Archive for April, 2004
Florida Newspaper Organizes Ballot Stuffing Campaign!
In today’s Palm Beach Post, staff writer Rachel Sauer has encouraged residents of Palm Beach Florida to go the AVG website and vote for their favorite daughter Ashley Richardson, and we quote: “So vote for Ashley! It’s a vote for our hometown girl!” One cannot expect all newspapers to meet the high journalistic standards of [...]
Full StoryAnd the Alphaville Herald Endorses…
It is customary for a newspaper to endorse candidates at election time, and several sims have asked us if we intend to endorse a candidate in today’s election. Picking between these candidates is not an easy task. Both are eminently qualified and capable, but both are also flawed in non-trivial ways.
Full StoryFirst Sims Bank is a Scam!
In a shocking pre-election development, we can now confirm that the First Sims Bank, run by Dre Jeffries, and endorsed and prominently featured on the Alphaville Government Web site, is a scam bank! In this case we have first hand knowledge. Urizenus himself had 500K on deposit with the bank and has been trying to [...]
Full StoryMr-President and Ashley on NPR
Ashley Richardson and Mr-President were intereviewed on NPR’s “talk of the nation” April 7th. This show is a Must Listen, since there are also interviews of Ted Castronova, Julien Dibbell, and Henry Jenkins on virtual economies, virtual cultures etc.
Full StoryLucianna/Eliana speaks: “Celestie and I are on the Throne now”
In this interview, long time Evangeline associate Lucianna (formerly Elianna) talks about her early association with Evangeline in the days of Hotel Erotica (and about how customers and employees were duped into public cybering with false promises of 500K). She also talks about movements of the Free Money franchise to FF and BF (typically with [...]
Full StoryMayhem breaks out at Oprah Show
Tonight?s Oprah Winfrey show uncharacteristically broke out into a Jerry-Springeresque melee, when Oprah interviewed Alphaville Scammer Viva T (formerly Isabella, Angelica, Fruitcake Lady, etc). When Viva was introduced there was a great deal of heckling, as one might expect, but then a surprise guest ? Ms. Barbara Walters ? took the stage and upbraided Viva [...]
Full StoryInterview with Mr-President
In this interview conducted by Montserrat Tovar, Mr-President defends himself from the allegations by The Teflon Don that he enlisted the Soprano family for help with his elections. He also defends his remark that Ashley left the debates earlier to watch the Sopranos. He suggests that there are important ideological differences between him and Ashley, [...]
Full StoryMike Sellers: EA didn’t Anticipate TSO Problems with Griefers
In an interesting article in Reason Magazine Online (entitled “Hobbes in Cyberspace”), Mike Sellers, former lead designer on the Sims 2 develpment team and now Chief Alchemist with Online Alchemy offered that EA didn’t understand key differences between offline and online versions of the Sims, and hence never expected the problems with griefers that have [...]
Full StoryT. Liam McDonald blasts EA: “Pull the Plug on TSO Now!”
In a passionately argued article in MaximumPC magazine, columnist and game critic T. Liam McDonald has called EA to task for its unstructured game design, maintaining that it leaves nothing for users to do except “mischief and sex”. Indeed, McDonald argues that this has plagued TSO from the very beginning: “When I first covered The [...]
Full StoryElection Shocker! Mr-President enlisted mafia to “oversee” election
by The Teflon Don I recently received a tip from a group calling themselves the Sim Liberation Army (SLA for short they said, like that mattered). They said that they had received some information that the Soprano family had rigged the primary elections and were set to rig the final elections about to come up. [...]
Full Story
Recent Comments