Saturday morning cartoons and sweet cereal are as essential a part of one's childhood as iron in blood. That may be a false analogy, but nevertheless, it's true!?I just came back from Taco, which is a (bland understatement follows) new sim on the far west side of the SL islandchain. I'm at a loss how to best describe this, so I'll begin with a blurb about Dwellget, the place's department store.
Yes, there are lots of malls in SL, but, simple question: WHERE ARE ALL THE DEPARTMENT STORES? Easy answer here: THERE AREN'T ANY! Or, correct me if I'm wrong, there weren't any until Dwellget came along. You see, Dwellget isn't just a wonderfully cartoony place to shop for fun creations by some of my favorite creative minds in SL — it's also a DEPARTMENT STORE. That by itself conveys a lot, 'cuz dang, I'll say it again: in SL, we have flying cars, we have giant flying sexual appendages,?but DEPARTMENT STORES are like dodo-trilobite hybrids.
Arito Cotton, Broken Prototype, and Lucah Solvang are the chief architects of Taco, assisted by friends from Luskwood and beyond. You may remember Toonville in Olive — this is that animated opulence extricated to the uberth degree. But anyway, back to Dwellget, the department store: while graciously giving me the grand tour, Ari demo'ed the shopping carts and the local Taco Hell franchise, not to mention a way to… well, buy better with those shopping carts and actually have boxes stack without abandon before *ding* checkout time! There is an enigmatic sign that says:
I BET YOU WILL NEED A 50-PACK OF BATTERIES
Truth in advertising. No doubt like others before me, I was compelled to obey. So outside of Dwellget, what we have here would be better described in incandescent chortles of sparkly laughter, as opposed to any polysyllable prattling of verbal impregnation. Some quick notes: lovely to see Lucah and Thili finally collaborate on a build, the tree house in the distance; try the diving board and the water; the dice was acting kinda freaky and magnetic when I got on it; and the jumbo stuffed tortilla, like the oracle of all things true as per the group charter of "We fight for truth, justice and seven sweet layers of beef and cheddar.", will be the TACOHUB.
You can see more of Taco here here here oh and here and whatabout here and… here! Don't let it end there. That would not only be sad, but tragically mundane. Lick the future of Second Life within 'cuz it tastes so good.