The Alphaville Herald

Linden Lab Censors Critic of JLU Gang Leader

Henry Darkthief alerted the Herald to a troubling pattern of selective censorship on the official Second Life blog that attempts to silence critics of well known vigilante gang leader Kalel Venkman. In a thread discussing greifers and stalkers Mr. Darkthief responded to Justice League Unlimited leader Kalel Venkman’s advice that players maintain abuse report records [...]

It Has To Be Said: Second Life (R) Isn’t Addicting

As I have previously stated, I went to grocery bagger school in the Philadelphia area.  (I must be a grocery bagger, I read it on the Internet.)  And one of the funny things about Philadelphia, besides that the best cheese steaks are neither Pat’s nor Geno’s, is that the rest of Pennsylvania is pretty damn [...]

Pathfinder Linden’s Lab Position Poofs

Pathfinder Linden announced today that his game god position has gone missing, leading the longtime Linden Lab staff member to consider other opportunities. The unfortunate news was made public in a post to the Second Life Educators mailing list, continuing a pattern staff turnover as game emperor M Linden’s cadre  consolidates their positions of [...]

Corsi Mousehold: JLU Are Power Hungry Crazed Nutjobs

[Corsi Mousehold has been awarded  the “commie” or comment-of-the-week award for her explanation of why the Justice League Unlimited superheros are not welcome in Furnation. The award winning comment is reproduced below. ]
Here’s a bit of a story. IN years past the JLU were a welcomed member of the FurNation community. They didn’t bother anyone [...]

Terra Price — Post 6 Grrrrrl

[With Post 6 as popular as it is, it is rare that I have to go searching for models these days. I certainly do that, but most of the models you see here from week to week have approached me and patiently waited until I had a chance to meet with them. This week’s model, [...]

Op/Ed: The Positive Feminist

by Meleth Oakleaf
This isn't an article about a role-play sim, this is an article in which one reporter tackles a delicate topic and probably pisses off a few readers. Hopefully, beyond just pissing off a few people, I can make people think about an often underrepresented feminist view.
I spoke to Pixeleen today about beginning another [...]

Emerald Developers Publish Naughty SL Client Catalog

Onyx project goes public with copybot client reviews
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk

The Emerald developers have gone public with Onyx – a previously secret project to catalog and potentially fix exploits in various unofficial Second Life viewers.
In a blog post at the ModularSystems web site, Mr. Fractured Crystal states  "These
viewers generally remain [...]

It Has To Be Said: Stop Calling it a Game

by Jessica Holyoke
Second Life is like the Internet in many respects; its on the computer, no one knows that you are a fairy tale blind mouse and there is a heavy text and graphical basis for our interactions.  And it looks like a video game; you can fly, you can be in space, you can [...]

Planet Thyferra – May the Force Not Shove You Off a Bridge!

by Meleth Oakleaf

I teleported into the sim and was greeted by the now familiar note card of information and vendor market. Though this time with two distinctions, I was standing in front of a shuttle and the note card included a quick overview of the overall thrust of the role-playing story on Planet [...]