Well, I tried to get in-world today so that I could watch the Shadow Samurai vs. Yakuza tournament, but I STILL can’t stay in-world for even 5 solid minutes.  I crashed three times while hanging out in Samurai Edo and trying to find out from Doll Kabuki or someone else there where the tourney location was.

I never found out, as after the third crash I gave up in disgust.

I’ve tried the official viewer, the "experimental" viewer, the Nicholaz + official viewer combo, the Nicholaz plus "experimental viewer" combo, nothing worked.  Even when I am in-world, everything flashes randomly and it drives me freaking nuts, since I’m highly sensitive to flashing (It’s a migraine trigger for me).  I was really hoping the Nicholaz viewer could redeem my Vista experience (he’s been working on detecting "redmap situations", and his viewer is generally much more stable), but alas: not in this case.

I give up.  I’ll either wait until I can get my Windows XP running well again, or set up a dual-boot with Ubuntu (like Colin did), or Linden Lab fixes this stupid crap.  There is absolutely nothing about Second Life that’s compelling enough to make me put up with this crap, and I’d so much rather enjoy my real life than torture myself with that kind of experience.

And speaking of enjoying my real life, I’ve got a new weapon under development, and I’m using my "can’t get into Second Life" time to create some new animations and do some texturing work, as well as play around with sculpties to see if I can make anything that’s suitable for a weapon

So far, I’ve yet to find anything that I can do with sculpties weapon-wise that works well enough, since apparently sculpted prims are far more suited to making cool Ice Caves than weapons.  But I’m stubborn, and have some time, so I’ll keep at it, haha.

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