News, Reviews and Complete Bulllshit from Second Life™
Ok, I’ve got to stop with the Second Life freebies building compulsion I have developed. Actually, I have an excuse this time… all I did was box up something I built ages ago!
Anyway, MLP menu driven cuddle raft with animations, 19 prims, copy, modify, no transfer. That sums it up!
You know the score by now 
Get in world here.
Alrighty, another freebie up in the shop.
This time, we’ve gone for hoodies. Now, I started out talking to a RL friend of mine who also plays SL, telling her I was going to make a ‘boobies’ hoodie just to make my inner juvenile happy. I did this…
She then declared that I was being hideously sexist and suggested I also make a “Willies,” one. Now, I did protest that I’m not sure many people outside of the UK use “willies,” as a word to describe the male genitalia, but she insisted that didn’t matter and I should go ahead and make one if only for her. So I did that too.
They’re both copy, modify and no transfer and are available in my in world freebie store now.
Have a great Sunday
It’s another Second Life freebie…. because… erm, well… I like putting this s**t together.
Anyway… this time it’s bubble chairs and, as ever, you can find them in my little second life freebies place, here.
Ciao!
Whoah, Bunny! Chill!
Hey.... ouch.
I'm totally letting you win so you look cool.
So this is officially the coolest (disclaimer: one of the coolest) freebie in the world. It’s made nyagos Kidd and you simply wear it and click it to have the shit kicked out of you by a bunny.
Random. Awesome.
The freebie is called “gyaku-usagi(attach me)” and you can get that (and a host of his other super cool freebies) from his store here.
Mucho fun.
Ok, not the catchiest, shortest or most memorable title in the history of the blogosphere. But I don’t care… because I have evil squirrels. It will make sense soon.
So, following a sift through my inventory and a random discussion about photocopying your backside (not YOURS specifically) with Lisa Launay (who has an inventory full of the most random stuff on the grid), I was inspired to share. I know… I’m a giving soul.
So, allow me to share 3 Second Life freebies that you really, definitely, absolutely do not need but that I believe will make your life marginally better just by owning them.
[DISCLAIMER - 'marginally' implies that they will probably not change your life at all. They'll just make you smile, maybe. But they won't make you an instant millionaire, make you fall in love with the perfect person, make you feel a million dollars, get you the job of your dreams or inflict a terminal illness on your boss. Pixel Scoop accepts no liability for disappointment caused by the lack of really life changing occurrences].
Abranimations has the coolest stuff and their freebies are no exception. These evil squirrels are… well… evil and squirrely. But funny in a ‘really pointless but I so want them,’ kind of way.
I love the fact that I can't explain why I love this so much.
Abramelin Wolfe is the creator and you can get it from here.
This is cool. It’s a giant Crayola crayon. You go into mouselook and you draw things in the air with it. I love it. And yes, I used it for immature creativity.
Yes, here I am proudly being... umm... proud of my immature creation.
I honestly don’t know where in world you would pick one up from and the prims show up as a different creator (Niiya Narayan) from the script, prim and animation inside (created by Retarded Troglodite). So instead of giving you a SLURL, I will just have to say you can IM me for one. I have it full perms.
This is a freebie I borrowed from Lisa Launay (trans but no copy). Lisa tells me you just have the IM the creator to grab one. And yes, it is a photocopier that you sit on and that spews out pictures of an ass. Yes, I know… I have the maturity of a drunk flea.
And for my next trick, I am going to turn 7!!
As I said, to get this one you just need to IM the creator. But I am retarded and cannot remember the name of the creator so I will update this afterwards when I get the name.
Anyhow, I think these things are absolute awesomeness. You might disagree. And I don’t care… Cookie anyone?
[UPDATE] The creator of the butt photocopier is Legov Reymont!!
I come across a lot of people who complain that an item they have paid a significant amount of money for turns out to be just a bit of prim work an an open source script.
Now, I’m all for creators using open source scripts. I personally love them. But surely, surely, surely, as open source relies on a certain level of community contribution, any open source scripts used should be cited as open source and any modifications made should be shared?
Well, that’s my idealist opinion anyway. But onto the point of this post. Whenever someone asks me about open source or getting help started with scripting (I’m not a scripter myself aside from the very basics) I always point them here – the Open Source Resource.
This tall and rather cool looking build is home to objects, scripts, textures and all kinds of miscellaneous open source goodness. Everything is full permissions and most of it is FREE! One thing that is not free here is a multi tool HUD. It’s L$ 5000 – however it is completely full permissions and comes equipped with all sorts of cool tools, weapons, scanners etc. When you consider that a number of the multi tools already available exceed L$ 1000, paying 5k for one that’s full perms (including all scripts) is pretty good value. As I said, however, much of the stuff there is free and makes a great basis for some pretty cool creations.
Visit the Open Source Resource in world by clicking here.
I stopped picking up random full perms crap after about 6 months in game. I became way too “cool” for such bollocks and instead turned my attention to paying too much for non-full perms items that weren’t anywhere near as much fun. That’s how you can tell when you transition from newbie, I am told…. when you start spending too much and getting less fun out of your inventory.
However, recently I have started picking up random full perms crap again. Perhaps I’m having an SL-old age crisis? But anyway…. I spent an hour with a complete random newbie last weekend and ended up with some of my new favourite random stuff in world.
Wanna see my maracas???? 
Maracas are made by Gonzo Shan and I have a copy full perms in my inventory. IM me if you want to be as completely cool and sexy as I look in that video.
Yes, I know… I’m impossible to resist when I shake my hips in such a manner. Calm down, ladies.
A quick update to the previous post. I have now taken my Second Life freebies down from XStreetSL as I refuse to line Linden Lab pockets for the pleasure of giving something away,
Therefore, for the moment, you can find all my free stuff in world here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Luna/36/132/28.
Voila.
I read, in some detail last week, the plans to charge people to list freebies, citing them as promotional materials. There will be a minimum monthly listing fee of L$99 per item and a minimum commission charge of L$3 per “sale.” Now, while that may not seem like much, think about it… I shift hundreds upon hundreds of the freebies I have listed on XStreet every single week. Yes, they are promotional in so far as there is a note card in each box with the link to this blog there. But I obtain no financial gain from it. I don’t advertise on my Second Life blog… it’s a hobbyist thing. So why would I pay for the privilege of giving things away?
To be honest, even if someone does have a LM to a store in their freebie, so what? Freebies are awesome for newbies and really help new residents to get into Second Life, which is a notoriously difficult to get to grips with platform. Who wants to spend money in here before they can even work the controls? And while I know people have concerns about the fact that the freebie market might be affecting sales of priced products, is that not just the way capitalism rolls? Most Second Life blog posts I have read about this from residents who have freebies listed say that they will be desliting when the policy comes in. I will be too, unfortunately. I simply will not line the pockets of Linden Lab for the pleasure of giving items away. I would hazard a guess that freebie shopping on XStreet makes up a big proportion of traffic to the site. And I would hazard a further guess that the number of freebies on the site will drastically decrease, which in turn is likely to see a decrease in traffic to their site. Not that Linden Lab give a shit.
Way to go Linden Lab. /end sarcasm.
`Ok, well it isn’t on a stick. But it’s free. And animated. And rather random.
Get it on XStreet here!
