Archive for April, 2009

Wholesale Fails In Second Life

Full permission sculpty packs – worse than BIABs? by Tenshi Vielle Remember the BIAB drama? Business in a box, where you could purchase clothes, eyes, skins, hair, shoes — all full perm, in one transaction? Dudley Do-Rights in SL would set those up for sale tomake themselves a few hundred USD, while the grid and [...]

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Opinion. Finally! PETA Joins PETSA Crusade Against Killing Virtual Animals

by Mrs. President Chomsky Faithful readers of the Herald will recall the dark days of the pet culling operations in The Sims Online.  Those events led St. Frank of Alphaville and me to form PETSA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Simulated Animals).  While those pet culling operations and TSO have thankfully gone offline, a [...]

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Rapist, At Your Service, Madam

by Alessandra Narayan  Roleplay themes are always controversial, right? Especially when it comes to sex and even so morewhen it’s about rough sex, hardcore, and reaching the imaginary worldof forbidden fantasies. Of course everyone knows there are certain thingsyou must do to keep it safe -  starting with not being specific about reallife details. Also, [...]

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Linden Lab and BP Hold Second Life Graduation Ceremonies

Senior prom will go on as scheduled by Idoru Wellman, Class of 2009 Assistant Glee Club and Pep Squad Leader Senior Second Life executives who parted company with the Lab recently had simply tested out of their remaining coursework, so there is no cause for concern – theSenior Prom and Linden Remembrance Ball will be [...]

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Financial Domme Stimulus Package for Second Life Economy?

by Tenshi Vielle Financial Domming has recently popped up in Second Life, and is exactly what it sounds like — there are submissives who fork over their Lindens to the Domme willingly. This may be the greatest scheme in Second Life – even better than the ponzi schemes virtual banks – because all the rules [...]

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Virtual Journalism Heavyweights Gather in Virtual Journalism Summit

Helen Thomas, Virtual World Reporter by Field Marshal McLuhan, at the new media desk As I type this, a group of virtual journalism heavyweights gather at a Virtual Journalism Summit, presumably atop Mount Journalism, in Washington State. Among the heavyweights attending the summit are 89 year old White House Correspondent Hellen Thomas, virtual world sleuth [...]

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Kossacks Invade World of Warcraft!!!

by Dr. Legion, staff reporter It seems like just yesterday that denizens of the politically progressive (i.e. "communist" in Foxlish) social media site The Daily Kos invaded Second Life during their Annual Politburo meeting. That was bad enough, but now they have formed a guild in World of Warcraft. What horrors will these progressive bloggers [...]

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The Awful Truth About Internet Dating!

by Dr. Denise Levertov, virtual advice columnist dear dr. denise: i'm lonely, desperate, and thinking of dating on the internet. my friends tell me I'm crazy, but what is the worst that could happen? is there anything I should watch out for?  - miss lonelyhearts Dear Miss Lonelyhearts, I sense that you have self esteem [...]

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EVE Game Gods: Council on Stellar Management better than Reading FICky Forums

A Lesson for other MMOs?by Dr. Legion, staff reporter In this very interesting interviewon MMORPG, Petur Oskarrson talks about the EVE Online Council on Stellar Management (CSM) — a group of players elected to represent the players interests with the game company at face to face meetings in Iceland. Petur describes some of the changes [...]

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Second Life Fanboys Protest Times Haterade

Stop saying bad things about my game or I'll call you names and pout by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media desk The high pitched squeal you hear is the sound of Second Life fanboys writhing in pain as David Rowan at the Times of London dumps a big bucket of icy haterade all over Second Life, [...]

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