Take it or Leave it - One Night Only!

OK, So the 2008 season for the Second Life Relay for Life is in full swing and I am part of the team Take THAT, Cancer so. I decided to bring back an original idea I had proposed to one team for last years RFL that never happened…and make it happen.

So… on SATURDAY 5th APRIL 2008 at the SLPN HQ in Nowhereville will be a One Night Only for Take it or Leave it.

What is Take it or Leave it?

Take it or Leave it is the Second Life version of Deal or no Deal which I used to host before the gambling ban. However for this night it will be a Just For Fun and hopefully we will get a tournament thing going with some prizes and stuff.

If you have any products that you want to giveaway for this please IM me in-world because I want to offer MANY prizes. But of course the aim is raise cash for the Relay for Life cause (preferably for the Take THAT, Cancer team).

I will have more on this hopefully in the next week or two

The Flashback VIP Club

As we all know, in the search area there is a “Popular Places” tab. Now most of these “popular” places are either gambling / money / sex related. Cue the teleport to the Flashback VIP Club where you can get L$6 for 60 minutes worth of camping!

OK so it’s not that great and I even donated cash to these people and didnt get a word of thanks for my L$10 worth of generosity.

Scapoli Mall

After reading about a Mall in Scopia on Dedric Mauriac’s blog, i decided to check out this place for myself. Heres a video of what i saw.

The Problem with places like these in Second Life is that they sell on freebies that creators in Second Life offer for a profit and do not pass any cash to the creators. This in a sense then is theft which sucks. I have a feeling this place may get shut down soon though because they offer Zyngo (a SLingo rip off) and that falls under the Gambling ban since they are charging people to pay into a game and then offer a cash prize for a winner.

Forbes Guy…

Everyone is talking about this idiot at Forbes who seems to be moaning about the “economic crisis” in Second Life. So as i write this i am going to be watching this video and telling you my thoughts on this.

After Post Note - WHY is there so many advertisements just to watch one freaking 300 second video

Note 1 - Gambling was NOT shut down months ago, only the advertising of it

Note 2 - It is not one of the only ways to earn an income in Second Life, theres clothing, building, entertainment such as Live Music, DJing, sadly the Sex industry which may become a target next as everyone is rumouring. Theres owning land and profiting from that along with rentals. Theres all sorts of other methods for earning an income in Second Life.

Note 3 - Why is “most of things going into sex”. BECAUSE THE MEDIA HYPED IT TO BE A SEX CRAZED WORLD!!!!

Note 4 - You may have spent a lot of time in the world but WHERE DID YOU SPEND TIME (sorry the rant mode is ON)

Note 5 - I think the corporate businesses are already losers because they ultimately have made their purpose boring and dead. Sure the openings are filled but they offer absolutely nothing after it. Stuff like Woodstock which was a homegrown effort gained popularity for what it was and has shown that sex and gambling is everything when it is not. People tipped the artists like crazy and because i was once married to someone in a sex club i can tell you the artists EARNED up to 10 times more in one fucking hour than those sex club workers. L$1000 for an hour night in some cases compared to L$10,000 for an hour shows the POWER of other places.

Note 6 - Of course its stupid to have a washing machine in Second Life. You don’t need to wash your clothes in Second Life and also it does nothing. Washing machines that eat an avatar up and spins them round for 10 seconds is far more intresting than that

Note 7 - World of Warcraft firstly is a waste of time. I spent about 10 hours and was more bored of the newbies going around saying stuff like “TRAD WTIH M3 B4 I KIL YOU” on a server which people don’t fight each other…only the monsters/creatures. Also do you hear live music in WoW? Do you actually have fun? Has anyone died playing Second Life on a 57 hour spree? No is the answer!

Note 8 - How is Mario Kart and Second Life related? Pre - Made cars which you can change a color to blue, red, white etc. ?

For a Video to this detailed and obviously smarter guy than I am click this link

That felt good to rant, I don’t do that often

Gambling Exodus

Since July 25th 2007 when gambling became illegal completely in Second Life, a lot of owners instantly logged in after hearing the news instantly shutting down casino’s and other general items that could constitute as gambling within Second Life such as Take it or Leave it, Slingo and Sploders. However i did a little digging around today, not too deep and discovered two locations within 10 minutes that still have machines for gambling. They both were in skyboxes (perhaps they feel that Linden Lab won’t look in the skyboxes?). Here are some images of the hunt.

Why i kicked everyone out of my Take it or Leave it update group.

I have had a few IM’s this week with people questioning and wondering why i decided to kick everyone out without a group notice. With the end of gambling in Second Life and that the way they seem to portray this is that Take it or Leave it is outlawed left me with no choice but to end the group. I simply hate having to keep a group inactive and cluttering up the group space so i just had to get rid of it.

Gambling Changing Nowhereville

After recent news of gambling being kicked out of Second Life after making all sorts of things illegal including the game shows such as Take it or Leave it, i decided to check out how it affected Nowhereville.

First Gold Monkey Poker Tournament winner

Congratulations to Lucky Nikolaidis on winning L$1500 and the Trophy too.
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Time to try my hand at Poker

Never ever played a game of Poker before and yet i am entering a tournament. I must be mad…ah well! .
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