Setsuki Takeda

Wait for a Maitreya sale, it's what I've been watching for to outfit my "Sleeping Beauty" alt, I want to have one ready to go that isn't "new" in case I ever need a second avatar or to replace the one I have but since it's not my main I don't want to spend a lot on it. So far I'm using the LeLUTKA free head from Advent on her, which of course was given out a week after I spent 4k L$ on a head for myself to switch to EvoX from Catwa HDPro, and the freebie TMP body... Which works, kinda, but I *will* be getting Maitreya Petite the next time I see it on one of those half-off sales. I have two bodies, not counting the Jomo anthro avatar, Maitreya Petite and Dev Nana... Though Dev just released a new body, Angel, that I like better than Nana. Hopefully it gets the skin support Nana has, the "Pro Athlete" skin I use on Nana looks really nice for the Amazon Warrior avatar, but so far all the ones that fit the mapping for Angel are really generic and clothing is all Omega Appliers not fitted mesh so it all looks painted on to me. As for the male question I have some armor (From POE) that is rigged for Gianni and, to get it working, I bought the Kuroo (not sure if I'm spelling that correctly) body. Not one I would use for daily wear, even if I was a man, but if it's *mostly* (or in the case of the armor I bought completely) covered by clothing or armor it fits well and is close enough to *much* higher priced male avis that things rigged for them will fit with only minimal alphaing.

DaD has some great stuff, but I've found I like their skyboxes the most, their LoD is usually kinda wonky and while they look wonderful from *inside* they fall off far too quickly when you leave the building. So far anything that is *outside* and needs to be seen from a distance I tend to go with Ex Machina, but if you're not looking for an industrial look the selection there is pretty limited. Though, low LoD can be a good thing, some of my favorite furniture is very low LoD and starts to turn into triangles at 20m. The LI is vastly lower on it, though, so if it's in a small area it works well to keep the already 5k-ish LI I'm using at least somewhat limited.

I've seen a lot of "live-in maid" positions in SL where they pay for a system that makes things get dirty just so someone can be judged on how well they sit on the imaginary dirt with a mop or feather duster. My rent-free guests are people who help out at the dairy, even though I've almost completely disposed of it when I switched over to a gym on the ground, since I'm usually on in the afternoons it's nice to have someone *there* who is intelligent, personable, literate, and understands what an emote is to greet people when they show up. I've considered setting up pay rentals, but I would want them to *fit* with the theme, so they'd likely be semi-public (I want to throw things at people who use security orbs between 1000m and 3000m - flight/driving below and space travel above - on the mainland) and within chat range of other rooms and use more LI than it would be possible to be competitive with the huge neon towers of "multi-scene" rental places all over the mainland.

Total lack of support? I spent some L$ to buy stuff a few big makers, like a certain dance machine company who raves about their own customer support, had delivery failures and an automated "We have your L$ for this nocopy item, a CSR will be with you shortly to send the product as it can't be redelivered." several months and three support tickets ago. They got me for 300 L$, and lost about 40k L$ in sales. I spend, probably a lot more than I should, but when I have hobby scripters respond on a 10 L$ item instantly and big companies who sell hundred *dollar* products ignore their customers it makes me a bit wary of trusting them to hold up their end of things on any purchase I can't just eat if it turns out to be a bust. Also, for the love of the gods... Stop with the fatpack bonuses that are visible in the single color demo and then not in the product. If you're going to cut an item up into dozens of little annoying nomod HUD textured things at least do a good job of representing what is being purchased. Being able to change the color of a zipper is *not* worth 1500 L$ per item on a three piece set I only want in black. And, if you're selling furniture not clothes... Always make it copy/mod.

I like some of them, but the number do seem to have some more "Ooh look at me, I'm here!" makers putting out junk just to have a "release" for the newest event. Right now there are four events running that cover areas I'm actively shopping for a build I'm working on, between these four full sims of stalls marketed to me I found maybe two dozen things that I would take for free, and only six that I actually purchased with two more I'm waiting to see about an in-world demo before I drop a few thousand L$ on it.

Aeros has been saying they were going to update their outdated stuff for quite a while now, maybe they actually are? Too little, too late, though. Everyone who asks about getting decent bits when I laugh at their freenis is referred to The P... Though they could learn a thing or ten about a nice HUD layout from Aeros.

I'd go Premium Plus for double prim allotment on mainland parcels, any mainland parcel, not just the "special" regions like Bay City.

Yes, gesture spam will get me to TP out of anywhere in SL, and another annoyance is scripted greetings... When the host says the *exact* same thing to *everyone* who TPs in *instantly* on landing it just shows laziness in my book and is far more spammy than personable. I went to one to support a DJ who is a friend of a friend and I spent the first half hour blocking scripted chatbots and derendering particle effect spewing lag machines. Your corner of a homestead can't handle Ozzfest, especially not with a few dozen *heavily* scripted dancers AFKing on the tip poles. Oh, and when I land and see "Chat Extender joined, range *insert ridiculous number*." I'm leaving. I can see 50m, maybe, let people chat in a larger room, but repeating everything everyone says over the whole sim is bad. I've landed at a place who added a club in a skybox and I was getting their gesture spam nearly 4000m below the venue when I landed. Not only did I not go to the club, but I deleted the LM for the sim. Though, on the other hand, SL people *are* super cheap. I don't own a club, but I do have a quarter region with pretty decent traffic and a build I'm working on (mostly done on the ground, just a few more things to add to the urgent care clinic, mostly working on to the space station now) that gets me compliments in IMs all the time. It costs $67 for just tier there without any L$ being purchased to help improve the location. An average month sees me getting about 300-500 L$ in donations, and I don't do affiliate stuff or ads because I think they degrade the whole region (in aesthetics and performance) to rez that stuff. Anything you make in SL either needs to be something you're willing to eat all the costs on, or you need a Patreon, because people do *not* tip or donate and the quickest way to drive anyone you might actually *want* on your parcel away is to have them land in an affiliate mall at a forced landing point and need to walk through a lagfest of begging and heavily scripted vendors that manage to slow down the entire region to get to a place.