sl herald celebrates 5 years of being the herald
by Alphaville Herald on 09/11/08 at 10:58 pm
the virtual newspaper birthday party that rocked so hard it crashed two sims
by pixeleen mistral, lower case grrrl
we’ve been running short on uppercase characters here at the herald, but i’ve been assured by audrey from typesetting that this is a temporary situation which has nothing to do with cack-handed jack linden’s unique approach to customer satisfaction or m linden’s new theory of pretend land pricing — it is pure coincidence that every one of the upper case typeface artisans suddenly deserted sl. so there is nothing to worry about and this is not a problem! e.e. cummings made a career out of this sort of spot shortage.
in any case, i was a bit worried about how the herald’s 5th b’day party would turn out the weekend before last – would anyone show up? my fears turned out to be totally unfounded – not only did some of the herald staff show up – we also got at least one griefer, and reliable sources suggest that it was none other than that wild and crazy canadian guy: mr. frizzle fry!
for those of you that missed out on the fun, here is how the herald’s 5th birthday celebration looked from this reporter’s perspective. as you will see, any doubts i had about using sl for serious business were totally erased.
new world notes & hamlet au smackdown! – the herald has two kris alts and they both have white suits
ms. tizzy teardrop worries that mr. metus mouroutsos will spill his drink on his coat
post 6 photographer extraordinaire bunny brickworks takes a cig break – and ponders how to get a linden lab staffer to pose for the herald
the party gets rolling in shivar sim – shaun altman has been hypnotized by eggthighs adamski as intlibber bnt looks on – but this special moment is interrupted when the particle effects start. we enjoyed both mario and goatse images courtesy of a griefer located in the far corner of the sim
tizzy teardrop has changed into a formal party dress, but then the lag gets bad and I am logged out of sl.
trying to log in again
still trying to log in
shivar sim admin sarahelizabeth had enough and closed shivar to outsiders – so the herald b’day party goes mobile
jimbo quality joins the party after it moves to fort longcat – jimbo is wearing the special barefoot-look men’s shoes that are taking the fashion scene by storm
urizenus sklar is happy to see herald writer denise domela
uri is rocking the latest fashion – barefoot shaped shoes that make it look like you are barefoot. uri declined my offer to paint his toenails.
sigmund leominster has been working out – and it shows!
quelle surprise! longcat sim crashes – and this second sim crash sets a new record for a herald party
longcat does not come back up – I am dumped into a noobie welcome area
chat sessions to the sl herald group are failing intermittently. eventually jimbo quality teleports me to the new party location – a nice underwater spot beneath a temple
urizenus sklar asserts that he is urizenus sklar and therefor self-identical — chat is still not working reliably
oliphant ming shows off another pair of shoes that look like bare feet and metus returns to the party after cleaning the spilled drink off his coat
FrizzleFry101
Nov 9th, 2008
Cool story bro.
Alyx Stoklitsky
Nov 10th, 2008
@ FrizzleFry101:
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BRO FIST
mootykips
Nov 10th, 2008
i would have came with some of my minions but i totally forgot. good to know frizzle showed up.
Baron Cuttlesmith von Blogharder, Esqu, MD
Nov 10th, 2008
Right. So you have your party at Woodbury, than are surprised when your little party crashes. You limit it to group only and behold- it crashes again.
I don’t get your proverbial hard-on for those “most epic of failures” to use /b/tard parlance. Perhaps the root cause is that batty trollop Pixeleen’s clitoral hard-on for what she sees as “internet badasses.”
It is indeed hilarity that nobody of import came to your little cake orgy. This piece of internet spittle is a mere cunt-rag of a paper, specializing only in the display of vivacious trollops (post 6 grrls et al) the rantings of porcine madman (Intlibber) and various minor dramas and flamefests.
Jerry Springer is more interesting, as he doesn’t try to do “journalism.”
metus mouroutsos
Nov 10th, 2008
After spilling my drink and watching the goatse, instead of cleaning my coat I was hovering outside Shivar for an hour while it was all happening in longcat… sheesh
FlipperPA Peregrine
Nov 10th, 2008
Sorry I missed it, but it looks like y’all had fun.
See you at 6.
April Dancer
Nov 10th, 2008
Dear Illya, that guys butt may never close up properly again. Why do they do that? I wanted to attend the party in question but I knew how vicious a crowd it would be and how convoluted all the aligencies would be and how it would all mix together with the personal agendas and how there would be no way to manage a situation like that where the next smiling face might be hiding the spirit of a JLU agent or a GLC agent, or a communistic land baron in disguise (read: Thrush agent). Vicious.
Tell Napoleon that I totally failed. I wanted to attend their party and for a moment to revel in the anarchy with the rest of the group, who I have watched for these years, but I failed. I hesitated at the last moment knowing that no matter how innocent or insignifigant I made myself seem to the crowd, hungry and powerful gigalomaniacs with sharp shiny teeth would strip me to my Dox within minutes or days out of sheer boredom and the lack of fresh meat. Then my jig would be up. No more travelling anonymous anymore…
Somewhere over the Rainbow Illya, skies are Blue. I know that someday the orders will come down for me to throw off all vestiges of Serious Business and to assume a personality within their crowd. Become a face. Join their group. Schedule classes at their University. Learn how they confront the dark side. Make Jello…
But that day may have to wait for awhile, cuz baby I’m only Society’s child. When we’re older things may change, but for now that is the way they must remain… and I wait and watch and “help” and do my daily things.
So goodbye for now, close channel D and vacate the hyperspace relay channel through Vulcan Prime.
April Dancer out…
Denise Domela
Nov 10th, 2008
you can see my nips!!!
:O
lolz
Darkfoxx
Nov 10th, 2008
What, only two crashes? You newbs dont know how to throw a party
Shame I had to miss it. Better luck next year.
Ruprecht
Nov 10th, 2008
So The Herald really is being run by griefers now.
mootykips
Nov 10th, 2008
Baron Cuttlesmith von Blogharder, Esqu, MD: TROLLOP EH??? JOHN MCCAIN IS THAT YOU
2cents
Nov 11th, 2008
“So The Herald really is being run by griefers now.”
That isnt really news, now is it?
Uri’s been a PN wannabe since day one. This whole ‘newspaper’ blog thingy has one purpose: to troll.
Shame that they’re not that good at it or else there’d be more ‘lulz’
M Linden
Nov 11th, 2008
Congratulations on your 5th birthday!
Rich Lulz
Nov 12th, 2008
“Shame that they’re not that good at it or else there’d be more ‘lulz’
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I disagree. Where there’s Jimbo there’s lulz. To demonstrate this, I offer that if one reads the chat transcript in one of the pictures Jimbo Quality says, apparently out of the blue, “I have a whopper of a penis.”
You can’t get better lulz than that. Please bring him back.