Showing posts with label Curio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curio. Show all posts

03 January, 2013

I'll wait up till the morning light; to stay awake is to stay alive

There's a new Minecraft parody video out there, this time to Daft Punk's "Harder Better Faster Stronger". It's amazing if you know the song, and know Minecraft; but it's still pretty awesome if you don't.

(By the way, if you've ever seen Daft Punk's original video for the song, this version won't make much sense. It only makes slightly more sense when you also factor in the two best-known fan tributes to the song, Daft Bodies and Daft Hands.)

And though the holiday season is over at this point, I wanted to link the Twelve Days of Minecraft for your perusal. He's not the strongest singer, but then, for this song, he doesn't need to be. It's cute without being cloying, though I am more amused that the "nine ladies dancing" all seem to be Link.

And and, there's finally a Gangnam Style parody out there for Minecraft--well, at this point, there's likely more than one. But this one features Endermen!

And last, "Don't Mine at Night" pretty much sums up my Minecraft experience. Also, monster choreography! It cannot be missed. Brad Knauber and Tyler Clark strike again. Beautifully done.

Also, Curio's back! There are both positive and negative things in this. While the major takedown of Hush Skins we hoped for won't happen (at least not at the best of Curio, League and Belleza could still file), they have reached a legal settlement and binding arbitration. To wit: neither side admits legal liability, but both have agreed that their stores--and their product lines--arose independently.

Interestingly, Hush Darkrose also announced that she never filed a Supreme Court action in the first place, which--after many of us pored over the inner workings of the Canadian Supreme Court system--we already knew, but...at least it's good that she finally came out with it.

I will also say that it makes her supporters--especially those who purported to have seen the "court documents in question"--look rather foolish, now that she's admitted she never did any such thing.

Unfortunately, neither side can discuss it at this point. There are still questions to be answered, but...really, the ultimate thing is that Gala Phoenix is no longer banned from SL, her store and sim have emerged from the chaos more or less intact, and she can legally sell her skins again. So...overall, yay?

And finally, random profile philosophy:
It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions.

After a while, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the heat that came from the others. This way they were able to survive.

Moral of the story: The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good qualities.

The other moral: Just learn to live with the pricks in your life!
Which just about sums up this post.

12 July, 2012

hard to find, blinded by sorrow

Have friends who want to support Gala Phoenix, but they don't play in SL (or perhaps their accounts lapsed)? It's okay--Gala's set up a legal fund request on IndieGogo.

IndieGogo, like Rockethub and Kickstarter before it, works on the principle of crowdfunding--the contributions of the many can be smaller if we all join together to make something happen. Rockethub is more for professional or scientific funds, Kickstarter is more entertainment-based...IndieGogo sort of straddles both camps. It's not as well known as Kickstarter, especially, but it has strong ties to development capitol, and investment sources.

This campaign has a lower goal--$10,000 (US), which is half of what she needs to begin the court case. Why? Because the One Voice event has already raised the other half:
Fortunately, many amazing and generous content creators, designers, and supporters have come together to hold a fundraiser in-world. In the first few days, we have already raised over $10,000, and I expect we will raise more before the event is over. However, many people have asked for a way to donate outside Second Life, so I have set up this page. Because of the success of the in-world fundraiser, I am keeping the goal of this campaign more moderate.


The Second Life content creator community will not be intimidated by bullies abusing a system that should protect us. Please stand with me.
Help if you can.

11 July, 2012

and a strange voice sings a melody

You don't have to go to the One Voice event to participate--here's a list of stores who have One Voice vendors on their own sims:

*tuttiFruitti*
.HOD.
A and S Visions
A.D.D. Andel
Addiction Jewelry
Adoration Home & Garden
Adorkable Poses
AlterEgo
Anna Shapes
Anymore
Art Dummy!
Avisage
Belleza
Bent.
By Snow
coldLogic
don't freak out!
elymode
English Muffin
Essences
Faerycat Designs
Fallen Gods
Flowey
Fri.Day
For F's Sake
Geometry Clothing
HANDverk
Holli Pocket
Ingenue
Insatiable Designs
isoMotion
Izzie's
Ju
lassitude and ennui
Manna
Mayfly
MINA
Mon Cheri
North West
PnP
Pulse Skin
RnB Designs Furniture
Sakide
Sax Shepherd Designs
Schadenfreude
SHUSH
silent sparrow
Sleeping Koala
Solange
Sugar
Sugar and Cyanide
Sway
Vanity Hair
Zibska/Zibware

There are likely more to come; I'll keep you posted.

And if you can't get in to the event yet, you can always try a fun little trick--going to Apocalips Kansai means you can cam across into the event itself and look through things that way, plus, it's really an excellent East Indian temple build.

Now, just so you know going in--they're keeping a viciously tight count on scripts. Not prims, per se--I saw a full fur with extravagantly bound tail and wings perusing the various vendors with the rest of us.

While I took out all the SLUrls from the now three notecards listing offsite participants, I was standing next to the main port point for the sim. This is a partial transcript of local chat:

[16:58] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home mxxxxxx.mxxxxxx [2㎆/85] Mxxxxxx Mxxxxxx
[16:59] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home cxxxxxx [8㎆/120] ⓒⓗⓐⓓҳ̸Ҳ̸ҳ (cxxxxxx)
[17:00] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home pxxxx.dxx [12㎆/185] Pxxxx Dxx
[17:02] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home kxxxxxxxx [11㎆/188] kxxxxxxxx
[17:02] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home lxxxx.rxxxxxxxxx [5㎆/86] ˡʸʳᶤᶜღLYRICღˡʸʳᶤᶜ (lxxxx.rxxxxxxxxx)
[17:02] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home lxxxx.rxxxxxxxxx [5㎆/86] ˡʸʳᶤᶜღLYRICღˡʸʳᶤᶜ (lxxxx.rxxxxxxxxx)
[17:02] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home lxxxx.rxxxxxxxxx [5㎆/86] ˡʸʳᶤᶜღLYRICღˡʸʳᶤᶜ (lxxxx.rxxxxxxxxx)


Poor Miss Unpronounceable "ˡʸʳᶤᶜღLYRICღˡʸʳᶤᶜ"...she just didn't seem to get why she was being bounced home all the time, and kept trying to get in. Over. And over. And over again, each time never changing the resize-scripted items that were throwing her out to begin with!

[17:03] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home nxxxxxx.sxxxxxxxx [7㎆/190] Nxxxxxx Sxxxxxxxx
[17:03] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home nxxxxxx.sxxxxxxxx [7㎆/190] Nxxxxxx Sxxxxxxxx
[17:09] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home mxxxxxx [6㎆/91] ɱïℓεγ ɱεℓσđγ (mxxxxxx)
[17:10] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home mxxxxxx [6㎆/91] ɱïℓεγ ɱεℓσđγ (mxxxxxx)
[17:10] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home cxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [10㎆/170] ςнεℓş (cxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
[17:11] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home bxxxx.bxxxx [3㎆/51] bxxxx Bxxxx
[17:11] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home mxxxxxxx [10㎆/324] Mαεlyndα Cεrnα (mxxxxxxx)
[17:12] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home vxxx.sxxxxxxxxx [12㎆/557] Vxxx Sxxxxxxxxx
[17:13] PDS HomeSecurity Orb 1: (Weapon) Teleporting Home sxxxxx.bxxxxxxx [3㎆/50] Sxxxxx Bxxxxxxx

I think you get the idea. Basically, if you go in with resize-scripted hair, shoes or clothes, or you have a multifunctional HUD attachment--you're going to be bounced. You can always come back--that is, if you can get in at all--but they're not allowing anything much over the bottom line into the sim.

As a result, while there is a high amount of lag, by the time I actually got inside the sim, there were very few vendors grey and unrezzed. There was some texture blur, which frankly owes as much to http-protocol fetching than anything, but even that cleared up fairly quickly.

Everything is clean, easily laid out, and as low-prim and low-scripted as possible. Anyone wanting to run a large charity event really needs to talk to the One Voice crew to get their tips on how it's done.

And yes, I picked up a gorgeous, but ultimately useless item (at least, for the couples' menu options) from WetCat at One Voice:

(from the Charity efforts album; WetCat's "Clouded Lotus" swing and tree set)

This retails for L$398, half of which goes to the fundraiser, and features two sets of pose options: poses for couples and singles in the swing, which does swing if the top branch is touched, and poses for couples and singles reclining on the ground pillows. Be sure to pull something nearby into Edit when you rez it out, because as usual, for the swing to work means it's unlinked from the rest of the tree.

I'll go through pictures later that a friend sent me; my trip through resulted in an inability to pull up profiles or snapshots while I was there, so argh. But watch for future entries, and remember, this event only runs until the 15th, so go while you can!

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