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Latenight with Slatenight
Digital Culture Maven Anya Ixchtel and Gnome of NMC Larry Pixel at Slatenight Holiday Party By Prokofy Neva, Competitor Recon Mission HQ Well, it’s that time of year again when our competitors try to get us to stop writing and getting page hits by luring us to holiday parties on hidden snow sims, getting us [...]
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By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Planets, Worlds, Universes, Metaverses, and the Eternal One Game-World Sun-God Ra Raph Koster has made a new game! WOOT! Those who remember the game-meister of Star Wars Galaxies and have followed his amazingly rich and insightful interactive blog adventures were thrilled to find out that this enlightened Horus of the [...]
Full StoryThere Ought to be a Law
Rube-Goldberg-style government plan for Neufreistadt; best to eat sausage than watch how it is made. By Prokofy Neva, Communitiy Affairs Dept SL is teeming with lawyers and judges! With Big Business coming into SL, can the litigators be far behind? Law, after all, is a business, too. Remember those two college kids who made the [...]
Full StoryAnother World…Kinda?
A gallery opening…that isn’t in Second Life. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Planets, Solar Systems, Universes, Multiverses and Omniverses Wait. I’m pinching myself. I got something in my mailbox from this company called Caligari which makes hugely expensive 3-D stuff which I never looked at too closely, until they…announced an event in a virtual world [...]
Full StoryWhat is the True Growth of Second Life?
By Prokofy Neva, Virtual Estate Desk The real numbers of Second Life’s growth are constantly presented, corrected, misrepresented, and hotly debated. That’s because there are different factions and interest groups that have different things they want to achieve by reflecting the numbers. For some, growth of land ownership is significant; for others it is greatly [...]
Full StoryOther Worlds?
Power Trippy sculpture by Sabine Stonebender at the Linden Office in Kirkby. By Prokofy Neva, Department of Rumours, Speculation, and Inside Dope for Inside Dopes It was the great and wise Aldo Stern, originally of the The Sims Online, who once said, “Second Life is not a product in transition; it is a transitional product.” [...]
Full StoryTime for the Simethicone
By Prokofy Neva, Attendant, Ambulatory Pediatric Care UnitSecond Life experienced what Jeska Linden called “strange hiccups,” this evening, with teleports going haywire, profile strangeness (?), and inventory erm…”not loading,” as she explained. Another word for that is *missing* — a word that apparently is on the list of taboo words for the Blob.But many of [...]
Full StoryResident Government?
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Daniel Linden has just posted an announcement on the Official Linden Blob that the much-maligned Abuse Report system, generally acknowledged as ineffective or even abusive itself, is going to get an overhaul. But rather than add Linden or resmod hands to review some 2,000 reports coming in per day [...]
Full StoryFleeced [CORRECTED]
[Editor's note/Correction: Contrary to some passages in Prokofy Neva's Op/Ed piece below, the Electric Sheep Company informs us that it does not have a real-life apparel retailer as a client and was not involved in the creation and distribution of CopyBot or the Mannequin avatars. (See comments from two Sheep, Giff Constable and Satchmo Prototype, [...]
Full StoryBABA SUCKS!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk This just in…seems that Baba really does suck. In a chat log published at SLuniverse.com, Baba Yamamoto tells his chums in the channel back on November 10 that the creation and deployment of CopyBot was deliberate, planned and malicious. The revelation confirmed what many including your faithful correspondent had [...]
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