by Mir Bear-Johnson (SL Avatar Mir Benelli)
So, I think I may have developed a bit of a shopping addiction in SL.
I suppose I could have worse addictions, but still. I'm pretty sure
the fact that there are so many darn freebie shops around just makes
my habit worse. Because if you're buying outfits for free or for only
1$L it really doesn't seem like much, at least, until you open up your
inventory and wonder what the hell you could possibly need that much
stuff for.
But I guess all of my obsessive type shopping does have a purpose. I
can give useful advice and suggestions on where to shop now.
And given my new shopping hobby I suppose it's understandable how much
I avoid spending my $L. Which has a lot to do with the fact that I
don't actually want to spend any real money in SL if I can help it.
Not because I don't think it's safe or something -- It's way too
widespread not to be safe. But mostly because I'm a working girl and
prefer to spend my money in the real world, not the virtual one.
Sorry for the baby rant. Anyways, where was I? Ah right, me being
unwilling to spend very much for things. Before I knew better, of
course, I spent too much on too little. But I've learned since then.
So one thing to keep in mind is, if you're new to SL, there are a lot
of places that will offer really nice deals to people 4 weeks 'old' or
younger so get on that!
GuRLyWood 111, 113, 21 (PG) - Month old discount
ETD Isle 251, 251, 26 (Mature) - 2Month Old discount
Nantli Xolal 196, 142, 22 (Mature) - Month old Discount
Angel Haven 194, 234, 22 (PG) - 2Month Old Discount
Pazazz 89, 90, 22 (PG) - Month Old Discount
Also, there are a ton of nice people who offer free stuff! Yay! Free
stuff! Some of my favorites are
Freebie Jeebies in Boom County 81, 74, 23 (Mature)
Longbranch Freebies in Badly Moor 37, 109, 55 (Mature)
Freebie Freebie Freebie Freebie in Mount Curl 118, 245, 104 (PG)
Odds&Ends in Wagaland 115, 74, 29 (Mature)
No Covenant in Nedben 218, 16, 99 (PG)
Freebie in Bunyip 47, 170, 78. (PG)
Right. Well I'll probably add more to this later, but for now...I'm off to shop!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Changing Appearances
I've noticed a lot of people in SL seem to keep their look static.
Which I don't understand at all. I mean, I suppose it's all personal
opinion and so on and so forth, but I think changing how I look fairly
often is just fun. My other concern is that people might be afraid
that if they change how they look they'll mess something up. You can
insure this won't happen fairly easily, creating an outfit out of
everything you're wearing makes it possible to always go back. My last
concern is that maybe people just don't know how to change their
appearance, aren't comfortable with it. So I've set up a quick little
guide to it. Hope it makes sense!
Appearance:
-One main thing to remember is that your avatar can be whatever you
want it to be -- it's a representation of you! So have fun with it!
-To change your appearance you can either right click your avatar and
select "Appearance" from the choice wheel, or go to edit at the top of
the screen then down to appearance. Your avatar will stand up and spin
around and the menu to change your appearance will appear.
-The menu has side headings such as: Shape, Skin, Hair, Eyes, Shirt,
Pants, Shoes, Socks, Jacket, Gloves, Undershirt, Underpants, Skirt.
The first three of these have their own subheadings that will appear
to the right of them but still to the left hand side of the window.
-In each section you are given a wide variety of changes you can make.
For example, if you go into Shape, then Eyes, you can change your eye
size, the size of the eye opening, your eye spacing, you can make the
outer and inner corners of your eye go up or down, you can change the
depth of your eye, the creasing and bagging of your eye, you can make
your eyelids puffy or not, change the length of your eyelashes and
make one eye 'pop'.
Which I don't understand at all. I mean, I suppose it's all personal
opinion and so on and so forth, but I think changing how I look fairly
often is just fun. My other concern is that people might be afraid
that if they change how they look they'll mess something up. You can
insure this won't happen fairly easily, creating an outfit out of
everything you're wearing makes it possible to always go back. My last
concern is that maybe people just don't know how to change their
appearance, aren't comfortable with it. So I've set up a quick little
guide to it. Hope it makes sense!
Appearance:
-One main thing to remember is that your avatar can be whatever you
want it to be -- it's a representation of you! So have fun with it!
-To change your appearance you can either right click your avatar and
select "Appearance" from the choice wheel, or go to edit at the top of
the screen then down to appearance. Your avatar will stand up and spin
around and the menu to change your appearance will appear.
-The menu has side headings such as: Shape, Skin, Hair, Eyes, Shirt,
Pants, Shoes, Socks, Jacket, Gloves, Undershirt, Underpants, Skirt.
The first three of these have their own subheadings that will appear
to the right of them but still to the left hand side of the window.
-In each section you are given a wide variety of changes you can make.
For example, if you go into Shape, then Eyes, you can change your eye
size, the size of the eye opening, your eye spacing, you can make the
outer and inner corners of your eye go up or down, you can change the
depth of your eye, the creasing and bagging of your eye, you can make
your eyelids puffy or not, change the length of your eyelashes and
make one eye 'pop'.
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