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I’m Pregnant?

No, but I found something is just too much for a Second Life. The Tantra Total Woman HUD. Here’s what it is advertised to do:

You have lived with it all of your life. It is what makes you a woman. The Tantra Total Woman Hud now allows you to experience being a total woman in SL.

The hud features:

- Realistic Cycles
- Realistic Odds
- Multiple Birth Control Options
- Multiple Modes (Desire Pregnancy / Desire Risk)
- Automatic Pregnancy Determination
- Works with Xcite! Brand Products

Tantra1_001 Im Pregnant?
99% accurate? What goes wrong? How does it go wrong?

Obviously, the next logical necessary thing to add would be a paternity test kit….

Tantra1_002 Im Pregnant?

Hmmm…. This seems to be a bit of an overkill, but I suppose if you’re into this sort of thing, it might be just the thing you’re looking for.

I didn’t see a sign for the condom HUD and I am sort of curious as to how it works inside Second Life. Do you give out the HUD to your partner? In fact, I’m getting more curious by the moment as to how the whole things works now…. Multiple modes? What happens if you do get pregnant? Are you required to go buy a prim baby? Adopt a baby avatar? Does this mean you can collect child support from the male avatar? What if they come out smudged? ;)

-Veyron

My Favorite Stealthy Weapon

Last post was about my favorite shield, the proTEC from AubreTec. The obvious flip side to that is an offensive weapon. I don’t always have it on, but the psiTEC II from AubreTec is a great device to have. The weapon (it’s not really a gun) is designed to attach into your head… yes, in your head. It then can (and usually does) hide inside your head. This way you do not look armed and there is no overt weaponry being displayed. It is also very difficult to see with show transparent, especially if you have a head full of prim hair on.

f186adb07e2b748b8a48c1fa8017355e My Favorite Stealthy WeaponIt has a whole range of attack options, but do not use it for forms of evil (i.e. griefing):

1. KILL - Slicing through shields like butter, this weapon has caused almost instant death through every shield we’ve tested, including the most high-end shielding systems in SL.

2. ORBIT - Launch your opponent straight up to the tune of 35-80 MILLION meters*. This amount of force will distort your opponent’s av (no, really - see the pics).

3. PULSE - Even stronger than ORBIT, this attack offers the strongest push available in SL, typically launching your enemies so high that SL can no longer calculate altitude.

4. DISRUPT - Launch bots, vehicles - nearly any active physical object - off-world. See the look on your opponent’s face (rhetorical) when his $700L attack bot ends up back in his lost and found.

5. BLITZ - This attack uses unstable physics to disrupt your target. Because of the nature of this attack, we cannot guarantee results, unfortunately, as they depend on a number of variables, but effects can include death, bizarre relocations, or incredible push, even on push-restricted parcels.

6. TRAP - Can’t sit on it to get out. Can’t sit on anything outside of it to get out, either. Our smart trap is one of the most irritating traps in SL.

7. BURN - This tracking flame does a constant stream of adjustable damage to your enemy. A popular aubreTEC favorite, Burn has been souped up with a new blazing-fast movement engine.

8. SMOKE - This cloud of smoke follows your target, obscuring their vision and making their position constantly apparent.

9. IMITATE - Once a popular plug-in, IMITATE now comes included in every psiTEC. This gag allows you to imitate your target by creating an object that allows you to speak using their name.

10. TELEPATHY - Want to listen to your far-away friends? Zoom in on a conversation with your camera and hear from afar. Try not to use this to invade privacy, okay?

11. TRACE - These creates a tracking stream of particles above your target’s avatar, enabling you to follow their movements without giving away your own position.

12. HUNT - Keep yourself out of range while still attacking your enemy with this sim-scouring hunter. This attack will search the entire sim (up to 768m) for your target and BLITZ ‘em long-distance.

13. SHOCKWAVE - Need some breathing room in combat? Push & damage everybody in a 20m radius.

14. BERSERK - Instantly attack everybody (except your friends) within a 96m radius.

The best part is it interfaces with the proTEC and can tell you who is attacking you and optionally attack back. It’s easy to use and not too complicated. It has some other nice features, such as being able to rez objects out of your inventory. One built in item is a work light that hovers over you, you can rez and de-rez it on command.

It’s a handy weapon to have for certain situations.

My Favorite Shield

Okay, I admit it. I’m armed. Well, sometimes. I think Zoe has better weapons than I do….

No, I’m not a griefer, but a couple of times I was harassed by griefers and given a pretty hard time. So, this girl got armed quite some time ago. Before we talk about weapons, I thought I’d mention shielding.

My favorite, and only, shield in Second Life is the Aubretec proTEC HUD Shield. The shield is about as good as they come, with quite a few options and features:

Inner Shield - a tight-fitting shield that deflects bullets and other attacks.

Outer Shield - a 10m radius shield that only activates when penetrated.

Interceptors - Rezzes plates between you and bullets to deflect objects that pose a threat to you.

Neutralizer - let your shield scan for oncoming objects, such as bullets, and shove them away from you.

Movelock - the standard anti-push measure for light to moderate push scripts.

Cloaking - render your avatar partially invisible, to make yourself a more difficult visual target.

Non-Phys - an invisible personal “vehicle” that uses smooth, non-physical movement - preventing you from being pushed by anything, ever. This also allows you to travel through solid objects and offers protection against non-physical bullets. While in the Non-Phys shield, you will look as though your av is flying (complete with hover up and hover down anims), so people never need know you’re using it.

OS (”Oh, Shit!”) Shield - in trouble? Click the OS button and you’ll be instantly lifted 300m, and a huge, solid, THICK prim shield will rez around you for the most solid prim protection SL can offer. Arm the shield, and it will automatically push anything that touches it - except you and your stuff, that is - hard.

It is a low lag device and I have never had any problems with it. You just wear it as a HUD and then it will make itself mostly invisible.

An interesting thing about it is when the Interceptors rez to intercept an incoming bullet, a semi-circle shield rezes in front of the bullet and will glow with a color you define.

While Vint was taking this picture of Vincent and myself someone was driving around and shooting people. I could see the shield rezzing in front of me (and Vincent).

-Veyron