So you had a great time shopping, hunting, grabbing freebies… You’ve been through the dozens of shops or just visited the Hair Fair. Then you came home but you were lazy / had no time / forgot to unpack those boxes and sort the things. Or you have just crashed which is almost as possible as your laziness. Now you have no chance is finding all those boxes in your otherwise tidy inventory :)
OK, no problem. Let’s take it step by step. Read more »
If you have took a sneak peek at the new Second Life™ UI, you have probably noticed that pie manu, the circle thing with several useful tools that comes up when you click on the avatar or object, will be replaced with old-fashioned, linear menu. Yes, there are many changes in the new user interface, some of them very useful, but getting rid of the pie menu is not one of them. And it’s not just me being sentimental here.
I’ve just heard about shoes with very new feature: feetlight! Yes, you read it well. And it’s just what you expect it to be: same as facelight, but for your feet. It was hard to believe so I headed to the shop to see it myself.
OK, those shoes are really looking good. But feetlight! I still can’t believe.
During all this drama about the new adult continent we’ve heard so many times that second life is the adult playground. That was supposed to be an argument against the new policy. But, it’s a bad argument. Luckily, second life is not just adult playground.
Yes, the main grid is reserved for people older than 18, but that doesn’t make the whole world adult. And yes, that is good. Read more »
It’s fun to see how a simple marketing trick can cause a whole lot of drama. Unless we have in mind that anything can cause drama in second life. Freebies are a nice idea in theory. They were supposed to make noobs look less bad, to give promotion to the creators, bring extra traffic to the shops, get new customers and make the old ones happy. In short, everybody was supposed to benefit from them.
But in the aftermath, it seems that everybody is pissed about them.
