I promised you my favorites from the Hair Fair. I will deliver and I also have for you a very cute outfit from DuckNipple. I don’t know what odd twist of imagination caused a person to put together the words “duck” and “nipple” but I’m really happy its the name of a clothing store and not a fetish. Because my mind fears to tread where a fetish so named might lead. Besides, I don’t think that ducks even have nipples — which makes the combination both more unlikely and more frightening as a fetish.  However I digress and I haven’t even gotten started yet — frightening in and of itself. Before I rant here’s a picture of me with a pot on my head.
Now I’m loathe to rant on an already dramalicious (isn’t that just the bestest made up word ever?) week but it so happens that trying on my loot from the Hair Fair has brought this issue to the forefront of my mind. Here it is, Saturday morning, and as I try on hair, I run into a resize script which is less than adequate because I don’t seem to be able to resize the individual prims.  It is modifiable, however it is also no copy. So if I screw it up, I’m out a hair. But even worse than all of that, it talks to me. It tells me, every. fucking. time. I put it on, that I should not rez it on the ground. No, it is not from Magika (as I have stopped shopping at Magika because they started this crap and now I will not shop at Bizarre Hair either). Its not that I don’t like their hair – I do. Very much so. I would wear my old Magika hair that doesn’t have this no-rez script with pride — save that I deleted it all in disgust and so that no one could ask me where I got that fabulous hair. Hell I’d wear my Bizarre Hair items with pride if their resize scripts were worth a tinker’s toodleoo — and they did not have a no-rez script that annoyingly talks to me every time I attach it.
Designers, let me tell you who you hurt when you add these scripts to your hair — your customers. Your HUNDREDS of repeat customers who would love to shop at your shop and give you their lindens.  But you’ve made it difficult for us to fit the hair to our shapes and while doing so, made it only slightly inconvenient for those who wish to copy your work. Who do you stop from copying your work? NO ONE. Who are you trying to stop? What — maybe 5 people? So do the math. Is it really worth pissing off hundreds, if not thousands, of loyal customers to stop the probably less than 20 people who will rez your hair on the ground in an attempt to copy? Furthermore, you can’t stop them. Your no-rez script is a mere inconvenience — if that. That’s right sports fans — If someone wants to rez your hair on the ground all s/he has to do is go to a sim where scripts aren’t allowed. You can’t stop someone who really wants to rez your hair on the ground and you can’t stop someone from copying it. Let me repeat that in bold, all caps, bright flaming neon pink letters so I can make sure you numbnutz can see it (yeah if you have a no rez, poor-quality resize script in your hair because you think it will stop someone from copying it, you are a numbnutz).
YOU CAN’T STOP SOMEONE FROM COPYING YOUR HAIR WITH THE ADDITION OF A NO REZ SCRIPT
The only people you hurt with this thing is your customers. Think about that while you are not cashing out the lindens that I might have spent at your store but won’t because I can’t edit your goddam hair, I can’t rez it, it talks to me, and your resize script sucks ass.
And now a word or two about the outfit and hair fair goodness. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love the Ducknipple store.  Well, maybe I can begin but you have to go and buy their clothing and see for yourself. The textures are wonderful and have shadows in all the right spots. The prims fit perfectly the first time I put them on. The skirts are skirts and not flaps (a rant for another time — maybe next week).
I didn’t want to overdo the Hair Fair stuff because the SL Fashion Blogsphere has been All Hair Fair All The Time lately. But I so loved Ducknipple that I decided to put on yet another outfit from there. I also promised you a look at the best Hair Fair freebie EVAR. Here it is — the giant plungers made by Zyrra Falcone and HoseQueen Mclean. I bet somewhere in the back of their minds, when they put these out, they might have had an inkling that the plungers would come back to haunt them. And here they are. I really miss Zyrra’s and Hosey’s whackiness and hair. Wherever you ladies are, know that you are remembered and missed. Any of you who want to take exception to my fashion with plungers should remember that I am well-armed and you don’ t know where these bad boys have been. That is all.
As always, larger and better pictures can be found on my Flickr site. You must be logged into Flickr to view.
What I am wearing (all hair is Hair Foot loot):
Outfit 1
Hair: Fashionably Dead – Stone Soup Tree (pot is part of the hair)
Skin: Curio- GP Sundust Dark Frex Breeze Robin’s Egg
Necklace: Caroline Apollo – Broken Long Strand White
Shirt: DuckNipple – Carrot 03 Sweater
Skirt: DuckNipple – Carrot 03
Boots: DuckNipple – Black Boots
Poses
Outfit 2
Hair: Argrace -Â Fedora Hat “Glamorous wavy” (Red) (Hat has color change script)
Skin: Curio- GP Sundust Dark Frex Breeze Mermaid 2
Shirt: DuckNipple- Zwaffle 03.1
Boots: Shiny Things -Â Flower Biker Boots – black
Plungers: Freebie from Hair Fair One. No longer available
Poses
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Joins in 2 part harmony with your script rant. (And expects a full chorus to join in) Take them away!
And that’s some cute outfits, too
Love the hats!
*adds to the chorus*
Just about every attempt to bypass copybotters doesn’t really do a thing. Every SL-savvy person I’ve ever spoken to about it has admitted that there is no real way to stop copy-botting, save filing a complaint about it with the Lindens. Nothing. The only thing the bots, scripts and insistence on making everything no-mod do is tick off your true customers.
Possibly the only way to put a stop to it would be to protest to the Lindens en masse to put more protective measures up. And while I know that has a snowball’s chance in hell, considering their past approach to (haha) “customer service”, it’s still more likely than finding a magical measure in-world that can stop copy-botting in its tracks.
That Argrace hair is driving me insane…every time it shows up on the feeds, I twitch. Why would anyone make no copy/no mod hair? WHY?!
Viv – I totally agree on the no-rez script stuff. In general, SL has so many holes that it’s quite impossible to stop copying technically (and one can argue it can only be exposed and reduced through social and legal means). Great observations.
Way to “plunge” into the topic, you “pot head.”
“I’m pissed and I have a plunger”
love your tags.
Great rant Viv, I don’t have any talking hair, but I imagine it would be terribly annoying.
I haven’t had bad luck with resize scripts personally, unless I try and use them most times when my internet is crap and I am laggy and scripts are the last thing to respond.
That however is a personal issue that I have spent way too much time whining about, so I won’t mention it and sully your terriffic rant.
Outfits are great, the top pic in particular is teh awesome. Oh, almost forgot to say:
OH HAI, POTHEAD!! (Viv finally came out ans a pothead, woot for you. g/f)
Damn you for doing the Argrace. Damn you. *grumbles and stomps off*
Dammit Raven, you comment stealer.
Sorry! Simultaneous authoring there
(hug)
wow the no edit hair is awful , most of us will not get that werd stuff thanks for the rant
I love Ducknipple, and that top outfit is adorable!
Great rant, too. No rez hair makes me sad.
Love the rant and totally agree BUT more importantly I miss Zyrra and Hosey’s wackiness too!!! Gawd they were fun!!! * still have a copy of their penis garden* lol
Very nice post, only I really wish I had talking hair…
also thanks for thinking of of Zyrra & Hosie (Panache)
Hosie & I are still around. For awhile we worked with the Electric Sheep Company doing some fab projects. Our sims are sadly neglected, perhaps at some point I can reinvent myself if i find some motivation.
But for now I mostly spend any time in SL doing custom things or working quietly on an alt or just buggering some friends.. Hosie is primarily living in RL but pops in now and then to cause some chaos.
I’d like to blame the plungers and penis garden on Hosie, but I’m sure i can be at fault for instigating it somehow lol.
btw the plungers look fantastic on the boobs too, give it a try.
@whispers.. umm. *looks around furtively* I don’t imagine it is copy? You could come rez one
*looks around again* Do they ..grow?
Ducknipple is AWESOME! I think she and I had adjoining stores back in the day. I’d always look for new stuff every time I paid my rent.
I really, REALLY don’t get why all the hair creators are script crazy right now. I have one hair that actually lags the sim and my viewer when I put it on.
I’ve always thought that copying is inevitable. When I find out something of mine’s been copied, I rage for five minutes, put it full-perm in my freebie box and make something new.
I hope you dropped the designer a note directing them to this post Vivianne. Well said.
Yeah, I also forgot on my Hair Fair post – I deleted any hairs that had scripts.
Hair does not NEED a script to work and should not have one.
No Stephanie I didn’t. Someone (I forget who) not even a week ago complained to Majika about their hair scripts and they flat out said they didn’t care. Whoever it was that complained posted the chat log.
Not in any way supporting these no rez scripts but…. why would you need to rez your hair anyway? Surely if it needs editing to fit it needs to be done in situ so that it… erm… fits? That said, I’ve accidently rezzed hair thinking it was boxed… and I’d be mighty pissed off if my no copy hair then poofed into oblivian.
I do understand why content creators feel the need to be able to make their items no mod – I do this myself. Sure, there are ways around it, and if someone really wants to copybot something they will, but it just makes it that one step harder for them, and therefore will put off all but the most determined copybotters. That’s my personal reasoning anyway. Perhaps it’s flawed reasoning, but until I’m convinced otherwise I’ll continue. I do offer a free fitting service to all customers though.
see what kinda work it is to make this stuff i respect the hard work of all the designers in SL and it would be nice if other people would respect that to….But whatever you do its not good for some people as i see in here …But fuck that i dont care i love building and make my own creations and if you dont like the stuff the hell with that to i have fun and there are many people that like my work with the scripts but its not fair to speak like this for other designers when u don’t know how hard they work for make things right in here good luck with your blog thing !
That hair is too cute Viv
Skinkie, I rez hair on the ground when I want to free up an attachment point by linking a hat or other accessory, or if there’s a hair prim I need to adjust but can’t reach easily while wearing the hair.
To me, making hair (or other wearable prims) no mod means I won’t be able to use it in the manner I like, which in turns means I won’t be giving the creator any more of my L$. It doesn’t put Copybotters off at all…they can copy something off a random av’s head, no matter what the perms are.
Putting a resize script in hair is stupid
Putting a resize script in hair and making it no mod no copy is absurd
EVERYONE should make it a priority to never purchase no mod no copy hair. I don’t care if you like it. If content creators start getting away with those perms- more and more people will begin doing it as well.
What would work better is a bunch of people IMing the creator with a ” I really like the hair but I won’t be buying hair set to no mod no copy”
After a few of those, any unignorant designer with a brain would disown the new perm settings.
I hate no mod hair. It did happen to me quite a few times that I liked some hair, but didn’t purchase it because it was no mod.
Usually, I need to move some prims around to make the hair fit, not just resize stuff. And I like to be able to tint my hair to achieve the exact color that I like.
Making hair no mod is just like when pc game designers put some crazy limitations on their CDs. It only makes it harder for people who actually buy the game….the pirates will find some way around anyway.
@ bizzare hair artist…
No one is saying that they dont understand how much work goes into making hair. or any created thing for that matter…
whats super annoying is not everyone in sl have the same shape of head / body / neck etc. so when you create hair, it fits you PERFECT, it fits the models PERFECT, and on me and your average customer… it looks like trash that will usually end up in the trash should the person have the misfortune of buying it (like i have done a few times) as no mod no copy. It is SOOOO annoying buying hair and having the script too..because there are many different resize script.
This blog thing gets thousands if not more hits per day.. i imagine everyone who will read this blog will be like ‘yeah, no mod / no copy and resize scripts are annoying.’
ive been around since 2005, when copybotting was not a everyday thing..when you could rez your hair without it yelling at you in english french spanish and deutch all at once and edit it to where it would fit you perfectly.. yeah it was not flexi and your hair went through your neck most of the time when you moved….but the point is that back then you could drop your stuff without getting treated like a common criminal. WE are your average customer…and i agree with her… and a lot of people will agree with her…and maybe they’ll think twice before buying something of yours.. majika’s, DK’s or anyone elses with the bad business sense of no mod/ no copy ANNOYING resizer scripted hair..
and she’s right about one more thing… the script does nothing to deter copybotting. it just pisses off your loyal customers and loses you future / return business.
I made 2 hairs with that horrid rez script and stopped…
Where there is a will there is a way and I’d rather have someone bust their ass one way or another and steal a hair then to piss off people so they stop buying it or messing up a no copy hair, having to verify the transaction (pain in the ass) and resending it. It was more work in the long run to have the scripts.
/me spits on the resize script!