Archive for August, 2008

WNBC Scoop: People Are Having Sex In Second Life!

Metaverse also allows children access to torture, human sacrifice, suicide, illicit drugs by Sigmund Leominster Earlier this week, the world was rocked by some startling and unimaginable news from NBC’s New York affiliate, WNBC: There’s an online game called Second Life and people are having sex in the game! Yes, in a devastating 2 minute [...]

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Uri meets Pixeleen — In Real Life!

by Urizenus Sklar Pixeleen not only rocks Jurassic technology, but is self-identical It wasn’t easy. Month after month of failed attempts at google stalking. Stringing together clues from the writings of Prokofy Neva and Deadly Codec. It was all for naught, until three months ago I caught a break. A man named Louis Cyphre contacted [...]

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Bunny Gets Banned — No Roleplay At the Hair Fair

Herald Post 6 photographer is tossed out of Hair Fair on her little fluffy tail! by Kris Dibou Willow Replacement’s profile is not broadly offensive – but taking her at her word is The Herald’s own little Bunny Brickworks was bouncing down the bunny trail at the Hair Fair 2008, frolicking through the freebies and [...]

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SL’s Economic Statistics Hold Steady

by Jessica Holyoke Positive Monthly Linden Flow growth stays positive There are a number of theories flying back and forth regarding the state of the Second Life economy, with some advocating for less regulation as a means to make the economy flourish, and others arguing that the performance of a company is the same thing [...]

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LL Voids Zorkmid Gambling!

Lab changes its mind about Z$ gambling scheme — was Zara Linden overruled? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk 1Z$ = 1L$ — now closed until further notice Second Life’s Z$ casinos disappeared Monday, after the Linden game gods apparently changed their minds about the legality of the Zorkmid Z$ gambling system. Z$ casino owners [...]

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Moggs Oceanlane — Post 6 Grrrl

[Miss Oceanlane is one of the busy bees in SL, I knew her name from flickr and several other social networking facilities. All I knew about her person was that she's one of the smarty-pants, a girl known for her wits, and so I was more than surprised when rumours spread that she was interested [...]

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The Worm Hole

Lab’s experiment creates hole in space-time continuum – sends residents to alpine sim twilight zone [While ex-Linden staffer happy-news Hamlet Au reports a new peak concurrency of 67,335 players (up 906 players from last March), the incredible risks Linden Lab is taking to expand the world become clear in this report from Metallicoe Gears. - [...]

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The Prince Diaries — Into The Wood

by Prince Plutonian, virtual rent boy He looked at me before unzipping his pants.I froze.“Aren’t you gonna do anything?”Yes, I kept thinking, as he pulled out his tallywhacker. Really, Prince… you need to do something. But no matter how many times I kept telling myself to please this guy, I couldn’t move.So there we were, [...]

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Anti-Furry Church Preaches Hate

Roleplay or improv theatre? hate as an artform withsacred daleks and anti-yiff spray By Kris Dibou Cross in St. Devros Church Jacada Ansar had a vision.  Like some who have visions, Jacada started a church; a church that can could previously be found at Woodbury Longcat sim.  While puzzling over many churches built in the [...]

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Lion and VIrtual Woman’s SL Luv Moves To RL

Taser, duct tape, handcuffs, and BB gun set the mood for a very special romantic encounter by Pixeleen Mistral, Romantic Affairs desk Philadelphia’s NBC10.com describes a Second Life romantic relationship moving to real life, in a heartwarming story about how Kimberly Jernigan, a 33 year old Durham, NC postal worker drove hundreds of miles to [...]

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