reproductive rights or whatever other hot button issue out there that gets people's panties in an uproar, they can.
 
I do get your overall spirit of not wishing to be censored, but it is not a right in here afforded to you by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and thus should be kept out of the debate of this topic.
 
Carry on and enjoy your weekends
 
 
ps:  I am retired military and not a constitutional lawyer, so if we have any of them in here and i've bungled some core details of my above understanding, please accept my apologies...lol.

I don't have any horse in this race, and at the end of the day, for the most part, whatever happens on this forum I don't really care.   While I stated my opinion is that "Death Announcements" shouldn't have a place (if I am given a choice) based on my experiences, ultimately whatever is decided upon by whoever is fine by me.  I do me, you do you.
 
I'd just like to address the above quote briefly, and Vaughan_Rarius, please don't think i'm singling you out.  You're just the latest individual that has mentioned it, and it deserves clarification, so those that continue to debate on this subject (and I won't be one of them) can do so without any misconception.
 
As with many quotes and actions in history, they need to be looked at within their context of the time, and their purpose.  Setting aside the fact that there are many 3dx users that are not from the United States, and do not have any such protections as our Constitution and the First Amendment.....or their Constitutions may be different, the author of the quote, James Madison isn't speaking about the absolute right to say whatever we want, whenever we want.
 
Most Americans miss (or choose to ignore) the fact that the First Amendment refers to our right to not have our free speech taken away by Governmental Law.  It also makes protections for our Press that they also not be limited by any governmental law or restriction passed which infringe upon them doing their jobs.  
 
We Americans tend to have just taken this quote in time's context and the First Amendment as we understand it and apply it to our very own Facebook and Internet heavy lives.  But this view of censorship as spoken about by James Madison (who, btw, was very much suspicious of all governmental interventions....therefore you can see the context of his quote and the time) does not refer to our absolute right to say whatever we want.  Private places like Facebook and internet forums such as these are not covered by the First Amendment.  They are private entities that have the right to "censor" as much as they want about anything you say.  If they want to set a filter and delete every 3rd, 5th, 9th word a person writes, they can do this.  It would be stupid to, lol....and nobody would be here, but they can.  If they wish to delete all discussions on politics, religion, gun control, reproductive rights or whatever other hot button issue out there that gets people's panties in an uproar, they can.
 
I do get your overall spirit of not wishing to be censored, but it is not a right in here afforded to you by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and thus should be kept out of the debate of this topic.
 
Carry on and enjoy your weekends
 
 
ps:  I am retired military and not a constitutional lawyer, so if we have any of them in here and i've bungled some core details of my above understanding, please accept my apologies...lol.

Looking interesting.
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-dress-silver-female-mannequin/828689
 

 
This model doesn`t have many polys, optimized, but looking good
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-leather-jacket-pbr-1338957

 
Nice textured(first look), low poly, something new
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/free-dress-0-crop-jeans-cloth-3d-model/467798

 
For men and women
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/free-tie-3d-model/705946

Better late, than never. It has been a crazy busy week. You know how it goes.
We are going to do something simple, yet perhaps not so simple.
 
I bring you a new "series" to Little Friday.
Alphabet Rock at Absolute
When there isn't a special event or music series specifically at Absolute, we are going to tackle rock, in alphabetical order.
Hard rock and heavy metal bands that begin with a specific letter of the alphabet.
 
Tonight we begin with the...
A's
So, dig deep, put your thinking brains in (that would be opposite of the "getting laid" brain)
and bring your requests from the hard rock and heavy metal bands beginning with an A.
 

 
See you at Little Friday.

This is a sensitive topic and it's very difficult to come out with a viewpoint on it without being accused of being exploitative or simply cold and unfeeling.  I'm going to attempt to give a fairly unbiased viewpoint based upon my experiences.  These experiences are both from my career as well as being in online communities for the past 20 years.
 
I would like to be clear that I am not making any judgement whatsoever regarding the facts of this situation that has brought this thread to the forefront again.
 
A point was made earlier that perhaps things had changed for the better in the past 4 years and such announcements would be more welcome, perhaps even responsible.
 
The internet has not changed for the better in 4 years.  People that choose to social engineer or simply have different variations of Munchausen by Internet have not lessened their activities.  Over the past 20 years I have seen more than my share of fake deaths, and manipulated false claims.  They are not always done with malicious intent.  Some are, yes, but most are simple game situations that grew to an unmanageable level.  A lie that became too big and needed to end. 
 
A notable example that I had experience with involved an individual who became quite respected and had many friends.  Over the course of a year this individual slowly cultivated a narrative in which she spun a tale in which she became increasingly worried about cyber security.  Due to my career she often would ask me about "Blue Pill" (an older virtual rootkit that essentially can intercept every activity on a person's computer) and slowly began to state that she believed she was being "watched".  This narrative was repeated to many different people in the same community and spread out for months.  It escalated to her being "left" notes that assured her that nefarious individuals had access to her computer.  Eventually she moved this up to saying the notes were stating to her "keep an eye on your cat", in reference to her beloved cat.  She lived alone.  She would constantly ask me the likelihood that someone could know all of this.  Eventually her cat was murdered and a month later she supposedly died as well, under suspicious circumstances.  This was "confirmed" by another "friend" of hers that for some reason had access to her computer after she passed and decided to send along messages to her online friends and communities regarding the sad developments.  This warranted the administrators to make a call to law enforcement (both local and federal) and ultimately it was determined (and admitted to) that this person was actually several people, including the "informing" friend as well as other individuals.  It was quite intricate and went on for months and months.  Ultimately, she admitted she was lonely and started it all out of boredom and never meant it to go that far.  But she needed to "see it through and end it".
 
(I could give another example of an online husband and wife where the wife was supposedly diagnosed with a very rare brain cancer and didn't expect to live 3 months.  Yet 7 years later the person is still around.  When I asked the hubby how his wife was, he looked puzzled as hell at my question.  Then when I reminded him of the cancer she was very sick with he said "ohhh yes that.  misdiagnosis.  she's fine now.")
 
That example was more the exception than the rule.  Most of the time fake deaths that I encountered were nowhere near as intricately involved, but usually had something to do with a bad breakup (and wanting the other person to feel bad), or trying to boost another avi's (run by the same person) popularity.  Some simply just needed to "kill" off their avi's and move on and wanted to see the love given.
 
Even if the intent isn't malicious, and is based upon some insecurity or mental illness, those actions hurt the individuals that grieve.  And like Twiggy said, 99.999% of the time the standard user can never truly verify what is and isn't true.  You just can't.  In my example above, that person had multiple people "verify" what had happened.  It turned out all those people were the same person.  Sometimes it's groups of people in on it.
 
If all this sounds paranoid to you, i'm envious...lol.  There are some very dark corners of the web (try 4chan and 8chan) in which this stuff is just minor.  There is far worse out there than this.  
 
But for every true passing, there are probably an equal number if not more that are faked.  Even the true ones, I *felt* to be true as I had known them for years.  I think the truth is that more real deaths occur silently by people just vanishing from their internet worlds.  Nobody knowing and nobody there to pass it along.
 
Again, these are just my thoughts based upon experience and are no judgement whatsoever on Shovelhead and his passing.  I simply don't know and don't think anyone should expend unreasonable resources to attempt to find out.
 
However, I would hate to see fake death announcements become a thing that would lessen the memories of those truly fallen (like perhaps Shovelhead), and my opinion is that if the door is left open, that is what will happen.  It's sadly just the way the internet is.  It doesn't always have to be malicious, but sometimes it is.

This is a sensitive topic and it's very difficult to come out with a viewpoint on it without being accused of being exploitative or simply cold and unfeeling.  I'm going to attempt to give a fairly unbiased viewpoint based upon my experiences.  These experiences are both from my career as well as being in online communities for the past 20 years.
 
I would like to be clear that I am not making any judgement whatsoever regarding the facts of this situation that has brought this thread to the forefront again.
 
A point was made earlier that perhaps things had changed for the better in the past 4 years and such announcements would be more welcome, perhaps even responsible.
 
The internet has not changed for the better in 4 years.  People that choose to social engineer or simply have different variations of Munchausen by Internet have not lessened their activities.  Over the past 20 years I have seen more than my share of fake deaths, and manipulated false claims.  They are not always done with malicious intent.  Some are, yes, but most are simple game situations that grew to an unmanageable level.  A lie that became too big and needed to end. 
 
A notable example that I had experience with involved an individual who became quite respected and had many friends.  Over the course of a year this individual slowly cultivated a narrative in which she spun a tale in which she became increasingly worried about cyber security.  Due to my career she often would ask me about "Blue Pill" (an older virtual rootkit that essentially can intercept every activity on a person's computer) and slowly began to state that she believed she was being "watched".  This narrative was repeated to many different people in the same community and spread out for months.  It escalated to her being "left" notes that assured her that nefarious individuals had access to her computer.  Eventually she moved this up to saying the notes were stating to her "keep an eye on your cat", in reference to her beloved cat.  She lived alone.  She would constantly ask me the likelihood that someone could know all of this.  Eventually her cat was murdered and a month later she supposedly died as well, under suspicious circumstances.  This was "confirmed" by another "friend" of hers that for some reason had access to her computer after she passed and decided to send along messages to her online friends and communities regarding the sad developments.  This warranted the administrators to make a call to law enforcement (both local and federal) and ultimately it was determined (and admitted to) that this person was actually several people, including the "informing" friend as well as other individuals.  It was quite intricate and went on for months and months.  Ultimately, she admitted she was lonely and started it all out of boredom and never meant it to go that far.  But she needed to "see it through and end it".
 
(I could give another example of an online husband and wife where the wife was supposedly diagnosed with a very rare brain cancer and didn't expect to live 3 months.  Yet 7 years later the person is still around.  When I asked the hubby how his wife was, he looked puzzled as hell at my question.  Then when I reminded him of the cancer she was very sick with he said "ohhh yes that.  misdiagnosis.  she's fine now.")
 
That example was more the exception than the rule.  Most of the time fake deaths that I encountered were nowhere near as intricately involved, but usually had something to do with a bad breakup (and wanting the other person to feel bad), or trying to boost another avi's (run by the same person) popularity.  Some simply just needed to "kill" off their avi's and move on and wanted to see the love given.
 
Even if the intent isn't malicious, and is based upon some insecurity or mental illness, those actions hurt the individuals that grieve.  And like Twiggy said, 99.999% of the time the standard user can never truly verify what is and isn't true.  You just can't.  In my example above, that person had multiple people "verify" what had happened.  It turned out all those people were the same person.  Sometimes it's groups of people in on it.
 
If all this sounds paranoid to you, i'm envious...lol.  There are some very dark corners of the web (try 4chan and 8chan) in which this stuff is just minor.  There is far worse out there than this.  
 
But for every true passing, there are probably an equal number if not more that are faked.  Even the true ones, I *felt* to be true as I had known them for years.  I think the truth is that more real deaths occur silently by people just vanishing from their internet worlds.  Nobody knowing and nobody there to pass it along.
 
Again, these are just my thoughts based upon experience and are no judgement whatsoever on Shovelhead and his passing.  I simply don't know and don't think anyone should expend unreasonable resources to attempt to find out.
 
However, I would hate to see fake death announcements become a thing that would lessen the memories of those truly fallen (like perhaps Shovelhead), and my opinion is that if the door is left open, that is what will happen.  It's sadly just the way the internet is.  It doesn't always have to be malicious, but sometimes it is.

If you are using myradiostream to play you need to pay them a fee to have the links to stream your music (it's around 5 or 6€). Then be sure to copy the "MP3 audio" link in your game radio. 

While I admit that my music interest in from the 2000's to present has strayed a bit from the hard rock side of things to some Chill/Electronic/Alt stuff (Tycho, Boards of Canada, newer Depeche Mode and New Order's last release), I definitely have at least a couple thoughts here.
 
For the 2000's, I immediately had to go with something from Iron Maiden's album Brave New World.  At the time it was such a welcome (and huge) thing to have the classic lineup back together again.  Initially I thought I might choose "other" and go with "Blood Brothers", but ultimately I agree with your option above:  "The Wicker Man".  It was a return to form for them, and a classic tune that sounds like it would be perfectly at home on "Somewhere In Time" or "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son".  An album I continue to listen to.
 
For this current decade, on the hard rock side of things I absolutely have to go with something from Rush's outstanding (and final) album, "Clockwork Angels".  The tune "BU2B" (Brought Up To Believe) is definitely my choice.  It's a surprisingly heavy tune and really gave that album an early weight.  Lyrically, it's about what you'd expect from Neil Peart......thoughtful and questioning.  Geddy Lee's vocals have adapted to time but his bass playing is nothing less than masterful.   Alex Lifeson sounds in full classic form with those power chords and harmonies.  Neil Peart, while aged and technically changed still sounds pretty fantastic.
 

I’m ready! I have my black and yellow on! Go BRUINS! Go AVS!

Hi peops) and again we built  club for our friend )) 
 
 
 

The auto accepting has been quite a popular thing, even though it came up by a mistake, and has been misused causing the community as well as myself a lot of harm, however I kept it in the mod thinking the ghosts system has a lot more pros than cons, after all you do have to accept a partner invite before anything can happen.. Well lets not get into it too much, I've tried making it receiver sided like Jessika's screenshot above (even though this might take away some of the immersion of it) without success, it seems to be click based in the current scripts and couldn't be easily "dodged" so to speak.
 
I have replied Gizmo's email today.. But for me the best solution would still be addons, or mods.. Being an individual content creator.

I'll give you an easy one to start with, not sure why the chat deletes messages after 20, I doubt there's ANY kind of benefit from this so I changed it to 50.
 

1)Nope... back ago in 2014 there was no 300 everyday,
you start your sub with 1000 and that was all, there was no chance to send more than 3 gifts, no party promotions... or buy beer.. no pic slots.....absolutly nothing,
So Ppl never wanted to pay for virtual golds and Admin decided to give that  "courtesy" to the players to have more gaming elements ..
so for that Suggestion goes a BIG NOPE..
daily 300 stays, we are not gonna step back stone age...
 
2) BIG YES!.. but not 10...100 golds per World Message to stop the useless "chat in world and dramas", for that ppl may create groups, keep the PM with the interested one, or use the local in public or private locations for that.
 
Even the ELIMINATION OF THE WORLD CHANNEL...would suits for me.. i never use it anyway...(same as the Roleplay Channel back ago)
 
Promotions for parties and events may be sent via Offline message to the ppl you Really Want in that event, even with the link of Images with the invitations, that way friends may even invite anothers and so on,
is like in real, you don't clib up your roof to screm the whole village saying "HEY I HAVE A PARTY"..      
 
World Chat is no needed actually, and ppl is not going to pay with real money for promotionate their events...
 
By the way... is the "Infinite Golds Hack" Fixed?...
 
3) another BIG YES.. ppl must have the "Right" (for a way to say) to accep/reject the visitors in their rooms, and eventually "kickout" the annoying ones, that will save and prevent a lot of fights and dramas in game with a single click
 
All those 3 where things We as players asked long before.. specially the "Kick Out from my room", and if we don't join the common requests, they will never update them..
so there you go, thats what i think..
 
Hugs!!!

Not to be rude or anything.. But it doesn't cost much to get a 64bit system or a pc that can handle it.
 
If your friends could afford a subscription they can as well afford an upgrade.

OGG-Vorbis is a music formate like mp3. Is mostly used of music streaming sources.
This formate was there in the past and was lost by a update of the music plugin.
 
Nope, no spotify

This is excellent news.  A positive, progressive step forward.

I can confirm that I just experienced this as well.  Was modifying my profile a bit and the moment I typed a word with the letter "p" in it, the profile box did close without saving.
 
Annoying, but all things considered, i'd rather it close without saving than deleting everything.  But no, if nothing else, you're not crazy Candice....lol.

I have. Just make a clothes editor. Lack of ability for players to create clothes is a main reason why players don't create them, not the lack of ability to trade. 

~sign read whilst arriving in the Congo~
 
"Welcome to the Congo:  Home of the Biggest Dicks on the Planet!"