Playing the marginally villainous Lionel Oliva and Saunders Baxton in Second Life, I’ve come to develop some rather condescending habits when traveling across the grid.

First of all, when I see an X-shaped mockup of some badly edited flowers on some snoddy alpha textures, it’s all I can do to keep from doing a /snickerinsleeve.   And when I see a pipe-cleaner orgy of 2 to 4 sculpted prims passing themselves off as “low prim furniture” (instead of the more apt “high-prim amoebas”),  it shakes my belief in market forces to its core.  How do people keep selling this virtual vomitus?

Yet I have met my match: a low-prim furniture company, run by Victoria Wheeler and Octavian Muggins. The vegetation doesn’t look like escaped .gifs.  the inventory is easy to mix and match, and the  textures, especially the rugs, avoid being contrived and synthetic.  While at the time of this writing I have a bit of an issue with a reclining gesture that doesn’t quite reach to the back of my head, the luxuriantly built VOD Maroon Velour Lounger, with its poses for male and female, takes all my distractions away.