Thoughts on contests and inventory additions

June 10, 2008 at 10:09 pm (Personal) (Contests, Inventory, Random Thoughts)

I’ve decided not to waste my time anymore on contests that are nothing more than popularity and traffic generating contests. These appear to be the most common ones that I have found. What happened to contests with real judges? Both the contests at Ellie’s and at Zanphoria have fallen into the category described above. All they seem to do is generate high traffic for the locations where the voting is taking place with people teleporting everyone in on their friend’s list. Since I’m still new and don’t have many friends yet, there was no way I even had a chance even from the beginning. I do want to thank my friends who did support me in these
I did it…I broke down and bought a full pack of skins. I had been getting by with some very BEAUTIFUL free skins given out to various groups like Chai, Bianca F and Tuli. I sorta grew attached (pun intended) to the look of the Tuli skin, LOVELOVELOVE the freckles, and I got numerous compliments on it….from guys! I tried on the demo pack containing the other sets several times, and I would hover over the BUY button for a whopping $3750, but I just couldn’t do it. Well, today I did it. I hovered once and canceled then went right back to the BUY button and did it. No regrets! Now I have options….OOOH!
The hairstyle I’ve been wearing a lot lately is from Detour. It’s a texture flexi style, and I am adoring it! I started watching Lost Season 1 all over again, and now my brain thinks that I look like Kate (Evangeline Lilly). I’m probably just crazy, though. I even went as far as checking out the Body Doubles store to look at a Kate shape, but I just can’t bring myself to buy a shape…sorry! I can make those easily. Plus, I have to admit that the Body Doubles store seems to be better at matching outfits and skin in comparable RL celebrity pictures than actually matching the shape. Just my 2 cents.
I’m still looking for my niche in SL. Surely it’s not ONLY shopping and dancing! Modeling is probably not going to be my thing, because I don’t kiss butt enough, and I’m probably too shy to get to know some of the important people. I was a content creator in my past Second Life, and I don’t think I want to go that route again. I’ve applied at a couple of places for various things, but I’m sure since my AV just turned 1 month old last week, that I look like I’m a complete noob. I guess I’ll just hang around and see what happens.