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Looks like it'll be even harder this year to justify having a legal mesh body.
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Okay, I guess some explanation is due.
What speaks against Athena for the fans of the new bodies?
* It's old. Outdated. At least in comparison with Legacy, Reborn etc.
* Most of the clothes are old. Everything for Legacy, Reborn etc. was copybotted less than 12 months ago.
* It isn't curvy.
* There are racier, sluttier outfits available for those newer bodies than for Athena.
What speaks against Ruth2 then?
* It's old, too. The latest version is from autumn 2020.
* It's perceived as even older than Athena. If you tell people that it's actually newer than Athena (the Ruth 2.0 test release is from 2017 whereas the first Athena is from ca. 2014, and Ruth2 v4 is a couple months newer than Athena 6), they won't believe you.
* It's legal. Linda Kellie stuff is legal, too. Legal stuff is uncool, and if you wear something legal, you're a fucking wimp.
* It isn't a L$3,000 SL body.
* There are no L$5,000 SL heads for it, and Athena heads don't fit.
* Most freebie stores don't have it anyway, and they probably have very good reasons not to have it. (Most of the time, the reason is because the store owners don't know the body exists.)
* It doesn't look like a mixture of a supermodel and a professional porn actress out-of-the-box with a matching shape.
* It looks even worse with an Athena shape.
* It's unusable anyway with its super-coarse alpha HUD. (It relies on alpha masks, but these have been considered outdated and stone-age technology in OpenSim since 2015.)
* There are literally no clothes for it. (Stop looking for "for Ruth2 rigged" clothes and see what else this body can wear.)
* Especially, there are no sexy/racy/slutty skin-tight mesh outfits for Ruth2 at all. (Ruth2 is excellent for a believable girl-next-door look, but allegedly, nobody wants to see that.)
* "Literally nobody" uses this body anyway.
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What speaks against Athena for the fans of the new bodies?
* It's old. Outdated. At least in comparison with Legacy, Reborn etc.
* Most of the clothes are old. Everything for Legacy, Reborn etc. was copybotted less than 12 months ago.
* It isn't curvy.
* There are racier, sluttier outfits available for those newer bodies than for Athena.
What speaks against Ruth2 then?
* It's old, too. The latest version is from autumn 2020.
* It's perceived as even older than Athena. If you tell people that it's actually newer than Athena (the Ruth 2.0 test release is from 2017 whereas the first Athena is from ca. 2014, and Ruth2 v4 is a couple months newer than Athena 6), they won't believe you.
* It's legal. Linda Kellie stuff is legal, too. Legal stuff is uncool, and if you wear something legal, you're a fucking wimp.
* It isn't a L$3,000 SL body.
* There are no L$5,000 SL heads for it, and Athena heads don't fit.
* Most freebie stores don't have it anyway, and they probably have very good reasons not to have it. (Most of the time, the reason is because the store owners don't know the body exists.)
* It doesn't look like a mixture of a supermodel and a professional porn actress out-of-the-box with a matching shape.
* It looks even worse with an Athena shape.
* It's unusable anyway with its super-coarse alpha HUD. (It relies on alpha masks, but these have been considered outdated and stone-age technology in OpenSim since 2015.)
* There are literally no clothes for it. (Stop looking for "for Ruth2 rigged" clothes and see what else this body can wear.)
* Especially, there are no sexy/racy/slutty skin-tight mesh outfits for Ruth2 at all. (Ruth2 is excellent for a believable girl-next-door look, but allegedly, nobody wants to see that.)
* "Literally nobody" uses this body anyway.
mm why I'm happy with Athena and it nothing wrong with it really? People should have a freedom to choose which body they can wear.
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Athena is living mostly on a huge backlog of clothes and accessories imported over the last eight years. Also, it can benefit from still being compatible with EvoX, matching soft thighs having been imported and some female store owners who refuse to rebuild their avatars around newer bodies and still import Athena clothes.
But Athena is no longer universally considered the hottest female body around. Especially Legacy and Reborn are trying their best to redefine sexy, and it looks like more clothes are being imported for them than for Athena.
I'm not saying Athena-based avatars will soon be banned from some club sims for looking child-like in comparison with Legacy; more likely, Legacy-based avatars will be banned from the OSgrid plazas for not having any clothes to cover up their undies.
But chances are it won't be long until the first Athena user is derided by a Reborn or Legacy user for wearing an "unsexy" and "outdated" body, just like users of bodies from the Ruth2 and Roth2 families have risked being derided from within the Athena/Adonis/Apollo/Decadence crowd for the very same reasons.
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But Athena is no longer universally considered the hottest female body around. Especially Legacy and Reborn are trying their best to redefine sexy, and it looks like more clothes are being imported for them than for Athena.
I'm not saying Athena-based avatars will soon be banned from some club sims for looking child-like in comparison with Legacy; more likely, Legacy-based avatars will be banned from the OSgrid plazas for not having any clothes to cover up their undies.
But chances are it won't be long until the first Athena user is derided by a Reborn or Legacy user for wearing an "unsexy" and "outdated" body, just like users of bodies from the Ruth2 and Roth2 families have risked being derided from within the Athena/Adonis/Apollo/Decadence crowd for the very same reasons.
In my opinion!!! I think the new ones look funny, not sexy. Even the clothes when tried on, have huge arses, and boobs. Athena body is very sexy.
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