Parted Mouth

Orfeu and I were commenting in the "LOGO Custom Skin Creator" blog post on how much we liked LOGO's parted mouth option on their skins.  I thought I'd provide a few more examples.

Umbrage Orgy

I sometimes think that some forums and some virtual worlds are a haven for orgies of umbrage.

Cottage Controversy

So it turns out cottages are controversial.

1. Pamela Galli posted a thread called "Devonshire Cottage" in SLU's New Product Listings section.

2. Darkley posted the dictionary definition of a cottage.

3. This particular new product listing thread then became a discussion thread and, later, an example for the "Some Thoughts on SLU's Tone" thread.

4.  Apparently Darkley (others too) was annoyed with Pamela because of her supportive comments regarding Ishtara during the recent rape discussion controversy, as well as some that were deemed passive-aggressive and snarky.

Darkley said:  "plus you must have missed my subtle snark, Pamela helpfully posted obnoxious dicitionary definitions at me earlier in the week so I was doing the passive aggressive thing"

Pamela said:  "As Darkley pointed out, she was not really concerned with misnaming issues (but rather that I replied to her "gofuckyourself" with a definition of "banal") but here are some cottages..."

5.  The thread included a discussion of the disparity between the American, British and Canadian views of the meaning of the word "cottage."  I myself lived in both Devon and the American Midwest (Kansas City) so I have seen both the small, traditional English cottage and the large lakefront golf community cottage of the upper middle class in middle America.  Pamela's cottage looked  very much like the latter to me.  It reminded me of my parents home in Kansas City, in fact, in a section of a golf community called "the cottages" coincidentally.  Pamela's SL build, btw, is charming.  I particularly liked the interior.  Pictures can be seen in the OP.

6.  Comments were made both in the "Devonshire Cottage" and the "Some Thoughts on SLU's Tone" thread that such discussions and drama were not appropriate in the New Product Listings section where comments ought to be limited to those either in the line of "bought it and loved it" or "this has been copybotted and there is some sort of scam involved so buyer beware."

7.  Darkley has since promised to refrain from making any comments in the New Product Listings section.

"thats the thing though, they didnt

more people told me off for being rude than told pamela off for her behaviour

I wont post in classifieds again"

"fair enough - i wont do it again

However it doesnt change the fact that someone can quite happily dismiss someones sexual abuse, be completely out of line, obnoxious and dismiisive, and thats just fine, but you dare criticise their profit centre and you are evil - at least i know where i stand"

"thats why ive already said, twice now, i dont do it again

but yes, read through the original nightmare thread and you will see the ZOMG reaction when I dared mention someones store, and on the classified ad being told that I am rude

but its fine, filthy lucre trumps principles"

8.  Pamela then seemed to reiterated her stance that she was not condoning posts that expressed ignorance or hostility regarding survivors of sexual abuse, but rather that she was supporting the notion that people sometimes feel "run out on a rail" at SLU.

"For those good ppl who think they must have missed where I said I supported sexual abuse: you didn't. I never said anything of the kind.

I am not going to get into some brawl about it now, either. I only feel compelled to post this because it is asserted so often by the "Little Gang" that some might assume it is true."

9.  All of which is now left for public debate, discussion, scrutiny and statements of opinion.

Lucifer Baphomet said:

"Oy vey.

Pamela, OK, you didn't say you supported sexual abuse...

What you did do was post your support for Ishtara on his blog and agree with how mean his treatment was on SLU.

Of course the fact being he received that treatment for asserting that men could not be raped, and for denigrating a forum member who was indeed raped as a youth."

Joshua Nightshade said:

"Yes, Pamela, you did.

You posted support for someone who you said was bullied off 'like so many others' without bothering to read the thread he flounced away from SLU from.

You still apparently have not read it, even now, which means that you can't be bothered to correct your stance even in the face of overwhelming evidence that the reason why he had a hard time was because he was dismissive — DIRECTLY, not even in a vague generalising capacity — of victims of sexual assault.

That you still continue to do this and you still continue to ignore that very pertinent detail says to me that victims of sexual assault rank lower in importance to you than someone feeling 'hounded' off of SLU because they posted something that pissed a lot of people off. Whatever that something was.

To which I say: get over it, you childish twit."

Joshua Nightshade said (to Darkley):

"I know how you feel, but to me the difference is that the classified sections of SLU are what Cris leverages to pay for the site. It's not about the person in question, but how griping with someone because they're rightly abhorrent individuals who should preferably piss the fuck off to a troll hole could make people who aren't bad think twice about posting classifieds or ads and thus hurt Cris.

I appreciate that you and most of the site are willing to stand up and not tolerate people who dismiss those sorts of attacks, but even I think there are certain sections of the site where such discussions should be avoided."

10.  And lasting epithets like "dogfucking rape apologists".


From Dictionary.com:

–noun
1.
a small house, usually of only one story.
2.
a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.
3.
one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school.
— n
1. a small simple house, esp in a rural area
2. ( US ), ( Canadian ) a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes
3. ( US ) one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups
4. slang a public lavatory
Word Origin & History


cottage
late 13c., from O.Fr. cotage , from cote "hut, cottage" + Anglo-Norm. suffix -age (probably denoting "the entire property attached to a cote"). O.Fr. cot is probably from O.N. kot "hut," cognate of O.E. cot, cote "cottage, hut," from P.Gmc. *kut . Meaning "small country residence" (without suggestion of poverty or tenancy) is from 1765. First record of cottage cheese is from 1848. Cottage industry is attested from 1921.

Links:
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/new-product-listings/62255-devonshire-cottage.html
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/forum-feedback/62051-some-thoughts-slus-tone.html
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/06/random-blog-sightings-weeks-of-may-19.html
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/politics-religion-society/59122-floridas-new-bestiality-law-accidently.html
http://ishyscoherentrants.blogspot.com/2011/05/mob-rules-or-of-choice-and-men-or-die.html
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/politics-religion-society/61673-texas-executes-mexican-after-court-32.html#post1322321
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/politics-religion-society/61673-texas-executes-mexican-after-court-32.html#post1322303
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/58780-what-best-way-deal-trolls.html

LOGO Custom Skin Creator

A kind of guilty pleasure for me when it comes to Second Life is the playing with Barbie and Fashion Plates aspect of it.  This website hits right in that guilty pleasure zone.  It's a site where you can customize your avatar skin with a variety of options that include make-up, hair color, bushiness of eyebrows and pubic hair, tattoos, definition of breast contour and whether your mouth is closed and pouty or parted and shiny.

You choose one of the skins, Sophisticate, Grace, Divine, Babydoll, etc. and then go to a page where you customize the skin.  It's meant to be for the purpose of creating a custom skin for Second Life that you would then purchase, natch, but if you like Barbies and Fashion Plates, yeah, just try and not think of the site as a place to just play.

I even got to express my penchant for pubic hair rebellion.

The site says the owners have plans to do a customization service for men too.  I hope they do.  And I hope they include race and age options and make it at least as customizable for men as it is for women.

Here's a tutorial video.  I skipped it and went straight for the good stuff.  It's pretty intuitive.  Although the video does explain the pricing policy and what to do with the demo and skin inworld, which is helpful.

Does anyone know of anyone else who does customizable skins like this?

Links:

http://www.infinityskins.com/

http://sophisticate.infinityskins.com/SkinCreator.aspx

http://sophisticate.infinityskins.com/options.html

http://glamour.infinityskins.com/pricing.html
http://glamour.infinityskins.com/faq.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/getLOGOed

http://glamour.infinityskins.com/tutorial.html

http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/new-product-listings/61007-logo-infinity-skins.html

 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eventide%20Far%20East/147/120/27/?img=http://www.getlogoed.net/logopromopicture1c256.jpg&title=Welcome%20to%20LOGO!&msg=Shop%20at%20LOGO!%20Visit%20us%20for%20high%20quality%20skins,hair%20and%20jewelry%20-%20only%20the%20best%20for%20your%20Second%20Life!

 LOGO

Double Your Pleasure

Back when I was a corporate trainer, these things were everywhere in my life.  And yes, we sniffed them.

Ima said:

"Owners of giant crayons and sniffers of said crayons are much more entertaining. Maybe she will get giant markers soon...double your pleasure."

Reference link:  http://slconfidential.blogspot.com/2011/07/extra-forum-confidential-under-fire-for.html

WoT Noms

Submit them here please.  Wall o'text posters of the decade.  Any and all internet forums.  Thank you.

SLU News from Cristiano (July 29, 2011)

"A thread on SLU has been included in the related links on an article from the Huffington Post:

'Female Armor Sucks' Questions Video Game Costume Choices (VIDEO)

The corresponding SLU thread:

Female Armor Sucks

The thread was included in the Around the Web section with links to related articles:



"

"After a bit of a delay to work out some technical issues that a Wordpress update caused, I am finally officially launching feed.me!, a fashion, photography and shopping feed site as part of SLUniverse. The direct URL is http://www.slufeed.me, and I will also be adding a link to it in the navigation on the forums as well soon. 

For information on having your blog included in the feed, please see the about page here:

http://www.sluniverse.com/feedme/index.php/about/

I am also interested in having some original content developed for it, perhaps reviews or some such thing. If you are interested, please let me know.

Thank you for everyone who helped out during the development of the site, and your feedback is always welcome.
"


The above quotes are from Cristiano posts on SLUniverse.  And don't forget Cristiano's thoughts on SLU's tone (about which Lias "Bladyblue" Leandros had some not inconsiderable influence).

Links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/female-armor-sucks_n_886796.html
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/slu-announcements/62351-slu-thread-linked-huffington-post.html
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/gaming/61263-female-armor-sucks.html
http://www.sluniverse.com/feedme/
http://www.sluniverse.com/feedme/index.php/about/
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/forum-feedback/62051-some-thoughts-slus-tone.html
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/leehere-i-see-you.858/page-48#post-103788

Eavesdropping (July 29, 2011)

gotVirtual's Recent Status Updates.

Bunnie said:  "Still 'touching' folks at the gas station, eh?"

Lias in "LeeHere I see you" on gotVirtual.net (a thread I don't actually have to participate in for it to become a 52 page, 7,564 view, 1,035 post thread, despite my reputation for stirring shit, btw):

"I made one post to Lee 5 months ago about my problem with her (the first post in this thread) she responded with pictures of cats. The rest is a 'Lias Look at Meh Festival' from people like you."

Wasted Engineer in "What's the deal in defending linden lab" on gotVirtual.net:

 "I need fresh air and to walk through the green forest of my mind"

Monna in "MALAYSIA STRONG" on SC MKII:

"I can hear someone who wears lipstick only on one lip groan here. That in itself makes me squeal and laugh."

RanmaTardis in "What are your hobbies, pastimes etc?" on SC MKII:

"I like to run around in the nude. Having wet clothes around me when swimming etc is uncomfortable. Also I do not like "tan lines", being naked means being closer to nature and thus being in a state of grace with God."

RanmaTardis in "Should The United States Join the Commonwealth?"on SC MKII:

"Pennsylvania another commonwealth is just as bad. A formal event there is where one wears their shoes and teeth!"

Trout in "Should The United States Join the Commonwealth?"on SC MKII:

"Apropos of nothing, one of the most fun things I've ever done with my clothes on was in Pennsylvania. We went hunting for fossils in the slate piles that they toss out when they mine for coal. We had little rock hammers and we hit the slate on the side to split the layers and found all sorts of fossilized leaves and things. It was a BLAST. Then, my luggage on the way home weighed about 100 pounds."

Ishina in "Proof of Concept" on SC MKII:

"I will maintain an air of superiority and pretend I'm not interested in the thread, while I make a passing comment about the nature of those posting in it."

Ursula Cinquetti in "Proof of Concept" on SC MKII:

"Very quiet here. I expect a ragequit storm soon. Have we had a ragequit in the corn here yet?"

23rdDjin in "Proof of Concept" on SC MKII:

"they usually just stalk off."

L will probably like this from GreenLantern Excelsior (GLE) in his OP "Heil Kitler" on SC MKII:

I put links in these posts not only so that people can follow them back to the source, but so that I don't get accused of making this stuff up.

Criteria for Forum Ranking, Ratings & Reviews (Part II - The Short..er Version)

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The Antidote to the Wall o'Text

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