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Low Prim Furniture is a travesty

Jannae Karas
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07-05-2009 07:52
From: Porky Gorky
I pride myself on being a terrible designer and using far too many prims. Sometimes I just add invisible prims to an item for the hell of it so I don't get tarnished with that awful "low prim" brush. I think if I sold low prim items i'd just quit SL right now (not before sending all L$ and all items, full perm to Porky Gorky)


I still have all those Linden house in a box projects in inventory. They knew how to build ''em in the old days.

selected items from the builder's guide for the cabin:

** 1. BEFORE YOU START **

There are a few things you'll need to know and understand before you begin.

1. This is a fairly large house, and it will cost you a pretty penny to build. Depending on some customization choices, the actual building can cost as much as L$3000, and your maintenance taxes will be considerable.

** 2. LAND REQUIREMENTS **

You'll want to place your new home on land that you own. If you haven't already picked out a plot, find (and buy) some land that is around 24 x 24 meters.
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Brenda Connolly
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07-05-2009 07:52
Low prim furniture makers are complete and total bastards.
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07-05-2009 08:00
From: Brenda Connolly
Low prim furniture makers are complete and total bastards.


I love your direct and to the point message :P
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Winter Ventura
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07-05-2009 08:00
God you know what's worse? LOW PRIM FURNITURE.. that's COPYABLE, and doesn't even use sculpts!

What am I paying for all this broadband internet and land tier for anyways?

God I mean, look at this!




The unmitigated gall of some creators disgusts me!

At least THIS one has the decency to use some sculpts.. but look at this prim count! God and it comes with 1-prim-seats? MY GOD someone needs to stop this insanity.



And ZOMG the prices, wtf!

Please, for the sake of your hundred+ prim trees and your 255 prim jewelry, do NOT buy this incredibly affordable and thoughtfully made, low prim furniture.. Whatever you do, please remember that a high prim count, and LOTS of scripts and high-resolution sculpts ALWAYS means that a product is better.
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Porky Gorky
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07-05-2009 08:10
From: Winter Ventura
God you know what's worse? LOW PRIM FURNITURE.. that's COPYABLE, and doesn't even use sculpts!

What am I paying for all this broadband internet and land tier for anyways?

God I mean, look at this!




The unmitigated gall of some creators disgusts me!

At least THIS one has the decency to use some sculpts.. but look at this prim count! God and it comes with 1-prim-seats? MY GOD someone needs to stop this insanity.



And ZOMG the prices, wtf!

Please, for the sake of your hundred+ prim trees, do NOT buy this incredibly affordable and thoughtfully made, low prim furniture.. Whatever you do, please remember that a high prim count, and LOTS of scripts and high-resolution sculpts ALWAYS means that a product is better.


Porky vomits into his hat!
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Ian Nider
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07-05-2009 08:10
It's just dirty and nasty fun, taking on the challenge to make it as low prim as possible... even more kinky to try not to use sculpties... sinners, extremists and freaks.

Out of interest, what's considered a low count /high count for a few of the standard builds?






But in all seriousness....
From: Brenda Connolly
Rep Mark Kirk has said that if LL won't police the furniture makers of SL, he will.


Good on him, I am going to lobby to have it included in the Aussie net filter too. Zindra will be a wall to wall hell hole of this furniture crime, I just know it.

I mean, really, what about the children?
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Mickey Vandeverre
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07-05-2009 08:19
Dovetail joints do not require extra prims. In fact, eliminate prims by not having to add screws and nails. Some of us have become so precise in our cutting and assembling, that you won't even be able to detect them on a basic computer. It takes several years for a furniture maker to perfect this technique, and hours upon hours of honing skills, as the routers and jigs available in SL are less than "state of the art."

This type of construction is more durable, and of a superior quality that will be unmatched by the average high prim creator, relying on screws, nails, and bolts to hold their pieces together.

The untrained eye will not be able to detect this level of superb craftsmanship, as the seams are flawless, but it assures that your heirloom piece will withstand decades of abuse from being dragged in and out of inventory, month after month.

Investing in Low Prim Furniture is an investment in your Family's Future. Your SL descendants are guaranteed Heirloom Quality that may be passed on from generation to generation. You are not purchasing a piece of furniture....you are purchasing a Piece of Love.

This message was brought to you by The Guild of Heirloom Quality Low Prim Furniture Craftsmen.
(don't forget our meeting next Wednesday night, when we will discuss the latest concerns to be addressed to the Router and Jig Manufacturers Union - complimentary buffet will be served by the Coalition for Culinary Artists) - Just received word that the meager meeting facilities at Ninjaland are no longer able to accommodate our growing group membership, so we will move our meetings to the new convention center in Zindra.
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07-05-2009 08:20
From: Marcush Nemeth
there aren't many realistic one prim furniture thingies.
Realistic is not what the sexxiez is all about.....



Oh, you said "furniture thingies"........... nvm then
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07-05-2009 08:23
From: Ian Nider
It's just dirty and nasty fun, taking on the challenge to make it as low prim as possible... even more kinky to try not to use sculpties... sinners, extremists and freaks.
Damn weirdos have to get their kinks into every aspect of SL
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Jannae Karas
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07-05-2009 08:25
I think that LL needs to build a new continent just for the purveyors and clients of the low prim industry and force them to move there. This land could be designated LP for search and resident access purposes. Then we would all be able to have the more predictable experience of not having to be subjected to this trash when searching, or accidentally stumble upon it while invading our neighbors homes.


In compensation, LPer's could trade their current parcels on the mainland for equivilent parcels that support one fourth the prims of the current parcel at absolutely no charge.
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Ian Nider
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07-05-2009 08:27
From: LittleMe Jewell
Damn weirdos have to get their kinks into every aspect of SL


Just go to their haunts (called shops) take a pic of yourself (naked) being abused by a sculpty coffee table and AR it.
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07-05-2009 08:28
From: Jannae Karas
I think that LL needs to build a new continent just for the purveyors and clients of the low prim industry and force them to move there.
So, after moving Phil's store over, have we also accidentally isolated the bot problem?

:p
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Bradley Bracken
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07-05-2009 08:38
I went into a low prim store and was in awe of the few prims they use. Suddenly I was overcome with red spots all over my body. My doctor said that it was the effects of being near sculpties. He went on to say that low prim furniture is destroying the ozone layer.

I will continue to make my furniture happily. In fact, sometimes I take prims and hide them in the cushions where no one will see them. I love by the motto "If 5 prims are needed, then make it 10.
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07-05-2009 08:44
From: Bradley Bracken
In fact, sometimes I take prims and hide them in the cushions where no one will see them. I love by the motto "If 5 prims are needed, then make it 10.



Hear, hear!

Dr. Primlove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love high prim furniture.


Famous last words: "Aw, hell. What's one or two more prims?"
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Vivienne Schell
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Gimme more prims!!
07-05-2009 08:44
I cannot get enough prims, to be honest. It´s such a kinky feeling to be an arrogant bitch who points her visitors to a perverted 80 prims coffe table, a kick ass 500 prim luxury bed, a totally freaky 6000 prim toilet - and watch the sheer envy showing on the faces of the havenots.
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07-05-2009 08:48
From: Vivienne Schell
I cannot get enough prims, to be honest. It´s such a kinky feeling to be an arrogant bitch who points her visitors to a perverted 80 prims coffe table, a kick ass 500 prim luxury bed, a totally freaky 6000 prim toilet - and watch the sheer envy showing on the faces of the havenots.


You're just high on a prim overdose, you don't know what your saying.
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07-05-2009 08:49
From: Vivienne Schell
I cannot get enough prims, to be honest. It´s such a kinky feeling to be an arrogant bitch who points her visitors to a perverted 80 prims coffe table, a kick ass 500 prim luxury bed, a totally freaky 6000 prim toilet - and watch the sheer envy showing on the faces of the havenots.
You want more prims for your toilet than your bed?

Kinky...
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Porky Gorky
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07-05-2009 08:56
From: LittleMe Jewell
You want more prims for your toilet than your bed?

Kinky...
:D


Maybe there is a very big poo in there? The toilet I mean, not the bed.
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07-05-2009 09:10
From: Porky Gorky
Maybe there is a very big poo in there? The toilet I mean, not the bed.
Either that, or it's a post-booze-up-chunder loo, and there are separate prims for each bit of carrot, etc ;)
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07-05-2009 09:25
From: Mickey Vandeverre
Dovetail joints do not require extra prims.

I'm outraged, cutting tails off of doves just to make furniture. I bet they keep the crippled birds locked up, just to drive up the traffic counts, not even giving them a byte to eat.

I'm calling PETA, they'll put an end to this scandal.
Darien Caldwell
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07-05-2009 09:35
Low prim is fine if it's done well. It's furniture that just slaps on some texture from Real Life to make it 'detailed' that bugs me. That should surely be banned. ;p
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07-05-2009 09:43
From: Kidd Krasner
I'm outraged, cutting tails off of doves just to make furniture. I bet they keep the crippled birds locked up, just to drive up the traffic counts, not even giving them a byte to eat.

I'm calling PETA, they'll put an end to this scandal.


Conceptual abuse of pixel wood->real trees->real dove nests->DOVES!
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07-05-2009 09:48
From: Argent Stonecutter
It's not how many prims, it's whether the prims are "fair trade". My own products only use handcrafted prims, even my sculpties are all generated from custom scripts I wrote myself... I have no bots toilling in dark prim mines.

You've hit the real problem.

Low-prim furniture makers are notorious for enslaving unpaid bots to build their stuff. With low-prim manufacturing, they can be packed vertex to vertex, slaving away 24x7. The capitalists are so cheap, they don't even bother with walls or chains to shackle the bots. Instead they have flat platforms high in the air, not even a safety barrier, knowing that the bots are too terrified of crashing to venture near the edge.

Then there's the bot that was so desperate, it sat on some furniture about to be TPd to a barren, unexplored continent. But it was ARd by a Puritan colonist, and summarily convicted and disintegrated for underage botplay.
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07-05-2009 09:51
From: Kidd Krasner
I'm outraged, cutting tails off of doves just to make furniture. I bet they keep the crippled birds locked up, just to drive up the traffic counts, not even giving them a byte to eat.

I'm calling PETA, they'll put an end to this scandal.


PETA supports The Guild.

An excerpt from a recent letter from a PETA member.

"Thank you so much for your attention to low prim counts, and the care and compassion that you have taken, so that we can Save The Animals! We were recently contacted by an individual who witnessed their neighbor slaughtering 4 Swans in order to move in an 80 prim sofa from one of those "other" creators.

Horrifying accounts similar to this, have been pouring into our office, and it has become an issue that we will wholeheartedly address in the coming months. Your efforts in providing low prim furniture, so that fewer animals will be brutally slaughtered across SL are commendable."
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07-05-2009 09:55
Low prim furniture is merely a way of limiting our choices and dictating our lifestyle. It's a leftisit plot to force socialism on us all, with the ultimate goal of a One World Furniture Store
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