Monday, December 31, 2012

Just your typical New Year's Eve....

....in your typical virtual world, with your typical crowd of partiers:



Wishing each of you a wonderful new year full of success and happiness!

(first picture taken by Pixellada; second picture by Ryan)


Jicerjicer Jicer: Artist and Avatarist

Meet Jicerjicer Jicer, he's one of the artists who make living in Cloud Party such fun:


Jicer has a home in the neighbourhood island of Blazing Ranch, and I decided to pay a visit to see what his art is all about.  Here are some pictures:







And, as a bonus, I took some video of the animal avatar parade outside his home.  Jicer has created all these avatars from scratch, I think they're amazing (and yes, they are actual wearable avatars):

https://plus.google.com/107590093667978669374/posts/gycAQQ7vmQ2

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Fritz's Creations

Fritz Maier, whom I have spoken about in this blog before, continues to surprise us with his creations:


Here's his completely renovated home (complete with pizza-eating alien plants!) in the Shiny Bay neighbourhood:
https://a.cloudparty.com/loc/2106/103.4,-24.5,-34.1,-1.7

And in the public park opposite, a mega dance-ball with four writhing, smoking, silver worms:


And five minutes later, he replaces the smoketrails with laserlights:





Cloud Party would be a much poorer place without exceptionally creative people like Fritz Maier.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Outfit Outlay: Orange Outfit

Tank top: EP Tank (tintable) by Estelle Parnall, 60 CC (1 CC = US$0.05)
Skirt: skirt colorchange by Mochi, free
Flats: part of the basic Outfit, free
TOTAL OUTFIT OUTLAY: 60 CC (US$3.00)


Friday, December 28, 2012

New Year's Gift: Get Vanity Fair Fashions for FREE

To celebrate the new year, for one week (until midnight, January 5th, 2013), all ten of my clothing items will be available for free!  Yes, FREE!

To find a list of all ten free items, search "vf" on the Marketplace.


Remember, this is only until midnight Central Standard Time (Winnipeg/Chicago time), January 5th, 2013!!

President Obama Visits Welcome Center at Cloud Party

Well, okay, not really.


From left to right: Vanity Fair, Pixellada, Obama (Jicejicer Jicer), and Fluffy.

Rant, Continued: More Griefing at Starting Island.

This morning I arrive and conversation is all about what a certain avatar has left behind on the Public Area 1 of the Starting Island, resulting in a "Too many spawned entities in area" error message:




This is the same person who was raining these same objects down on newbie avatars in the Welcome Centre, which I referred to in an earlier blogpost about this matter.

It's time that a combination of technical rules and social rules be enforced to stop, or at least curtail, these sorts of things from happening in the future.  Perhaps we need to shorten the 5 hour auto-return of created objects.  Perhaps we need to impose some sort of ban system based on internal usrerid or IP address.  Perhaps we need to give moderators special powers to combat this spam.  All I know is, we need to have some serious discussion about what to do.  If we having this problem with only a dozen or so avatars on Starting Island at a time, what is going to happen when there are 50?