Never judge a magic book by it's cover

First up I wanted to let everyone know I opened comments back up so anyone can post again. I didn't ever really want to take away anonymous posting, since it let a lot more people comment, but the span was driving me nuts. I know have it set on moderate comments, so I can weed out any garbage spam posts before they show up for everyone to see. I promise that's the only thing I'm gonna do moderation wise. So now all you anonymous readers feel free to comment away!

Anywho, not that long ago I was pointed in the direction of a shop called Kero's Toy Box (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fishii/85/149/34/) by a friend (though who pointed me there I can't recall. I swear, this time away form SL made me do a total brain dump). Checking the place out, I found lots and lots of fun toys. In particular, I was told to check out the magic books the shop sells there. After looking the shop over I was very very impressed by what I saw. The books particularly blew me away. What are the books you may ask? Well, each is a magic spell book that changes the reader or person your showing it to into a object (as long as your running RLV and have a relay on). And man do they look fantastic!

There's 5 books in all. The coolest ting about them isn't just that they change you, it's that they change you into something interactive. First is the chair transformation. Yes, someone can sit on you while your changed. I love how this one looks, especially the padding. Very well done.

Next is the Victorian sofa. This one is also sit on-able, though I will admit I like the chair better. Maybe because the body is more used to make the form. Still this one does look very lovely.

The statue book is pretty self explanatory. I will say I love the skin for this one. The blue and white colors of it really look quite nice, and are very different then most other statue skins I've seen out there.

Ah the picture frame. This is probably the oddest of the transformations, but it really has a unique look. One thing to note on it is hte picture is changeable. I've seen 2 different ones in my times hanging on the wall ;)

The final book is the motorcycle transformation, and boy is this one cool. Not only is it like the chair and couch and sit-able, but it's ride-able too! so get changed into one and anyone can take you for a spin ;) Also, I've noticed each time I've been it I've been a different color bike, which is a really cool touch.

Overall, the books are fantastic, and honestly, this is just scratching the surface of what is at Kero's Toy Box. One word of warning though! If you want to try them bring a friend! All the book AVs auto lock on, and it takes another person to release you. If you aren't careful, you could end up decorating the shop for a long long time ;)

Catching back up with a few toys

Hey all! I'm thinking the next few posts I'm gonna be making are going to be on items I've seen or got over the past few months. There was a lot of really cool stuff hitting SL lately, most of which is RLV enabled. I do want to try to do more role play related posts, but honestly I haven't had as many really strong role play sessions lately. Still if I stumble into one, it's going up ;)

Today is going to be a few items from Hybridz. First up is there School Doll AVs. They come in 4 colors and like all AVs they sell are fully RLV enabled

The breasts for the suits are optional. If you want a less...umm..endowed look, it also includes a school badge as well. I alternated the above pics showing both. Overall I do like these, though there not the usual style of doll suits I tend to gravitate to. What I mean is I tend to like the all latex look, as opposed to skin showing, but these do look good. Very doll like and sexy :)

Next, also from Hybridz is their new puppy suit. This one is adorable!

I've always had a thing for the puppygirl look and this suit is fantastic. It's again totally lockable. As a bonus it also includes a animation hud, letting you sit, lay or even beg. Too cute!

Well, that's it for now. I'm still deciding what to show next, I have a ton that I want to post on. BTW, if anyone has any suggestions feel free to let me know! Some of the stuff I find by word of mouth and since I haven't been on SL as much, I haven't heard as much. Til later, see ya!

I got a job!

Ok so this isn't a real post, but I have to let everyone know, I got a job finally! It only took 8 months (8 long, long, long months) But I finally got a property manager position at a local mall! I'm so happy! This means I will be working, so money for SL toys, yay! Plus I'll be back on a consistent schedule, not spending every moment of every day job hunting. So more posts soon! This is my first week so I'll likely have some up as time permits, gotta get into the grove of it after all. But I'm aiming for this weekend, most likely Friday to resume posting once more!

The return of Yora and the Doll Life!

Hey all, I'm back! Sorry it's been so long. I really and truly meant to get postings done for the holidays, but RL has been crazy. I'm back in the job hunt after spending a month in a "I have a job if I can get certified for it" holding patter. Now that that's fallen through, I'm back to square one. So I'm still hunting, but 6 months of not working really sucks. Scraping to pay the bills is a pain in the butt, and obviously the reason I haven't been blogging much.

Still, it had been a while (Ack! The 8th of December was my last post!) and I figured I should keep on posting. After all, this blog isn't going to end til I leave SL, which I don't thinks gonna happen for a while.

Anyway, I've got a few items to show off to you guys. These are all from the shop Doll Life (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cadborosaurus/79/208/410), made by Bettie Binder. Her products are just wonderful! Very RLV enabled, and very very cool looking to boot. First up is the first thing I got from her shop, the Mannequin.

The one I got was the type 3 of the 3 designs available. You can wear it both with the hood and without.

Personally I like without myself ;) The suit is a restraint fans dream come true. you can self lock it for a variety of time with all sort of restriction option. Once you locked it though, depending on the level you picked, your stuck til someone else lets you out or until the timer runs out. plus, there's also a built in vibe, and a voting mode that lets others pick if you've been good or not. If you haven't, more time for you!


Next is one of the newer releases, the Cupid statue. This one doesn't have the self bondage options the Mannequin does, but it looks fantastic! it's fully RLV enabled so all the usual options are available. One of my favorite things is a script that's included with it. It lets you turn any hair you have into a matching marble hairdoo! that's such a great touch. Most statue things I've seen usually give you a default hair to use, but this adds a lot. Both are fully recolorable, thought I kinda like the default pink and white myself ;) I think I know what I'm gonna be for Valentine's Day!

I know it's a bit of a short post, but I have more planned soon. I'm gonna try my best to post as I can. I really don't want to take anywhere as long as last time LOL. One thing I'm curious about is the lack of comments. I made the blog so you have to be registered to post, because I was getting a lot of spam posts. You guys like? Dislike? Heck you don't even have to post a comment, jsut email me at Yoravig @ Hotmail . Com (no spaces obviously)

Til later all!

State of the blog update

Hey all. Just wanted to give everyone an update on the state of the blog. I am still alive for one. so that's good. the bad news is I'm still job hunting, and it's not going well. The sucky economy is making it hard to find much out there. So, I've been a wee bit distracted and not on Sl as much, since I need to, well, pay rent, get money for food, ect. so the blog has suffered because of it. I am going to try to post something soon. I still enjoy blogging about SL, so I'm not planning on quitting any time soon. i hope to have a few things up this upcoming weekend.

On another note, I've had a lot of spam comments get posted all over the blog. Sometimes 2 or 3 are being posted a day. So, it's with a bit of reluctance I'm disabling the anonymous commenting ability. I really don't want to do it, but I'm afraid if I don't, more and more will keep being posted. Still, I might reactivate it later if enough people want it. Email me and say if you do!

And speaking of comments, I haven't been responding to them lately as I used to. Again, job hunt is to blame. I do read every one, and I'm gonna try to start responding again. It's fun to comment back and see where they go, heh.

So, til later, see ya!

Mega Mech Toy playground!

Hi all! Sorry about the infrequency of posting as of late. Still pounding away on the job hunt front. As of yet, still unemployed, but I might have something, fingers crossed. Anyway, today's post is on a shop I meant to do a long long long time ago, but stupid things kept delaying it. It's a little shop called Mech Dolls http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pine%20Woods/83/236/25/ The shop owner Mechatoy Mekanic, is a incredibly sweet person, and very skilled to boot. I love her stuff, and only wish I had a bit of money to go on a full shopping spree there, hehehe.

Mechatoy specializes in, appropriately enough, doll skins, clothing and other related items. The nice thing is her items are very different from a lot of the other doll stuff out there in SL. It's not all pink and cutesy and Barbie (not that there's anything wrong with that). Or latex and kinky (again, not that there's anything wrong with that either). It's a more almost realistic take I'd say.

Her jointed doll skin looks fantastic. I love the attention to detail in it, putting in all sorts of little touches.



I absolutely love how the face looks on this skin. My shape ruins the ventriloquist dummy style mouth effect, but it's such a cute touch I just adore it.

Mechatoy also recently released a set of jointed doll layers you can wear with any skin. Here's one of the ball joint sets with my skin.



And here's one of her swivel cut sets. Again the detail is fantastic. It's hard to see, but she even put a little heart shaped mark right on the dolls pelvis ;)



Next is a combination package. It contains a music box that doubles as a LustBaby hypnosis machine along with a Nutcracker Suite style ballet outfit. It's soooo cute looking! Plus it really plays music, and the outfit includes a whirling gears sound for when you walk.




Finally, I wanted to show off some of the keys she makes. I currently have two of them. First up is the Emerald key



Next is the Gears key.



Both have RLV support, and all the regular features you'd expect in a key. Plus, they have a remote control built right into them! It lets anyone using the yet to move you around like a puppet, heh. And honestly, hey look gorgeous.

So make sure to stop by her shop. I haven't even gotten into the other items she has like the DollyStation, Puppet Cross (both featured on K-8's blog at this link http://consciousobject.livejournal.com/183395.html ), and the tons of outfits she has for sale. I'm going to be showing roe from here, and next time I won't take as long, hehehe.

A bound adventure

Hey all! OK so it wasn't quite as quick as I liked, but I'm finally doing another post! Yay!

So lately I've been finding myself hanging out at Stones N Rubber (Which speaking of recently moves. Here's the new SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ultimate%20Love/224/60/21 ) I've gotten to know some of the sculptress there, and spent a bit of time as a statue or doll, usually just a few hours. One of the heads of sNr, Sinha Hyne, has put out a variety of gadgets, such as a faceplate for the balloon suit from Hybridz, to a bar code tattoo to mark the toys dosing at sNr. Her latest one she put out was a pussy sheath. Basically, it's like a large plastic hole where the pussy is. And to top it off, you can plug it too. The plug looks a little like a drain plug, which just helps to reinforce the object like feel it gives having it on.

After seeing this sheath, I so wanted to get one. Sinha let me try it out, and me being the curious sort, I got two more as well for my rear and mouth. After putting on a black latex skin to match them better the fun began when Sinha locked them on me!

So, I spent about a week like that, with more and more bits slowly added on, like an arm binder, ballet boots, and a neck corset. the end result looked like this.



I helped Sinha test the sheaths and even give her a few suggestions. The plugs are removable by anyone that touches them, except the wearer. They also now make a popping noise coming out and a squeak going in. Make me shiver every time I hear it, hehehe.

I also had my speech set with a renamer. So whenever I talked or emotes, insted of saying Yora Vig, it said Three Hole Toy. Pretty embarrassing explaining that one to anyone I knew, hehehe. Overall though, it was a lot of fun.

Next post is going to be on a shop of a friends I've meant to post on for a long long time. Stay tuned!

I'm not dead yet!

Hey one and all I am back! I'm very sorry for the long lack of posting. Originally is was a dodge of the heat that was hitting at the time. Then it became something much worse. Writers block.

Yes, I know a blog isn't like a novel. But there is a certain amount of inspiration that's needed. And unfortunately I haven't been feeling it lately. I kinda fell into a SL rut, buying new items, and posing at Kayliwulf. Not that I'm knocking either. I just haven't had many adventures to really speak or lately. Couple that with my job hunt lately (ie, I'm still unemployed with minimal responses) and I've been a bit like taking a break from SL and focusing on other things. Letting my batteries recharge a bit, so to speak.

Now, that isn't to say I haven't been active in SL. I have, and it has helped get some of that spark back. Next post (which will be soon! I swear! Like tomorrow soon!) I'll tell you about my week long adventure at Stones N Rubber. Very fun. Very kinky ;)

So, to sum it up, no, I'm not quitting SL. No I'm not quitting this blog. I might try some new things (less product reviews? Unless you guys like them). However, I can't give a time table on updates. I'm still job hunting in RL and that's sucking up alot of my time and energy now. Still, I love posting here and exploring SL. Thank you all for wanting to see more posts. That's a big reason I want to continue doing this blog is that so many people out there seem to enjoy it. Til next time (which will be soon! I promice!), see you!

It's hot!

And not in a good way. Sorry for the delay in posting everyone, I really intended to get back on a regular schedule. Unfortunently, we've been going through a record braking heat wave around here. To give you an example of how bad it is, it's usually in the low to mid 80's at most this time of year. Today, it hit 103. Uhg. this allone is bad. what makes it worse it trying ot be on the computer at the same time. It's so uncomfterable to even try. Plus, I'm afrade the computer could overheat it's so hot. I have been on SL a little, mostly very late though when it finally cools down enough. The down side to this is I can't be on long since it's so hot so early (I swear it was 85 when I got up today), I need to sleep when I can. Gha i hate hot weather.

I do have my laptop. I just got it back from repairs done to it today. So, I think I can start posting on it provided I can find a nice cool spot. Maybe I'll go out to a coffee shop and do it there. It should also be cooling down this weekend so I'll deffinently be posting more soon.

One Week of Kink pt 7: Hoodwinked!

Well, tonight's the last post in my week catch-up. I still have a bunch more to do, but I think I'm gonna try to get back to a weekly or biweekly update schedule. First thing first though, I need to drop some SLURLs for Doll Works and Skara Brae, since I forgot to do it in their posts. Oops!

Doll Works - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Doll%20Works/194/14/244
Skara Brae - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Skara%20Brae/129/161/250

Secondly, alot of you have asked when the Biolochemical Detonator (aka mushroom bomb) that I showed of a few days back will be avalable. Well guess what? Amea released it today! Quick! Run! Go get one! ;) Edit: Looks like Amea found a bug in it and had to take it down. As soon as I hear more, I'll let you guys know.

Ok, tonight's post is on a store I haven't talked about before, KaS. They started making corsets and chastity belts, and recently put out a hood. All their stuff is prim. What's that mean for those that have no clue what I'm talking about? Well, prim items are the building blocks of SL. Among the many things you can do with them is you can put scripts in them. And oh boy did KaS script these well.

First off is the KaS corset. This has a very tool training feature like a real corset. It starts slightly smaller then your normal waist. After wearing it a while, you can tighten it and slim it down more. It takes a while to hit all 4 levels but when you do, boy is your waste tiny! Here's a picture of me with and without the corset.

Without corset With corset

Next is the KaS neck corset. This acts as a collar and as head binder, holding your head still. The real nice touch to it is the fact it has two modes, normal or gagged. Gagged adjusts so it doesn't get screwed up with your mouth forced open by a ball gag or such.

Normal mode Gag mode

Finally is the KaS latex hood. This hood is hands down the best prim hood I've ever seen in SL. It's fully modable, allowing you to stretch the height, depth, or width. Plus it has a collar built into it as well. It also has a ton of styles, ranging from open face to completely closed and sealed. BTW, sealing the mouth does gag you ;). Like the other KaS items it's fully recolorable. But this one goes a step farther letting you recolor every bit of it any way you want. Below is 5 shots of diffrent mask set-ups. From left to right is open face, closed face open eyes and mouth, mesh over eyes and mouth, closed face, and the pussy mouth ;)

A really cool thing about this hood is if you are in mouselook moode, it can apply a HUD over your screen to simulate the eyes of the mask, so all you have is two little holes to see through. The mesh can also be applied to it as well, really reducing your vision!

Finally, here's a shot of me with all three on at once

Well that's it for now. Like I said I'm gonna get on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule from here out. I so wanna see if I can hit a post a week like my resolution was (Yes, I know I blew that. But 52 posts this year would be a moral win for me.)

One Week of Kink pt 6: Virtoys for Boys and Girls

Virtoys is a place I covered rather heavily in the past, as I absolutely love the Busty AVs that Downy puts out. Like with Hybridz, Virtoys moved recently due to the adult changes coming to SL. In fact it's right next door to Hybridz now ;) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Valhalla/52/138/21


The new location is great, bigger then the old one with a lot of fun toys there to try. I highly recommend trying the changing room, btw. Just make sure to have a Virtoys product in your #RLV folder first.

While stopping by to see the new store, I realized I missed reviewing one of the things Downy put our, the sculpted doll mask. It's a great looking item, very different then the other doll items they sell. It looks very artificial, but it a good way. Downy wanted me to let everyone that her fiends Ingrid Breck and Rei Gynoid helped with skinning and sculpting it.




While I was there, I was also reminded of two AVs I got from someone named var Ash. Both are sold at Virtoys. The first is his latex pony suit.



It looks great overall. I love the legs especially. For some reason this is the first really nice pony leg like that I've seen in SL before that didn't look funny. The suit is fully RLV enabled as well. It looks particularly good mixed wit theh Black Sin Lovedoll Busty AV ;)

Next up is his Sex Cyborg AV



This one is more in line with the busty AV, just dripping sexually. There's a lot this one can do. The eyes blink, the mouth can open and close, and a CD-ROM tray pops out of the back of the head. Plus it comes with two sets of breasts. A regular, and a quad set ;)

Var looks to be someone to keep an eye on. I love his stuff so far and I gt a feeling we'll see more cool stuff soon. Oh that reminds me, if you have any suggestions for him on stuff to make, IM him and suggest it. ;)

One Week of Kink pt 5: Doll Works and Skara Brae

So, as I mentioned earlier, Doll Works has done a massive remodel. Almost all parts of the sim have been redone top to bottom. Heck, the only place still the same is the mall, where you first arrive at.



The sim is much more open now, with a lot more places to visit and hang out at. The Rubber Institute is still here as well, but now it's on ground level. Another thing you'll find is a lot more items at Doll Works use RLV now.

Overall, the remodel is a stunning success. The new foll works is a great place, as fun as it was before, but now with more to see and do. This includes visiting it's new neighbor, Skara Brae.



Now, Skara Brae is a very role play heavy sim. It's all about transformations, any kind, and way. Dolls, cows, robots, latex, anything at all. It's a pretty large sim too, with lots to explore. One thing about it though, you can't be a wallflower here. Don't expect to sit back and watch and get sucked into a RP. You need to be active to get the most out of it here.

Personally, I haven't done much RPing here so far (The most time I spent here was when I was locked in the balloon suit, just being displayed) mostly due to the fact that I didn't have a lot of free time. Now however, that's changed. I'm going to try to dive into Skara Brae and see what happens.

One Week of Kink pt 4: A Kinky Curse Upon You!

As you guys know, one of my best pals in SL is Amea, owner of the shop Vexation. Well I feel kinda bad I didn't show off her latest curse when she first put it out. It's called Dulcus Lepus, or Chocolate Rabbit.

It is semi Easter themed, being a chocolate bunny and all, but can be worn year round. It works similar to the other two curses, except after you change you can move around with this one. Still, your completely locked as the chocolate rabbit until you break the curse. It's pretty kinky, even more so then the statue or fountain. Not only are you totally made of chocolate, your filled with caramel. So filled in fact that it slowly drips out from between your legs. The most delicious part (Bad pun, sorry) is the way new eggs are created. You actually sit down, spread your legs and lay a new chocolate egg. It's so embarrassing as it announces you doing it. Of course I absolutely love it ;)

Amea has also been tinkering with another transformation toy, the Biochemical Detonator. It's a bomb that detonates and anyone in the immediate area (provided they have RLV running and an open relay) is turned into a mushroom girl!

Unlike her other curses, anyone can free you from being a mushroom girl at any time. That is if they can touch the mushroom stalk. Be careful if this goes off and everyone s to far apart from one another. You could be stuck a really long time. The cutest part to it is what happens after a few minutes. Not only are you still a mushroom girl, you then shrink to the size of an actual mushroom!

You looks so adorable like this! Another nice touch is that all the mushrooms are muted talking out loud. They can all talk to one another though. So if you see a silent field of mushrooms, watch out they could be talking about you. Right now the Biochemical Detonator isn't available, but it should be soon.

That's it for tonight. Tomorrow, I'll bring you some info on the all new Doll Works and Skara Brae, two of the best transformation sims out there!

One Week of Kink pt 3: Stones N Rubber

Tonight's post is on a newer sim I found recently in SL. It's called Stones N Rubber, and it seems to pretty much be an answer for something a lot of peope are asking for.



Stones N Rubber is a transformation themed sim. They specialize in making you into a statue, balloon, sphynxgirl, rubber object, or other things. You submit a application with them, and they lock you up using RLV as whatever you select for how long you select. This is a service that A LOT of people have asked for. There's not al ot of transformation places and fewer that will display you for as long as you like.

I wish I could tell you about my time posing there, but I've found I've had a hard time tracking down one of the owners to display me. They are all from Europe, and me being from the western US, it makes it hard to be on at the right time. Still, I'm waiting patiently for my time ;)

One thing I'm really excited about is the AV chess game they are having in the future. They are taking applications for players, pieces, and "judges" to manage the whole thing. So if your interested, pop over to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montsegur/127/204/21 and sign up!

One Week of Kink pt 2: Chess the Best of SL

Phew, just made it in under the wire with today's post! Wanted to get it up earlier, but it's been a bit busy. Still I promised a post a day and I aim to keep that promise

Today, I'm gonna show off two more chess piece AVs from Jojo. First up is the pawn. As with all of them, it can change color to both back or white



Appropriate enough, the pawn looks super subish. The chains and hood make it looks like an extremely tightly bound sub, very vulnerable and ready to be fully manipulated ;)

The next is the Knight.



Jojo did this one to look pretty ponygirl-ish and like the pawn it fits well in this bondage chess set ;)

Jojo is also working on the last two pieces right now, as well as a full size board. Yes, soon you can be locked as a chess AV and used as a piece in a life size game. In fact, a place I'm going to talk about tomorrow is planning a game soon. Where is it? Tune in tomorrow to find out!

One Week of Kink pt 1: Hybridz AVs!

Hey all I'm back! Fist up, let me respond to a rumor brought up. No, I'm not leaving SL. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever will. I enjoy it to much and I love hanging out with all my friends there. I did just graduate. I have a Bachelors of Science now in Technical Management. Why not game programing? Well, as cool as it was there were two little problems with it. One was the fact that that degree is pretty narrow, while the one I got is broader. It lets me qualify for a lot more jobs. The second is I'm not a great programmer. I'm not bad mind you, but I'm not the best. So, given how competitive the field is, I thought a switch would be best.

Now that I'm graduated, what's that mean? Well, right now I'm unemployed. I had a job on campus, but it was a federal work study one and you have to be in school to keep it. So I'm looking for work. This does have one upside though. I finally have free time to catch up on my posting here! So this week, I'm going to aim at doing a post a day to show off all the stuff I've acquired, to let you know of a few new places, and to update a lot of SLURLs!

First up is a few items from an old favorite: HybridZ. They recently moved to a new shop. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Valhalla/59/59/22 due to the adult verification. I think there might be a few other shops moving too, so I'm going to try to update the links to them as I do new reviews.

First up is the Latex Dolly suit.



I absolutely love this one! It's just sooooo pink! I swear I smell bubblegum just looking at it. This is one of my all time favorite doll suits not just from Hybridz, but in SL at all. It's so cute and sexy, and slutty and adorable all rolled into one!

The next suit from them is the Taille doll suit. It's an odd looking one as you can see.



It's still a pretty kinky looking one. No arms along makes it stand out a bit, but the odd waist design is what really does it. It looks like your upper body is on a flexible spring. I can almost imagine it bouncing around. :D

Both suits are fully RLV enabled like all Hybridz suits. I've spent many an hour locked in the Latex Dolly :)

Ok, that's it for right now. But I have a tone more to show off this week! Til tomorrow!

Big things happening!

Just a quickie post. I've been busy in RL for the past month or so, making it impossible to post. However that all changed today. I finally graduated! Woot!. What does that mea? Well, more regular blog posts! I should be resuming regular posting after this weekend (Hey, I gotta celebrate a bit, right?). This then, see you all very soon!

Out of the blue...A New post!

Hey all! Sorry to be so far behind with updates lately, but I swear I have a really good reason. I'm 5 weeks from graduating! So, unfortunately this means I'm up to my eyeballs in homework and working on my final project. Uber busy Yora. So, needless to say, I've been a wee bit behind on updates (and totally blown my New Years resolution. But hey who keeps those ;) ). Anyway, there's been some really big things happening in SL and I'm sure many readers know, and I thought I'd put my 2 cents in on it.

So, Linden Labs, the makers of SL have decided to finally go ahead with adult verification. what's this mean? Well, it means that they are creating a new land type, Adult, and making it so if you want to access these areas, you need to provide suitable information that you are such. Also, they are creating a new Adult landmass and all Adult areas on the mainland now will need to move there. If someone owns a private island and they set it as Adult, they are a-ok, no move required. Here's a link with more info on it.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Age_verification

Some of you may be asking why are they doing this? Isn't SL mature rated? No one under 17 allowed? That is true. If your under 17, there's the teen grid. No adults allowed. Still, I can understand why this is happening to some degree. First off, it's easy to make a SL account. Like really easy. No verification of age required easy. So I can understand why this could let some teens on the grid. Still, I don't think this is a major problem. Oh sure their might be some that try SL. I mean, telling a teenager no, you can't do this is the best way to get them to do it. (On a side note if any of you out there reading this are under 17 and thinking about it, for the love of god go to the teen grid and start there! It's not worth getting in legal trouble over if you caught, and you'll likely learn alot more about SL and how to build, script, and so on by starting there).

It's looking more like this isn't about an existing problem going on, but more of a CYA approach. Apparently, congress has tasked the FCC with looking into how easy it is for teens to access adult content in virtual worlds. And while I don't think world of Warcraft has much to worry about, SL does. Now, I don't want to make it sound like SL is all sex all the time. It really depends what your into there I guess. but it is big business in world.

Does that mean I'm not in favor of Adult verification? Well, it's a pain in the rear I'll admit. but, it boils down to SL belongs to Linden Labs. they can choose to do whatever they want. And if they think it's for the best interest of the company to do it, then that's their choice. I mean, it's pretty clear that this huge focus on sex wasn't what LL wanted for SL to begin with. Still, I think it's going to cause problems no matter how they handle it. For one, people fear change. No matter what occurs someone will freak out about it. And for two, this will hurt LL some. People will leave SL over it. Already, Dari's Haus, a pretty big adult toy vendor,has closed an the owner has left SL for good. http://www.darishaus.com/site/home.html Which is a shame. Still, Darien decided to make all the items she was selling available for free. Very nice of her to do that, and she will be missed If you want a box, IM me in world, or visit her blog and go to the SLURL there.

So, what does all this mean for you're truly? Well, I'm in SL for as long as it's around. I already submited verification. It was pretty quick and painless. Still, it does feel like an end of an era is approaching for some reason. SL is becoming less free and more restricted. How will this play out down the line? Well, we'll have to see. Any who, next post will be more fun I promise. I have a lot of toys to show off :) Til then!