Archive for the year 2010
Corsi Mousehold: JLU Are Power Hungry Crazed Nutjobs
[Corsi Mousehold has been awarded the “commie” or comment-of-the-week award for her explanation of why the Justice League Unlimited superheros are not welcome in Furnation. The award winning comment is reproduced below. ] Here’s a bit of a story. IN years past the JLU were a welcomed member of the FurNation community. They didn’t bother [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: The Positive Feminist
by Meleth Oakleaf This isn't an article about a role-play sim, this is an article in which one reporter tackles a delicate topic and probably pisses off a few readers. Hopefully, beyond just pissing off a few people, I can make people think about an often underrepresented feminist view. I spoke to Pixeleen today about [...]
Full StoryEmerald Developers Publish Naughty SL Client Catalog
Onyx project goes public with copybot client reviews by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Emerald developers have gone public with Onyx – a previously secret project to catalog and potentially fix exploits in various unofficial Second Life viewers. In a blog post at the ModularSystems web site, Mr. Fractured Crystal states "These viewers generally [...]
Full StoryIt Has To Be Said: Stop Calling it a Game
by Jessica Holyoke Second Life is like the Internet in many respects; its on the computer, no one knows that you are a fairy tale blind mouse and there is a heavy text and graphical basis for our interactions. And it looks like a video game; you can fly, you can be in space, you [...]
Full StoryPlanet Thyferra – May the Force Not Shove You Off a Bridge!
by Meleth Oakleaf I teleported into the sim and was greeted by the now familiar note card of information and vendor market. Though this time with two distinctions, I was standing in front of a shuttle and the note card included a quick overview of the overall thrust of the role-playing story on Planet Thyferra. [...]
Full StoryGame Over: There.com Virtual World Ends March 9, 2010
Players point to pedo and paintball moderation as possible causes by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk there gone The PG-oriented virtual world There.com is to be closed March 9, a victim of hard economic times, according to There CEO Michael Wilson’s announcement. An FAQ at the site states that the company is buying back virtual [...]
Full StorySecond Life Faction Wars: Woodbury “Raid” or JLU Drama-fest?
Chatlogs from Ahern infohub conflict by Senban Babii Drunk and disorderly? Kalel Venkman and GreenLantern Excelsior particle spamming a club in New Grayson Station on January 1, 2010 While the Justice League Unlimited's formerly secret wiki claims that on January 5th 2010 a "Woodbury University raiding party" descended on the Ahern infohub and engaged [...]
Full StoryFalse DMCAs Fizzle – Kalel Venkman Fingered !!!
Typepad ‘fesses up – some DMCA-disputed images, text have gone missing by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Gregory Eugene Turnbow (Kalel Venkman in Second Life) has been identified as the complainant who submitted a DMCA request to Typepad that resulted in removal of content from six Herald stories covering the Second Life Justice League Unlimited. [...]
Full StoryStroker Serpentine & Munchflower Zaius – 2009 Avatars of the Year
Class action complaint against Linden Lab leads to avatar of the year award by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In 2009, there was no question of which the players had the biggest impact on the metaverse. After lawyering up and heading to the courthouse, virtual sex toy entrepreneur Stroker Serpentine and noted avatar skin and [...]
Full StoryAvatar of the Year 2009 – 2nd Place: Emerald Viewer Developers
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Herald continues our 2009 Avatar of the Year award ceremonies by naming the avatars that had the second greatest impact – for better or worse – on the metaverse: the Emerald Viewer development team. giving Second Life players exactly what they want in a viewer – Bewbies from [...]
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