Archive for August, 2004
Ruby Wilde vs. Land Baron One Song
Life on the Jessie/Stanford Border gets curiouser and curiouser. As reported earlier, One Song and The Associates have bought up most of the sim of Stanford, but remaining small patches were still owned by me and Ruby Wilde. I traded the Associates for another piece of land, but negotiations with Ruby broke down in a [...]
Full StorySkirmishes Break Out on Jessie/Stanford Border
The tensions along the Jessie/Stanford Border boiled over last night and Jeff Linden was called in to mediate a charge by James Few that One Song had hit him with a spamming script that followed him back into his home territory. Following is an edited transcript of key elements of the exchange. As noted earlier, [...]
Full StoryStuttgarter Zeitung examines Alphaville mafias
S? Iwersen, of the Stuttgarter Zeitung has just published part one of a two part article on Alphaville — this part dedicated to the golden age of Alphaville when JC Soprano of the Sim Mafia squared off agains the SSG. Lots of discussion of Piers and Jen and JC. I only have the article in [...]
Full StoryTensions rise on the Jessie/Stanford border.
One Song and Tank Levy of the Associates recently purchased nearly the entire sim of Stanford, putting them in a direct path between the teleport hub and the most popular location on Second Life, Club Elite. It also puts them smack on the border of Jessie. No one knows for sure what kind of project [...]
Full StoryInterview with an 8 year old gamer grrrl.
In this interview with talk to 8 year old CTRL Key (pronounced, she informs me, ?control key?). She fills us in on her adventures in games both online and offline, including TSO and Second Life.
Full StorySir/Ian leaves TSO
Sir may only be 16 in r/l, but he has cast a long shadow over events in alphaville over the past year. He has been a simolean dealer, a temporary accounts broker, and a dealer of cannons and other rares. He was the PR officer for the Alphaville Government during the elections, a past reporter [...]
Full StoryChad Thomas found innocent.
A lot happened in the week I was offline, so again apologies for being slow to report all this. One of the bigger stories of the past week has to be the trial of Chad Thomas in the AVG election-fixing saga. Chad was found innocent, which is just as well IMHO — he was just [...]
Full StoryWWIIOLFalconBK Hanks banned!
Seems like just the other day that we reported on the dispute between Pancake Stryker and WWIIOLFalconBK Hanks. Falcon owned huge regions of Jessie, and was a major player in that sim, but his account was terminated a couple days ago. We are looking to interview Falcon and get clear on the details of this [...]
Full StoryTigger Leaving EA/Stratics
Sorry for the delay in reporting this, but both I and our main board ho, The Phantom, have been offline for a week. The news is that Tigger, basically the only EA rep that ever communicates with the 40,000 some odd TSO players is leaving EA on August 20. Among the questions this raises, of [...]
Full StoryJeff Brown Spouts off again! You gamers are wasting your time.
EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, addressing the Edinburgh International Games Festival Well, Mr. Uber-foot-in-mouth has outdone himself. This time, EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications Jeff Brown popped off at a gamers conference in Scottland, saying that gamers would be better off going out and mowing the lawn than … did he say play [...]
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