I've been trying to play with photos a bit more again and working on the Dodge/Burn tools a bit. I think they look better than what I started with a couple months ago, but obviously, I still need tons of work and practice to go.
BBBC2010 topic 3: Thoughts on relationships in SL. With my past partners, I was content with the only SL thing. One partner had a busy life already, another partner didn't even want want to tell me any information about his RL self at all. But that was okay. SL was my paradise, and my escape from my real world. There was more to SL than talking about RL, right? I mean, you have wonderful sims to explore and talk about, so much shopping to do, and other avatars to talk about! I've heard of Second Life residents meeting each other and marrying before. Yes, I was slightly envious. But hey, good for them - that kind of happiness and fluffy stuff just doesn't happen to me, and I'm used to it. At least, thats what I thought at the time.
Today's BBBC2010 topic was pretty simple. List 3 things that make SL positive for me. But still, for some reason, I had to think about it. I mean, my number one was a given. But the other 2? I was not sure. After thinking about it though, I came up with my three things.
Alicia Chenaux is doing the Big Bad Blogger Challenge again this year, and you know I had to participate. I love the BBBC, so it should be fun to blog every day this week. I even decided I would blog every day for one week on my fashion-y blog too. Maybe I'll get to clear out some outfit photos I've been hoarding.
Yeah, I missed posting yesterday's BBBC post, but ah well. I've done pretty good so far. Today, I want to post about someone who has seemed to burrow himself my heart, whether I liked it or not.
He's silly, runs everyone and everything over while shopping, has no fashion sense, falls asleep on me, uses the dreaded chat speak (Yes, he spcks like dis 2 me), and is a total typo king. Totally the opposite type of guy I like. But, at the same time, he's someone I've grown to really care a lot about.
OMG I almost missed day 3 of the BBBC. I'm going to be a rebel again and blog about something other than the topic :D So, I'll blog about - the finished ImpEle build! \o/
Today's BBBC assignment is to describe what I think a perfect SL day is. SL is difficult to do this with, because we can control so many aspects of our environment. We are able to control the weather, mute people we know will put us down, and we always look perfect, even on the days we feel like crap.
Yay, the BBBC has started, and I'm totally excited! \o/ I've been somewhat slacking these past couple days, because I wanted to have something to blog about for this week. I'm getting caught up on a lot of things I listed, dropped my build, almost done making my new pose set, and now I have a little spare time to breathe, relax and blog.
Something I've been wanting to blog about for a while - my little Sion chickens. It seems everyone has them now, and after lots of "OMG, my chickens just had an egg!" and "OMG, my chicken died!" conversations in Ch'Know group chat, I finally broke down, built a chicken pen, and rezzed the couple eggs I had in my inventory.
So, a lot of people already blogged pictures of their chickens. To be slightly different, I decided to go take pictures of my chickens by using Boy Lane's Shadow Viewer \o/
BBBC day 4 is: Where do you go to shop when you just need some retail therapy? Do you suffer from buyers remorse later? What is the most expensive thing in your inventory?
I am terrible with shopping. I usually get in a foul mood and need to shop.... anywhere. I will go out to my favorite stores like, Armidi, Illusions, Baiastice, PixelDolls, ETD, or Truth and buy pretty much random things without thinking. On a normal day, I'll see something I like, and mull it around it my head, thinking: "Do I really need that? What would I wear it to? When would I ever wear it? What would I wear with it?" And ultimately, talk myself out of it.
However. When I go on my bad-mood shopping sprees, I'll just buy stuff I don't really want... just to buy it. And, as you can imagine, when I come to my shopping senses a few hours later.... I feel like total crap that I bought all this stuff that I will never wear. So, I either find myself boxing it up or deleting it while crying at my $L balance.
Lately my bad-mood sprees have been at furniture stores. I recently moved in SL (yet again! - look for a upcoming blog about it), and most of my furniture wouldn't fit in my new, smaller home. I've been buying furniture, only to find that I didn't like how it looked.... so I've had to keep buying and buying and buying to find a living room set that I liked. I still haven't found one. TT_TT It sucks, and I might even have to think about having a SL furniture yard sale for all these extra housewares I have now. -.-
Anyway. I've had quite a few expensive purchases, most probably no where near as pricey as what other people bought. The most expensive thing I have is definitely the Alienbear Miss SL Universe jewelry set, ringing in at $6000L. I have several limited edtition jewelry and gowns that cost at least $2000L or more... but that item is definitely the most expensive thing. I also have a few in-world sculptie makers that were around $3000L each, and a in-world pose maker that was $5000L. I also have two RaC skin sets that I purchased for $4000L each set (back when they forced you to buy a fatpack). I swear, if SL burps on one of those items.... I will be having a serious chat with the lindens.
BBBC for day 3 is: If there was one thing on the grid that you could snap your fingers and it would be gone forever, what would it be and why? It has to be something other than lag.
Traffic. I feel very strongly about this, and I think it might be the core of several problems. The main problem I think about is: Newbies come here, not knowing their butt from a hole in the ground, and when they see "ORGY ROOM!" in popular places - they think thats all SL has to offer. So, you get the pervy newbs going around asking every female avatar if they want to screw. Its extremely irritating, because I wish people would come to SL for more than a reason to have SL sex.
Another problem I see with traffic is the money camping. While I understand new people need money, and thats pretty much the only way for them to get it - I really hate going to a sim with quite a bit of traffic and seeing nothing but campers. I think for new players, there are alternate things to make them look good, like prize camping. I have no problems with prize camping or lucky chairs (hey, even I prize camp occasionally for some time to do some much-needed inventory cleaning) :D
Now, I know I might get asked: "Why do you hate money camping, but love prize camping?" Well, prize camping cuts down on the bots, and if you like the offered prize and want it enough to camp for it - then the traffic you add to the land is worth it. ^^ Also, prize camping will get newbies to look reasonably good on no budget at all. :D
However, as I was ranting about traffic somewhere else, the point came up to me about clubs. I've never really been into the club thing (and I am definitely -not- the party type), so I have no idea how they work. But apparently, clubs rely on traffic for patrons.... (is patrons even the correct term? O.o;;) So, maybe something more traffic-correct could take its place.
Ok, so I read that Alicia (one of the most adorable bloggers ever, who I stalk her blog several times a day XD ) is doing a Big Bad Blogger Challenge, where bad bloggers have to blog every day for one week. I am not sure I can do this, but darn it, I am going to try.
For today, she provided us bloggers with a question to answer:
Why did you decide to start blogging about your Second Life?
For me, I loved exploring SL, and I always had a difficult time finding interesting places to visit. So, I came to the conclusion that I would blog the places I've been, and have pictures of them - in case other people were looking for great places. I wanted my blog to be like, my travel guide of the best places to see in Second Life. That was the birth of Sai's Random Bloggage.
But then, my inventory started growing with clothes, and I became more fashion obsessed. I found many of my fashion posts finding it's way to my blog... which was changing it. And of course, was taking over. Thats when I decided to bring in a second blog, only for fashion. Which I called Fashion Labyrinth. So, now I have my personal thoughts, travels and creation stories here, and fashion on another.
But, as if two blogs isn't enough, I had decided to start yet another blog for Imperial Elegance, my little store. I didn't want to do my store releases on Fashion Labyrinth (that would almost be tacky), or make people sort through my personal ramblings for store news - so I thought a separate blog would be best for that. :D
So, I have 3 blogs, Sai's Random Bloggage, Fashion Labyrinth, and Imperial Elegance that I created to manage the madness in my Second Life. :D
