Protection

In RL, I grew up feeling under-protected at home, and over-protected from the real world. I spent a good chunk of the years after I left home trying to deal with the consequences of this; trying to get the balance right for myself and often goofing it up along the way. As an adult, with my [...]

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Open Space Sims Madness

Watching the Open Space Sims drama is like watching a whirlwind and trying hard not to get sucked in to it. I get the issue – severe price hikes based on poor grounds and reasoning. And there is no doubt that’s bad practice. Ok, got it. But it’s what’s happened in response to it that [...]

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Imitation, the sincerest form of flattery..?

I’ve often heard it said by people trying to make me feel better when others steal my ideas, my looks or whatever it may be, that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”. Sweet as that may be, I still want recognition damn it! If someone decides I had a stroke of genius and wants [...]

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Virtual Dancing

Dancing in SL is achieved through various methods, and as usual I have far too much to say on each type and the “hidden messages” involved in a simple button click or avatar placement. The one type I want to talk about today though is couple dancing pose-balls.
Something so fun, so pretty, so innocent… Well, depends [...]

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SL, SL Flickr, & SL Blogging

When I first joined SL I had no appreciation of how much of my life it would become, and I definitely had no awareness of how much my SL persona would come to exist in webpages external to the game. I thought Landsend Korobase would be a SL-only entity, it never crossed my mind that [...]

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Humour in SL

One of the most attractive things in a person, is a healthy and original sense of humour. This is true of RL as well as SL, but in SL it ranks very high - possibly at the top - of factors that make me notice a person and become friends with them. All of my closest friends [...]

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The Women of Crown

I’ve spoken about Crown & Pearl in many of my posts. It’s a bar like no other in SL, and to me that’s not just because of it’s unique design, or the talented DJs, it’s about the regulars: The people who turn up everyday and make you glad you do too. One of the special [...]

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Personal Attacks, taking it Personally, and Blogging

One of the first logical flaws we used to teach students to identify, in a uni philosophy course I tutored, was ad hominem attacks. Attacking the person instead of the argument. Essentially the error is made when someone presents a reasoned argument and instead of attacking the premises, the attack is made against the person [...]

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Photo Contest for Haven’t had Sex with Prad Club Group Insignia!

Ok, I promised a photo contest, and here it is:
Theme: Design us a new Club Picture for the Haven’t Had Sex with Prad Club. The picture can just be of Prad being Prad, or humourous (along the lines of a warning notice if you like), pretty much whatever you like, as long as it somewhat [...]

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The Day I Really Shopped

I don’t shop much in SL, for quite a few reasons. Some of the more essential reasons being that I don’t have a steady amount of money coming in and I get tired of waiting for everything to rez. Well today, today, I shopped, like I’ve never shopped before. And it felt good. No, not [...]

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