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| Cell (moderate) |
One of the many things I’m bad at is coming up with titles for these blog posts. This one is actually a mixed bag of thoughts, or discoveries I guess, and all fall under the theme of my own personal obsessions.
We often refer to these things as our version of “whoredom”, as in “I’m a skin whore” for example. Which I am. But I’m not about to put that in the title – I already get enough disturbing hits from very strange google searches.
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| Cell (moderate) |
First I’m a build and texture “whore” – you can tell that by the amount of time I spend exploring the grid seeking both. Today’s location is Cell↑, which is associated with Hangers Liquides↑. If you love futuristic, anarchistic type of communities then you should know this place. :)
I’m also a skin whore. I have spent the past number of months trying to live as a “normal” humanoid, but that skin is just so damn PINK. It’s not me. Forgive my poor portrait skills and take a look at the new skin from alpha.tribe↑.
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| Omega Point (moderate) |
Dragon has everything I need to feel comfortable – the grey base, the coloured designs – and it feels like “me”. I modified one of the mohawks that came with another of their skins to give me some hair and will continue with my usual wardrobe. I will NOT be joining the current obsession with boobs – my shape is just fine, thank you. :)
The other thing I did today was experiment with a tip from Bryn Oh↑. This little engine is something I made more than a year ago. Being a prim whore, it is very intricate and comes to a total of 440 linked objects.
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| Our place, which is dull & boring and you don’t want to visit! |
Following Bryn’s instructions, I’ve reduced the prim count on this thing to 220. (Read her post, it involves changing the objects from prim to convex.) I also reduced the prim count on my shack and everything else I have mod rights on. I may be a land owner again but I don’t own that much – this is a fabulous way to gain some breathing room!
Today was a very good day. I indulged in three versions of “whoredom” without getting arrested or causing any scandals. May yours be equally productive! :)
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| Cell (moderate) |
Honour's Post Menopausal View (of Second Life) 
Inara Pey
/ January 8, 2013Convex hull is an useful trick. I covered it in early 2011 when working on my skyrock house. It’s effectiveness can be limited – complex prim tortures such as torii don’t tend to work so well, and having scripts in linksets can bounce things a bit. Although having said that, I was surprised when I tried the magic on a complex scripted linkset recently and got a goodly reduction in LI (around 50%, about the same as I was getting on unscripted linksets).
It’s been something of an aid around my Linden Home as well, where the “mods” I’ve made to the build (adding additional walls and a galleried upper floor) have enabled me to keep the count down there as well (on top of using Ample Clarity’s brilliant 1-prim funishings).
honourmcmillan
/ January 8, 2013It’s another one of those things I should have known but didn’t :p
Inara Pey
/ January 8, 2013I felt the same way when I discovered it. A moment of Doh!-elation.
riverpearl
/ January 9, 2013The new skin looks great!
honourmcmillan
/ January 9, 2013Thank you!
Jef
/ January 10, 2013Please don’t say “whore”! And yes, i read these things
Love & hugs,
Your adorable, amazing son :P
honourmcmillan
/ January 10, 2013omg He’s Alive!
Jef
/ January 10, 2013Oh, and put on a decent skin, damnit!
honourmcmillan
/ January 10, 2013pffft – you show up once every 6 months and think I’m going to stop wearing a skin just cause you get weird about unusual? Love you anyway!