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30
Jun 2010

Contests, raffles, or the art of scamming people into advertizing your shop for free.

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This just in:

The object ‘**WIN L$100,000!! & collect your NEW FREE dance animation**’ in Second Life has offered you inventory.

Log in to accept or decline this inventory.

= **WIN L$100,000!! & collect your NEW FREE dance animation** is owned by Nomasha Syaka

Makes me wonder… Ministry Of Motion is doing these "Raffles" quite regularly. If I’m not totally mistaken, monthly.

That would amount to 1.200.000 L$ per year that is given away… or in real money, 375 us$ per month.

Now lets see, what are the terms to enter the raffle…

  1. You will receive one entry for each purchase of any animation at Ministry of Motion between June 18th 2010 and July 31st 2010. If you buy a multipack of ten animations, you will receive ten entries.
    So basically you get one raffle ticket per purchased dance. Sounds OK to me so far.
  2. On the day of the drawing, August 1st, you must have Ministry of Motion listed in your Profile Picks. (see instructions below).
    They get free advertizing. Nothing wrong with that either.
  3. No employee of Ministry of Motion will be eligible to enter the contest.
    A-HA! It does not say anything about alts of MoM "Employees"…
  4. First Prize of L$100,000 will be selected by a random number generator.
    In Real Life raffles like that are held under supervision of a notary public.
  5. Second Prize will be a copy of all Ministry of Motion Dance Animations (Transfer only)
  6. Third prize will be Avatar’s choice of 10 Ministry of Motion Dance Animations (Transfer only) and one Nomasha Syaka Guitar.
  7. By registering MoM in your picks, you will receive a free animation. It will take about 24hours to register, then you can return here using this LM and click one of these signs again to receive the animation.

Kind of reminds me of two other events that went quite strangely…

… the sintimacy photo contest, first prize supposed to be one million linden dollars, the announcement of winner was postponed several times, and I don’t think there HAS been a winner so far.

… the paper.doll logo contest, design a store logo to enter, first prize 5000L in cash and the complete summer collection, not one single peep about the contest has been published after the initial announcement. And the deadline is 4 months past now.

Not to mention any number of "best in …" contests where the winner just happened to be one of the employees of the club / the girlfriend of the DJ / the wife of the host…

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09
Jun 2010

“Going out of business” = (fraudulent) Advertizing?

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April 16th, 2010: Pacadi Jasha announces that they are closing after one year. With a big "Going out of business" sale, of course…

June 9th, 2010: Pacadi Jasha releases new summer collection.

I don’t know about you guys but I’d call this… I dunno, fraudulent?

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16
May 2010

D’Ior Presents: Meghindo

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Last night, D’Ior Modelling Agency presented the new collection from {Meghindo’s}, and Mori and I went over to see it.

For some strange reason, the blog post that I had found about the show had coordinates to some empty spot of air roughly 1200 meters above the offices of D’Ior Modelling Agency. I guess there must have been a skybox at that point in the past.

After a rather hurried way down to the ground (listening to “Free Falling” playing in my head), we found a catwalk… but no one else was there.

After a bit of waiting I simply asked someone from the Agency about the show, and got a teleport offer as a reply… obviously they had relocated the show, and the blog post, which was on a third party site, had not been updated or followed up.

But I digress. I do that a lot, if you guys don’t stop me in time. Don’t let me go off on a tangent like this.

My wife and I had seen some designs from {Meghindo’s} in the past, my wife even has an older dress from there, and I have to admit that older dress had rather spectacularly failed to impress us when it came out of the box… “no-mod” skirt prims are a spawn of the satan, I tell you.

But as soon as the show started, we were simply blown away by the sheer (literally in many cases), awesomeness on the catwalk, and therefore, without any further unnecessary rambling, here’s a bunch of pictures from the show.

Sheer awesomeness.

Stunning silver.

Lady in red (hint: SL 2.0 alpha layers that hide the whole leg, and no shoes and a “hobble” walk).

More red.

Black and red… a classic.

Definitely not the “little black dress”.

The bride and the evil mother-in-law?

More sheer awesomeness.

Now here’s a “little black dress”… that is quite not so ordinary either.

If any of you get the same “itch” in her wallet that I got when I saw these outfits, here’s the address: {Meghindo’s}

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18
Apr 2010

“ADD” Animation Overriders

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I just went and had a look at two AOs at akeyo, and while the technical quality of the animations is quite outstanding, they have one drawback…

they are what I’ve come to call "ADD AOs", "attention deficiency disorder animation overriders".

You know, the kind of AO where the stand poses carry you around further than a sine wave dance.

Makes me wonder what kind of social interaction the creator has… Making an AO that makes other people that you’re talking to want to grab you, slap you, and shout "Would you please stand still and pay attention???"

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21
Mar 2010

The 2nd SLInside Fashion Show

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This evening, Moriko and me went to see the second SL Inside fashion show at Club Bonobo.

The lineup of designers was pretty impressive, and all designers were from the german-speaking parts of europe (thanks to narina cortes for the correction here).

Here are the names of designers that were present:

Annabella’s Trachtenladen
Badoura Design
Bloody Velvet Design
BlueButterfly Designs
!!DragansVarg!!
GRAVES
Immerschön
INDI Designs
*IZZIE’S*
K2K
!M&E! Design
Mondira Fashion
NADAS
Rattenscharf
SLC Couture
TrendStyle
!UB – Urban Bunker
Viviane Fashion

A short comment on the technical “issues” at the beginning of the show: The sim held up to 90 avatars without crashing, of course it got laggy like hell… but still, the show was fun!

Here now some pictures in no particular order or preference:

All in all, it was a great show, and we had lots of fun, even with the lag!

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18
Mar 2010

Ugly on purpose?

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Some newbies really go out of their way to look awful.

This guy was 2 days old when the photo was taken.

They should really put a section on newbie island, right next to the "Edit Appearance" tutorial…

"How not to look like the offspring of king kong and Cousin It."

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13
Mar 2010

exemplary customer service

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So the other day I got got this notecard about updated jewelry from Burroughs, something about optimized scripts and more features, and since two of my favorite earrings are from there I sent the owner an IM, asking about the upgrade procedure.

About an hour later I hear back from him, and he simply drops the new earrings on me…

Moriko has the same earrings, so I ask him if she would have to talk to him directly, and he just says "no, thats not necessary" and drops the new earrings on her, and another pair as a gift…

… why can’t all merchants in SL think like that about customer satisfaction?

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20
Feb 2010

Shoes and scripts… or the art of keeping people in one place

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Stiletto Moody… or the art of keeping people in one place

I have to say, these look gorgeous.

On the other hand, there are things such as SVC-4196, SVC-3895 and the all-dreaded “Teleport failed. The system was unable to fulfil your request in a timely fashion” message, which is just another manifestation of those two bugs.

I’m asking myself, do I really want to spend that much (I expect these to come in at 2500L$ per pair, if not more) for a pair of shoes that are more like leg irons?

I have a pair of Bare Katherines, and a pair of the anniversary Bare Lana, and I simply can not teleport anywhere at all without taking them off first.

Maybe, just maybe, creators in Second Life should not put scripts in each and every thing “because it is cool”?

On a related sidenote, LL is working on fixing those two bugs for over a year now.

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16
Feb 2010

Our summer house on holly kai

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Here’s a little panorama of our little place "off the green"…

Keep in mind, the place is private.

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03
Feb 2010

Real Life…

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It’s kind of fun to discover the Real World versions of things that you know from SL… and I’m not talking about the easy stuff, I mean who wouldn’t know a white Porsche 911 in RL?

But I just found this on the web:

Givenchy Pony Hair Gladiator Boot

Givenchy Pony Hair Gladiator Boot

and the other day I got me a pair of those from Aoharu/Anexx:

Anexx Gladiator Boot

Anexx Gladiator Boot

Looks familiar, doesn’t it?

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