Please stop confirming the stereotypes

May 9, 2008

I was wandering around Sasebo City when I found this little auto shop. Sometimes, it’s just too easy.

They make up for the Engrish by having what is certainly in the running for Cutest Building Ever.

There are a lot of auto shops in Sasebo City and nearby Nagasaki. Why? Because just beyond Nagasaki is the Skyblue Raceway, a well-designed racetrack, naturally.

While the Skyblue region isn’t lovely, the track itself is just challenging enough to keep you on your toes, with lots of nice twists and turns. In order to keep the track free of random obstructions, you an only rez cars in the pit area stalls.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sasebo%20City/109/48/24

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SKYBLUE%20Raceway/221/149/23

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Sometimes, at random…

May 6, 2008

…you find the funniest things. Seriously, I zoomed out on the map so that I couldn’t even see individual islands, selected a telehub and ended up in Sarah’s Playland. It turned out to be a sex fetish mall. I wandered around for a bit (strictly for research purposes, of course), when I found this cute little bear. He’s just a landmark giver, but he’s also a memorable marketing gimmick. Now if Kinky-O only sold these little ball-gag bears….

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SarahsPlayIsland/70/184/27

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Dying to go to the carnival

May 5, 2008

If you’re looking for a way to get away from it all, what better way than to go to a carnival? This makes some sense… unless it’s Rezzable’s Carnival of Doom. Oh, it’s a great place to visit. Just don’t expect it to be safe.

You show up and put on a free ticket HUD that lets you enjoy all the rides and games. The HUD has a health meter… well, you know where I’m going here. Make the wrong choices, and your fun little ride becomes an appointment with death. And when you die, you go to… but that woud be giving it away.

Someone at Rezzable has a sick sense of humor. Beyond the games and rides are a hall of freaks and a fortunte teller who won’t tell you what you want to hear.

A lot of the more dangerous rides look like they are still under construction, which was a bit of a dissapointment. Because, in a way, it was kind of fun to find out just how twisted this carnival could be. I guess I’ll just have to keep visiting to see what else they build…

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Carnival%20of%20Doom/184/68/26

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Earn those camping lindens

March 20, 2008

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Let’s end another week with some torture, shall we? 

I gave up camping a long time ago as a way to earn lindens in Second Life. It was just too time consuming relative to the payoff. However, I still see a lot of camping going on, especially in retail locations where campers are often tasked with scrubbing floors, washing windows, and sweeping up garbage.

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When I landed at Play Time Toys, however, I learned that if you can really make your campers earn their money. There they sell camping electric chairs, nooses, and impaling spikes. If campers get on these they must really need the cash. The electric chair animation is intense. You can almost feel the current, aided no doubt by the loud electrical sounds.

Is it wrong of me to think that the impaling spike and te noose should have twitching animations for the campers? Does that make me a bad person?

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Okay, I’m a bad person. I haven’t seen these camping chairs outside of Play Time Toys, but maybe I’m shopping at the wrong places. They have a number of the items set up with a typical payout. But it’s a fun stop if you just want to, er… watch.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Whitewater/129/80/428

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The unfortunate architect

March 9, 2008

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Despite outward appearances, and much to my surprise, this store does not sell sex toys. Although with a name like Let’s Go Crazy you might think otherwise. I’m feeling adventurous, dear. Let’s go crazy and buy the Belgian Tickler, shall we?

One really should think long and, er… hard about which elements to incorporate into your building design, lest people get the wrong idea, don’t you think?

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Meanwhile, next door… Don’t you think that a cat working at the Joy Factory should be… I don’t know… happier? Maybe that’s how they make the joy. They suction it out of unsuspecting kittens and pump in ennui to replace it.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amemura/242/24/44

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