Archive for March, 2004

Interview with the Anti-President: Mr. President Bradley

In this interview, Mr. President Bradley tells us why he is opposed to Mr-President and the Alphaville Government, and charges that it is based on an illusory utopian vision for tso and that it (particularly former CIA Director Fans) is hypocritical and prone to break its own rules. He is equally critical of opposition candidate [...]

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Discussion: on the Ethics of Pizza-bot Simoleans etc

This is a topic for me and Coco to argue about stuff without derailing every other topic in the blog. Here are some of the points at issue. 1) Is there a difference between being violating the TOS and violating the rules?2) If yes, is running your own Pizza Bot against The Rules?3) Either way, [...]

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2 & 1/2 Months later ESRB responds to J: Get Lost!

Some time ago our contributor J published an Op/Ed piece arguing that the ESRB rating system for MMORPGs was broken. This was part of a research project that he was doing on the ESRB Rating system. As the comments following that essay show, most readers found his analysis thoughtful and careful. When he was doing [...]

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Diary of a Newbie #5: wallswallswallswalls…

By Montserrat Tovar one day i said to uri: i want to make a house. i want to do that. so uri took me to a lot in another city and said: here. build a house. i said: uri, help me. he said no and then sat down to watch action movies in front of [...]

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Product Review: GIR: Nyk’s new Pizza Bot!

By Ian TSO’s best 3rd party program designer, Nyk has just released one of his greatest inventions……GIR (which is in honor of Invader Zim’s robot Gir, and stands for Great Innovative Robot)…The new invention automates everything for you. With a decent machine you can make up to 35,000-45,000 per hour. It autogreens; puts your sim [...]

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Richardson Denies Past Scammer Ties

In a strongly worded statement, AVG Presidential Candidate Ashley Richardson has categorically denied any past ties to scammer properties, charging that the scammers themselves have started the rumors to discredit her. She has also demanded that the AVH remove mention of such rumors (sorry Ashley, can’t do that). Her statement (also posted as a comment [...]

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Diary of a Newbie #4: meeting Evangeline

By Montserrat Tovar at first i was not sure what i had walked into: i am a newbie walking around, exploring, working hard not to get bored out of my mind. i had not yet visited any newbie places so I dropped into the welcome category. i found a triple x house for newbies, and [...]

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Nerfed Again!: New Social Interactions Introduced in TC

Scammers, trial account sellers, and bot makers say “Thank You Maxis!”Mafias Laugh.Stratics Board Ho’s inexplicably think this will improve the game. The new social interactions have been introduced in Test Center, and after they are debugged they will move to the rest of TSO. At a time when TSO players have been crying out for [...]

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EA Pulls Plug on Earth and Beyond!

In a shocking announcement that does not bode well for other EA run MMORPGs, EA yesterday announced that it was going to pull the plug on its Earth and Beyond MMORPG. Additional information on the move can be found here. What makes the annoucement shocking is that EA essentially expressed the same committment to E&B [...]

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Alphaville Elections Break into the InfoSphere

The Elections for President of the Alphaville Government, which have been covered here in the Alphaville Herald and picked up by Wired News has now been slashdotted and put under the scope of the eggheads at Terra Nova. Can another Daily Show episode be far behind? To top it all off, British newspaper The Independent [...]

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