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Today is the “Day Against DRM” or for the novices, Digital Management rights, which are nothing more and nothing less than the “solution” the big media industries found to dictate what you can or can’t do with content you bought from them, for this occasion I invite you dear readers to spread the word against this evil of the internet age.

Whether companies will control and restrict us through our technology remains to be decided, and the battle is now.

Aujourd’hui c’est la “Journée contre les DRM” , ou gestion des droits électroniques en français, la solution que les poids lourds de l’industrie audiovisuelle ont trouvé pour nous dicter ce que nous pouvons faire ou ne pas faire avec le contenu que nous leur achetons, j’invite tous ceux qui me lisent à faire passer l’information contre ce cancer qui empoisonne l’industrie.

C’est maintenant qu’il faut nous battre si nous ne voulons pas que les compagnies nous contrôlent à travers nos propres technologies.

Creating the touchbound system was honestly, quite a pain in the ass, but i’m happy that i did it, making new objects will be much more convenient from now on.

Now the question i’m asking to myself, and to you who care to read this blog is:

Where to go now?

Of course i need to make more stuffs in the chrome lined style, the first two that came to my mind are upper arm cuffs and tighs bands.

The second one that comes to my mind would be a PROPER chastity belt, i haven’t made any in a long time and the chrome lined serie is a good opportunity to make a belt that actually look like a real life belt (sculpted prims of course) and to make it flat enough so it can be worn under the sl system skirts too.

Also when it comes to accessories that are not directly bondage toys, well from my understanding peoples still like to color their stuffs. And altho the chrome lined serie is modifiable i’ve been thinking about an accessory that could be immersive and (somewhat) fun to use: the anodizing tank.

The base concept is that it could permanently tint the metal stuffs using the age old electrolysis system that most peoples in the car tuning scene know (it’s basically a bath of a special solution the object is immersed into and a current runs through electrodes which bind the metallic pigment chemically on the surface of the object).

So , yeah of course it is “not” needed and is another accessory peoples would be encouraged to buy but i think it could offer some new interesting things, like a dungeon could have it’s own attached “public” customisation workshop…. I don’t know if peoples would really like that…

The valentine padlocks had good results and seems to sell more than the round ones, they also tend to sell more than the fingerprint padlocks (which are easier to use but considering you get one with each items, itsnot like there is the novelty effect).

I’ve had a chat with a few peoples who would be interested into time reliant padlocks. I initially had a fuzzy idea of making time enabled “key boxes” but maybe making directly padlocks that you can dial time in might be simpler.

So hey, enough about me babbling , tell me what YOU want!

Yesterday i’ve been looking back over my chore scripts, i worked on the script to control the dirt swept by the broom, it kinda stroke me that even tho this piece of code is actually quite good, it was missing some very obvious low lag features. Either i was planning to add it later (wich i have no memory of) or i was drunk -_- .

Kind of interesting that coding drunk and coding in your good day (when you can zone in) tend to be simmilar, as in you can produce a lot of very complex code, very fast, excepted that the sober days it just looks like it makes no sense…

I could say i’m about as old as bdsm in SecondLife (not quite but nearly) in the few years i have been there i have seen a lot of things evolve, some ideas i started myself did take a life of their own in the hand of other creators.

In general, things have been evolving.

However, i do wonder if we do not tend to go the wrong way… as the title says, today, every major scripter in the BDSM community is making those “all in one” powerhouse collars that start to look more like multi function remotes than what they are supposed to mimic, a slave collar.

Tokon is pushing it to the extreme, their hud looks like one of those fancy next gen phone/electronic gadgets it has everything you can really think of that is remotely related to D/s and BDSM, so do amethyst’s collar, mine, and well…

…i now think that it sucks. Those tools turn your sub into a remote controlled robot, wich is fine if you fantazize to be a robot but, well… here is a thought:

• A big part of what makes bondage thrilling is not just the finality but the process of being bound is important too, it’s a ritual.
• What’s the point of having an animation tool for the master in a slave collar? Is the slave too dumb to assume the demanded position when His/Her Master demands it?
• What is the connection between a slave collar and the inability to talk  or <insert other odd features here> ?
• Why having a complex user access control system? what makes the collar magically reject inputs from everybody?
• Why having so many toggleable functions, why not making collars for different type of peoples instead of a bloated “one size fits all” system?

I think going back to simpler items  could be a very good return to the origins, objects that mimic more accurately the activities IRL they are supposed to represent. However does not misunderstand me, by saying “simpler” i do not mean simpler coding, what i mean is getting rid of all those atrocious huds and menus and create more natural ways to access functions. ( why not making leashing trigger when the dom/me click his leash handle and then the sub collar? )

Bottom line, i think it should feel natural to use restraints and D/s toys, it shouldn’t feel like a program but like an electronic version of the real thing, it should feel logical and straightforward to handle, it should feel like using it is satisfeying, it needs this little feel that what you do is almost real.

Bought myself a new toy, GEFORCE GTX275, it was a pretty decent price, it’s not really a big performance boost i think but i was getting sick of ati cards.

I may not be as prolific as Prokofy but my signal to noise ratio is MUCH better

I’m done moving, i will write more when i’m not tired anymore.