On Mesh Breasts And The Real Thing

Mmmm, mesh breasts as seen on the Gorean Dressing Room blog. Back in the old days, female avatars in Second Life had just two choices with regard to breasts: the ones that came with the avatar, and prim breasts. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Avatar breasts have bounce. But they can only grow so big before they get ... polygonal. What do we mean, polygonal?



"See my giant polygons? Do they make you hot, baby?" We mean POLYGONS! That's standard avatar breasts scaled up to the max and seen up close, about as bad as it gets, but you have to admit ... that's bad. As the camera draws back the polygonality disappears, but still ... that's pretty bad. Especially compared to those nice, round, smooth mesh breasts seen above.

Prim breasts don't have this problem, they are smooth and round, but they are like any article of prim clothing, which means they can be very hard to fit properly. And it's annoying when clothes won't quite fit or get out of alignment when the avatar moves, but it's really unfortunate with body parts.



Prim nipples on giant polygon breasts ... who can resist, eh? Just check out the unusually well-fitting and color-matched nipples above. Nice as they are, one of the nipples is slightly higher than the other, they are kind of the wrong size and shape for those huge honkin headlights they sit on. When you move, such nipples can get discombobulated, and actually seem to be floating a short distance away from the breast, or sunken into it. So ... not optimal.

Now check out the prim breasts at the very top of the page. They have that 3D nipple bump and nice, smooth curves. They look like breasts should look. The only problem is, some of the inhabitants of Second Life have taken a good idea and supersized it waaaay too much, as this article points out.




As a wise woman once told me on this very blog, "Ain't nothing like the real thing" and Rachel Roxx convincingly makes that point here. I say "convincingly" because I'm pretty sure Rachel's breasts have implants. But she bought wisely, enough to give her an impressive rack but not to make her look weird or distorted. No polygons on her! Image source: Whipped Ass.com.

Happy New Year for 2013

Happy New Year in real life and Second Life!
Here's hoping you and yours have a wonderful year this year, EVEN THOUGH the world didn't come to an end in 2012, as USUAL. Gotta happen sooner or later, though!


Have all the greens and black-eyed peas you like, baby, but I'm eating the luckiest dish of all! Image source: Sex and Submission.com.

Wait Until She Gets The Bill!

"Cough!" Image source: Sex and Submission.com.
Playing doctor for keepsies!

St. Patrick the Slaver

"Hey, big fella, you like brunettes? How 'bout this one right here? A beauty, trained to unquestioningly serve your every desire! Go ahead, feel her butt, big and luscious! Any of St. Patrick's Angels of Sin will make you believe you have died and gone to heaven ... surely, they are the next best thing!" 
Image source for bound hotties: Kink.com of course! (Image of St Patrick is very old and religious and, well, inaccurate.)
As academics often do, academics are making new discoveries about old stuff, and one of the old things they've made new discoveries about is St. Patrick, yes, the very same patron saint whose day we just finished celebrating. Seems he was not the ex-slave who found God and chased snakes out of Ireland. Instead, as reported by this story on CNN.com, a new Cambridge University study suggests that St. Patrick was a former Roman tax collector who fled to Ireland where he was a slaver.

Seems the real St. Patrick was the son of a Roman tax collector who inherited the very lucrative job. Unfortunately, he inherited it at a time when the Romans were losing power in Britain, and since tax collectors in those days were little more than thieves, in the absence of Roman power his future in England looked like it would have been all mobs, torches and pitchforks.

Ireland lacked a monetary system at the time (seems to be headed that way now!) and so in order to finance his move and his life he most likely would have converted his family's wealth to one of the more valuable, portable commodities of the time: human slaves.

So jolly old St. Patrick was a slaver, most likely. And a tax collector. All the stuff about him being a slave who escaped slavery are based on letters St. Patrick wrote late in life, as he tried to set up his legacy. In short ... lies. Well, that's what happens when the gift o' gab goes wrong.

Sign of the Times

"I shoulda known," she thought. When she saw the ad offering $100 an hour to serve as a nude human sign for a pawnbroker business, she figured she'd be standing in a store window and waving at passers-by. But noooooo ...

Image source is the good folks at Sex and Submission.

Logic Problem

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