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Aparently there is an upcoming change on XstreetSL:

Monthly Listing Fee for Freebies of L$99

Umm… WHAT? Oh right they decided to blindly consider them as promotional tools… Yeah right, like if any freebie scripts i made for this community where shameless plugs for KDC… -_-

Minimum Commission of L$3 on all items priced L$1 or greater

Umm okay? i “can” roughly understand why they would do this…

Monthly Listing Fee of L$10 for all items L$1 or greater

WHAT? So now to be allowed to LIST a product it has to sell? What about all those stuffs peoples do that cater to a niche market? You know what Linden Labs? Screw you i can simply stop using the XStreetSL service, i’m paying you already enough for a sim that only do the bare minimum it’s supposed to do, i sure as hell am not going to let myself milked more by you pieces of shit.

Thank You to All of Our Xstreet SL Marketplace Users:
We’d like to thank all of our shoppers and merchants who have made the Xstreet SL Marketplace the success it is today.  The Marketplace continues to grow at a time when the real world economy continues to struggle.  We’d also like to thank all of the residents who helped us develop this plan.  Our plan of action was designed with your input on both what the issues are and great ideas of how to solve them.  We would not have such a well developed and thought out plan without you, so sincerely, thank you.

This is the final straw, are you guys shitting me? You really think i’m going to believe you asked ANYBODY in the community what they thought of it? How about standing by your decisions and admiting Linden Labs is looking for ways to get MORE of the transactions happening in SL into THEIR pockets?

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.

So far, so good, it seems like the much better and matured brother of vista. Haven’t had any MAJOR compatibility issues.

I took this photo today, first day of the NATO back-patting in strasbourg.

The photo manipulation kinda came to me naturally…

My other photos:

Kleber plaza, they had about 6 riot troop vehicles parked there

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…But they remind you that some computers simply weight too much.

Had a blast in a small private lan party this weekend at a friend’s home, this also explain why i wasn’t online at all. But it’s the last time i carry this beast of a case there. I think next time, either i take a laptop, or i will try to find a lightweight case…

I’ve started a little article on places that are worth to be visited in SL

for now i have the channel asylum and bay city, i will add more when i have more ideas.

Feel free to send your suggestions 🙂

It has been a loong week and there is prolly too much to tell, simply said i was on a family meeting, which was organized on a cruise boat, we ran across the northern sea, if you can bear your family, i guess it’s pretty cool.

Hopefully the boat was big enough.

Now i’m back and i have plenty of things to do, namely, polish some stuffs on my new vendor and finish the different statistic displays.

I really really need to get back on track SL wise.