Pixel Scoop

Floating around various stores (as I tend to do when I decide I have nothing better to do with my time and I’d like to spend Lindens on things I will probably never use again) I have noticed something happening more and more! So many clothing and skin stores are now putting out fitting rooms/changing rooms! I really fail to see a purpose in this other than to eat up a prim allowance for no reason whatsoever.

I just don’t understand their purpose. Firstly, if people can cam through your house walls to see you getting jiggy on those recent Bits n Bobs purchases, camming through a ‘curtain’ won’t be an issue! In fact, such is the nature of the game that, with such small spaces as fitting rooms, people’s cameras probably automatically catch a glimpse of you squeezing into those pixel pants in a changing room just as they’re turning around! Secondly, what are you hiding? I mean, really? Is it that you don’t want people to recognise your skin seams as freebie? Maybe you don’t want people to see that, by default, your avie has no genitals. Well let me let you into a little secret. You’re definitely not the only person who is genital-less by default! Don’t worry. We won’t all point and laugh at you. And even if you just don’t like having your avie naked in front of people (which some don’t) then…. why would you get changed in a store at all??

Personally, when I change, I put on one item in place of another and I never have to show my pixel torso at all…and I certainly wouldn’t use a changing room for any purpose in game.

At first I thought maybe decorative, not intended for use. Maybe everyone would see that. But no, people actually use them! It baffles me. Perhaps there should be a notecard giver handing out notecards to anyone who enters these changing rooms. It could say,

“Welcome to SuchandSuchaStore. Please note that these changing rooms will not prevent people from seeing you getting changed. Please also note that nobody actually gives a sh*t about your pixel tattoos, virtual body, freebie skin, demo clothing and so on and so forth.” Then if the aforementioned avatar does not vacate, they should be sent flying 1500m in the air for a lesson in ‘OMG WHY?’ studies. In my humble opinion, of course.