My very first Addie.

Wanna know what it’s for? Do you, do you, do you?

Check it out here.

Adric took a read through my previous post on adult content on the mature sims and decided to go see for himself….

He got a far better picture than I ever could have hoped to achieve and so I am sharing it.

I do believe that it was shortly after this image was taken that Adric chased her all around the island…..

The same company are also doing 'low fat' treble cheeseburgers and fries.

Not so low spam when one store is using several thousand of them, huh?

[DISCLAIMER: Josue Habana reserves the right to exaggerate].

A question. Aren’t these copyright protection whatsits useless anyway?

This fella is wearing the title, “Hopeless Romantic.”

I came across him as I was exploring just a short while ago. My question is, what makes him a hopeless romantic? Is it the fact that he’s walking around stark bollock naked with a hard on asking those he meets for sex? Or is it the love heart tattoo?

I wonder.

The Second Life login screen images are surely supposed to give a view of Second Life – what can you do in SL? Where can you go? What is there to see?

So what does this one mean??

“Welcome to Second Life – the only place where you can pick up a stranger whose legs do not bend and then crash your motorcycle into the sea. Where will YOUR imaginations take you today?”

Quirky. I like it.

Ok…. I’ve been busted. The real reason I am not a Second Life fashion blogger…. is because I just can’t compete with Adric.

I just look like a common whore compared to him. I think it’s the pink bike that does it for him….

/me hits Xstreet for a pink bike

We know just how well Linden Lab are doing at enforcing the no camping/no traffic bots rule, right?

/end bullshit.

Anyway, as a fine example of what I was saying just the other day, check this out!

I went to a store earlier on but I noticed I landed on the sim next to the one I had teleported to. And the store definitely did not have the traffic it showed in search. I worked out that the estate landing point was set to the store I had landed at, but the search teleport landing point was on the next sim along… on a parcel inhabited by campers and bots. See, this way people do not see the bots when they are in the store, nor do they notice all the dots on the map in the store and the store owner still gets to game the traffic. So I went to have a nosey.

Now, I’m not one for naming and all that crap, but this pisses me off. So I am doing. It was the  Harbinger & Stormie Designs store on a region called Haunted Visions. Well… the bots are there but if you try to teleport you will land on the sim next door.

In one box 500 or so metres up, they have space for 16 campers, (paying L$1 per 15 mins…does it not cost more than that to power your computer)? And in a box at the side of that they have 10 traffic bots. I make that 26 avatars there just to game the traffic. And traffic on that parcel is over 44000.

We're not gaming traffic, we're ummm.... here to play Bingo!

I wonder if those guys are related?

Now, let me explain why this pisses me off so much. There is a reason camping and bots were banned and it was because they ridicule and make a mockery of the traffic system. It means new designers starting out have to game the system to even stand a chance. So it isn’t the best quality places that make it up the rankings… it’s the places with the most bots. It’s entirely unfair. I’m not a designer myself, so frankly it makes little difference to me personally. But I know plenty of people who are negatively affected by this and who, on principal, would not game the system regardless of their “competitors,” doing it. So when Linden Lab banned traffic gaming altogether and then went on to clarify that this include both traffic bots AND campers, I was thrilled. Little did I know that Linden Lab would do such a terrible job of keeping on top of it.

The fact is that any store that now deliberately goes out to game the traffic like this is being not only unfair, but also malicious. If your items are not good enough that you are able to build up a successful clientele off the back of their quality, then that’s your problem.

I would AR it, but what good would it do? Linden Lab do not want ARs on this issue. They’re “dealing with it,” by monitoring search results routinely. Beats me how they can miss 44k traffic and a lot of green dots. Someone needs to take a second look.

/end rant.

There are over 13.5 million search results on Google for “Second Life.”

The first ones of course are all the official SL webpages and related stuff, followed by a good few SL resources. In fact, much of the crap is off the first couple of pages, thankfully. But getting near the top of the search results isn’t the only way to be seen.

Thanks to Google ads anyone had a shot at getting themselves seen, as this shows:-

I clicked. No, I’m not married and no I would have no intention of an extramarital affair even if I was. But I wanted to be nosey. And none of it even mentions Second Life anywhere. Which means only one thing… they have chosen Second Life as a keyword simply because they have a strong enough belief that people searching “Second Life,” are likely to be those looking for a bit on the side.

Now that’s actually fairly offensive to those of us who don’t login to have sex with other people’s spouses. And in my indignant moment of “I should bang the world to rights,” I did look for a ‘contact us’ on their website. There isn’t one. It is probably a good thing.

Anyway… these people run a website dedicated to hooking up people for extramarital affairs. I doubt highly that they possess enough moral fibre to particularly give a crap about labelling us all the same. But for those of you who are looking to have extramarital affairs, at least you know where to go now

So, this morning saw rather bad login issues on Second Life. Oh well, the world won’t end! But once I finally logged in, it was only a matter of minutes before this message came through:

So, they want to make us aware that some people can’t get in game…and they do this by announcing it as a message IN GAME!!! Ok, smart arses…you didn’t really think that through, did you? What a waste of someone’s energy and what a wonderful ‘in pictures’ way to define, “POINTLESS!”

So, check out this fella….

Now, I don’t use the word ‘avatard’ lightly. Ok, that’s a lie. I refer to lots of people as avatards. But anyway, that is not the point!

Now, I am no fashion expert, but I would hope that if ever I went out in a bunny t-shirt accompanied with more bling than 50-Cent and shoulders as wide as the Atlantic, that someone would kindly tell me I don’t look good.

And what is with bling overload? Seriously, unless you care to blind everyone within a 15 mile radius, quit with the bling. Contrary to popular belief, bling does not enlarge your penis.