Archive for March, 2007

Astrin Few’s Open Letter: Fix SL or I’m Out

An Open Letter to Second Life ResidentsAstrin Few, SL MusicianPosted on blog.slmusic.org , March 8, 2007(reprinteded here at the request of Astrin Few) As I approach my fourth year in Second Life, I’ve reached a decision point regarding my future participation in SL. After spending countless hours performing, helping organize RL events, helping new musicians [...]

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LL Ageplay Shocker: The Company Rules

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Afffairs In a reversal of their usual hands-off policy toward inworld lifestyles of even the most extreme type, Linden Lab has unexpectedly come up with an ageplay policy today, which it has chosen to articulate not on the official Blob, but in notecards delivered to some inworld businesses. A notecard [...]

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Sony Clone: A Better Second Life?

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Now Those Record People Have Copied Our Game, Geez Sony has just gone and cloned Second Life! OMGODZORZ even the welcome areas look like they were *lifted straight out of Ahern”. I kid you not, kids. Go check it out. I’m still absorbing the shock of [...]

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Project: Buzz Kill

by Onder Skall The BBC covered yesterday what the Herald covered last week- “Project: Top Secret” has launched in an effort to build a user-created MMO. As a trade-off for being a bit late to the party they were able to provide us with an overview of how many signups they’ve received. At this point [...]

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Con Artist Capitalizes on LL’s Slow Rez Bug

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Monday Beam, ESQ. alerted the Herald that a grifter has been making the rounds among the horsey set. Apparently, a glitch in Second Life causes horses bought from some vendors to fail to appear in the buyer’s inventory until after they log out and then relog into the metaverse. [...]

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Almost Linden-less to Completely Freebie Fabulous!

by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Okay, I’d hate to beat a dead horse – I’ve heard they have a faint smell – but there’s always a need for the current best freebies for all the unverifieds and newbies out there – plus Jeska and Robin Linden might even want to update their look – so [...]

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Alternatives To Second Life

by Onder Skall, courtesy of Second Life Games Let me start this off by stating that I have no interest in the “world vs. platform” debate. It’s boring and played out, so don’t you dare try to draw me in. What I’m trying to do here is answer the simple question: Where are the best [...]

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Op/Ed: The New Priests

by Fiend Ludwig Last night I was chatting with Pix about the furor over Tenshi Vielle’s article. I asked her why she published it, because surely she must have foreseen the – more violent than average – storm the article would stir up. Pix replied, “Do you understand the Magic Circle concept – that when [...]

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The Devil’s Labyrinth

by Onder Skall I find myself faced with a monstrous build. The castle looms above me with the massive portcullis open, flames leaping upwards, and a pedestal that beckons me to enter after, apparently, harvesting my soul. I set the sun to midnight and step into the Devil’s Labyrinth. The foyer features a brain and [...]

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10 Zen Monkeys: “Patriotic Nigras” e-Terrorist Group Responsible for Attack on Edwards Headquarters

Not Virtual Republicans, but pimply, attention starved, adolescent losers. Imagine that! 10 Zen Monkeys is reporting that there is strong evidence linking the recent griefer attacks on the Edwards Headquarters to the Second Life griefer organization known as the “Patriotic Nigras’. This would not be surprising if true. The attack certainly had the earmarks of [...]

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