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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
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12-04-2009 11:34
One of the most appealing avatars I ever met was a gentleman who had used nothing but the appearance sliders and some freebie clothing. He had system hair. He appeared as an older gentleman with gray hair and a beard. He had a RL picture of himself in his profile, and his av looked a lot like his RL self...astoundingly so, given the limited resources he'd used.
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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 5,150
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12-04-2009 16:04
One of the most appealing avatars I ever met was a gentleman who had used nothing but the appearance sliders and some freebie clothing. He had system hair. He appeared as an older gentleman with gray hair and a beard. He had a RL picture of himself in his profile, and his av looked a lot like his RL self...astoundingly so, given the limited resources he'd used. That sounds so sad. Did he use a tie as a belt? I hate that in real. Crazy and sad old librarians do that and hang around asking all sorts of enid blyton questions that break me up. I really cry when I see a sad old man with no one who loves him. It's like heartache on a cold day and I'm very alone. _____________________
Fine Young Cannibal
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Tarina Sewell
Just Browsing Thank you
Join date: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 2,180
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12-04-2009 16:22
I created Ketchy just for fun and I like to hang out at Avatar Island when I log in. Up till today, she's been her original noob self without any changes or additions. I have to say that I was just fine with that until this morning. I am not sure how to explain it but, I suddenly had the urge to give the poor thing her own look and style. So off I dashed to a number of good freebie places and fairly quickly was able to transform her into a nice looking female avi and felt a sense of uniqueness amongt the other avi's around me. Now, I feel like I just abandoned the original noob avi she first rezzed as (ugly goofy as sin) for what might be a more appealing one to the masses in SL. I feel a tad guilty for this and I may just revert back to good ole original Ketchy. Does it really matter what we look like in SL? Would you embrace and love and adore a noob that never changed one thing of themselves from the day they rezzed? Just curious what you all think? Be what you want! hm, speaking of that, did anyone see nip tuck last night? With the BWW and the ken and barbie ? trippy! See she had her nipples removed so he (ken) would not think sexual about barbie (cause well barbie never had a baby) (which I htink is wrong but.. whatever) and then ken the dog relizes he is gay and hooks up with joe!! So look she changed to what he wanted and she got pfft in the end! Oh yes yes, they rolled up some skin from kens ass for his part cause well... he wanted to be correct in the end... ( I really wonder what those writers smoke) |
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Anemone Roddenham
Lycanthrope
Join date: 21 Aug 2009
Posts: 7
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12-04-2009 16:30
I don't care what anyones avatar looks like when I speak with them. But its a plus to have a nice one, visuals are great self expression but are not nessicary.
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Ceka Cianci
SuperPremiumExcaliburAcc#
Join date: 31 Jul 2006
Posts: 4,489
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12-04-2009 16:31
One of the most appealing avatars I ever met was a gentleman who had used nothing but the appearance sliders and some freebie clothing. He had system hair. He appeared as an older gentleman with gray hair and a beard. He had a RL picture of himself in his profile, and his av looked a lot like his RL self...astoundingly so, given the limited resources he'd used. i love meeting unique people like that ..  _____________________
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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12-04-2009 16:50
Be what you want! hm, speaking of that, did anyone see nip tuck last night? With the BWW and the ken and barbie ? trippy! See she had her nipples removed so he (ken) would not think sexual about barbie (cause well barbie never had a baby) (which I htink is wrong but.. whatever) and then ken the dog relizes he is gay and hooks up with joe!! So look she changed to what he wanted and she got pfft in the end! Oh yes yes, they rolled up some skin from kens ass for his part cause well... he wanted to be correct in the end... ( I really wonder what those writers smoke) omg, what channel is that show on? it sounds crazy weird, like some of my dreams, so i wanna watch. LOL |
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Pete Olihenge
Registered User
Join date: 9 Nov 2009
Posts: 315
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12-04-2009 16:57
That sounds so sad. Did he use a tie as a belt? I hate that in real. Crazy and sad old librarians do that and hang around asking all sorts of enid blyton questions that break me up. I really cry when I see a sad old man with no one who loves him. It's like heartache on a cold day and I'm very alone. |
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Tarina Sewell
Just Browsing Thank you
Join date: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 2,180
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12-04-2009 17:07
omg, what channel is that show on? it sounds crazy weird, like some of my dreams, so i wanna watch. LOL lol I watch it every week, it used to be on HBO or one of those pay channels, I think you can only get FX in the states. but this is webpage http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/niptuck/ Its a cool show.. like sons of anarchy, which is on same channel I believe... but totally different. |
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Hikaru Yamamoto
Oldbie
Join date: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 895
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12-04-2009 18:52
Phillip Linden is still a newb, for the most part. i think a true newb look is fun, but only because it is rare. Philip has not changed his avatar since early beta of SL _____________________
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Suki Hirano
冬の温暖
Join date: 30 May 2008
Posts: 172
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12-05-2009 09:42
It does matter, because the appearance of the avatar is at least 50% of SL, maybe even 99% for some people. You'll -always- be discriminated somewhat if your appearance is fresh as a noob, and unfortunately you will not look any better by going to those freebie island places because they only have the stuff that are shunned by most people. Of course, if your SL is only about making money or other business-related purposes then appearance does not matter, provided you always hide in the sandbox to build or something.
There are so many blogs and sites to get -quality- freebies, and they can't get easier. Most blogs provide direct LMs, so all you have to do is land and right click -> buy for 0L. _____________________
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Kara Spengler
Pink Cat
Join date: 11 Jun 2007
Posts: 1,227
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12-05-2009 11:45
There are so many blogs and sites to get -quality- freebies, and they can't get easier. Most blogs provide direct LMs, so all you have to do is land and right click -> buy for 0L. Right, when I encounter a new resident wandering around the mainland I never send them to those freebie places for stuff but to fashion blogs and such where they will find quality designers doing promos. _____________________
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Esquievel Easterwood
Deer in the headlights
Join date: 25 Oct 2008
Posts: 220
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12-05-2009 18:59
Well . . . much as I hate to be pedantic (  ) . . . we really don't have any idea how good or bad he was at spelling. |
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Scylla Rhiadra
Gentle is Human
Join date: 11 Oct 2008
Posts: 4,427
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12-05-2009 19:19
As much as *I* hate to be pedantic, nobody was good or bad at spelling back then, because there were no rules. Ooooh, a challenge! Well, the first glossographias and elementaries in English date from a period roughly contemporary with Shakespeare -- the last decade of the 16th century, and first of the 17th -- so spelling was already becoming somewhat standardized in his period. Moreover, the growing popularity of print was achieving something rather similar. Arguably, however, British English (as opposed to American English) has never had "rules" at all, as the English resisted the lure (to which the French fell victim) of creating an official "language academy" (in the French case, the Académie française in 1635). And neither of the two most influential dictionaries in the language -- Samuel Johnson's and the OED -- is "prescriptive." Not sure where that leaves us, exactly, but it sure is kinda pedantic, isn't it? _____________________
Scylla Rhiadra
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Something Something
Something Estates
Join date: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 121
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12-05-2009 20:52
I've been in SL for more than three years and I still have the original unmodified noob avatar and outfit. It kind of goes with the name
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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 5,150
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12-05-2009 21:37
As much as *I* hate to be pedantic, nobody was good or bad at spelling back then, because there were no rules. Oh God, now you've done it. My "sis" gets positively orgasmic over these kinda rules, She'll be spouting off about the Great Glottal Stop and The Vowel's Revenge before long. Scylla haunts libraries in real and in sl. she dates libarrians I'm off to bed. _____________________
Fine Young Cannibal
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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12-05-2009 21:58
Hey, Pep, not bad writing. You might want to do something with that.
Since I've quoted the first line elsewhere I'll do the whole thing now: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances, And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide, For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Pep ;p |
