Wednesday, 23 September 2009
SL MODEL SUFFERS UNKNOWN SKIN CONDITION
In Second Life, it’s true to say that a lot time is spent fixing ones avatar. There are no ugly people within the confines of sl, it isn’t allowed. Well, ok, there are noobs. But they are allowed to be for a while.
It’s fair to say that we have had days when perhaps our clothes didn’t fit right. There are those bad hair days, when even though you spent ages fixing the hair the night before, sl ‘changed’ while you were sleeping and now you are a mess. I swear I am convinced sometimes someone is logging in my account and screwing with my stuff.
Is this vanity? Yea it is, and anyone who says they aren’t vain in SL is full of shit. It’s like saying you don’t masturbate!
If Prims don’t fit right, you fix them. Hair looks wonky, you fix it. Or if you’re me, you break them, while fixing and go buy new ones. I really can bring a whole new definition to the words tortured prims. Oh, I can torture a prim.
What happens though when you can’t fix something and not because you’re dumb but purely because you have no control over it? Well, as a last resort you would call the experts at LL and ask them. But then this SL and this is LL we are talking about, so will it ever be so simple?
A few weeks ago I was getting changed, when Rawly pointed out that he could see white lines running all over my body. At first I thought someone had stolen my avatar and went for a sex-a-thon at bukkake bliss, but then I realised what he meant. I did have white lines running along what I would describe as the seams of my avatar. A loud high pitched scream could be heard ringing out around Rancho Palmaire and that was just Rawly, I think I passed out.
I didn’t know what to do. I had noticed something similar about 2 weeks before, but I thought it was just something silly and that only I could see it. You know how you do, you put it down to lag and stuff.
After I relog, I seemed to be fine, but this strange phenomena has plagued me now and again since.
At a party the other night I got talking to a model Leisha Nitely She was a fun girl and we chatted for a while. She suddenly announced that this ‘ skin thing ‘ kept happening to her. I zoomed in for a closer look at this ‘skin thing’ she was talking about and I couldn’t speak I was so shocked.
My tiny white lines where nothing compared to what was happening to Leisha. I didn’t even think to take a picture and the only way I can describe it is that it looked like someone took a Photoshop eraser tool, set it 50% transparency and drew lines all over her.
Leisha explained that this wasn’t a new thing for her and it had been happening for a long time. As a model she told me she has a whopping 800 skins and it happened occasionally without warning to all of them. She also informed me, that what I could see was nothing compared to the normal condition that had afflicted her for the best part of the year. She tried to explain to me what it was like, but I struggled to see how anything could be worse than what I saw looking at her at the moment. I couldn’t comprehend the severity of what she was trying to explain and she told me that next time it happened she would send me a snap.
This is what she sent me.
This was one of those things that standing on the pose stand in edit mode will not fix. So she called the lab for help and they told her to, yep you guessed it, submit a ticket.
The people at LL think we are a funny bunch of people, they don't really take us seriously. I have fond memories of having to call LL on the phone one time over a matter that was bothering me and I am sure I heard the guy on the other end of the phone trying not to laugh his head off. I had images in my head of him calling other LL people around the phone to listen to me for a laugh. It had been a few days before my wedding and for some reason I couldn’t buy L$. It was explained to me that the Lindex was being updated and that it wasn’t my fault and that I would be sorted soon. It was a huge issue for me but for the guy on the phone I must have sounded insane when I was telling him I couldn’t buy money and that I needed to buy stuff for my pending sl nuptials. He was very helpful whilst trying not to burst of in hysterics in my face, but in the end he told me to just, yep you guessed it, submit a ticket. So I did, about 40 times.
Leisha still hasn’t had this issue resolved and she still doesn’t know what is causing it. I asked her if I could write about here. I am sure someone else is maybe experiencing the same issues or maybe someone would know how to cure this SL skin condition that is causing so much concern.
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