Comments on: Mirror, Mirror, on the wall… http://shoppingcartdisco.com/digitallife/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/ Second Life's #1 Fashion and Gossip Rag Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: alaskametro http://shoppingcartdisco.com/digitallife/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-47898 alaskametro Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:40:04 +0000 http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=7344#comment-47898 Hmmm... I have to agree with Eliza, the mirror seems off for BMI. At 5'7" and 120 lbs in RL, I didn't look like your av... I was fairly scrawny, really. I wouldn't worry too much about the body image your avatar projects. In a lot of virtual worlds, the shape is preset and you can't modify it... and they're usually cartoonishly thin or unnaturally curvy with tiny waists and giant heads. Hopefully, everyone in Second Life is old enough to realize it's a virtual world, not real. And you're one of the few avs I know who actually looks like themself in RL. Hmmm… I have to agree with Eliza, the mirror seems off for BMI. At 5’7″ and 120 lbs in RL, I didn’t look like your av… I was fairly scrawny, really.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the body image your avatar projects. In a lot of virtual worlds, the shape is preset and you can’t modify it… and they’re usually cartoonishly thin or unnaturally curvy with tiny waists and giant heads. Hopefully, everyone in Second Life is old enough to realize it’s a virtual world, not real.

And you’re one of the few avs I know who actually looks like themself in RL.

]]> By: Mirror, Mirror, on the wall… | Shopping Cart Disco | Portal site of Second Life and metaverse"MetaLog-meta log" http://shoppingcartdisco.com/digitallife/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-47797 Mirror, Mirror, on the wall… | Shopping Cart Disco | Portal site of Second Life and metaverse"MetaLog-meta log" Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:53 +0000 http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=7344#comment-47797 [...] Of course, I also understand that this may be a cultural thing, to have a mirror in Second Life that... [...] [...] Of course, I also understand that this may be a cultural thing, to have a mirror in Second Life that… [...]

]]> By: Eliza Wrigglesworth http://shoppingcartdisco.com/digitallife/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-47795 Eliza Wrigglesworth Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:11 +0000 http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=7344#comment-47795 I was 5'9" and 120 lbs when I was 18-19 years old, and I have to say, I did NOT have your avie's nice curves. I don't know what the mirror reads to come to that conclusion, but it's wrong. Maybe it's the thickness slider? Or maybe it's programed to make up for all of our real life mirrors telling us we're fat? I was 5’9″ and 120 lbs when I was 18-19 years old, and I have to say, I did NOT have your avie’s nice curves.

I don’t know what the mirror reads to come to that conclusion, but it’s wrong. Maybe it’s the thickness slider? Or maybe it’s programed to make up for all of our real life mirrors telling us we’re fat?

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