I'm at an event on some Gorean sim, it's just a normal shopping event, there's a texture store I like who's in it, but omg everything else here is PURE 2010. It's a massive reminder of what "the rest of SL" looks like. All the poorly textured Meli Imako FP mesh, and badly BADLY done ads with horrifyingly proportioned avatars shudders
Run.
SL is like a time capsule
The only other store I'd heard of except the one I went there for was that Alli and Alli hair store that looks like 2007. Even though they have mesh now??
But they think they look great and so do the customers lol. Protected in a time warp bubble
^^ this... ugh the amount of people on FLF chat who still talk about how they haven't moved to mesh bodies cause their system body is "just as good" makes me die inside
omg one of the ads at this thing was even wearing a system body and I died inside. A LOT.
i really want to see this event lol
I remember the objection to mesh bodies used to be "because my body's shape is SO UNIQUE"
nimil: Hold I'll find you a slurl
I don't understand how they look at people in mesh bodies and then look at their boxy mess of a system av and think that's just as good lol
like I understand if cost is prohibitive but the ones that could upgrade and don't always just blow my mind
The bodies are waaaay more customizable now, too. Even the heads are since bento.
OH RIGHT I GOT DISTRACTED BY MY DAUGHTER BEING ENTITLED OVER HER SEPTUM PIERCING
Here: Esalinus Trend Event! Enjoy!
Gor tho
junkygirl: THAT in particular is one of the things that triggered me most
nimil: We have someone like that in the theatre. She always was like "My body looks just as great" and "I will never wear a body and a mesh head"... for one play we put her into a body and a mesh head because we have standards... and now she doesn't take them off any more because they look better 
so I took my mesh body off the other day and couldn't believe how ridiculous putrids system body looked
i have an SL sister that is always several years behind everyone and she used to talk about how mesh bodies were horrible and she would never wear one, then belleza venus came out and i was like try it!! cause she is one of those ladies that always wants titties on max... so then she gave him and loves the body, had to wait for bento to get her into a head
junkygirl: yaasss though she needs a new name cause she stopped wearing ramen noodle hair thankfully lol
i could take that lady into a store and she'd pick out the oldest ugliest thing in there and love it and buy it and wear it forever...