Kuro Neko meets…Sarah Nerd from Nifty Fifty, Sarah Nerd Estates and other shit.
Kuro Neko: Tell me how your freebie paradise venture began.
Sarah Nerd: There were a lot of freebie places when I was a newb, but I always wanted one that had better stuff, and more organized. So when I had a club I started a freebie area in the corner, and eventually moved it to its own lot.
Kuro Neko: Is it as popular now as it was back then, or more so?
Sarah Nerd: More popular now. When I started getting into estates and enlarged it , it caught on more.
Kuro Neko: The first time I heard about you was when I got a weiner machine. Do you still make stuff like that?
Sarah Nerd: *laughs* When its really late and I get really bored, I make totally usless stuff now and then.
Kuro Neko: I do remember getting fat off weiners back in 2006.
Sarah Nerd: Awesome.
Kuro Neko: When you began Second Life, did you ever think you’d be so successful?
Sarah Nerd: No, first 6 months or so I paid a lot to play, just loved it so much. Started dealing land to help support a club I had.
Kuro Neko: Was it much cheaper back in 2005?
Sarah Nerd: Nah. tier has been the same since I started. Island prices went up though.
Kuro Neko: Uh huh. Crazy prices now. For the average user.
Sarah Nerd: But they were raised before I bought my first estate sim.
Kuro Neko: Is the land business your true calling now?
Sarah Nerd: Yeah I love it to death. Been doing it awhile, so I feel weird in slow periods.
Kuro Neko: To be honest, you are very reasonable.
Sarah Nerd: Thank you.
Kuro Neko: The land market is a bit bad at the moment, for selling. something like 6 or 7 L per sqm (Marsha’s note: at time of interview!)
Sarah Nerd: LL [Linden Labs] has been flooding the market all week with new mainland sims to get the price down. Usually they flood, it drops down, and when they stop it goes up a little and levels out.
Kuro Neko: When you get quiet periods where land prices are low and no one is selling, do you go off and make weiner machines?
Sarah Nerd: Yeah.
Kuro Neko: Cool.
Sarah Nerd: I hang out with my friends or build a little.
Kuro Neko: Yes you gotta make time for your social life as well.
Kuro Neko: This next question you do not need to answer, but I’ll ask it anyway.
Kuro Neko: Does your avatar reflect your RL self at all? (inlcuding the “nerd” part?)
Sarah Nerd: Nah, I’m a fat girl in Ohio. I have had purple hair before, but my avatar is more like what I wished I looked like than what I acually look like.
Kuro Neko: I have always thought your av looks kind of cute. I like your Nifty Fifty [Sarah's discount affiliate store] sign pic.
Sarah Nerd: Thank you.
Kuro Neko: Do you still think SL is a lot of fun or do you kind of think of it more as an income?
Sarah Nerd: Yeah, it’s fun, but sometimes the business part makes it a little stressful. But I love this game and I love the people. I’m so attached to so many of my friends.
Kuro Neko: I enjoy it, I enjoy meeting people I admire. I always get nervous of meeting people in the game, because I think they will look down on me since I am technically a nobody.
Sarah Nerd: I know what you mean, I feel like that a lot. I think people just know my name here now because I’ve been here so damn long *laughs*
Kuro Neko: So, you have a lot of stuff going on in SL, what with the land, your affiliate programs and stores, how do you keep up?
Sarah Nerd: Bella Wilberg [Sarah's partner] helps me a lot. Theres rarley a day I dont log onto SL.
Kuro Neko: *thinks* What about 16 June 2006, you were not online then.
Sarah Nerd: I dont even remeber the 16th of June 2006.
Kuro Neko: I wasn’t around then anyway, so I guess I can’t prove that rumour.
Kuro Neko: If you could sum yourself up in one word, what would it be?
Sarah Nerd: Thats a tough one.. independent?
Kuro Neko: Are you asking me?
Sarah Nerd: *laughs*
Kuro Neko: I was going to suggest ‘Purple’.
Sarah Nerd: Yeah, that’s totally me. Thats how most people think of me. Purple.
Kuro Neko: I’ve never known anyone so devoted to one color.
Sarah Nerd: I used to see this old lady all over town in real life who was always covered in pink. I’d see her at flea markets and stuff.
Kuro Neko: What was her name?
Sarah Nerd: Didnt know her but it was easy to remember her because she always had big pink hats and all pink clothing all the time.
Kuro Neko: She sounds very cute. So, I hear you like Nine Inch Nails.
Sarah Nerd: Love Trent Reznor. Have since I was a teenager. Got to go to 6 shows last summer, was in heaven *laughs*
Kuro Neko: Yeah, but you’re getting old now.
Sarah Nerd: Yeah I am =) But I’ll never be to old for Nails shows…
Me with Sarah Nerd on the steps in my skybox.
Sarah Nerd said,
November 14, 2007 at 1:34 am
Loved doing this! Thank You!
VeryDull Razor said,
November 27, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Sarah,
love your stores… it was the first shop I went to when joining SL, cause I asked another n00b where she got her shoes… luckily she had the LM and off I was.
Thanks for easily (and on the cheap) making my “Andy Avie” look great on the first day.
now if only all “day ones” would have the same luck, SL would be a much prettier place.
more clothes for guys
- VD