BDSM creators doomed eventually?

Yeah Amar, and do you know what: some people like to do it with the light on!

Pep (Kinda depends on your definition of weirdo/straight doesn't it?)

Well I don't believe it is common. But I can see why BDSM fans wished it were common. Nobody wants to be seen as a pervert/deviant.

This.

Also you have to factor in that SL allows you to do things you can't or won't do in RL. So for everyone who engages in a particular kinky game that does practice it in RL, there are probable 3 times as many who would like to, but can't, for a number of reasons.

BDSM is probably the best example.

As opposed to being seen as closed minded and judgemental?

You wish...

The truth of it is though. Most of society only sees the kinks and such of the lifestyle, not the true meaning behind it, which most knowledgeable lifestylers will agree with me, goes way deeper than yopur everyday average boyfriend/girlfriend stuff or your basic everyday vanilla relationship...which I'm not badmouthing at all but for me, eh boring.

People can do whatever they like. I'm not against BDSM.

Lol

Someone get Five a link to the Deviant Thread Five - around here it's a badge worn with pride. But not by me of course. I am not at all deviant - nope, not me, uh-uh, not at all.

You don't need to worry to much about "Open Collar" all that much, or collars in general. With the new memory pool for avatars that will be implemented, I can see a drastic change in how collars, or any multi-animation furnature is going to be very much effective. Those items are pretty memory intensive, with the way they are implemented now.

So, think of this as a chance to get ahead of the curve and create things that take little script memory (if you are capable) or hire a scripter to create one for you, and be the first to come out with the low memory usage collar, or multi-pose furnature, or whatever you create!

/me looks through my photo album...

If there is any ironic justice in the world, "The place that will soon not be called Ursula" will thrive and be a HUGE success, and will be SL's biggest feature, while PG Whitelandia dies a slow and agonizing death, and LL chokes on the empty sims.

Mmmm.. coffee table edition?

That sounds aberrant to me.

Oh yes, it's common around SL. and that's my point.

I would like to see it be represented fairly. I don't want SL to become BDSM world. Or frog sex world. Or any <insert kink> world.

I sympathize with Linden Lab wanting Second Life to be "normal".

What is this "normal" thing?

I meant here in the Forums - particularly RA- it is a hotbed of deviant behavior. But that's OK Five, you go on with your life and we'll all go on with our own. Live and let live. Amazing isn't? Seems to me, the more deviant the person the more willing to not try and force their values on others.

When I came to SL, I used to type it as BSDM too Of course I knew it existed widely in RL. I just wasn't used to saying or typing it.



As for free stuff, particularly scripted stuff in which the scripts are Open Source, this is the way of the Net.
How many here use software called Mozilla <something>?

There's another way of looking at Open Collar in particular.
The free availability of the scripts opens up opportunities for people who are good at primwork to drop the scripts into their creations. The scripts have remain Open, but they control the permissions on the prims.
Some business lose out but other business are created.

The other plus for something like Open Collar is that it presents examples of non-trivial scripting to people learning LSL.

Open Source is here to stay.
Businesses in SL and RL have to live with that.

Businesses that produce 'ordinary' will be most affected.
Business that produce 'exceptional' will be less affected, although they will end up catering for a more appreciative, albeit smaller section of their market.

Go to the mall.

I know, it's not exactly wonderful at the mall. But you wont see a BDSM rack in every other window. Oh, and a man screwing another man in a poodle costume.

SL is all those things. And none of them. There is no real accurate way to define SL, in a singular sense. It is different things to different people. LL should not be worrying what a bunch of scandal mogering idiots masquerading as journalists have to say about something that most of them haven't even bothered to try beyond 5 minutes if at all.

SL IS normal It is used by human beings. And they each have their own idea of what 'normal" is.

"Your world. Your Imagination." The point of SL when it was created was to explore the different and unusual. Regardless of what the their goals are now. I'm sure LL, in their naivety, didn't really think about what would be most prominent, of course. Or maybe they did.

Meh, it is what it is. LL can cleanse it if the choose to, but they will be fighting a battle to get there.

I'm not trying to force my values on anybody. I'm very happy for you and your sexuality.

This is how happy I am ----->

well, it's all just BM to me, so i don't really care what it's called or how you spell it. it ain't my shit, and that's all i need to know about it.

My favorite mall has this in it: http://www.spencersonline.com/StoreLocation.aspx

I've gotten some cool toys there