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Yay I am so happy I got top 35 I wanted that ghosty bear soooooo bad!! ❤️ I love him soooo Gyazo Ghost

Excatly!... I would not have bothered if I knew the winner was someone who literally MADE their costume.. when the rules said "put together" that is not what I had in mind.

They removed the rules after she won so I have no proof of the rules but I read them before hand and the fact that the costume was pulished before the event is a violation. The other rules stated that you needed to not just buy a costume to wear, you needed to put the elements of the costume together from other sources.. now I personally took ths too mean that you should gather all the parts of a true costume and put it together.. the outfit, accessiories, makeup, etc and make a unique look. All I can see from this photo that says costume, is the dress.. so to me the dress won, not a costume... now if this was a costume DESIGN contest I would feel differently I think there is a difference between designing a costume and putting a costume together. I just feel they should have had maybe specific catagories or been more specific in the rules.. If had thought I was going up agaisnt a professional costume designer IRL who has won awards etc. I would not have bothered because all I did was piece items together to make a costume, like I would in real life, for fun.. this took the fun out of it for me. Most of us who entered took time to take our photos and all she did was pull a photo from her marketplace ad.

So I always look forward to halloween in Second life because it is fun to play with costumes and dress up. I was excited when I heard about the costume contest and I read over the rules carefully before getting to work on my costume. The rules stated that the costume had to be something original and creative, not something you could just buy and put on. The costume had to be non-sexual, not violet or gory, non-political or a comment on currnet events, and not of someone real living or dead. If there were more than one submission of the same look, those would be excluded. If the photo submitted was published anywhere else it was disqualified. Above all the costume had to encompass the spirit of halloween. Now, to me the spirit of halloween is dressing up in fun outfits, putting on expressive makeup, doing my hair, finding fun accessiories that go with the look, etc. So for this contest I spent a lot of time picking out my costume. I found the right makeup, the best accessories and right hair...... I pieced my look together from different things in second life. I made a look. I then found a pose, and lighting, and took a beautiful picture... I wouldn't even begin to assume that my photo was the best and deserved to win because I have no idea what the other entries all looked like, however I know that I put a lot of time and effort coming up with an ENTIRE look for THIS contest. When the winner was selected yesterday I was at first bummed but still was like ok I didn't win fine... but when a friend pointed out that the winning entry was of a PROFESSIONAL real life designer who sells costumes in second life, and that the photo was already published on the second life marketplace selling the winning costume, I was frustrated. Not only did the winning entry violate the rules. But there was no effort in putting the contest photo together. They literally used the same photo from the sale ad. There was no effort into THIS contest. It was just a dress... a dress anyone could have gone on the marketplace and bought and worn for their entry. They didnt even do makeup, or a look or anything.. its just a regular person in a dress... This is dishartening because if this were a costume DESIGN contest I never would have entered. I just feel that if they are not going to go by their own rules, or even distinguish different catagories between professionals and average residents, then its not really a fair unbiased contest. And it ruins the fun for people. There are design contests all over sl.. This was a dress up contest. There is a distinction between the too that should have been followed here.

I was actually invisioning my daughters school carnival when i posted that, meaning that they were doing it to earn money for the school to buy supplies... I was not refering to shady carny folk who charge you five dollars to throw one dart at a ballon to win a 5'7 poster of a kitten in a shoe. You clearly had a sad childhood if you never played the fishing game cause that was no skill at all unless you count throwing a string on a stick over a wall, waiting for a tug, and then pulling back an airhead candy skill... I don't.

yes I read that.. my question was actually if Lindens actually ever played 7seas... not that I couldn't read. The "if they are not" was my cue that they dont actually participate in second life enough to know what residents are doing. but thank you for answering no ones question

they don't exsist for greed actually they exsist from history... where you would go to arcades and carnivals and pay to play the "go fishing" game and they would put a random prize on your hook... or you would pay to pop a ballon and there would be a number in it telling you what prize level you win or you would pick up a duck and the duck would say what prize you won... its all for FUN its the excitement of not knowing.. maybe I get the giant panda, and maybe i get the paper finger trap, who knows... but I know I will get one of the prizes shown and have some fun doing it... you put greed into it because its people profiting... but some of these gachas donate to charity just like churchs that have carnivals with raffles and stuff... the simple point that people keep passing over is.... yeah, its banned, we get it... but why are you acting like they are evil and the people who enjoyed them are being cheated? everyone involved in gachas knew what the deal was going in... you pay, you get one of the shown prizes... thats it... if you call it greed then ANYONE who sells ANYTHING in sl is greedy by default, why doesn't everyone just start giving away their time consuming content they spent money to create, for free?!

I just read the FAQs on the inital LL post and I am confused as to why they believe the 7seas fish are non-trans? Have Lindens never played 7seas?

you shouldnt speak for "customers" when you are really just speaking for yourself.

Or, retail 100, let the creator sell what they want how they want... i mean.... thats not hard either..I didnt want the little silver ring from the quarter machine that left a green ring around my finger when i was a kid at the supermart but i mean.. I knew it was a possiblity when I put the money in. Even as a kid I understood that, if I put my money in, I am going to get one of these items shown, I might not get the one i want though.

my post was to the fact that someone said they didnt want to pay a gacha over and over just to get all the pieces in a set... where i compared it to going to a shop and having to pay for each piece in a set one by one or end up buying a fatpack for a highly inflated price and getting about ten things in it you dont want just to be abled to get the two tops and skirts etc you do want... I am not sure why that isnt clear to you but I can't speak for your comprehension as I don't know you.

so dont play a gacha.. but its always your choice. no one is making you play the gacha... im not gonna go buy a genus head just because i saw a cool skin that only works for genus... i could if I wanted it but i dont want it ENOUGH to do that... thats the point.. you dont want the one item enough to even try the gacha so then its not for you move on. But don't begrudge people that enjoy it just because you don't... there is always things some peole enjoy that you wont, you dont have to participate.

I get what I pay for from gachas... one of the items listed on the photo... its not like i put the lindens in and expect something from the photo and then get a turtle instead... i get what I paid for... I know what I am getting when I play a gacha. Anyone who can't grasp that concept needs to not be handling money.

So, when i got to a shop and see a top for L300, then the matching skirt for L350, and the matching stockings are L200, and the Matching shoes are L300 and then if you want a different color pay again the same prices all over again... and then if you want a single special (RARE) color you have to buy the fatpack or lose out.. What excatly is the difference here... oh yeah the only difference is your idea of worth it vs. the next persons idea of worth it... if you don't like it don't do it.. and if theres something in a gacha you want but don't want to do the gacha then you lose out... it is the same when a designer only creates items for a specific mesh body or head... they don't have to make it avalible to everyone who wants it.. its their choice how to sell their content.

It is really disgusting seeing the people who are cheering about this simply because they didnt like it... You didn't like it fine but some people did and what they did wasn't hurting you in any way so why celebrate their dissapointment? It seems pretty petty.