Archive for July, 2005

CoryD Comes to Town, Leaves Town

by Prokofy Neva Cory Doctorow‘s book signing took place amid the usual sim-crashing, alphabet-soupy, av-pushing and kewl-kid posturing we’ve come to associate with SL events — the events listing led to the wrong sim–tps led to gnashing one’s teeth outside the right sim…and you really had to *know somebody* — a Linden preferably — to [...]

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Big Babies and Strange Sims

OK, Jack Thompson is turning up his offensive on EA for Sims 2 mods. Earlier we reported his statement in Gamespot that Sims 2 is “worse than hot coffee” and subsequent to that we posted his letter to the attorney at EA (copied to Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman etc). In his latest missive he has [...]

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Skin Review: Kathmandu Gilman

by Chipsen Queso Continuing with the Herald’s series of skin reviews, I recently purchased Kathmandu Gillman’s white tiger skin, along with female accessories, in order to review it. I am not a furry, and have never desired to be a furry, but Kathmandu is well-known for his realistic furry skins, one of the ones I [...]

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EA Gets Jacked! Naughty Mod Scandal Goes Nucular [sic]

Ohhh baby, you *know* how much the Herald hates to say we told you so… well ok, we rather like it…but this one is particularly delicious. The Herald has come into possession of the following letter written by anti-video game activist and attorney Jack Thompson to the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary (and VP, but [...]

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Jack Thompson: “Sims II is Worse than Hot Coffee!!!!”

Just yesterday we were predicting that “the other shoe tree” would drop on EA in the wake of major media discovering dirty mods. Today it is not only dropping, but it looks like a full-on Imelda Marcos shoe tree full of trouble. Gamespot is reporting that Miami Attorney and anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson has taken [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Anonymous Fox

The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Anonymous Fox! Anonymous is (obviously) an arctic fox who enjoys being pet by her friends and cuddling with her very close friends, especially her partner. I’d like to take a moment to thank Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these [...]

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Major Media Discovers Dirty Mods!

TSO modded with the Kingware Nude Skin Patch Well gosh golly, it looks like the NY Times, the LA Times, and Hillary Clinton have finally caught up with Clickable Culture and have discovered dirty mods for Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas! The GTA San Andreas Hot Coffee mod is a bit different than the usual [...]

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Defending the Beachheads of Second Life–or Just Griefing the Griefers?

by Clarence Calliope Jim Herbst, defender of SL’s sandboxes, snaps a salute Sandboxes have always been an important part of Second Life culture. Free for all to use and with practically no restrictions on prims or content, sandboxes are the preferred stomping grounds of landless newcomers and experienced builders alike. These unsettled simulators are scattered [...]

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Welcome Respite: Living the Elven Life

by Seldon Metropolitan (photographry by Lexa Lawson) Standing at the top of the Serenity overlook platform, you can see nearly all of ElvenGlen. Unlike the city sims, which seem to bustle and teem with energy even when unoccupied, there is an eternal calm over the elven land, carefully engineered by its protectors to capture the [...]

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Why the W-Hats *Really* Came to Second Life

Various W-Hats may have been up to something awful in SL lately, but the Something Awful crew, from whose bosom the W-Hats sprang, provided a trenchant critique recently on other online worlds, shedding some light on many of the things that no doubt drove the goons to Second Life. click image for more

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