Archive for December, 2003

New Year’s Wishes from Urizenus: may we slay the Kerafyrm in our world.

This past year, on November 17, an event happened in EverQuest that was so momentous it is my candidate for MMORPG story of the year. Those of you who have played EQ perhaps know of the monster Kerafyrm, also known as The Sleeper. Designed by Sony to be unkillable, the number of hit points required [...]

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History of the SSG, part 2: Interview with Mia Wallace on the formation of SSG

In our last interview with Mia Wallace we covered the prehistory of the Sims Shadow Government (SSG). In this interview we cover events including the infiltration and destruction of Merrill’s [Evangeline’s] Hotel Erotica and the early alliance with JC Soprano to form The Commission, the dissolution of that alliance and the formation of the Sims [...]

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Christmas Interview with Jesus X: Alphaville’s “Sexy Jesus”

In this interview we talk with sim Jesus X, often seen about Alphaville helping us sims to broaden our minds by confronting us with his transgressive behavior. Erm, that’s a fancy way of saying that he plays a naughty Jesus to get us to think. What are we supposed to learn when we see Jesus [...]

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Interview with Aurora Ivy: What happens when good kids fall in with bad sims!

The past few weeks there have been rumors floating around Alphaville that Aurora Ivy was an avatar run by Evangeline. I am now in a position to categorically say that she is not Van. At least a dozen sims have come forward to vouch for her. Everyone affirms that she is a sweet 13 year [...]

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Interview with Anonymous, on Alphaville’s Bondage, Discipline & Sadomasochism Community

In this interview with Anonymous we discuss her entry into Alphaville’s Bondage, Discipline, and Sadomasochism (BDSM) community, her description of the growth (currently over 100 members) and prospects of growth for the community, as well as some of the social structures and self-organized policing mechanisms in the community. She describes some of the unique aspects [...]

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On Display for All: Stratics Message Boards Caught Deploying Selective Censorship Against Urizenus

As we reported earlier, there was an attempt (not by us) to open a “Free Urizenus” thread on the Stratics Sims Online Message Boards. A secondary thread, opened by a journalism student at The University of Texas at Austin attempted to address issues related to the report of r/l child abuse and r/l children working [...]

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Obituary: Censorship Dies, victim of The Blog

Censorship passed away at home yesterday, killed by The Blog. Censorship will be remembered as a trusted friend of despots, tyrannical leaders, and large profit hungry corporations hiding unethical practices and inferior products. Friends say that in recent years Censorship has been less and less effective and useful, but they continued to employ him anyway, [...]

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Gaming Open Market to the Rescue!

Urizenus has gone to a better place, but I’m sure readers want to know what happened to all the simoleans he racked up playing trivia in those money houses! Put to sea on a burning ship like a Viking king’s gold hoard? Er, not exactly. Turns out Uri had @ 1 million simoleans on deposit [...]

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Realsimsonline Seeking New Cheats in Response to Maxis Moves against Mazing?

By The Phantom Realsimsonline, one of the famous sites targeted by Maxis as “illegal” (linking to it from in-game is regarded as a TOS violation ? see Uri’s warning letter), is best known for its service of providing a forum where sims can post their r/l bios and pictures. It is also known as a [...]

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