Archive for January, 2007
L-Word Beats the P-Word
By Annyushka Apparatchik, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, Spaces, and Lovely Tea-Party Places Tired of having friends you’ve send to join SL tell you later they turned around and left, after be bopped over the head by a giant phallus? Or caged on a laggy welcome area knee-deep in naked gun-totating newbs, unable to [...]
Full StoryPixel Sumo: The Fattest SL Game You’ve Never Played
by Davgor Edgeworth [Editor's Note: We first noticed Pixel Sumo back in November, courtesy of its creator, Ebenezer Pixel. For a more in-depth look at the experience of becoming a fat, diapered virtual wrestler, though, we turn you over now to the ministrations of Davgor Edgeworth, who has gone the extra mile to bounce the [...]
Full StoryADVERTISEMENT: More Second Life Millionaires?
So I happened by a forum the other day which struck me as being really unique. TalkSecondLife.com is perhaps the only forum where networking and knowledge is shared about making money in-world. From reading the posts, it appears that a few businesses have been started by their members. There’s some really good information for members [...]
Full StoryKorean Gold Farmers Form Trade Association
Korean gold farmers aren’t taking the news of possible governmental regulation lying down. Instead, they’ve formed a trade union to lobby the government, according to veteran MMO designer Raph Koster — who is also the author of the draft Declaration of the Rights of Avatars, a document we at the Herald hold dear. Rise up! [...]
Full StoryDatabase Problems Cause Haiku Outbreak
Linden Blog infected – citizens seek poetic justice by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A highly infectious strain of Haiku has struck the official Linden Lab blob – affecting residents whose immune systems may have been weakened by chronic exposure to disappointing performance in their game world. As editors scrambled to find a new way [...]
Full StoryGerman Army Beats Unbearable “French Lag”
Land owners’ triumph of will in Porcupine sim by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Ten days ago, after a series of violent yet faintly surreal pro- and anti- Front National (FN) protests, the FN group sold their land and moved from Porcupine sim to Axel leaving a demolished Matrix Mall behind. To the relief of [...]
Full StoryBlue Note Jazz Club Clobbered by Sim Crash
Only online Linden asks not to be bothered by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Blue Note before being eaten by databaseBlue Note blown away The Blue Note Jazz lounge was destroyed by a sim crash during a live DJ event – the building was devastated by an apparent bug in the Second Life server or [...]
Full StoryMr. Linden’s Hong Kong Or Level 75
Mr. Ben Linden rides off into a YouTube sunset to his new franchulate. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Kremlindenology In keeping with its plan to open source and franchulate the popular online 3-D streaming video gangland game vicinity, whose tangled code had become “nearly organic,” Linden Lab has allowed a resident-turned-Linden and long-time loyal servant [...]
Full StoryBusted! Furry Caught Soliciting Grid-Crashing Grief from Goons
Furry on Furry Warfare Broadens For those who have been on the grid for the last few years, stories of users seeking virtual muscle to grief their neighbors is nothing new. Rare is the case, however, where someone is busted in the act of trying to buy some virtual grief. This is apparently what recently [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life, part 6: My rod and my staff
by Gideon Television Forgive me, children, for I have sinned. It’s been two weeks since my last confession, In that time I have taken hallucinogenics, I’ve had impure thoughts about my neighbor Lanna, I’ve fornicated many times (with both women and animals) and become an apprentice to the current fad of guerilla bukkake. And frankly, [...]
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