Writing this near the end of Season 8, after “Alone”. I think that they’ve actually got it–I am seriously starting to sympathize with Dogett, and M & S seem like a retired couple. Doggett has this quintessential frailty about him — you see it earlier where he’s walking next to both his old friend at the CIA/army(?) and Mulder - he’s shorter than both, and he appears frail and the other two buff… almost like the other two could hurt him too easily. But, he’s an outsider in knowledge (can’t compare with Mulder, Oxford ed) and belief, and the fact that he both suffers and appears frail… I guess those are the two key elements in creating a new character to replace old beloved cult megaseries characters. Ah, actually there’s also the way Scully and the other characters treat him. In “Medusa”, Scully basically let him go off by himself almost treating him as a casualty - she would have totally risked her life and gone down the tunnels with the excavation team - and there’s his naive willingness to help, when she says she needs him to be her “hands and eyes,” he doesn’t question her further. Skinner’s take on Kersch wishing to thwart his advancement by assigning him to the X-Files doesn’t help either.
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Season 9 started out weak even with the extra funding. It felt like a soap opera at times, and it really didn’t help that the new agents were not on the same par in education and experience as the former - but you do get to sympathize with them by the end of the series. Series finale was interesting alluding to the geomagnetic shift imminent on 12/22/2012 as Doomsday.The movie “I Want to Believe” was a total disappointment in that it alluded to no mythos at all! Whatever happened to the driving fount of governmental conspiracy that drove the series forward? Why resort to something as hackneyed as illegal organ transplantation, something that an earlier episode with Lucy Liu had already sufficiently summarized?!
Thank you for purchasing a skin created by Ina Centaur.
Although, our skins are optimized for fast loading and quality the following tricks may help:
1. edit > preferences > graphics > custom
* bump maping and shiny
* basic shaders
* TURN OFF atmospheric shaders
* Lighting Detail: Nearby local lights
2. Wear a face light
3. Press Ctrl alt R to rebake a few times if needed. (This is especially useful if you are on a wireless or old connection, where your face de-rezzes a lot. Your face should rez a few seconds after ctrl-alt-R depending on the lag at your sim.)
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We’re in here for the art more than the commerce, and thus unlike other skin stores, we rarely tint a skin and call it a “new” product. None of our skins look generic. Each has its own distinct look because each one is made from scratch. Each purchase helps fund the creation of a new skin. And, we believe that each purchase helps make another avatar on Second Life look more unique. Thank you, once again.
Why is that the standard surprise plot of all of my fave story lines - i.e., your worst enemy turns out to be your secret father? X-Files Season 4 is starting to point that (note that I stopped watching after Season 4 - 9th grade started and I barely had time for TV) out — and the denoument is almost funny… you have this woman who’s impregnated by a man with anomalous striated muscles that could explain for how he can take on the shape of any man (and he took on Luke Skywalker’s form to rape her) … and then the episode before the finale has Mulder suspecting his mother having a relationship with Cigarette Smoking Man… and then you’re forced to see the similarity between Mulder’s face and CSM’s face o.O.
Watching TV series w/o the commercial is really getting addictive. I might finish Angel or start on Smallville next.
“Success in this project is imperative. Re-instation of the X-Files must be undeniable.” Interesting that the human fluke hybrid looks like the main villain Buffy Season 1. In other news, I finally finished Season 2 today (and finished the Anasazi trilogy) as the wireless totally self-nuked my relay participation in the daytime for. Season 2 has lots of interseting episodes, including some interesting ones on holy ash (non-metallic ash — sci data pending) and also an episode where Scully and Mulder drink contaminated water and grow old (and are somehow brought back to age again) and also an episode about the hazards of stepping in the shadows of a giant (i wonder if something similar might have created a Midas, naturally through some freakish occurance via ex vitro bombardment of cosmic rays). The season finale was disappointing though in its loose plot and cheap suspense, but there’s some interesting character development - you see the naive weakness of the Cigarette Smoking Man’s methods in blind killing and you discover that the global powers in this paradigm seem iconified by mafia head’s from the Godfather (that guy with the raspy voice).
It’s weird that I BSoD’ed in the middle of 02-01 around the part where the black couple were tailing Scully in the airport. Anyway, I am really getting into the world of the X-Files now. I’m starting to see things! o.O And becoming something of a TV veggie. 11 days left.
I’ve always wondered why they didn’t combine SketchUp with Earth, integrating a sort of communication/avatar “manifold” to create a virtual world.
Lively seems to betray Google’s lack of understanding of virtual worlds. It’s not really the 3d chatroom feature that draws people to it. It’s the collaborative elements, content-creation, and also its ability to be as open-ended as the real world, so that people would stay in it to do basically everything. Lively seems only a slightly more graphical version of IMVU. And yet, since it’s from Google, everyone falls in love with it at first sight as if it’s the emperor’s new coat…
This Shakespearean Theatre Company’s artistic director says to the big G, “More matter and less hype!”
Overall it is really quite impressive how strong the plot and execution of the first season so far is - I guess when you’re dealing with some unlikely phenomena as visually manifested by tech from the early 90’s, that’s a necessity!
The elevator problem is seen in Episode 7 in the “ghost in the machine.” When Mulder’s old partner is killed by a falling elevator… would it make more sense if the guy is floating rather than pushed down? Even if the elevator were being *pushed* greater than gravity in downwards acceleration, he would feel lighter rather than heavier as shown in the pic where he sort of cowers squooshed in a pile.
13 could almost have been a rip from Green Mile. Psychic touched-by-mysterious-force deathrow inmate can see things and channel with the dead. Political forces prevent Scully from successfully preventing his execution, even though Scully believes he has some sort of mysterious link. 12 has the interesting twist where we see a bit of Mulder’s past and a glimpse of his romantic life; was the other way around. (Interesting foreshadowing in 11, when Mulder gets a call from Deep Throat, and Scully asks jocularly if he’s going on a date.) When Scully went on a date with divorced guy, Mulder didn’t seem jealous, just focused on the case… unlike Scully, later, with M&P. 13 is also the switch where Scully started believing, and Mulder didn’t. (He used something that Randi would have done - and yet shouldn’t he understand that psychic phenomenon isn’t as clear-cut as being able to see the answers on a multiple choice exam? The crux of the problem is that it’s extremely unlikely to occur under a controlled environment, unless the subject grows acclimated to it and the right time strikes… In a way, it is almost like how some people cannot get any work done if they aren’t in their work environment.) The acting has been rather great. The alleged psychic man’s testimonial ranged from “fake tone” to “real” - to even “realer”, as the flashbacks started.
Skin City, Second Life: The “RFL Grand Finale Vendor Fair” opening on July 1st, and running until the end of Relay of Life on July 19th, features some of RFL 2008’s best fashions. An invitational “RFL Grand Finale Fashion Show” showcasing these RFL fashions live on the runway will occur on the Sky Globe 4-sim stage on 7/6 @ 1 PM and 7/7 @ 7PM SL Time (GMT-7). All proceeds of the event will benefit the American Cancer Society through the Relay for Life venture on Second Life. But, most interestingly, every single component of each outfit — from skin, to hair, to shoes, to eyes, to clothing, of course — is an RFL item.
The following fashion brands will have their RFL fashions shown live on the Sky Globe 4-sim runway:
Alienbear Designs
_AR Another Realism
Bailers
Bewitched
Enchant 3D
Eros by Keth
~flirt~
french Kisses
Haute Style & Co
House of Heart
IC-Skins
Magika
Mirada
Nicky Ree
Nova
Opium
PrimPlay
Sam’s Secret
Shiny Things
Tesla
Topaz Square
All fashions can be purchased directly in the Vendor Fair adjacent to the fashion show venue at the Sky Globe, Skin City.
ABOUT THE SKY GLOBE:
550 meters above the SL Globe Theatre, the Sky Globe is a postmodern architectural building spanning the intersection of 4 island simulators, with the stage on its own sim adjacent to three audience seating venues in neighboring island simulators:
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ABOUT SKIN CITY
Since August 2007, Skin City has been the one-stop place to see a wide selection of skins, shapes, eyes, and other avatar accessories on SL. The build is grayscale based on Frank Miller’s Sin City (theatrical version), and only the various shops give it color. Visitors are told: Turn the right corner in Skin City, and you can find anything. Merchants are told: We are noir until you!
On behalf of RFL and fashion in Second Life, Skin City invites all
designers who have created items for RFL to participate in the RFL
Grand Finale 4-sim Fashion Show and Vendor Fair at Skin City and
vicinity.
The RFL Vendor Fair is open to the public from 7/1 to 7/14; designers
may start setting up in the metro region starting on 6/25. The RFL
Grand Finale Fashion Shows are on Sunday 7/6 @ 1 PM SL Time and Monday
7/7 @ 7 PM SL Time. Both events will have search parcels designated
shortly before they open. All designers are welcome to participate in
either or both events. Details below.
RFL Vendor Fair: The RFL Vendor Fair is meant to be a final display of
your RFL designs, and also as a small showcase of the non-RFL designs
you feel represent you the most. To participate in the vendor fair,
you must RSVP by 6/26 11:59 PM SL Time to Ina Minotaur by dropping off
a notecard named “RFL Vendor Fair: (Your Store / Name)” with ad photos
of all of your RFL items, and a rough minimum and maximum prim count
for your proposed store space. Space for the duration of the Fair is
donated by Skin City, and available on a first-come-first-serve-basis.
RFL Fashion Show on 4-Sims: This fashion show will be accessible to
the maximal amount of local audience members, and will be one last
chance for people to hype and rave about these RFL fashions live on
the runway. The only requirement is that each outfit must feature an
item on sale in an RFL vendor. To participate, please drop off a
notecard named “RFL Fashion Show: (Your Store / Name)” to Ina Minotaur
by 6/27 11:59 PM with:
1) a specific outline of the exact outfit combination(s) you would
want the model(s) to wear—be sure to indicate which outfit item is an
RFL item, and also, if you don’t have preferences for non-RFL outfit
components, please state so. Do NOT drop outfit inventories on Ina
Minotaur. You will be given more information after processing. You
must show a different RFL item on each model, but there is no explicit
limit on how many models you can clog up
2) a brief biography about you/your store. LM’s, blog links, and other
information also welcome. Optionally, you may also include exact item
descriptions for the MC to announce.
3) specify whether you would want to be included in the fashion show
machinima to be distributed for free inworld, and also on youtube,
blip.tv, google videos, and similar media.
