Guess what? I got a new computer! YAY me! The difference is like night and day really. I can almost walk properly! Bottom line: you can run SL on a less-than-gaming level pc, but you will not be having the same experience as someone with a high level gaming pc that they are selling a kidney to pay for. And not just because they weigh 5 ounces less than you. When I first got hired by Dream Models, I practiced walking every day - to no avail. My then-boyfriend f00 even tried to give me tips and help me. We set up a little practice runway. He could strut it like nobody's business (which raised some concern at the time....). Well, being a programmer, he had a very high end pc. He could never understand why walking in a straight line eluded me. I now know why: the good folks over at Playskool ® who manufactured my old PC did not give me that ability. But now??? OMG - amazing. How amazing? Well, organ selling amazing, of course. Unfortunately for me, the new pc doesn't improve my typing. I can only type badly faster, now.
OK - I also have to show you two model units I decorated for my boyfriend who will offer prospective tenants a few furnished flats in his new apartment building. My job was to come up with a couple of furniture arrangements that they might choose from.
Living room #1 weighs in at 32 prims.
I decorated the two main areas - a bedroom and a living room - for a total of 50 prims per apartment. The tenants will have space and additional prims to form other areas, like a dining room, or add their own furniture and decorations if they wish to. I may ask (read: beg) to decorate one more unit or design a few more rooms that tenants can see pictures of and choose a style. It always amazes me that a room will look completely undone until you add a 1 prim rug or put a picture on a wall, and suddenly everything just comes together. (Hmmm...and now that I am looking at it, I may add a couple of pictures to the wall in living room 2.)
Living room #2 is 29 prims.
I was truly embarrassed when I spread everything I had on my lawn to see what I could use to decorate. I probably have several houses worth of furniture and accessories because if I see something cute that I might use someday, I tend to buy it. I also had a few freebie furniture pieces that I kept because they were so pretty. But the free pieces do not balance out what I have spent. I do realize that I have a serious problem. :-/
And that problem is that I only own one house.
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